DESMOND HACKETT'S COLUMN
THE "CHINA MAZ
SOCCER CHEATS THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION MUST PENALISE THEM
London.
You'll pay your money tomorrow and you'll take your choice of match and you will see the same old bad behaviour, referce mobbing, and the milder forms of cheating.
The Football Association sadly realise this blight on the game and once again, bless their persistent hearts, they nak one and all to cut it out.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1856.
THE JACK WARDROP STORY us told by PAT BESFORD
FAILED BY TAKING ON TOO MUCH
Things haven't always gone right for Jack Wardrop -1954, a year that promised so much, turned out to be at cruel disappointment.
It was the year of the Empire Games in Vancouver and the European Championships in Turin. Jnek, and his twin brother Bert, had been selected for both.
OLYMPIC EARLY-BIRDS SPEAK OUT
PIRIE AND WOOD
GO TOO FAR
Exactly four weeks ago I made the point that the biggest problem facing Olympic athletes from European countries was: When to go to Melbourne?
NOTICE
VTHE HONG KONG.
1st Day,
October, 1956
| STARTING DECLARATIONS
Owners are notified that'all starting declarations which had been placed in the declaration boxes at the race course for Saturday, 18th October, 1956, are cancelled, Ponies starting on Saturday 20th October, 1956 will
So far as British competitors are concerned, it is a case of choosing between getting out there early and slowly soaking up the climate, or leaving Britain late, at peak form, under wintry conditions, and making a hit.or.quire to be declared in the inis slam at success in the sun.
Now
500
that Australian wrklers are paying that sports fritula has gulleg a juzi one on the rest of the world by cending cut Gorden Pirie and Ken Wood ahend of the offchl 33
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very pleading that he has done them offending player will be sent In fact, here are their words printed boldly and wrong. The referce allows him-off.
SAME MILD SENTENCE ciently the latest editim of seit to be joalled, to be pulled,
and whoal! goes
For any a Jenson 1 Have the FA News: "We think vyery | artnind,
pilled referees, because, despite
Jack, not to command of the game. Jub should revolve
This could have meant Olymple contingent. expeeling to win, Held Turin, mis.
Football The
Association all the brave talk of the Foot-
modals in both championships, eight hard races in seven days countenance any acts of
by ball Associathen urging referees could do no better than a silver if I had made all the finals. I conduct or Kumexmanhip. We would be doing their duty fel,
Instructed to take strong act im to cut out and a bronze in Vancouver, and Just wasn't enough to do it. 140, ? eppent
the the public they 19
forny
I asked not to swim of nothing at all in Turin. There
in the referee should Le restricted clubs to identify their captains cheating and other
and insisted that appeals can definisconchast, the players
A long roce like caught were reasona, Let Jurk tell be 1,500 metres. solely to the captain of
before the
That can be a killer. Then 1 made by captains only.
story. out and hauled up team.
FA sull have the
mlidi
herd heard un official "I had just flashed a
Buy: "We've NAM
a lot to bring him over. in the States. pald sentence of seven days suspen-swimming senson
I desperately
to como We might as wanted
well get our homo
to see my Tomily before money's worth."
Bert and going to Carmichi.
the
Bold words these, But how! mush
effesive if more
Football Association
U supported
cir bught hopes
with
hold netion.
the FA wil no! And I ther duty then 1 appeal etubs to take action in awn account.
only captains being allowed
appeal to the releve,
Now Lake This budness
In all for 11. Its a theme I have
for all!
presented for approval
many ARDMOS.
It is a system that obt: n.
on
x mates of idling. the
The Hackell Order of Brown Bowler to order-loving club lo make
ton.
Mis is Abonit us strict an ful Ezzard Charles £200 out the a purse of around £3,000
for
Brat this
And on this job. of the sting, are of gamesturship T you afraid of the correst wad
-
The
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many parts of the world, a freshing inprovement methods which we taught the football chaps in foreign parts.
move
Week after week referees allow players to pinch yards at n
throw-in and with the kicks.
they And week after week permit the oppostion players to The caplala is chistungunshed stand over the ball and prevent by an arm band. So it is clear free kicks being taken quickly. 10 even the dimmest referece And there is an advice to re- that this is the one chap who, ferees that free kicks should be is allowed to question the de- taken quickly. cisions. The system !s simple and it works.
LIKE LIBERACE FANS
of!
The good referte would the managers and cupla izuz each team that he will mott tolerate this method of cheating if would warn them that after
Compare this act of dignity with the English players who one offence he will take the of the offending player look like a Liberace fun mob us
referte and, after the Burd ofhnee, they they sweep round
the
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Well, Pourse, the no
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- Metal Astutences her, Pirie, our calet 10,000-m Are hopr. 0,00€ tetty W. cd, our meltie-mile man, left early on their own initiative beenue: they thought # best for thean,
Bu! having UPPÁVAKE Melbourne they are telling 19 I suppose I should have been and been away two years.
wort that their method is the We hadn' the money In pay tough enough not to let a re-
only
win guaranteed Then the Scotiisi mart: Bike that upset me, but it cur forca
medals aut influence people. ASA sak
did. they would pay.
I took all the heart out we would swim in some shows for me.
HARD TO STOMACH Jack swam in the 400 und for thom.
Mr David Rennie แต bila | 1,500 metres, but didn't quidity Pirl. Weot have quickly committee were absolutely won for the finals. He put his eftoristele Audian-born athletes derful. I shall always be grates into anchoring the not very good coach Franz Stamp, who left
10 them.
relay team. Britain got into the Engend But I didn'
ler Australia *NI Task We hadina and Jnek's time was the
hu ing nu flower Danas or, 7th Tastest (t of 08 swim- Chelt Chaleuray, and Brian mera).
Howse!), among others, on the tackle road to spectacular succes
sport.
taken on.
are The referees plead they not supported They plead that then should be a stricter inter- pretation of the rules. But they Football do not plead to the
Any Protest to Association. their
bose, might cost them the plum jobs of internationals realise what md Cup Lin which the und
FA controls.
is a real one is fairly clear, A cold! The #swer three-power conference between
I was losing weight, libeut a When I got 10 pound a day. the PA, the clubs, and the ferees with absolute freedom of Vancouver my shoulders were speech might clean
stiffening. The cold water Scotland
brought had fibrositis.
The problems
of
Course,
re-
our Soccer
Press And. should be in on this, bolding watching brief for the forgotten Busty dear tomer.
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'Brainy Types' Make Soccer Look Faster. Says Billy Wright
Everywhere
go it's the same chorus this season: "But, Billy, football is so Even newspaper critics and Mr Paying Public are in har- But don't you believe it. it's just an optical illusion!
much faster these days." mony about this.
As a player I can tell you why football appears to be faster. To start with, the average player isn't running with the ball as much as in the past,
clocks, such
is now ruming to the open have in ice hockey.
spaces more then ever before.
In brief, by keeping on move, und Anding The open space, he is nuw much Inore dangerous
rous to the opposition than
boxes.
Then the Combinert--| osked my views on Installing operate records, George has a they wonderful usortnýst of musical the man WITHOUT THE BALL "ume
is Tuls
nick- nothing like
Both of us niso have the
As a small lad on the sample question is may appsar.naries, The
I wan Referees urat nemnen, although Molineux ground-etaf
called "Snowy" because of my they have so much
George is nicknamed frir hair. "Corky" for an unusual renson.
Sonic years ago. after Rangers hid won
Cup, the Scottish
the chap in possession.
At the same time with about five footballers on the move and waiting for a pass, the men in possession is also finding it casier than ever before to play that good football I wrote about the other week.
the
is
Another aspect of this New Soccer
Lali is that frequently kept in play longer than in the past-and
prove that.
True, there #re
trate upon, are infallible so far as time-keeping is concerned.
Over the years, they have in every way proved capable of
up every
handling this situation, but still george was given the cork from the vlamour
a champogre bottle, for good tuck.
season for "time clocks,"
But, because I believe in try-
And from the moment George
ing out anything which may tok this with him on the inter- mean progress, I would like tomatimal circuit, Scotland began
minde see such experiments
to win matches. Ever since, he during floodlit friendlies.
has been aleinamed "Corks." Yet, I'll wager, for all -so-called effelency of this way footballers system, it would
our
recorda
day
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the
who rightly do not hesitate to differ from the timing of kick into touch when their goat effelent referees and linesmen.
is in danger.
But generally the aim is
10
it constructively.
keep the ball in play and use
each
BIG GEORGE
Mel Hopkins 1 am pleased has been included in the Welsh side, because when I played against Spurs earlier this reason his constructive ability Im- pressed me.
at ago.
We swam in galus almost dally-in open air too, with the water around 52 degrees. That's
ON
A numer asked to Wardrop's commitments Ta Turin would have had to run The 400m, 1,500m.. an event somewhere between the 5,000
author-nomach. 17. That
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A
Lired to
I HAVE
MY SAY
By HARRY
CARPENTER
November 4, and continue, until |November 14.
So they, apparently can write off their goki medal chances,
And, though they didn't say
Meas Pirie,
Wood, and Stamps have also conaligned the bulk of Britain's Olymple squad the t_the_erup-heap, because take-off cale for them 1zi November 8
nod
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men.
Good new evncerning Dri- tain's Injured Olymple Erle Sturky and John both of whom crashed the London-Duclapest matęb.
Young during
F11 fact, funky Germany are The only z.roug Mue as I like to see British | track nation which have tv hirts ouze with confidence, arrongest Algha to fami and 10,000 metres, and a leg of Bod The joint statement Melbourne by November 2.
x 800m relay.
besied rectly by Mric, Wood, Jack first
into trouble (#18) Stamp rather the swimming with As I'm on "arms" swimmer.Ues when be was
was in 1949. He told me this was a calamity. I was never
I needed a pep-up swim, and Boppy in my life. I knew
with Scottish permission I wasn't up to my idea of per- ct
and
was (cepted an invitation to swim in fitness,
Ireland 辞 nothing I could do about it.
before week
the Bologna Trophy (the home in- ternational between England. Ib
1 should Scotland. arranged
Wales). I was and scratch from the 1,050 yards told not to go record-breaking. free-style.
There was a big audience and the gala was being broadcast.
there
COULDN'T SPRINT
Was
ac-
1 led Graham Johnston, from South Africa, from the start in As I stopped on to the starting the 440 yards. I was still ahead block a telegram was handed to at the last
but when 1me telling me not to compete turi, should
Just have sprinted i couldn't.
I tried to hold on, but Johnston passed me in the inst
two yards.
The twins
back came
to Britain. In the next 30 days they swam in 30 gulos.
TOO LATE
What could I do? It was too HAD to swim. late to go back.
To make matters worze
Jack hadn't realised I was in such My 100 metres set up new British records for good shape! 220 yards-his
distimo (39.3 seconds) favourite
the first Briton ever
yards
mado muc to swim tance and for the 100 and 110
back-stroke. He also that distance in under a minute. broke seven Scottish records. When I got home I was aus-
Then it was the European pended from the Bologna team.
Jrak: Championships, Says
1The Scottish ASA were right! them, But we COULD have had our first win
this time,
was getting really tired of swim-I'd disobeyed ming by
And my CC shoulders were still stiff, but I that year. wish they'd thought hoped the warni
sun in Italy of some other punishment. would loosen them up and I'd find some of my American form.
I was told I had been entered for the 100, 400, and 1,300 metres and the 4 x 200 metros relay in
Jack swam in bis first Olymple Games in 1948, when he was sad 10. Read about this race, his other great swimming mo- meets in the China Mati.
HORSE RACING
Now Skindles Hotel
Be Sold May To Americans
By RICHARD BAERLEIN
The success of Mr Fred Blackall's Skindle, Hotel in Paris the other Saturday enabled most English visitors to Longchamp to pay for their week-end. He started at the remarkably generous price of 5-2, and in similar circum- stances on an English racecourse he must have been an odds-on chance.
That is why again
My friend George Young will
captain Scotland. Big in style he is so much like the gaine appears to be faster George of Glasgow Rangers the great Alt Ramsey, with and at the same time has im- will, as usual, be leading out whom he played a season or 50 proved as a spectacic.
13hr Scots against Wales And everything which appeals Ninian Park this week.
Hopkins halls from the to the spectator and makes him
Young amal i have now
mel Rhondda Valley, and as 2
In the holding going he got, cost 500 guineas and was bought fool he is getting full value for
international schoolboy used to play other
Rugby home by three-quarters of a by Prendergast, money always has my blessingskippers on more occasions than In the morning and Soccer in
ONE MAN any other captains in inter- the afternoon for Ystrad Boys'
But for the four homes men- TIMING
Skindles Hotel was born in an Club.
their respective sires unlucky your from a sprinting tioned -(London Express Service),
little pro- (COPYRIGHT)
point of view. So often sprint wouht have gained eta get away with the top two-minence to date and it is a re-
the markable
feat that they were year-old prizes throughout season aimply because the going all picked out by one man.
Refined has only run once but she la undoubtedly the best two- year-old in Irelan
So what about the timing of Several of you have matches?
national Soccer history,
Liko myself, Young hin unusual hobby. While 1 collect
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Going by air?
then
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The letters in circles spell out. πιν name, Who am I?
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PACIFIC
length
never casca.
Twice he has been narrowly beaten in six durlong races and on both occasions the going has beon soft. On top of the ground he might just have lasted home. It would not surprise me now sco this colt sold to the Americans, because his future on English race tracks is prob- ably behind him.
to
the
Prendergast rates her superior to Skindles Hotol and Angelot at the moment.
Refined has been put by for this season, but plenty will be written about her during the winter and next season.
SUCCESSFUL
In effet, IL
that those have had the good sense to reach Melbourne early, like Mrs Pirie nor Word, are the
Young, who fell in the 100 Meren, will keep on trotting lo unes on whom the Olympic sun les-en- will shine, while the
curo his damaged hamstring. Hightened runners of the world,
On the other hand, such s
Shirley, the Russi
and the Americans. would arrive too who hurt his knee when he tut
hy histe
their peak
21 burdle Ira the 3,000-metre November 22, when flie Games | steeplechase, is to take it easy. open.
The injury is not ng bad as I first suspected," says this 27- year-old cheese
salesman from
·WRITTEN-OFF"
The combined opinion of Piric, Wood and Stampfl is that i will take about three weeks trom arrival for any competitor To be ready for top competition. They nume November 2 as the be-in-Austraila dvedline,
The fun! US Olympic flight is due Into Melbourne on Novem- bar 8. Russia's mirlift starta on
Peking Athlete Sets National Hammer Record
to
Paris, Oct. 17, Peking athlete, Pi Hung-fu, today set a new national record) of 48.74 metres in the hammer throw avent at the meet being hold in the Chinese capital pick China's reprostantatives in the Olympic Games at Mal- bourne, eald New China nows The provious official Agency. record, established by Pi him- self, in Kiev earlier this year was 45.22 metres.
Another new national record mando today was Tong Jung- the ching's 48.13 metros in women's grenade throw event, which is not an Olympic item.
The young woman athlete from Szechwan province im- proved on the previous national record, held by Peking's Liu Fu, by 0.38 metres.
SWIMMING
TRIALA
Communist China's aco breast-stroke. ace, Mu Hslang- slu today won the 200 metros vent in 3 minutes, 38.9 seconds nt the trials to select the coun- try's Olympic swimmers, which ended in Poking today, the New China News Agency reported.
The cwimming champion failed to reach his best time of 2 minutes, 38 seconds which ho set up in April in Peking.
Free style sprint champion, Lin Chih-chu, today timed two minutes, 10.0 seconds in the mon's 200 metres free-style cyt. His previous best record was 2 minutes, 0.8 seconds.
The women's 100 metre back- stroke, was won by Tai Li-hid, ono minutu, 23.1 who clocked seconds-France-Presse.
Sports Diary
Another remarkably successful buyer of yearlings is Harry The success of Skindles Hotel Wroge. In the past two years he was being distusved in New has bought Lucero, Talgo and market
other week by Garden State quite cheaply, and several buyers i themales they have all won classic rocos. paddocks Who wore arguing
Admittedly ther
are only about the amount of luck there Irish classics but they have also Is "in" Buying yearlings.
shown fine form in England. Skindles, Hotel cost 1,500 He also bought Gaza Time and Noble Venture, and those Maharaj guineas. Ho is a son of Mahures two colle cannot be for removed ene Harder Tennis Champion:
from the best of their Guy, shipar Man's Singles at offspring of that sire to date, while they both will have clocale, 030 p.me
The only top class offspring polifties next season GRZA of Wyndham was Windy City, Thane in the 2,000 Guineas and
He was bought by Prendergast Noble Venture in the St Logori:
for 700 guinions. The only stop-wl adimice anyone who, can buy
chew offspring of The Solicitor three classic
(winners? In: "one
was The Pia King, who cost (somson, but, the story of Harry £1,300 guinean bewa was bought by Wesel WARRONESIA) PureRas
A Abe. Doty Lop
PR
TODAY
Tennie
TOMORROW
Committee
I shall
Finchley. "I hope to be back in training fairly soon. be OK for Melbourne." LET'S HOPE SO.
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usual manner.
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By Order,. A. E. ARNOLD,
Secretary.
NOTICE
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
Special Cash Sweep on the Kwangtung Handicap Saturday, 27th October, 1956
Over 2,000,000 tickets sold to date.
Although ali Kwangtung Handicap Sweep tickets issued will bear the date 16th October, 1956, they will be valid for and included in the draw for the Special Sweep on this race which now takes place on the 27th October, 1966.
On
The Sale of Cash Sweep Ticketa
the above will now close on 26th October, 1956 as follows:~~~-
882, Nathan Road, Kowloon, at 1.00 p.m.
5 D'Aguilar Street, at 5.00 p.m.
Queen's Building, Ground Floor, Chater Road, at 6.00 p.m.
The Draw will now be held in the Public Betting Hall at the Race Course, at 10.00 a.mE, on Saturday, 27th October, 1956.
By Order of the Stewarda, PEAT, MARWICK, MITCHELI. & CO. Treasurers,
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY, CLUB FIRST RACE MEETING
Saturday 20th and Saturday 27th October, 1956. (To be held under the Rules of the Hong Kong Jockey Club) THE PROGRAMME WILL CONSIST OF 22 RACEO. The First Bell will be rung ni 1.30 pm, and the First Race rua at 2.00 pm on the 1st Day.
On the 2nd Day the First Bell, will be rung at 12,00 Noon and the First Rice run at 12.30 p.m. The Time interval of one hour is after the Second Race (1.00 p.m.), the Third Race will be run at 2.00 p.m.
The Secretary's Office at Alexandra House will close at 11.46 nm, on the 1st Day and at 10.00 am, on the 2nd Day.
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Admission Badges at $10.00 each per day are obtainable from the Club's Cash Sweep Office, at Queen's Euilding, Chater Road, only on the written introduction of a Member, who will be responsible for all visitors Introduced by him.
Admission Badges lasued for the 13th and 16th October are valid for the 20th and 27th October respectively.
Timas will be obtainable at the Club House if ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 72811).
NO CHILDREN will be admitted to the Club's premises during the Meeting. For this purpose a Child is a person under the ago of seventeen years, Western Standard.
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Any person leaving the Enclosure will be required to pay the requisite fee of $3.00 in order to gain re-admission,
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.
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