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THE CHINA MAII; SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

LAWN BOWLS LEAGUE SEASON REACHES ITS PENULTIMATE STAGE

By “TOUCHER”

The 1954 Colony Lawn Bowls League season reaches its penultimate stage with this afternoon's matches. Both the First and Second Division Champions have been practically decided though there still remains a re- mote possibility of their being overtaken at the finishing line.

In the First Division, Recreio “Blues", who have no match this week-end, have only to take 21⁄2 points from Kowloon Bowling Green Club in their last League Axture to retain the League title for the third year in succession,

the Bowling Club the ludingų against Hongkong; bowls wil furnish a #pocial nt the bowlers repeat their 3-2 victory Football Club. The number of attraction tomorrow

team Kowloon Bowling Green Club over the "Blues" in this game, points gained by either Kowloon Cricket Club will be the afternoon will have an im- when one of the semi-Goals of slender chance portant bearing on the destins the Colony Txiples Champion- lon of the League title, which 1 ship is due to be played off, an inclined to belleve wijl starting at 4 p.m. Bratly go to the Indians.

afforded

1

treing with the holders, but will have to collect maximuun points

not only their match again Kowloon Deck today but hiso In then wemaining match against Titan Recreation Club,

In the Second Division, ding Recreation Clubs need only remaining ux prints Lex their Two matches aguunat KROC and KOT, La be out of range of any

f the other tennis.

The only threat will 6-137778 from (rogeogower Cricket Club who, with tener matches still lo

go fan-although it's very - Itkcly-

Now

Division

This will

be

It is learned that the postpon- the other of quarter-final in brackot of this event between Joc

Luz, Johnny Lux, Raoul Ribeiro and Joo Meyer, W. Mc- Call and A. Ramsey will also be played off at the KCC green on the same day.

tho between An Interesting feature of this current holders, Jack Chubb, year's League spason is the ex-Tommy Baker and Bull Hong tremely close compeition among Silag and D. B. Sequeira, D. C. In the different First

League rinks for top honours in Symons and F. R. Kermani the skip table,

No fewer than four rinks are

tled

for the top position and the will: 015 points cach up and downs of these

Finks skippet by T. E. Baker, Johnny Bui Hong Bing, and Ribeiro, Joe Landolt in their remaining out, matches will provide added in- should the Sookumpoo tenni falterest to the remaining fixtures. One feat worthy of mention pointed twin two matches, is that of skip C. Roza Pereira, Only the Bord Division title who originally skipped a rink seems to be still open and here in the Recreio "Whites"

winters. ifte

elther be and was then transferred to the or Indium Reerra, Recreio "Blues." Filipisse Col tion Club The Filipino bowlers] Roza Pereira has won all his now enjoy a 22-point land over | eight matches to attain the only their rivan, who, however, havej 100 per cent record this sesZON one put in hand

Both these top tantenders w. and with only one match to go be in betion this afternoon-ems likely to be able Fulpine Club against KCC a

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Recreio Blues (byv)

Second Division Recreio v. USRC

TC v. HKCC

HKFC v. KCC

PRC v. CCC

KBGC v. IRC (Postponedj Third Division

KCC v FC

1C v. HKFC

Clubs Will Release

England

Men

For Training

By

BOB PENNINGTON

Top League clubs have agreed to release players for Walter special training under England team manager Winterbottom when they are chosen for internationals. They will travel to the training centre on Sunday and spend Monday and Tuesday being tuned up with each other.

The agreement marks the biggest step forward so far in the FA's effort to build an England team to regnin our lost soccer prestige.

The FA clings to a hush-hush, policy, but I was given details in

dateline The rald-September

Winterbottom's schedule.

1954.

ARTHUR ELLIS, the World's greatest referee, has told the story of his career in a new book "Refereeing Round the World"..

But a factual, humorous and readable volume. in this review, Brian Uridge says...

OH! DEAR, MR ELLIS

YOU'VE

BLUNDERED

Arthur Ellis, the world famous referee, readily admits that every body can make a mistake. Since he took charge of his first football match as a lad of 16, he must have given a few wrong decisions himself. But now, Halifax-born Mr Ellis has made his biggest mistake, More than that--it's a colossal blunder. He has accused present-day English League soccer. players of being “soft.”

Here is what he says:

a It is this same third-back "The injury bogey is so great

system, be maintains, which has these days that it a player ru-

"crippled" the English game by ceiver the sugliest bump ho

putting the accent on defence. asks for the trainor. The player is ubviously worried about in- Jura

"But aurely that does nul SOLOD Of the babyish

excuse antics

A

*

lic

little

fact

squealing. In trainer coming on the field is a rarity on the continent."

Well, considering that Mr El has offlelated in no fewer than 21 different countries-he makes it 22 next month when

he goes to Russia-he should know what he's talking about. But does he?

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No Touring Rugby Team In Britain This Season

London.

The curtain roso en a new home Rugby Union asGIÒN on September 1; but, as always with the amateur handling code, it will be some weeks before all clubs get down to it in real earnest.

By September 4 all the big guns in Wales, the West Country, the Midlands and Yorkshire, will have joined in Most Lancashire clubs take the field on the 11th a week before the majority of the London sides though. Wasps, exceptionally, have a star-studded fixture with an Inter national aide selected by Mr W. P. C. Ramsay on the 4th, and Blackheath and Metropolitan Police are making short tours in Dovon and Cornwall.

Scottish clubs are late-comers; it isn't limited to the English as usual; they do not start until Channel.only. the last Saturday in September, Cambridge University abier and they also hang up their tain the Racing Club de France, boots cariler than anybody clen the Dark Blues moot the Blade the end of March. London Francais, another leading Paris virtually closes, down carly in club, and the

Services Combined April, though soveral of the will make their new elastaniny metropolitan aides then yo on

to France to play twe Pulling no punches, ho adds tour, but the rest of the country matches at the turn of the year "We are pushing the individual

goes on playing until the end of

Newport, Northampton and ball-player out of the game and

Waterloo are all travelling: 1D burning him on the altar of April.

Many competent judges do Southern Ireland early in Colo speed and points team with the not believe it does the game any ber The ·Welshmeit^*, meet convinced that a courage to work out an attacking good to start so early and go Lansdowne Dublin), and Dal

for

The phin (Cork), Fight

the Midlanders months. Bystem and then use It In on

hard inko are usually too would reap

on Bectivo Rangers and Its grounds Leoguo games

be Cork

Consillution, early In September--It may

tho and true reward."

tacklo an exception this year with the Lancashire -London Express Service).

very wet summer we have had¦ Dublin Wanderers.

and players either do not gu

County Championship which may put them out of the kicks off

1.am

oll referees see. More than once a player has asked

In his own book he gives me to bring on the trainer just wonderful example of this so- breawee 40

Liicia.

called Continental toughness, Often

will player

Ho tells how an Italian goal- ground when Writing on the

penalty in keeper saved he could quite easily hobble to international match with France. the touch-line and go

The off for Referee Ellis ordered the kick Denis Compton Says full out, or risk serious injures attention....

without holding to be retaken, France scored, up the game."

BABYISH ANTICS

GROSSLY UNFAIR

An

And then..."the goalkeeper Mr Ells makes these com-

beat his head arid hands on the ments in his book "Refereeing

howled. ground, he kicked, he Round The World, which

he cried, he did everything. He published in Britain this monun by Hutchinson

Co. His was finally consoled by all his and

who collengues

lined up and raised howls of Opinions have

ono by one." indignation from British soccer kissed him

I'd call it "babylat e-Toughness? followers. And rightly sp. Be- cause, just for once, Mr Ellis is unties".

Sun I

Elus supposed Mr being grossly unfair.

that would attribute that goalkeeper's

course, it is true

there are some who try to waste acilor to "temperament."

cule,

Bul

They give bard knocks and

without

the

saite

I Still Bank

On That Pace

by feigning injury.

Despite Pakistan's Test they are in the minority....the take hard knocks and there is

still odd black sheep. As a generat Ittle squealing" says Mr Ellis. Victory at the Oval I

Well.

making believe the emphasis on a profession take the bard knocks in the right spirit.

generalisations and thus fast attack to be the right How often bay

badly.

Inta

trap policy for the tour in Aus- injured player limped back onto as Mr Ellis muroly he must tralia. the field and saved the day" for have heard of the occasions when his side? That happens time a Continental player goes off the and again. Remember the clele field, with little sign Bolton v. Blackpool Cup Finalso that a substitute can take his of 19837 Bell, the Bolton fuil

place back, was injured. But he re-

in making his attack on turned on the wing and headed "soft players in England When day. Mr Ells has rather his side's third goal.

English comes to guis,

players wisely

overboard his

carried

his

pre

But the

thrown

rest of

of

injury,

the to-

humorous and enter-

have got what it takes.

But Mr Ells argument a stage further. After reterring to the "babyish antics“,

ter he goes on: "You nover

come taining. across that sort of nonsense with

TO KEEP IN THE GAME Continentals. They the

why he decided to He tells

"A much more temperamental than become a referee in 1931. our players but they

always kech on much tougher.

When I left school "They ve bard knocks and

I joined a

foune teom but I take hard knocks, and there

myself permanent reserve.

"Even when one of the team clat dropped out,

someone vas found and 1 was still the reserve. The committee

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To Play Against They told me

Australians

mem-

Test pitches in Australia will be covered completely through- out the match.

The

a

the

season.

Cardiff,

club

season

the

and

on October big matches after Christmas, reaches the semi-final stage two

Also,

a good deal of stalenessmonths later, and France and appears in the last six weeks of Scotland open the International at for In Championship

ཐ་ in Paris on stance, are scheduled to play 40 Colombes stadium gamos, and many clubs in the January 8. France shared the

with their honours

England and 40 on West have over

Wales last year, while Scotland Axture list.

This

domestic to be

have not won a game since 1951. senson, without a Dominion in England go, to Cardiff a week vedon to put us on our mettle, later, to Dubin on February 13,

France entertain

and but there will be a good deal ond

Cross-Channel trafic, and Scotland at Twickenham.

of

£

LAWN BOWLS LEAGUE STANDINGS

FIRST DIVISION

P W D L F

3 1.038

U

871

700 276

D Pts.

722 191 -- 47%

803 68 - 42

- 47

A

15 12

14 10

4 913

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14

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381

126 16

SECOND DIVISION

P

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U

10

13 3 1,087

$15, 172

D Pts.

15501, AD

D - 7

067

878 109

10

7 1,007

913 04

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- 46

Talkoo

10

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800 30

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877 163 424

13

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717 11788.

6 717

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HKCC

7 1,020

THIRD DIVISION

F

That means, unless the ground

Recrelo (Blues) becomes

submerged during rain-storm so flerce that the KCC water cannot get away and the IRC covers are rendered useless, the CCC

hard KBGC customary Yorkshire caution.games will be played on

Refereeing urf, usually a good deal faster Recreio (Whites)

PRC that any found in England. Rojind the World" is in charac-

As a

a batsman I favour fast KDC wickets for stroke-making, but bowlors of real pace prefer them as well, and "I am sure Frank Tyson, Brian Statham, and Peter Loader, especially IRC the last two are going to make Recreio the ball whip off the turf in HKFC AustrallLLY SUITED soft Oval plich

WAS USRC ideally suited for a medium- pace bowler like Fazal Mah-

PRC bers were quite frank about it. mood, who has command of the C

bluntly that outswinger, Inswinger, off-cutter was no good, so, just to keep in and leg-cutter.

His accuracy of length and the game, I took up refereeing."

are remarkable enough During his thousands of miles direction am

FC Clyde Walcott, jovial 80 of travel throughout Britain and in the ordinary way but, when

bateman finds the ball IRC the world, Referee Ellis, who tho

HIKERC with Ireland in Belfast on Oc-year-old West Indies cricket served in the RAF during the turning in either direction from

KCC 2 and the home "B"

all-rounder, has

met to war,

most of the the turf, like a fast off-break or PRC come to carry out the fober

Winterbottom, internall Walter

with international

Yugoslavia

the plan is

leg-breaks, he must have con- USRC personalities terms with the West Indies famous England

siderable skill and a good deal HKFC team

who on October 4, manager,

luck Cricket Board and will play came. Foolball There are also two

to keep his wicket CCC recently given

greater

He has a great respect for for the West Indies against Stanley powers in training the England League games with the

Matthews, whom he Intact. team

ball League of Ireland (Sep Australia next year.

A watched training for the World pitch in the same condition Selectors will now go where tember 22 in Dublin) and the

Clyde and his attractive Cup matches in South America us that at the Oval is ideal for irish Football League (October

1950

"He Says Ells: they are told, even though

young wife were in London for In

who modium-paced bowler their means not seeing

own 20 in England,

Just 24 hours last week so that always did a lot of training cuts the ball-that is, drags his teams in action.

across the scam at the named) before the match that Clyde could "talk over" with alone, not through any snobbish- Angers matters-with Germany, the officials of Booker Brothers the nes

of By moving them around, In-ima

delivery--as do T. E. Baker (KCC) ... ness or any lack of friendship,

Mahmood and Alte J. F. V. Ribeiro (Rec.) new coaching job he is to under- but because Matthews as his Fazal stead of allowing one selector World Champions, at Wembley to study

take in British Guiana in Octo- a player in consecu- on December 1.

own secret methods of reaching Bedser, but of lesser use tive gumes, errors of judgment England will field the second ber.

that

J. S, Landolt (CCC) fantastic peak of

of perfection. anyone else. aro minimised.

best team

the country,

Ho leaves England in Septem- "He was wonderful to watch,

cutter For some reason the

J. N. Wong (KCC) advice of experienced irrespective of age, for the "B"

ber and, after spending a fort doing his thirty-yard sprints, not only grips the soft turf J. F. da Luz (Rec.) Longue manager, will also be match with Yugoslavia.

night in Barbados, flies on to his dribbling and his ball-sufficiently for the ball to turn, (X) C. Roza Pereira (Rec.) sought where reports are incon- Gone are the days when ex-

Georgetown where he intends control exercise. Here he was, but it skids on at what seems, A. M. Omar (IRC) clusive.

periments came before prestige

"to settle for the rest of my probably the greatest artist with but probably is not increased A. E. Elliott (KDC) In "B" games. Now the only

days".

a football in the world, but pace.

A. E, Contes (CCC) Ineligible "B" men will be those

J. McKelvio (KBGC) training harder than ever, never who have two "caps".

(X) Note 100%. Wina.

SECOND DIVISION

of determined. no-nonsense gives the FA time to decide on plan in which even the selectors leams for England's first match will do as they are told.

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Experiments with promising youngsters will be confined to the FA representative matches with the bright boys of the RAF (October 20) and the Army (November 3)

Docs this make Walter Winterbottom - England's Soccer dictator? No. His powers have been increased, but England's guilty men, the selectors, have the last word.

team

Winterbottom will pick his Chairman Harold with Shentall. But the selectors re-

right of veto.

the

ber.

Seven

has

of

one

stopping his practice for Brothers

In One Team

Tho latest instalment of footballing brothers is that

of the

Bannisters, eight

two Wilcoxes

Swann all and relations--who make up a team

(Birming from Kingstanding ham) in the local Forks Leople, appropriate club

minute.

of

a

moment

--London Express Service).

CHEAPEST-RUN LEAGUE CLUB IN BRITAIN Brechin City, who have into the Scottish League

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TABLES

F

SKIPS

FIRST DIVISION

P

W DL

14

9 1 4

A U 933 240 93

-Pis,

15

9 1 5 330

268 02

9

14

9 1 4 278

227 51

14

91 4 209

8 14

8 -

to W. Hong Sling (KCC)

P

A. A. dos Remedios (Rec.) M. J. Divecha (KCC)

T

second South

R1

Toy

W. J. Howard (KCC) . C. Butler (HKFC) J. H. Kinniburgh (TC) L. F. Cosgrove (USRC)

DIET OF PRACTICE "The Matthews magle is not luck. It is the result of just

planned training carefully

B. L. Bickford (HKFC) routine and a diet of practice,

got D. L. Edwards (USRC) "B" J. M. A, Rumjahn (IRC) practice and still more practice.

had a Arthur Ells

cona Division at the expertsc of J. B. Baxter (TC) at the chance to look American

footballers In 1951 Dumbarton, are the cheapest un League Club in the land. when he

travelled with the

Their total wage bill is only and what more

touring Portsmouth club

£40 a week and they have only neme than "Bancox.

English referee. Fred, Charles, Harry

twelve professional players. Air,

"Make no mistake about It, Charler

The trainer gels 108, a week, F. Marshall (HKCC) son Ronnie, Horace,

South Americans are bril-

res. the groundsman 20s, and the A. B. Razack (IRC) Stanley and Ronele supply the

Kant

he players,"

declares have no manager.

S. L. Leonard (CCC) Bannliter element There are They are fast and extremely

Gatesmen get 3s a match, a Rome and Leslie Wilcox and tricky, but they · should learn

free and the

out, Charles how to shoot. They would be local cuts the gre So many of our top mon are

accused of fidilling in this coun- gets a season ticket given him V: A. Naves (Fc) engaged in lucrative part-time The Wilcoxes and Mr Swann

J. S. Ackber (IRC) he lob of secretory. does the

'and H.A. V. Ribeiro '(FC) une job treasurer. inesses And what of Eng- are brothers-in-law to the Batry, and they use the cross-field and a commiteeman honorarily land's two schoolmasters, George nistors. The Bannisters weigh "But they know how to move

W. Stoker (HKERC). Not one of their players trains A, G Gardner (HKERC). Robb ('Spurs) and Dennis over 100 stone, have Br #g-into the open space, and they Wilshaw (Wolves)?

gregato height or fitty feet and will have nothing to do with the in Brechin, who lost. £15 every A H Abbas (IRC) aro alao anglers swimmers third-bock system. Their centre match last season and had it C. Champolovier (KCC) bowls, billiards, diaria, cheer and half moves up in attack, leaving made up to them by their Bup R. Read (USRC)...

plagers having won the full. hacks to control the porters Club. Ground record is H. A. Triggs (RCC) prizes at each of those sportat centre of the field in defence." 3,000 for a Cuptle with Celtic. C. Pile (PRC)

POP

taln

One prominent English League manager described the England Iraining plans as "hopeful, but difficult to realise".

-(London Express Berolos)

McCarthy To Fight Belgian

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