THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3,
1934.
"TELEGRAPH'S" SPECIAL HOME FOOTBALL GUIDE
FIFTH OF THE SEASON
NOW COMPLETED
HOW THE VARIOUS TEAMS ARE
SHAPING
WHERE EVERTON ARE MAKING A VERY BIG MISTAKE
ARSENAL'S CHANCE THIS WEEK
(By "Veritas").
One fifth of the English football league season has now been completed, and what do we find? Northern teams occupying the leadership of the first and second divisions. London mak- ing its presence felt in the third division, and Tranmere, the only team in the whole of the league to remain unbeaten.
There is the strange sight | tendency. The next fortnight may of Huddersfield at the foot the prove It either way. first division, and the common appearance of Chelaca as com panions. Arsenal are clinging, with no little difficulty to third place, thanks to a surfeit to drawn matches.
Bolton's glorious 100 per cent. record came to an abrupt end last week. They actually con- eeded six goals! Up to then one had been their maximum, and that had occured in only two matches out of seven.
A bunch of London teams at the top of the third division are providing metropolitan fans with a good deal of interest. Millwall stock has alumped somewhat as a result of their beatings during the lust two weeks, ant reports of Their earlier matches show that
A fine action stúdy of Bensley, the Arsenal forward. It shows him leaping high to head a goal.
the team's record which at one CLUBS ALREADY LOOKING
time read "played §, won 5”, was a little bit, anttering.
Charlton and Coventry have been more impressive, and when Coventry can follow up Bristol City's great win at Millwall, by Manchester City is now the pet visiting the City and beating them of all the leading nowspaper two-nil, there is something about scribes, yet the tip to be had in
that team which commanda several dressing rooms is Everton, respect. Crystal Palace are nice- The Toffee Towners have a normally placed, but they are a doubtful | record to date, losing matches on proposition away from Selhurst foreign soil, but always coming up Park. Their prototype is to bel trumps on their own pustures found in Reading. Good judges say they have the makings of a champion team, but are destroying their chances by overworking Dixie Dean.
FOR NEW TALENT
BOLSTERING UP THE TEAMS WITH CAPABLE RESERVES
PLAYERS BECOMING SLAVES TO
HOME:-
TO BEAT,' ' THE ' BOOK
(By "Robin"}
Manchester C. Everton
Sunderland
Bolton
Brentford
Brighton Reading Charlton
Darlington
Gateshead
Celtic
Motherwell
DRAW-
Stoke
Coventry
Rotherham
AWAY-
Blackpool Exeter Stockkpoort
OUR FORECAST
For Saturday Programme
special
The following is the Telegraph forecast for Saturday, Where teams are marked in heavy type they are expected to vin, and where no such indication tr given, a draw in anticipated.
FIRST DIVISION.
Birmingham
EVERTON
GRIMSBY
Huddersfield
Portsmouth
Chelsea
Y
Aston Y.
WOLYCA
A FALSE POLICY Commenting on the English Football League season just MANCHESTER C... Blackburn
PRESTON. started, a Home critic says:
Already the quest for players has been energetically renewed, Wednesday Manchester City, Everton, and Sunderland are all looking for Stoke
SUNDERLAND centro forwards, not because they want them immediately but Tattenham because they realise that the need is likely to occur.
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Derby Liverpoo! ARSENAL y Middlesbro Y Leicester WEST BROMWICH v Leeds SECOND DIVISION.
T
Barnsley
Y Bury
y Notis F.
RENOVEERSTEN U
v Bradford C.
Peterson, acknowledging the cheers of 64,000 people after being- given the verdict in his heavyweight fight with Larry Gaiño:
HOW PETERSEN BEAT LARRY GAINS
YOUTH SERVED IN BRILLIANT
BUT GRUELLING FIGHT ·
CANADIAN SHOWED GReat couraGE BUT LOST TO BETTER MAN
By Fred Dartnell)
London, Sept. 11. It was the old story that has so often been told in the ring before. Youth will be served and Jack Petersen, who beat Larry Gains before 64,000 spectators at the White City Stadium last night, had to thank the asset of years as well as his splendid fighting grit and persistence for coming through successful in one of the best beavyweight fights' we have scen for many years. Gains, although beaten and un- round Peterson, warming up in lily able to continue after the end of pass and boxing with better steadl the thirteenth round
through mess, had brought the pointe oven. sheer collapse of his forces, put His triumph really dated from up a memorable fight. He boxed the eighth round, when with with consummate skill ta the ear smunahing rights intermixed with lier rounds when his generalship the swift left jobs, which Gains and shrewd tactics had Petersen could not avoid, he bogan piling badly bewildered.
up the points 'galore.
Darlington is A team to be watched in the northern section. Their latest success was to visit Hartlepools and curry DIT the Ever since he broke all records points without conceding a goal. by scoring 60 goals in the 1027-28 This was just as Impressive ng season, Dean has been regarded Chester's 6-1 home defeat of purely as a goal-scoring machine Wrexham, and Trummore's victory Huddersfield and Liverpool re- plans of the clubs. In respect to and it has been insisted that when at the expense of Halifax.
quire inside forwards, and I think the game I wish anme way could the ball is in front of goal it shall This week's programme finds Dougall of the Arsenal may be be found in which success would | BOLTON be given to him. Which is a sad many of the leading teams in op- signed on to go to Anfield. Liver-not be measured solely by the win- BRADFORD mistako in tactics as Everton position and prophets may ex- pool engaged Johnson from Ever-ning of points. When I dared to BRENTFORD should have discovered by now, perience a had time. Ground ton towards the sq.ft focusing to go for the goals Fulham
NORWICH Kevision in methods of attack seem ¦ advanture.suggestuenbugh I feel ing to get the club out of the mess when they had obtained the lead Notts C. to be necessary it..Rastaman di finclined to the bellef that there at the bottom of the table. But against Wolverhampton Wander- Oldham their behalf.
will be an excessive number of they still want an inside left. ers I was told. "Don't blame the Plymouth Brentford are pursuing a nice drawn games.
Then Bolton Wanderers, in players; "it is the system which SOUTHAMPTON steady path of progress,
Aracnal's visit to Stoke will be looking ahead in preparation for is wrong."
SWANSEA record does not suggest a team of closely watched. It is the London the strenuous eight months" strug- And I was asked to put myself THIRD-DIVISION (SOUTH),In the first-five- rounds-Galnu; meteoric brilliance, but of stability club's big opportunity to show gle, want to consolidate their doin the position of the men. if allied with genius. So far there championship form. They have fence, and they have made an they won they got 22; if they only BRIGHTON have been no indications of the been slow in getting off the mark, offer for Ives, the Sunderland drew their bonus was halved, Bristol R. team becoming reactionary, where- but that the material is there, is back. Up to now the clubs have If it is true that the footballer) CARDIFF RB I am just wondering if Bolton undeniable. If they win at Stoke not been able to agree to terms. plays to serve his own financial CHARLTON
not able to reveal this they will be capable of anything, I would not be surprised, too, interests, the bonus system ought Clapton 0, If an offer were shortly made to to be scrapped. Let the players Gillingham Chelsea for the transfer of Galla-be rewarded by all means, but I LUTON cher. It is most unlikely that the suggest that it would be much NORTHAMPTON v Watford centre forward will spend the sea- better arrangement if it were left] READING son in the reserve team at Stam- to the clubs to decide at the end SOUTHEND ford Bridge.
of the sensen, as in cricket, how the merit grants should be allot- ted.
are
Their
OUR "FORM" GUIDE
How Your Team Has Been
Faring In League
FIRST DIVISION.
· ENTERPRISE.
COVENTRY
Rotherham
v Hull
T
West Xiam
V PORT VALE ▾ BLACKPOOL
Sheffield U.
v Nowcastle
* Aldershot
V
Queen's P. R. Bournentouth
V Crystal P.
V
*
Exeter
V Swindon
Bristol-
1.C. Millwall
Y Newport *Torquay
V
Y STOCKPORT Southport
Rochdale
Crowe
Darrow
Wrexha
Carlisle
で
DONCASTER TRANMERE
Lincoln
YORK
T Hartlepools
SCOTTISH
LEAGUE.
+
1
Y
Y
St. Johnstone
V
Albion
V
v Clyde
Y
THIRD DIVISION (NORTH).
Accrington The cluby, too, unblushingly CHESTER Every club seems to be con-
in men
their point- Chesterfield vinced or the brightness of the back the future, and wherever I go I am scheming play. In discussing this DARLINGTON The following table reveals how each team in the four divi-Wolverhampton Wanderers marked. "You know the financial
told of new enterprises. The aspect with Mr. Duncan White, Gateshead the Sunderland director, he re- HALIFAX.
MANSFIELD sions of the English league have fared to date, the results includ-ground with its two staude and ing their last five more matches up to yesterday.
one end covered is already a fine responsibilities of club directors. New Brighton The first figure in each case, of course, is that of the team one, but the club have ambitious Unless we win gates drop off and Watsall concerned.
piana to improve it further.
the troubles may be serious," The first improvement is to bo All this is common ground and the covering of the huge embank- beyond contention, but meanwhile) 3-2 2-0 2-3 2-0 2-0 ment, which is at present open to the game being forgotten Airdrie 2-0 3-0 1-2 3-0 4-4 the sky, and then the erection of through the commercial stringency AYR
2-2 1-0 0-2 double-deck stand on the site of which every season becomes a CELTIC
13the old one now in use.. But all more and more vital considera- Dundee 54-0 1-1
iton.
Dunfermlino in good time. 1-2 1-1 2-0-
The Sunderland players had no Falkirk The pitch at Molineux is I think | 3-0 0-2 0-1 1-1 1-1
When thought for the spectators in the IBERNIANS 1-2 2-2 the finest 1 have ever seen, 1-1 2-6 the Sunderland players saw it play of the Sunderland team. We MOTHERWELL 1-0 1-1 3-2 3-1 4-1 they said, "This is our chance. only saw them at their best for 2-3 3-0 2-1 4-1 2-If we can't play here we can't half the game. Afterwards, with- 0-1 1-5 2-2 0-0 0-2 play anywhere.". It is as smooth out any attempt to disguise their 0-2 1-1 5-0 2-1 1-0 ao a bowling green.
Birmingham
3-1 2-1 3-0 0-0 3-1
0-1 1-1 3- 4 M
17 1-3 0-2 1-0
1-9 0-2 2-1 0-1 2-2
BIGGER THAN WEMBLEY.
object, they played for the points,] and their bonuses.
The Lougue is perhaps the most! Major Buckley, too, showed me wonderful organisation in sport, G-2 0-0 6-2 the latest thing in training devices but it still has imperfections. 5-1 0-2-0-3 1-4 1-1 which, has been invented by an
1-2
THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH). 1-2 1-3 1-0 1-0 1-0 Aldershot ... Derby C
4-10-21-14-1 2-1 Brighton Leeds
4-2 1-1 0-0 0-3 2-0 Bristol C. Aston Villa
2-5 0-5 1-1-2-0 4-2) Cardif Chitisca
1-3 0-2 2-0 Clapton 0. Middlesbro' 0-1.5-3 0-1 0-2 1-2 Coventry Leicester...
00:1-3 1-3 0-2) Exeter Liverpool 2-1 0-1 0-1 3-0 3-2 Gillingham Portsmouth 1-0·1-0.0-0·2-1 2-1] Lutan.... Preston
1-0 2-0 2-2 2-0 2-4 Swindon Wednesday
3-13-9 1-2 0-0 1-2] Crystal (". Sunderland 3-0 4-0 1-1 1-4 2-0 Bristol R. Tottiham 0-1 3-1 3-1 0-2 1-2 Watford West Bromwich 2-1 2-2 3-4 4-2 2-3 Charlton Wolves
6-2 1-3 3-21-24-2 Reading Binckburn
2-2 2-1 2-0 0-1 0-1 Northampton Arsenal
1-14-5 0-2 0-0 6-1 Newport Grimsby
0.3.0-0 0-1 2-1 0-2 Torquay Sloko
2-4 2-0 1-3 2-0 1-0 Southend Huddersfield .. 1-4 0-2 1-5 24 0-2 Queen's P.II. Everton ......
2-6:00 1-04-2 2-4 flournemouth Manchester C. 12-8-12-1 3-1 2-1 MUllwall
SECOND DIVISION. Bradford.ed 1113 0-1 Accrington ... Brentford
1-0 4-1.8-2 2-1 1-2 Crowe...... Burnloy en 5-2 2-0 0-0 4-1 1-3| Darlington Buty..
1-0 1-0 1-0 1-2 2-0 Gateshead Fulham
0-1 3-2 1-2 4-1 0-2 | Halifax Manchester U. 1-3 4-1 2-3 5-0 3-1 | Lincoln
1-1 0-0 0-1 2-1 6-3 Rotherham 2-2 1-0 6-2 3-2 0-4 Blockport 2-2 3-2 1-1 3-1Tranmere 2-2.0-0 0-1 1-1 1-3 Walsall
1-2 (~4 4~0) Wrexham 1-0 0-1 0-5.0-2 New Deighton 1-40-4-3-0 1-1 1-1 Doncaster 2-1 0-0 2-2 ̧l-4·1-0j ̃York 2-2 1-1 6-3 1-3 1-2| Chester 0-2 2-1 2-0 0-3 1-1 | Mansfield 2-5 2-3 0-1 3-1 2-0 Itochdalo 3-1 4-0 2-0 3-0 2-0 | Chesterfield
·Bhefold U. ....... 6-0, 1-2 0-0 2-3 6-2 Bouthport
1-4 0-1 0-2 1-1 3-5 Carlisle 1-1-0-5 4-0 1-2-2-1 | Hartlepools 1–4 2–1 0–4 3–1 2–1 Barrow.
Nolls F
Oldham
Port Vale.
Swansea: Barnsley.
Norwich Southampton Blackpool Plymouth Bradford C
Nowcastlo
Bolton...."
Notts C.
• Tali· ·
Worl Ham
2-1 1-1 1-1 old Wolverhampton player. It la 1-0 0-2 1-1 1-4 0-1 not easy to describe except to say 2-0 1-0 4-3 0-1 1-3 that when one stands on it the THIRD DIVISION (NORTH). whole body is vibrated. It is aft
1-1 1-2 2-0 - 2-4 wonderful sensation either to 1-0 2-9 2-5 4-2 sband or sit on it. Every musclej 2-1 1-0 4-1 1-1 1-0 sooms to be brought into netion. 1-2 0-0 2-1 6-2 1-5 As someone said, in five minutosi 4-0 4-2 1-1 2-1 0-1 you get as much exercise as inj 4-0 1-2 1-3 1-2 4-0 riding to hounds. 1-2 0-0 1-2 4-0 0-4
0-0 3-2 3-2 0-2 5-1
2-1 1-0 2-2 10
2-2 1-4 1-1 1-0 0-1
0-0 2-0 3-1 2-2 1-6
3-2 0-1 0-1 0-2 1-2
2-0 0-0 2-1 1-1 4-t
0-0 1-0 1-5 3-1 14
4-1 0-1-5-1 2-0 6-1
2-3 1-0 0-2 2-0 0-3
1-1 0-3 2-1 Qing 1-0:
··198 0–1 0–1 3–0 1–3
0-2 1-1 1-1 2-1 0-6 2-1 0-1 3-1
1-4.2-3.1-2 4-0 0-1)
1-1 0-0 3-1 0-3 3-0.
I hear, too, of a new scheme
for the enlargement of the Aston
NEW PENALTY RULING
ACTION TAKEN AT LAST
(By Charles Buchan)
Partick St. Mirren
RANGERS
Aberdeen
Quten O'8th
v. KILMARNOCK
Queen's Park
HAMILTON Hearte
PROFESSIONAL GOLF
London, Sept. 27
| dominated the coutest. Ho knew,
none better, how necessary it wash for him to conserve his energies, and his cleverness not only in scoring points but in making Petersen do most of the work was most impressive.
GAINS STARTS WELL.
-Petersen-won-the-last-six- rounds in succession, and I think he showed fine control of his fretting impulses all through these inter stages.
He took no foolisti risks and
his while attack displayed a triumphant crescendo round after round to the finish, all his work was leavened with discretion and Petersen did not shine during good technique. Some of his this period and more than once right-handers to the stomach were he had to take some nasty coun- most painful and were part of a tering rights to the head. Gains wearing down policy which 'show- did some most effective work ined that Petersen has more boxing these counters and his sudden intelligence than changes from lazy passivity to think. swift assault revealed the oldi
some
people
He had faults but his good
master. Petersen showed his fine) mettle by not being upset by all qualities shone all over and his this.
victory over Gaing is something which he may look back upon with He must have felt that his show pardonable satisfaction.
ing was not good and the number
It was not a smashing, crashing of times he was caught with an triumph, but it held great promise open defence was not exactly en- for the future and that is what couraging. But he plodded away we are looking for.
and it was very interesting to note
that he made the good old straight| left his chief standby,
That stinging left, with its persistent onslaught to Gains's! nose, had its cumulative effect which was seen In Gains's pathe. tie resignation of the fight after
Sir Malcolm Campbell's
the thirteenth round. New Venture
FL
It not only brought lot of blood from his nose, but it caused him to swallow a lot, and that in- ercased his distress at the end. But nobody who saw Gains's gul-
The professional championship of lant, fight against the odds could Kent was won to-day by King, an withhold admiration for him. assistant at Knolo Park. His coro
SPEED RECORD ATTEMPT
Daytona Beach, Florida, Oct. 2..
was 137, including a new course res He fought craftily and skilfully With a new racing car, Blue- cord of 67 for the first round. to the bitter end, and put up a bird IV, Sir Malcolm Campbell, clean battic. Twico Potorgan was famous Englleh motor apcodster, cautioned for using back-handers
The Sussex professional title was won to-day by Thomson, of East bourne, with a total of 292-Reuter.
in the early part of the bout, but will make what probably will be ho was not guilty thereafter of his last attempt to go 800 miles an transgression.
hour in tests here late in January., obstruction by players,
Gains began to get slower after or early in February, Then the Football Association about seven rounds, but he was Definite plans of Sir Malcolm would be compelled to take the mat- at dangerous, and in the ninth tor in hand. As the rules stand round he landed a smashing right wore contained in a letter received now, they are open to grave abuse on Petersen's jaw which had the here yesterday. The Bluebird will
champion staggerlug.
Villa ground. Mr. Archibald One of the most notablo things Leitch has already prepared the that has occurred on the field this plans for a new double-deck season was seen in the Tottenham in this one respoct. Obstruction stand and other alterations to Hotspur match against Wolver will become a fine art, like it is on Increase the accommodation to hampton: The referee awarded a the Continent, unless the F.A. In- 100,000. That would make Villa penalty kick for obstruction in the troduce a rule to cover the whole Park the largest ground In the dreaded area. So nt luat & more question. Ofton have I written on country--larger than Wembley has been made to deal with this this subject, but only because I feel But It has not been decided objectionable practice, at least by that the game will suffer if such when theso alterations will be one referes. I earnestly hope the ineties are allowed to pass an- entered upon. ··
other officials will follow the punished. Now it is up to the F.A So much for the development examplo and penalise all unfair to get busy and frame a new law.
· PETERSEN WARMS UP,
bo completed: early In Decomber, with a radical departurò from previous modela. It will have Ten years ago Gains would have dual wheels in the rear, designed finished off such a situation in the particularly to increase tha accepted way but it must have been very galling to him that his traction on a sand course. wearled feet refused to do their Ho, made the present world's work. So by the end of the tenth 'land speed record of 272 miles an