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TWO GREAT HOLIDAY MATCHES

THE "CHINA MAIL,-_TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28,

BOTH ENGLAND AND CHINA FORCED TO STRUGGLE THROUGH TO VICTORY

By I. M. MacTAVISH

What a magnificent holiday present the International Cup matches were for the Colony's loyal soccer fans. A big crowd saw a double header that produced two very fine games of a strictly contrasting nature. They got a generous ration of thrills, spills and great goals and saw a glorious fight back by China who were 3-1 down with the game less than 10 minutes old.

The England-Scotland match was played first and right from the kick-off it was the much fancied England side that was on the receiving end of affairs.

Bue

more was to

Rocha,

was bentèn

ON THE

SOCCER

INSIDE

(Edited By Sam

Sam Leitch)

Blow No. 2 for Aston Villa. First Danny Blanchflower...now It's England International Tommy, Thompson who seeks a move. Six days after Danny departed,

26-year-old Thompson popped in a written transfer requent,

"I am very unsettled" says the former Newcastle player who cost "Villa' £15,000 four years ago.

First in the queue is Hull City.' Within two hours of receiving the Thompson. news bow-tied manager Bob Jackson was in action. "Just the man we could do with," he says.

But remember it's not so long! But manager Frank Hill says when the Scottish. International ago that Villa and Coventry he canne; risk transferring any makes his 350th first team ap- were thinking about a player til he hae been pearance,

odequately replaced. The Deep- follow for the Thompsin-Gordon Nutt swop!

dale staff is too small to warrant

Colchester manager Jack Butler how revealed that he Iried unsuccessfully to persuade Wilt Mannion, former Middlesbrough and England Inside-forward, to return to fotbali.

"DRAGNET" OUT

Tho Scottish side, which in- | brilliance of the Scots began to cluded

of players fade. The partnership of Lenty | Portuguese boys raced straight number who do not normally apiar in

And Paton started

being short in an emergency, to misfire to the other end and Wai Fat- again by 3, representative football, struck a and later on McLellan was the kim

combination und,

with only one who looked likely to Higgins promoting and priming beat the England defence, with

sequence f brillian

Walmsley Interceptions and

completed the pusses, they Kuvo

Englund defenders voring for England when he meny anxious momente.

caught Beveridge napping with another of his high curling lobs. It was well for England that

VERDICT: An they had the benefit of a com-

entertaining piele defence of regular foam-

game played in good spirit. mates who had an established The greater experience of the understanding, and even then England team told in the end... only some serbatle saving by bu in Higgins Scoliand bad the goalkeeper

Lewis denied the outstanding player in the game. Seots the goal that had often

likely to their elever on-the-carpel

Jookt

pranch work.

come from

il

The English forward line, with Mera the danger man, was never idle and If Gardner's finishing had been on a par with his mid- field

Play they might have had 1 couple of

goals. Arat l Walmsley on the left wing was a bit too fast for Wright, always but good covering by McKay und Falconer and a brillian onc- handed save by Beveridge kept the Scottish goal intact until the interval.

Right from the re-start Eng- land applied the pressure. After five minutes Gardner

suppen the ball to Walmsley. The soldier left Wright standing be- fore rending an accurate high Job ACTOSS the goul and Moss, coming in at top speel, got his head

It to register brillant opening counter. A few minutes later he repented his feat when he raced to the left hand post thr cross from

to nod a fast

right into the net.

Dow

The Englishmen were calling the tone and the earlier

Cricket Lessons

For Americans

Courbe

THE MacTAVISH STAR RATINGS

ENGLAND

Lewis

Wallace Hayes

Hughes

Hewitt

Toth

Souchouse

MOSE Loader Garduer Walmsley

SCOTLAND

Beveridge Wright

McKay Higgins Falconer

MacDonald Paton

Lenry

McGregor Melvillen

Tunion

CHINA vs. PORTUGAL

sensational start we

This was sensuiional stuff. Theo Portuguero forward line was dyna.nle but the defence never looiced quite in the same class. While Portugual was on the at- tack Chinese pulses beat fast for Augusto

Rocha and his

mates were always looking for goals and in fact they came near to one on several getting nathan at occasions.

When t was least expected

ย

China pulled the defeit back to single goal. Mok Chun-wah ran through the defence but got n bit close 1 the bye-lne bo-

fre delivering his shot.

The angle was very narrow

and Muureigas was in good post-

GOT THE ANSWER?

*Spurs captain Alf Ramsey thinks he has the

answer to Manchester City's deep centre- forward Don Revie. He says:

"Révie wants a mon tó rhádow Liverpool have the "drugnet"" him so that it will couse a g÷0

In Scotland.

If quote in the midfield defence. manngor Don Welsh. Interest in stop worrying about Revie and Jue O'Neil, the Aberdeen wing leave him to the nearest man

Inside half-back faded, but

frward, has in midfield ce to the centre-half the Anfield club when he comes up near goal, the han A lileing for another Aber-pen loses its effectiveness." deen half-back.

Out

to

Greater scoring power on the wing is also sought, and Morton have been s.unciad regarding Johnny Hannigan.

Now Year query for 'Spu:s,

Long way to ed yet, Billy, bofore you beat the record of well-remembered goalkeeper Elisha Scott, Elisha reached 429.

-(London Express Service).

кой

SPORTRAIT

How many English scouts Dec 70 games in three months?

That was the number former Frothall League referee Vic Rae watched during his recent trip to the

He was train- Sudan,

When centre-forward' Daveng and lecturing referees,

fion, but someh w he let Mok's | Dunamore

National starts his

shut ship between him und the | Service, wit Len Duquemin post. China breathed a sigh of relief und

round only Our goal down.

turned

As the second half progressed the edge disappeared from the Portugal attack and the hard passed defence began to wilt. Cha Wing-keung come flashing right into the game and by football brillance ne steadily cut the fast tiring de-

cheer

Fence to ribbons.

Moving all over

the front

rank the Kitchee boy leased

and tantalised, his

opponents

info errors, and his three goals

- one from a not very worthy

for some

penalty kick

award

atting reward

were

de.

lightful play.

Mok Chun-wah gol

An-

This game produced the most other to complete the China

have seen | cup-of-joy

biggest

but the

in years and before the big thrill of the second half came crowd had hod time to settle at the other end and brought down China were two goals in out the loudest cheer of the

afternoon.

arrears.

The Portuguese boys started off at fantastic pace and had their opponents bewildered by London, Dec. 27. the sheer speed of their move- Admiral Sir Denis Boyd gavements. The China defence looked cricket lessons to 46 gruduates very suspect at this stage and it

took them a from Kalamazoo, United St.es,

long time to get over the shock of goals by J. during a recent six weeks study

Rocha and Alberta. at Ashridge College, Hertfordshire, i was reported today.

The

Admiral,

is the bave College Principal, will further opportunity to strengthen Anglo-American relations when more students visit him early Three goals In little next year from lows State than as many minutes really had the crowd on its feet, bui

who

College-China Mall Special,

t

In a desperate late raid by Portugual the ball bobbed about in front of War Fat-kin. Out of a melee the ball was fired in and the KMB keeper best out and raced after it. The ball broke loose however and carne J. Rocha who sent shoulder

tearing high drive away

corner into the far the vacant goal.

to

They fought back Immediate- ly, however, and a characteris-

11 the run through by Yiu Chouk- yin

the South รพ

China inside-left

scoring a brilliant Koal,

HOAD PREPARES

mote

of

looked a scorer all the way but suddenly a blurr ul scarlet flashed through the air ...It was Szeto Yiu making the clearance of the sensor by heading the ball off the line.

regain the leadership 'Spurs plunge again transfer merket?.

What

wonderful servant or will

Is to the Anfield into the Billy Liddell

club. He gives all he's g t game after game....and he doesn't switched right, murmur when left and centre in the cause of Liverpool.

Preston do n. deny that clubs needing grascoring inside-for-

wards are interested in Bobby Foster and Denis Haisell who The supporters will be saving have lost their places in the up an outsize roar of welc, me first team.

New Year's Day i for Billy on

He's demanding a recount.

London Express Servión

CHRISTMAS IN HOLLYWOOD

Everything Colossal And The Champagne Can Be Swapped For Beer

By MICHAEL RUDDY

of

Street lamps are converted into illuminated Christmas trees or are flanked with red candles, 10 feet high. Hollywood Boulevard is Santa Claus Lane by Chamber of Commerce declaration and stars radio, television and motion pictures ride with St Nick nightly in his oversize sleigh drawn by jet-propelled reindeer.

Recordings of Christmas carols are heard every half-hour in the Beverly Hille and Hollywood post-offices.

Opposite the Beverly Hills town-hall are two white-sprayed Christmas trees, 25 feet high, with a colossal illuminated "Season's Greetings” between } them. The sound of carols rises above the roar of traffic. Every shop-window is decorated and across Wilshire Boulevard, Christmas garlands made of plaatle are hung. VERDICT; A thriller from start to finish and played at a Huge wreaths of syntholle Linda "Christine | says she's the won't be available until speed that just had to be seen holly hang on shop doors and taking her daughters to New then.

However, after talking with to be believed. Referee Kear-sprigs of fake mistletoe (don't York in February, when Tyrona ney, in spite of an unjustified I look just like real mistletoe,"Power's on Broadway, Her Joan, I can report that, she is crowd demonstration in the a saleswoman coood) over door-present battle with Mir Power is busy "doing layouts for Look" Grot halt, handled a most

division of community and 'Life' and looking up people dificult

game with tact and But there was nothing artif property. And Edmund Pur- and dates and doing, over this good judgment.

cfal about the methuselam of dom, who walked out on his fiat I have," she told met champagne which arrived for wife, Tita Phillips,

and two A famous British goalkeeper me from a film star for whom children, refuses to pay. the in a book written about his I'd done some small thing household bills, one for müük, carcer emphasised that the Footnote: It can be swapped for custodian's job is to protect his beer. goal In the simplest manner possible....theatricals ore for the music hall stage.

ways.

MAN OF THE WEEK

aver

MUCH TOO BIG. "20,000 Leagues Under The butter, eggs for $95, says Sea" Walt Disney's big feature through his agent, that his marriage was over two years for the year was shown to

privately. It's big, indeed, weil pigo.

over two hours big. Oversold. Bing Crosby's my man of the

BOUR APPLE AWARD

In my opinion, not one char- Training daily for fencing in

acter wock. First he bottled an auto-

was believable from. James Purdom

Mason as Captain Nemo to the mobile Injury damage suit for The King's Thief"

for suit goes back to October last This week he'll be awarded $1,051,400

$100,000. The won't discuss his private affairs, gigantic squid which attacks the

the submarine Nautilus

Mason year when ho collided with Sour Apple for being the most was allowed to overact. Perhaps Time niet again be endangered another car in the weo sma" unco-eperzilve cctor by the he has quit acting in films at his goal by, giving oven the hours. Other parties claimed Hollywood Women's Press Club. the right time, aimplest shot the trimmings of he was negligent and had been his tact... It looks good when drinking. Bing's new Mercedes gave a party for Noel Coward dimpled, ultra-athletic self in a. It comes off but when things

The implication is obvious but how Portugal's Mantelgas would benefit from having the doctrine impressed upon him,

Was

wrecked.

go wrong goals usually result... and they did here.

THE MacTAVISH STAR RATINGS

CHINA

Wai Fat-kimi

Ng Wai-man Szeto Yiu Tang Sum Lau Tim Poon Kai-hung Ho Ying-fun

Chu Wing-koung

Tang Yoo-kit

Yiu Chouk-yin Mok Chung-wah

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HKCC And Army Play To A Draw

Second, his last film, "The the

the casinos before he decides safe, wide-eyed or --harroW- Fighting the clock to wrest the game from the Hong- Country Girl, with Grace Kelly to accept a fabulous offer to eyed stare. Perhaps the child-kong Cricket Club, the Army were only 16 runs behind

Holden, wa pro-entertain the gamblers.

will like. It and have and William Holde viewed and from here it looks At Wobb's house wore Judy pleasant dreams of sharks and

and Grate Kelly will Garland, Van Johnson, Marilyn octopods, if Bing and be among the Academy Award contenders next March.

AS

His portrayal of the spineless, lying alcoholic, is his best. And Grace Kelly as his loyal, em bittered wife is superb: Modest 1. Bing siver the credit for his performance to: director. Georgs

Seaton.

Bob Hope, after the reaction

to the TV show be nimed in London with Maurice Chevalier

the Cricket Club's' score when stumps were drawn' at Chater Road yesterday to end their friendly - cricket Mourse, Humphrey Bogart and Chatted with Alth

Alan Ladd on encounter in a drawi Lauren Bacall, Marlene Diet-the But of

of "The McConnell

· A fine century was scored by

rich, an old friend of Coward, Story about The Black C. J. B. Leader for the Cricket TA. Poarce, not out the James Masons and Denald Knight." "Hope they'll like it Club, and when his team de- O'Connor, Judy Garland sang. in Britain. Worried a bit about

|sonal contribution was 108 runs

The host warbled "y Guess I'll my American speech in contrast,clared at 210 for four, his per- Have To Change My Plans to the others but that's who in 170 minutes. His score in souvenir of his Little Club. Mr. Harry Cohn of Columbia cluded 16 boundaries.

wagement

Miss Monroe,

In one

A grand Army partnerably of

WRITORI, Blog nearby, i Withall "

June Allyson,

no matter

of there gowns you come out of “Alan, they love you no

and Neville brought within striking

Extras

Total (for 4 decl.)

Prichard, Owen-Hughes,

rather then get into, wang in a how you talk. Her mabandar dancer sort of whisper, "Arige You Get Dick Powell, who tend to be a

lo

wicket stand

wwhich #

and bee liller "Eome people don't have much to say but you what You Want. You Don't Warner star 12 years gyd, WAS have to lean long

time to want. The And it out

be up Dame Hours at 10 o'clock.

} Because: be had to vaiting, "between usions" of | TRI§; xiana, ini 158 minutes.

Some of the Bee Lil' comedy fell fat on i. Ainar

Sawithall; who hit "410" 50"in"); recording the musical score for ustle under two hours, was purs

"Their Conqueror." ), which he

directed; with/John, jm)

Wayne and

but in the closing, stasis of the

her and on the

Hoed, the young. Amitrakai. Day

with the dumbbells

training-Central Prema Phi

Cup

1. Not bloode

Gikk As for