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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1949.
BACK TO LEAGUE SOCCER
The Koreans Leave Behind. An Odd Assortment Of Memories
By "SEE TEE"
Back to league soccer again today, and a return to the Governor's Cup tomorrow. This afternoon all except one of the Senior League clubs are in action.
One-hundred-percent South China "A" should continue in that way at Boundary Street; while at the Club ground Chinese Athletle will be trying to avenge their defeat by the Club in the Shield competition.
Hill.
Tomorrow the second match of the Governor's Cup competition is to be played at Caroline
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in their boots.
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gone, but they much inlased. Nevertheless, most of Knox and Ramskill hold good shots The Koreans, are have left behind an odd assortment the FA forward line for tomorrow's In the first match of game have shown they have shooting of memories. their visit to Hongkong, they show-nbility. ed un brillantly flashing football of a type for su
superior to any seen here since the reoccupation.
In less than half an hour. they scored five genin against a Hongkong
XI. The next day (Sunday) the
Combined Chinese ron and bustled them off their game, and snatched a narrow 3-2 victory,
If this were unexpected, the vic- tory of the Non-Chinese by the name margin (but much more. decisive In execution), tame 133 another pleasant surprise.
Last Sunday's match, in which the Koreans soundly beat one of Hong- kong's strongest elevens, seems ample Indication that it is too much hard, to expert touring learns to play 00-minute matches on succesalve days and produce their, best form.
ffad the first match bece of 70 minutes' duration, the second might have been better football entertain- ment. The third game should have been brought in on the fourth day. It is asking for too much of strangers in a strange landl,
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The FA are again faced with well-chosen Chineso de. If only their forwardis will take every op- portunity of shooting at goal, suc- cess may well be theirs. They have i the backing of a good middle line.
Mullen reored one very fine, goal against the Koreans; so did Kiernan, Xavier's qualities are too well known to need stressing, while both John Macadam's Column
SPORT DECLINES IN ERA OF MECHANISED TOYS
Going recently into the matter of the decline in quality
of British sport, we came to the conclusion, in concert with one of the Keener minds at present occupied with the problem, that this decline ste us back to the appreciable falling-off In the playing of the old simple games of child- hood.
Leaving aside auch major contributory causes as war wastage and lack of food, it was easily demonstrable that if more of today's athletes had been brought up on the street games that used to come round, each, mysteriously, in its appointed season, they would be ten percent better off. This Iros nothing to do with their day. It is a bad thing for
organised football, British sport that it should be so. only ten men, and Hongkong Bulsh-more-or-less
Second thoughts on last Sunday's match, in which the Koreans play-
ed more than half of the game with
ed with only nine, are not altogether swimming, cricket, boxing, and the happy.
If certain players are again chosen for representative honours after last Sunday's exhibition, the controllers of local football are failing in their duty.
rest:
It has to do only with the child- SOFTBALL CHATTER hood plays we got up to ourselves without benent of conches, putats, and any
material other than Wo could knock together ourselves out of old newspaperit, bits of string, and pieces carved from boxwood.
When players, on successive week- ends, in big representative matches, hintontly fail to control themselves, they should be told that there is nearly forties, not one could
place in big football for them.
Of hait a dozen observers in their recall ever having had a mechanical toy
Tho
On such occasions as big repre- in life. Books, ties, scarves-theso sentative gamen,
with tourists from
presents. were the kind of especially more
other lands. rest of our entertainment we made Hongkong's association football for ourselves,
should be on its best behaviour. Last Sunday's match Included for 100 many lamentable lapses.
TODAY'S MATCHES Although South Chlon "A" to all intents and purposes have the League Championship in their poe- kets, there are several interesting 'matches today.
At the Club ground there is every promise of a stiff encounter between the Club and Chinese Athletic. CAA beat the Club 4-2 in the first match ut the season, but the Club, in A Shield lie which went to extra ume, knocked out CAA,
Prior to the fixture on the Club ground, the Club's second string face the forindable juniors of South Chinn,
an
At the Navy. Around there is
afternoon's football.
B
GOOD TIMING
For ball games, we either used n can or manufactured a bail out of paper and string, and you can accept our word for it that if you can dribble a tin can or a paper bail, you can dribble anything.
Many Scottish footballer Jearn- ed most of his tricks of swerve, control, and speed off the mark with a paper ball, Just as he developed his sense of ilming learning to kick a can without busting his loes.
And any Rugby player will tell you that the old Tig (or Tag) game is a great one for heightening anti-1 | clpailon and developing the feint al
speed.
LITTLE MISS MUSCLES
Dianne Marie Kalllo, threa years old, is today's moppet bid for tomorrow's weight-lifting championship. She is following in the footsteps of her dad, Keith Kallio, 30-year-old War Depart- ment worker, who has been heavyweight lifting champlon of the District of Columbia fer seven years. Dianne weighs only 32 pounds and has lifted weights of 45 pounds.
TABLE TENNIS
Britain May Not Hold The
Corbillon Cup
By ARCHIE QUICK
The World Table Tennis Championship will be held next month at Stockholm and in official circles there is a pes- simistic gloom about Great Britain retaining the Women's Corbillon Cup.
OUTRACED TO A
·HOCKEY, RECORD
London, Jan, 18-The Streatham hockey team set a" now British scoring re- cord last night in boating tho Racing Club of Paris 23-3.
Captain Bud MacEachern led the assault on Racing gonlie, Georgeo Tesar, with seven goals. — Associated Press.
Indian Boxer's
Success
Our two best players, Vera Dace and Dora Beregi, are shortly to become mothers and Britain's Number Three, Margaret Blackbourn, the Grove is studying in America.
Betty Franks will obviously play No. 1 but her form is in and out and | there is little top quality to bock her
up.
London, Jan. 13.Mac Joachim, middle- Boxing Club weight who boxed for India in the Olymple Games, carily outpolrited A. Prince, of the Robert Brownleg Boxing Club, in a special contest at the West Moseley Boxing Club ot Kingston, Surrey, last night.
So far as we are concerned, it is Joachim gavo aine all-round generally conceded that Amerien is display and was too fast for ble the Orst favourite for the team plucky opponent. His aggressiveness contest with their first string, and two-handed hitting could not Richard Miles, the probable winner be matched by Prince whoso best of the Men's Singles Championship. efforts were occasional righthand
counter punches.
We have a good side with Barna and Bergmann, both naturalised The Grove boxer refused oflen=" Britons, but they have passed their tion from his seconda between peak and there are no home born rounds and did not even sit down. men good enough to lift the Sway-He proved to be exceptionally fit thling Cup or even reach the Singles and a wide margin poparated the final.
boxers at the final bell-Reuler,
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NOW
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By "SPECTATOR”
WILDCATS v. CANADIANS HOLDS THE SPOTLIGHT
Taking a share of this week's centre of the slage Thelma Watson's Wildcats meet Alice Mar's Canadians in a tilt promising a surprise. The promising Canadians, if at full strength seasoned players like Ulian Koo and Mary Ng having been so far doubtful starters-may spring an upset on the stronger. Felines, as they did with the power- ful Wahoos, the defending champions.
The lead held by the Wildcats will be slimmed in the women's race for the pennant in the event of a defcat.. The Canuck girls are not considered in the running for the Bill Woo Shield but they constitute a damaging force nevertheless.
Joe Neway Khalsa get the play again
Franco, VKC-A
pitching as they enter the field to threaten
performance hard to match was the the hopes of Buster Hollands'
nine strike-outs 'he nailed on the Rag-aspiring Madcaps. This is the Khalsa, Four were forced to attraction in the men's senior loop. the breeze in succession. While his The Indian boys, like the Canuckel- prowess contributed to his team's
after les hold no chance for the champlon-victors,
good fight, Joe Another one that was recommend- ship, but they too can deliver a completed a good day's work with ed for Soccer players we called | stunning blow.
the best batting display, twa Bar-the-Door. It was played with
It was These two games top the 1st for cafeties in three nitempis, *Q sides whose players hop- the week,
week
a top all-round role by Joe. pad on one foot and strove to knock
Starry
Dolly Brown, the southpaw Barney Ahbar. Khala-Joc their interest ivalry commences the with a shoulder charge....It is easy
ir_opposite numbers two-fonted Wildcat hurler, pitches to colourful Franco's pitching wus deadly Elle Babida to form a formidable | for be allowed only one hit, and afternoon's programme with a Navy to imagine what this did by way of battery. The other members of the Barney did the trick, as he did be v. RAF league match.
Wildcat team include Margle fore, when there were clutches and Last season the airmen twice beat developing leg muscles and,
course, necurate charging.
Xavier, Helen Ribeiro, Peggy Barros, he came through. the sailors; 1-0 and B-1. So for the
Sherry Alex Mentonea and Thelma
Bucks, SL CO-ORDINATION
Joseph's salfors have one victory over
Percentage hitter Sherry demon- There was Tip-Cal, where
you all of whom are good alt knocked a block of wood in the air
Gloria
scintillating shortstop strated with emphasis that he can
Wildcat the original
who play most positions, and well. and then swiped it with any sort of
in hurler! It five-inning no-hitter down all opposition hit the ground.
4 knocked do elab before
Overseas. The Saints' very good one this for eye-and-hand pre-war days, is back in town and against
superiority over may further strengthen the side by conceded before the start and ave this team was And "French" cricket, in which playing again. With such a strong frames were only required to finish
combination. the chances of You find a lath of wood to protect | OR
off the
Overseas. Championship
kame and the are rosy for the your shins from a can at closer and
Wildents.
Mamie Xavier and Arturo Özorla closer range; very good, this, for
were the big guns. These Saluts hit wrist and eye.
The versatile Alice Mar leads
ja triple and double respectively.
the
RAF to their credit in his season's League games.
Is
their
Following the Navy v, RAF game, the second meeting of the season The of Eastern and the Saints, Saints are still a very erratle team. They sprant a surprise with Shield victory over the Army last main one of their week-end, but troubles may now be cured.
Goal-keeping blunders have cost the Saints heavily in the past two seasons. Optimism is high in the St Josephs camp now that Leck of the Club has joined them. Leck has been unable to get his place between the Club's sticks in recent
Humes
It is expected that he will play for the Saints this afternoon! He is also chosen to keep goal for the Hongkong FA team in tomorrow's Governor's Cup match.
co-ordiuntion.
of
of
He
We made our own sledges in the her impressive rookies, sprinkled Ralimat "Sabu" Samy. Madcaps winter and our own whistles in the with oldtimers, including Margie As the much-improved Filipinos
Itosila Nye, Helen Leung, threatened to summer, and anything we couldn't Wou
upset the Madcap conjure up out of any junk that lay
Julle Loc, Monica Chinfen, applecart, knotting the count five-all to hand, why, we did without.
Ailene Chinfen, Katherine Siew, In the fifth, Sabu had three of his Ullan Koo, Mary Ng and, perhaps, four hits sewed up in the bag. A popular Ella Chinn, who may decide fourth completed 31 180 percen! io don the Maple Leaf colours again,
But these are highly mechanised days, and the youngsters seem more occupied with radio-tinkering and listening and with cinemas and, one way and another, the old muscle- building games appear to have had
In their early season meeting, NOT" "PESTSZENTLORINCZ"! Eastern and the Saints were level
(one on ench) at the final whistle.
KITCHEE IN FORM
Kitchee's heavy Shield defent
Eastern Inst
pr
"Ferencvaros"!-
Yells week-end, will draw
this
the crowds to Caroline H afternoon, to see their league match
are showing good form
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There
will
attack job and helped his team KHALSA V MADCAPS
charge ahead to win by a comfort. able inargin of four runs. Sabu, of Madcaps have lost the services of whom much has been expected, by hurler Kelly Silva-Netto and that this high-level display, "lived up to somewhat upset the line-up. How expectations."
Robert ever, Buster Hollands or kid brother
Verlesyn and Spikes Sid may take up the hurling assign- | Guterres, Madcaps-They won inent and either should do well. laurels with their timely hitting as Hard-hitting Sabu Samy, behind Robert had three hits in four and up the battery. Spikes two in three to take places on The Crowd the platter, makes
are the others, Sheridan top in the week. Filipino Luis Rocha Hamel, By ANDRE MARTON
the Verlesyn
brothers, was there too, though not as pro- with South China "B."
Budapest, Jan. 13.-Soccer is Maurice and Robert, Spikes Guterres, minently, with two neat hits to his
good. Kucheo
Rennie Sequeira, Rennie Remedios,
Billy Wilkinson, KBC-Hefty these days. South China 1" live ungary's most popular sport--who are in the side.
Billy was in the lead of the aggres- not had a competitive match for 35,000 to 45,000 fans watching
They constitute 10 above-the-Elveness with his three hits in four almost a month. Their lost Kame games every Sunday..
average lot and should win, but after times at bat in the Ball Club's WDE on December 18 when they "Ferencvaros"-Known generally the fight Khalsa would give to any defeat of Chung Wah. 14-0. Lulz bent the RAF by five goals to three.as FTCs the outstanding soccer team that plays against them.
Souza,
Edo Almeida and Diekle At Boundary Street this afternoon team of Hungary, and football Stanger Narainder Singh of the Slive, bis terminates,
werd each enthusiasts had every reason to Kwong Wah meet, what may be a
Indlaus happlly
be sending out his usual good for a double apiece; so were this Autumn most experimental, Army team. The grin
nine, with the real force behind the Chung Wahmen P. C. Wang and C. soldiers' failure to get the goals last "Ferencvaros" lett the premter week-end has stirred their selectora league
squad (7) Captain Barney Abbas, K. Choy who figured in the hard- with 22 points against
leading in the field. The brothers, hitting in a lively game. to renewed elforts.
"Pestszentiorincg", with 10. Knox, at centre forward, had "Ferencvaros is known all ever Alor and Albert Kader and S. H. quite a good afternoon; against the the world. They used to beast that AW16, Khan If K. Braum. Sainta at Sookunpoo.
out of four A. Wahab, Jr R. A. are the scored was a gem. rising high and matches against English teams when others in the surprise-packed Khalsa
London, Jan. 13.The British contingent. wide of the
Amateur Athletics Association are 'keeper. But Knox's they toured England in 1912. shooting was a lonely business. It They also scored a bunch of
considering a Swedish suggestion that Gothenburg and London should is understood that Weatherall may vitorles in Mexico and the U.S, 121
Therese Hapilala, Wahoos meet in an athlelles match during be playing as an inside-forward this 1947, being the first European soccer afternoon.
team to tour overseas after
world 1.000 wan hit by feel-footed the next linck Dearon. **GOVERNOR'S CUP war two.
Therese, which was the outstanding Mr Jack Crump, Secretary of the Tomorrow's Governor's Cup re- "Magyar
Testgyakorlók Kore" return in the Wahoos 22-2 drub- Association, said tonight that there turn match is another speculative known
the team of classic gama Pirates. Axture. In the first match
Terry started again! taking place. He added that if it 12 Britisin soc
soccer traditions, 1 third Teammate Boundary Street on December
Therese
the did, it would be held in tho Remedios, 15-points.
"1itio the Hongkong FA XI scored a strik with
Ujpest" ing victory over the Federation.
slashed out a (The team that almost when he was no meek perton-Reuter.
homor, Withstanding a terrifle first-bolt came to Hongkong) twice champions followed In heavy Blugging. by Baseball Transfers onslaught, on experimental FA team since the war, is fourth and "Csepel" Hilda Soares, will a iriple. Terry'n suddenly concrged into the bright government-sponsored team of Hun-
hits included a double,
Chicago, Jan. 18-Chicago White Sox sold veteran *catcher Mika sunshine with two quick goals. They gary's biggest industrial undertaking,
Tresh to Cleveland Indians corried their bantier on a flourish Manfred Weiss, last year's champion,
0-1 victory ing
la eighth in the premier league, Chief
unannounced sum-United Press. It is a pity that
Boston, Jan. 13—Veteran' 'catcher only six of the which has 10 teams. winning eleven are available for to-
Birdie Tobbetla todny signed tha morrow's game. The snap-shooting
1949 contract with Red Sox-Unlied of Higgs, at centre-forward, will be
One goal he, the team
two won
Wook-End-Stars
Gothenburg v. London
at of "Fero," the "eternal rival" } bing, of last week's games, of the was every possibility of the match
Terry Noronha, Wakoss-Big Terry was in Ughts once more no she banged three hits lu Hungarian fans are looking for-Ave attempts. She was her usual ward to a spring visit by England's cool self, all the more so when the Arsenal Club-Associated Press. Pirates weren't dangerous.
Pres
autumn,
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