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THE - CHINA MAIL: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17; · 1955.

EVENING OUT FOR SPORTSMEN

THE BIG KICK-OFF IS SEVEN DAYS AWAY

THE TURF'S IN SHAPE, THE REFEREES' EYES HAVE BEEN TESTED By L M. MacTAVISH

The big kick-off for the 1955 season is only seven days away. At such a time there are doubtless some who might crave the mystic powers of the clairvoyant while others, happy in the whole glorious uncertainty of what is surely the greatest of all team games, are content to take their foot ball as it comes.

Such an attitude is neither indicative of apathy or indifference: rather is it founded on that praiseworthy spirit of hope and optimism that somehow permeates the physical structure of all who find their sporting entertainment, their récréallon, their thrills, and even their living, in the game.

In

In this respect Hongkong is, for all these inter-team moves, rhum of the present time and Hittle different from u thousand that it is neither purposeful nor there is no moju loss of prestigo und une other suçcer centres. expedient to say very much in being a good, competent pro- Foolball is the main tople

about it here it seems that in being

but to the fessional footballer than there is conversation in many corners

watchful observer

an ordinary linerant some bright and open, others as long as the domenle affairs club-to-club amateur, maybe just a litle shady---but ot the Hongkong Football with all the recent migrations | Association remain almost en-

GROUNDS IN TOP SHAPE going on among the top stare tirely in the hands of nelive the man-in-the-stant is going club offelals Hitle can be done to be pushed to the limit to about making any administra-

leekle just where his personal | tive changes. loyally should be.

In this he will be tom between seeing his favourite player in unfamiliar colours, or watching unfamiliar faces in the colours of his favourite team.

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WEARING THIN

I took a quick trip round the grounds on which senior, games will be played and I was agree- ably surprised to see them all in very good condition. It is obvious that the wet summer has done the turf a world of good,

I was particularly pleased to

that Caroline

has, be, see

superficially at least, made a good recovery from the ruth- got towards the less caning it end of last season and

during the earlier progress of the Summer League.

The truth of the matter at the moment is that however cordial relations may appear to be be. Faween

the officiins of the various Chinese clubs and between players and officials too... it is little more than a superficial

veneer

well polished but wearing thin ................ in Some places very thin.

***

One of our leading Chinese officials said to me only the other day that he found it in creasingly difficult to rust, the world--or even the signature--of anyone. He told me too of some of the approaches made to his players and he explained some thing of the fondant in which these approaches were wrapped,

an-

At the moment it is looking real verdant and soft but the teat will be in the ability of the

stand up 40 now turf to other heavy programme.

The Club sward looks magni- fleent and is a tribute to the work of the ground staff. The Club officiais. of course, have not permitted any abuse far,

but there is no doubt that the ground is in even batter shape now than it was at this time a year ago.

I am not and neither do I re-used recently for purposes other led to be an expert in Chinese them football and the normally uftairs, but I have no reason to rich turf មានទ suffered con- doubt the authenticity of what I Įsiderably. have been told.... Nevertheless

Sportsmen and sportswomen had an evening out when they met at a London hotel for the annual “Sportsmen's Party." Ted Drake (left) manager of Chelsea Football Club, who is very optimistic about his team's chances this coming season, chatted happily to boxer Len Harvey who is now retired and runs

́a public house near London.—London Express Photo.

Goals And More Goals

Will Bring The Crowds

Soccer & Gold Back To

Says DON REVIE

Goals and still more goals will bring the gold back into the game. Those were my feelings when I read of the 182 goals scored in last Satur- day's 46 League games.

Boxer Who Broke A Policeman's Nose Is

In Town

Back In

BY GEORGE WHITING

London.

Professional boxing being a highly commercialised venture, we all went tremendously go-ga when a Cuban Heavyweight arrived hård to earn £4,000, and uttered plaintive blents about the colbur of his pants.

By contrast, nobody gave two hoots when another kind of Heavyweight, an English amateur, returned home from distant parts with the laudable idea of making a comeback in the cause of sport.

In a humble effort to podress this regrettably unbalanced state of affaly let me announce that Pty Miles, one of the heaviest punchers seen in London since the war is among us ogain, and renewing his membership the Polytechnic BC.

ALARM

of

Miles, before he left for nn aircraft Attor's job in Canada 10 months ago, had been Heavy- weight Champion of the RAF and London, and a full-scale International against Austria,

from

He learned his boxing with Stowe BC. and, until a ten- dency to bleed rather freely the nose led to a pre- mature "retirement," his forth- right hooking spread consider- able alarm and despondency among the Heavyweights of his day.

Eddie Hearn, Peter

Joe Crickmar, Toch, Arthur Worrall, Albert Darvill and Jack Gard- ner's two brothers will all bear witness to the quality of Ray Miles's hammering.

of his 52 contests, he won 44. My own pet Miles memory Albert of the night at the Hall when he put a policeman in hospital with a broken nose.

Well, he is now back in town,

in the long run, do nothing but somewhere.

to

-London Express - Servies)..

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I sympathise with the goalkeepers who had the thankless task of fishing the ball out of the net so frequently. But who can deny that the busier the goalkeepers 20 years old, weighing 14 stone, the happier are the crowds?

and cager for the kind of action Boundary Street is once again

[that might catch the selectorial and the Royal

Naturally

When full backs started immaculate,

all Soccer sup-

to players freely express what is eye of the London ABA. are at Causeway Bay porters excited by the phy cffside toetics goal scoring wrong Navy pitch

with the game, but in wonderful

of slumped to an average of 2.39 football, as in performance

other walks of By the way, he tells me ho looks ready to stand up to а

Wolves in scoring 19 goals in game in the season 1022-23. te, full and frank comment, has no intention of turning pro- dough season. The Army Sports

three Ground at Sooltunpoo has been

matches. Have they

which is a story I As soon as the present offside however anpalatable it may be fessional,

have heard before picked up something new Fr law was adopted, scoring sonre: to certain clubs and officials, will, seem acts when they toures again until in 1931-32 an average Russla

the of 3.68 goals were scored in good. season? At least they have every League match,

lesson that I must confess I was astonished Already bare and discoloured earned the vital

physical Atness is not enough, After the rocent war the goal by the sudden heated interjec-patches are clearly visible from

it is worth noting too that 277 in 1949-50. This, I would average slipped down again to tion from a third person who the road and unless the ground

on the present hard grounds staff can achieve a remedial Wolves masterplece it looks as though passing game so

are using the short say, was due to bad attacking favoured by play as much as tight defence. the pitch will be very hard and

Continentals. This, plus their Now, once more the goals are the turf very thin before the

usual zip

and,

Let them come in a fitness, has coming. season is for advanced.

these brought

ar torrent. More goals mean bet spectacular That leaves the controversial results. And then,, one must re-

ter football and that's what Government Stadium. It is

member that every one of the pulls the crowds in, not a 0-0 Wolves' forwards. is a potential draw.

was present.

He said "When the policy of dog bites dog becomes an ac- ceptable practice in any com- munity, whether

it is la sport or elsewhere, success will för a Ume go to the one who bites the deeper. I say for a time because eventually the one who has been bitten will devise new and more powerful means both of defence and attack.".

་

One wonders ir poes/blo success is worth all this bitter annual upheaval. Maybe those

In

who suggest that the HKFA pro- vision for profesionalism Colony soccer should be invoked have the right Iden. Certainly

I would eliminate much of the

difficult indeed to find super- atives to describe the playing pitch which must be bettered by few the soccer world over. One can only hope it is going to be put to good use.

I also took

n walk over

APPROVED EYES

10

Since the introduction of the modern referee into football he has been a natural target for of the folks partisan derision

goolscorer.

How many League teams can boast the same free scoring

attack?

NEW ATTACK

So

as well.

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SPORTS QUIZ

1. When were the "Ashes" orginated and how did they got their name?

2. When did a Great Britain representative last win a Men's Olymple field-events title?

3. Who is the only, player to have won the Men's Singles in the Wimbledon,

American French,

adi Australian Championships in the same year?

4. Has a bateman ever hit his first century in Brst-class cricket in a Test Match? If so, who?

5. How many balls are used

In Snooker?

In what sport are events started by the national flag of the country in which the event is held?

7. The

D.

World—Heavyweight boxing title has only onco been won on a foul, Who bent whom and when?

8. What distance must a run- ning raco be before it con officially be termed "marathon "?

a

In which sport is the term

"Double Oxer" used?

10. When may a golfer play his ball while it is moving?

(Answers See Pare'17)

Only Injury Can Prevent

Jones

To Become The

Most

Capped Rugger Player

+

Will the evergreen Newport schoolmaster Ken Jones, Olympic sprinter and one of the fastest rightwing threequarters of the post-war era, become the most-capped player of all time by next April?

SUPERIOR WEIGHT Blackheath, the "Club" and Rugby's genior club, founded 07 years ago, put up a stout fight for three-quarters of the game,

then But

collapsed under tho

Footballers claim, and in my view quite rightly, that they are tied hund and foot once they sign for a League club. Now there in talk in some quarters of GAGGING players The suggestion is all too the Valley were so many tough

Several prorainent people in the I asked Billy Wright and Roy game, including managers, are obvious

but unless some- Junior struggles will take place thing is done to rid the game of in

Swinbourne for Thier Im-Bu the months to come. The

that suggesting

professional the wholesale exploitation of our pitches are

pressions looking trim and

Judging by his scintillating performance for Brigadier H. L. Glyn-Hughes' alx-· the of

Moscow footballers should be barred foolballers who

country International XV against Blackheath in the customary all-star ‘curtain-raiser' after all sigo green and as far as the playing.

Dynamos and Spartak. They from writing for the Press. amateur forms for the various surfaces are

replied: concerned there

"Those chaps are

to the new season at Twickenham on September 3, only Injury can prevent him fast they could catch rabbits!"

FREE SPEECH clubs, it is less obvious where will be no cause for conipjoint

exceeding George V. Stephenson's tally of 42 caps between 1921 and 1930. it is all going to end.

from those players whose

This was before the match Wolves in which

trounced Frankly I was shocked when Jones, an automatic choice for, be collected a Regan cross hear] will remain as an Inspiration to games take them there,

Manchester City 7-2. So after-I heard this. Since when have Wales since International rugby the 25-yard line and waltzed future legions of players.

been denied free words I cornered Wright and footballers

was resumed after the war, has through despite attentions. His Swinbourne with: "Don't tell | speech? Are we a class apart now won thirty-nine consecutive best effort was yet to come, me the Russlans are any faster from the rest of the nation? caps. He has also made several however, In the dying seconds of suppose this is a follow-up Test appearances for the British the game he received a pass in than you chapa: if they are, I

to the numerous articles which Isles during the Australian and his own half, made ground fast don't want to meet them!"

rom time Yes, it is obvious that the have appeared

to New Zealand tour of 1950, but and kicked inside for for-

Iwo who take up their position be- | Welver' trip to Russia has put a

time by famous players. In these do not count for this part-wards to carry OTA the good superior weight of the Enter.. yond the touchline.

new edge on to their play. many cases I have never agreed cular record. Wales will play 4 work. When they were stopped national

pack and the greater matches But their poller of fast attack- with what the players wrote, International

this just, Inside the 25-yard area, out thrust of the backs to ordinarying raids is also evident in other but I would defend their right winter.

went the ball back to Jones, pleasant, open game 36-14, who had followed up, and he Encouraging news for England teams this season, I think this to say what they felt about the

At Twicketham, te

that is

scored went on to round the full-back was a good thing. The sooner wo

Martin

the Ilegan, three superb tries, "made" cut out that negative defensive

and touch down.

and Lancashire out- What can play, the better it will be for the than demanding a rule whereby down disallowed. after

be more farcical another, and had another touch

half. was an quick-think- game. Several teams this season players should submit

being Кста is 32 years old, but keeps incisive as ever. Ducien

fast off the mark nows bundled into the "touch-in-goal" have tried to overcome the paper articles to their clubs be area. In addition he stopped a

sal superbly fit and remains out atopper

by opting fore they were printed? Fancy seemingly contain Blackheath try lor wherever rugby is played,

the French left-winger, scored centre-half

on his own as a winger. Popu ne try; the Italian G. Manchester City's deep centre- on articio

being handed the club offices on Monday; read down his opposite number when never style of play. forward

into by overhauling and bringing his phenomedal success has

has Riccardi was outstanding in the Wing halves are also more on by the Board on Tuesday; or he was in full cry for the line.

affected htt natural Une-outs, and his compatriot the attack this year and this sored

by them and then gracious-

modesty. remember him G. Fornari worked very hard naturally gives the opposing ly passed on to the newspaper The tamo Wis only

In the loose and scored tea telling me rather analously, a Inside-forwards more room to concerned. manoeuvre,

This type of sup- minutes old when the Newport few years ago, when he had a try. Of course there are still those pression has no part in modern Ayer cut into the centre, drow wrist injury in November: "I the whole defence on to him, must get this wrist right in time who will say: "You mustn't take The fact is that footballers and sent in Ireland's centre N. for the Trials. Once you're out risks in defence, you must stop have a point of view; and very J. Henderson over in the the the other side scoring arst, and often the only way they can put corner. And just before the in- you may never get back in the hope you can grab a goal" But it over is through the Press, Sa terval he put the finishing side" for the golden era of the game, let's hear no more about trying touch to a movement started by football was nevér defensive,

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Shut up and restore order.... a few anti-referee slogans that come quickly to mind, but recent events in Hongkong have put an untimely death to

a top favourite that has been heard in Britain's football grounds. for countless years.... 'Pawn your whistle and buy a pair of spectacles",

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game

to keep their mouths shut. The A. B. Edwards.

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· Regan's old rival Mike Hardy,

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