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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1954,

By Reg. Wootton

WEEK-END SOFTBALL

To

China's Chances Retain International Trophy Not Bright

By

"SNOOPER”

China's chances to retain the International softball trophy are not regarded as being particularly bright when the cream of the Chinese ballplayers face a power- ful Portugal squad in the only ball game on Easter Sunday commencing at 2,30 p.m. at King's Park,

This is not to discourage the Chinese softballers but simply a reminder that in pitcher Jackle Wel China can be assured of an excellent moundaman fur just four inuings and that We can be depended On to play his

part.

Wel has revealed a devastat- Ing spred

his deliveries

stages of

during the early

Saints string of victories in the League to regain their Senior "A" Pennant.

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SATURDAY SOCCER · SPOT

THE GAME FOR THE GAME'S SAKE-ABOUT A LEADER AND ABOUT A TEAM

By I. M. MacTAVISH

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My Easter offering is a mixed affair for I have two very varied stories to tell. One concerns a big man ...... the other is the tale of a very little team,

The big man is the Chairman of the Hongkong Football Associa- tion, guide-in-chief to many other sporting organisations, counsellor and friend to football and footballers in this Colony Jack Skinner.

Joseph's cross

In the many years he has spent in Hongkong, Mr Skinner has never ceased his crusade for the betterment of sport in general and football in particular. It is difficult to assess his material and abstract contributions down through the years and it is still more difficult to realise that this wonderful soccer servant is all too soon to sever his connection with what has been almost his life's work. Yes, Jack Skinner is leaving | games, lost 18, drawn i, goals | Stadium, St. Hongkong. He is retiring to against 97, and point (5) 1, swords with Eastern. This is a the United Kingdom and when but never absent never inte. meeting of two teams who have he told me of his decision he

д I doff the MacTavish topper had

most disappointing made it clear that it had been to this grand bunch of players | taken only after long and care. ful consideration and able.

It must have been a week! tough decision to make.

SEVERELY PRUNED

season.

. May you ruin my story The Suints, with their ever irrevoc- by going out and winning this growing contingent of Army players, are apt to strike form und cause a surprise but this With the Colony Interport locks like being a victory for

Eastern. Both action at Singapore, team in

teams have A the 1st Division

their programme lot of talent in

Ilne-up seasons reverely pruned this week- and it either or both ran and

their lost form the game provide good entertalument for

spectatora,

PI the

has been very happy here and he has of

the course

ecep

to beat the Rookies in the open- Maumnus

plans.

He hos

Ane Acen

new stadlums rise in our midst. Ic

Mr Skinner plans to sail in Even the most ardent supporters of the Chinese team are merely hopeful,

December and it is indeed hard rather than confident, that China can earn a victory in a nine-inning game.

to appreciate that this will be his lost Kuli BOCCER medios of the Braves and

among us. Arturo Ozorio of the Saints

I know thpt he will not con- should

the pave

way to 0 sider it a berly

when I say Portuguese victory.

that he made it clear that he Pedruco is expected to per-

JUNIOR KNOCKOUT form creditably and a victory

feels deeply about the Impend- The semi-finals of the Junioring break with the Colony. Ile should boost his prospects of Knockout Tournament will b being selected the Most played on Saturday. The Valuable Player of the Year.

Another prominent player ingers, in their quest for

Championship, Bry favoured fruition of many of his biggest the Portugal team is catcher ball game, but is inclined to fali | Cuscus Souza of the Warriorsing game while the by the wayside towards

bus the who

demonstrated his should start strung favourites inter junctures of a tight game. prowess in this position for

over the Chinese Athletic has seen the Colony elevated to He For Portugal, i will be ahis team in League games.

true,

International status. Ameult

break Portugal's elders, compris- Jindoo Hussain, chairman has done a grand job and well through the tight fielding of the ing mus

mosily

Braves members, of the Dance Committee, in may be bask in the satisfaction Chinese Belders in frit baseinain are capable of matching the

formed the writer

task well done. yesterday of a C. M. Thank. Recond baseman Chloese and much will depend

that all-out

preparations Lo

hope in due time to K. T. "Rabbit" Leung third on firat basemen Colau make this year's Annual Pre- allowed to review something of baseman Wally Mo and short-

Yvanovich,

third baseman sentation Dance the biggest the work Mr Skinner has in- stop Y. S. Ling.

Junior Remedios and shortstop and best ever are under way. spired and encouraged, and 1 Robert Nunes of the Braves In The Anatal Dance will be held hope also to be able to write this till.

at the Peninsula Hotel on May something of his personal rc- 8 and tickets are now available miniscences af soccer during Council the years he has been In the

Colony

Lask

The Infielders should be well supported by such prominent outfielders us Lee Poon-hong of the Chinese Athletic Assocla- tlon, who is unquestionably the best centre-fieldur in local soft- ball this season, and L. C. Poon of South China.

Association second stringers.

The International Final should result in a clash of but-from team managers, ling

Prominent strength. Chinese batters are C. M. Tsang and P. C. Wong of the Chinese Athlete Association, Y. S.

Outstanding player for the Liang, S. S. Hau and Wally Mo Portuguese team is pitcher Vie of the Pondas. Pedruco, the moundimau who For Portugal, Culuu was mainly responsible for the Yvanovich and Junilor Re-

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB TENTH RACE MEETING

Saturday 10th April & Saturday 17th April, 1954. (To be held under the Rules of the Hong Kong Jockey Club) THE PROGRAMME WILL CONSIST OF 22 RACES The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 pm on the 1st Day and the First Race run at 2 p.m.

On the 2nd Day the First Bell will be rung at 11.30 p.m. and the First Race run at 12.00 Noon, The tifin intervai is after the Fourth Race (1.30 p.m.).

MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE MEMBERS ARE INFORMED THE 1954 SETS OF MEMBERS BADGES AND LADIES' BROOCHES NOW SUPERSEDE THE PREVIOUS ISSUE.

members and the Dance Coni- milter.

There will be novelty shows and Jitterbug and Mambo dance contests. Admission will be $10, including dinner, per head.

Won

Long Putt

£300 For

Bernard Hunt

I

be

will

Mr Skinner's departure give rise to many problems. Il has often been said that no man is indispensable, but however true that axiom may be, there can be no doubt that, in this

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case, It is dimcult to spot natural successor.

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HIS wide knowledge of international sport, his naturally tranquil temperament, and above all, his unswerving belief in fair play for all sportsmen irrespective

or creed, of race will make him a most difficult man to replace in our local organisations.

CLOSELY LINKED

end.

At the Club Stadium this afternan Patice will

provide the opposition to Club and both sides were at full strength this could be a first class game. Beth wili, however, have en-

but forced changra,

even ut that the spectators should get un interesting encounter,

that th It is good to see

the

could

INDIAN VISIT Next week we shall be wel- coming the members ol the Inalan Aslan

Games teom wulch

Is having

of A series matches here en route to Maniin. This should be a most

Club has stopped the experinteresting series and the lost-i

rank-

public will look forward to menting with Gardner and it with picamite, but I

confess that the composition of Falconer gets the anme

the All-Hongkong and Hon- kong Selection

teans has me guessing, and from conversa-

Mr Jack Skinner

he is in the half ng when back line, but neither In his natural element when the post- tions are reversed.

Alons I have had with others it is obvious that I am not the only one who fails to see the reasoning behind some of the selections.

The biggest argument con- cerns Chan Fai-hung and Tong Sheung. In recenį games Chan Fai-hung has generally been the

half-back outstanding

aftelo. Against Macao and against Great Britain Chan played delightful football

and in both these Bones Tong. Sheung was right olf form as he has also been in several club games.

But Tong Sheung is retained In the AU-Jongkong side while Chan Fal-hung, after all his good work

Unds himself in the Hongkong selection or, in what Is really the second team.

Last Sunday Lau Yee in the China side was completely over- shadowed by Wells in the Great Britain eleven, but Lau Yee is in the top team for the Indian series and Wells finds himself in the Selection.

to

Bernard Hunt, leading

The Police side with Wake- money winner and Ryder Well that Is my uncheerful feld, Moss, Hughes and Riley

Now let me make this clear, The Secretary's Office at Alexandra House will close at 11.45 Cup player at 23 last season, Easter story of a great man, provide a powerful backbone

the a.m. on the 1st Day and at 10 am, on the 2nd Day.

does not feel spectacular now here is my tale of a little are capable of giving the best I am not quibbling about

basic abilities of these players and in its way it of teams a run for their money shots helped him in his team major win at Worthing

is. in principle at least, closely and against a re-arranged Club or suggesting that one is funda- linked with the first story for it side they could vory easily mentally better than another, his break-through into top- is the sort that Mr Skinner him- come out on top.

but I am saying that current rank golf, writes

Much will depend on whether form rather than past roputa. James self would like to tell. It is a Goodfellow.

simple tale of playing the game the new Club half-backs line lon is surely the criterion in Hunt's policy that day: "Just for the game's salce, and it con- knits together. If there are any making particular choices ..... knocking the ball around, seek- cerns the team that is right at gaps the Police will find them or

the bottom of the Third Division even without Au Chi-yin. of the League, the Star score of 273 (09, 80, 88, 70) and

Tomorrow, also Ferry. the £300 first prize.

It is all too usual for sporte "Perhaps my best and most writers to confine their activities effective hot in that tourna- to the successful competitors in ment," recolls Hunt, "WOS R any competition but I have had long pult for a 3 at the 17th my attention drawn to the par- hole after I had sunk a curlyticular circumstances concerning putt for a 4 at the 18th to gain the Star Ferry team and I feel -like my informant-that it is a story worth telling.

NO PERSON WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED. All persons MUST wear then badges prominently displayed throughout the meeting.

Admission Badges ut $10.00 each per day are obtainable throughing my figures." The result: A the Secretary on the written or personal introduction of a Member, zuch member to be responsible for all visitors introduced by him.

Tiling will be obtainable at the Club House if ordered in ad- vance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 72811).

NO CHILDREN will be admitted to the Club's premises during the Meeting. For this purpose a Child is a person under the age of seventeen years, Western standard.

PUBLIC. ENCLOSURE

The price of admission will be $3.00 each per day payable at the Gate.

Any person leaving the Enclosure will be required to pay the requisite ice of $3.00 in order to gain re-admission.

MEALS AND REFRESHMENTS wil be obtainable in the RESTAURANT,

SERVANTS

Servants must remain in their employer'a boxes except for passing through on their duties. They may on no account use the Betting Booths in the Members' Betting Hall,

CASH SWEEPS

The cost of a Through Ticket in $44.00. Particular numbers within the series 1 to 4,000 may be re- served for all race meetings as Through Tickets. Such tickets will be issued consecutively only and the right is reserved by the Stewards to cancel any reservation for Through Tickets for a particular Meeting If it is found that sales may not reach the num- ber reserved in the series 1 to 4,000.

Tickets reserved and available but not paid for by 10, a.m. oa the day preceding the Race Meeting for which they are reserved will be sold and the reservation concelled for future Meetings.

Tickets over 4,000 will also be issued consecutively but par- ticular numbers cannot be reserved as Through Tickels.

The reservation of any particular number does not confer on the registered “holder any" rights whatsoever unless the ticket bearing the appropriate number is issued to and can be produced by the holder.

The Stewards reserve the right to refuse any subscription also the right to remove any name" from subscription lists without stating reasons for their action,

Cash Sweep Tickets on the last race of the 1st Day (10th Apell) at $2.00 each máy be obtained from the Cash Sweep Omeer at Queen's Building, (Chster Rond), 5, D'Agullar Street and 382 Nathan Road, during normal office hours and until 11 a.m. on that day.

Tickets for the Special Cash Sweep on the Hong Kong Derby scheduled to be run on 8th May, 1954, are now available. The cost of each ticket is $2.00.

TOTALISATOR

Backers are advised not to destroy or throw away their tickets until after the “all clear" signal has been exhibited.

ALL WINNING TICKETS AND TICKETS FOR REFUNDS MUST BE PRESENTED FOR PAYMENT AT THE RACE.COURSE ON THE DAY TO WHICH THEY REFER, NOT LATER THAN ONE HOUR AFTER THE TIME FOR WHICH THE LAST RACE OF THE DAY HAS BEEN SCHEDULED TO BE RUN.

PAYMENTS WILL NOT BE MADE ON TORN OR DIS FIQURED TICKETS.

Bookmakers; The Toe men, efc. will not be permitted to operate within the precincts of the Hong Kong Jockey Club,

By Order at the Stewards,

HAMISA

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"I was not concerned what

Here are the bold facts, This other players were doing, just team

has played week after S. AFRICA/S. AMERICA' LINE playing, my own game, and no week since the start of the one told me Jack Hargraves season and, believe

88. "CANADA MARU” 20th April It or not, wan on my heels. (He finished they haven't won a single game with

a total 275.)

In fact up to last week they 6.8. "SEIKO MARU” “My run-up shot at the 17th

had only one point to their was short. The bail stopped on credit. At the same time they RANGOON/CALCUTTA LINE the front of the green, about 13 have lost almost to 15 yards from the pin.

a century of goals, and I won't embarrass the players by mentioning how few 8.8. "AWA MARU” they have managed to score.

"My main idea was to roll it up to the hole, but it was struck truly and went in.

"This, as it turned out, settled But the great fact is that this has never jibbed at its my winning of the £300 first team prize. I could have taken a commitments; it has gone on instead of 3.

hoping that maybe next week (Hargreaves and Haliburton, will see a victory. The players chasing Hunt,

were bunkered have often been on shift work

at the 17th.)

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