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A TACKLE
I. CHARLEE BUCHIAN
It seems that when I brought up the subject of the sliding tackle, I raised a storm about my head. 1 am glad of this because it has done one thing: It has brought the matter to the notice of the authoritica. Something will have to be done 50oner or later ond the more the subject is mentioned, the quicker it wil be dealt with.
Many opinions have been asked and many arguments raised about the sliding tackle, but nearly all deal with it in the category of rough play. It is nothing of the sort. The tackle is legitimate provided the player intends to play the ball. It Je not because it is rough or unfair that the sliding tackle should be abolished, but because it slows up. the game, destroys combination by making players part hurriedly with the ball, and, most important of all, Is the chuse of many injuries.
It can be done quite easily by a revision of the laws, now 60 years eld and quite out of date. Last sum- iner there was proposal to rewrite the laws in simpler and plainer langunge, and it will be done soon. That is not enough. They will have to be remodelled and brought in line with present-day methods.
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THIS PSYCHOLOGY IDEA IN FOOTBALL
Where It Would Be A Help
By Arbiter (Frank M. Carruthers)
Clubs, it is said, are now practising the science of psycho- logy, but I am not sure what is meant by this. Neither are they. It may be that it is more than a study of temperament, and this has been described simply as common sense.
If the players are to be regarded) The dropping of a player is lightly with more human sympathy and an told ns if it were of small moment, attempt made understand more but there has never been one with fully their reactions to the disap-ambition who has not felt humbled pointments of the game and the life and aggrieved when he has been left within it, it will be for the general out, unless he realises that his form good.
bas gone and that a rest will help One golden rale may be laid down. him to recover it. Always, however, Not one of the present 17 laws is The better the player the more sus-it. is essential that there should be clear-cut or decisive. There is no ceptible he is to disturbing influences. frankness on the part of those who plain definition of obstruction, tackl-The higher he has climbed the more have to make the decision. ing or charging. Even the laws damaging to his moral is a fall. relating to off-side, fouling and handling the ball are not definite. They all place the onus of deciding whether an offence has been com- mitted on the poor referee.
When the F.A. do make up their minds to overhaul the laws I Im convinced we shall see a big im- provement in both the standard of play und refereeing. Then that harassed offein will go on the Beld not as a mind-reader, but as one
Players feel the reflection of being dropped more to-day than ever be- fore, owing to the publicity and in- creused interest taken in them. They never enjoy any privacy.
Try to imagine the feelings of the players as they were dressing after the recent match at Blackpool against the Irish League. They knew that the selectors were then choosing the sides for the trial. Would they be picked? The experienced plnyer does not deceive himself. He knows BASKETBALL LEAGUE whether he has played well or poorly and yet so conflicting are the views of those who sit in judgment that he can never be sure of the verdict.
Who knows exactly what he has to Felt His Position
do.
During the past few weeks I have spoken to several club managers
Then cume the teams. Imagine
the against
feelings who had been left out. There was of those one who obviously felt his position
Hongkong University Win School Crown
The Hongkong Schools Basketball League, rtin
Hongkong by the Basketball Association, has been won by the Hongkong University have Won Nam College and St. Joseph's College eight
and lost once. Wah encounters are second with 14 points each.
and one topic of conversation has acutely, "Don't worry," I told him. With 18 points. They
been the player molor-car owner. Many of the managers feel strongly that no player on contract with a club should be allowed
drive car; some of them have gone so far as to forbid their players to drive. Soon there will be a big flare-up. The injuries received by Ellis Rim- mer, the Sheffield Wednesday out
side-left, a few days ago hing brought matters to a head.
There are two sides to every ques- tion. As a player, I can sympathise with-the-players-who feel they are being treated differently from other people and are being interfered with unduly. But I can also
the sec
club's point of view. Is it right they should be subject to the risk of hav- ing one of the star players perhaps one for whom they have paid several
thousands pounds-put out if action
by some means outside the game? Remember, they would have to pay the injured player's wages accord- ing to his contract.
NEXT WEEK'S FIXTURES
Badminton League
The following are the Badminton League fixtures for the coming week:
MONDAY
"A" Division
King's College University "g"
St. Andrew's
v St. Andrew's
"Everyone else thinks you played well.
In the Junior Division of the same
lengue St. Paul's College are first without being beaten; while Wah Yan College "A" team is second, with one
His face it up. "It's kind of you to tell me that," he said. I even as- sured him that he was sure to play against Ireland, and he is bound now to think that had some secret in- formation, whereas I realised that p defeat. strong influence would be required to persuade the selectors to change their estimate of his value to the side.
Much the same thing happened af- ter the trial match on the Everton ground. One of the pinyers chosen to go to Belfast to-night said to me when he heard he had been pleked, "My fairy godmother must have been watching over me to-day." He left no doubt that in his view he had been extremely fortunate.
Should Be Told
champion team of the First Division On Monday, December & the will play an exhibition match against the Rest of the Schools, after which Mr. David Au, the President of the Chinese Y.M.C.A., will distribute the prizes to the two champion teams, at 4.30 p.m., at the Chinese Y.M.C.A. gymnasium.
W. L. Pts.
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The following are the results of the Students' League:
Senior Division
Hongkong University Wah Nom College St. Joseph's Collège St. Paul's College Wah Tal College It would save a deal of heartburn- Fong Lam College ing if it could be explained to a man Wah Yan College why he had been omitted from a King's College national team. No established player Sat Nam College should be dropped out of his club Chung Nam College side without being told why, and the
Junior Division
blow should be softened before the St. Paul's College list is posted in the dressing-room. Wah Yan College (A) He would then not be left to slink Sai Nam College away convinced that all the forces King's College
of a harsh world were unfairly ur-Wah Yan College (B) rayed against him.
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St. Andrew's Kowloon Tong Recreio "A"
V. Free Lances V. Recreio "B" v. University
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