1956-03-14 — Page 7

ARMY SPORTS

PARADE

On sheer merit wo could quite easily extend the Top Spot three quarters of the way down the column this week but, after due thought, let us welcome the members of the Army South cricket team back to the place of honour in recognition of their regaining the leadership of the Colony League.

The standard of cricket played in the League this season has been so good that a single reverse has been sufficient to topple lenders from their precarious perch. The competition has been exhilarating and exciting, and nover has the uncertainty of the grand old game been better demonstrated than in the present tournament.

Army South with two 24 F Engineers and 27 55AA good victories at the week-end tegi RA., should note that the have fought their way backgume this afternoon is being to the leadership a crucial yet at Sookunpou and not at stripe. In reing parlance one Guil Club as previously stated.

they have gol might say that

The Bral will take place on their nose in front combing into

and once the home

the Tuesday, March 20. but Airnight, whining post is still some way in the Army Football Asso- T, and South will find strong clation most appreciative of challengers

ready to make the the fact mast Ahumble.

well

at

that the Hongkong of even The lightest Police Sports Association has

its made

fine

ground noundary Street available for the Caldbeck Cup game. The kick-off will be at 3 am

Nevertheless, they have done up fur fost in making Kround, and there

good reason for confidence that they can hold their lead and regain the coveted trophy from Kow- Icon Cricket Club.

ACCOMPLISHED ATHLETE

Army athletes have been much In prominence during the week and if the popular Essex Re- giment runner, Licut Keith Durch, gels top billing

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The two-day Colony Athletic Championships meeting will be staged at Caroline Bill on Sun- day, March 18, and at the Hong- kong Stadium on Sunday, March [25 and, according to the latest available information, the Army will be well represented.

The Land Forces Individual count of his brilliant Colony Athletic Championships will be theheld on April 5 and 7 at Bound- record-breaking

The Heats will be Open Mile at the RAMC Meet-ury Street.

in

ing last Thursday, several other staged on the first day and the

mls on the second.

oldiers

have also

top class

talk.

turned វ៉ភ

!

performances. Muin

Information

now bring In athletic cirates these

circulated but intending entratıla

entrics concerned should get their

pre- last few days has

pared for early submission to The DOPT on the entry lat will close before Easter.

the skill and versatility of Copt John Hunter of the RAMC, in his own Corps sports this ac- complished athlele won the 100 yards. 220 yards, the Long the High Jump us Jump and wall as getting a place in thre diszus.

the

and

Club Minor the

An interesting cricket match is being played this afternoon at the Kowloon Cricket It is the Apal of Units

Competition contestants are HQLF and 173 Loc Bty RA. There are several Ane players in both sides but It will be u surprise 17 the Headquarters team ly beaten.

Appearing in the HKAAA | 2n

week end Captain team at the Hunter won the High Jump claimed second place in Ling Jump and Step and Jump, and was finally

220 yards placed third in the Hurdles.

in

the the Hop

MINOR UNITS DRAW

The draw for the 3rd Hound of the Minor Units Football Cup the following has produced

Workshops pairings--th

inf

This is surely athletic ver- Salility at its best and one can only wonder what he might achieve it he could spare the time for some really intensive HQ Hongkong and Kowloon District Workshops v. Garrison training.

Movement

ent Light Troups, 5 COD v. 56 Coy RASC or 27 Li Bty HA; Command Workshops v. 3 Supply Depot or HQ 48 Bde.

The

outstanding 2nd Round Kimes are being played off today.

Keith Burch was again in the forefront during this Triangular Meeting with victories in the 440 yds and 850 yds events, stor Artillery Rayul white Bruce Tulloh turned in a very workmanlike

to performance win the One Mile run. RAMBLERS

organised

column

are always glau to hear achievements and

[WVT

the Eastertide

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1956.

IN THE NEW AGE-ONLY TOP CLUBS SURVIVE

League Must Think Of Sunday Soccer

Says MATT BUSBY

(MANAGER OF MANCHESTER UNIT (D)

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1 don't think the missing millions have vanished off the face of the earth. They are still there. But whereas in the old days they flocked to buy football wares, in the New Age football must now go out and convince them that the wares are worth buying.

Football attendances generally are getting back to an honest lovel, that of the mid-'thirties, when only a local "dorby" or a Cup tie would push the crowds up around the 60,000 mark.

The one thing that will bring be halved. The Cup grips pub- in the crowd and fill the ground lie interest.

is a skilful, SUCCESSFUL team, So we could have a League because the entire range of acti-Cup, on Scottish lines, with clubs the vities on which people spend grouped, then playing off their Jelsun time, from biking | finals. It would be a money- to horse-back-riding and back spinner and sharpen public in- again, has expanded enormous-

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Yet our organisation puts so in the way 01 many obstacles

Football Welding such a team.

in England is not a test of skill. It is a test of endurance. Forty- two matches sprend over ninn months la a crust load for the Lengue footballer to bear.

The League structure demands of that in the first four weeks the season we have to play 10 or o dozen matches, more than

entire quarter of the

pro- Kramm We have to run when we should be walking.

The pressure is tremendous. Injuries to only two players in this period con so strike a club that for the rest of that reason I cannot hope to compete for honours.

**

And at the end of that time the pottern of each Division is For two-thirds of the clubs the rest of the season is a for- mality of playing matches and picking up points as they come

am

because

Please. please, don't think I my club, sinug Manchester United, happen to. Division at the lend the First moment. I am no1. I know too well that things happen fast in this game,

Then we plunge into a con- centration of fixtures at Christ- in dreadful weather mas, January and February, comTM plicated by Cup fixtures, and a scramble of mid-week inatches to get through the programme by the end of April,

The whole pattern is too in-

terest.

WE must change the status of the Third Division. Try as I will, I cannot see the Third Division, by any name, carrying <<II, The country just cannot sustain so many League clubs.

Third the I understandi Division was formed from clubs Central Lancashire, from the

all Leagues, and Southern quite healthy organisations. I'm

highest

qually games, with wages revised accordingly.

AWARENESS

I don't hold that television has harmed football, and it has Soccer dany Honved, shown Dynamo, Spartak, as well as the Austrian, Spanish, Hungarian. German national sides.

It has brought an awareness ore happening in that things

that we abroad, and football have things to learn.

With the world shrinking fast, I feel that European competitions Cup and Longue-and world competitions are Inevitable.

A start has been made with armid It will have to revert to the EuropeaZI "Cup of Cham- that, under League netministra-plons" this season. tion, with exclusively part-time pinyers.

WE

must have a break in the dead of winter. I agrCo with Stanley Cullis. We could break for six weeks in January and February, again in July and August.

To play any games in current weather is stupid, and to play Cup ties at this time makes` Die FA Cup even more of a lottery than it is.

I visualise the Football League "International" having its own department to handle our end of such competitions, and we must think seriously of these things.

In the same way we must think seriously of SUNDAY FOOTBALL, and by that I mean our matches at home playing here on a Sunday,

assume

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OLYMPIC "POSSIBLE" IN ACTION

Pago

Ploughing through the water at Stoke Newington Baths is Britain's 13-year-old National Junior Freestyle Champida, Christina Barry, who is one of the swimmers named by the SAS as possibles for this year's Olympic Games in Melbourne. -Central Press Photo.

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BOXING'S NEW GLAMOUR BOY

He Fights Like Marciano- And He's British

By ALAN HOBY

Once in a while, out of the ruck and muck of boxing, a fighter emerges

in the Dempsey-Marciano mould-the born "killer" and mighty puncher who closes the gates and stops the traffic....

Today in Britain I believe we have a boxer of this breed.

His name is Richard Alexander Richardson, the young Welsh Hercules who is rapidly becoming the new Heavyweight glamour-boy of the ring.

The rest is up to Richardson

the Instinctive Aghter still has a lot to learn.

who

We are an insular people. We tive on an island! But too often

to "But if he has to travel 15 fury until the right moment for you stop Frankly, when we have been inclined to with-

this stage with of rounds at

n the "clincher" arrives. the rise facts, assess the Richardson trom Newport strong opponent it could do him recognise that draw and patronise the rest of WE must

and the world

burn of harm-perhaps belter known to his hordes of a lot We can do football has always been

isolation.

to splendid

followers, of course, as Dick-ls him out. So I'm prepared cheap entertainment. We must this no longer.

wait" Little short of fantastle. decide now

fairly F we can

-(London Express Service).

GRIM TRADE (COPYRIGHT) charge the public more for Its

His bitter rivals Joe Erskine

the past

18 months and Henry Cooper were amateur Champions before Richardson Lesley has spent an average of even started boxingf

four days a week teaching the the ground-

Ice

And Jungle

By HENRY

LONGHURST

During

He won't go far wrong, how- ever, if he carbon coples a guy called Rocky Marciano--a guy who NEVER stops training and NEVER gots mwollen head ..a guy whose whole life is dedicated to the proposition that he is the best heavy-weight in the world, and

indeed, ho and

his first enger Richardson

work of his grim trade. amateur contest when he was

He has also taught him how

his openings lo. plck not rush in like a berserk bull

19.

He was so green when turned professional

That

he

couldn't stip, and about the only in short, to curb his fighting punch he knew was a hopeful, haymaking right.

One of the indisputable characteristics of the Scottish race is that, though the municipal golfers Glasgow may be staging a month's strike-by coincidence the month least suitable to golf £3,000 or 30 per cent of the against a charge of a florin per round instead of

of

volved, the burden LA Just too much to hope for susthined | a

quality football from the players.

HEARTENING

The fact that the management

It shows that Is heartening.

committee have published a plan they are alive to our problems But they merely nibble at them. They try to stop a crack in the dam with children's putty.

more radical, My ideas orc because I am convinced that RADICAL CHANGES must be made,

1

a shilling, nothing can prevent their brethren from in the farthest carving out golf courses

distant parts of the world in places designed by providence, one would have thought, for almost any other purpose.

In sand and desert, boulders, jungle and snow there are at this moment energetic Scotsmen scratching away at the surface of the earth with their niblicks.

come

from seen

Two Instances have recently ing. as though they had never Everyone euch entles." both way. Once again 1 am delighted to

last met in Singapore. carries a T-shaped piece of wood friends

the One,

to smooth away not only an ex-brigadier doctor, of the news you some give

which at While we get most of our res

Anubi six-a-side WE must reduce the First settled there after a distinguish-stones but the crabs,

the from career in Burma, this season migrate from popular poria for

Hockey Tournament. This com- and Second Divisións. I feel ed military

inst year jungle to the sea to lay eggs, we sporting events

that 18 clubs, 34 matches, is an but uprooted himsel? petition has become one of the of Pa

tens of thousands, of highlights

ample programme. That would to seek his fortune in Canada. "Literally

he says, "move down like a red of plans

His present practice In Alberta cut out all mid-week matches.

several and sports programe

thousand carpet across the course, "free-lance" individunts

ENCOMPASSES

Bad among

hazard 2:15 are WE must seriously consider square miles, and groups,

having another competition. patients are isolated Eskimos of If you repeated last Saturday's the Western Arctic. Landing to Cup

BS programme

League visit them on some barren, in- matches the attendance would hospitable Island the other day and clambering over the rocks arxi ice, he looked down beheld, of all things, a golf ball.

and entries for the 1956 edition are due by March 17. They should

to Major

I make this reminder because forwarded

2

A. E.

I have just received news of Hutson, RAOC, at 4 COD and

sume young soldiers who have

decided to get their recreation and also build

of course the traditional entry closer it is one hockey ball per tearn.

list The entry acquaintance with the Colony

other

UD a

has

been

by walking over its roads and restricted to 32 teams and Royal hills each week-end and at such Navy, RAF and elvilian teams times as the opportunity are eligible. Already 17 entries have received and intend- One of their competitors should get the'rs

they me

ssible in as quickly as possible in order deriving the greatest possible to be certain of acceptance.

from pleasure and enjoyment

presents

number

itself. tells

arc

their efforts, and have already visited many interesting places,

Walking and rambling is

This

is able week-end for Army athletes and Boundary Street will be a very busy place

one way of spending the week-on Friday and Saturday. end and those who are interested On Friday the Minor Units would be well advised to get Team Championship will be held down to 北 before the hot

from 10.30 am, to 4.30 pm, with weather starts.

a two hours lunch break start- ng at 12.30 pm.

The anewal dinner of the Football Association will Army

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Ron Barton Wins

British Vacant Cruiserweight Title

London, Mar. 13.

INTRIGUING ITEM

green."

on

Yet here he is, at 21, getting

gate to

Erskine

fight the unbeaten at Maindy Stadium,

Not bad for a "novice" who

Cardiff, in two months time.

just over a year ago was paid £17 10s. for one figh...

How has it been done? what for makes promoters clamour the services of the best Heavy- weight prospect they have spen for years?

Is It the way he reacts to punishment-Uke a tiger? is 11 17 his punch? Sixteen of his winning fights have ended by a KO or technical knock-out.

SUPERB PHYSIQUE

Is 11 the superb physique of this 6ft 2in., 14st. 2lb mill- man with the rippling shoulder muscles and 18141. neck?

potent part. All play their They

the Yet none of these gifs' would have avalled without the cagey and long-tera "cornór" work planning of Richardson's ager, Wally Lesley.

the

He encloses a card of course which shows it to mea- sure 1,784 yards, with n bogey abominable and am glad the

has scratch score" "standard

12:0 Indian not penetrated to Ocean!) of 31, but I am "not to Gcoff at par-tour holes of 180 The Golfers' Handbook carries and 192 yards.. Think of the item entitled crabs! Peter Thomson would, I an intriguing

with a 04 "Balls in strange places." These am sure, be pleased include the car. of a donkey. for 18 holes."

fre somebody's drawing-room via the chimney, and the nests of wasps, larks, solar geese, pheasants and squirrels. Bizarre though they may be. "Arctic Island apparently uninhabited by white men" must surely quality for future inclusion.

Ron Barton (Westham) won the vacant British Cruiserweight tille at Harringay arena here tonight when his opponent, To answer, of course, was- Albert Finch (Croydon), retired Scotsmen. The number of holds tind coincided with the number two in the eighth round.

of members: three holes,

a Jesuit eye brought Scottish engineers and A badly gashed

retirement half-priest. about Finch's why through the fleen rounds bout.

Barton,

old and Indian

EX-HOCKEY PLAYER

1

sure.

the

manTM

An ex-fighter himself, Lesley all the pitfalls of the knową fight game.

"I expect Richardson to knock Erskine out on May 7," he told me, "but even if he does he

box for any les won't eliminatora this year.

of

J- A world- "Richardson

be bealer-but he has got to brought along slowly and caro- fully.

"He is still not fully matured. Obviously, with his powerful punching he might beat any of the Champlons inside 10 rounds.

Nationalist China's Soccer Team To Train Here

Singapore, Mar, 13. Nationalist Chiria has invited three soccer players from Singa- pore and a similar number from the Federation

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Only his great experience golf. The arrival of another reach the island.

Everyone now has his own

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