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A PROOF OF ESTEEM
Foreign Regard For British Football
By ARCHIE QUICK
The Football Association's latest Bulletin gives enlightening proof of the esteem British football is held in all corners of the world..
Our amateurs may have been ignominiously heaten in the Olympic Games by Yugoslavia but our professional might commands respect in every country, where the game is played.
manager Tom Whittaker was offered a long-term contract with wuse, travelling expenses, certain supple- mentory" "reqúlsites and £4,000 per annum to go to Turin Club.
Thus we And In this bulletin the I have it on good nuthority that Hongkong Foalball Association offer- ing a two years' contract at £1,200 per annum for a conch plus addi- tional earnings from broadcasting and Journalism and a trip to New Zenland for the Empire Games In
1950.
Then there is a £1,000 per year Job going with the Turkish FA and a £100 per month and travelling expenses offer from Guatemala, not to mention highly salaried post- tions going in Norway, Greece, Iraq. Denmark and Naples,
This Afternoon's
Seven-A-Side
at the Hongkong This afternoon Football Club ground, Happy Valley, the Stanley Shieki reven-a-sido association football knock-out tournament is continued. -
All the first round, and all but two second roud watches, were played off last week-end. When the remaining second round games have been disposed of Arst thing this afternoon, the field will be set for the harder struggles of the third
round.
One of
the sternest battles of the whole contest in the meeting of
Kitchee and Chinese Athletic. Chin 'ese Athletic are the holders of the Stanley Shield, while Kitchee are the Hongkong footbail Trague champions. Kitchee showed brilliant
It is possible he will accept. The Dulletin contains n lol of other heartening news. For instance the Charity Shield Match between Cham- plons and Cup Winners, Arsenal and Manchester United, has been revived and will take place at Highbury on October 6.
AMBITIOUS AIR TOURS
Again it has been decided in prin- ciple for a Football Association team to embark upon the most ambitious tours ever attempted during the Australia, New Zealand,
summer.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1948,
THIS GADGET AGE
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Capt. J. L. Riera of Spain gets wired for light as he prepares for his match in the Olympic Games Pentathlon competition. A light on an umpire's desk reglsters when a participant is touched in a fencing match.
Canada, the United States, the West See Teo's Series On
11re ex-
Indies and South Africa pected to be visited, not necessarily by the same party.
Trips will be by air and will give us a foretaste of the World Cup in Brazit in 1950, The Football Asso- cintion have in the past cent teams to Australia, South Africa and Canada separately and by bout, but this is going to be something en- direly different, a harbinger in fact of days when league matches and international games will
all be undertaken by air.
causing concern. The FA have evi- One other item.In the bulletin is
a report that the dently received conduct of one or two teams on overseas tours has not reached the and has reflected le credit on Bri- standard of sportsmanship expected
tish football. The FA blameż fully Another extremely keen game refereeing to certain extent but what should be that in which St. Josephst units to do is to name the clubs meet the Club's -(B) team,
concerned.
form in their 5-0 victory over the Navy last Sunday.
Both this afternoon and to- morrow play commences at 3 p.rn. Between the second semi-final and the final tomorrow afternoon, final of the Schools* seven-n-side tournament is to be played.
The Laws Of Association Football
12.—OBSTRUCTION
I was asked the other day to state the penalty for obstruction. The answer is that the only penalty for obstruction is a good healthy shoulder charge, although even that assertion must carry the proviso that the player who delivers the charge is trying to play the ball.
Obstruction, of itself, is no punishable offence: when it takes the form of any of the offences referred to in Law 12 it is another matter. A player who obstructs by pushing, violent charging, charging when he is not attemp- ting to play the ball or in other ways, quite clearly specified in Law 12, should be penalised according to the
Inw.
For the player who runs across About fifty professional and ama-another player's path, or deliber- teur clubs have thus had a light ately sets himself in the way of on east upon them when the FA admits
par-
One form of obstruction, ticularly when the ball is running. slowly out of play behind the goal, is to present a broad back to the
1ail.
the there are only one or two culprits. opponent without actually attempting forward who, is trying to play the
This matter should be cleared with the least posable delay,
up
to charge him, the answer lies with the obstructed player.
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There is nothing new in the altered forin of the law which says that
a player may be charged from behind when is obstructing an opponent.
have a п сору of the 1030-40 Referees Chart which refers to a decision promulgated In 1907. 1 reads "If a player.... is obviously aware that he is about to be tackled by an opponent, he is intentionally obstructing and may be charged
from behind."
There are people, however, who try to suggest that this is new: it is at least 40 years old.
"The other form of obstruction which gets the obstructor into trouble is when the goal-keeper
hinders an opponent. Within his! six-yards goal area the gonl-keeper is entitled to be left alone in order that he may deal with shots direct- ed at goal.
It is because of this that the
keeper is protected by the Jow which says he shall not be charged within his goal aren,, unless he is holding the ball or obstructing an opponent. If he is holding the ball there is no question of dealing with shot: If he obstructs an opponent he is obviously not giving his full attention to playing the ball. ·
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The relation between this last point and the re-drafted order, con- cerning charging is an interesting example of consistent policy in framing laws.
LAST WEEK'S POSER The answer to last week's soccer poser is that a pehalty kick should be awarded against the defender who tripped the player who was in an off-side position.
offside
A player who is in an position. and is clearly not inter- fering with the play must not be penalised: it some one trips him while he is trying to get away from the play, e ordinary section of
Law 12 would app
apply.
TI
It was
suggested recently' that. arguing with the referee" can now
lead to free-luck. This sugges-
tion was made in an article dealing with soccer's new rules. Is the inference correct that prior to this season players could argue with the referee without fear of being
penalised?
DEDAK SENHURTIS.
Coming Events In The Sports World
Ruusmak
TODAY
Lawn Bowls League, First Divi- sion, IRC v KDC at Sookunpoo; CCC v KCC at Happy Valley; HKFC v KBGC at Happy Valley.
Second Division: KBGC v HKFC at Austin Road,
Stanley Shield Seven-a-side soc- ter, Second and Third Rounds, Happy Valley, 3 p.m.
Inter-School Swimming, Chinese YMCA, Bridges Street: 7 p.m.
TOMORROW
Lawn Bowls: Craigengewor
Rinks Competition (semi-final),
p.m.
Interport Cricket Trlâl at KCC,
Lawn Bowls: First Division: KCC
v IRC at Cox's Path, 6, p.m. -
·Schools' Saven-a-Side Soccer Final Lot Happy Vality, 5-p.m.
THE DECATHLON
Some Hongkong
Boys Think
They Stand A Chance
By "RECORDER"
Since the story appeared in the Telegraph on schoolboy Bob Mathias's victory in the Decathlon at the London 'Games, I have received several requests for detalled event-by- event figures set up by the great Decathlon stars.
There evidently is some feeling in the vicinity of 3.300 decathlon The standard of local athletice here that the Colony, which an- points, Were he as good in his runs has fallen off badly in our post- nually turns out " spate of a hurdies, he would be worth war cru. I remember seeing all-rounders at its athletic meets, 6,600 points or not far off Olymple 23-foot long jump at Caroline may have someone luricing in the class.
and discus throws of 120 feet and shadow who, If not having thu
We have fullen now to win- potentiality of an Olymple star in In the Inter-University meet be-more. u single event could reore well as tween Hongkong and Lingan Uni-ers at 10 and 90 feet in these two
events. an all-rounder.
versities just before the war, held The chart below, giving all the at Pokfulami, one of the events was 6,800 point performances I have As a matter of cold fact, the sup- the Pentathlon, the points for which been able to get the event-by-event position is not an incorrect one. At are also computed on the decathlon marks on, will help any of our [an athletic meel last year at Caroline chart, and three of the four com- would-be aspirants to Decathlon Hill I counted up the score on petitors scored henvily enough to honours to gauge their own possi [decathlon chart of one of our have competed without loss of "face" blitics, Asteriska beltlnd the names athletes who competed in five field in, say, the American National AAU Indicato Olymple Gantes per. events and totalled 'up something ¡Pentathlon.
formancex.
DECATHLON CHAMPIONS-PAST
Glen Morris (USA)*
Robert Clark (USA)
100
TEAR Metres.
1030 11.1 1000 10.9 11X12 11.1
11.7
LODE. Jump
ים :
AND
PRESENT
1.300
Total Metres Paints
Shot High 400 Put Jump
Fligh Meiren Hurdles
Akilles Jarvinen (Finland)*
22:101; 40: 3 23: 0 22:11
49.4
41 14:1042
$0.0
14.0 35.7
43:0 5:9
30.6
35.7
James Rausch (USA)*
22: 01
50: 3 5; 7
04.3
102
Discus Pole Javelin Throw Vault Throw 141: 19 11: AK 170:1011⁄2 120: 2 12: 12 107; 84% 120: 91 1: 4 2001 143:31 13: 16 203: 115
4:332 7600
Jack Parker (USA)
1030 154
833
15.0
Bob Mathlas (USA)►
1040 11,2
21:09
42: 0% 0:0
31.0
13.1
Irving Mondschein (USA)
1045
12.1
23: 3
42: 39: 824
50.9
17,1
124: 224 11:53, 183: 21 139: 7 11: 0 18: 31% 125:11 10:11 142: 3
3:07.0
4:44.4 7601 4:47.0 270 5:17.0 7332 7265 4:55.3 7224
4:43,0
7:01
E, Huber (Germany)*
1030
113
12.3
15.8
Vladimir Volkov (USSR)
2047
114
21: 30: 314
324
104
11:15:
12: 31% 185; 215
4:35.2
70AT
1909
4:55.6 7073
Paavo Vrjola (Finland)
1024
113
23:14 40: 32% 6: 194
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10.8
190: 1
10:10
102: D
4:44.0 7073
Floyd Simona (USA)
104A
112
23: 61% 40; 1° #: 4.
52.1
18.3
135; 1
10:11%
150: 215
5:03.0 *7031
Reindert Brasser (Holland)*
IMG
11.4
21:112 443 6; 224
A15
16.2
129: 5
11: 1
182:11
0:00.0
7048
A. Guhi (Switzerland)•
1930
11.3
23: 140: 45% 9:107%
52.3
15.0
134: 0
10:10
107: 4%
4:40.2
7033
E. Kistenmacher (Argentina) 1947
11.3
10.T
133:114
0:10
100:1012
4:30.1 7017
Jim Thorpe (USA)*
1012
112
Izrince Heinrich (France)***
31% 0: 192
32.2
13.0
121:32 10; &
2008
113
6: 122
140:1114 4:40.1
GOT7
51.6
134: 315 10:0 161: 24
4:43.8
0074
Al Lawrence (USA)
1947
23: 82% 30:11
50.9
14.8
103: 0% 12: 0% 132; 9°°
4:42.1
0073
1940 112
22:37:
6:55
53.2
14.0
113: 1: 11⁄2 153 214 4:50,0 €372
Harald Osborne (USA)*
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