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SATURDAY SOCCER SPOT

THE... CHINA - MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1955.

APPLAUD THE SELECTORS FOR GIVING MORE YOUNG PLAYERS THEIR CHANCE

By 1. M.

MacTAVISH

Some time ago the English FootbaH Association Bulletin had on its One cover a cartoon of a party of men around the bar in the local inn. of the individuals was depicted in er.nging attitude and the caption to the picture .... as near as I can reca}} was "The man who agreed with the Selectors'.

That such a picture should be considered humorous merely emphasises the fact that generally speaking the 'amateur' selector always feels that he can do a better job than these people who have to carry out the job, and who have eventually to stand or fall by their decisions.

The amateur 13 11 good wicket in this respect for he ent frame his suggested selections in ambiguous terms and, with t touch of verbose skill, he ran appear to be right no mutter how things go.

The job of picking teams for big games is not un easy one here in Hongkong There are many facts to be considered when arriving at lividun! nelections and for that reason {

must congratulate the Interport Committee On

choice of players for the All-Hongkong ganie against Adinira FC

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PARTICIPATION

know only 103 well that for 23 there are two distinct schools of SPORT is concerned, thaught thrut whether or not a goalkeeper should be challenged white in possession, but as long as such a challenge is absolutely fair and legitimate within the rules it must be accepted, and

IN

I thought, and material sellem, could now be given to providing who better facilities for those are on

the way

the up, then poors of the new Stadium goalkeeper uses legitimate would be more than ever assured means to combat the challenge of a steady supply of the right then he should be penalised. kind of sportsmen to attract the

jerowds wo their fire new aronu, It is

opinion that retaining a hold on the ball and merely placing it on the ground wattsfies neither the letter nor the spirit of the rules

my own

Much more imporlarat, they would be doing something really worthwhile to help the ordinary

празно everyday sporlamen

Will probably never rise to stardom but who deserve belter—much better-than they are gesting at

1 undresland that one of our senior refaces intends to make this muiler a talking point at the moment. This

forthcoming meeting and it will be most interesting to hear what The considered views Mantelgas' actions are

Firs! I applaud The selection of Szele Yhú ns explain youngster has made astonishing progress since his switch in a KMB emergency from outside- right so full-buck. tie alway tries to play the ball cleanly and he will make a thoughtful and confident captaki for the Colony ride.

f applauct to the new right wing and white there is always something sentimental about the removal

established

from the limelight 1 don't think any falt-minded enthusiast will mugest that the dropping of Ho Ying-fun and Chu Wing-keting is premature.

a good run They have but but this season, exrept in flecting flashes, they have bera playing on their past repula-

tions.

A

The All Hongkong side is good one and Admira FC will have Lo be an accomplishe

the local team to beat Bentatives.

repre-

However, I wish I could also voice the same views about the Hongkong Selection.

emergency

about

THEY DESERVE BETTER

Now I am going to leave the worries of big-time football and bring up once agata the ques- tom of the Inadequate facilities avaliable for the junior players

WEEK-END GAMES

pro

Here aw is the full Kramine of First Division games trwa for decision this week- end.

Today

Soul's China v Aamy at Caro-

who take part in the gumes atine Hill ut 4 pan. Happy Valley.

Joe Davis Attains Perfection

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Perfect position and balance as Jon Davis and the 78. 6d. cue go into action.—— Express Photo.

Week-end Softball

One more fully scheduled week-end for softball fans lies ahead, but mostly of unevenly matched games. The best ones will be the U.S. Navy vɛ. CAA and Delawares vs. St. Joseph's of the Senior "A" League, University vs. Pandas 'B' and Oversons 'A' vs. Blackhawks 'A' are the "B" Division matches and the former will be a close tussle.

The USS Wilson will play for the US Navy this week. These American sailors possess heavy stugging abilities And sound fundamentais but they need a lot of praglice before they can challenge any one of the best local teams.

CAA still maintain their third place in the Senior "A" League)

the A$ they But-manoeuvred

Club v RAF at Sookunpoo at Warriors last week. They will

I spent a lot of Hime in the 4 pm, Valley recently, and I could not [help but feel that very #40e is being done by the appropriate the authorities

Improve amenities.

to

I might not have produced this matter this week bat for a paragraph [ come across in United Kingdom Sunday paper of January 23.

This announced that in one of the cities in Britain the local authorities had decided to spend #50,000 to provide and improve fornities for the youth of the community In the city's main playing areoS.

Ini an

ageing Veteran Ng Ree-cheung พ.เง brought into the Hongkong Selection against Grasshoppers $(HK) 800,000

This amount is approximately

and Is

'Tomorrow

Sing Tho 4 p.m.

KMB at Club al

Navy V Police at Causeway Bay at 4 pm.

Wahoo

Aces

and

The Undergraduates upset the have time and again upret the Pandas Beca

weeks ago,ex-champ a few

that they is believed

will Colleen Acts during the past endeavour to repeat once more sensors. this hard-earned victory. The Pandas, on the other hand, seem to he

And playing betier

pre ready to take the scholars Into

camp.

Blackhawk Aces will defeat the Uverseus wilh ease.

be expected to liquidate the tars though their pitchers are rather weak.

be

they

De

The Junior tournaments will

"mostly

affairs, one-way Com is and Blackhawk Becs are far more experienced thun Young Delawares are definite the rookie Overseas Jt. and the

will run ly inferior in every department Lynxes. They

away Wah Ying and compared to their powerful with big scores. opponents, the Saints. Should Pandas Jr. may have a ding- steadier and commit dong battle but the latter are lewer helding errors they shall tovoured to win. be able to check the Saints from CAA v Kitchee at Scokumpoo running away with the score.

Ladies' Loop, In the

Wadoo Bees will clash with the hardy St. Joseph's and Pandas Aces Pondare.tes. Both sides have theating power and their fielding tho only teams in Pennant race. With Vic Pedruco is

good. The former, with on the mound, they are expected taster pitcher and better balanced to blank the young indian line-up, will be expected to win.

However they may let their reserves play and make the game more interesting.

at 4 pm,

The big evert of the week-end is the clash of KMB and Sing Tao at the Club tomorrow. After the way the Tigers handled Kitchee last week the Busmen will have to treat this game with great care.

hefty KMB have The forward

and there is no doubt at all that financial commitment however il strength to see them through and ho played a serviccuble gaine. is regarded.

ced...but

I

believe there is generally plenty of pro that the explanatory comment in the side, but if Sing Tao can Be that as It may, however, that went with the money is to reproduce last week's brilliance it is surely a retrograde step to less important than the magnis will be a very close affair. selec him for the Austrian tude of the sum involved. One neries to the exclusion of our promising youngsters.

of the legislators in the city con- On the leg of form KMB will cerned sald that in the widest start slight favourites but if they sense they could not afford the ure to justify that confidence expenditure,

they will have to play in top gear and

11s inclusion menns also that Lou Chi-ping has to play out of position, and it means loo But he went on to say that his from start to finish that young players, ke Sit colleagues had decided that pro-wn then Sing Tao will still be Pet-yin for instance, are denied gress demanded tharl facilities in with a chance.

his career.

an opportunity to get the bene-should be improved, and if the The big attraction today will fictal experience playing youth of the day were to be against a crack Continental team stained in the role of active, be the meeting of South China 235) | €103 Army at Carolino Hill for surely no one would try rather than spectator sportsmen, Departures have played havoc to suggest that Ng Kee-cheung | then something vital and for- with the oldlers' side in recent requires, or will benefit from, reaching had to be done to con- Buch experience at this stage of vince them of the importance of weeks, but as they have already participation in organised sport beaten South China at Caroline Levd encourage them to do so. Hill this season they will be out Such mm attitude, if voiced to repeat their success... but on form South China will start here in Hongkong, would be like firm favourites

in the arm to sport

In the other week-end games sentrally. I realise that Govern- meat has done well na far as RAF and Kitchee look good for Luilding the great new Stadium the points while Navy and who Is excerned....but that is surely Police may well call it qulis at

for the few, for the stare-as the final whistle.

DEBATABLE

One of the most colourful per- sonalities to come into Colony football this season is Manteigas, the Macao goalkeeper, plays regularly for St. Joseph's.

Manteigas Is, in many ways, an entertainment, This 19 purtly because of his unorthodox tactics and partly because he has a flare for making even the mosi nominal of goalkeeping tasks look spectacular.

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He is a good goalkeeper but I belleve that he is guilty breaking the rules of the game. am of the opinion that he is being allowed to do this by rợ- ferees who

uncertain seem

about one aspect of his play, and who are giving him the

bepedit of the doubt on to

Don't Sleep Too Much

Smoke If It

And

Is Of

Any Help

whether what ho u doing at Says SIR ADOLPHE ABRAHAMS

present is legitimate or other-

wise,

When Manteigas collects the

Sir Adolphe Abrahams, 70-year-old, is Medical Officer

ball he takes his normal steps to to the British Olympics team and President of the British kick it clear but, if he is chal-Association of Sport and Medicine.

lengod, he puts the ball on the In his younger days he was a fine athlete himself and ground still holding it with his wrote copiously on athletics and health and such sub- hands.

When the opportunity arises be carries on with the job of trying to get the ball away and

jects.

So his views on athletics – aro noted throughout Britain.

if he is challenged again ho Laat week he bluntly told a repeats his previous move.

gathering of more

than

hundred athletes and coaches

Sir Adolphe also debunked some popular Afnem fads.-. In recent games against Sing in London that

Early to bod??: That, was an Tao and the Army he moved drop any hypocritical

they should old-fashioned, idea, Seven hours'

ideas sicer about the penalty area, putting about sport and go all out to people, eight enough for any- was enough for most the ball on the ground three,

body. four, and oven: Ova times beforo

clearing it upfield.

win

His words word; "Thozo la No smoking? An 01h3000.

It is tho considered opinion too much hypocrisy in this mlicht become, so fidgety, utier of many soccer, exports that country that the sport is the giving up molding that this each time Manteigas goes thing, and not the winning would offset and bement to be through this set he is in breach like to see a man hating to be obtained from it.

of the nileg They feel that beaten. Throwing your arms The key to physical: firsma as he does not reisand his bold round a man and saying, “Thank" lay in hard work, be explained: on the ball he bould be God you beat me? in mich worph Drew Almont Chapel wtbh to Go penalleed for over-Deceying Set than breaking down in learn too islands, wicke

Tribesmen.

THE

WEEK-END

the

Felines

However, known as giant-killers as

and

Ex-champ Wishoo Aces South China Ladles will have an easy time with the Colicen Aces and Bees.

THE PROGRAMME

Today

2.00 p.m.: (A) Comets VG Overseas 'B'; (B) Wah Ying vs. Pandas Jr,

'B' 3.30 p.m.: (A) Colicens vs. Soull; China Ladies: (B) Blackhawks 'B' vs. Lynxes.

Tomorrow

10.00 a.m.: (A) Wahoos 'A' vs. Colleens 'A'; (B) HKU vs. Pandas 'B'.

11.30 am.: (A) Delawares v. St. Joseph's.

Saturday night in Leicester Square. The heart of London's night life. A whirling of 'chattering pleasure-going crowds and flashing neon signs.

In a small hall on the west side, all is quiet. Опе light hangs low over a green baize table. The ball holds. 200 a fraction of the capacities of the super-cinemas which bound it on all sides.

But here history is being All this has served to mcke made. For the night is Jamuncy Joe Davis what he is. Perhaps 22; the pluce, Leicester Square even more amazing, is what it Hall And Joe Davis sinks his has not made him. He is no aixteenth black to bring his potting machine. He Rets ' snooker break to 147. A world kick out of every shot, The record-perfection.

"sitter" which any amatour would carelessly smash home commands all his attention.

In theory, it could be beaten. A foul snooker before any balls are potted leaves a player with free ball. This, with another black, makes possible a freak 100 break. With 100-break players those things happen.

FOR EVER

In compiling that 147 Joo showed just how human he is,

and

With the score at 103, Just don'i

having played one of the great- est shola in his life, it

was then pretty well plain sailing- by Davis standards, that is. But afterwards he admitted that he was to nervous that he nearly fluffed every shot, and the ma pot was just about the worst shot he ever made.

No, the name Joe Davis will command a special place in the record books for ever.

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is fitting rewred. No one has greater claim to this high- est of all sporting becours, No sport has ever produced such a dominant figure as the button- other centuries, was made with noord Emperor of Pot (his car number, CUE 1).

For twenty years he World Snooker Champion.

The break like most of his

A 7s 6d cue, bought many years ago. Another odd Incet to was Snooker King Davis-he prefers Ho billiards. He holds the world he billiards record break-not la- wanted to rest from the strain cluding the anchor stroke treaks

gave up the title because

of top match play. That was in and the like of 1,874, 1946. Then he had made 200

century breaks.

He has since continued to

ON ONE EYE

meet the world's best-although ly on one eye, His right eye Is And he has done it all virtual- tournaments Inbelled

пос

"World Championship." He has "lazy", and proctically useless.

Having reached the top, where given them all a start, except brother Fred, and in just over now? As when he relinquished eight years han chalked up a

the world crown, Joo has ideas other 376 centuries,

of casing off a bit and letting the others have a go. he In his heart

not

Leicester

could take it easy. For Joe Davis is

But can he case up? Two perfectionist. Every shot, days after his record he was whether made nt Square Hall or on his table at playing brother Fred. He chalk-

ed up a break of 139. home, is aimed at gaining com-

A Anul word

Joo: from plete control over the ball.

in "Snooker is war. The ball is my To keep it he has put hours of road work and trained enemy, do everything to beat with

professional footballers. it."

Muscle-building for Joe estimates he has over 10,000 miles billiards tables.

snooker?

wallfed

around

SPARTAN THOROUGHNESS

Since first handling a cue, as a ten-year-old messing about on a table at his father's hotel, Joe has devoted himself to the game with Spartan thorough

ness.

--(London Express Service).

CHARLTON TURN DOWN OFFER

TO PLAY HONVED

Jimmy Sced, former Tolten- him, Shefeld Wednesday and England inside forward AVIN Charlton Athletic At first he practised up to ten manager of hours a day. Even now, the down an offer to play Herved, for the last 21 years, has turned world's best player these thirty the Hungarian Champlons.

two

years, he puts in at least

The match would have taken hours daily.

this mont "And," says Mrs Davis, "he place in Antwerp often snatches + final five Said Seed: "We were sorry to 2.00 p.m.: (A) U.S. Navy vs. minutes to make sure of this have to decline a match with 'CAA.

or that stroke when leaving for mich attractive opponents. But he will our home commitments made it' practice half an hour on

ото they

Overseas 'A' 3.30 p.m. (A) va. Blackhawks 'A'; (B) Wahoos 'B' vs. Pandas Ladies

a match." Afterwards

a shot quite impossible.”—London Ex- that did not go as planned. press Service.

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