HAVING USTENED TO OUR ∙FAVOURITE
SOCCER
EVER
SINCE THE ENGLAND
Mark my words, there HUNGARIANS W fear Elyland apart
at Wembley
V. IRELAND MATCH
WE THOUGHT
THE WEEK-END
TILL
WE
HUNGARY LONLY DRAW
WITH SWEDENS
SOCCER NEWS
WOULD STILL HIS VOKE BELOW THE CHIRPING OF OUR SPARROW
Mark my words, It's just a COMMUNIST PLOT to
lullus into a sense of false security
AjULYETT.
MET HIM LAST NIGHT
NORMAN REYNOLDS WINS MOTOR CYCLE GYMKHANA
ON ROYAL ENFIELD
The winner of the Motor Sports Club's Motor Cycle Gymkhana, held last Sunday morning on the old Japanese Golf Course at Shatin, was Norman Reynolds, riding a 350 c.c. Royal Enfield "Bullet," with 39 points to his credit.
Second was II. E. "Qulto" Hyndman, 34 points, on a 350 c.c. Douglas "Eighty-Plus", and Dave Bottomley,
500 e.e. BSA.. "Twin," came third with 20 points.
For the next event four Most events were run off in
three heats of two or
con- wooden pegs were sel in the testants at a time, followed by around at 10 foot intervals be
final. Finnt placings
course
Test"
21
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1953.
DESMOND HACKETT, THE SOCCER SPY, VISITS BUDAPEST
London, Nov. 13.
Chuckling lightheartedly, well almost lightheartedly, about such careless talk ns from curtaing, salt minihg and the like, this crisp cold morning should find me air- barne. The man says, "Report air terminal 6.20 a.m."
The destination Is Budapest for the Hungary v. Sweden match on Sunday (November 16).
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This is Hackett the Soccer Spy grimly determined to find the good reasons why Hungary are Olympic Football champions and why they are unbeaten for the Inst two years.
There will also be Hackelt! Ther we were
ber 25,
After
elementary lessons
constantly things that go to make up a the England football fan, an-nudged from 0.30 al night until complete footbaner. xlously hoping to and some miserably distant 6-a.m. when- possible reason why Hungary we pulled into Vienna. should ncl wipe the Wembly Every time 1 Was A now floor with England on Not
Novem uniform-there was green, grey, brown, and navy-and once, The Hungarian methods, I am around 3 am, on that sleepless assure, are no closely guarded secrets. The rough schedule, inning, we had the incredible sight of a fut civilian in Tyrolean "rigorous training. all-round out returning a pasipott which physical and intellectual netivity.nd disappeared several stations nnd constant medical control. back.
men
Hungarian FA Pre
Zandor
plays every" lough Third
there is an advanced night retool to cover the weeks when the anime is Enowed off, Hamrin, a 19-year-old outside right, has. already graduated from night
International honours. school to
Ragland must bring back men like Raynor, and pump youthful, netive Ideas into footballs s
The Football Association also needs more
the Jike JOLLY DAY
necas LIKE A GAME Conch Jeno Kalmar, who
He looked improperly dressed
who trained the
Olympic 1952
this winners, reckons that
without a revolver or a tommyknows what the game is all is
about because he the thing to make up aqun. Just
Money checkCustoms week in
the jolly day of training:---
MORNING: Cross -countryron
frontier guards--passports again
Division. ... racing and forest lours,
money cheek. It seemed like AFTERNOON: Team as keep me from falling into the some evilly Inspired game to
HE SHOWS THEM to Improve bail technique, team
like that hung sa
Men
Gustav Saber, work and polishing the style.
icop
Minister of Sport and Hungary's EVENING: Tuelle discussions, my eyes.
selection commitice. onu-man 60 draga," "Drogs,
18 which
endlessly pondered well-known to one and all ir selectors, Internationals, Succes He does not tell his players-he hows them. At 60 he still puls they happen to be Hungarians, cam and the like.
old track sult
and means "dear, dearph
I pondered over George Ray-on his dcar dear."just think of the Faiks nor, Sweden's national team sergeant-majors the training.
York- These things are still possible If some of our pampered players conch; a little wisp of a were asked to hip back smartly hireman who had never had an this picasant land of England. for an afternoon spell of train-coaching lesson
his
The Football Association ha lite; log.
whose only language was the money to spare to put on a high- youth wouki be
pressure programme for up to the broad Yorkshire dialect. office with more Yet he has bullt Sweden into training. speed than they ever revealed team that in their last two The present system is earnest, on the playing Bel
mutches have held Spain and but it is not good enough; nor the
then Hungary to drawn gunes. Is it big enough.
Surely somewhere in these Conch Raynor is building n
They's.
At Southport, where England team relaxed before
years.
In
tiredly on
on
toke
pulting on Its siesta Soccer new generation of footballers football Isles there are young. chour
agains Ireland, light-for Sweden with a plan that vigorous mon propared to hearted, Jet's-have-lots-of-fun takes in the boys from 12 to 15 over.
lek-about and pleasant strolls seemed to complete the pre- mutch plan.
No forest tours, no cross- It is n training scheme which country, no tactic talks, Only rewards the student with bronze, yesterday afternoon I
was silver, and gold medals. calmly told that there was no The schedule covers 16 items plan of campaign buld down willch give the boys most of the
for Englund teams,.
CAN'T CHANGE
The volco of the Football declared: "The Association players can't change their nor mal style for one game, They, try to get the measure of each ulher's play as they go along.
Bluntly, England are the plapless players, they make it up as they go along.
Please do not come the old gag that after all, old chap, this is only a game of Soccer.
the fore each contestant and an If you saw, as I have seen,
Lor
WDA
Race"
which
a close
their
thecals.
frightening,
re
t
MEDALS SCHEME
our the burden which
statesmen of respected elder Soccer have carried so loyally and so long..
Let us have these revisions before our Soccer, which
strokes, losing the old raaster becomes completely run down.
(Lendon Express Service)
Is
Man Is One Soccer Worth 5 Cricketers
SO INSURANCE POLICIES
By BRUCE HARRIS
.
SAY
Len
meeting were decided an an empty bucket was placed at his the fanatien crowds of South overall points basis.
side. The pegs had to be America, the Continental hordes
If, by an unlikely and deplorable calamity, by the with About 12 motor cyclists come gathered individually by the to the starting line for the first contestant and returned to thegimented chants, their pleading Hutton, cricket captain of England, were to crash during the glory er his coming air trip to the West Indies, what would his. of the five events. This was a bucket in the minimum of time. and "Wingle-Woggle
This event was full of theils victory and the deep sorrow of life be worth in £ s. d.? which five stakes were set upQuito" Hyndman,
and spills, and
and the winner, defeat, you would at last realise
Not so much, by a long way, as that of Billy Wright, well that this is a matter of national captain of England at soccer football, if we compare the In line at regular intervals on a
urse about
20 yards long, applauded by spectators for his prestige,
The Soccermen of England official insurances of the two. Competitors were required to well-earned victory in the final.
Hyndman
The need a hefty kick in their satin also netted negotiate their way on alternate
More cross-country
and
"Here" are" two sets of policies, |--Let me.return to the_original sides of the stakes to the end most points, although not quite penis.
leas
over cross-lalk to displace Norman
snooker as revealed to me by MCC and question. Is Len Hutton worth less than Billy Wright in the and retern In con of the course
In enough
be the deter-the Football Association.
£3,500 10 £20,000? similar fashion
to the
10
start.
Reynolds's aggregate, when he tables should
Cricketers--For each player ratio The manoeuvre WOR calized output up the best performance in mination of every mannger.
NO MATCH
on the West Indies trip, a life Well, I ask any cricketer.
-(London. Express Service) "Obstacle against
the stop-watch, and the
London, Nov. 17, polley of £500 for travel risks, £3,000 points were lost for touching brought the meeting to a
about 300 'There is 210 place in the plus another polley of any
stake. Best performance For this a course
long was sol over the world for a spot of pondering for accidental death or serious whether. Ulio here was put up by Dave Bot
and water-logged that can match up with. the permanent
cricket tomley when, in the final, hillocks
the erstwhile
to result golf night train from Budapest Norman Reynolds stalled on the bunkers of
Although
have Vienna, You
no other risks, or any other form of ac- proving loo
In addition,
£30 line and Geaf Arnold (Ariel course.
for not more week
than 52 1000)
slot the half-way much for some, the course was choice but to ponder when the cident.
maaf to look rearlably ensy Hoopte's Parly placed you in a
payable weeks,
(through the turning point.
side only and insufficient room correct on) using the cautiously
your was full of surprises, amount
legs
..play after arrival home. of power at the right to but the performance of Triumph-
Sonnent about as private i as Binckpool promenade mounted E.L.
the Cola in
Thus ended the three-hour August Bank Holiday. heats marked him as the likely
He meeting, which thanks to the winner
from the moment
urganisation enthu notic
anai..
yards
of
The Slow Race" which fol- competitors who preceeded compartment with seats on one county club) for inability to
lowed
In this event competi-
by
time.
of
Footballers (for their South on American World Cup Journeys of 1950)-A policy of £20,000
"PLAY BALL!” APPEAL TO 22 POWS
Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 23. The 22 American prisoners in Korea who have refused to be repatriate had an alluring offer today from the Director of the Indlang baseball Cleveland
Unite! The People's Party was Going for each man£15,000 for his leum, Mr Myron Wilson.
to the "Come back in the starting line in the Geof Arnold, together with theme favour in getting me
club and £5,000 for his next-of- that
guarantee you a Stales and have this train at all. I wish
kin. These gums would of Bob Harper, favour had passed me by. able assistance
Job at your favourite sport, tors were required to negotiate Stan Francis, and others, pro- Before the asthmatic monster been payable for death or per-
baseball." Mr Wilson has wril- corridorde
vided. grand entertainment for
tén personal letters to this effect of a rain had recovered from manent Injury.
Now why should Len Hutton, to each of the 22 prisoncra,-.
ม
nurrow 20-yard
without touching the marker- the many spectators, as well as its first coughing bout of energy tapos or selling foot to ground. the contestants. The longest time for the course It is earnestly hoped that as and moved slowly off into the Godfrey Evans, Denis Campton, France-Presse.
netled most points.
"RIDING THE LINE“
was
n
more
night, Siberian-cold
the
the SOC
a
visitors and Trevor Bailey be worth · so result
extremely started to look in. this
much less on paper-than Billy successful meeting
motor That was only 24 hours Wright, Alt Ramsay, Ted Ditch-Russians To Attend cycling enthusiasts will as- carlier it secans more like burn and Roy, Bentley?
Boxing Congress "Niding-the-line"
the sociale themselves with the 24 days. First there was
collector asking to tille adopted for the third event, Motor Sports Club, and that
First, obviously, because
Moscow, Nov. 231). in which contestants had to ride will be possio,e to organize even coarse-paper ticket. That was football club has a strong pro-
Soviet delegation will for say. ambitious meetings between two tapes, set on the
the prietary interest in its £30,000- the more ground about nine inches apart, their beneat in the near future. Next, a heavily-armed Russian transfor-value players. Three attend the Congress of
Federation of to the end of the coure and Members are reminded that queued to third degree my times as much goes to the club, International return between the tapes to the an extraordinary general meet passport.
in
any Paris shortly. It was announced right? I leave it to starting ing Norman thing of the Club will be held at I told one guard I had been to act as to a man's wife. Is Amateur Boxing to be held in here today that the delegation had frequently
8p.m. on to the football match an Buda- reader's judgment. reuclics the Anus in palous Thursday, November 28, io da cost to send and asked,
Secondly, almost equally ob-will be composed of M. Dmitriy
M, Smolin,
Alexis Katouliny events without ablaining on cusa tho prospects of developing "Football?" His stern-faced vlously, the risks of cricket are ultimate win, finally managed a Club speelpl-compelltion car. partner frowned; the smile is far less than those of football. and M. Alexander Nolle, who az interpretere 10 carry the laurels in this All members are urged to at-appeared, and the pair marched Seldom, indeed, does a cricketer will act
France-Presse. do himself permanent damage. event,
tend.
THE GAMBOLS
FSIMPLY MIST BET MYSELF'A. WHY! GEORGEÁ LOOK NEW BELTO
KES YOUTA
TUDIY HUBBY?]
WE - MAKE FOUNDATION
GARMENTS FOR MEN TOO
Barry
DIADS KYE
FROZE
CARRUTHERS v. GAULT
Jimmy Carruthers conics in under a straight left from "Pappy" Gault and connects with a left uppercat in "the course of their World Bantamweight Championship tille fight at the Sydney Sports Ground on November 13.
Carruthers connects with a straight right and prepares to throw a left,
Carruthers declared the winner on points. Ilis eye was bandaged whilst the judges conferred on the decision. -- Australian Photographic Agency Pictures.
Singapore To Adopt A Strong Stand At Asian Games Meeting
Singapore, Nov. 24.
The Singapore Olympic and Sports Council will fight any move by the Asiah Games Fedotation to quit the International Olympic Council at the December & meeting
of the Federation In Manila, it was learned today.
BAM Official Says
Peng-soon “Expelled Himself"
Kuala Lumpu, Nov. 24. Wong Peng-soon, world unofficial Badminton Cham¬ pion, who is currently on an unauthorised tour of For mosa, has "oxpolled him- self" from Malayan badmin- ton, it was declared yester day by a top badminton official.
The Malayan Badminton As- sociation President, Mr. Henh Joo-seang, said the Association would not take punitive-action against Wong because he has already punished himself and has expelled himself from future competition in Malaya".
The President added, "Ot course Peng-soon is at liberty to leave the fold: But, why should he, as the world's un- official Champion, quit thus?":"
"Amateurism is in art of rondering service for no rny- ment," continued Mr Teah. "At the same time, it means having to comply with all sorts
rules
and of
regulationa Usis
Perhaps
too high a prito to pay for Peng-soon.
The Badminton Association will take up Wong's case for discussion next week-end when it meets in Ipoh, it was learne reliably...
Com
Association Standing milico membero yesterday generally agreed that, by with drawing from, the BAM, Wond Had "outlawed himself from
And future Malayan
State tournaments.United Press,
CAPACITY CROWD-
Talpot, Nov, 43,
A capacity crowd of 8,000 spectators Jammod the Armed Forces Stadium here last night to see the Malayan unofficial of the badminton champion world, Wong Peng Soon, in de
Wong, displaying somethin of the form which gained him the world title three times, boat F. L. Cheng, runner-up in the world championship, by 19-12 and 15-11ewALESTRANN
At a private meeting of the tend the special meeting of, the In another exhibition match, Singapore Olympla Sporta Asian Games Federation on Hongkong beat Taipei in Council Jasight, it was de Doc 5 and 6 in Manlio, double game by 15-12 and 10- cided to oppose any move to 131 DReuter, break away from-the-100-and The Singapore representative notice was given that Singapoto is expected to oppose any move may debido to quit the AKun to limb the Asian Games to Games Federation, moet certainly will fight the car a persons of Adan birth only and
move succorul,
such
FA CUP RE-PLA
The SQSC will send its clusion of residents of dependers London, Nove Honorary Secretary; Mr Strick-ent toestories which would Janit, Singapore 4.2 Olymple disqualify Singapore's athletes,
Muskwall, defeated United-Din the @AVClips ES round" replay (tomisy
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