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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
SIXTH RACE MEETING
Monday 27th December 1954 & Saturday 1st January 1955 · (To be held under the Bules of the Hong Kong Jockey Club)
THE PROGRAMME WILL CONSIST OF 18 RACES, The First Bell will be rung at 12 o'clock NOON, and the First Race run at 12.30 p.m. on both days,
The Tifin interval is after the Third Race (1.30 p.m.) on both days.
The Secretary's Office at Alexandra House will close at 10.30.4.m, on both days.
'MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE
NO PERSON WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED. All persons MUST wear their badges prominently displayed Throughout the meeting.
obtainable
Admlaston Badges at $10.00 each per day are Through the Secretary on the written or personal introduction of a Menter, such member to be responsible for all visitors introduced by hi
Tis will be obtainable at the Club House if ordered in advance nom the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 72011).
NO CHILDREN will be admitted to the Club's premies during the bleeling. For this purpose a Child is a person under the age of seventeen years, Western Standard,
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The price of adintssion will be $3.00 each per day payable at The Criste.
Any person leaving the Enclosure will be required to pay the requimie lee of $4.00 in order to gain re-admissiĢIE,
MEALS and REFRESHMENTS Will be obtainable in the RESTAURANT,
SERVANTS
Servantla nitist remain in their employer's boxes except for They may un ne account use the passing through on their duties,
Delung Dobim in the alemuers' Betting Hall,
CASH SWEEPS
Through Vioch Sweep Tickets at $18.00 each for the secondl day at the alerting moy be obsmed from the Cash Sweep Uffices
•suring mm mal ulære hinirs anul 1930 ani, in 1st January,
Particular numbers within the series i to 4,000 may be reserved Jr all see meetings as Through Tickets, such tekteis won be issued consecutively only and the right is reserved by the Stewards Lu Cancel ብያ reservation for Tarough Tickets for a parta ntar Meeling it i IN found that sales may not reach the mamber resolved in the series 1 to 4,000.
In the case of two-day Race Meetings, Through Tickets may hue putemised for even day of the Mering provided that me second day la un at date not less than five days after the first day. In all other cases Turough Tickets will only be sold for the whole Meeting.
Tiesels reserved and avaliable but not paid for by 10.00 aan. on biruny, 24th December, 1v5s, will be suit and the reservation cuterned for future meetings.
Tickets
over
4,000 will also be issued consecutively but particular numbers cannot be reserved us Through Tickets,
The reservation of any particular nuanter does not confer on The registered Mulder buy nights whatsoever unless the ticket bearing the appropriate muunber an issued to and can be produced by the holder
The Stewards reserve the right to refuse any subscription also the right to remove uny name from subscription hists without stating reasons for their action.
Cash Sweep Tickets on the last race of the Meeting at $2.00 each may be obtained from this Cash Sweep Offices ut Queen's Bulding, (Chater Road), 3. D'Aguilar Street and 382, Nathan Hoad during normal office hours and until 10.30 a.mm. on both days of the Merlin.
SPECIAL CASH SWEEP
Tickets for the Special Ciatt Sweep on the Pearce Memorial Cup scheduled to be run on 22nd January, 1953, at $2,00 each, may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Odices.
TOTALISATOR
Hackers 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 DISFIGURED TICKETS.
OR
Bookmakers, Tie Tue men. etc. will not be permitted to operate within the precincts of the Hong Kong Jockey Club.
By Order of the Stewards.
H. MISA,
Secretary.
THE CHINA _ _MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER
"NOW, DON'T PRAISE ME' SAYS THE NEW NAPOLEON OF SOCCER
By
ALAN HOBY `
·1934.
If you speak Esperanto and French, write shorthand and hold a certificate in book-keeping, does that make you a good football manager? It does if you are Stan Cullis-architect of our Soccer recovery, football's man of the year and the brains behind Wolves' wonderful win over the Hungarians.
At the reserves.
10 he
was £2 10s. a week. Today, at 38, skipper of the first eleven.
ho is o of the highest- At 20 he played for England. | solaried managers in the game. At 22 he was promoted captain. representing his country 33 times. Se tough and commanding was "Croucher Cullis on the field Lot 1 once wrote of him:-
"Tough Guy" Cuills would be the last to claim any of these distinctions, yet everything me does, he does well.
For Stanley is a perfectionist, This one-time grocer's assin- lant who, as a boy, studied ot night school three times п week, tells all his players; "You give me 100 per
reut and I'll give you 100 per cent back.
NOTHING LESS
"But give me anything LESS and you're OUT."
As part of this "100 per cent" policy, Wolves get the "best of everything-op wages, ion benefits, a top-class trainer Joe Gardiner and a qualified physiotherapist 121 Lealie Falmer.
irt
Master-mind Cullis omits no supreme
t
ensure
dotuil physical fitness.
Every morning Billy Wright and the boys line up for halibut all capsules. Twice a week they are given sun-lamp treatment to build up their energy.
One-Club mum Cutis. course, hus been a "100 per center" right from the start.
At 17 he captained Wolves "A" team. At 18 he captained
NOTICE
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
ANNUAL RACE MEETING 1955
15th, 19th and 22nd January and Hong Kong Derby
9th April, 1956.
Draft Programmes and Entry Forms for the above may be obtained at the Secre tary's Office, Alexandra House; the Club House, Happy Valley; and the Stables, Shun Kwong Road.
Entries close to the Secre- tary, Alexandra House, 8th Floor, at NOON on Tuesday, 4th January, 1995.
Please enclose the entry form in the green envelope provided.
By Order of the Stewards,
KLM proudly presents
"If you kicked him in the heart you'd break your log."
Für from renting this, Cullis, who always played to win, told me later "That was the best thing ever written about me."
RETIRED AT 30
Cuills'a jet-propelled young Wolves, the League Champions, have been attacked by Soccer's puriste became they don't play classic football.
Their clikt admits that Wolves
"lʊmi base their game on the ball"-n pasa not more than 30 yards in length-but adds: "The Hungarians use it freely, too!"
A FALLACY, HE SAYS
Cullie dismisses as a toilacy But at 3D, Cullis-the best all- the theory that to play good foot- round centre-half I have scen-ball you must always keep the
retired.
A year later he was appointed Inanger Wolves, the youngest in the League.
Since then he doubts if he has had more than a dozen days off,
A Rotarian and father of two children Andrew, #!X, and Susan Anne, who is two-the Wolverhampton tass works from During that 9.15 am. to 6 p.m. time his phone scuredly stops ringing.
He often gves buck in the evenings, and Da be found in his flice any Sunday morning, "Hebbies? Football is my only hobby." he'll
you
bail on the ground.
Just as the Russians have op- plied science to athletics, Culis | has brought science bo Succor.
"Obviously, I can't disclose our tactical scorets," he told me, "but from the detailed graphs which Wing-Commander Reeps has kept aryer the past few years, phting every Wolves move during a match, a common thread has emerged. Now we know what to discard and what to use."
Cullis-be once wanted to bo a journalist-showed me cables and messages of
congratulation from every part of the world.
"But don't praise me," he said. Now.
with the humbling of "We've got a really decent æt Spartak and Honved, the boy of fallows here and any success whose frst job 20 years ago we've had is due to them. at Molineux was picking the
Money talks: Since he be- wees has reached the 100-came manager, Cullis has netted most pinnacle of success,
Wolves more than £200,000 in Culls was first signed by the
transfer cis--a record. fabulous Major Buckley for
~(London Express Service).
Stan Cullis, Wolves manager, at his desk.--Express Photo,
England's
Test Win Is
Good For The Series
Says FRANK ROSTRON
England's winning of the exciting Sydney Second Test has put glory back into the Australian summer for the MCC. It has also done many other, things to m series that threatened to become a rout and a financial flop.
Hutton and Morris, the rival captains, both agreed with me that England's victory was "good for cricket" and would provide a fillip to the whole sagging Australian season.
Here is a credit balance of the have tumbled and with it the his manoeuvres the start of this match ho certainly bondled things achieved:
financial receipts.
his side with marleed" authority,
Hutton's sure touch has helped
1. Had there been A clear 2. On the playing side, victory | on the final day.. Australian victory to add to has stopped the MCC touring that Brisban deburele interest party
most developing at a in the remaining Tests would critical time, an inferiority com-to efface criticism of his control plex which would have been in the First Test. Ho referred fatal in the remaining Teats.
to this when ho sald: Wo descrved to win and would haya had emphasised won more casily if we
In The Realm Of Sport The
Year 1954 Will Go Down To History In Britain
London, Dec. 30.
In the realm of sport, the year 1954 will go down to history in Britain. Indeed, it may be argued that it was the year of the century-the year in which a mortal for the first time beat four minutes for the mile on foot.
Dr
The man who achieved this feat on a blustery May day at Oxford was Roger Bannister. For this outstanding feat, he must be considered the number one sportsman in Britain.
Not only did he become
3. Tho Test
England's cratic batting but bowind fisk," England's fighting bowlers have stressed that even with their all- When I queried "In other rounders, Australia's batting is words you're saying if you'd won no more consistent,
bos you would have put “Austrália in ägiksi?” Hufton re-
4. The magnificent bowlingplied, tumorously, "Yes, it I of Tyson, Statham. and: Balicy hadn't had so many newspaper has proved Englanti dan at a correspondenter with me to sell do without Bodeck, Whether|tries/hat to do they should or not, however, iş
a different matter.
i
After negligible use of Aple. yord and Wardle I think Bedser is certain to be back in the team in Melbourne, where the has always dono well.
MAGNIFICENTLY
'Statham and Tyson have developed magnificently on this
They tour.
Wero fastest factors
the Test SUCCESS.
the
chief
first man to break
the most of all was his 5,000 Metres that provided the two the four-race for London against Vladimir men on wheels in 1954 in RegTyson and Statham put up one minute barrier with a time of 2 Kuts of Moscow in the contest Harris and Cyril Peacock, Pro of the minutes 50.4 seconds, but he belween the two cities.
fessional and Amateur Sprint
the best fast bowling per- also showed his ability 08
In this Chataway,
running Champions of the World. Pea-formances in my experience, es H. MISA, man who can run against op- the race of his life,
the Sprint
pecially when you consider the Russian in
wicket remained good and easy Secretary. ponents as well as a watch by defeat by these, revenged his cock also became
the Champion of the Empire. benting the Australian, John European, Championships in
right to the end," said skipper Landy, in the British Empire Berne by a victory in the lost Geoffrey Duke showed himself
On other wheels, motorcyclist Len Hutton, and Commonwealth Games Mile stride in the new world record to be a 600. ce rider and Stirling at Vancouver in 3 minutes 58.8 ume of 13 minutes 61.8 seconds. Moss
Little did I think In the daya seconds.
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Landy had previously estab- lished a new world record for the Mile at Turku, Finland, with a time of 3 minutes 60.7 seconds.
NUMBER TWO
ON THE TURF
On the Turf, there were the Queen's great successes which
Str
in
and
Sports Diary
TODAY
Dr Bannister has now hung enabled her to top the list of! up his shoes for good and re-winning owners for the first
With · 'Lindwall and Miller tired from the track in his time; the retirement of
nearing the end of their carcera prime of life and at the peak of Gordon Richards, the first jockey
as shock bowlers and the Eng- his form. He feels that the ever to be knighted; and the
land trio just starting tis walk of life he has chosen, to payment of £37,800 for a mare,
could herald on era of English be a doctor, will make it quite Festoon, by a British owner
bowling superkrily not enjoyed impossible for him to give of his | the face of strong American
Soccer Seafarers Football Match: Omoors
since the days of Larwood, best.
competition.
and Codejs v the Rest at 439 p.m. Vocey Bowes and Allyn. On the soccer field the Mid-
Cricket Wanderers, Jand's
The Third Test England • Aus- club, Wolverhampton tralla in Melbourne,
won magnificent victories over the crack Russian and Hungarian clubs, Spartak
Honved respectively. The club captain Wright, who captains England, Billy proved himself to be still among the foremost half-backs in the world, while Stanley Matthows, though 30 years of age, showed in a display against the World Champions, Germany, that he is still a very great winger.
If Bannister rates Number One, as is the view of the sports writers, then his friend and rival Chris Chataway must come as Number Two, Indeed there are those who would rate Chataway above Bannister though there is no really sound reason for doing so.
d
"Gubby" Allen, former Eng- land skipper and last bowler, said to me I would not like to compare this with the body- line days (in which Allen was at Happy directly concerned) but Tyson und Statham's bowling was top
was
absolutely thrilling."
TOMORROW
Racing Sixth Race Meeting Valley Gaddling Bell at Noon,
Rond Haze
Harrier Road Race, Kin Magistracy | class.
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RESTORED PRESTIGE,
One can see their point, how ever. In Britain there is usually the louder cheer for the gallant loser and it is not forgotten that Chataway not only helped Ban-
In the cricket world the sea-c.M.B. (8'pool. All at 10 p.m. bon as a captain. He has not nister to his breaking of four minules for the Mile bus Lanty son was notable for the ad-Army v R.A.F. (8'poo) at 4
The match has also helped restore the prestige of Len Hut-
too. Mortover, he won the vance of two young amateurs, Dly 3B1 Sonebors Prizon Bock-batsman, But lux, good to see realised English hopes as a Miles in the Empire and Colin Cowdrey and Peter May, L. Bal Wan: Jardines V Commonwealth Games in Van who give promise of becoming
England winning a Test match C.M.B. V Telephone: C & W without undue dependence on couver in the Games record two of England's great batsmen. Frane Dairy Farm & HAMC Hutton's Individui scores, time of 13. minatas 38.2, peconds, England is not a county of 1 Dan A41: gamos så Happy Valley,
Perhaps s what endeared | cyclists.. Yet against the Con-
Chudren's Sports Chataway to the British publictinental stars it was England a p.m....
POP
REME, AT 1,20 p.m.
Annual Children's Boris at K.C.C.And though Towazeed with Hutton's, omission of Bodser and
Unconscious humour,
IVE: SUST
FLY, ON
BUT: DOISTA WAKE HIM
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