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Sports Pool Grounds Now Available

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The recreation areas at Happy Valley and King's Park allotted under the Pool Recreation Grounds Scheme are now ready for for use, and applications

their allocation are invited by the Pool Grounds Allocation Committee. The Committee wili that the endeavour to ensure

available are equitably

They comprise 10 pitches at Wong Nei Chong catering for association football, rugby fool- ball, hockey and cricket, and one association football pitch and one hockey plich nt King's Park, Kowloon. It is hoped the grounds will be ready for play on Sunday, September 20, at a later date, facili- and that, ties can also be arranged minlature football,.

for

The grounds are available for hire at a fee of $12 for playing period of one and a half hours. for allocations All requests

ahould be sent to the Secretary, Pool Grounds Allocation Com- mittee. c/o Education Depart- ment, Leighton House.

Allocations will be of the fol- lowing types:

(a) Seasonal, for which re- quests must be received by the Crimmittee not later than Sep- tember 20;

(b) Monthly, for which re- quests must be received by the Committee not later than the 21st day of the preceding month;

and

rc-

(c) Casual, for which quests must be made at least 24 hours in advance.

PAYMENTS IN ADVANCE Details of the method of pay- ment will be made known later but all payments will be re- quired

of

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY,

SEPTEMBER 17, 1952.

A

CARDIFF CITY'S FIRST AFTER 23 YEARS

This was how. Cardiff City scored their first goal away from home in the First Division after absence of 23 years. quickly-taken free kick on the right led to Chisholm getting the ball,

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Although hemmed in by three Tottenham de fenders he got in a left, footed shot which beat Ditchburn all the way. It was'a fine goal but Cardiff were beaten 2-1 Ex-

press Photo.

TURPINTO

KEEP BOTH

HIS TITLES

London, Sept. 16.

DITCHBURN

NEW

FISHOLE

WILLIS

CLARKE

METHOD OF ATTACK -RETREATING WINGERS

By TOM FINNEY

Preston North End, my home club, played Servette, a very attrac- tive Swiss side, recently as part of the Guild Week which comes to our Lancashire town once every 20 years. We beat them 2-0 in a fine match. This was the first time that Preston folk were given the opportunity of studying the new Continental tactics--the style of play which made the Austrians headlines last season.

by some of our moves.

Most people found it fascinating. But the Swiss lada were, in turn, puzzled One thing they found strange was our offside plan. Another gambit which they could not fathom was that followed by Angus Morrison, our left-winger, and myself dropping deep into our own half to collect passes from the

full-backs or even the goalkeeper.

has, This retreating winger alnost unnoticed, developed in- to one of the most important moves in English football dur- ing the hat four or five sea

It was operated Arst, I

was

in advance. Seasonal Randolph Turpin, conten- allocations will be paid for der for work honours and monthly Instalments. Should the former World Middle-sons.

think, by Stan Matthews play an allocated ground be ruled unplayable and no alternative weight Champion, can re-ing for England against Wales pitch be available, feon will not tain the Middle and Light: at Card in 1947. At least be returned but aniber reheavyweight Championshina that is where I rst came into servation will be offered in lieu of Britain until ordered to prominence.

The maintenance

the relinpish one by the Bri grounds is the responsibility of tish Boxing Board of Con- the Superintendent of Cardens, trol. whose decision as to the state of n ground is Onol.

The Pool Recreation Grounds Scheme, it will be recalled, was devised some time ago by . special advisory cgmmittee of which Sir Arthur Morse C.B.E.

the Choirman, the recom mendations being that certain recreation areas at Happy Val-pending ley and King's Park should be pooled for the general use and convenience of public and pri- vate aports' bodles.

was

Vic Toweel Gets Ready For Carruthers

Johannesburg, Sept. 16. Vic Toweel, the World Bantamweight Boxing Champion, began sparring today in preparation for his title fight with Jimmy Car ruthers, the Australian Champion, in Johannesburg on October 4.

of

After going one round shadow boxing. Toweel sparrod four fast rounds, with two part- ́ners"and"wound up with me "round on the heavy bag and one

on the speedball.

Earlier he had a run of about

three miles.

Maurice Toweel, his brother and manager, said that he was

well fatisfed with Fawcet and

would like him slung easily present as he was very fit and the fight was still three weeks off

-Reuter.

other end of the field...

Matthews made so many. openings in the first half that goals up. It we were liree

more should have been many but for some incredible saves and near goalmouth misses

Division on

one of

SEAT IN THE STALLS ★ ★★

What Makes A Funny Man Funny?

Lealla Townes Hope, fifth A lot of alighting stuff has But Hope can do better than

He can. son of

If he wishes, stone-been written about Hope's gng this. A Kentish

writers. Of course he employs make a funny Joke unfunny- mason. sometime car welters. The only reason most deliberately....Just by under- salesman, tap dancer, alg- English comedians do not in delivering it. ger minstrel, saxophonist, is because they cannot back in London. In the Hope with £300,000 cannot afford not to. two weeks he is official-

They provide him with the who went to paychiatrist. He ly on view 70,000 people raw material of most-not all ear....three eggs on top of his had a rasher, of bacon over each will travel long distances, of his gags. The gags come to

cost

afford to: ycar

THE BACON RASHER He tells a story about a man

You?!

said the paychiatrist.

about Come to see you

my

DIE NOVET 316

the joke is

novec

stand in long queues and him like unglazed pottery. He had "What's the matter with pay anything up to 158. puta on a nice shine. Bent for an philo. Per call the shine his "deliveo, un It's not me," said the man "e

A Hope gag is always a wise-brother." scientific crack smanship crack and the wisecrack is an Now I think that's funny.

Invention. Ideally but audiences that ranks with the world's American best.

you should be able to cruch it In one breath of about 25 words quick en masse as they are In-

and if "dividually, Bob Hope is top of the bill at or fewer, And Hope's wisecracks

delivered deadpan it the Palladium...with nose,

in three layers. always come and dhin, legend, memory

came

over on the United gets a big laugh.

publicly Hope teken 20 States

apologises for technique that have

which

81,000,000 bad joke and goes on to tell years to perfect."

dollars a little something we two more.

Then he returns to To watch

now is to had lett over

ver after Mr Churchill's watch a lesson In International last visit," he says. That's funny the man with rashers on his ears. humour-one hour's instruction and it gets a laugh. "You've got This time it gets a small laugh. in "What makes, a funny man to hand it. to Mr Churchill," houring the course of the next.

tourteen jokes ho maites right funny!"

goes on. That's not very

references to the rashers. By but they laugh just the same this time it has become a biz HE'S A BIG MAN He is a big man with a nose The 10 percent of the audience joke and everybody is laughing.. that he has carefully invested which gets the double meaning And that. artistry, with a character of its own. It's helps the joke along. bigger than it has a right to be nudience and caps his joke. He looks shrewdly at the down It taper and then goes on

don't,"

he says, "he'll

ought to

un aft

end

Hope

to where a nose

ព

take

funny

It is something like the family Uncle Bill fell in the water-bult. joke... the joke about the day You've heard it 100 times and very time it is told it becomes funnier.

to a circular tip that looks like

It is instructive to listen to a afterthought. His chin comes up to meet the Hope audience. The laughs come

And then there's the legend nose half-way, His eyes are in waves. Laugh-silence-laugh ..tho Crosby-Hope-Dorothy wary, Wariness is Hope silence. Not many of the Lamour legend bullt up by all characteristic. He comes on jokes are the kind that roll you concerned ever since this team

aisles. cracks stage,

the joke, Jooks in

None is "blue."

became a big comedy combing- cautiously at the audience as Wisecracks rarely are.

tion. he's looking

You can laugh, enjoy-then hush! You have to hear what's customers who don't laugh.

He is looking for the custo-coming next. It's bound to be mers who do not laugh.

|portant.

though

Q

for the

THE BROWNING

of

VERSION

his

Crosby makes jokes about Hope. Hope makes jokes about Crosby-about his singing, his money, his children. ("He has son Garry standing by when he sings in case there's a power cut.")

Audiences like to feel "in the know." Hope keeps them in the legend with him.

memory. Hope's

It is around the time of his Then Stan's genius set the fashion A study in failure, or to It is. The Browning Version"

the title. a little second-leaving that the drama takes mental fling system bad at the for many clubs, Jimmy Seed, use a more exact word

hund copy of Robert Browning's place, and all because Tup-moment sufficient jokes to last northeasterner who

the translation of the Agamemnon low Intuitively discerne a two hours. After that it bc- shrewd has kept Charlton in the First incompatibility is

is human

and he has to being under the cold comes difficult soccer's subject of a film that is it-

of Aeschylus, which when it is MATTHEWS' TACTICS

njost -modest budgets,

soon self the brilliant antithesis presented by young Taplow to shell daily presented to him and think. A lot of the jokes won't his his friends. In his first Alm, be brand new....but like Uncle Stam, us was natural,

Crocker-Harris, followed the idea. Jimmy con- of everything connected Andrew

ily Brian Smith does extraordinarily Bill and the water-butt some rently being marked very closely by siders the retreating winger to

departing form-master,

joices get better with age. full-bucks. His 'escape' was to be one of the most important with its theme.

marks the climax of the drama well. But they all do..

Add to this his inherent sense drop back and pick up short tactical developments in the.

Nigel Patrick is the gay young As no other country, England and is the key to much which A boxer is not normally

balls frum our right-back, game. If it is played proper-seems drawn by sume peculiar had previously been hidden in Science Master who luckily for of timing the attuned car which allowed to build we titles al

Laurie Scolt. The effect wasly, it cuts the full-back out

of the people Millie Crocker-Harris, intervenes foan tell at which point in a joke fascination to her schoolmasters the characters

(In other the same time but at present aste

in time to ward off the nervous the taughter starts The Welsh defen- completely" he says. Sent astounding.

nad here in the wake of Chips concerned, Turpin is in line for an Empire ders had absolutely no answer

collapse for which she is heading words: how quick you catch on) Tottenham Hotspur and Man- and the rest comes presented in

and the bland look of Hope- middleweight title and a world to these tactics. Hay Lambert,

To understand from

Were she not so much to be ful surprise that can win a lightheavyweight fight.

whose job it was to mark the chester United have also incor- a balanced and highly sensitive

with a wild wordless hugh ncredible Stan, was nonplussed porated the principle into their way, another view Into a very what Michael Redgrave

surmise....and you've got.. doubt reached today's decision by this latest development. And brilliant team-work At White typical pubile school; into the achieved as Andrew Crocker-pitied, it would be easy to think

being 1 think any

full-back Hart Lane, the guiding prin- minds and hearts of some of its Harris, one must know that the harsh thoughts of Millie.

part requires to be revealed in Kent is superb.

But the first boy of all must go clarified, particularly concerning would have found it very difi- ciple of manager Arthur Rowe staff, and one man's wife.

less than two hours the effect to Terence Rattigan. He wrote which has proposals for Turpin to have a cull to follow the Blackpool is that the learn

which a lifetime of gradual the to the the ball is on attack even if lightheavyweight title winger right

petrification has yielded. “ it is the goalkeeper who is in Bght with Joey Maxim,

possession. Champion.

The stewards of the Board no

the situation

world

the

They also realise that there are at the present time no out- standing contenders for either of his titles.---Reuter.

Canadian Wants

To Fight

Frank Johnson

£500 stakes.

London, Sept. 16.

other

down

Derby's Johnny

Morris Asks

For Transfer

Derby, Sept. 16, Johnny Morris, Derby

As long as the ball is kept from the other side, it cannot be in Tottenham's net. So there it gees-a short throw

All silps it a

fow

from Ted Ditchbur to Alf Ramsey. yards to 'Sonny Walters, lying well back in his own half. In cach case the pass is a short one, cuting down the

chance

San Francisco

Favoured For

1960 Games

San Francisco, Sept. 16.

words

has

Bereen

Play,

Jean

♫

what?

·

HE'S SERIOUS, REALLY

Britain has excelled in

Something that some people Eighteen years before, aureoled very

British way Ja a very call o jake machine, meaning British

But 急問 this his humour is more calculated

with first class Honours in the

Classico and high ambitions, rianim,

for obvious reasons, than natural, more premeditated Colony, young Crocker-Harris arrived prefers Its cinema entertain than spontaneous, more from

tresh from Oxford. He was a bom scholar.

Slowly, the disinterest of the boys and the growing hate of his attractive young wife had their insidious effect, sapping his spirit till he became a dry,

of an opponent intercepting. Mr Avery Brundage, Pre-dead automaton.

could sident of the International "Surely"

Now the Swiss lads

County's international net unterstand this.

"if you drop Tight and United States Olympic to give his wife the sort of love

inside-right and captain, is bac

fer.

transfer."

self.

All this must be in the in- voluntary gestures of the driven

His fallure as a schoolmaster was due as much to his inability said down the Acld, you

are Committees, today gave San that was life to her, as it was a strong recom-hers to full his own intellex- weight, who is now in Britain,

Solly Cantor, Canadian light to ask the club for a trans- one man less in attack: That Francisco

view has been put forward by mendation as host city for tual, platonic ideal.

critics.

They many English has challenged Frank Johnson, Morris said today: "Derby's consider that it is simply an- the 1960 Olymple Games. British Champion, to n match style of play at the moment does cons

other aspect of defensive foot- over any distance at 136 lbs. for not suit me and I will ask for a ball, an attempt to prevent goals Johnson has accepted, and After Morris had been rested the other side scoring the side stakes of both boxers from the side which met Wolver- rather than getting them your have

Indged with the Bri-hampton Wanderers last Satur-Tam quite prepared to be

day. several chibs Control.

enquired eve th's is so in some cases. last Meanwhile Tommy Farr, for whether he was available for But not all. At Preston mer British Heavyweight Cham-transfer.

year, Angus Morrison collected who outpointed the Ameri- Derby's manager, Mr Stewart 12 goals from the left-wing. I -pionTM

can, Al

Al loosman, at Cardiff last McMillan, stated today: "Morris was fortunate enough to score myself from the Wednesday night, said he hoped hus not approached us for a one more the Boxing Board of Control transfer and in any case the mat right.

NEW USE OF WINGERS would now recognise his claims ter would have lo come before for a title fight with Johnny the board."

British_champion.

Morris cost Derby over £24,-

Tottenham's

and Williams, British chove now 000 in 1940 when they signed Walters had 19 Between them favourably myself

worthy him from Manchester United. which compares a proved

even with the standards set up challenger" Reuter

by such old-time 'lers' as Joe Hulme, Pat Deasley and Erie Brook.

Reuter,

Major League John Cobb's Speedboat May

Baseball

New York, Sept. 15.

Resulta of baseball games play-

ed today were:

National League

St Louis

Chetanat!

New York

Brooklyn

Boston

Americze League

Chicago Washington Detroit

United Press.

Two More Qualify For Speedway Championship Final

London, Sept. 18.

The Swedish rider, Dan Fors berg, and Alan Hunt, both of Birmingham, qualified for the Anal of

the World Speedway Championship at Wembley on Sept. 18.

Both scored eight points each last week to qualify.

*Jack" "Young"""Tang for West Iam, is the favourite to retain his world title, Reuter ——

Be Ready By Friday

For World Record Attempt

Inverness, Scotland, Sept. 16.-

John Cobb, an- Britain's 52-year-old speed, aco, nounced tonight that after "certain modifications" had been completed. his jet speed boat "Crusader" would be ready in a few days for an attempt to break the world water speed record on Loch Ness.

The boat is expected to bo ready on Friday and for the first the time time-keepers, from Motor Marine Ansociation will be

present to clock the runs over -the-mgaured-mile,

During previous high speed trials on the Loch last week,

Home Soccer Results London, Sept. 15,

when no official time-keepers Results of football were present, Cobb estimated that on two occasions he ex-matches played today were corded the existing world record of 178.4 miles per hour set last year, by Stan Sayres of the Unit

Rochdale ed Stater 1 A weakness on the forward Tranmere

coused the placing structure boat to be yanked out of the Ballymena water laat Saturday for an ex- Linfield

United Glantoran haustive examination,

· Press.

DIVISION III (North)

0 Southport 4 Bradford

4. Cuftonville 4 Bänger 4 Crusaders

--Reuter,

Ò

ULSTER CUP

Frankly I am surprised that this new use of the wingern regarded before the war as es- sentially attacking players

la

at

was

to

He said that "There would be human being. Redgrave's man- no better place to hold the 1960 ner, control, twitch or tighten-

ing of certain

in the muscles way of looking and Mr Brundage said that 17 cities face, his Games than in San Francisco."

in speaking proclaim flatness throughout the world had wi- ready put in applications for the the tremendous insight with 1060 Olymples, seven of which which this actor plays an ex-

ceedingly difficult part. are in the United States.

Himself a teacher at one time,

he Australia is scheduled to be Redgrave says

for from being a complete success. the host to the 1950, Games,

"California has always been a in fact he was almoet wholly stalwart supporter of amateur unsuited, temperamentally, sports, Mr Brundage said, "and the job: "I feel very deeply for man in The Browning ng State has contributed any the where near as many athletes as Version" for he is temperameri

the Olymple

to teaching too. unsuited to tally Calomnia

In only a far more profound Games."

The last Games in the United way than I ever was...Crocker-

would, in

happier States were held in Los Angeles. Harri

circumstances, have spent his life delving into the booka he loved and enriching the world with the scrupulously written results of his painstaking. search."

to

-United Press,

Rugger Results

10 Halifax

8. Blackheath

-Reuter.

TC..

As it was, "The Crock" was laughed at by his fellows, feared as The Himmler of the Lower V" by his pupils, and despised by 5 hla wife.

8

the same fashion as the centre- forward-hus crept into general,

London, Sept. 15. use ulmost unnoticed. It is, t

Results of Rugby Union think, a tactical alteration ale matches played today were: most as far-reaching as the Paignton D Clifton Austrians Introduction of Swansea roving centre-half-and perhaps Penzance and

Newlyn far more difficult to counter:.

against Our two matches Austria last season - one Wembley, one in Vienna-de- monstrated that the old Eng 1sh defensive system with

full-back negatived COVET ng

Austrian much of the pretty football after it reached the winger penalty area. But a starting a swift move in his own half of the field is a more dimeult proposition.

a

As we play it at Preston, the upfield Inside-forward moves

If Angua or myself should drop back. Frequently be leaves the behind wing-half opposing him. The task of a full-back becomes very, very difficult of once the winger gets hold the ball. As Mr Seed Bays- he is out of the game.

Next time you to on to the

whether terraces, watch outside man drops back when his side. Is defending. If he docs, study this Interering now

move.

the

He is forced to leave through I health, to take up a 5 strenuous position as tutor

„Backward Boys,

GARRISON PLAYERS

"BEFORE THE PARTY"

A PLAY IN TWO ACTS

BY

RODNEY ACKLAND

CASTING MEETING, MISSIONS TO SEAMEN, TOMORROW EVENING, 8 O'CLOCK.

ALL ARE WELCOME,

less

to

ment to come from across the the mind than the heart. But Atlantic', anyone who can“ RP-| stil a great comedian.

in British the best

Offstage, by the way, Hope, preciate

do well things would

to see like Danny Kaye, is a serious- **The Browning Version" It minded man. Being funny is no will not be with us for long.

—SUE DAWSON

laughing matter.

-WALTER HAYES.

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