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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY· · 13, 1950.
ARSENAL CALL IT 'OUR GREATEST GOAL'
SPICER
HUGHES
EGORING
JONES
TAYLOR
LOBIE
LAMBERT
LEWIS
SIBLOW
HUGHES
GOAING
LEWIS
HUGRES
LAMBERT
LAMBERT
CUP WINNERS ARE LIKELY TO BREAK UP
BY NEXT SEASON
moment.
SAYS ARCHLE QUICK
Athletics Blues
REVIEW OF THE SOFTBALL SEASON:
Human' Enough Wahoos Were Much Too Good Human Enough Wahoos
To Drink Beer
Lo
From an article on The University Approach Athletics, by Roger Ban- Oxford miler. nister, the
in the AAA
Arsenal have won the Cup and all is joy and jubilation | writing in North London, but tempering success is the knowledge | magazine, the Athlete:
"The University athlete is frs: that this Arsenal eleven is likely to break up at any and foremost buman being who runs his sport and does not allow it to run him. He is not!
or a professional n racehorse strong man. He drinks beer. and he land often he smoker,
listens to cunches when he feels
lined.
Joe Mercer says outright that having crowned his of the Year" trophy and career with "The Footballer having received the Cup from the hands of the King he is going to retire to his Wallasey grocer's shop. I can too that Denis Compton has be taken for granted finished. He is 32 and will be wanted for cricket in Australia next winter.
Barnes
Brand
WH
Conscious
For The Rest Of The Field
By "STARDUST"
race for the Ladies' Senior Loop The hope held early this season that the Pennant would be a close one was soon dispelled by the Wahoos who, after dropping an early game to the Canadiennes, went on to win their third successive Champion. ship and prove conclusively that they were much too good for the rest of the field.
The ease with which the Wahoos swept through the opposition came as some- what of a surprise. Early on the Wildcats were reported to have strengthened their team with the signing up of several former Shanghai players.
measure
a long ball
However, the steady pitching For finishing in second place The Squaws, the youngest Terry Noronha the Canadiennes have to thank team in the circuit, finished up with in many other int.nets of "Gorgeous" and activities there is no danger and the excellent balling support the steady hitting of the Loop in third place. They were the Champion, Avarita surpris team of the league and of mental talents All this that she recrived from her team- [Datung
did not win the and pilcher Alice though they
their keenness may be wrong, but it has pro- naten proved too much for the Choy.
"Bloomer Girl" Mar
Championship Not a trace of i doved some of the finest athletes other teams to handle.
Always out there playing with and persistency were well re- Brother Leslie i rising 39.)Roads posible.
did of our age."
in the the six players
warded.
Coach Bill Silva thinking about that flurry on other nation. And is
Bannister believer, win! Never
Senior
who all they had, the Pirates were Laden
League
rewarded in no sini
small
a fine job with bis team. Forbes Was semul's job with Air mal and
Brith universities become belted over 300 for the season,
The Clovers produced 11 god throughout, Merver's
a victory over the Wildcats. !ets
and Macaulay, Swindia, Scott and motions
coach
Wahoos had three-Patsy with
Wildcats Anished the eatcher and hiter in Thelma The and durated as inicile feuptaincy are in the
are university
Ribeiro, Irene Castilho Find
Though not way up in and disap-Toelho. spoonists thirties. There i likely to (Swindin made a series of great
she was www sports in America.
This Campos,
trio wooden Terese when Liverport were be a "new" Arrenal in the next saves
well, gatite a lot could be In the last twenty
collected eight home runs, three pointed their supporters. Their the batting averages with gangsters
and For
against
toarly losses seemed to upset capable of hittin two regions
thi: the best spin
triples and four two-baggers to her and they did not produce and really hitting it hard. They athletics "human" outlook on like Forbes and Goring forming | mimter-watch
a good team and lead the rest of the League anything like their form of the were a part of the munich, for me. the backbone.
orbit
more with But I will refrain.
experience extra hase blows and collect a mattch Nothing NEAR CLASSIC
-BRUCE HARRIS.
of over 500 Previous reason. Alurging average except
nish in a that they
not helped by rome of their Arsenal's 2-0 win over Liver. Liv.apel,
rach. -London Express Service)
players not turnin! up for where they ended this season.
The MeTycireans tried hard pool did not provide a classic, hover look their chances. Th
bad more opportumles to score
imes and in the late stage of There but very nearly one. was never much doubt as to who than Arsenal.
after were going to win, ant the game Liverpool Manager George Kay Lohf ine that he will shortly be lying two inside- forwards whatever they cost”. For the first time for 10 years,
reentul time and only for the Wembley's history, it
raint.
In
Arsenal, too, equalled Belton's record of three victories there.
What I liked about the whole
affair was the obvious
-ports-
manship of both sides. During
after it wIH the game
always apparent, even though Liverpool must have realised the nad League
early
on that in chasing
"double" of Cup
Championship
boti
they had lost
The Lancashire half back line men who consisted of three
have been chosen for England's Continental tours Hughes, centre-hall of the "A" team. Jones contre-half of "IS"
Taylor, twelfth mon
none of
team team-but of the them compared with Forbes, Leslie Compton and Mercer who were the renl match winners. It is a mystery why the efter Compton has never been fully "capped"
Forbes, I would may, was Na 1 Player of the matel with
Logic and Swindlin close up. But was the ice-cool brain of
Reg Lewis which made his two
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Arsenal Football Club, the winners of the Football Association
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Back Row (from the left): Tom Whittaker Manager), Leslie Compton, Laurie Scott, G. Swindin, W. Barnes, Milne (trainer).
Front Row (from the left): Alec Forbes, Freddie Cox, Jim Lagie, Peter Garing, Reg Lewis and Denis Compton,
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They were
with
should a higher position than
the reison did not fold a team but lacked the necessary finish On the whole the standard of to win. This was their first ex- play was not encouraging. Toe perience in Hongkont softball were and they turned in a comunend- many sluple mistakes
ECHO AND RE-ECHO
made. Perhaps the real reasonable job but lacked safe fielders was the lack of opposition for and hatters. The Waloos. Interest died out carly as it was soon seen that no team could provide enough opposition for the Champions, ut in spite of that the girls Rames were well attended.
JUNIOR LOOP
It was mainly the inspiring!
Perhaps younger fans may not but the older en- realise it, thusiasts will recall that the first Ladies' League game was played off at the Filipino Club Ground The first season of the Ladies more than twelve years ago, and Junior League started
Fielder's exhibition of Marty misingly and interest was mal- Hollywood Glamour gals, then tained
to the very end. St rassing
Colony. Idea of Teresa's won the Championship that gave birth to the
all-round
branch by virtue of belter
Iceal girls competing in a
red only nelding and batting. with the of sport hitherto considered Belding playing the more im-fit for the male of the species.
There is no doubt that the
popular
from the came was
portant part.
rough the
St Teresa's had the best feld- ing ride the League and dils, start. Some skeptics felt that more than their batting, carried the new-fangled game of Soft- them to their first pennant. Most ball would be too intricate for of their players had played be the women to master, but it was fore for the Madcap Aces and soon evident that the motions of Tees and this experience stoud
toud batting, throwing and running them in good stend as they were were natural ones and only
their op able to capitalise on
nceded developing. come out The locals have covered a lot ground since that first game, were helped by having and although they still have a two good pitchers, Sheila Silva long way to go before they can and Doreen
both of attain the high standards set, whom alternated between up by their sisters from across pitching and playing at
progress has
achterrors anel
winners.
Ozorio;
of
first
the seas definlic been made.
For the most part consisting of players in their first season of competitive ball, the Write Fangs gave St Teresa's the most trouble and bad they a little
Masip Suffering
more experience would les From Leg Trouble
probably made the grade Champions.
Their pitcher, Josette Tiampo, as well as being chosen the Most Valuable player, was one of the best hurlers in the league.
Her strike outs and her pitching tents are too well- known to be repeated here but made of her mention must be feat in striking out 14 batters in «Kame.
fore the war.
The holder of the British Lawn Tennis Hard Court Championship, Pedro Masip, had to withdraw from this year's tournament at Bournemouth.
Jast
Masip triple winner year had to withdraw ber Junior cause of old leg trouble. He is resting! ot home in Barcelona.
This will probably stand as a record in the Ladies League for a long time and now compares favourably with the
In recent months he has lind strike-out record sel by Herble
in the leg to have injections Quen in the Men's League bebefore his matches, sometimes even during them: he suffers The White Fangs had 10 really long ball hilters though which made the
from a similar complaint to that King a lem- champion Cecile batting Arnulphy connected for two Porary invalid.
In Alexandria recently he had home
runs in winning
off the court Champlonship. They had four to be carried batters in the Arst ten and de-summary end to his match with G, von Cramm, twice finalist at pendled more on timely singles Wimbledon. rather than extra base blows to win.
the
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K: O. CANNON
I KNOW HE WILL BE THERE ALONE AT THIS ROUR..HE
IS ALWAYS ALONE.. COUNTING THE TAKINGS..
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|COMPTON_(D),
Four "shots" of the firat Arsenal goal-the goal that won the Cup. Wee Jimmy Logic is seen coaxing the ball on the "wrong" side of Phil Taylor, giving Lewis the chance to dash between Jones and Spicer to the
open space.
Lewis, in the second of all picture, is clear opposition except the un-
fortunate Sidlow.
As Sidlow goes down to save, Lewis, with a delicate flick of the ball with the outside of his right foot, steers it to the goalkeeper's left in pic- ture No. 3. There is one in a Liverpool shirt
to Interfere.
no
The last picture shows. Sidlow's vain dive to the left and the completion of what Arsenal cull “our greatest goal.”
SWINDIN & CO. SURVIVE
COME-BACK BLOWS
BARNES
STUDBINS
PAY
SWIRD
COMPTON, L
BARNES
FAGAN
BARNES
SWINDIN
SCOTT
¿COMPTON, LI
Liverpool staged 11 shock recovery in the last 15 minutes that would de- have shaken many fences, but Arsenal, by skill and two slices of luck, held out.
pictures Top three show what happened when a flashing centre from Liddell was missed and by both Swindin Stubbins, and Payne got his head to the ball. Swindin fell on the ball.
FORBES
MERCER
In the bottom picture, Arsenal survive a cric- tical moment as the ball crossbar and hits the
Swin- draps down, with din out of position.
The raid was led by Phil Taylor, Liverpool wriggled captain, who
Ar-
past the astonished senal players and crashed as he put the ball into goalmouth. Swindin leap- cd, fell, and Payne's header struck the bar.
(Pictures by British Paramount Newsreel cameramen).
WITH WHISPER IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE
CARESSE YOU
STARTLED ME
BUT THIS IS AN UNEXPECTED
VISIT..
... IS THE GLY UNEXPECTED,ALSO, M'GIEU ZUCCI..OR DID YOU EXPECT MB TO COME TO YOU WITH {OPEN ARMS... DID YOU?