THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 25, 1988. *
Give Rugby Youth Its Chance
AN INTERESTING
INNOVATION FOR THIS SEASON
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N interesting Rugby innovation this season is the extension of
members to six. This is all to the good as it should mean a greater number of players will come under the personal inspection of the selectors; whether it will result in the best men being picked is an- other matter.
I was asked the other day whe- ther, the selectors being now an even number, the chairman had a casting vote in the event of there being a tie in picking two men for the same position.
vacancies with players o; -08- tablished reputation the scramble that ensues each year for any "Blues" who have come down is comically undignified.
· WINTER FAVOURITE FOR. THE DERBY
Foxborough II, which won the Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket for the American owner, Mr. W. Woodward, is expected to be the winter favourite for next year's Derby. He will not run again this season, nor will Blue Peter, which finished second to him.
LATEST CALLOVER FOR
H.K.F.C. NO MATCH FOR SHANGHAI
A. M. GUTIERREZ IS
OUTSTANDING
'The Shanghai lawn bowls · team encountered little difficulty in their game against Hong Kong Football Club yesterday and won by 26 shots to 14..
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The visitors were superior in their lead and No. 2, while the out- |standing player was A. M. Gutier- |rez, who outplayed G. Duncan for
CAMBRIDGESHIRE the greater part of the game.
London, To-day.
The skips were about evenly though Lopès, who started indif- Leicester and Northampton, for The following is the latest call ferently, improved greatly towards example, have their own scouts over for the Cesarewitch, which the end of the game. who systematically traverse the dis-takes place at Newmarket to- The Shanghai team took the lead trict for promising youngsters, just morrow:
as the principal Soccer clubs do.
The Rugby Union selectors might well copy this policy
I daresay he has but I don't suppose he will ever be called upon to use it. English selec- tion committees of the past have generally consisted of the president and four "yes-men.” A junior selector told me once that he never gave an opinion at a What is wanted is district scouts meeting unless he was asked for it. to watch junior teams, who would| Presumably he was overawed by report direct to the R.U. when the personality of the chairman, likely looking player is found. who had been a famous player What happens when the English when the junior selector was schoolboy.
This is all wrong; a selector should never be afraid to speak up.
There are two things. I would like to see our selectors do this season: (1) Consult the captain when selecting the team; and (2) not worry about the cham- pionship at all..
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Next winter we shall have a re-
presentative Australian team here,
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a selectors are in a quandary about filling a certain position? "Well, we'd better play X-. He isn't really good enough, but there is no one else."
There, is-probably there are at least a dozen players better than the one selected, only the commit- tee has never heard of them.
the first since 1908. From what REFEREES'
heard, they are not very far from
All Black and Springbok standards, ASSOCIATION
and we shall have our' work cut out
to beat them, which we certainly HOLD MEETING
shan't do unless we introduce new blood.
The best conducted meeting of There should be many vacancies the Hong Kong Referees' Associa- in this season's English fifteen. tion was held last night in the want to see them filled not only by offices of the Hong Kong Football players who have been reserves for Association when Mr. J. Finch pre- the past two or three seasons, but sided.
I could name, offhand, at least thirty such whom I saw last year.
There is a wealth of talent among junior sides that never gets α chance. Actually a youngster has far more chance of coming to the front in the provinces than in London, there the big clubs always try to fill
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Dubonnet 10 to 1 o, 100 to Contrevent 12 to 2 o, 100
9 t.
Soloniase 100 to 9. Fet 100 to 7 t and o. Black Speck 15 to 1 o, 16 to 1 Snake Lightning 100 to 6. Snipewood 100 to 6 t and o. Olympus 22 to 1 t'and o. Loves Legend 22 to 1 ó, 25
1 t.
Mubarak 25 to 1. Harewood 25 to 1. Stainless Stephen 25 to 1.
from the start and at the sixth head 9 t. were leading by 11 shots 1 after to the Club had scored on the last
head. A six on the next head gave |Shanghai a very big lead and they took matters easily after that, al- t.lowing the Club to score six shots
on the next three heads.
At the 14th head, Shanghai were still in the lead at 22 shots to 9, to but Club scored a three on the 17th (and Shanghai finished the game
with a single maining heads. H.K.F.C.
Earth Stopper 33 to 1 t and o. J. S. Howell Corofin 33 to 1 o.
OOOOOHOONNNONOTO
on each of the re-
SHANGHAI
K. L. Swartzell W. J. McDermott
A. M. Gutierrez
J. M. C. Lopes
(Skip)
Shots
3. 3
1
3
7
8
11
11
.6 17
2 19
19
19
G. Duncan
E. Tuck
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Miss Windsor 40 to 1 ₺ and o. Ranfield 40 to 1 o, 45 to 1 t. Tapageur 45 to 1 t and o.
W. Giil,
(Skip)
Hend
Shots
1
0
Queen's Shilling 45 to 1 t.and o. Nettlewood 45 to 1 t and o.
2
0
3
Malkewicze 45 to 1 t and o.
Trevisani 45 to 1 o, 50 to 1 t. Gyppo 50 to 1.
Sirtam 66 to 1 t and o.
Grey Mantle 66 to 1-0.
Holnechase 80 to 1.
10
11
Fairing 100 to 1 t and o.
-Reuter.
12
18
9
14
9
15
10
16
11
1
17
8
14
0
18
0
- 14
1
23
19
14
1 24
20
0. 14
1 25
21
0 14
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J. MCKELVIE ELECTED TO MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
by younger men who have the It was decided that in view of ability but have not as yet that ex-the diversion of opinion on several perience of first-class Rugby which points on the laws of the game, it all need to do themselves justice in was essential that some unanimity international matches.
be arrived at and that club secre- taries and players, be invited to the At a meeting of the Management meetings to bring up such points Committee of the H.K.F.A. held in connection with incidents in re-last night, it was unanimously de- cent games.
cided to co-opt Mr. J. McKelvie, An informal dinner will be held representative of the Kowloon at the Indian Recreation. Club on Football Club, on the Committee. November 14 in honour of the Mr. McKelvie was Chairman of members of the Association who the Management Committee last are leaving for home shortly.
season. At the first meeting of the Council he could not attend and it was then not known whether he would still represent Kowloon on the Council of the Association.
Consequently, his name was not put forward, when the selection of the Management Committee was made.
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The Shanghai Lawn Bowlers are meeting H. E. Governor's team at Gov- ernment House this afternoon.
The following are the teams:--
Shanghai
H. Wallace, W. Houston, K. L. R. Swartzell and W. J. MacDermott. (Skip).
R. P. Phillips, J. M. C. Lopes, J. W. Brierley and A. J. Hall (Skip).
T. Mason, D. Campbell, A. Braid and A. M. Gutierrez (Skip).
H. E. The Governor's H. E. The Governor, Dr. I. Newton, E. S. Carter and J. Deakin (Skip). ing, Hon. Mr. A. L. Shields and R. Dun- Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith, C. B. Hosk-
can (Skip).
G. S. Archbutt, Dr. J. T. Smalley, A. Hyde-Lay and J. F. McGowan (Skip).
H.K.F.A. TEAM FOR ARMISTICE DAY MATCH
The following have been chosen to represent the Hong Kong Football As- sociation against the United Services in the Armistic Day Charity football game on November 11, on the Club ground at 4 p.m.
Tam Kwan-kon (South China “B”); RUGBY FOOTBALL
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(Club), nes; G. L., Eastgate, P. W. Burton and Fowler (Club), Lau Tau-man (South H. W. E. Heath.
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