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"STICKS" REVIEWS
THE - HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
HOCKEY SEASON
THE
The match at Sookunpoo between the Civilian eleven and the Army last Friday evening brought to a most successful conclusion Hongkong's first postwar hockey season, a season which will always be remembered for its keen, friendly rivalry.
Early in the season the acute shortage of grounds made the arrange- ment of fixtures extremely difficult, and only the generosity of the Services, who put their grounds at the disposal of the Association, made the fulfilment of fixtures -possible. Later however, the YMCA ground at King's Park, that of the University at Pokfulum and the RAF's at Kal Tak considerably eased the difficulty and made possible the playing of games farther afield.
In all, 44 league fixtures were arranged, and 12 teams participated. Only four games throughout the season had to be called off, and these because of Injuries or shortage of players in the respective teams. Cable and Wireless found it very hard going at first, but, surviving their teething difficulties, they continued to improve and by the end of the season were a team of no mean ability.
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The University, which com- which warranted a player be-ground, in course of construc menced in great style and showing sent off the field of play. ttan, will be a welcome addi- ed much promise for somo In the majority of instances | tion, and is hoped that TEREON or other deteriorated they have been the result of grounds already in possession of badly and proved a great did over eagerness, And, young | clubs will be given much need- appointment. Their spirited players, Ignorant of some of the ed "Arzt mit”... befora next showing against Club do
more essential rules. Heeralo in the Ofth match of the season was their best per formance.
In addition to normal league. fixtures, the International series and Quadrangular Tournament proved most popular and made A fitting close to the season.
The popular prewar interport. fixture
resumed,
was
thoroughly enjoyed by those who took port. During the course of the season Recreio, Khalsa, Navy, Dutch and Army teams necopied Invitations to friendly to fulfi
visit Macao fixtures, and on all occasions met with A very warm recep- tion by their Portuguese friends.
to
On Macao's more recent visit the Colony, the Navy and Khalsa fulfilled fixtures against them.
Players, Dno and all, have exibited great keenness and a desire to put Hongkong on the map again as far as hockey Is concerned,
and
cogerly awaiting the commencement of the coming season.
are
With the Service teams con- siderably augmented in numbers and talent and the inclusion of several morc Civilian teams who have expressed the wish to become affiliated to the Assocla- tion, next season can be expect ed to produce hockey of an exceedingly high standard.
DEARTH OF UMPIRES The dearth of Umpires has been a great problem, solved only by a number of
of unqualified though
willing pertons coming forward
and offering their services. Much praise is due to
for without them
would have been impossible to have brought the season to a successful conclusion.
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Unlike football, they receive remuneration for their ser vices, and often turn out at very short notice and at great Inconvenience to themselves.
Well done umpires, your services have been much ap preciated, you have played a great part in the revival of hockey in the Colony. Umpires for the coming season are badly needed, particularly those who are non-playing members. Sure ly there are quite a number of people in Hongkong who could como forward and offer their servicos!
Thie possibility of grounds, next scoxon rather vague. The
is
| spring. Dad grounds lead to more dangerous play and contribute as much as anything to ruffled Police and frayed tempers.
Surrey May Finish Champion County
SAYS ARCHIE QUICK
Surrey County Cricket Club have championship ambitions. They had them last season too late for it was not until July that the wearers of the chocolate caps suddenly realised that they were winning matches regularly and that the championship was within their grasp.
Even so they could have still won if they had not thrown away the final match with Middlesex. Robert- son, Brown, Edrich and Compton were all back in the pavilion for a paltry 35 runs but then the Surrey bowlers lost grip on the game and their opponents
won.
Those lost points of Surrey's) I canbled Glamorgan to take the Championship to Wales for the frst time, Surrey will not get such a chance again. The reason for the success of the Oval team, I think, Ja that they have bats men who can bowl and bowlers who can bat, a good all round side in other words.
This season they have a new captain in Cambridge Blue M.R. arton who, even if he is an Indifferent fieldsmen, is a fine bat and a great personality withal. He should give added strength,
Many of the old familiar faces have gone Alf Gover to league cricket with Bromwich Dart- mouth. Gregory to retirement and the Ted Dorling and Bob
only one of the Old Guard left standing is bespectacled Stan Squires who commences his 21st season with the Orst eleven.
Squires is not at all pessimis- tie over English cricket. A lowered standard, he says, is a natural outcome of the break when youngsters got no coaching. It is a position which will reotify Itspit
war
As for the hidings wo took Frequently I have been asked from Don Bradman's Aus- the question-Does the present tralians, Squires attributes that standard of Hockey compare to our lack of experience in
really favourably with that of prewar facing
fast bowling. days? To that I say Not
There is no one in this country Not even Club de Recreio, so fast as Lindwall and Miller winners of the lengue and, but they will arrive eventually, Incidentally, representative of Squires says optimisticnity. Fortugal, winners of the Inter- national series, produce
hockey
was
as seen here before the war.
The standard
then exceedingly high, but it wa3 only attained by continuous practice and team work.
This
past season must be considered a foundation of things to come.
And those two Australians pre not so fast as the ones who went before them. In that direction
Arthur Peall says:
A may lie between cue-ball and
LTHOUGH = cluster of idie reds
It has proved that the spirit is possible"plant in the early phase still alive, just as keen as ever of wooker game, the pot is often before.
I feel convinced that prewar interporters, now the backbone
of several teams, can around
rally
them many young talented players who during these postwar years have never had a chanco to show their worth.
Rome was not built in a day,
und neither
сап Hongkong
hope to produce in one season
BLACK
REDS
BLUE
the standard of hockey which the sporting chance.
prowar made it famous.
who
I'm sure those players have already left the Colony will always remember sporting spirit which
on.
was talking to an Australian the other day and he told me that, back in Sydney, Charlie Macartney, Jack Gregory, Edgar Mayne, Jim Ryder, Jim Taylor' Tommy Andrews, Tom Hendry, Bert Öldfeld and many names of household memory are still alive and well, even if they are little fatter,
other
Oval Ground alterations have been made which not only allow extra accommodation but added comfort for spectators. Most promising youngster on the stall is Donald Taylor, an all rounder who, if he does not get full time engagement with Surrey, may be allowed to go to Sussex.
SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1949,
LEAGUE &
INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONS
The Club de Recreio team, pictured above, were the first postwar win- ners of the Hockey League competition.
The players, reading from the left, were:
Back Row G. N. Gosano, A. Marques, A. A. Guterres, R. A. Marques, P. Yvanovich and J. Soares.
Middle Row - G. Sequeira, W. A. Reed and A. M. Alves (Captain). Front Row A. Nery, R. Sales and J. B. Gonsalves.
In the International series, Recreio, assisted by Peter Rub, B. Xavier and F. A. Barretto of Cable & Wireless, won the International Tournament for Portugal. — Photo by Ming Yuen.
IN THE UNITED STATES
Shamateurism Holds Too Strong A Footing
By CORNELIUS RYAN
Very few amateur sports in the United States are truly amateur in the purest definition of the word, and it is unlikely that they ever again will be, despite campaigns by some of the sport leaders.
College football, basketball, baseball and truck all use financial entice- ments to get outstanding athletes, except at a few schools where sports are considered unimportant.
Private clubs which fleldi ducements to. get the better amateur teams in various athletes to participate. sports also have to offer in-
The Preacher Now
Pounds & Soars
Years ago it was considered undignified for a preacher or ministerial student to take part in sports, but today the parsons are among the athletic leaders of the nation, a development which helps both, rell-" gion and sports:
Gil Dodds, one of the nation's great milers, is the best known of these men who combine Bible study and athletic competition. Dodds, a Minister in a Funda- mentalist sect, preached at different churches each Sunday all during his seasons as a runner, and tho morning after he set a new world indoor mile record at 4:05.8 he was back in his small pulpit, telling a youthful congregation that "God gives me all my strength as a runner and as a man, and it was through Him that I set a record."
On May 11, President Robert Gordon Sproul of the Univer- sity
of California cald that "semi-professional Pacific Coast
OF
THE FIRST HALF
THE RACING SEASON
By “THE TURF"
The Whitsun Race Meeting at the Valley last Saturday and Monday marked the closing of the first half of the Hongkong Jockey Club's 1949 Racing Season. All the meetings throughout were well supported by, racegoera.
There were two big upsets, when, on the last day of the 1949 Annual Carnival, Mr Wong Yan; then a novice, brought in Jackal to pay a healthy dividend of 8618.70 to its 219 backers out of a total of 81,043 bats,
The other handsome dividend | Jeep Hee was when Mr W. A. N. Darkin, Duchess Delight another novice, on the pony Golden Dahila
Argus, outstripped the hot Manias.
which was First Alarm
8,000
7,780
7,350
favourite, Chelsea,
7,000
not even placed.
Argus, pald to each of Its High Speed
Arablan Dagger
6,750
4,500
out of a total of 23,890.
backers a sum of $755.70. There All of these ponies are of the were only 188 winning tickets new lot of this seasoni
0,000
Bar Appayy
new 1940 Australian ponies which have not secured any stake money for the whole period of the Orst half are, Ability. Custic Princess, Happy Public Victory
Return.
Opinion,
Jing Dew, Strathlyon,
Ship, Big Bluff, Racing Queen, Mimi, Bazzle Dazzie, Dolphin, Chieto, Jemima, Good Fun, By- The-Way, Ben Vorlich, Stayer
Yncal.
and
Skymaster is undoubtedly the in the whole group best ponyo ponies including the
of the
old ones. In this last six out- ings, this pony was placed first five times. It has also beaten the old champion pony, Norse Queen, in the Sassoon Challenge Cup this season over the cham- plon course by a big margin of six lengths.
This pony has earned for its owner during this Arst half a total of $11,500 dollars.
LEADING JOCKEYS
Here is a list of the ten lead- ing jockeys and the new 1040 ponies that have been the most successful.
J. Foto-Hunt
H. Maitland
K. Kwok
B. L, Tao
A. Ostroumoff
H. R. Holgato
H. T. Alexander.
Chut Ki Fan
W. K. Shieh
D. Black
TOP STAKE Pony
Skymaster
Ben Wyvis Amarent
Id 2nd
19 12
19
10
12
11
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B
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WINNERS
3rd
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Korfbal
By HYLTON CLEAVER Imagine a form of rugby
12 in which forwards are for- 4 bidden to score, and are compelled to heel the ball,
for a soccer match in which 4 no goal counts unless the 12 ball is sent up. by: backs through the half-backs to 1 the forwards,
Can you visualise hockey, Stakes Won which is always mixed although
$11,600 men
8,830
8,500
Golf Tourney Venues For
Next Year
never mark women? Is there any
game in which ond player on one side shadows only one on the other and docs. that incessantly? In which tack- ling is forbidden and the only way of scoring is by foot-work agility?
All these points are bound up in Korfbal, the national game of Holland, as baseball is of America.
FOR BOTH SEXES A really interesting feature of
St Andrews, Scotland, All of this is an open secret
June 1.-The Championship the game is that there are six known to thousands of sports enthusiasts but it still is hard Conference football is spoiling Committee of the Royal and side. It is, my experience, the
to produce authenticated facts on the payment of athletes
In the first place, the athletes
will say nothing, since they do not want to lose their college education or their lucrativo sido income from athletles, and the schools and clubs naturally profess ignorance of the whole subject.
тел and six women on cach
Ancient Golf Club of St only outdoor gamo which is Andrews today announced never played by men or women. the venues for next year's alone line-up puts two women British championships.
and"
intercollegiate athletics."
Sproul, himself a former ath- lete, said that "I liked it much better in 1908-1913 when every
two men in allack, two The Amateur will be held on womeo and two men la tho man was a student playing at the old course of St. Andrews centro, two athletes and
women and two not an athlete during the week beginning May men In defence. Each four are playing at his studies."
22 and the Open will take place forbidden to move out of their at Troon, Ayrshire, during the territory, but to prevent people However, that touches upon week beginning on July 3.
too specialised they the other side of the argument.
becoming events of Thus, the two major Those who decry strict inter-the. British Folt will both_take /hange stallons in a
general post every time two pretation of amateurism say place in Scotland. Usually, they goals have been scored. A certain amount of subsida- that the rules agalast financial have aitonated betwees. Eug- The object of the game is tion is permitted by the rules.nld to the athlete are long out-land and Scotland, the Open rather like basket-ball, A school may offer a scholar-moded, ship and a job to the athlete to help him attend. The same offers go to trumpet-players in the school band and to good orators on the debate team
HOLDOVER
verca:
sort of
ΟΙ
Although
real taking place in England in the in this case there year when Scotland has the basket and not a ring. Also, the Amateur Championship and vico post on which it stands is really high. The length of the Geld. is 90 metres and the width 40.
The game lasts an hour and o half, three-quarters cach half.
---{London Express Service)
This year, the Amateur was It is argued that the amateur taken, for the first time, to Ire- idea is a holdover from the land while the Open is fixed for
wealthy England-Sandwich-Reutor.
taka
Usually that is all the school days when only the does for the athlete oficially, could attend college ar But usually a wealthy alumni part in club sports. The middle group will see that the athlete class and the poor had to attend has plenty of spending money to the business, of making u was only for and perhaps an automobile, and Living Sport Sunday perhaps the athlete's father will "gentlemen", which meant In
get a new and well-paying job effect the wealthy
MODERN SINBADS
Another great track star who, small churches' 'on is a Minister is pole vaulter | mornings. Bob Richards, who consistently reaches 14 feet 0 or 81
"I guess I always got more in which he does Httle work. inches nervous just before starting, to and won most of the indoor preach than Just before a big Diagram. meets in which he competed game," Robinson admitted, "ut showing during the 1949 season.
I will make the Ministry my life red takin vis hoverM.
work." others, A no fuko. Ariak stroke, act porns the best
offor a dis Unct op portunity for a player ukes who
..
Provided the nearest-plant red
ia disturbed, the quo facing the pocket is sure to go down,
Tule demands a strong stroke, and the Plenty of back spin may be needed to keep white free to attack a colour existsterwarde
here and have pleasant ro- The only copy-book time for this collections of the season now at to keep a good break going. But i stroke is when no other rea la offered an end.
si Bufo many cusmen will be tempted to try in early on now that
hats shown the way.
--(London Express Service)
I do not dispute that there have been just a few unplea sant. Incidents, but not one
Short and stocky, Richards does not entwing his vaulting and his creed on fully as does Dodds, bu, he is just as earnest and sincere in the pulpit as "Preacher Gil," who is called the "Pounding Patson."
is
Today, boys from.. all economic backgrounds have a chance to attend college, aided by their athletic ability..
A strict interpretation of the
An indication of such prae- as tices may be seen in checking amateur rules of 1910 probably
members of the
Paul Hinrichs, regarded. the best prospect among the the rosters of university_teams New York Yankee pitchers, now Indiana is a state noted for fine would have kept such men As sent back to the Minor Leagues basketball players, and it seems and Mel Patton out of collego- Jesse Owens, Harrison Dillard also for more experience, is a more than coincidence that
Lutheran divinity student. four or five Indiana boys will and cut of athletics.
be found no "Next year I will be ordained team at Georgia Tech, or North with the times is needed, ac
An interpretation in keeping in the church and no matter)
Carolina State, 1,000 miles how my baseball career goes I
cording to the proponents of an Basketball offers Jack Robin-am determined to end in
away from Indiana, the
or the caster definition. Many of thes con, formerly of Baylor Univer-ministry," he told me.
University of Southern Call-proponents back the United sity and now a Baptist preacher.
fornia, almost 2,000 miles from States plan for "broken time home.
to athletes competing in
Inter national meets.
BASKETBALL 'TOO
Robinson led his team to the "I am going to be a different Olympic trial semi-finals and type of parson. 1.love, children was himself chosen to the squad. and I want to combine religion Like Dodda and Richards, with athletic direction. I want Robinson took part in sports my church to have a gymna- on Saterday nights and was in sium, a basketball court and the pulpit as guest preacher in football field."-United Press.
Mister Conquest
„NICKY-YOU HAVE YOUR MOTHER,
AND ROCK CAN NEVER WORRY YOU AGAIN.
YOU RISKEO YOUR “LIFG. FOR ME-I CAN
NEVER THANK YOU ENOUGH, SOME DAY-
SOMEWHER
REPAY YOU...4,“
FWANT YOU TO TAKE THIS BROOCH AS A
KEEPSAKE
TIMES UP, BENORZA
The me may be noted of Pennsylvania football players. However, no. outright pro- The brawny coal field boys, feasionalism would be tolerat who come from poor homes, ed. Practices now common in choose collega* -1,500 miles amateur boxing in the Untied away or 2,000 miles away from Sutes still would be barred. home.
Year 350 amatour Joo DeVita
of New York said, in any
amia Chat January, Chairman vit that he was paid' $25 Clarence Houston of the Con- for each of three bouts. Wil Ham Pasantó New York sald riftutional Compliance Commit tee of the National Collegiate that he was paid in cash for Athletic Association reported each of five "amateur" bouts in that 14 colleges were not_com- | 1948 and 104
-1947. These practices plying with
amateurism still would be forbidden, code.
These errant member were fold
to clean
up their affairs by March 1 and prerum ably did, so.
But as long as college sports continue to be big business, paying for the school's entire intra-mural, sports programme and often for new science bull- The field of Intercollegiate digs and equipment, just so athletics is surrounded by br long will the colleges continue atmosphero of Cyndelsm, skep- to proselyte athlete who can ticism and rumours,” sold: Hou- make, the school's teams witse
tonThe publie is inclined to ning ends
the ballet; that the conduct of
intercollegiate athletics in for There will be occasional. "'ex- "comunertial gain and that the } poses which will brouse only! ethics of, amateurism are 'sinim2 mild "wxcitement. It fan't;nows. portant".
anywhere"---United Press. AVAN
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