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EASTER MONDAY SOCCER

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL ^8, \ 1956.

MANCHESTER UNITED HAVE STILL NOT MADE SURE OF THE CHAMPIONSHIP

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

London, Apr. 2. Held to a goalless draw at Newcastle, Manchester United have still For not quite made sure of winning the First Division Championship. Blackpool won 3-1 at Bolton and so remain in the race but only just. The issue can be settled on Saturday when United meet Blackpool at Old Trafford. Even one point will mean that United would win their fourth Champion- ship.

At the other end of the table Derby ll lead the Third Aston Villa gained a valuable Division North. Grimsby, how- away winners al pressing

Can Squaw Valley point, drawing all to nil away ever, f.

Run 1960 Winter Olympic Ganies?

Oakland, Calfornia, Apr. 2. Mr Avery Brundige, 1rt- sident caf the Internationa) Olympies Committee, was quot- ed today

ying ho WILE "honestly concerned attr the ability of California to holk the (Winter) Olympics, ju a first-clasi way

to

Wolves. But with Spurs Scuithorpe.

Two points behind 3-3 away to Preston, strongly, drawing Villa sul wem the most likely with iwo Faroes in hand. riub Lo

relegated in-

with Huddersfield.

Spurs can thank 11le Tommy Harmer for Dvir pital Preztem. Brought back Into the

after being dropped for the Cup semi-final ugolool Heimlingham. Toteiny nored two grails.

The 1800 Winter Games have Phoneshop

been

awarded to Squaw Vailey contingent prin appropriation of $6,000,000 by the State Legit Intury to finance them.

Mr Brundage was quoted in a lvent pet 4 saying "

pinning at Squiw Valley cuils for

for a commuter's Olymples

In 1900,"

He criticised the lack of plans. for places to eat and hotels for people coming to the Olymples. He saki: "All I have been shown

rough pre- liminary drawings that have a lot of

ins, ands and buls them" -{"hlnu Mai Sperial

1

S. AFRICAN COLF CHAMPIONSHIP

Player,

Durban, Apr. 2. Gary

20 year old Johannesburg professional, won the South Afrkan Open (11 Championship by three strokes here today with a 72-hole total

< 256.

Bruce Keyter (Durban) WB3 second, and Harold Henning (Johannesburg) third with 200 -Router.

The Staf Davron Came

Lace ups MARDA sch a solźle. Twa gont fix any inside-forwand Redfer Formatt trok Sheffield Wednesday to B 2-1 win at Leicester and they now lead the jable by six points,

But he a trencarlett. light

to see who goes up with them rages. Bristol Rovers, who today won 1-0 at Plymouth, are the new chief challengers,

WATCH BLACKBURN! But watch Blackburn.

Fifth fr

the bestler al Christmas, they are now third de m the top. Tulay they cult- vent

prieteni hundred per Mudiday programme, recording their third why in three galės,

treating Hull 3-0.

INTERNATIONAL TENNIS

Hugh Stewart Beats. Compatriol For Singles Title

Monte Carlo, Apr 2 Hugh Stewart, of the United Stales, won 1 Men's Singles 1in in the Monte Carlo Inter- national Lawn Teunis tourna- mund forny.

In the All-Ankericon final he heat Tuny Vincent 1-6 8-0 0-0 6-2.

Miss Althea Gibson (USA)

| beut Miss Shirley Bloomer (Br}- tais) 0-4 6-4 in the Women's Singles Boul--Reuter,

British Racing Driver Killed In

Plymouth and Hull, inciden- Grand Prix Race

tally, both neem [relegations,

for

Leyton Orient, lenders of the Third Division South, pe poverty. well after Saturday's home de feat by Brighton to wh 3-1 w2 Forquny

But Orient arepit home yet. Brighton kept up their challenge by defeating Millwall 2-1 to complete thekr the nat three days.

Win atl

London, Apr. 2. Britain's

<river A. racing Rogers was killed when his -Sun Pat Special" overturned at

bend

the JIL

Automobile Grand Prix race at Goodwood, South England today.

It

Drivers Iren the United States. Australia, Italy and ure competing in the race.--France-Presse,

France

I'M PROUD OF THE WAY

OUR MCC LADS 'TOOK

IT' OUT IN PAKISTAN

By

GEORGE DUCKWORTH

the formor England and Lancashire wicketkeeper in an interview with

DESMOND HACKETT-

·

I was with the MCC team- in Pakistan as a neutral observer, and 1 reckon it is time someone who was on the spot said quite plainly what the English lads had to put up with.

I was never a chap to hold punches when it came to saying what I thought,

so forgive me if I'm a bit blunt,

I can honestly say there was not one bad tourist in the side. Some of the decisions they endured were sinful. Some of the Press stories about them would

have made you cry.

If I had been the boss would have said a few sharp Lancashire words and told them they could keep their tour.

And those stories the Pakistan papers printed about students telling the team to go home were just tripe. There were about 30 young lads shouting their heads oft.

One of Irish policemen from Warrington would have scattered the lot with his cape.

It looks like a mistake to send a team of youngsters with an MCC label to a place where cricket is poilies first and sport afterwards....

We put up with a bit too mucli. If I had anything to da with I should say: "You did all right, lads," In fact I felt

umpire they can decline his not when there is a laugh at services.

his expense.

The Arst the players saw of unipire Idris Begh was when he Brrived for the first Test.

There was a lot of schemozzle in those first two Tests and the up with England team put plenty of weint decisions.

When it was time for the hird Test at Peshawar I know the English team expected to 90e two new umpires and they had been reassured along these lines.

I was a real shock for them when they saw that Idris Begl was back on his oid spat.

The next the team knew whe that there was a column in the Civil and Military Gazette, Rudyard Kipling's old paper, wicked mis- with statements:*

four

1. Begh had been forced to drink whisky which is against Begh's religious bellets. 2. He was manhandled and had to go England to hospital, 3. The players were drunk 4. Kardar demanded the tour should be stopped.

FANNED

been

The column was printed for The players decided that they two successive days. Radlo re- had better get on with the job ports fanned up the story. and Indmired the way they The fact is Uial the England settled down. In fact I felt players before the Begh affair proud to be with them and proud of them: F know what had been to a banquet where proud to be an olit Englundome of the old tour teams Icy had

served only erickster myself.

had travelled with would have water, the customary drink at These ammirs, so the third These MCC lads, and most of

allegation way absurd. them were, Ita in the sense of

LUXURY experience, were right against it from the moment they Janded.

up

slone,

I know Begh was offered a You have to remember that glass of beer and declined. No there boys had nothing to do one attempted to make him in their spare time, A dance drink whiskey, And he looked They had planned to play 10 with three girls nyailable for 12 quite fit next day

gemea

+

on grass and five on partners was a luxury. They he put on his xcept when

mailing. What happens? With- had to play in outlandish spots,

act.

As for swearing In the last

out as much as by, your leave sleep In strango places, and Test, that was nothing but a

they must play endure the "Karachi they are told

Tummy" good old grouse among all four on turf and 10 on matting.because of the change of diet.players and, mark this, between overs. It was not directed at EXPERIENCE

They had to make their own any player, or officis). Well, anybody who has played fun and it was, the old water

treatment that was the stock In fact one of my "Pak"-pala this game in camest known you act. Every player and official said was nothing to what the need experience to play on these took the "trealment" at some English were called in Urdu by maiting jobs.

time during the four. I took the opposition Then this umpire bother. I myself.

Begh draw attention to him- Le an unwritten law that the ***

4011 in every match. I saw, by visiting team should be allowed Umpire · Idris Begh' took: It wüdrossing the crowd, or making to choose," from a list of five with a big, kuapla - untif - £10; womez, dramatien: enture In umpires to control the minor Pakistan players who, ward sngtand they would have talled Zames before the first Test, following up joined in the big 51m a blahendisi proORSAKY * The idea is that if a visiting | laugh." This fellow" Bøgh lica Jagged London)) repress Bernice), Jeszo le not deklaring with any to be the centre of things, but

MCOPYRIGHTSAN

HE TURNS OUT TO BE A SHE

For three moniħa a 9-year-old girl played for a boys' Foo Hockey team in Toronto, Canada, without anyone knowing that AD was really ABIGALL. The hard-checking defence star of the Bt. Catherine Tee Pees in the Little THL Junior A Series would have finished the season without notice except that her good playing resulted in Ab Hoffman being picked for an All-Slar team which meant the production of birth certificates.

So ended the masquerade by the little girl, who hates frocks and skirta, but who was se keen on ice hockey that she was determined to get into a team. So keen in fact that when she saw an advertisement Inviting youngsters between 8 and 11 to register for the Little Toroute Hockey League, she persuaded her parents to let her go.

At the arena there were 400 boys and one girl, and while Mr Hoffman was trying to find someone to ask if girls were cllalble (which they weren't) Abby had got herself registered with no one recognising that Abigali Golda Hoffman was a girl. So far she has played in her team's five wins and four tower, and now her team-mates are having a whip round to buy her a hockey statuette in admiration for her goo play.

The picture shows AB Hoffman, the hard-checking defenceman on the ice.

ENGLAND-SCOTLAND INTERNATIONAL

The Selector

Selector Dilemma-

Youngsters Or Old-Timers?

By DON REVIE

It won't be long now before the big game against Scotland the game in which every English footballer would like to play. And right now my sympathies are with the selectors.

With so many promising young players coming up, they are faced with a problem which would test a Solomon. The team will be picked on April 6 and the dilemma is as follows:

(1) Should they loss these bright young stars into the fiery furnace of a Hampden international? Or (2), should they play safe and rely on established top- liners like Stan Matthews and Tom Finney?

BAM PLANS S.E. ASIAN

TOURNEY

My old club Hull City are in

if they play all their young-|Since that defeat Liverpool have sters together like Duncan Ed-run into prm in the League, wards, Johnny Haynes and Harry and Billy Liddell, one the Hooper, there is a danger they finest club men the game, is could be put off their game by determined to take his one and the famous Hampden Roor. And only club back into Division 1. a young player's confidence could be destroyed for a long time.

Every

footballer knows that Tom Finney and Ston Matthews The Badminton Association of have played so many great Malaya will invite to countries games against the Scots that they

a meeting next month to have the "Indian sign" draw up plans for South-east opposition. Asia's first badminton

to

ment.

The

Penang, Apr, 2.

Journa

BAM Startling Com- mittee, at a meeting here, last night declied to invite India, Burma, Indo-China, Thailand, Hongkong, Japan, the Philip pines, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand.

on the

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dire trouble. A shame, because they have a progressive board, one of the best managers in the 620-8 Nathan Rd. same in Bob Brocklebank, and

Res. Tel. 55221-3 really first-class ground. even have their own station Derby

They railway Make no mistake, the Scots love

outside the stadium. Like to see Stan Matthews play even

County, it is

is disappoint- when the Soccer Sorcerer is ing to see clubs with such fine

amenities in the Scottish these blows do a in the Third Division. defence. There is no doubt at all creating havoc In that Finney and Matthews have lot of good. It gives the man- the Scots bewitched, bothered time to rebulld-kla-tääma, and hewildered as soon as they and as we have seen so many go on the field.

Limes in football relegation can be the prelude to a more pros-. Yet the selectors must build perous and successful period. The date of the tournament for the future. It is going to be and other details will

In the Northern Section I still see whether they fancy Derby Interesting to decided at the propseed recall Stan Matthews on the Grimsby Town for promotion. County to beat has had 2 But if Grimsby make the grade, many triumphs over the years. it will be a remarkable feat for

Though many of my friends in Scotland player-manager Allenby Chilton,

old Manchester have told me they hope Matthews the

centre-half. will play at Hampden - even

In Derby's If he does shatter the Scots as Be did at Wembley in that 7-2 win a year ago!

meeting.

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The BAM also decided set up a Selection Committee to

choose players for the Women's Cup team to meet Hongkong in the interzone serica in Hon kong in September,—Reuter,

English Pair Win

where ho ground

Stre

Stronge

it

muy acem,

call

United

Manager Harry Storer to

case they havo on his vast experience to help the lads over this testing time. His knowledge cap calm the players, and give them the con- Most of the League problems | Odence they aced; will, I fancy, be settled in the

In Chilton's case, he has to carry the

LEAGUE FOR UNITEDT

Chazaby Cup Golf next few days. The Easter rush

Competition

were

took

is just ahead, and I firmly be-play, and love I Manchester United can managerial burden off the fieldt get over this period without It is a tremendous responsibility

thefor any man to points

carry dropping Calro, Apr. 2.

many

especially when his club are ta England, represented by John League title will be theirs,

No one knows beiter

the running for honours. than Jacob and David Thomas, w Manager Matt Busby

Chilton, a seasoned campaign- that his the Chazaby Cup golf compell- teom of youngsters

must noter, is I think facing the toughest tion here today in a one-hole falter at this critical period. test of a long football career, play-off after ticing with lekpool cre playing so brillant- · FINAL 'PÓSSIBLE Australia's pair .or

ly at the moment that they could Campion and Frank Phillips,

easily come in with a late run to Nemember I wrote A few Their scores werd-tied over

"steal" the Championship. weeks ago about Johrmy art's the regular course at 05, and in It must be difficult for Man- great fight to get back into the the play-off the English team chester United having set such game? A year ago he broke his down in four strokes a cracking pace. And there have leg at fuddersfield-the Injury

signe

in recent weeks that which kept him out of Man- while the Australline

the pace is beginning-to-tell, forchester City's Cup Final team five-United Press.

they have lost a little of their last season. He had nye opern= concentration.

tions on that leg, but never Blackpool, an older alte at despaired. least they have seasoned cam- Now he is back in Manchester like Ernie Taylor, City's reserve team, showing all paigners Stan" Matthews, George Farm his old skill and fight for the

It la wonderful to see him and Hughie Kelly in the side ball are not so likely to get hustled and there is nothing moro ver

tain than that Johnny Hart will of their gone Wednesday the yo-yo side of modern football

Frankly I think It is a tribute because they have been up and down from the Becond to the to his courage thot he is play Wirst Division more times than ing at all-now he is, a possible any other sides since the war for Wembly. and going strongly for promo- At this stage no one—losat 'of Hon. Only a sudden lapse can all Johnny Hartswould like to rob them of the prize; and I

Sports Diary

TODAY!

Hockey Ladies International; -Holland), v England. (IIV) DAS 9.m..

Boccer 2nd Division: COLD Y ICMB (am), Sing Tao v Kitches (Chub) d ́am Gymnastic Lade sol ways, Kid W. Dockyard." (IRE) *moldtes=23.4 p.m.

Division:

Shemeld···

be available for selection in this year's Final, if required.

fancy: Liverpool to go up with so the lads who have carried the club so far aflès, the Pinal”

TOMORROW.

Caut them d

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A GOOD TURN. -

VIH DOK AKAN Manchester City did v/Liverpool indod turi by knocking them out of the Cup,

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But if Johnny, does come at South China Morning Post. Ltd.

the "feam-for-one"tensON OT: RIS+ other'fit will be a wonderful story of a man who Justs re fumod” to stoept defedt.

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