10
SEE TEE'S SERIES ON
The Laws Of Association Football
11.-SOME NEW RULES
Several oficial alterations to the Laws of the Game These have been effected since the end of last season. alterations deal with charging, the Intention to foul an opponent and an amendment to the law governing the goal-kick.
In point of fact there, is no change in the actual effect The chief purposes of of the law regarding charging. the re-drafting of the relevant sections of Law 12 are to ensure that past misunderstandings are removed.
.
uk Une dellberately
"The thual piece of Law 10 used to play he proceeds towards the touch- state that players of the team uplne taway from where the play in)
osing that of the player taking the hut before he passes out goal-klek shall not approach within ten yards of the ball whilst the kick is being taken.
penalty ren ho tripped by an opponent.
observed thin The Referee has
that he has deerue forward and
This bad the unsatisfactory min-is not interfering with the play or ncturfage. What ing that a forward could stand well seeking in gain within the penalty area, although he inction should he take?
the ball! was not allowed to play until it passed into play outsides the i penalty area,
The new mendinent tu w 18 tina cleaned the position up a urte. The final part now reads "Players
then."
| SOCCER'S NEW
RULES
to
By ARCHIE QUICK of the from opposing that of the
rules introduced New Buiskie the shuill player
remal penalty area whilst the kick is being Soccer by the Football Assorin. Lion for the first time this sea- There is still one slightly unsatis- son will I think lead to all round factory aspect to this law. If the improvement of the game as a kirker should make only poor spectacle and may well produce kick al the
travelling ball be
a number of goal rushes until along the ground (fast lowly enough to go into play beyond the players in general and defen-
in particular learn enly area) a defender has only ders
.[
it before it reaches the edge circumvent them. the penalty area. Ho might stop
t with his hands but the Referee would have no option but to order the kirk to be re-taken.
ON CHARGING
With regard to charging, the base principles of the law are the same, 1. the past a perfectly the shoulder charge, made when the player con- cerned had nu intention of playing the ball, was punishmble by Jirect free-kick.
One or two points are made ittle clearer concerning 11in.
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Our
of the amendments includes the statement "A player shall be penni- ised if he charges fairly, ie, with the stouder, when the ball to not with- in playing distance of the players misterned and they are definitety must attempting to play it."
Law 12 (4) has
addition!
phrase included in it. It reads that
player shall be penalised if he
tentionapponent.
-kicks, strikes or jumps This section bas
en re-drafted to read" kicks. rikes, attempts to kick or strike or jumps at an opponent. There are many very Important points arising out of this amendment with which 1 hope to deal in another article.
LAST WEEK'S PROBLEM
My last weekly football Jaw problem concerned the forward who stock on his opponents' goal-line
Just outside the penalty area) i when one of his team-mates took a penalty-kick.
The ball struck the goal-post and, without any other player touching it, re-bounded to
the
standing on the goal-line,
forward
In the advice to Referees column
under Law 11 the F. A. remind
officials a player may aifside from
to
defined as !
Obstruction is now charging a player or keeping
hi
jo if the ball is only a foot or so away. Arguing with the referee can Jem to na indirect free kick. There are others but there will be chaos referees do not learn to interprel Them property.
W.. shall be
Relling differen rates in different matches and play- er will not know where they are. They do not now. And
jceļalors do sol
INTELLIGENT REF
vertanly
i saw the most intelligent referen, In charge of Wolves versus Bums the season an
in the operating Ingham
males of
good decistory
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
LOOK, NO SHOES!
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER, 11, 1948.
Playing in hare feet, two members of India's Olympic soccer team practise at Imber Court, England, just before All the members of the Indian team, except the Games. the goalie, played in stockinged feet when the ground was hard.
PENNANT RACE SCRAMBLE
IN THE AMERICAN LEAGUE
By ED RUMILL
Our weekly major league roundup today finds us face to face with a situation which may be unparalleled in the 48-year history of the American League.
You can cover the first four teams in the Will Har- rkige circuit--the four pennant contenders-with the nail on your little finger. Try it.
The Cards and Pirates bad best Furthermore, all foist are no eluse frvom pervenlige point of view (keep moving and in the right
rection, because The that in the 20 pinying days remain-
pressing from the war. Ing, we could see the first divizion
reshufled no less than 20 times,
A club can go up and down the he gave two very top half of the standing like than on the obstruction, off-camtioned levator. Wan Tom
fourth tes rule, both of which led to goals, day and you go from
the players sit st Lore oborrow truf you kis
the opposite.
but I am certain
COME
Banny Apprily
MISTAKE IN THE NUMBER
PERHARK OF THE SEAT
a penalty kick. When the penalty hot know what it was all about.
by
MERELY A GUESS
Perhaps never history
Phillies
arc
Ed Sawyer inok ve out of six
host and its his new mmagerial
th Chrough Sunday, had with a game of the Beers and two of the Cards.
Phils
At Cleveland, as the
Ited Sox dropped 12-2 and 0-1 decisions to Indians.
Manager Boston McCarthy
reprimanded
AUSTRALIANS GET READY FOR 'THE DON'S'FAREWELL
By ERN COWLEY
Melbourne,
Captain of Australia's cricketing team now' touring England. Donald G. Brudman ("The Don"), is "signing off" first-class cricket at the end of this year.
His final farewell will be made at his own testimonial match, arranged.
An Oldtime All-Rounder Expresses Some Views
By ARCHIE QUICK
Joe Hulme was a natural player of all ball games. Football, cricket, golf, billiards all came alike to him. So his opinion on each is of some value. Joe, now manager of Tottenham Hotspur, played soccer for York, Blackbitra Rovers, Huddersfield. Arsenal and England, and was about the speediest right winger of them all.
His cricketing days were spent with Middlesex, like Compton's and Hendren's and so many other soccer players'.
תן זךת
1
present being
This will take place soon after the Australian and world champion returns from overseas. Big crowd: are expected to throng to the famous Melbourne Cricket Ground to do honour 10 the greatest ericketer of all time.
Australja * hon had many cham- plous
the willow bat who have
famou
helped their country
elishes with Britain, but none has approached the proiftie scoring achievements of the mighty Don. who in 21
years of first-class erleket has smushed almost every known record.
Fastklious in all his actions on and off the field, the champion has sometimes been the bull of critles. something from under
He He has been dubbed a "chum" by- get
moves emise of his relicence in discussing counter. When a star and gets inaximum wages and bonus team selections and plasts of cum-
sometimes plus house, ear and job,
on the ove palin
of Important even more than one job, the rest of matches.
fulsome the fram he goes to are dissatished But one von deny the Ill gult handleap is scratched and he make bis hundred at billiards. An and play suffe
Recordingly,
expression be ives to his magní» "Sorcir is a team game and the cent ability when the time cornes Admirable Crichton of sport, in foot.
ts he says "It Of barels
Football Association must do one-to display his talents, playing either better game to play than snooker bathing drastic before the next season for State or country. Juses popalmity because it needs twe to make 11 players of equal skill interesting for both, while both good and bad enn play sonker and each thel it good fun."
Je
Golf gets this opinion: "Our pro- fessionals are much too busy rightly so. earning money 'conebing and attending to club shop, to be able to compete with Americans who a fulltime make tournament play
Bunner. winter andl Joh both in
no vet
Aviso
むしば chaps
practice at all.
JOE ON CRICKET
לחייקס
market"
order to curb This black
While I was with Spurs at (oven- met ex-Wolves' manager Teri try Vizard, and I understand he is ikely to return to London as manager in a position that will cause a first class sensation,
the
RANKS WITH GREATEST
Intellectumbly the Don ranks with
greatest Ja cricket. Ample evidence of this has been seen his ability to adapt himself to nit | Greations.......eve 10 throwing hin hand away or stubbornly resisting I hear Brentford's manager, Harry all attempts to dislodge in from Curtis, is retiring at the end of the behind the "brunden bat" in the season and his job will go to "X" game. amateur International centre forward
great fent to It is considered a Gibbons, winter Jack
whatle Fullon's make a century in quick time, yet manager Jack Peart is so seriously ill
The Don has demonstrated tinie return to that he is not likely to
and again that the second half of But Vizart's appointment SPECCE.
ire made double century, will be with another club.
Inster and more brilliant than the first.
hl: Further, he has accelerafd
1hirtl at a re century, amassing markable rate-and ready to carry on for more,
Of cricket Jec say, "England ts
only in the saune doldrums she was
I
in after the last war but she will NOT ROSES ALL a-getting speed
1here
Is Inme
and
come 2011. fortune waiting for any young man
energetle
10 link then enough
and accurately and
little hard work!
down quickly not be afraid of a over after over.
THE WAY
CF235
into
runs
452 not In one hand he scored out-that was in 1920-which was
the world's first-class record, and seared over 300 Ave other times.
This, in top-grade cricket is al-
whole- to the most unbelievable, but his
an engine Next to being driver, one of the biggest boyish ambitions is to be a speedway
of cinders rider. Skidding round the track in a spray plaudits of thousands adolescent's ideal.
is the cricketing career has sparkled with
achievement. The
genius captaincy
2438
Teams.
He has
was
culmination
his
of
remarkable of world championship
successfully
outguessed
England needs a fast bowler an batsmen with no inferiarity euni- plexes. There are plenty of the httuslt round:
cricket. Preston Essex may one day be the fast how der we want." Joe also told me that Denis Compton considered that there
But it isn't roses all the way. Take the Oval was nothing wrong with
Rot 30 little Johnny Fletcher for instance. Joe Test wicket when Hutton
And catcher Yardley seven
the remaining. He is captain of the Coventry Third
All he gets basically and led his side nainst all oppost- and before rans Division side. balen before ine English pinte,
is £1 per ride, that is £4 on Satur-lon in Test matches because between them.
Hince World War II. And such k days and C8 if the team have an
hls popularity that players under away xture too.
him never fail to give of their best this he must win in the pinches. To augment
There races or get placed on a sliding cente of £3, £2 and £1, possibilities of a fair income there- but supposing he doesn't win and there is no second weekly xture?
culourful Malt 'Balts of the In 1
tug
nine
of the league--certainly more than 70,000 people, never in modern history-has, Lou Boudreaut stid under his
Of soccer, his first and last love, there been such #1 scramble for in a steal of home, even going to the day. Anybody wh pleks the the extreme of kicking the young Joe says, "The game is being ruined
From The Christian by a fantastle transfer winner today is merely guessing. receiver. How could be more than that? Srience Monitur. So many things can happen be- tween bow and the inish line.
American's representative in, the next World Series could, be New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland or Boston, and very likely we will not
until know for sure
the closing hours of the race.
A lie like the National League Cardinal-Dodger Headlock
140
would not be surprising. In fact, it may be that more than two clubs! I will be involved. The race is that
close.
The American this year is with.
The out goul, solid ball club.
as
Yankees, for a while, looker
have!
GOLF
market and
by the desire of topclass players to
British Professionals To Tour Americas
By ARCHIE QUICK
British Ryder Cup golfer Max Faulkner is undecided. about his future. At the moment be is assisting his father Gus at a nine holes course at Selsey Bill but he has had ti offer to become a professional at Royal Mid-' Surrey, Henry Cotton's present club at Richmond.
But burly Max is having a dis- the Royal Colombo Club, is high in
his praise of it. pute with the Professional Golfers" Association over his having
Onlookers did not because the kick is taken the forward Wis nearer to his apponents god-line club hod omitted to explain the new this the kirker and did not have rules in their programme. Despite own all this, I think the Football Asso-
So did the Rest two opponents nearer to their
though they were. ་་་་་
ciation have arted properly. We Sox. So, on brief occasions. goal-line.
• Should be make any attempt to have hart too many displays of tem- both the A's and Indias
players and
been lay the ball or interfere with the per and argument play in any other way he should, far too much halding off a player
Bul. It seems they were only foul- the ball while from
a colleague
ing. be whistled-up "off-side."
This is simply a scramble of reratched from the aggregate com- cleared. That is not football.
the Harry its netition However, 10
I mediocre teams. remind as well again It is.
the tightness thrills not Another good mute is that
the customers, Trophy, would-be Iteferees Umt it
the important necessary for players to be behind goalkeeper shall it be farkled if which, after all is
bad in his g hr actually is the ball when penalty kick
hande Harry Hampton would not taken.
Players may take up any position within the field of play, have liked that in the olden days but it does speed up the game for bul outside the penalty area, pre-
waste of how often is it so much viding they are ten yards from the
the time for
centre forward to ball when it is kicked.
round the penalty aren.
is
15
THIS WEEK'S POSER
who An attacking forward standing just within his opponents' penalty area suddenly realises that he is in an off-side position. In order not to interfere
..
with
Arthur Peall says:'
n table with easy packets it is which would be; impoble on a standard championship table.
Avold. then, the narrow-angle middle Bocketred.
() Lake Fel
REDO
on right
of diaurani.
In match
DIRY.
1 Lookя pretty t iztexte erti
1111
- traV- white ball-U11 pottu blue, but stra mimpin pocket Jaw and stops on the Drink, can firave very costly,
Get into the habit of playing for corner pockets when a red in this. POSITION TRIM be potted,
My billiard strake is not diment Cuo-hall his one pocket Jaw, ubiret Left alde kpins white the other. cur-ball tato pocket while the other humps away towards mid-Labia.
SPORTING SAM
ins the
GIANTS ROLLING
Vardion
debars automatically This alro him from the coveted Masters' Tournament. Faulkner tore up his vard at a recent tournament and the Arsnelation say he did so as it The Braves continue as the most was a bad eart and in order to start chasing the goalkeeper all consistent nutht in the National maintah his average.
Faulkner says the Association Langue, although there have been hints of late that they are in for made this debarring rule after his trouble as the sing race reaches the action and that at time he was not so-called stretch,
liable to be scratched,
BIRMINGHAM LOOK GOOD
Birmingham appealed to me as a site who are likely to inish in the top half of the First Division after being ten years outside it.
Harry fact Manuger
Storer words to me after the game were How much credit belongs to "I was not satisiled with all our play. We were not getting the bet-Durucher, une ter of the majority of tackles but this distance.
Polo Grounds.
The
Faulkner complains too that Cotton For instance, Leo Durocher's
circumstances.
Association's touch is beginning to be felt at the has not been scratched in similar
that Colton was reply here and that illness is covered in their cannot tell from ebarring rule. Faulkner's retort to this is that he was also sick. "I am But the Glunts are, usually on alternate days, getting always sick when I have a we shall heat more teams them beatre viteling and atout hitting. When/of eighty or over," he says.
us.".
the batters fail, the pitchers come It Leo
New boy to the Manager's chair through, and vice versa. Stanley Cullis expressed satisfaction can make it stick, he should beat have their 100 with his team but I thought out the Braves, who
there were one or two weaknesses stumblut moments and too frequent both in attack and defence which of late.
will have to be remeted.
ARGENTINE TOUR
SCOTC
Charlie Ward of Little Aston, who currently heals the list of averages for the Vardon Trophy, is deter mined to improve his golf by seeking experience overseas. He in to four the Argentine with Normun Von Nida and then expects, to sto Billy Southworth was doing
an to the United States and join Wright, England and Wolves wing right until the Cardinals came to the winter clrcult in the Southern
Jell- throwing half and skipper, were both in the lown and started
states. The Braves did Army skie together two years ago bunders at him,
Oddly enough the outstanding
¡
player on each side, Gil
Merrick
jrmingham's goal and
Bill
LOST TO CARDS
all
In the Triangular, tournament manage to. win four out of six for
France and Belgium. I against
int Merriek may oust Ditchburn the week, though losing two
Frank Swift's successor,
their three with the Cards.
By Reg. Wootton
of
Cotton will be over there too and Dai Rees inny o again while PGA Faulkner, upset with the treatment, vows that he will find a job overseas and emigrate, "I will never play for them again in the Ryder Cup," he told me after be hai seen the aggregates 1st with
his name scored out.
Tho remark may
have been said in the heat of the moment, but Max added that he was going to write to Continental countries and the Colonies and the United States seeking a position.
STANDARD IMPROVING
The standard, of British golf is Improving is a result of tough being made by our professionals and one visitor here, George Greenway of
1
are
NEW SOUTH WALES
ericket Playing his early Bowral, New South Wales, Brad- South 1250121 Jater transferred Australia, and it is the latter State There is also a close season with
He has to buy his body that has requested. the testi- nes pay at 31. own machines at about £170 each monial game to be played at Mel- and maintenance is expensive, while bourne. travel to such for away places as Poole and Exeter bites into salary and there are hotels as well.
It is felt that city's 100,000-seat ground would give the public its
best chance of expressing apprecia- Injury means loss of wages, which lion of the many years enjoyment
The Don has given them. is riding
The Victorian Cricket Association is why just now Johnny
doctors has
the pro- against
agreed to heartily semi-concussed
states arc arders. So you see isn't all gramme and all other glamour bike-riding speedways when expected to fall into ne. Tenta-
It is unt at Wembley or one of the tive date has been made for Decem-
big First Division centres ber 3-7. for the four-days' garde: other where stars may earn their 100 or more weekly.
treasurer, Ern C. As Viclorian
"The best ("Son") Yeomans, sald;
It in doubtful whether Wembley hnancid result would be gained by the match at Melbourne patrons see greater fun than Coven-having
The mnich would be a for Bradman, whose Greenway was assistant to Charles!ry, Exeter, Poole, Norwich or East-
bourne customers.
Just reward Whitcombe at Crews H but went
For in this Third Division, riders work for cricket it was impossible He is
and to estimate." to Cevinn 18 years ago.
are young and inexperiented,
would be matches All other greater. of crashes percentages over here on holiday and by coin-
Rarely is a race run without some- cancelled so that players could ni- whose cidence he was drawn as partner to
thing happening, while with these tend and honcar the man
at all in the Whitcombe in a tournament. Green-
name is writ largest way was eleven stones in weight
less talept exponents there is no
a man in front at the annals of world cricket. From the when he left England and is now
question of
Christian Science Monitor. fest hend always winning the race. nineteen,
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