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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1954,

WEEKEND

LOCAL SPORTS

THE CHINA

MAIL'S

TODAY'S RUGGER

SPORTING SAM

Army Meet Navy Today In

What May

Be The Deciding

Match Of The Pentangular

By “PAK LO”

This afternoon brings what should be one of the most exciting, and interest- ing games in the Pentangular, when the Navy meet the Army at 4.15 p.m. at top honours in the Pentangular Sookunpoo in what is actually the decider for Tournament,

The Navy start the favourites as they are so far unbeaten in the Tourna- ment, but the Army, who were rather a weak team when the Navy beat them in An upset. the first round, are now at full strength and they could easily cause That indeed is today's strong question. Can the Army do it?

2 other teams, The curtain raiser 01

of winning their pm, between the Club "13" games; mainly through stendy and the RAF Kai Tak, und will play. be followet by the Club versus the Pallee in the Penttingulur.

Both thes

Sooktapod,

times ar

In The main

the

The Army have made four

their teamer (WD also at changes in

the forwards and

the two in threequarters, In

threes the Kirbertson and Michle come in kame of after the Navy have made in place of Poyser and Bowen,

change J thei

team. and in the forwards the new- bigbog in Tulip as the wing

comers are Davey and Browning switching and thearter Snoth bark to his more mortal Jeplacing Gilson and Gunton. peition as a half

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This gives the Army forwards a bit more weight, but it is stijl The result As a very strong

not enough to push the Navy of of threes the ball. and fast looking set

It should therefor with pair of halves on whom

become battle royai belweʻz 1814 threes can depend for #

Eve and Owen for possession of The Rood and steady service.

the ball in the set scrums and Pack is us usual heavy

should give a fairly even result and should κίνη

with the Navy probably having worry

at very might advantage,

hard going. The Army plenty 10 phout.

the

The Navy team is on whole a well balanced team and while they never seem to shine

They

the particularly aomnying fmult, or so it seems to

their team

and If only their threes will take a leaf out of their forwards' book and tackle, pars and mark their men better, they can hardly lose. But this, alas, is unlikely.

The Club have switched Ross

the back inta

centre three-

and quarter position

brought Watson three line back

Turville up

as a half. to the

in returns and Arudeli is brought into the second row of the for- wards while the remainder re unchanged from last week.

The Club ness in the due for a meet

pack is the weak- team and they are surprise when they

Police the

who have markedly improved since the beginning of the season, while the reverse is true of the Club.

By Reg. Wootton

SATURDAY SOCCER SPOT

THE TIME HAS COME FOR A SENSIBLE ASSESSMENT

OUR SOCCER STANDARD

to

Says I. M.

MacTAVISH ·

OF

If there is a more thankless task than being a footballer in Hong- When they lose it is because they are kong then I have yet to find it. not good enough, and when they win it's because the opposition isn't good enough.

I believe that the time has come for some sensible assessment of our present standards and I further believe that this assessment should be measured along a modern yardstick.

#

Memories, like some wines, of his life when he realised the

with age.

but when clan of the Hongkong players. mellow

Then ww

visited by WICC taken in large doses they tend

vision when it is Koogo Boltclub and the history log the

and record of the team are too applied to things present. Without doubt the Club threes Let us review our current well known to require repealing tock tive are the faster and better, but it

here. However position soccer

against is doubtful whether the pack can

soccer trouble to have a long talk with of world panorama get the ball back to them loday and let us in the review the Hungarian coach who came to the Colony with the Danes. their take regard only of factors

His obervations were indeed work. This should be a battle of which we know to be firm,

inicinesting. Firet af add the de- the forwards and the Police The 'good-old days' and the minded me that Koege was cur- have the advantage in that. *used-to-be' have their place

in records

in cherished rent the leading sido in Den- mack: he reminded me too that memories, but they can have the Club's record against inter- no place in any material review | nationall oppreflion was very. of our present soccer position. good and that they, life Djur

bad beld

the mighty Dynamos to a single

enough to let them do have

NOTICE

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

Draft Programmen and Entry Forms for the 8th Race Meeting 1953/54 to be held on Saturday 27th February and Saturday 6th March, 1954,

weather permitting), may be obtained at the Secretary's Office, Alexandra House; the Club House, Happy Valley; and the Stables, Shan Kwong Rond.

Enteles close at 12 o'clock, NOON

Tuesday DIT

16th February. 1964.

By Order of the Stewards,

H. MISA,

The lineouts should niso be fairly evenly split, and so much will depend on the threequarter lines. Here the Navy have the advantage though not by much, but sufficient to let them win us

result, probably only a

by very tamall margin,

Should the Army win, the top place in the Pentangular will then be shared between these two teams as there is nothing to stop them from winning their remaining quota in this round. However, the Navy, with that slight udvantage throughout, should emerge the victory and eventually the Pentangular winners for this season.

CHANCE FOR POLICE

The Police tackling being what it is, once the Club threes get away they will find little to stop them and should have no trouble scoring. Although the Club will probably be the more fancied, either side could win. This will be a very close game with the Club barely winning.

British Athletes

kanden Moscow Fool

interest everybody. Here is the

full programme,

Today Shield Senior

Semi-final: Kitchee vs. Sing Tuo at Club ground. 3.45 pm,

Junior Shield Semi-final: CAA vs. Western at Club

ground, 2 PL

vs. St. Police Joseph's at Boundary Street, 4 p.m.; Navy vs Army'al Navy ground, 4 p.m.

1st Division:

Tourrow

PARADE

LEAGUE CRICKET

ARMY v. SCORPIONS THE MATCH OF AFTERNOON

THE

By THE “ZOMBIE”

Highlight of this week-end's Cricket League matches will be the Senior Division clash between Army and the Scorpions at Sookunpoo this afternoon.

Although this will be the first meeting between the two teams this season, it may well prove to be the deciding one. Both teams are leading contenders for the Sénior League title with Army enjoying, a 10-point, lend over the Scorpions, who were the winners last year.

With only four more fixtures: Their main hope of winning after this afternoon's match, this match will be plined on Army will be well assured of their bowlers, and unless the Championship should they Alexander, Withall

or Weir be able to score a decisive win, strike fcally top form the However, history may repeat Scarpions should come out with itself

in the form of the Scor- full points from this game, pions overtaking the soldiers në they

did last year in the final streich.

this

At Chater Road another good match should be seen between A victory for the Scorpions the Optimists, who stil "have afternoon will not only an outside chance of finishing reduce Army's lead to only six at the top of the League, and points but also put the soldiers | the RAF in a very shaky Best position on the League lable.

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The Scorpions will 111- doubtedly start ng favourites in the return match and draw by Army in any of their other three remaling matches -one

against Optimists and two against KCC will mean the end of all Army's hopes of achieving the "double" this season.

The Optimisis just managed io nverí defeat in their first meeting with the airmen at Kal Tak when they just held on to the last wicket for a meagre total of 62 runs.

Both teams have vastly. Im- provod since then and although the Optimists are expected, to: win on their home ground, the odda they enjoy on the airmen can be easily nullified by Stap- willpard or Horsham putting iri. AT outstanding performance with the ball.

A draw this afternoon be almost as good as a win for Army, but the style of play of both the soldiers and the Scor- plons makes this result extremo ly unlikely.

It should prove to be a grand match between two sides which are concentrating

on attack. With only the exception of Round: Campbell, every one of the Civilians Scorpion team

handed can be the ball.

Memorial

ist Cup, Kowloon Chinese vs.

at Club ground, 3.45 pm.

DID WELL

Recently a somewhat strengthened club side went to Australia and in a lengthy tour achieved a generous degree of AUCCESS against the strongest side that Australia could rülse, If we are to believe contempor- In fact, be impliest in a mubile ory writers there is much that way thai bơ thought this very football fact had had much to do with so it must be granted that our the unsebilled play of the team representatives did well,

who Jrad born ccidently advised that they would have no visitors todifficulty in winning. this season werd club from

He told me that he was eue- playing standard prised at our because it was very mahp.m better than he had been told to expect by those who had been here previously.

the Club and the Police wakes us

The 3.00 p.m. game between down with a bump to the other end of the Pentangular table. The Iron Curtain

Will Go Behind is good in Australian

Naturally enough, having been the RAF, the Secretary. Police have made no changes in

victorious over

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB SEVENTH RACE MEETING Saturday, 13th February 1954. (To be hold under the Rules of the Hong Kong Jockey Club) THE PROGRAMME WILL CONSIST OF 8 RACES

The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m. and the First Race rum at 2.00 1.m.

The Secretary's office at Alexandra House will close at 11.45

2.01.

MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE

British

side.

feam

26.

Jack Crump, manager, said that the party of athletes going to Kracow would

be a

oup

were

By

great 2

the heart

disappointed Frankly I was with the play of Koege and I was also disappointed with the

Bour

was

10

HOWARTH BACK

Wednesday Memorial Cup, 1st Round! Hongkong Chinéso vs. Combined

With Frank Howarth back in Services at Club ground, 3.45 the team in this crucial match, veteran Leach in top form with and Stanton, Knight Kitchee should climb over the the ball latest hurdle on their way to the and Woller making a strong final of the Senior Shield, Sing will

Sing second-line trio, the Scorplans Tao have done nothing in recent

take the feld with works to suggest that they can attacking line than Army's van- strong if not a stronger an W** hold the

men who conquered South China, but if Hau Yung- Pakenham, Walsh,

guard of Alexander, Bally, Weir and Fang can abdue the clover Ho Withall, Ching-tro then he might give the Tigers a possible chance to The absence of Dowling and pull off the unexpected,

also of Pargetter among the soldiers this afternoon will enhance

Scorpions ad-

consistent batting line-up with Peor

Stanton, Knight, Loach and Stokes all capable of passing the half- century mark.

It is very unlikely that Army

outbat their

opponents.

In the two League games down for decision it seems that Police

Cup

can

the

Cralgengower will not have too easy a task in their match against Navy on the King's Park pitch, short of bowlers as arc this afternoon. A they draw is the likely result..

Kowloon Cricket Club, "who will be guests of the University XX at Pokfulum, ebould back with full points and Re- crolo should experience little difficulty in forcing a win over the Indians at Sookunpoo.

TODAY'S GAMES Flest Division

Army v. Scorpions. Optimists v. RAF. Navy v, CCC. University v. KCC. IRC v. Recreio.

1

1- lagi ja

Second Division KGV v. Navy, DBS v. IRC.

Recreio v. University.

TOMORROW Second Division

Dockyard v. Army,' RAF v. Police.

Friendly match

KCC v. PWD.

MY BEST GOLF SHOT

This Gave Haliburton

A Record Round Of 61

First of Last week the Police won their frat game, and if their forwards

the Colony British athletes are to go the Djurgarden gan repeat their second half per- formance for the whole game | behind the Iron Curtain for Sweden. This team was rated they will upset the Club without the first time. They will among the best sides in Europe displays put up by Pegasus... and Army should collect further vantage of a steadier and more | much difrulty and shove them-

in a

and just previously had held selves a bit further up the table. compete

match at the Moscow Dynamos to a tight but I firmly believe that

at the

St factor points Kracow, Poland, on July 26 2-1 game before 80,000 specta-

expense of important predisposing and another at Bucharest, tors

these in

displays

the Joseph's and Navy respectively. ira Moscow.

Tomorrow's game in the first any strength of

the opposition put they Rumania, on September 24- standards

up by our representatives and 1 round of the Memorial believe too that both Pegasus between the Kowloon Chinese In their first game here our and Koege would have run riot and Civilians looks a good thing have the and nail toke Djurgarden if they had got for the Chinese who boys fought tooth

powerful KMB side to provide peg the visitors back to 2 goals-just half a chance.

Our boys did not give them the backbone of their team, small one-the Empira all, I, in common with many that chance and for that they Games will be taking place in I have been the anal score but are duc all the credit that can others, frei that that would

Actually it looks very much Vancouver at the end of July for the now

Our teams like being an all-Chinese Final but there would be a big team

famous offside be given to them.

are better-much better-than for it would a real surprise of men

And women visiting goal that knocked

many

for everyone if the Combined would have us believe. Bucharest,

out of our team....and changed The past is the past, and for Services managed to overcome the whole outlook of our better or for worse, it must the Hongkong Chinese next The British Amateur Board players to the other games of remain 50, The present, as for Wednesday, says that because of the Empire the series.

Zoccer affairs are con- The duration of all games in Gomes in Vancouver (July 31-

Next came Pegasus, A same cerned, is not without is the Senior Shield and in the August 7) and the European that stands for everything that

moments of both

satisfaction Memorial Cup will be 90 minutes Championships at Berne (August

best in Amateur football in and success, but like others and an extra 10 minutes each 25-29) no fuliscale international England..... club with a re- feel some concern for the way will be played in any of match for men will be under-cord that is almost without future.

the games that end in a draw, .Tom Haliburton, Wentworth golf professional, look- taken by the Board this year. equal in all the history of the Our football is crying out for

ing back on his second last stroke in his British tourna game. Before coming to Hong-

Week's Talking Points: expert coaching of our younger This International matches

for kong Pegasus had been playing players, and for common sense

(1) I suggest that our foot ment record round of 61 at Worthing, says "that must have been my greatest shot." women, however,

ballers should now be given a are being well and since their return they from the fans. negotiated with Yugoslavia, have again shown all the class

chance to pit their skill against Hungary and Czechoslovakla to and akili that has made them

It is useless on one hand to teams in

The round was followed by a other parts of the

"This was the shot I accOER- take place on September 12, a household name in England.

say that we have no youngsters world, and I suggest that the 65 for a world record of 126. plished. My, ball October 3 and 4, and October G

-pitched. be ready to all the places of our local Football Association "My drive," he went on, "had youd the bunker, near specta- and 7 respectively.

Who they

ageing stars, and on the other should give serious consideration been cut. The ball was in semi-tors on the back, then sweetly chemy to stay away from games that to a pian to send a fully pre rough on the crest of a hill, on rolled down to did not cath the heights thus

within tares do not feature the we had expected from them.

old,sentative side on a well organised the wrong side for the approach yards of the pin. familiar and They failed to show the fighting faces.

Justly popular

30. the tour. After our success agating the green on the right-hand

green. A bunker guard

I sand the butt for a three. spirit that had twice taken them

Bock to Wembley and in this failure

corner was on the line of play There is an old saying 'What Pegasus and Koogo our

spectators "Some s

thought that we have to learn to do, we learn abroad has rise to altogether an awkward angie, the shot was an accident. I was we took account of their long by doing,. Our

cover should not be impossible, youngsters

"I could not pitch straight at fully aware, however, of i what Journey, the hand grounds, this iight ball and even the strange

must learn the rudiments (2) Is the deliberate missing the green because the chances had to be done. I wanted to

skulis but

that Sucroundings

lend how and

12 of a pernity kick really good were that the ball would not be certain of staying on the Qittle

of tho

credit for these stardom......and then they sportsmanship..... and is it fair stay on

green and getting down in two verty ordinary! dispinya was must learn how to use them into the other members of a

a team

putts, given to the ability of our the correct environment...that for one man to pass bla own

JUST RIGHT

"It so happened that I holed players to play the opposition is in big time football.

judgment on an award given to "My experience in playing the th one. If the ball hd hot off their rinČLIVER BORITIC.

Als ride? We saw this happen hole was that. If one pitched. the finished near the pib twice last week and I know that ball on to the right bank, past not have set there are many who oppose the the bunker it would kicks down record." view that such a gesture is a to the basin keen. But the mark of sportsmanship

strength of the shot had to be what do you think about it? Just right,

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SURPRISE OF HIS LIFE

WEEK-END GAMES Football fans have a very In a thic I had with one of mixed bag for their entertain tire Pegtimis players he tour, moment this week-end and it seeme that he haut got the surprise of that there will be something to

POP

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