THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY
1937.
INTERNATIONAL CHARITY CUP GAMES DESCRIBED
Replay Excellent English Attack
Ireland Held To A Replay |
RECOVERY BY WALES
SMART GOALS SCORED
NORTH PLAYS OUTSTANDING GAME AS HALF BACK.
(By "Veritas")
Wales
3
{Altra . Rakertsi
recovery
Ireland
3
(Ferguson 3. Pickering)
Un- the honours of the match. doubtedly one of his best displays His season, North not only kept a tight hold of the Irwin-Moors wing, but sent through dozens of Ideal ground passes to Ferguson and Doherty. Altogether a clever and thoughtful display of half back football.
IRELAND led by three goals to one in this International Charity Cup match on the Kowloon F.C. ground yester. day: yet they were a trifle fortunate to earn a replay.
Wales made a splendid and i
in the courageous second half. Played a grand type of football and all but scored a sensational vietory.
I was a trifle disappointed in the The boll was whole. Home sent from and to ond in style. truc
to such teams, but there fot of desultory play, and far too much haphazard kicking Ireland's forwards sparkled in the first half, while it was the Welsh attack which took the eye after the change-over.
WALA
as a
Ireland was composed of Ulster Rifles players (with the exception of the centre-baif, the team was the full first division side) while Wales, apart from North at left half, con- the Fusillers. So that Risted of
we had two of the strongest Actually we military teams in Hongkong pitted
When Taylor moved from inside left to centre-half in the second, and during the same period Evans went from centre-forward to Fight half, discernible improvement there was
in the Wo
Welsh middle line. Taylor, though inclined to be slow, was a fine worker, and Evans had Ferguson completely in subjection.
Of the two sets of forwards I thought Roberts on the Welsh lett wing. Irwin on the Irish right wing and Doherty, playing Inside left for Ireland, gave the brightest display of the afternoon. Sullivan's opportun- Ism was a pleasure lo watch, and his efforts. two goals were worthy Ferguson was
I game. stages, but caterous in the initiat
against each other,
result was an interesting TH
outstanding though not notably
Ireland played so immensurably better than Wales in the opening stanza that it seemed that a runaway victory for them was assured. Bus Wales, effecting astute positional changes at the interval, played like a different team, and thoroughly deserved to earn a draw and to fight another day.
terrier-like methods Coakley had some
Cricket G.O.M.
Says Modern Game Too Slow
Cricket veteran Lord Hawke, M.C.C. treasurer, Yorkshire pre- aldent, thinks the public is fired of present-day batsmen who stick at the wicket all afternoon tor a paltry two-figuro score; says cricket fans must be given more for their money.
Points from his annual- survey at a meeting of the Yorkshire club
"Present-day cricketers will BAY
am an old fossil, but I hay the batsman's ides must surely be to knock a bowler el his length.
"Unless cricketers of to-day give spectators moré for their money we shall see a serious decrease in gates.”
To its cular:-
own club in parti-
want strong, forward, vigorous 'strokes-no back play. Yorkshire munt set an example in playing an attractive game.“
Lord Hawke, seventy-seven, in hls cricket career scored 13,000 runn, including len centuries.
Colony Badminton Championship
EASY WIN FOR C.E. CHNG
C.
of Chinese E.. Ching. оnc HEY.M.C.A.'s leading exponents, won an easy victory In the second round of
the against
Evans. ot good moments
on the Welsh right wing but lacked the Colony. badminton championship consistency and was inclined to be uverawed by Stevens,
THE GOALS
yesterday.
Playing on the King's College court,
They Shall Not Pass This Day"
This is probably the most typical and candid picture ever taken of Sydney Strange, the well-known full back during a football match. It shows Strango taking the ball in a favourite manner and stopping a Scottish attack on the English goal during yesterday's Charity Cup match.
(Picture by staff photographer). -
he defeated Lul Kwai-yau in straight Saturday's Cricket In Hongkong games of 18-1, 15-1, and thus enters the quarter-finals..
His opponent will be either P.K. Hus, F. Kols. F. H. Kwok or E. de Sousa, most probably the first-named.
Wales took an unexpected lead when Coakley performed a brilliant right wing run and finished up with SIMILAR TACTICS
n perfect centre which Roberts ran Both adopted similar tactics,
In to convert, but the advantage was though what they were it is not too short-lived, Ferguson equalising with easy to define. It was a mixture of a half volley from what appeared to
This evening's first round match fulle and whole-heartedness. On a be an offside position. A few min- dimeult ground (because it was like utes later Ireland was a bit lucity between T. C. Lee of the University concrete) and with a light ball, both to be awarded a penalty for an and S. A. Gray of St. Andrew's has
been postponed until Wednesday. teams performed wonders in
in ball-accidental hands against Wheeler. und
0 there was a most de- and Pickering converted with To-morrow evening Frank Kwok contral lightful understanding between half ground shot. Before the interval and E. de Sousa play off their firct backs and forwards on both sides.
Ferguson got his head to
to a perfect round engagement in the singles. Nearer goals die attacks became less confident, though one cannot deny that all of the goals
scored were admirable and reflected the highest
on everyone, credit
concerned. Stevens was quite the nest back on the field, and Keating caslly the mos! uncertain...Yet Koating's value to Wules never be doubted.
could Though his kicking must have given heart palpitations to the rest of the Acam,-somehow or other he came off nearly every time, and one must give him full marks for some skilful inter- ceptions.
North, as a half-back carried off
frwin corner and I looked adds on for n n handsome Irish victory.
in
Game EVER AFTER-
Aut
Wales made some positional changes, the benefit of which were AND EVERYBODY quickly realised. Firstly a neat left wing
culminated movement
PLAYED HAPPILY Roberts centring and Sullivan screw- ing the ball into the net with his. head. Not long afterwards the same player headed through from a corner, and from that time on, Wales were on top, and twice came very close to scoring. Rowlands had to effect two miraculous saves to keep his goal intact, and the and came with Wales still on the offensive.
EVERYBODY'S GUIDE
TO. FOOTBALL And How To Distinguish Soccer From Rugger
The difference between "Soccer" and "Rugger" is that in the first game you may get killed before the end of the season, where. as in the second you'll probably be torn limb from limb long before Christmas. The difference between amateur football and professional football lies in the fact that in the former no one knows how much you don't get!
The referee, or the man who is A. football "fan" is never cool.. As under the impression that he is in a matter of fact, this individual is to charge of the game, can be dis the point of having apoplexy from tinguished from the other 22 men the end of August until the follow-
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should-
the field by the fact that he wears ing Aprilrica a football game is tre- coat and an extremely worried look. He is also the first man offquently mistaken for a war between the field at the end of the game. rival gangs" by European visitors. not make, the same The goalie is usually very dirty in Americans do front and clean bohind. This is
is due
mistake, because they recognise the to the fact that he fine himself players under their disguises. full length on the ground every "Offside" is the place where time a goal is scored just to make player should not be or should be people think that he's trying to save according to the spectators. If the the goals. If he didn't do this no one referee notices that the should-not- would be able to distinguish hun be's exceed the should-be's he blows from one of the spectatoes.
his whistle and points dramatically the spectatoro, they nre at a
certain,
the spot, but if usually export footballers with ham bo's exceed the others then he tries: mer toes, weak hearts, varicose veins, hard not to notice the remarks of the and other allments that prevent them disappointed should-not-be's. Com- from taking an active part in foot-pilented, yes-but football IS a corn- ball. Sixty per cent. of them are plicated gamet supposed
to bo-out doing the week- Half-time is a period in the middle shopping for the wife. end
of the game to enable the players to The trainer is the man who tells lick their wounds and the spectator newspaper reporters why his "boy" to read the hastily printed half-time are bound to win before the game, scores of other foobiall matches or and then tells his "boys" exactly the results of early horse races. why they
hey lost after Llo
The jame.
A fout is a a dirty trick as far as the chiot point about his training
opponents of the man who fouls aro methods to get the "boys" to do concerned and jelly good play as for things that have nothing whintover as his supporters are able to see. If to do with football. For exam- a refereo is foolish enough to see a ple he gets them to run egg- foul, then he penelisca the fouter and-spoon races, ride donkeys on and his team and at the same time the sands play billards, learn chunks runs the risk of having poison put of Euclid, and master, the art of in his beer at the "Blue Pig" after dancing the Rumbo;
(Continued on'Page 9.)
Soccer Teams Tangle Is Unwoven
(By "Veritas") THE amusing muddle created by
the selection of Irishmen and
HURRICANE HITTING AT THE K. C. C.
Then Frank Goodwin Takes A Hand And Gets Three Wickets In An Over
(By. "Veritas")
Jessopian-like batting by
A. W. Ramsey, who smacked two sizes and nine fours in an janings of 74 compiled in 50 minutes left the Army bowlers shaking their heads in despon- dency when KC.C. senior team was at home to the military sido on Saturday.
Ramsay, exhibiting powerful drives!
Welshmen for the English Inter- and hefty leg pulls, made the Army attack appear exceedingly inocuous, rational Charity Cup football and with the willing and very capable team was straightened out satis-assistance of Donald Anderson, 144 runs were added for the second wic- factorily yesterday.
fow minutes under the hour.;
ket In
Originally Stevens, an Irishman, Anderson, after a start which sug-i and Taylor, a Welshman, were gested the opposition bowling held atl chosen for England, while Talbot, the terrors known in cricitet, sudden- ly blossomed into a beautiful hitter, an Englishman, was included in and at one stage nearly caught up the Welsh team.
with Ramsey, though before he had However, when the teams fin-been over 30 runs behind him.
An interesting feature about both ally lined up it was to reveal innings Was that cach batamen Stevene at left back in Ireland's reached his half century with a team, Taylor in the Welsh team, mighty hit for six. Ramsey got his
a straight drive from .with and Talbot taking his rightful won si to send the bait into The Bowling Green Club, while place in the English aide.
So everybody is happy, though Anderson adopted a similar stroke, I rather think some of our soccer but from the other wicket and clear- ed the cinder track by the club selectors will think twice next
arden. time before picking their teams at the Interport dinner!
Coronation Day Six-A-Side Matches?
the
MODEL INNINGS Ramsey's knock was a wee hit "chancey, though when he did con- | neel (particularly against Barron) it; was right in the middle of the bat. On the other hand Anderson's was the a model innings. He got over ball perfectly in making his flashing! cover drives to the boundary, and when he did lift the ball,, it was always thoroughly clear of fielders, and in an intended direction.
FRANK GOODWIN
Anderson reached his century by runs in one over. four o'clock. In other words he
FINISHING IS SUPERIOR
BOTH DEFENCES GOOD
FOWLER'S FINE RIGHT-WING
DISPLAY FOR WINNERS
England
Alliet & Fowler)
2 Scotland
ENGLAND, possessing a forward line with the will and ability, to score goals won yesterday's Inter- national Charity Cup tie against Scotland somewhat contrary to expectations. Scotland's weakness was England's strength.
The English attack showed up remarkably well, and were doubly as
дя dangerous the Scottish vanners in front of goal. Rodger was
very much more worried than Church his
opposite number, which was fortunate for England Church did not inspire a great deal of confidence.
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Scotland were splendidly served in defence. Rodger, Hill and Steele were constantly averting catastrophes
in to their goal by means of clever terceptions or during saves. They needed to be on their best behaviour which clearly agninst a quintette found inspiration in the occasion. Fowler and Blekford on the extreme Engilah wings were sources of real worry to the Scots, while the pushful efforts of Elliot, Wride and Talbot constantly spelt danger.
The Scottish attack was polished in
Thirty-one To Nona! Goalkeeper
Scores Six
Penalty Goals
Have you ever heard of Roalkeeper scoring six goals in A match? Well, it happened In the game bettween Ousion Juniors (Durham) and Deaf Hill- Juniors, at Ouston.
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Ouston Juntors were awarded six penalty kicks. Their goal- -keeper converted the lot.
The Ouston Inds won 31-0. Morrison, inside right, scored nineteen on his own,
BADMINTON
its approach movements but fell very TO-NIGHT'S
it came to adding the
finishing touches. In addition to
which full marks must be given LEAGUE
Sydney Strange and Webster for some first-class defensive play. They posl- tioned themselves better than did Hill and Steele, co-operating more effec- tively with their hall backs.
The Scottish inside forwards rarely received opportunities for cutting through the middle as did Elliot and Talbot at the other end. The cover
and Strange ing play of Webster : made a pretty pleture:
There was little to choose between the Intermediate lines, though, possi bly the Englishmen were a little more attentive towards their own forwards. Certainly the English vanners did not have to fetch and carry so much an the Scots.
"The fact that the Scots had rather more of the play Indicates they were superior in the midfield exchanges, but there that superiority ended. It was the English forwards who were the more potent before goal, and al- though they could not pierce a bril Ilant defence in the first half, they met with just reward in the closing stages,
It was Fowler who paved the way for the Arst goal, firing in a hard drive which Rodger could not hold, and Elliot, rushing up netted before the goalkeeper could recover. Not long afterwards England made the game snfe when Fowler broke through a second time. and beat Rodger with a well directed shot.
Scotland might have reduced the arrears before the end, but the luck was against them. On, the whole, though, England deserved to win, it only because she enjoyed that slight edge in attack.
PROGRAMME
(By "Veritas")
Three matches in the "A" Division and two in the "B" are scheduled us to-night's league badminton gramme,
pro-
St. Andrew's "A" receive Univer- sity "A" in the return ixture, walle Recrolo "A" visit the Eu Tong-sen gymnasium to meet the University second string.
The Varsity seniors are sure to win comfortably, while Reerelo, should annex points.
Chinese Y.M.C.A. are at home to Chinese Recreation Club, and I rather think they will win about 6-3 at the very least.
In the seconti division there is a "Derby" encounter at Kowloon Tong, where the club's two teams meet. The senior outfit are sure to win.
College a good run for their money St. John's should give King's at the Cathedrni Hall, but I cannot see them avoiding defeat.
The programme, with home teams given first, follows:"
"A" DIVISION
St. Andrew's "A" v. University “A." University "B" v. Recreio “A.” Chinese Y.M.C.A. v. C.R.C.
"E" DIVISION Kowloon Tong v. Kowloon Tong "E." St. John's v. King's College.
TWO-REFEREE SCHEME OPPOSED BY HERTS F.A.
If the advocates of two referees being appointed to take charge. of professional football matches get their way there will be a serious shortage of efficient referees for the big amateur competitions.
This was the information laid be- t games were not properly fore the council of the Hertfordshire handled it was due to the Incom- Football Association at their meet-petence of the officials and not to ing in London..
the system of control
The Council unanimously decided A further argument. put forward to instruct the representative of the against the introduction of two re- ......he took three wickets for two county to oppose any motion that ferees for professional football, was might be submitted to the FA. that it was most undesirable there Council for two referees to be placed should be one law for the profes- in control of gaines instead of one. sional side of the game and another made his runs in something like runs: I wondered why he was not
for the amateur side. 110 minutes, which was great going brought back again. Only he and The view was taken that, although The Football Association
Hitherto the game had been dealt. seeing that he started off rather McIntosh-Walker looked capable of at present the advocates of the slowly. It was his second succes-stemming the fast tide of scoring, change insisted that they meant the with as a game, and the coumel was Council at a inceting in London will consider a draft letter of
sive three-figure Innings and was Barron was treated in merciless alteration to apply exclusively to emphotle that it would be a danger without blemish. One six, one fashion, especially by Ramsey, who professional football, it was indvitous experiment to set up two kinds instructions recommended by
five and 16 boundaries were his smole him time and again past the able that, if the option were placed of control. the Consultative Committee for
flelders. best hita.
in the laws, sooner or later it must Walch In a brief spell sent down be made compulsory, and it would issue to county associations in E. F. Fincher made a confident 37
with connection
six-a-side against bowling which had had its some fair stuff, but taken all round apply to all kinds of football.
heart broken and with Anderson the Army attack was not impressive.
The appointment of two referees Their Belding was the poorest matches on May 12, Coronation helped to advance the score by 88 in Day.
an hour. He bonsled seven boundary have seen for a long time in this for each game would lead to chaos, grade of cricket. As somebody re-only because it would be impossi A sub-committee will be ap.C.C..immings lasted just short of mariced: "Shades of the Hunt Balille to obtain the number of referees
CURIOSITIES ·
required at different periods of the pointed to consider Welsh club two hours and in that time they
There were some curiosities about season when there was a large num applications for entry in next raliled up 238 runs for the loss of season's competition.
two wickets. Teddy Fincher Jeft at the Army innings, which terminated ber of cup lles on the some after Recommendation of the sub eight, and so accurate was the bowl-at 192, leaving the home team win- committee who have con- the home team would have a read them was Frank Goodwin's bowling ing in the early stages, that is.seemed nors by 100 runs. The biggest of sidered rule 29 dealing with the fight for rune.
figures of 6 for 4D. Hla first wicket, status of amateur and profes».
As it was Gartirwaile Anished with secured in the course of Ave overs sional players will be
the admirable analysis of 1 for 27 in cost 34 runs. Then he returned to aldered."
connine avers (including two maidens), bowl from the Bowling Green end.
and bir flest six.overs only cost toni
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It would be the first step towards a cleavage between the amateur and the professional sides of the game, and ultimately the two would be completely divorced.
Norwich City FC. directors are unanimously opposed to the scheme. Mr. J. F. Wright, chairman of the club, told a reporter: "The over- whelming majority of professional foolballers play the game in a sportsmanlike way, and to let loose It was stressed that, in the on footballers generally this costly, experience of the members of the and what might easily prove to be Counell, there was not any dim-confusing, split outhority, is not culty in a compelent referén ́and | justified because there may happen two linemen controlling a game to be a few black sheep who can eficiently, especially under the be adequately dealt with by one diagonal system now in vogue, referee."
noon.