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FOOTBALL FOR

TO-MORROW

WILL THE "SETS" BEAT THE CLUB?

FIVE LEAGUE MATCHES

[Dy Roamer"]

Two Senior fixtures are Jown for decision to-morrow. The Club are at home to the Somersets to pull up their postponed game from October 14. With the "Sets" failing to beat Recreio last Saturday I suppose it is only logic to expect the Club. after drawing with the K.O.S.. and being two places higher in the table than Recreio, to be returned the winners, but in spite of these facts the "Sets" should be given a further chance to prove that their

journey to the final round of the

Shield was not by fluky successes. "Sets," your last chance! They won their League game with the at Chatham Road same opponenta

clear goals. in January by four That performance should be re- peated to-morrow.

Recreio will meet Kowloon at King's Park to complete December 21 fixtures. The home eleven took a new lease of life last Saturday and mastered the Somersets by the odd goal in three. Kowloon dia- appointed last week-end by falling to meet the Navy. They should get a good game against Recreio. and I predict 接 spoils.

HOME FOOTBALL

'Charlton's win in

Division II

HULL WELL LICKED

London, Yesterday. Charlton Athletic met and de- feated Hull City to-day by four goals, thus leaving the relegation problem still open so far as con- cerns the Hull team.

Result: Charlton A,

4 Hull City

-Router. Goals.

P. W. D. L. F. A. Pts. .32 18 9 5 72 35 45 70 60 45 33 16 11 61 34 43 .33 17 4 12 67 56 38 .33 15 8 10 66 57 38 .33 15 12 48 42 36

f

7 12 61 68 35

33 13

8 12 59 61 34

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Oldham Blackpool...33 21 3 9 Chelsea Bury, Bradford Cardin Southampton 33 14 Wolves Charlton

11 10 61 40 33 Tottenham .33 19 9.12 53 48 33 42 61 32 Stoke

.31 12 8 14 2 61 Sto West Brom. 32 13 5 14 73 63 31 Notts Caty. 33 9 13 11 48 49 31 Notts For. .32 10 11 11 40

7 15 11 47 69

11 47 69 29 Millwall....39

.34 9 11 14

14 44 5B 20 Reading Preston N.E. 33 10 9 14 51 07 20 [full ...31 11 6 14 42 58

21 Bradford C. 33 5 10 14 60 61

↑ 8 16 44 60 20 Barnsley....33

...34 B 0 17 42 59 25 Swansea Bristol C...32 8 717 47 70 23

TENNIS

21

division of the Japanese Pair Successful

Junior Games

In order to avoid running into May the Council have decided to stage the three games listed for the 3rd.

On March 8 Ewo and S. China "B" shared six goals so a point each is the likely verdict for this encounter.

at H.K.C.C.

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME

too

Honda and Akiyama proved strong for Sewell and McEachran in the I.K.C.C..tennis tournament yester- day and won comfortably, losing only six games. Honda played beautiful tennis, always placing his shots to ad The Club will find the Universityvantage and with the powerful fore. Akiyama, the British a little too strong for them. If the hand drive of University

are successful it will pair were awept off their feet.

Sewell and MeEachran dial nol mean a jump of two places in the

combine together

Fre very well. table, and I think they will just quently both players were caught manage it.'

going for the same ball, but

on the Chinese "8" arc due at the other hand the Japanese pair com- Railway ground to give battle with hined very well indeed. Kowloon. The home side took The afternoon's play was very un away the full spoils from the interesting. Stadium in January by netting three times with one in response,

so I predict their filling the gaps in their ranks and bagging both points to-morrow.

PROGRAMME

Division I (4-45 p.m.)

Club y. Somersets, The ground, Happy Valley.

Recreio v. Kowloon, King's Park, Kowloon.

Division 11. (4.15 p.m.)

there was only one open event in the programme.

Soven other matches.

HOCKEY

Club 2nd Lose to the R.A.

INDIANS TOO GOOD

THE

CHINA

MAIL.

The Hong Kong and Singapore Brigade, R.A., defeated the Hona Kong Hockey Club second eleven by three goals to nil on the Marin ground yesterday.

The Indians were very fast and proved dangerous from the start, only

Our Sports Diary

LOCAL Football-March-22- Sunday Herald Cup Final, 4.30 p.m.

April 5-Junior and Senior Shield Finals.

Tennis To-day-H.K.C.C. Tournament (weather permit- ting).

Hockey Wednesday-Club v. Punjabis, U.S.R.C. ground, 5.15 p.m.

Friday-Club v. University II. King's Park, 5 p.m.

Rowing Wednesday-Tre vessa Trophy, 4 p.m.

Rifle Shooting-April 20 and 21-Volunteers' annual rifle meeting, Stonecutter's.'

HOME

Association Football— March 22-English and Scot- tish Cups-Semi-Final Ties.

Rugby Football-March 22 -Army v. Royal Air Force, Twickenham,

April 21-France v. Wales. Racing March 22-Imperial Cup Sandown Park.

March 28-Grand National,

Liverpool.

March 29-Liverpool Hurdle Race; Champion Steeplechase, Liverpool.

Hockey-March 22-Eng land. v. Scotland.

March 29-Ireland v. Eng- land..

Athletics March 22-Inter- national Cross-Country Race. Golf-March 25-26-Oxford v. Cambridge, Hoylake.

Motor Cycling-March 22- Leeds M.C. Open £200 Trial. Billiards-February 21 to March 29-Amateur Cham- pionship, London.

were decided, the good work by the halvdes keeping four of them Club championship ties them cut. The interval found the Club and three in the Handicap Singles two goals down."

"B" class.

The second half was a little more The complete results were:

leven, but the Indians were still superior Open Championship Doubles (second in every department of the game round)-T. Honda and T. Akiyama Their speed was a great asset, and beat G. W. Sewell and J, S. McEachran, only offside play robbed them of almost }6-1. U-3, 6-2.

certain goals. The Club played better this half, only conceding one goal.

Team to Meet Punjab Regiment

The following will present the first

of the Hockey Club in

CRICKET

The Most Important Individual

Devastating bowler, reliable bata- man, professional these are some- times inclined to think that they tarry a team on their shoulders. And they may be pardoned for so doing, for, in general, there are al- ways one or two pavilion critics who are, ready to assure them that such is the case.

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But the truth is that the man who as an individual has the greatest power to make or mar a team is the captain.

The influence of a good skipper is a power that can scarcely be gauged.

On the other hand a team with a reckless captain carries a burden that only exceptional qualities in the team itself can overcome.

A bowler

the fact that he is that mars the individual in quea tion; it is that he has not the neces- sary polso of character. Either ho loves himself too much, or is too diffident about his own abilities. If one has a good bowler and a good captain in the one man, there should be no hesitation in appointing him.

Commonsense is asked of every man in whatever he does, 'so we will pass on to the less appreciated quality of imagination.

·

Bald. But

Experience is Necessary

• Imagination, it has been leaps at what does not exist. that is wrong; fear does it; im agination foresees what is to come and what can be made to come. It springs, properly speaking, from ex- perience, and in competitive cricket, experience in the captain is invalu-- able.

Teams do not change much in season to 20- There is no blame attached, how-personnel from one

the other; ever to a man who fails as a cap-

knows the

of each of the tain for his failure is a fallure of personality, and you cannot blame opposing batsmen, and he sets his a man for being what he is in his field and encourages his bowlers again, accordingly. Experience, inherent character, though you may censure him for not being true to comes into force in dealing with an entirely new bateman; in an over or himself.

two, before he has settled down, his weak spot should have revealed it- self.

Character Firat

But that is beside the point. What is relative is the fact that a successful captaincy depends more on qualities of character than on actual skill at the wicket or in the field. A certain veteran play-r, whose judgment I rely on, once said of a player that he was the best akipper he ever knew his club to have. Yet he was not a bowler, was at best only a mediocre fielder, and his highest score for his team cannot have exceeded twenty-five

Yet the veteran rung.

was right. This man had authority, common- sense and imagination.

In dealing with his own team his authority bound the eleven together. They took the field as a solid unit and not as eleven Individuals. They observed what the oft-quoted Mrs. Battle called "the rigour of the game." They were punctual in ar- rival, smart in the field, and when the voice of discontent raised itself It was promptly and amoothly dealt with.

And discontent is apt enough to break out in a club at any time. Women are right in their observa- tion; men are like children and when something does not go right with them, if they are getting few and having their bowling knocked about, their first instinct is to look round for someone

runs

to

blame. The child claims that the chair hit him.

experienced skippor

ways

Imagination, functioning on the basis of experience, will tell a skip- per again whether a wicket is likely to play tricky or otherwise; and If he is faced with the unpleasant business of going in to bat on a sticky pitch he will alter his usual order in an endeavour to lose as few wickets as possible while the wicket is drying.

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No Room for the Egotist

On the same basis again experi- ence will tell him which of his bats- men is the more likely to keep the time, bowling out during that though in this case a shrewd under- standing of character is also called

for.

A captain, indeed, cannot be a No. 1 man; he has got to have that sympathy of understanding that allows for the mental make-up of the Individual.

In short, the man who is fitted to be skipper ta in many respects a unique fellow. He must have and .the Imagina- experience, tion to make use of it; authority at the same time as a sympathetic understanding of the individual. It would pay practically any club hav- ing such a member to make him skipper, even if he has not scored

bowl, and is only a stop-gap in the above ten rune in his life, cannot

field.

Fetish of the Run-Getter But too much of a fetish is made in clubs in general by appointing the most successful batsman to the HONG KONG HEIGHTS post of captain. It is not necessary, nor, in fact, in it altogether wiac:

For the information of visitors for if a man is both'a good but and a captain it throws too much weight the following Hat of some of the on the one individual, sets him up as highest points on the Island and a personality with which the team Mainland is published:- theix

Leland. cannot do without, begets an in-

Victoria Peak feriority feeling among the rest of end a the players, and in the tendency to restlessness and jeal ousy, Hero worship with men goes only a certain distanca; the idol is on the aafer on the ground than pedestal.

Club. J. Armstrong beat Capt. E. C. Club Championship (second round).

Etherington, 6-3, 6-2. T. 3. Price beat O. E. C. Marton, 6-0, 6-2. H. Owen team Hughes bent T. C. Monoghan 6-3, 6-0. match with the Punjab Regiment on A. L. Sullivan beat H. Mijhoff 6-3, 6-3. | the U.S.R.C. ground at

p.m. to Handicap Singlea "B."-C. de Bruynmorrow:-C. L. Gregory, W. Wood- (rec. 4/6) beat J. R. Hinton (rec, 2/6) ward, O. E. C. Marton, E. J. R 7-5, 6-2. G. E. L. Divett (-1/0) beat Mitchell, A. A. Dand (captain), J. E. A. H. Johnson, (-2/6), 6-3, 6-7, 6-2. Noronha, H. Owen Hughes, G. E. R This Afternoon's Programme Divett, C. C. Franela, R. H. D. Wade Open Championship Singles (3rd and T. J. Price. round),H. D. Rumjahn v. Luk Ding-| cheung. (Court No. 1).

Ewo v. S. China "B," Caroline Hill Ground.

University v. Club, St. Joseph's Ground, Happy Valley.

Kowloon v. Chinese "B", Kowloon F. C. Ground.

To-morrow's Team

The following will represent the

Ireland need not worry about the Open Championship Doubles (3rd round).-E. C. and E. F. Fincher v. release of cross-Channel players. Club 2nd XI versus University:M. W. and M. K. Lo. (Stand Court). She has home talent and will yet Stirling; Sloan, Potouloff; Hynes, Club Championship (second round). make a name.-An Irish selector. Puncheon, Railton; Pankhurst.-F. A. Redmond v. A. H. Block. (Court Stoker, Smith, Peera and Themp- No. 8).

son.

Reserves:-Doan, Hooper, and

Dinnen.

HAGEN'S VICTORY

Defeat of Australians in Foursome

Melbourne, Yesterday. In a four ball match at the Royal Melbourne Club to-day, Walter Hagen and Kirkwood defeated Jupp and Lefevre.by three up and one to play- Reuter.

It is probable that the career of a professional cricketer will soon at tract men recruited from a class which in the past would not have contemplated such a step. If the present Government advise His Majesty to confer a knighthood upon Jack Hobbs, that process will be accelerated-Rowe Harding.

Handicap Singles "A" (second round). R. H. Wild (roc. 2/8) v. P. W. 1. Planner (rec. 5/6). (Court No. 7).. T. G. Monoghan (rec, 2/6) v. H. Owen Hughes (-4/6). (Court No. 4). Very Rev. Dean Swann (rec. 2/0) v. S. L. Parsons (rec. 3/8). (Court No. 3).

Austin v. Borotra

Paris, Yesterday. A sensational victory by H. W ("Bunny") Austin over Jean Boro tra was the outstanding feature of the annual inter-city lawn tennis tournament between Paris and Lon- don to-day.

Paris beat London by twelve matches to mine.

H. W. Austin beat J. Borotra⭑by three sots to one, after losing the first, 2-6, 6-2, 11-9, 0-2-Reuter.

The time has come-before fur- ther damage is done to examine the position and see whether goal- judges are necessary, as experience has now persuaded us to believe, is possible.-Athletic News.

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How rare are the qualities called for in a captain is shown by the oft- repeated adage that it is not wiss to make a bowler the skipper of the team. The truth is that it la not

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