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SATURDAY SOCCER SPOT

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1935.

IT LOOKS LIKE EASTERN OR SOUTH CHINA FOR SEASON'S TOP HONOURS

Says I. M.

MacTAVISH

Is there such a thing as a formula for soccer success? Sitting in the grandstand at one of the opening games of the season and listening to a long recital of behind-the-scenes 'facts' of why this and that Chinese player had left one club for another I could not help but wonder about the flecting successes and fickle failures of football down through the years. It is unnecessary to look back more than a few months to get some excellent examples of the almost imperceptible margin between the two. Playing in the First Division of the Football Lingue in England Inst year, Chelsea enjoyed u most successful season and finished up as Champions for the first time in their long career.

were beaten and gerally accepted being this was on infringment of were blown In Mand, and ambitious organisa- | rules! 1

Hons joalt for the enterprising flow wrong they were individual and encourage him to how Ittle they knew was firmly prepare himself for advance- | underlined by the referee who ment all excopt the HKFA allowed the goal to stand ..a painful reminder that ignorance

The drums the Janfares celebration

of the nehlevervenl

and during the closed reason the officials of the club would have been justified in dreaming One

dreams of still greater victories

in the new season.

if current comment is to be be

hieved.

During the latter half of lost Aaron several well-known re- Jereva applied to the FA for

Let's look at Blackpool on the other hand. The 1954-60 reason was among the worst in their long history and in fet it was only in the closing weeks of thermalderalicer for upgrading from season that

Neither

the

narikul revivalClass Two to Class One.

assigned lo

saved then-Stanley Matthews and all-from

Their applications were duly Ignominus acknowledged and at least one dive into the Second Division. f the officials was under the

Blackpool players

he had been nor the ufflelals could have had impression that a very happy inter-season holl-

a particular gume late last seams as his examin day for Ele: future prospects

tion plece, The officials con- wore hardly rosy.

cerned were also informed that the matter would be considered it the end of the season,

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During the long closes season they heard anting from the FA The old commilters were disolved and new committees were duly elected for the cut- rent year but still not a word about upgrading.

Football, however, is as Dekle as a wonKen's mind m smile. With exactly the same players available to both teams, Blackpool have shut to She top of the League and Chelsea bave dived to the second last rung on the ladder....and already the United radio comedians in the Kingdom are looking up their Choisen joke books once eugain,

It is safe to assume that with the some players officials holding sway the two teams are playing the same sort of game as they played last season, but in some strange way the tactles that | contacted brought SUCCESS

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League Cricket Starts Today

The 1955/56 Cricket League season gets off to a start today with more known about the weaknesses of most of the teams than about their strong pointa.

Army North meet Army South at Sookunpoo. The two teams are reported to be evenly matched and both, it seems, should be very much in the running for Cham-

a season.

an Lin-

and though not as solid a team There are batsmen in the side, in all-round strength, as in sea- but not of the type that can be song past, they are most unlike relied upon to leave a solidly on their own ground to give

of

to a Servica store on the board before the away four points parade

tall-enders

team with ita normal early sea- staric However, the opposition cannot son teething troubles. lay claim to great bowling strength and an even match should result.

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It was pure coincidence that he should be silting in pionship honours. entrance hall of London Airport when the South African. Team

INC, at home to the Optimista, | Royal Navy—always were returning home. They all start the season, without Kitchell, known quantity not only in knew him instantaneously, and

their first match but throughout the men from the Union whose or Minu. Under the cap-

taincy of Arthur eagerly have reasonable variety in their Rumjahn, they autographs had been

Scorpions are at home to the sought all Summer, themselves bowling but, on paper, not too Royal Air Force at Chater Road indulged in

of her much batting strength. worship.

Waller Hammond, In fact, was there to meet his wife in from Amsterdam and did not know Africana were due the South

None of them had ever away. played against the geat Gloucestershire all-rounder, now 52 years old, but he had wrnight X

Should IRC's balting get into havoc with bat, ball and in tho slips

illustrious stride there

home among their

may be a pandecessors.

victory, But should one of the The chance meeting with Optimists' batsmen be allowed to Wally" reminded me of a foot-teltle down there will be a great ball match at Fratton Park round battle for the points about 1923 between Portsmouth Recreio

at home to and Bristol Rovers. The doyen Craigengower and, though there WEEK'S MATCHES

of the Pressbox sald to me; are several new names in either "That youngster on the Rovers' The match between South left wing. China and Eastern at Caroline

is going overshadows of a batsman." Hill on Sunday

in the senior everything else programme this incoming week. The full schedule is as follows: Today': Club V Novy

KMD Club Stadium,

St Joseph's

at Caroline Hill; Sing Tho RAF All games start at 5.30 p.m.

at Causeway Bay.

GREAT GAIN Tomorrow: CAA Y Kwony; Wah

at Club Stachum; South Hammond was then a pro- Chinu Eastern at Caroline desstoni with Gloucestershire. I: Police v. Army at Boun- Later he turned amateur, then dary Street. All games start

Anally professional again, and at 6.30 p.m.

amateur onde more to captain Tuesday: Eastern v. Sing Tao England in the Tests. He was at Club Studium: St Joseptrs not born in Gloucestershire el- el- South China at

ከቲ Caroline though

was educated at HI; RAF Club at Boundary Cirencester Grammar School. He Street. Kick-off 5.40 p.m.

told me once that he was born Wednesday: Army v KMB in the Royal Artillery Barracks at Dover where his father was at Club Stadium at 5.40 p.m.

Regular soldier, but when very young he was taken to Malta and

lived there many years while his father was stationed there. So Kent's loss was Gloucestershire's great gain.

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When

for afflation and registration the ustin forms were circulated. No

Thursday: Kitche v. CAA at motion was made of any up: Caroline Hill; Kwong Wah v. groding. One of the officials Police at Club Stadium.

Both the Association and asked what had happened in the games start in 5.40 p.m.

Having studied the programme and believe it or belleve il nol

he Was cively am of the opinion that the Eastern-South China calmly asked to write again 10

1 widle the FA and

of battle will get the bigger build remind them the whole affair That, of

is the Eastern-Sing Tao up, it

What will provide the One is immediately tempted course, was the tast straw. This match

particular referee has decided to better play. forget the whole thing and two others have decided not affiliate to the HKFA.

Mishandling such as this the surest way to discourage the very people who should be given every assistance to make real or are we so well progress off for referees this season that Jumbor officials can be ignored.

I hardly think so.. STRANGELY IGNORANT Try and tell a footballer that he doesn't know the rules of the game and you can be sure that In no time you'll be on the end of an argument receiving designed

to convince you that you are mistaken. yet, truth to tell, lots of active footballers are of many of strangely Ignorant the little points that crop up in a match.

1:1

different stances are much

reversal a complete hardly likely to take place,

Nevertheless there is already thai KMB have on Indication fared

annual the badly reshuffle of players and at this moment it looks very ch like Eastern and South China battling it

it out for top honours.

shouk! Kliches, however, be watched for they may very well surprise the critics by de- the ing a lot of damage among topnotchers. They have a tast and active attack and provided the veteran defenders do

not crack up they will not be easily beaten.

It has often been sald that SUCCESS cannot be bought in football and the history of the game in the United Kingdom has many fine examples of the truth of such a statement.

Translations from the Colony's vernacular press would suggest that there are those in Our Soccer midst who are out to prove it wrong and if the stories are as reliable as current form they may very weli aucceed.

NOTHING LIKE PROMOTION

I have heard that hem, the match will be very to make a goodish art timers

much a battle of the same old- who have faced cach That, at least,

other twice a your for many was an understatement. It was,

seasons, of course, Hammond, who had several seasons with the Rovers as u professional outside left, the same as Bili Edrich did with Tottenham Hotspur.

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TODAY

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P.M. New Contro

M. S. Lloyd T. F. R. TOMORROW

much better on paper, but runs Craigengower's batting looks

carefully collected variety at bowling may not

balance quite

345, L. up against Eddic Gosano's big hitting in one of Waters. his carefree moods.

against en

En array of bowlers with considerable experience of terminating his innings.

R.

A.M. Old Courie True, George Souza is quite

932. A. Middier. Wright; 802. us capable of a big score nil on

MackieA. G. 8. McCallum. his own, but King's Park has

0.56, D. S. Goldie B. Miller; 0.05,

R. MacLean/E. C, L. G. King/T. never been one of his happyDrown. 124 pm. New Couric: D.10. hunting grounds and he is up. W. Urquhart/B. H. Br. J. Bosto, 130, New Course; 9.16, J. F. Lynch/H. R. de Pinna, 1.30, New Course; $20. W. G. Robert- Exx/8/Ldr. E. W. Brooks/A. F. Sutcliffe, 142, New Course: 9.25. B. Kite, 140, New C. Weber/J. D. Course; 9.30. W. D. Cameron/3.

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KCC, the League Champlons, retain largely the team that won them -premier honours last year and, barring the possibility of on upset of form that can occur in a first match of the season, should experience little difficulty in taking full points from the

Sports Diary

TODAY

Soccer

Jardine

A.M. New Course

Chubb; N. A. Brown, let Division: Club y Navy (Club);

Smith-Wright/. A. KMD v St Joseph (CH); SIG 120 0.03 E.

Laroche/J. D. Clague, 124 pm. Ola v RAF (Navy). All matches at BAD

Course: 0.10 3. A. Basto/ Coki- o.m.

and Division: Club

man/A. V. White, 1.30, Old. Course; 0.10. Y. T, Tong/D. Miso/Capt. (Club); KMB v St Joseph'a (CD); Sing Tro V RAF (Navy), AH. Burt, 1.30. Old Course; 0.20.

Zimmeen/M. L. da Roza/Major P. matches at 4 pm

V. Huyalio. 142. Old Course; 925, D. Talkoo Shaw/Lt.. H.S. Watson/Dr G. Chon.. ▼ Dairy Farm; Dockyard v Telephone; Train- ways v RAMC; REME v Cymnastic. All matches to do played at Happy Valley at 5.30 p.m.

Brd Division: Prisons V game is not allowed to of all that cricket stands for.

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bowlers,

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came they all The Eastern-Sing Tao tussle alike to him, and I think his is an intriguing one. The big summing up of present day

.H. Balfour. E. J. 0.55, S. T. question here is whether or not batting to me at London Air- the magnificent young

Cowperthwaite, 2.24. Old Couro: CALDBECK. Tiger port cannot be bettered. "They "s" Scorpions VRAF: IRC V 10, Norman Yu/W. N. Gray, 230, cubs can run the veteran

do not use their feet these days; | Optimists; KCC v Navy: Recreto v

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one of the opening games kaf the season a penalty kick wns awarded. The players duly lined up and the kicker ad- vanced and hit the post.

towards the ball...

Just as the defenders were heaving their sigh of relief they found that the referee had or- dered the kick to be retaken.

This time there was no mis- take. The kicker sent the bail

the back

could have said

of the net

und at this

The KMng your chance.

greni last-minute victory a year Answers To Sports Quiz

age there will be plenty of in- centive for both sides to turn in something special.

KMB will start favourites, but if they hope to take the points they will have to do better than anything they have shown so far this season,

This week's talking polat wonder what would happen if a linesman wandered onto the field after the interval during a

dom with a clgartie in his mouth

It happened in the course

of a Colony First Division game the other evening... and the offender was one who should have known much better.

There is nothing like "pro-and before you left South senior game in the United King- motion to keep an Individual Ko Po-keung happy and Interested in his China the defenders were hot work. Progress is one of the lost after the referee in protest greatest incentives to encourage ... protest based on the fact a man to go on trying to do his that a different player had taken job just that little bit better, the kick on each occasion. They Such a view point is, I belleve I were all firmly convinced that

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Bowls

"Gutierrez Shield: Quarter-finals: Malaya "A" y England "A": Wales v India; China "B" v Hongkong "B" England "B" v Malaya" "B". All matches at RBGC at 3.30 p.m.;

TOMORROW Swimming HICASA Annual Crom Harbour Race, 10 am.

.

Soccer 1st Division: GAA v Kwong Wah (Club); South China v Eastern (C91); Police v Army (139), all matches at 6.30 p.m.

2nd Division: CAA v Tung Wah (Club); South China V Extern CHR Police v Ariny. (89). ail matches at 4 p.m.

3rd Division: Bolletos v KMD, (15V) at 4 p.m.

4th Division: Dodwell, v. Tamar: | HK Alteraft v B & B, both at Happy Valley at 4 pm. Kin. Godown v University, Walson's v Road Works, at Happy Valley at 5.30 p.m.

Forthall

Softball League Official Opening: St Joseph's v South China, p.m.. Warriors V CAA.

Cricket 2nd Division: DBS v Police; KCC "D" v University "A".

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