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. BIC 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 strango sight tendency. The next fortnight may of Huddersfield at the foot the prove it either way. first division, and the common appearance of Chelsea as com- panions. Arsenal are clinging, with no little difficulty to third place, thanks to a surfeit to drawn matches.
A bunch of London teams at the top of the third division are providing metropolitan fans. with
A fine action study of Beasley, the Arsenal forward. It shows him leaping high to head a goal.
CLUBS ALREADY LOOKING FOR NEW TALENT
BOLSTERING UP THE TEAMS WITH CAPABLE RESERVES
PLAYERS BECOMING SLAVES TO
A FALSE POLICY.
Commenting on the English Football League season just started, a Home critic says:
TO BEAT THE BOOK
(By "Robin")
Manchester C. Everton
Sunderland
HOME1-
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 is given, a draw is anticipated.
FIRST DIVISION.
Birmingham
EVERTON
Huddersfield
GRIMSBY
Portsmouth
Y
▼ Chelsea
V
Aston V.
T
MANCHESTER C. v
PRESTON
Already the quest for players has been energetically renewed, Wednesday Manchester City, Everton, and Sunderland are all looking for Stake
SUNDERLAND centre forwards, not because they want them immediately but Tottenham, because they realise that the nood is likely to occur.
Y
Wolves
Blackburn Derby Liverpool ARSENAL Middleabro V Leicester
Leeds
+
WEST BROMWICH –
SECOND DIVISION.
good deal of interest. Millwall stock has slumped somewhat an a result of their beatings during the last two weeks, and reports of Bolton's glorious 100 per cunt their earlier matches show that record came to an abrupt end the team's record which ut one, lust week: They actually con-time road played 6, won 5", was a ceded six goals! Up to then one little bit flattering, had been their maximum, and Chariton and Coventry have that had occured in only two been more impressive, and when Coventry can follow up Bristol matches out of seven.
City's great win ni Millwall, by Manchester City is now the pet visiting the City and beating them. of all the leading newspaper two-nil, there is something about scribes, yet the tip to be lind in that
team which commands several dressing rooms is Everton, respect. Crystal Palace are nice- The Tolce Towery have a normally placed, but they are a doubtful record to date, losing matches on proposition away from Selhurst foreign soll, but always coming up Park. Their prototype is to be trumps on their own pastures. found in Reading.. Good judges say they have the
Darlington is LE team to be makings of a champion team, but watched in the northern section. are destroying their chances by Their latest success was to visit overworking Dixie Dean.
Hartlepools and carry off the Ever since he broke all records points without conceding a goal.) by scoring 60 goals in the 1927-23 This was just as impressive as season, Dean has been regarded Chester's 6-1 home défent of purely as a goal-scoring machine Wrexham, and Tranmere's victory Huddersfield und 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 some 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 opsigned on to go to Anfield. Liver- not be measured solely by the win- BRADFORD mistake in tacties as Evertonposition and prophets may ex-pool engaged Johnson from Ever-ning of points. When I dared. to BRENTFORD should have discovered by now. perience a bad time. Ground ton towards the end of Inst season criticise the Sunderland players Burnley Fulham Revision in methods of attack seem advantage suggests a largo num- and he served his purpose in help for ceasing to go for the goals
NORWICH to be necessary if Everton are to ber of home wine, although I feeling to get the club out of the mess when they had obtained the lead Notts C. vindicate the claims minde on inclined to the belief that there at the bottom of the table. But against Wolverhampton Wander- Oldham their behalf.
will be an excessive number off they still want an Inside left. urs 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 v Sheffield U.
Y Nowcastle [SWANSEA • Their steady path of progress.
Arsenal's visit to Stoke will be looking ahead in preparation for is wrong." 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 meteoric brilliance, but of stability club's big opportunity to show gle, want to consolidate their do in the position of the men-if-THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH). ailled with gentus. So far there championship form. They have fence, and they havo made an they won they got £2; if they only BRIGHTON
Bristol R. have been no indications of the been slow in getting off the mark offer for Ives, the Sunderland drow their bonus was halved.
If it is true that the footballer CARDIFF team becoming reactionary, where- but that the material is there, is back. Up to now the clubs have as 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
I would not be surprised, too, interests, the bonus system ought Clapton 0, not liable to reveal this ther will be capable of anything if an offer were shortly made to to be scrapped. Let the players! COVENTRY
Gillingham Chelsen for the transfer of Galla- be rewarded by all means, but LUTON cher. It is most unlikely that the suggest that it would be a much NORTHAMPTON Y OUR "FORM" GUIDE
centre forward will spend the son- better arrangement if it were left) READING son in the reserve team at Stam- to the clubs ta decide at the end SOUTHEND ford Bridge.
of the season, as in cricket, how the merit grants should be allot- ted.
are
How Your Team Has Been
Faring In League
ENTERPRISE.
T
Peterson, acknowledging the choore of 64,000 people after being
given the verdict in his heavyweight fight with Larry Gaina.
HOW PETERSEN BEAT
LARRY GAINS
YOUTH SERVED IN BRILLIANT
BUT GRUELLING FIGHT
CANADIAN SHOWED GREAT COURAGE BUT LOST TO BETTER MAN
By Fred Darınəli)
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 bent 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 beat heavyweight fights we have seen for many years. Gains, although beaten and un-¡ round Petersen, warming up in his Notin F.
able to continue after the end of pace and boxing with botter steadi- MANCHESTER U the thirteenth round through dess, had brought the points 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 in the car smashing rights intermixed with lier rounds, when his generalship the swift left jobs, which Gains and shrewd tactles had Potersen could not avold, he began piling | badly bewildered.
up the points galore.
V
Barnsley
Bury
*
Y
V Hull +
West Ham
Bradford C.
Y
PORT VALE
♥ BLACKPOOL
Queen's P. R.
Y Aldershot
*
V
Bournemouthi
T
Crystal P.
V
Bristol C. -Millwall
Y
Exeter
Swindon
Watford
V Rochdale
▾ Newport
Torquay THIRD DIVISION (NORTH). Acerington
Y STOCKPORT. The clubs, too, unblushingly CHESTER Every club seems to be con- vinced of the brightness of the back the men in their point Chesterfield futuro, and wherever I go I am scheming play. In discussing this DARLINGTON told of new enterprises. The aspect with Mr. Duncan White, Gateshead Wolverhampton Wanderers the Sunderland director, the re- HALIFAX ground with its two stands and marked, "You know the financial t one and covered is already a fine responsibilities of club directors. Rotherham one, but the club have ambitious Unless wo win gates drop off and
the troubles may be serious.” : «ujaksa | plans to improve it further.
All this is common ground, and beyond contention, but meanwhile
The following table reveals how each team in the four divi- sions of the English league have fared to date, the results includ- ing their last five more matches up to yesterday.
The first figure in each case, of course, is that of the team concerned,
FIRST DIVISION.
Birmingham Derby C. Leeds
Aston Villa Chelsea Middlesbro' Leicester... Liverpool Portsmouth
THIRD
* Southport
+
Crewe
V
Barrow
น
Wrexham
V
V
❤
V
Carllale DONCASTER TRANMERE Lincoln
Y
SCOTTISH
Hartlepools LEAGUE.
Y
New Brighton
Walsall YORK
The Arat improvement is to be DIVISION (SOUTH). the covering of the huge embank
3-2 2-0 2-3 2-0 2-0 ment, which is at present open to the game is being forgotten Airdzie 2-0 1-8 X-2 0-0 44 the sky, and then the erection of through the commercial stringency AYR 1-0 2-0 2-2 1-0 0-2 a double-deck stand on the site of which every season becomes CELTIC 2-1 2-0 2-5 1-3 0-2 the old one now in use.
But all more and more vital considera-Dundee 04 0-1 0-0 4-0 1-1
The pitch at Molineux is I think
1-1-3 1-0 1-0 1-3] Aldershot 4–1 0–2 1-1-4–1 2–1] Brighton 4-2 1-1.0-0 0-3 2-0 Bristol C. 2-6 0-5 1-1 2-0 4-2 Cardiff 1-304 1-3 0-2 2-0 Clapton 0. 6–1 3–3 0–1 0–2 1–2 Coventry 0-2.5-0:1-1 1-3 0-2 Exeter 2-1 0-1 0-1 3-0 3-2 fillingham .1-0.1-0 0-0 2-4.2-1 Luton
1-0 2-0 2-2 2-0 2-1 Swindon 3-1 3-9 1-2 0-9 1-2) Crystal P'. 1-1 2-0 Bristol R. 3-04-0 0-1 -1 3-1 0-2 1-2 Watford 2-1 2-2 3-4 4-2 2-3] Cheriton 6-2 1-3 3-2 1-2 4-2 Reading 2-2 2-1 2-0 0-1 0-1 Northampton 1-1 4-3 0-2 0-0 0-1 Newport
Preston ... *Wednesday Sunderland Tottenham West Bromwich Wolves Blackburn Arsenal Grimsby
2-4 2-0 1-3 2-0 1-9 Southend Stoke.... Huddersßck
1-4 0-2 1-0 2-4 0-2 Queen's P.R. Everton
2-5 0-0 1-0 4-2 2-4 Bournemouth. Manchester C 113-1 3-1 2-1 Mllwall
SECOND DIVISION..
Bradford
Brentford
Burnley
Bury
Fuliam...
0-3 0-0 0-1 2-1 0-2 Torquay
4-0 1-1 1-2 1-1 2-0 in good time.
3-0 0-2 0-1 1-1 1-1
I
tion.
Dunfermline The Sunderland players had no Falkirk
3-1 1-1 3-4 1-2 2-2 the finest I have over seen. When thought for the spectators in the HIBERNIANS 4-0 1-2 1-2 1-1 2-6 the Sunderland players saw it play of the Sunderland team. We MOTHERWELL 1-0 1-1 3-2 3-14 they said, "This is our chance. only saw them at their best for artick 2-3 3-0 2-1 4-1 2-0. If we can't play here we can't half the game. Afterwards, with St. Mirren 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 3-0 2–1 1–0
as a bowling green.
4-1 0-1
BIGGER THAN WEMBLEY,
3-1 2-1 3-0 0-0 3-1 0-1
0-3 1-3 1-3 0-2.1-0
1-3 0-2 2-1 0-4 2-2
Major Buckley, too, showed mo
object, they played for the points, and-their bonuses.
The League is perhaps the most. wonderful organisation in sport, 1-2 0-2 6-2 0-0 6-2 the latest thing in training dovicos but it still has imperfections. G-1 0-2 0-3-14 1-1 which has been invented by an 3-2 1-2 2-1 1-1 1-1 old Wolverhampton player. It is 1-0 0-2 1-1 1-4 0-1 not easy to describe except to any 2-0 1-0 4-3 0-1 1-3
that when one stands on it the whole body is vibrated. It is a wonderful sonsation either to stand or alt on it. Every muscle 2-1 1-0 4-1 1-1 1-0 seems to be brought into action.
THIRD DIVISION (NORTH).
1-1 1-2 2-0.04 2-1 1-0 2-3 2-5 4-2.
1-11-11-0 1-3 6-1 Accrington 1-0 4-1 2-2 2-1 1-2 Crowd 5-2 2-0 0-0 4-1 1-3 Darlington 1-0 1-0 1-0 1-2 2-0 Gateshead 0-1 3–-–2 1–2 4–1 0–2 ¡[alifax
Manchester U. 1-3 2-3 6-0 3-1 Lincoln ....
1-1 -1 2-1 Rotherham
0-2 3-2 0-4 Stockport 4-1 2-2 3-2 1-1 8-1 Tranmere 2-2 0-0 0-1 1-1 1-3 Walsall 4-1 1-4 1-2 1-4 4-0] Wroxham 1-1-5-0 0-1 0-0 0-2 New Brighton 14.0-4 3-0 1-1 1-1 Doncaster .... 2-1 0-0 2-2 1-4 1-0 'York 2-2 1-1 0-3 1-3:1-2] Chester 0-2 2-1 2-0 0-3 1-1|| Mansfield 2-4 2-3 0-1 3-1 2-0 Rochdale
2-0 3-0 2-6 Chesterfield
2-3 6-3 Bouthport 1-1 3-5 Carlinie
Notts F. Oldham Port Valo Swannen Barnsley Norwich Southampton Blackpool... Plymouth Bradford C. Newcastle Bolton Sheffield U. Noite G.
Tali West Ham
1-2 2-1 Hartlepoola
5-1 2-1 Ilarrow
1-3 0-0 2-1 6-2 1-6 | As someone said, in five minutes: 4-0 4-2 1-1 2-1 0-1 you get as much exercise as in 4-0 1-2 1-3 1-2 4-0 riding to hounds. 1–2 0–0 1–2 4–0 0–1
0–0 1–2 3–2 0–2 5–1 1-0 2-2 1-0 1-4·1-1 1-0-0-1 2-0
ding
hear, too, of a new scheme
for the enlargement of the Aston
NEW PENALTY RULING
ACTION TAKEN AT LAST
(By Charles Bachan)
•
*
RANGERS Aberdeen
Queen O'Bth St. Johnstone KILMARNOCK Albion
Y Queen's Park
v Clyde
▾ HAMILTON
Hearts
PROFESSIONAL GOLF
London, Sept. 27.
In the first Ove rounds. Galua dominated the contest. He knew, none better, how necessary it was 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 later stages.
some
people
He took no foellah risks and while his attack displayed. triumphant crescendo round after round to the finish, all his work was leavened with discretion and Peterson 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. Gaine 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. Awift assault revealed the old master. Petersen showed his dnoj He had faults but his good mettle by not being upset by all qualition abone all over and his this.
victory over Gains le 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 opan 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 slinging left, with its persistent onslaught to Gains's
Sir Malcolm
nose, had its cumulative effect Campbell's
which was seen in Gains's pathe-
tle resignation of the fight after)
the thirteenth round.. New Venture
剩
It not only brought lot of blood from his nose, but it caused him to swallow a lot, and that In- crossed his distress at the end. But nobody who saw Gains's gal The professional championship of lant fight against the odds could Kent was won to-day by Kingan withhold.admiration for him, assistant at Knole Park. His score was 107, including a new course To cord of 07 for the first round..
He fought craftily and skilfully
SPEED RECORD ATTEMPT
.. Daytona Beach, Florida, Oct. 2. With a new racing car, Blue-
to the bitter end, and put up a bird IV, Sir Malcolm Campbell,
The Busser professional title was clean battle. Twice Peterson was famous Englich motor speedster, won to-day by Thomson, of East- cautioned for using back-handers bourne, with a total of 202-Reuter in the early part of the bout, but will make what probably will be he was not guilty thereafter of his last attempt to go 300 miles an transgression.
hour in testa hero lato in January obstruction by players.
Gains began to get slower after or carly in February. Then the Football Association would be compelled to take the mat about seven rounds, but he was Villa ground. Mr. Archibald One of the most notable things tor in hand. As the rules stand still dangerous, and in the ninth patch has already prepared the that has occurred on the field this now, they are open to grave abuse round he landed a smashing zight were contained in n botter received 316-41-2 plans for a new double-deck season was seen in the Tottenham in this one respect Obstruction champion staggering.
on Petersen's Jaw which had the stand and other alterations to Hotspur match against Wolver will become a fine art, like it is on
PETERSEN The referee awarded a the Continent, unless the F.A. in
WARMS UP. 100,000. That would make Villa Park the largest ground in the dreaded aron. So at last a move question: Often have I written on Ten years ago Galna would have dual wheels In the rear, designed country--larger than: Wembley, has been made to deal with this this subject, but only because I foel finished off such a situation in the particularly to increase the But It has not been decided objectionable practice, at least by that the game will suffer if such accepted way, but it must have when these alterations will be one referee, entored upon.
2-1 1-1 4-1 1-43-11-
0–1 5–1 2–0′6′′Ï 2-2 1-0 0-2.2.0.0-3 1-1.0-2 2-4 "OLD
2-1
4-0 0-1
Increase the accommodation pton for obstruction in the traduce a rule to cover the whole!
Definite plans of Sir Malcolm
here yesterday. The Bluebird will bo completed early in" December, with a radical departure from provious nodols. It will have
carnestly hope the tactics are allowed to pass un been very galling to him that his traction on a sand course. other officials will follow the punished. Now it is up to the F.A wearied foet refused to do their He made the present world's So much for the development example and panallas all unfair to get busy and frame a new law. work. So by the end of the tenth land speed record of 272 miles as
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