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FOOTBALL

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 12, 1939.

SOCCER

ENGLISH TOURISTS RETURN SPORTS SCOTTISH

EIGE

FROM SOUTH AFRICA

London, July 24.

PARADE

NIGHTEEN soccer international "stars" stepped ashore at South- ampton yesterday from the Union Castle liner Athlone Castle, when they concluded their tour of South Africa under the auspices--discussed. of the English Football Association. The party had covered over 20,000 miles since leaving England on May 11.

Mr. C. Wreford Brown and Mr. H. H. Hughes, joint managers, said that the tour from every point of view had been very successful. "Every player in the party, the whole 18, was given a chance in the tests," declared Mr. Wreford Brown,

tour of

"Financially," he said, "the was very profitable--not to us, course, because we don't make money out of these tours, but to South Africa, who did really well." Asked if he could estimate the profit to South Africa, Mr. Wreford Brown said: "Well, about £5000.

You see,

three matches in Johannesburg drew £9000 in gate money--the best takings of the tour."

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BEASLEY WEDS

EARL'S SISTER

London, August 3. Pat Beas ley, the jockey, and Lady Alexan- dra Egerton, 19-year-old sister of the Earl of Wilton, were married quietly yesterday morning at the Catholic Church of Our Lady Im- maculatë, Newmarket.

cery,

Lady Alexandra ia a ward in Chan- Permission of the Court for her to marry was obtained a few weeks ago.

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SEASON STARTS TO-DAY

v Celtic vAyr

THERE wore many at the Annual General Meeting of Hong Kong Football Club who did not know much

The following are the opening games about the "pool system" which was

of the Scottish League which starts to- The pool system is a verbal

ar day: rangement between clubs with en-

FIRST DIVISION closed grounds whereby the 10. per Aberdeen cent. allowed by the Football Associa-Albion tion for, the use of grounds for

re- Alloa presentative games be divided equally Clyde among the said clubs, irrespective of Cowdenbeath the number of games that may, or Hamilton may not be played on any ground, Hearts:

In order to appreciate the reason Kilmarnock "for the institution of this system re- Queen O'S. cently it is necessary to go back some Rangers years.

v St. Johnstone

.v - Falkirk

Third Lanard ·

V

Arbroath

V

Partick

y Motherwell

v. Hibernian

Y St. Mirren

, SECOND DIVISION

At one time Hong Kong Football Brechin Club was the only club with an en-Dundee closed ground, and, as a result, all re- East Fife presentative games, where gates were East Stirling

Edinburgh Added to this, Club permitted the Forfar taken, were played there.

to erect the uncovered Leith Association

any gate collected from Queen's Park stand and League or other games was for their Stenhousemuir own account...

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The Association made much from this uncovered stand, especially during the years when Chinese Athletic Aso- sociation were the leading Chinese the Club ground for team and used their home games.

There were no rules then stating the amount that would be paid to Club for the use of the stands and ground during the season, but the Association permitted members of the Club to at- tend, all Association matches without charge and at the end of the season made a grant to the Club towards the expenses incurred in connection the erection of the stands.

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with

Of the football side he said: "We

Lady Alexandra is extremely played twelve matches, and won all

on racing. She has been living

first of them except one at Johannesburg, cently at Newmarket where she but you must realise that our play-met Pat Beasley,

The bridegroom whose full name is ers were then playing at an altitude

Patrick Thomas ("Rufus"): Beasley, of 6000 feet above sea level, and

is first jockey to Captain Boyd-Roch- definitely had not become acclimat- fort's stable at Newmarket, and also rides when available for H. S. Persse, R. J. Colling, and F. Armstrong. PLAYERS FROM THE UNION RODE AS AMATEUR 'IN IRELAND He first rode as an amateur in Ire- "They also wore ordinary studded land. In 1926 he was granted a li-AS time went on, Kowloon Football Club obtained a ground and were boots. Afterwards they used- rub-cence to ride in England, and he be

came first jockey to Mr. J. B. Joel in able to erect stands. Thoy too allow- ed the Association certain privileges ber studs, the only real way of shodding football boots for the

with regard to the uncovered stand.

That was

somewhere in 1926 or hard, fast ground.

thereabouts. In the years that follow ed, the Army, South China and Royal Naval Recreation Club secured grounds with stands, and, last year, Police placed at the Association's disposal, the use of their new ground at Boun- dary. Street.

1928.

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His only Classic success so far the St. Leger in 1936 on Mr. W. Wood- ward's Boswell. He rode the Duchess of Marlborough's Superbe into third place in the Oaks this year.

The wedding, which followed an en- gagement kept secret for some time, was attended by only half a dozen friends, including the Hon. Sybil Lambton, daughter of the Hon. George and Mrs. Lambton.

GOLF

St. Bernards- * Raith.

v Morton

V

Montrose

Dundee

.V King's Park

V

Dumbarton

v Airdrie

v Dunfermline

PADGHAM

DEFEATS LOCKE

London, July 30.--A. H. Padg- ham defeated A. D. Locke by 4 and 3 in an eighten holes exhibition match at Templenewsam, Leeds, yesterday.

Padgham was in great form, and did the first nine holes in 33 strokes.. to turn with an advantage of three holes, Locke, a stranger to the course, was often short with his second shots and approaches, and needed 36 shots to reach the turn.

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Padgham became four up at the tenth, where the South African cut When the rules of the Association his second shot into the trees, and were revised some years ago, the al-added another hole to his lead at The wedding breakfast was at Beas-lowance of 10 per cent to a Club on ley's house, Heath Lodge, Newmarket, whose ground any representative game the eleventh. Locké won his first was played, was brought in. The Ashole of the match at the twelfth, sociation gave up the uncovered stand where Padgham drove into thick. at the Football Club and made rough, and the South African also further grants to the Club at the end of a season, paying the 10 per cent as and when a game was played on their ground.**.

U.S. ATHLETES

"We won three tests by scores of 3-0, 8-2, and 2-1. The players all worked together, professionals and amateurs fitting in admirably." He revealed that the captaincy was allowed to go round, and that Eric Brook, the Manchester City winger, did not skipper the team all the tour.

When asked whether the. South ATHLETICS African officials had opened up the question of English clubs taking players from the Union, Mr. Wre- ford Brown stated that they did not like it. He pointed out that only recently a young player returned to South Africa after failing to make good in English football, and was out of a job. "They had to keep him somehow out of their funds," they he said. "Also, out there if take a professional position in En can glish football and then return to the Union, they have to wait twelve months before they are reinstated as amateurs. But this is not a matter which the F.A. are likely to take up. It is nothing to do with us."Press Association.

SPORT ADVT.

HONG KONG LAWN TENNIS ASSOCIATION

Tennis Interport THAILAND (Siam)

vs.

HONG KONG -Monday, 14th August

Tuesday, 15th August

Wednesday, 16th August Commencing

3.30 p.m. each day Admission $1 and 60 cts. Hong Kong Cricket Club Ground

T. A. PEARCE,

Hon. Secretary.

HIGH-SPEED HUSTLE

took the short thirteenth, where his rival was short from the tee Locke, however three-putted on the four- teenth green. losing the hole to be-

This arrangement would have gone well enough, but there were several stormy meetings on the question of come 4 down again, and a half at which was the best ground for the the next brought the game to an Association's benefit when the venue end. For the fifteen holes played of a representative game was to be Padgham had a score of three un- decided.

der 4's, while Locke was one over. Kowloonites thought that more London, August 3.--Ten Ameri-games should had a sufficient following it was thought that the difficulty could

athletes begin a high-speed

bo surmounted by pooling the 10 per cent, allowed, and dividing it among hustle which will take them several

the clubs concerned at the end of the thousand miles around Europe when they leave London for Glasgow to day.

China

season."

they of supporters; Army, with the erec tion of their stands at Sookunpoo, thought that they should have some

As far as the Association..was con played at Sookunpoo; South return and asked that more gamos be

cerned, this arrangement was ideal- maintained that their sucity while this was a mutual agreement between able of the greatest capacity, Club felt that their ground, as the the clubs and had nothing to do with the Association-it chose the ground most centrally situated was the most best suited to its needs, but unfortun- 'popular.

ately, in doing so, overworked certain

the exclusion of others. grounds.

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UNDER these circumstances, the Clubs concerned are not in favour this of renewing this arrangement senson, while others do not think that the allowance from the Association warrants the expense incurred in erecting large stands.

Mr. Guy Stollenwerck, manager of the team, which arrived in Lon-

Choices of grounds brought out don yesterday, told a reporter that some hard feeling at Council meet Blaine Rideout, American mileings and it was pointed out that the champion, who ran against privilege of allowing club members free, access to matches played on their Wooderson in the Princeton mile grounds was not equitable. If a game was played at Sookunpoo all Service will run in Glasgow on Saturday in the 1000 yards handicap.

men would be entitled to free entrance, This was decided at a conference and, with the large membership of South China, the Association would held last night.

lose considerably if any games were And lastly, a section of the Hong their played on these two groundsunder, Kong Football club, feel that

members should be admitted free to those conditions.

Hong Kong Football Club still all games played on their ground and fought for this privilège and were the 10 per cent allowed by the AB- even willing to forego the 10 per cent. sociation forfeited. allowance, but it was finally decided that all members were to pay..

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The athletes have crossed the Atlantic principally with the object of competing in the big inter national athletic meeting at the White City, London, on Bank Holl- day, but they are also to appear in several others capitals. 1

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Thoir itinerary so far is Glas- THESE continual arguments over the choice of grounds were not gow Rangers F.C. sports on Satur-conducive to the best of relations and day; White City, London, on Mon- Continued at foot of Next Column day: Basle, August 12; Zurich, Au- gust 18 and Paris, August 19 and 20. There may be other places to visit, after that.

In other words, for the use of the ground and stands by the Association they desire free admission for their members and nothing more.

It is understood that the Royal Naval Recreation Club are not in favour the Pool this year.

South China point out that they ar assured of one representativo gama peaks form. "Each one is a chamavery beason the Governor's Cup-

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