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TO-MORROW'S CUP TIES AND LEAGUE GAMES.
[Exclusive to China Mail- By Linesman.")
The following is a list of Home football matches to-morrow. The teams in black type may win; where no black type is shown the match may result in a draw:
English Cup-Third Round, Southport Y. Millwall
Aldershot
V. EVERTON
GOLF.
STARTING TIMES FOR SUNDAY.
The Royal Hong Kong Golf Club notifies the following start- ing time for Sunday at Fan- ling:-
er
9.20 a.m. A. B. Stewart, J. H. Ralkes. 9.24 0. Eager, W. J. Clerk. 9.28 H. C. Shrubsolo, A. 0.
Brawn.
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E. Taylor, H. A. Mills.
A. C. Meredith, A. F. Judd.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1931.
GIVES PLACE TO NEW ‹
HOW THE RULES HAVE ALTERED against -specialising, even in
IN LAST TWENTY YEARS.
AN OLD TIMER'S SOLILOQUY.
NOT PLAYING RUGBY TO-DAY. .
[By A Duyen
He was not a newcomer to the C. B. Terdre, G. A. Leipergamel Years ago he had played E. des Vocux, N. K. Littlejohn.
It with distinction, had figured in
of Referees,]
vinced that the game had under gone much change since his daya.
A Reunion.
game.
Not the Game! "Well be ggered," warmly countered the old-timer. "How on earth can forwards get into their set places in a scrummage unless the rules have been altered7 Listen to this-A scrummage is formed by one or more players from each side closing round the ball when it is on the ground, or by their closing up in readiness to all&w the ball to be put on the. ground between them. There you are-cne on each side can form a scrummage, and they need not be even forwards. A three-quarter runa, and he is tackled by an op- The opportunity for enlighten-posing three-quarter. He must ment was not long deferred. That put the ball down immediately the reserve forwards for an inter-very evening he ran across an old between him and his tackler, and D. J. Gilmore, T. S. Whyte-national match. But, like many school-fellow whose family connet-the pair endeavour to play it with Smith.
other good Scots, he, perforco, hadtions had spared him the necessity their feet. Where do your hook- A. H. Penn, V. R. Gordon. to emigrate to find an opening in of seeking a living in other climes.ers and your front-row, middle- D. Lyon, G. B. Dunnett.
his profession, and now, after 20 He had been able to maintain aw, and back-row forwards come R. K Hepburn, D. Ferbes add years, he had returned to his R. K. Valentine, H. Spicer.
close connection with the game and 7 That waiting for all the for- A. C. I. Bowker, J. D. H.native city. His "mail" while was full of it. There was pleasure wards of each side to get to the Crawford.
{abroad kept him in general touch In the meeting after many years, spot and leisurely take up their with the game as far as the results and he was promptly carried off to specialised positions is all bunkum. of bly matches
concerned. the comfortable quarters of his old It is not in the game!" Anything more intimate had been friend. There were many mutual A. D. Humphreys, J. Hinton, denied him, yet his interest was inquiries and explanations, and J. P.. Warren, G. Mitchell. undiminished.
then they talked of the game. A. H. Ferguson, L. R.
Different Opinion. Andrewex..
"How the rules have altered,"
L. G. S. Dodwell, H. U. at least two inter-city games, and, Ireland.
it was rumoured, once was among
R. H. Wild, J. R. Collis. 10.28 A. E. Stone, W. N. Buyers H A. N. Macfadyen, Q. A. A.
Macfadyen.
9.32
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9.36
WOLVES
v. Wrexham
9.40
10TTENHAM v. Preston N.E.
9.41
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CRYSTAL P.
v. V. Reading
SUNDERLAND v. Southampton
9.48
BURY
v. Torquay
Plymouth
9,52
C. E. Holmes, T. Low.
V
BRADFORD SHEFFIELD U. v.
York C. Gateshead v. WEDNESDAY BOLTON W. v. Carlisle
9.56
P. Morrison, H. G. Mills.
10,00
OLDHAM
V. Watford
NEWCASTLE V. Notts F. BRENTFORD v. Cardiff
West Ham V.
Chelsea
10.04 10.08 10.12 10.18 10.20
Bristol R.
V.
Queen's P.R.
CORINTHIANS v.
Port Vale
10.24
Scarboro'
V.
Burnley Leeds "U
V.
GRIMSBY Manchester C.
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10.32
v. Huddersfield
ARSENAL V.
BARNSLEY V.
Aston Vill Bristol C.
10.38
10.40
Stoko
Manchester U.
10.44
LIVERPOOL v. Birmingham
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Exeter
MIDDLESBRO' v. BLACKBURN v. Walsall
Y. DERBY CO.
Bradford C
10.18
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W. C. Shields, W. Vallance.
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10.52
LEICESTER v, Brighton
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WEST BROM. v. Charlton NOTTS CO. v. Swanaça
11.00
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11.04
11.08
ENGLISH LEAGUE.
11.12
21
Division IIL-Southern.
11.10
Gillingham
V
COVENTRY
11.20
LUTON
V.
Norwich
11.24
SOUTHEND
V.
Thames
11.28
11.32
11.36
11.40 11.44.
SCOTTISH LEAGUE.
11.48 11.52
11.50
Airdrie.
V. Aberdeen
Аут
V HAMILTON
Fulham
V. Blackpool
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C'DENDEATH-v.-Clyde
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PARTICK
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TO-MORROW'S SNIPS.
Home.
Wolves.
Bury.
Sheffield United.
Bolton Wanderers.
Newcastle United.
Oldham
Middlesbro',
Blackburn Rovers,
Leicester City.
West Bromwich Albion,
Southend.
Celtic.
Partick Thistle.
Everton.
Away.
Bradford.
Wednesday,
Grimsby,
Derby County. Stockport,
Comments on Ties.
CUP HOLDERS AT HOME TO THE VILLA
It may be topical to reproduce, in part, our commenta (slightly revised) on the draw for to-morrow when it was first published:
The Cup-holdera, Arsenal, have the luck of playing at home, their opponents being Aston Villa.
Huddersfield, the
runners-up. visit Leeds United and may at least draw.
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Comdr. Priestley,
Matthews.
E.
F. M. Ellis, S. S. Perry, D. S. Robb, A. Leach.
were
Ordinary Topic.
It did not take him long to re- new acquaintance in some measure J.with Rugby circles. They were wider than in his day, and he found D.the younger men more obsessed in the game. It was the ordinary
EP. Fletcher, A. W.
Hodges.
E. Stone, J. Coulthart,
topic of conversation and argument in places where adolescent youth, and even their elders, fraternised afternoon over morning coffee or tea. Opinions on points of the game and the merits of players were advanced with the surety of the new age.
He could not help but overhear.
innocent our
from
remarked abroad.
"Not much as far as I know," re; plied the untravelled one.
me
was
Unknowing Referees. "Good heavens!" he snapped. "to think that mealy-mouthed ten- In the derfoot who sat next me stand to-day should answer with-Didn't you 800 he tackled?' Just fancy-it is e same good old game as in my days, but the blighters of to-day are not playing Rugby! Even the referees do not know the rules"
Talk about your
"But surely," contended the re- turned emigrant, "they have alter ed materially in the lost twenty
"I suppose is dead," ho soli- years or more."
loquised. "He was a great stick- "No-hardly any, as far as myler for the rules and for the spirit recollections serve!" replied the of the game. He was the "daddy' homer. "Let me see," he added, of them all! "you went abroad shortly after big men-there was not much of 1900. No, Nol there have been no him, but he stood above them all. material alterations in the rules. Thank goodness we had one Scot "Old Soldiers Die."
It is the same old game, played whom even England could not Youth evidently had no admira- perhaps a bit differently, and, to
best, We shall not see his ko R. M. Henderson, A. B. To them the present-day game was
tion for the players of other days.my mind, a bit better. I have this
again!" season's handbook here, and we can easily see that what I say is correct."
L. Yates, II. A. Lammert. B. Smith, J. S. Dykes. J. Stuart, A. Ritchie. LC. Grover, K. K. Rounds D. J. Keogh, E. M. Hanlon R. Campbell, T. J. Price. W. A. Smalley, H. Hampton. A. G. Coppin, S.
Waddell, J. Forbes.
Purves.
Dr. Nicholson, W. Fleming.
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12 Neon G. T. May, C. M. Roberta. 12.04 p.m. C. H. M. Andrews, A. J. R.
Wold.
12.08
12.12
12.16
12.40
12.24"
"
Na better one and its exponents a superior generation. One callow youth voiced the opinion that the best teams of the old days could not live with a leading team of the present time, and his sentiment met with the acclamation of his circle. New Expressions.
C. E. Moore, R., S. w. Paterson. P. S. Grant, T. S. Marshall. R. W. Taplin, J. B. Lanyon. Capt. Williams, Jeffries.
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C.
He heard talk of So-and-so being
Handbook Ordered.
"No, he is not dead," mildly cor rected his friend, although loath to interrupt the obviously sincers reverie of the old player he is, This was confusion worse con- in fact, very much alive, and since founded. The returned ore won-you have been away has been Pre- dered if senility had begun work-sident of the Union." ing within him or if his recollec-i "President be blowed," blurted tlona and eyesight were at fault. out the prodigal son, "that means He endeavoured to jog his memory, nothing these days. He was the J. F. Sherry, W. A. Weight. [3 good "hooker," of "front-row," and ground for argument quickly Union when
"middle-row," and "back-row" for
I played. I must came. Trot out that handbook," write him. HOCKEY.
wards, and wondered what the ex-
Surely the blighters he challenged, "and we shall soon of to-day can be made to play ac- pressions meant. Some one ven- see whether I am right or wrong." cording to the rules! What are tured the opinion that next to the With the production of the hand- rules for?" hooker the middle-row forwards book he went on:-"In my days a were the most important units of fellow tackled was made to play a serummage, The K.B.S.F.P.A. added another that the dropped goal should be not, he had a rough time and was Another thought the ball immediately. If he did victory to their already formid-cut out of the game. A try to his penalised by referee. To-day I saw able list, when they defeated the mind was worth a dozen dropped man after man tackled, but not one University XI, on the home ground goals. Such a heresy, writes a played the ball immediately. What King's Park yesterday after-Doyen of Referees' in the Evening happened each time was that the noon by four goals to one.
Dispatch, The home team scored
referee blew his whistle, the play firat
Recollections of Yore. through Whitley and before half-
was stopped, the tackled man coolly Much of the talk confused him, handed the ball to his balf-back, a time H. Pearne netted a second.and he would have liked to ask scrummage was leisurely formed,
At
K.B.S.F.P.A. AGAIN WIN. CONVINCINGLY.
On the resumption of play. Francia questions, but he felt that it would and after three, four, or even five put the K.B.S. further in the lead, risk the disdain of superior youth. attempts the half-back succeeded in Then Woolley scored for the He would soon see a game for him-throwing the ball Into the acrum- 'Varsity. Before the final whistle self, and it might freshen his image, and play was allowed to pre- sounded, H. Pearne added the memory and answer any F.P.A.a fourth goal
doubts read. Just read out your present-
A
which had arisen. In fancy he saw day rule about what follows the hectic rushes of forwards in 'tackle, and it will prove that I Y.M.C.A. TEAM AGAINST
the good old days with the ball at jam right in my contention that it H.M.S. SOMME, PROD
their feet, and oft-times with it an has altered altogether since I play- The following
opponent who had sought to atem jed." will represent the movement by falling on the
the Y.M.C.A. second eleven ball. against H.M.S. Semme at King's backs who brooked no opposition, Great individual efforts by Park to-morrow, bully-off at 8.30 and p.m.-
handed-off, opponents with W. J. Scotcher; J. M. Purvis, some of his gamea over again, and, gusto, came to his mind. He lived Tipple; R. A. Bates. Allen. R Dormer; H. Muller, L. Macey, W. H. Chuckling, felt rejuvenated by the Smith, F. Parker and W. J. Brown, conjuring up of recollections.
Colours: Black and White.
They were good old Jays-would that they could actually be brought back!
their money and probably (Second League) a good run for beating.
Plymouth v Everton.
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More Interest.
the
Rule in Black and White,
paragraph found and the host read The pages were turned and the out "When a player is tackled in ly put down the ball between him- the field of play he must immediate self and his opponents' goal-line." "That is funny," he remarked, "no alteration in the rule, but, as you say, they do not do it these days."
"That's what I am getting at," confidently urged the repatriated one, "and what does the rule say about the referee blowing his whis- tle when a player is tackled?"
Sunderland should account for Southampton and Bury for Tor quay. Sheffield United should have an easy passage against York
The day of the match came. He City. The Wednesday's visit to
was an early occupant of a seat in Gateshead should not give them Plymouth are fortunate from the stand. His Brat impression much anxiety, and the same can be a gate point of view-in playing was that interest in the game had
No Mention, Made. said in regard to Bolton Wan-at home, against Everton. greatly increased since bis days.
Another search, and the posses- derers' match against Carlisle capital game should result, in spita The next was that the spectators Newcastle United should account of the difference between the two were a more decorous lot, and be aor of the book read out with evid- for Notts Forest; but there ought in the Second Division League put it down to the large number eat diffidence "Functions of re to be a real ding-dong struggle table.
of the opposite aex who now feres shall not blow his whistle sim between West Ham and Chelsen, ford and will have to play even same attempt at clapping as
Aldershot will be at home to Brad-patronised the game. There was ply because a player, is tackled." with extra time probable.
Are you sure that book is up to Manchester City visit Burnley better than they did against Gil teams took the fleld, and he smiled date?" asked he of the bronzed and need not expect A runaway
ngham to survive.
at noticing that some of the countenance. victory over the Second League
Oldham have the luck of the playera actually wore mittens.
"Of course it 18-1930-31" was Club. The other Manchester team draw against Watford, and should
Too Much Whistle.
the reply, as the book was handed -United-bave aleo to travel,
win easily.
The game started, and he settled over for inspection, their hosts being Stoke.
Cardiff Play Away.
down to concentrate on it. Sooh The perplexed one scanned its Brentford have Cardiff City as the whistle blow, and the referee pages eagerly and dwelt on them Liverpool and Birmingham-clash guests. The latter have a reputa ordered a scrummage. A little here and there. "What are these en the former's ground: the Livertion as Cup-fighters, even though while, and again the whistle sound-front-row, middle-row, and back- paodlians should win;-
Sunderland did put them out-
ed and there was another scrum-row forwards they talk of!" he de- Middlesbro' are lucky to have year ago by 2-1
mage. There were lots of whistlemanded. What about hookers and Bradford City at home, and Black-
Two Southern League Clubs and lots of serummages, and he wing forwards? I can see. Do ro- ference to them by Rams In the burn Rovers are even more for meet In Bristol Rovers and Queen's grew perplexed. At last a rÚR tunate in having Walsall as Park Rangers, and there is not with the ball. The player was wall book!" and visitors.tv :
much to choose between them on tackled. That was the sign for thair present League form.
another, whistle. The Carinthians.
What was that for?" he inquir- The Corinthians come into the ed from his next door neighbour
Two First Division. Cluba
"Pompey" To Travel, Derby County travel to Exeter
His friend explained that these days were the days of specialisa tion. One fellow became an adept at hooking the ball in the scrum-
Our Sports Diary.
LOCAL
CRICKET To-morrow Divi alon I-Navy v. Civil Service (L.); Kowloon C.C. v. LR.C. (L.); Hong Kong C.C. v. Royal Artil lery (F.); Division II-Civil Ser- vice v. Royal Sigrals (L); Polico Y. R.A.S.C. (L.); Recreio v. In- dian R.C. (F.).
Sunday Civil Service C.C. v. Volunteers, 11 5.m.
FOOTBALL To-morrow-Lai
Cup
Competition-Chinese V
Army; Second Divialon St. Joseph's v. Kowloon; Argylls v. Recreto; South China . Navy; Club v. Eastern; Chineze v. Bor- derers; Royal Artillery v. Univer- sity; Third Division-Royal En- gineers v. Ewo: South China v. Borderers: R.A.S.C. v. Fuklen, Chinese v. RA.Q.C.
Tuesday Council Meeting, French Bank Building, 5.30 p.m. ✔ FANLING HUNT To-morrow
-Hunters' Arms.
January cross.roads.
11-Lok Ka Chau
January 14 Sheung Shui Police Station
January 17-Kennels.
January 21-Hunters Arms. January 25-17 Pine Tree Hill, 20/30 milestone.
January 28-Race Course. January. 81-in Wal Camp. HOCKEY-To-morrow Y.M.C.A. v. H.M.S. Somme, King's Park, 8.30 p.m.
GOLF Sunday Governor's Shield (Third Round), Fanling,
January 11-Second Round K.G.C. Junior Championship.
January 14-Match between "Wild Bill Mehlhorn and Bobby Cruickshank, Fanling, 230 p.m.
January 17-18-Bogey Pool, Fanling.
January 18-First Round Junior Championship, Fanling.
January 17-18 K.0.0. Cap tain's Cup.
January 25-Semi-final KG.C. Junior Championship.
February 1 Becond Round Junior Championship, Fanling, t TENNIS Sunday U.S.R.C. Tournament First Rounds Close..
January-10--U.S.R.C. Tourna- ment-Second Rounds. Close..
FENCING - Monday-Fencing Club Meeting Yacht Clab, 5.45.
CHEST
Tuesday
Kowloon Chess Club Championship.
RIFLE SHOOTING - January. 16- Públic Beating, Jardine, Matheson's Board Room, 5.80 p.m. 17 Second Trial Game.
RUGBY FOOTBALL January January 24-Club Y. Army February & Club T. Navy (Tri RACING January 18-Fanling. Hunt Club's Steeplechase Meetings HOMES FOOTBALL-To-morrow-3rd Round of English Cap, hát
January 17-irak Scottish. Cap.
and ought to be a good thing for les for the first time: (having been: A rather pitying look was accom mage, and he was reckoned the (Triangular Tournament)..
the fourth round: Leicester will
be at home to Brighton and should exempted from previous rounds), panied by the terse reply Didn't most valuable of the eight. An-
win with a goal or two in hand, their opponents being Port Vale, you lee he was tackled ? other, whom nature had not en-ngular Tournament). Portsmouth visit Fulham, where who will make a stern struggle of Of course he had seen, but he dowed with the physique or pose they should get a rousing reception beads did not want to argue Thatone sibly the inclination to push hard, tion-and a credit balance in ~ Two Second Division : Clubs of the reply discouraged the fur- had the virtue of pats, and wati goals. zij along
| Barnsley and Bristol City--mest at ther seeking of knowledge: He invariably played on the outside Of the other ties, Millwall whift: Larnsley. The outcome is finger would concentrate on the game and of the back row of the “sózm Southport (Northern League) and táin..
seek Blumination in some other mage Forwarde were now plok will have to go all the way to win At last Netts County have the quarter and at some póksibly more ed so as to occupy deinite places Aliyara encountant should be wit|fuck-of the draw and play Swan- opportune time; He grew wore be in the scrummage. It was an Im- nessed: between Tottenham Hosen at Nottingham. This should forged as the game progressed. It provement on the old action, ef Spurs -and -- Freston North Ean be one of the most exciting series was whistle, whistle, and yet more first up, frst down. There could Crystal Palace will give Reading of the third round,
whistle, and at the end he was con-not possibly be any argument i
Round
RUGBY FOOTBALL-JADORPS 17-England wa Wales;: Twicken January 24 Scotland v. France Parin
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