THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1986.
17 HONGKONG PLAYERS FOR OLYMPIC TRIALS Two Chinese Athletic Footballers To Participate
South China's Debacle
Whirlwind Football By
Army
The Army
DEJECTED CHINESE
(By "Veritas"}
.7 South China
Army!--Rowlands; Swain and Steelo; Ball,' Campbell, and Evans; Smith, Sandford, Conkley, Talbot and Ridings.
South China: Pau Ka-ping; Leung In-chan and Lee Kam; Leung Wing-chal, Wong Mee-shun, and Lee Kwok-wal; Tso Kwai-shing, Lal Shuf- wing, Fung King-cheung, Îp Pak-wa and Tay 'Qua-llung.
On Sunday morning Lee Wai-tong returned from Shanghai bearing the encouraging news that seventeen South China Athletic Association players had had been selected for World Olympic! tests. In the afternoon the players celebrated this by losing seven-nil to the Army in a Kote- wall Cup game! Berlin must have seemed far away to those jaded players who for 90 minutes were outplayed in all points of the game..
The score is a faithful record, the enthusiastic Army attack were of the match. Seven-nil re- pitiful.
Four goals came in the last ten presented the difference be-
minutes, the outward and visible. tween the teams. It was on Rigens of a brilliantly conducted Inspired, enthusiastic, relent- offensive, "less, Army side which obliter.
confidence was ated
bewildered, by, the ineptitude of his colleagues.
South China's
.often.
never
Bobbing hands and the goalkeeper's fist gave the 'crowd a thrill" when this incident occured in the leagua match on Saturday batwoEK. Royal Ulster Rifles and South China "B", (Photor Mau Chung).
GORDON LUM UNLUCKY
Cannot Compete in Championships
STARTING TOO LATE FOR HIM
(By "Veritas").
Although entries for the open lawn tennis championships of the Colony close on February 19, the tournament will not start until Monday, March 2, at least a fortnight later than jast year.
a slow-moving, low-shaken when Campbel! seized a nar- now opening to shoot through a thinking, dejected South China, crowded goal with. Pau Ka-ping Thousands of Chineso turned up unsighted. They
recovered at the Navy Ground to cheer their from the shock and when fifteen favourite, Leg Wai-tong after his minutes later Coakley went right Shanghai Muccess. But Lee Wal through the middle to add No. 2 tong sat next to me throughout the they became a beaten team. game, himself dejected, but more
done harrything they did was
thoughtlessly and never KuCCERAfully. Only
twvlee Not only was Lee out of the team throughout the game was the Army to a chill and slight fever, goal seriously threatened, and (duo which did not improve as the Army's was not until the second half. In tally of goals mounted up), but the first place Rowlands saved won- Tin-aang was absent, and with Lauderfully from Fung, when a goal Mau sick and Tam Hong-pak in disappeared certain and would have grace, South China had to fall back made the noore '2-1, and secondly on a second team defence in Leung the same forward hit the upright In-chan and Lee Kam.
and the bail rebounded into play, But by that time the Army had built up a winning load of four-nil.ceived any forma
ONLY A FORWARD LINE
at
They were overrun and outplayed before the game was half an hour
A TERRIBLE HEADACHE old. To all intents and purposes the
The most lamentable feature about Army were opposed only by a for- South-Chinn- was the utter-failure ward line, and not a very good for ward lino
of the half back intackling, position- that. Practically ing and passing. Possibly the fact apoaking a Chinese defence did not they had only arrived back from exist, and when Leung In-chan Shanghai in the morning was the stumbled off the field with a foc
cause, but certainly on such form injury half an hour before the end, it was hard to appreciate that South China's efforts to withstand either Leung Wing-chut, Wong Meo-
shun or Lee Kwok-wai could ever Interporters.
BADMINTON
WILL TAIKOO CONTINUE?
· DECISION THIS WEEK
be
They were out-manoeuvred by the quick and accurate passing of the Army attack, while to them, Talbot was himself a terrible head- ache.
The insido left showed a mastery of ball, control and trickiness which
aled even we somewhat hard- i
newspaper critica. Nó won- der Shanghai Invished praise on him! In the earlier stages of the gamo a As to whether it la possible for facial expression of determination Taikoo Recreation Club to continue accompanied the perigrinations O
division of the Talbot's twinkling feet, but in the badminton league will be decided end it became all so caay that the
never more Inside left was positively
in the men's doubles
this week. Taikoo,
ພ
Talbot's supers and re
than a bare half a players at
the dividualism whe their disposal, have lost
equalled by the services of two regular members smooth inter-play of the rest of the and fece the prospect of T. forwards. They took the ball down- Stainton's departure from the the field in whirlwind style; they Colony early in March.
wero not wild rushes, but clever Elforts are being made by the club movements, with the ball travelling to discover new players and Mr. C. the entire line; and they packed Summers, energetic secretary of the dynamite in some of their shots. It club, is hoping to be in a position was football of most refreshing before the week is through of de- and uplifting type. ciding whether the team can continue. Sandford, working with as much The mixed doubles team will cer- rest as though his week's pay de tainly remain in the league.
on it, an pended
and Smith, speedy and Half a dozen men's doubles matches kliful, combined in delightful style are down to be played this week, Inn the right, while Talbot and while there is a full programing in Ridings
conbination WOTO the mixed doubles division on Friday. hardly This evening Recroio "B" meet Fire Coakley played that worrying type of
less prominent on the left. Brigade in the ladies, doubles, game in the middle liable to get the Details of the programme follow. best of defences all h up. It certain
ly shook South China's backs out of
MEN'S DOUBLES TUESDAY
9 and 8, Home. v. Recreio. "B"
WEDNESDAY
St. John's G Y. Kowloon Tong Fire Brigade v. V.R.C. St. Andrew's "A” v.. Talkoo Eliot Hall "B". Eliot Hall "A". Chinese R.C v. St. Andrew's "B" MIXED DOUBLES
Fire Brigade
St. John's Recreio "B"
FRIDAY
7. Chinese R.C. v. St. Andrew's
Talkon.
8. and S. Home, v. Kowloon Tong
LADIES' DOUBLES:
THIS EVENING
Recreio "D"
ах
their confidence.
27. BALL. IN FINE FORM
It in also strange that although entry forms have been posted in the Cricket Club pavilion, they have not yet been circularised to other clubs and apart from II.K.C.C. members no intending participants have yet res
The
fact that the championships are starting so late will preclude Gordon Lum, China's Davis Cup player from entering as he leaves for Shanghai at the end of month
whether W. C. It is still not certain Choy, Cambridge "Blue" will accom pany him, so that his participation in the championships is doubtful.
The tournament will unhappily loss Ka-lau, who is going to Shanghai on a prominent figure this year in Ho
a business trip during February and expects to be away for a month or
two,
TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP. DATES FIXED
Ladies's Semi-Finals This Week
V
Daten for the semi-finals in the Indles' open singles and doubios tennis championships of the Colony have now been arranged.
Both singles semi-finals will he | played at the United Services Recret- starting at 3 o'clock. The contestants tion Club on Friday of this week,
are:
Mrs. Kayl Holder) v. Mina R. Hancock.
Mrs. N. Wilson v. Mrs. Dowling, Mrs. Kayll and Mrs. Dowling will meet Miss I. RunJahn and Mrs. Chių Chun-chla in the open doubles semi- final on Wednesday of this week, and Mrs. Wilson and Miss Hancock will play. Mrk L. Androwes and Mrs. J. Litton in the other match at The ladies doubles final is scheduled for Saturday next, while the final of the singles will be played on February 16.
the U.S.R.C. on Thursday,
BRILLIANT SWIM
Copenhagen, Feb. 2. Fifteen year-old Ragn Hidhvegen to-day accomplished an outsiiding piece of swimming covering 440 yards seconds, thereby beating Lenoro free style in minutes 20 0/10
Kights' time of 5 minutes 30 seconds made in Boston during March 1934, Router.
THIRTY PLAYERS
DENOMINATED
START TRAINING AND TRIALS IN APRIL
SELECTION COMMITTEE OF FIVE APPOINTED
(By "Veritas")
Our Daily Golf
Hint
No matter what the growth of the grass may be, the man faced with a putt of a yard and a half should hit the ball firmly to the back of
the hole.
-E. RAY.
"WE DESERVED TO WIN".
TWENTY-TWO Chinese footballers, many of them from Hongkong, will parade in the mighty World sports stadium in Berlin this year. The Chinese National Amateur Athletic Federa-.. tion last week decided to send a team of this strength to compete with some of Europe's finest exponents of football. In the team will be a number of South China Athletic Association. players.
Returned from Shanghai yesterday, Lee Wai-tong told me of the progress which had been made in connec- tion with China's participation in the World Olym- pics. A selection committee of five has been appointed. Thirty footballera have been chosen to participate in training and trial games in Hongkong in April, After- wards a selected company of 22 playera will journey to Shanghai for final tests. Numbered among the 30 lucky ones are the following Hongkong players:
SAYS MANNING RAILTON
INTERPORT. TEAM BACK AGAIN
(By "Veritas").
Hongkong's weather lacked a sense of decency yesterday morning when, in accordance with a Royal Observatory re- port, "heavy akies, mist, some rain" greeted the Colony's supremely satisfied and triump- hant Interport footballers upon. their return from Shanghai by the Empress of Russia. But the footballers were not worry- Shing-kwon (Chairman of the ing. They had with them the coveted Hongkong branch of the Nation-Shanghai flag, and more: Important,
the Telegraph Interport cup al Federation).
What did Mr. Manning Railton," Mr. Mo and Dr. Yung will come team's Pau Ka-ping. Wong Wing,
manager, think of the Li Tin-sang, Tam Kong-pak, down to Hongkong and with Mr. players? Well, to put it mildly, he Leung In-chan, Leung Wing-Ngan will watch the local trials considered they were pretty good.
"Shocking ground; conditions" he chui, Wong Mee-shun, Lee and duly report and nominate the
team for Berlin.
said, "but every man played finely. Kwok-wai, Tao Kwai-shing,
Afterwards they will take theOur team work was far shend that Fung King-cheung, Lee Wai- players up to Shanghai for two or
of Shanghol. tong, Ip Pak-wa, Tay. Qua-three trial matches before the team liang, Yeung Shui-yick, Chouk leaves for Europe. Shek-kam (all of South China A.A.), together with Mak Sui- hon and Tsui Ah-fai of Chinese Athletic.
Although he has not yet been officially notifled, there is no doubt that Lee Wal-tong will captain the-team.
As will be seen from above the The rest of the company will be local players invited to participate made up of six Shanghas players, in training and trials in Hongkong one from Northern China, and six in April include the whole of South from the South Including two China "A" league team and four from Java and the rest from of the "B" team, while two Athletic Malaya.
players have been recognised.
SELECTION COMMITTEE
The selection committee is com posed of the following efficials:-
(Hon.
Mr. William, Sung Secretary C.N.A.A.F.), Mr. Gun-
-
Ho Họ Cup
son Hoh (Head of the Physical Football
Match
Department of the Educational Bureau), Mr. Juha Mo (Physical Director at Chingwa Univer- alty), Dr. C. C. Yung (Vice- President of the Kwang Hwa University) and Mr. Ngan
Very Disappointing Tennis Final
MISS R. HANCOCK
ONLY ONE
TO TOUCH FORM
Tennis
of unquestionably poor standard materialised on Saturday from the meeting 'of- L. Goldman and Miss Rosa mund Hancock' and H." D. Rumjaha and Mrs. Chiu Chun- chiu in the final of the Colony open mixed doubles
tennis and championship. Goldman Misa Hancock, holders, won a disappointing match in straight sets, 6-4, 7-5;-
not
the fow honours, going were
They also won on their merits, but shared. They belonged almost exclu- sively to Miss Hancock who alone lifted her game from that mediocrity usually associated with a casual immock-up at the club. Goldman was distinctly patchy, Rumjahn was oft times a study in still life and Mrs. Chiu was overburdened and frustrat
The soldiers were also extremely well served by an intelligent half back line Campbell was always broaking ad from employing her favourites
up anything which resembled a dan- tactics. gordun movement, but his passing.
Miss Hancock's forehand, driving
was not on such a high plane and was good to behold; it was not only
It was left to Evans and Ball (it was | stylish," but effectivo. Behind the
a great match for the last named) shots were pace, accuracy,
Food
BY "VERITAS”
AFTER THE MATCH.
Miss Hancock and L. Goldman, ail
GARDEN PARTY
ETHICS
May Be Revived
P
(By. "Veritas”),
"Mind you, I'll agree that in the closing stages It was anybody's game, but until then we were the. belter side. Of, that there is no doubt
"
CAPTAIN'S CLAIM' DISPUTED”· He couldn't see eye to oyo with Collaco, the Shanghai skipper, who, in (published in these columns last a press interview after the match Saturday) protested that Shanghai were unlucky to lose.
the conditions, Shanghai wore pre sented with an advantage which they. Mr. Railton's point was that under
talled to take. On the other hand Hongkong adapted themselves to the conditions, the entire team playing as well as the ground would allow.
Les Wal-tong, Colony skipper, held-- similar views. In fact they were all Estonished with Collaco's statement Shanghai, he said, were apparently dissatisfied with the selection of Albert Howe at centre-forward, and the fact that he did not make a Auccessful showing only aggravated the feeling. But he felt it was not. a caso of Howe losing the game for Shanghai, but that Hongkong, won on their merits.
Incidentally Mr. Itallton said the one big moment of the match was Talbot's electrifying run which saw him evade six players before part- ing with the ball Shanghai were just left Roundering in the mud.. ile had never seen
a finer in- dividualistic effort on the football Geld.
With six Malayan Chinese footballers invited to Hongkong to participate in Olympic trials, the Colony's branch of the C.N.A.A.F. bas a mind to at Concerning the social side-no tempt a revival of the Ho Ho complaints. They were splendidly Cup competition, last active in always are in Shanghai. Br. Railton entertained, a Hongkong teams sald they were specially indebted to The Ho Ho Cup, inaugurated in Mr. F. S. Bridges, a vice-President of
1929.
dinner at which very short, but none less sincerely complimentary speeches were made and altogether it
BY H.D. RUMJAHN 1028, is a football tournament betwear the Shanghai F.A. for the superb representative Chinese teams of Hong- manner in which he attended to their kong and Malaya, and I am told that requirements. Rumjan played as though he hatod a letter will shortly be sent to Singa- There was an unofficial Interport the game of tennis, I am afraid too pore Inviting a Chinese team up here he has been reading foolish books at the time about the so-called bad form of reinstitute of the Olympic trials to spec "poaching". He made the mistake of In the first year of the competition was an extremely happy visit. introducing garden-party tennis Hongkong won, but in 1929 Malaya White Way" proved so alluring to By the way Shanghai's "Great ethics and kept so severely to his were victors and have held the cup Sydney Strange and George Hill that section of the court that the opposi over since, the competition being they decided to have
few more days Lion, discovered there was never a dropped in recent years.
in the "Paris of the East", and the danger of their shots being intercept- On the face of it, it seems quite Interport team returned without ed. So many times simple shots possible that an additional half them.. literally crying aloud for an inter dozen or so players can be sent up cepted volley were permitted by Rum- with the Olymple trial players from afternoon players and officials were Down at Causeway Bay yesterday. Jahn to fall at the feat of his part-Singapore, and the competition robombarded with congratulations.
Tor.
Mre, Chiu played gallantly, but she was flurried into over-hitting "and, fairly naturally, could not maintain rallies to the length necessary againsį such steady players ns Milas' Hancock and Goldman.
vived.
£40,950 For
to assert that at Seven Players:
am compelled to assert that at no time did the challengers look like
winning. It was with the greatest Villa's Record
difficulty they hold their services and never did they become sufficiently as sortive to sustain an attack. Gold- man and Miss. Hancock invariably won the race for the net and even when Rumjahn did secure 'tha posi-! tion he failed to volley with effect.
In less than six weeks Aston
SHANGHAI JOCKEYS
Two Shanghal Jockeys arrived in Hongkong over the week-end in pre- paration for the Annual Raco Meat- ing which will commenco February 22.
Mr. T. L. Wong, well-known in- Hongkong, arrived on Saturday morning and will probably ride for Mr. Li Lan-sang,
Mr. V. V. Needa was among the
Villa, in danger of dropping into passengers who arrived from Shang- the Second Division of the day. He will ride for the Sassoon,
on the Empress of Russia League for the first time, havo | stable, pea spent over £40,000 on acquiring
to lalliste most of the Army attacks, length. Her backhand, a purely de- miss when caught by the car It was all very gentlemanly ten- In the last lines of defence Swain fensive stroke, remained reliablo, after they had received the mixed nis with bright flashes from Miss
10. doubles tennie championships cup Hancock to relieve the tedium. and Stecie played a expital game From the forecourt, she pulled out a
ne saven new players, but and the over-watchfel Rewinds sufficient number of winning volleys on Saturday, (Photos Mes Cheung).
II:K.L.T.A., presented the cups to fesa over so short a period. -adres wine they played with a foot to slapel, pravlaus impressions that takes he made with these running the f. Justice Lindsell, President of This is a record total for transfer ball, would be in an English we played a no player Altogether she forehand drives must have given him the winners and runners up, at the latest acquisition by Philips, cricket team to-day, did not make a smooth the mistakeć
smooth methodical clover food for serious thought Overhead same"
expressing thanks to the Wolverhampton Wanderera' out- All in
cheathrow away opportunities by Chiness. Recreation Club for sguin so aldo-right, a Welsh International. Goldman did little of noto (that is adopting canny tactics. In cruder successfully organising, the competi- of the seven, five internationals brillant representative teams ever worthy oo) apart from volloying terme he played pat-ball. Curless tion. Mr. Ng. Sze-kwong introduced two Welsh, two Scottish and ono Erg
grace the local football field. In this he had the opposition whipped too, because generally he shows Mr. Lindsell and thanked him for llah. Every man fack played tim-top-foot-from the startOff the ground ho plenty of enterprise and not a little gracing the function with his pro-hon socuring Phillips, Villa fore-
(Continued on Page 2). was ragged and the number of mis- akili in smashing, Big B
stalled the Arsenal, who were so in
to
Fire Brigade
game..
was one of the most
torested in the outside-right that they offered 20,000 for his tranator.
Here is the tariffs.
Griffiths Cummings Palethorpe. Williams
£6,000
20,450
· 20,000 ).
£3,000)
50.000 20,000
Manalo
Hodgson
Phillips
$40.950
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