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THE SOLUTION TO MYSTERY OF ARSENAL SOCCER STAR Bryn Jones Grade Three To Medical Board Playing For Arsenal Does Not Pay

BRYN JONES, Arsenal's £14,000 piece of Soccer property and a Grade One star, is a Grade Three man. There I clear up much of the Bryn Jones mystery, writes Paul Irwin in the "Sunday Express." It is the reason why the Welsh wizard the great- est thing on two footballing feet since Alex James

is not in the Army.

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BOISSERIE IN HONG KONG

Alec Boisserie, former Shanghal Interport aoccer player now stationed In Manila, is now in the Colony on a brief visit. Bolsserie i# the captain of the Manila Y.C.O. team which was rc- cently involved in the clot that

their occurred during pame with the Hong Kong Eastern team, which was then on a visit to the P.I.

Bolsatrie will be spending

a holiday in Shanghai,

was back home helped him when he was playing with Aberaman. After all, the focals were telling me that Bryn "Our Bryn," they| say proudly was turning in games that really put him into his £14,000 class.

The Secret

FIRST C.B.C. POLO CLUB

GALA

The Chinese Bathing Club will hold their first swimming gala of the season at

their pavilion at North Point on Saturday, com- mencing at 7.30 p.m.

OPEN EVENTS Following is the programme, Men's 200 metres Relay Ladies' 100

GYMKHANA

The following is the list of en- tries, with the names of owners in brackets, for the "Show Jump- ing" competition of the H.K. Polo Club Gymkhana to be held at Whitfield Barracks, Kowloon, or Saturday, May 24,

Class (China Ponies): Canary (Capt. T. Whittaker), Da- rien (J. K. Bousfeld), Double Chance (Capt. P. J. T. Skipwith). Free-style Herga (J. C. A. Gundesen), Lady Luck (Cottage Club). March Free-style Brown (W. T. Stanton). Thats That (L. A. Lewis). Trojan (L. A. Lewis), Three Farthings (Mrs. J. Whittaker).

"A" metres Free-style CLUB EVENTS Children 50 metres Free-style

handicap Ladies' 50 metres

handicap Men's 100 metres

handicap Blindfold Race Ladies'

100 metres Breast-

stroke Men's 50 metres Free-style Obstacle Race.

a thing wrong. There's not the same class up against you. You can do things standing still.

"B" Clasa (Australian Ponies): Bingo (Mrs. P. J. T. Skipwith). Brutus (G. Treverton). Canberra There are people who hive "That's not all Arsenal pay

Girl (Mrs. W. T. Stanton), Cape slandered Bryn Jones They have thirty shillings a

In these

York (Dr. L. Reidy). Ruston sand that he has been dodging the war days. So do Aberanian.

(Cottage Club). George (Lt. E, A. Army. They have hinted that he can get just the same Sorcer pay

Bompas). Horatio (G. O'Connor), is fit and strong They have ank down here as 1 ean by travelling

So I left Bryn in this home King Solomun (Cupt. A. Atkin- ed why this super star quick to Londen "

town, Left him to his long morn-son), Kiola (Capt. 11. Marsh). silver performer able La slay

Nuw. I have the idea that the

ing walks over the mountains in Lady Precious Stream (J. R. ninety gruelling minutes in Cup Welsh international

sight

weather-stained flannels and | Smith). Prince's Bridge (D. G. E. or League stuff has escaped the happier these days than he has "Yes, it helps," came the an sturdy brogues "I keep fit that Middleburg). Queen of Sheba Servire net at the age of twenty-hern for a long time. Why? Be-swer The secret is that I now way" to the lectures he attends | (Capt A Atkinson). Spectrum cause he is back among his own have ture 14 carry out things with his allies at the Penyard | (Mrs. P. J. T. Skipwith), Winter's So much for slander Here are people

There's not the thought of League Socal Settlement and 10 his Tale (Capt F. S. Hancock), Bur- the facts as they rate

rah (Capt. E. J. A. Fielden). I askedsh m if the fact that he points, that may be lost if you do meinories when I talked with Bryn in he father's home that chugs to thr face of the firerdina Mounta lowering above Murthy

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Listen to this It is Bryn Jotte talking for the first time on he Army medical examination

"Am I dodging the Army"

deed But What can I th of they are not wanting me"

last June 1 er steed with the Twenty-severe and about

weeks later went down 170915 Meriliye to Pontypridd for HAN medical examination.

"The doctors went over PI about three or four of them. And they turned me down, put me a low grade. What was it" Grade

Three.

"Seems funny, } know. Yet there it is. Even when 1 Was called back for another examina- tion about a fortnight later the same thing happened, They didn't change the grade of ту medical fitness."

The Silent Knight Now Bryn Jones isn't given fal Jong speeches. He's the Silent! Knight of Soccerdom. The magic is in his feet and his quick, thrust- ing football brain, not his tongue

Yet, stung by the blunless of; my questions, the words enumer fumbling like the Tail dawn there in the valley below has hintive.

"What can I do aluat if?" he asked "All that's left is to wait until they do want men from my grade. They're calbng up semar ot them now, aren't they Wei maybe my turn will change

"I am ready to go. } don't want to dodge the Army. Tradeed, i I have never wanted to dodge it. There was talk that I should fryj to become a PT. instrueinr. It didn't appeal to me. Anyhow, how would they view a Grade Thre many"

star, *

I couldn't answer that one. But I could crack another question at the great little Soccer question that Bryn Jones seized and shook and tore to shreds like a Welsh terrier.

"Tell me, Bryn," sez I, "tell me why you don't play for Arsenal these days? Here you are, turning out pretty regularly for Abera- man, a small-time Welsh club, while Arsenal want you."

Pay Is The Same

The dark, crinkly headed boy- and for all his twenty-eight years Bryn Jones still has the eager freshness of an up-and-comer- Tooked up sharply.,.

"I know what you mean," he} said quietly, "They are saying that I don't want to come to Lon- don because of the blitz, Isn't that it? Ah) It is silly....

"Here's why I have been play- ing for Aberaman and not Ar- senal.. I have only to go over the mountains eight miles to get to Aberaman. I can leave Saturday morning and be in time for the match. It is different when Ar- senal want me. There's the jour ney down the valley to Cardiff and the trip to town, which means leaving here Friday night and not. getting home till late Sunday.

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