'SPURS ARE STILL THE LEAGUE'S NO. 1 STYLISTS
Says IVAN SHARPE
As a send-off to the season I saw four First Division matches in five days and all chock-full of thrills. Among these all out, flat out 100 per cent, performers Tottenham Hotspur are still the cultured combination-casily the prettiest football team since the war.
For some reason people went off the deep end a year ago when I said that, 'Spurs should be relieved of all relegation responsibilities and sent around the country, demonstrating the cool and collected football the game in Britain so sorely needs. Such are the apoplexities of the one-eyed partisan.
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In repons not so far away the The Liverpol FA allowa Keep an eye, too, on Preston.
more of their clubs to Here is a team of busy bees, same kind of full-back play by dozen buzzing around and keeping up Sam Berkas rande the greatest receive permutation money in the full 90 team; of Manchester City; was a big way, and yet interfere pressure for minutes.
seen on Tyneside in Bully Hamp-with a little local competi- won nolden Lion Scmeone should present The bright, cheering play we con's day, and have seen this season is due upinions everywhere for Warney there purints with a largely to perfect pitches to Cresswell, of Sunderland and and a blind eye. soft pliable turf with a firm sur-Everton. The lesson is, push face of grass which helps to and pass the ball, don't kick it,
It looks easy mark of the masters and tively easy.
time the ball..
telescope
SOLDIERS' CHOICE
The season's first full inters compara-national takes place on Satur But that there are day, Octo.fr 4, at Belfast. It' so low Ramseys and so many Ireland v. England. Hough-and-Ready is due to two words: Relegation and Despero-
tion.
RAMSEY SHOWS THE WAY
Good football used to spring from good centre half-back play, This was the pivotal position, Now there's no such
thing. Safely-first has killed and burled the all-important plvot,
Now, good football begins athy the fact that there are vacancies. Extremely few, any 1 count the arguments proved
many good goalkeepers.
full-back.
This is proved by the delight ful display and prompting of Ramsey of England and the 'Sputa. Never hasty, never flurried and, therefore, never wasteful of the ball. Always constructive.
Ladies' Lawn Bowls
League Starts This Afternoon
By "TOUCHER”
The 1951-1952 Colony Lawn Bowls League season concludes this afternoon with the First Division match between Hongkong Football Club and Kowloon Bowl- ing Green Club and the main interest will be centred on whether the Football Club can avoid being the wooden spoonists of the Division for the season.
This afternoon will see the ladies ta king over with the Colony's firat Ladies' League ever: The KCC representatives have already been seen in action in a recent intra-club match and have shown that they are well past the novice stage, m
to many,
close, the subject of Inter-Hong competition is, it is learnt, re cerving the consideration of the Lawn Bowls Ascelation mitice,
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Com-
The Kowloon and Talkoo Docks lady bowlers are as yet unknown quantities but with the wealth of leading men bowlers in net es couches, their standard nt bowls may yet be a surprise the leading bowlers and officials, From opinions gleaned among
there seems to be for an Inter- PAIRS SEMI-FINALS Added attractions this after-Hong Pairs Open Championship.
A record-Rumber-of-entzios non are so the Colony Open.
semi-finals at Kowloon expected in the event of such a being organised, Dock Club. Both matches should competition be well contested. J. A. Luz, in and to make it more interesting A. 1 has been suggested that the pornership with ubatilute
entrics be classed into divisions. F. Pereira, will take to the green | "n as favourites in their game
Each division will .. again be and oainst G. Hong Choy and G. subdivided into groups,
cach pair
In a group will play Souza.
a one-round League system, the champlons of each group to go into the Anal knock-out rounds,
Much will depend on the form put up by George Hong Chov who has not been playing too well lately.
The vital-thing-la-to get your Don't let the mind settled. situation panie you. Think it Pairs cut. Shorten your swing to the demands of the obstruction; go back slowly and come through easily. You will be surprised at what you can achieve.
Then there is the question of hitting from longish gras. have to do is Red-hotrod Bristol Rovers First thing you
that you can't Bill Roost, Accept the fact inside forward unsigned with the Eastville club, hit a call: long way from that nine times 1 regularly with his club-
50 And mates-yct the gulf between club
it pays to concentrple out fu and player in as wide as ever.
on getting on to the nearest bit of fairway, playing up from Says
Tunn:
on a single Lace, and relying manager Bert Roost has been offered inaxi- put to repair the damage, mum terms, but he wants to join a First Division club. We're prepared to let him move as 5007 as a reasonable offer is received, although we won't gel offers until
Intending buyers can see him in action." Come off it. Bill. You're the only person being stung.
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Birmingham
City,
pipped
IN ROUGH GRASS
As for actually striking the ball in rough grass I concentrate on getting the club-face in con- tact with the ball with as little the grass na Interference from possible.
The other semi-final will sce the two
Recrcio improving youngsters, R. M. V. Ribeiro and A. A. Lopes, pitted against the more experienced combination of G. C. Norman and K. Bodle. Both the Recrelo boys are ex- cellent drawing men and this
TODAY'S GAMES First Division League HKFC * KBGC.
-Ladles-League Taikoo v KCC "A". KDC "B" y KDC "A". KCC "B"
(bye). Open Pairs Scml-Quals
advantage may well carry them At KDC: G. C. Norman and
through.
GOALKEEPER GALORE
This
Already names of candidates for places in the England team are appearing up and dow the country, "including that of, Nell Franklin of Hull City.
But I'm afraid thero sro 210
way.
is the only position in the eleven in which play has improved If you ask the soldier boys since Kaiser Wilhelm upset the who carried the Enginnd players world. Goalkeepers don't have off the field in that grand finale to use their feet and control the to the victory over Austria in ball in the fumace known as Vienna which men should play "exciting atmosphere."
In this scoson's first international they will say "Same team," Merrick, Williams, Ditchburn, Troutmann,
Farm, Robertson- This was: Merrick; Bamsey, first-class goolkeeping is now Eckersley; Wright, Froggalt, quite commonplace. Never did so Dickinson; Finney, Sewell, many men rise like a salmon to Lofthouse, Baily and Elliott ay and catch the ball no safely The selectors were so glad thab when there
are half-a-dozen night that I expect they'll say heads in the way at corner-kicks the same. and centres,
ONE-EYED Someone should make a pre- sentation to the Liverpool Foot- ball Association.
They
havo objected to a competition at Earlestown because the trophy, given by special request, is called the Dickinson Cup, and this is the name of a permuta- tion scheme.
Is this ban due to the flimsy link with a forecasting competi- Jon?
The Liverpool FA surely must know that, through Earles-
town and other supporters clubs, this weekly Auiter is raising over £200,000 a year for parent football clubs, and since the war his million.
Famous
raised över half a
TWOPENNY CUSS
When the Arst of the
Old Originals is 100 years of age I hope they'll do something about It. The Old Originats? They're the 12 clubs who launched the Football League. It's marvellous how they
stood together. Although two clubs (Accrington and Stoke) have changed a all 12
are still in the Le Bolton. Wanderers-75 week-say they sprang from. That's Christ Church School. why swearing costs a player 2d; à time. Some say they called Wanderers because when the Vicar of Christ Church in- sigted on attending all their geetings they transferred to fco critical quarters.
Sports Stars Met
I Have
By ARCHIE QUICK
It is a sad fact that two of the greatest cricketers of all time are now aflicted with almost total blindness. Only by voice or self-introduction can Wilfred Rhodes and Philip Mead now recognise old.friends.
At last season's Test Match at Nottingham between England and the South Africans I was talking to the great Sydney Barnes, hale and hearty even though he, the Englishman who has taken more Test wickets than any other player-Alec Bedser will shortly pass him-was 78 years of age,
Bro
best
K. Bodie v R. M. V. Ribeiro and Only one Colony Champlon-A. A. Lopes; J. A. Luz and A. P.
was played during/Perolra v G. Hong Choy and G. with 189 to his credit. Rhodes day he told me that his daughter and or fall by them the same ship match
Bon.
TOMORROW
When I sawv
33 11
0.9 a
A we spoke near Parr's year Is that they still follow, against India this summer in- famous tree at Trent
Bridge, the fortunes of their old coun-stead of all the chopping and Rhodes, four years younger than iles, - Rhodes is still taken to changing which has gone Bates, was led by on the arm Leeds, Bradford and Shemeld; before. It unsettles the
Mead pilli goes to Bournemouth of a friend;
and most experienced players, It was a pathelle but historie und Southampton.
I hope they pick any twenty men carly next sunumer and meeting for me, for if Barnes
him the other leads
the way in Test wickets
would or county scores of all touring team has to." possesses the unique record of reads out the
matches being the only cricketer to score
every day, also the cricket. news, and he 2,000 runs and take 100 wickets current
Mead cited May, Sheppard, thinks the Old Country is on In Tests,
Lock, Tattersall, Statham," "Gra~ More than that, he first ap- the way back.
veney and Trueman, among at No. Fprared for Fogland as a bowler
"Those_Australlons are never others, as the bright young 11 and later played a beaten," he said, "until the last players who will have to carry an opening batsman on merit ball of a match has been bowl- the banner to Australia, in little with Jack Hobbs.
Into the shadows with Rhodes, but we seem to have some over a year's time, "It is good
coming along for them," he said
"that they good youngsters one of and I think the Selection Com-have the chance has gone Philip Mead,
of getting a vthe greatest left-handed bats-i mittee have done well in play look at Australian bowling and men of all time, and one of my ing a practically settled eleven batamen before they set off." boyhood heroes when he was
the past week and that was die Souza. Open Singles semi-Anal between
Open Triples Semi-finals T. E. Baker and R. B. Robert-
At KBGC: A, A, Remedios, A. Robertson confirmed his re-Silva, and C. A. Danenberg v R. In the photograph here you putation as one of the Colony's Basa, C. R. Roaselet and J. S.
"W. Landolt;
Colledge, will note that I have positioned best all-round bowlers by winarth and W. Cowie v F. G. for promotion on geal myself well ahead of the ball. ning the match with a convincing
This means that the club head 21-12 core and is considered a Luz, J. F. V. Ribeiro and J. A. average, look to South African
will come down pretty siceply strong favourite to win the tile Luz. Inside-forward Ted Purdon to
SATURDAY, SEPT. 13 ball without this year. the and strike supply goal punch missing last much contact with the
Open Singles Final grass at
With the League matches al-
AU KBGC: W. C. Simpson season, Purdon has all the all. In this position I have ready completed and the Open
fo aR. B. Robertson, making of a great player, but in taken a steeper faced club than Championships coming his Arst two Seasons uil St normal, because the steeper are
that the fuce Andrew's failed to, fulfi early
of strike means promise...
f
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Shefeld Wednesday's' young forwardo, Alun Finey and Albert Quixali, are quite
will be fairly well closed and I shall get a lower flight and longer distance than normally with this club.
A great deal of power is put Into this shot; that is why have widtned my stance to give KCC
99 handful-and not only to oppos-me a firmer base. If I were to IRC
Ing teams. Manager Eric Taylor, who has sampled their tricks off the field, affectionately calls
"Null" the youngsters
and "Vold."
POP
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WHRT LOVELY. [BLOOMSB!
LEAGUE STANDINGS
FIRST DIVISION
Shots
Shots
A
1 1135 761 384
G 1019 834 185
p
W D
L.
Recreio
16
10 10
10
7
929 078
40
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901 61
15
90
942
852 DO
26 - 0
10
082 070
3 0.
11 818 1043
12854.1075
stand straight over the ball, as CCC one doca for an ordinary good KBGC lie, I wouldn't be able to strike KUC without malding the blade pass TC through some of the grass. This PRC would take the power away.
HKFC
702 1028
By any other name
PLEASY OUR
TAKE THIS
WHAT IS IT DABUNG
MA ASKED ME TO FETCH THE OLD RAKE
D. Pts
70
in that groot Hampshire eleven which contained also Kennedy, Тедпугод, Brown, Newman, Beyes, Powell and Livsey..
Philip was no stylist, but his bat was as wide, as a barndoor and more than once he was too dour and the bat too wide for the Australians, especially in the 40% historie
Oval Test of 1023 Warwick Armstrong'a
51
44%
44
against
97 3434 eleven, 225 2544
271--19% 320
A FURTHER LINK
A further link between these
two semi-blinded stars of yester-
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