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WEEK-END SOCCER
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1949..
By "FAIR PLAY"
INTERNATIONAL CUP
FINAL TOMORROW
Of the four Senior matches listed for today, that between South China “A” and Chinese Athletic, at Causeway Bay, should hold the greatest interest for local fans. Both Clubs have a big crowd to see following, so doubtless there will be a capacity these two top First Division teams do battle, and they should sce a very good game..
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Tomorrow sees the Final of the International Cup Com- petition, and this too, will probably draw a big crowd to Soo- kunpoo.
Kitches showed last Saturday that South Chinn "A" can be outplayed for long periods, and, ostensibly, they only finally succumbed due to the extra length of the game, being 3-1 up at the end of seventy minutes play.
Well, without a doubt, CAA will think that what Kitchee can do,' so can With nothing they, ani: this should, put them in good heart this afternoon. unforeseen taking place, then, I expect this to be a close and exciting game, with South China "A" probably just in front at the end. A confident Athletic sido; however, right on form, could play themselves to victory. Still, we shall
sec.
Between today's other gamea there is little to choose, for all look like they will be evenly contested. At Caroline II.
Eastern (acklo Club, and I romehow feel that after Ureo heavy defeats. Eastern may steady up enough to get at least one point.
At Scokunpoo, Army aro st home to Kitchee, and here again. I fancy the Chinese ælde for at least a point in a rather close gaine.
Finally, on the Club Ground, we have St Josephs v South China "B", and with the Saints in such in-and-out form, my
the guess is that
team that scores the most goals will be the winner hele,
INTERNATIONAL CUP FINAL
So we come to tomorrow's Internalloon Cup Finat ut+ tween England and China to be played at Sookunpoo, and this will be quite a needle af- fair.
However, playing in front of
a very partisan crowd, I fully ex- pect China to run out winners fairly comfortably, for they aro felding a much stronger-looking team thun that mustored by England.
Saw
15,000 People
Table Tennis Championships
By ARCHIE QUICK
The World's Table Tennis Championships for 1950 will be held in Budapest and, despite the refusal of the Hungarians, Rumanians and Czecho-Slovakians' to come from behind the Iron Curtain to play in English championships at Wembley, England will send a full team to the Danube twin city.
The following year the championships are pro- visionally fixed for the first time in Dublin. The United States has sportingly forgone the opportunity to stage them because they realise that most of the competing nations are from Europe and the expense would be great.
SPORTING SAM
SOFTBALL CHATTER
By Rog, Wootton
London Express Service
By "SPECTATOR”
Hong League & A Protest Keep Interest Alive
י.
The long grind of the official softball season, which started last October, is kept alive while interest is dying. The revival of the Inter-Hong Lengue, set into motion last week by the "First Lady" of local softball, Mrs Carmen Molthen, wife of Association President "Doc" F. J. Molthen, who threw the first ball, gave the tired session a shot in the arm.
Interest is also kept up as the Pakistan protest in connection with their International Series game against Portugal remains undecided by the deciding body, the Association's General Committee, after two hearings in the last two weeks.
Balloting is at the moment in year and then another the next progress by the specially up- year, and so forth. pointed committee to vote the
Markar said in that case re-
Most Valuable Player in eachgistration would not have been of the three Leagues, Men's ¦ necessary.. Senior and Junior, and the The General Committee ques- Ladies'. That should command tioned Pakistan about the cor- some enthusiasm, too.
reet procedure when submitting The final compilation by the their protest. Did their manager official scorers, Harold Winglee protest within 48 hours of the and Philo Remedios, of the bat-time of the infringement? Were ting averages of all the players all the facts included in the In the three divisions, also is official letter of protest? awaited with interest.
Pakistan did not pay the pro- test fee. Their manager Wax not sure if their official protest in writing was received within
The finale of it all is the usual presentation of prizes and the annual dance. This year, as previously, the combined 48 hours. popular function has been pro- visionally arranged to
Here. Markar sakd he had fake feeling that the General Com-
place at the Peninsula Hotel on mittee was trying to "catch" April 30. Sales are reported him on one of those formalities brisk. "lekets (at $15 per which, he charged, they (the
are going "like hot-General Committee) seldom.
observed. In any case, those formalities were no1
couple) dogs."
company
ever,
strictly applienble, he addled.
and the fact remained that an unregistered player was utilis-
ed
TC-
One of the reasons the mid- the nonchalant parlour game of
PLAY "MARCHES ON!" this ping pong Europeans did not come
and the strain it time was the
Oldtimers, refusal of the imposes on top class exponents is
getting their to pay the; clearly In the full-back mul half- English Association
demonstrated by how equipment from the rap- the years have dealt with stars, of the mothballs, turned out for
For an hack divisions there is possibly expenses of non-playing
unknown reason, the their hong squads. little to choose hetween the ins.
session was at this stage closed McLure For instance Jimmy
A. R. Kitchell, sizzling short- to all two sides.
English The
Championships China have a de-
others but the Commit- Was back in atop who Anuncial success of Indianapolis
made 1 name in tee. finite pull in goal, however, d
were a great and. I
how think, in attacking power, and showed
greatly the London for his fifth vialt to the former softball days, in one of
He dons Open meeting was later and in my
these game is increasing in popularity. English Championships and the the old warhorses. estimation
hatchet-face, almost slight
taken at the
bald-Asiatic Petroleum colours. in weaknesses
pre- the £300 were
sumed. A Committee member England line-up will be summaries at Paddington Baths: headed player of today is not Another Is Tony Alves, whose, then asked the Portugal repre- the dynamie į efforts are for the American sentative whether he wanted cent to turn the tide of the and £2.000 were paid by 15,000 recognizable
people game in China's favour.
in Wembley
strictly spin a dozen President Lines' smooth sailing that all procedures be Empire pioneer of finger Tool at the semi-innis and or more years ago.
This popular pair ore but followed, so that his wish may This despite the fact
officially recorded. among several whose "aching" be Anala.
(That Then there is Haguenuer, arms and ageing" Timbs hold was about the only thing that Miss Helen Elliott of Edin- burgh was the only
terror. Enthusiasm is not corded at that meeting). British French
man of today is vastly different lacking in this league born player to reach even the
which Charlie Figueiredo said that from the prewar player re-hos come to life again.
was so, and since it was a pro. semi-finals;
The card of fare for this week test nowned for his uncanny defence,
on technicality. All the technicalities will have to be Parkistan's ndhered to before
Banny Appilly
CAUGH
THAT'S THE FIRST LEG OF MY SPRING TREBLE UP!
nce. The saturnine
110
In the men's semi-finals there was British-naturalised Victor There is nothing of the volatile is:
and a Latin about him now. Americans Barna, two Russian Count nose living in the women's Elliott and
Bordeaux and in
semi-anals Miss
three Americans,
NEW TECHNIQUE
goes to
Erklichi, Likewise
Warsaw- born but Paris domiclied. Al- though he earns a gondly living? at the game, he too is pale and drawn although he still has the |
11.00 am. Stanvac v. API.
2.15 p.m. Musicians v. Shell 3.30 p.m. Caltex v. Gibbs PROTEST!
To the
Rounds
re-
protest could be entertained.
The General Committee con- sts of F. J. sista
Molthen (Presl- (Vice- Ernie Heurther dent). average sportsman, President), Tony Ribeiro tion. Buster Hollands same lock of hair over his face, whether active от otherwise, Secretary), flust
Secretary). Philo Victor Barna alone of the "Profes!" Which summed HD
unsporting. (Assist.
Treasurer). Remedios, (Hon. to protest prove very conclusively that the oldtimers retains something of For a losing team
Mar, Bill Woo, Rennie Alice would have new technique of his youth, but he bus noticeably they usually Americans'
But think twice to counter the Sequeira and Al Smith,
not flat hitting has triumphed. They slowed down in his play.
Hearther and Woo were do not worry about top spin he has made a
The {......... nalled
down as bad present at both hearings, and the rest of the fandangled table tennis. cuts and spins. They hit hard:
Pakistan probably did Secretary was absent-from-one..
The Pakistan Manager asked they think twice before often and accurately and they
that if it were lo come to Portugal tested.
rested have
perfected a wonderful de-i
their laurels in that they won
vole on the protest. Ribeira, fence.
on the fleld of play. The
In fact, as I see it, England's greatest hope is A couple of Martin
tactical errors when
enters the penalty areas
best team on top at the end.
nhw men's
a row for win at 22-20.
fortune out of almost automatic reaction of
FIRST CLASS SHOCK
a'
was a
being.
losers,
josers,
could not last the Jack Carrington, who looks rule by fielding an
But
pro-
01
Sentor
told the his
Featherweight
From Calcutta
By GEORGE WHITING
Ta
Aaron
Erhlich, not altogether unex- pectedly, put out world cham champion,nian Johnny Leach, but Dick
During the two hearings of Reisman from New Bergman's defent
by the the protest, WOR disclosed Kiernan specials from the at- Yark, may become the greatest former Russian Count
in stamina was first class
that registration for the Inter- Lack, and a defence that keeps ever but only
shock. Leach re-national Competition was asked superior 10 ald muestro the Chinese forward line well he
World ceived the
Cup from for. Specilie rules were laid away from goal, for whilst, Cat- Barna.
Lady Swaything on finals night down
down for the Series. Victor gave him 19 years. He at Wembley Empire Pool,
. ton can deal quite amply with
By Pakistan's Manager, Lady Swaything Markar, prone to make is double Reisman's age, exactly coincidence
in effect long shots, he
that the play and took him to five sets. The presented the same cup to the General Committee
third szt Was unforgettable. last Englishman to win It, team's
profest was based on America. Africa, Aur- and Barna was trailing 14-20 with Fred Perry, 21 years ago.. Still, when all is sald
Section 7, Rule 33. In 1 is laid One interesting spectator at done, each player will give of the American needing one point.
ineligible player, or an unreus boxers in the last few his best, to here's hoping for a Barns then won eight points in the championship was 87-year- down that if a team fielded an tralia and Europe have sent
ok! Ping Pong Parker
Markar of gistered player, good sporting game, with the
snld. weeks. Now, to complete Hastings who wrote a book on and since Portugal violated the Ife was immaculate as ever the game as long ago as 1884.
the continents, we must unregister- SECOND DIVISION
but just Returning to League football, distance.
be prepare for the Asiatics--- only by
ed player, the game should ve after Leach, told me something forfeited to the Second points. And The situation in the
of represented by two Indians. how The crowd of
"opponent the experiences of the the offending team." Division is getting clearer week rooted for him,
an amateur and a profes- English team on its way to He
To
implied that it's by week, and CAA and KMB Miss Elliot played under the
Stockholm. They were over at straightforward affair and that sional. now seem to have the struggle stress of having lost a frent
where Pinkie Barnes the only unswer Utrecht
The forfellure.
professional entirely to themselves.
friend, Peter Coin, President of Be
and Dick Bergmann,
won the South China's two successive the Scottish Association, in an Dutch
national singles titles But he said he was not asking Joshua, a Hebrew featherweight have put them out of air crash that day at Coventry and from there, for cheapness, a
were from Calcutta. Having cleaned it. If their protest for defeats
would only up all the amateurs in India. the running, and this week they
Aaron turned "commereta) play CAA.
walking down party of 35 went by motor upheld, Pakistan
want a replay, not forfeiture. Across Europe to Should they beat CAA, then Oxford street, saw the placards coach right
Charlie Figueiredo, Portugal's traveller" 183 months ago
headed for America, Manager, sald It was unques- || their chances revive, but if, as and because her mother lives Sweden via Denmark.
the paper The First day's run was 18 lonable that his team uliilsed is now.beadlined as a native of I expect, CAA triumph, then at Coventry bought
Lic Pacific Coast-und where South China can say goodbye to and learned the news. It upset hours and the second day's 10 only Portuguese players.
Markar agreed. But, he said,
he was considered good enough any Junior Championship hopes her and she played well below hours. No sort of training for
to Aght Harold Dade. recent would the in
International Serles Was for this year.
her usual attacking form to lose world championships, I I KMB are still winning, and in three straight sets to Peggy have thought.
run in such a way that players brief holder of the world bar.
title. will be there to fight it out with McLean of New York.
the English | did not strictly play for their tamweight CAA to
Ironically the bitter end, and
Having stacked upa dozen ́ had given team achieved apart from Leach nations only. So it was ob theso' Busboys are still my tip Peggy a
was wins in California, Joshua is to tartan scort at the winning the coveled title was vious that the registration
further conquests 1st start of the week and the New that I was generally agreed by specifically for that particular seek for the final honours.
competition.
London, Should there be any If they succeed; their. Junior Yorker says It brought her good a nations that our girls were of all the best-dressed team
A Committee man sald "Double", (Shield
the argument about an opponent, I and Cham- luck,
that 'pionship) will have been
Our Danny ámations. Which Table very
tennis
is something registration was to stop players suggest
O'Sullivan, be asked from representing une team one
to spart strenuous pastime, no longer anyhow these austerity days.
time from his "world" com- mitments to take him on. If 1 know Danny he will need very little persuasion Indeed-for an excellent reason.
well earned indeed.
IF MY BROTHER IS DEAD, I JUST
CIND OUT WHO KILLED HIM, AND
YOU MUST HOLD RE
NCOLA.
(London Izprata Service).
She WAA
she
now
One distinction
Mister Conquest
IT IS NO USE-ROSA KALED
WHAT MAKES YOU
HIM? ROCA WILL
[KILL YOU,TOO
UNLESS YOU
GO AWAY
THINK COP
THIS SCORPION BROOCH-1 GAVE IT TO YOUR BROTHER BEFORE HE DSAPPEARED. ROCA GAVE IT BACK TO ME, IT WAS HIS
WAY OF WARNING WE —AND YOU
PTY DON'T VÍKARN BABLY
and where he
Way back In 1945 O'Sullivan was a war-time airman serving in India-and riding high for the amateur featherweight) championship of China-Burma. India. But this same Aaron Joshua got a verdict over him in the Anal, boxed with 12-ounce gloves on the "Calcutta race track. Danny's end of a dir- pulcd decision was the sympathy of the crowd and special "best loser" prize.
PEN FRIENDS Nowadays, Joshua and O'Sullivan are pen friends. All things being equal-especially weight feel corian Danny would like to punch his pen friend on the
for: old time's sake.
nose
London Express Service).
The Fighting O'Sullivans
By GEORGE WHITING
Danny O'Sullivan, 26-year-old Finsbury Park Boxer, has been asked to name his terms for a world. championship match in Madison Square Garden, New York, with Manuel Ortiz, bantamweight champion of the world.
Mr Benny Huniman, O'Sulli- Pettengell is the man who van's inanager, bus replied taught boxing to the O'Sullivan asking for the proposed date brothers almost as soon as, in and the exact offer "This Is tum, they could walk. Danny's big chance," he told me
over lo
today, "and subject to the Danny, eldest of six boya Board of Control we shall take | living, was handed It with open hands."
Pettengell as the tiniest recruit to the Mary Ward Amateur O'Sullivan was refused per- Baxing Club 17 years ago. Now, mission recently to box Ortizat 20, he is adding a brighter
lor his world title In this page to a family history that country
British by
Boxing has been both lough and Board of Control.
troublesome.
Huntman is claiming Juslin- cation for the world title chance against Ortiz because Danny has not only defented Paterson, the British champion, but also European champion Guido Fer- racin, of Italy.
The Board stated that pre- The six O'Sullivan boys were ference for any such title match orphaned when their father against Ortiz must go to either died in tragie circumstances in Jackie Paterson, of Glasgow or 1040. Another brother had Stan Rowan, of Liverpool.
died two
years carlier. Seventeen-year-old. Ronald, the youngest, was crippled in a road necident 18 months ago.
All tha other brothers boxers, Danny and 23-year-old Dickie top professionals; Jackle, 25, and Tommy 22, turn What a dry it will be for one-
out occasionally for Whitbread BC. Micky. 20, is in the time electrician Jim Pattengell it bantamweight Danny O'Suli-running for the Army feather- van lands that world tile-fight
weight championship, this Manuel Ortiz, Mexican from California.
Remedios and Sequeira should be excluded from voling. as naturally their sympathies with would be with Portugal.
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