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SHOULD PLAYERS WEAR SHIN GUARDS?

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1957.

IT'S NOT A RUGGER MATCH

IT IS PURELY A MATTER OF INDIVIDUAL TASTES

By DON REVIE

Tommy Taylor, the long-striding Manchester United and England centre forward, has stopped wearing shin guards. Says Tom: "I find I can move about the field more easily than when weighted down by masses of shin pads and cotton wool packing."

The other week Taylor caught a nasty kick just below the knee, And immediately many terrace fans set up the cry: "He should have worn shin guards and then maybe he would not have been injured.”

I gather, however, that the fearless Taylor will still piny without shin-guards, and 1 think he is quite right to do so, This problem of wearing pro- tective gear affects all young sportsmen. Young cricketers are frequently tonth to wear batting gloves; rugby players don't like

wearing headgear to prolect their ears in the scrums, પન્ન strangely

lind enough, you'll very few young footballers who don't like wearing shiln-guards - even if they are home made! They put loads of packing round thele shins.

won't feed future,

In the old days it was often argued that footballers fell easy prey to drinking, which is why Rome clubs many many years ago introduced rules forbidding their players to become landlords of licensed premises.

his family in the either Portsmouth or ourselves

would

liko to lose precious points that way.

Але we

away came

from Portsmouth, after the game had been postponed, Ray Daniel, our Welsh international centre-half, patted me on the back and said: "You played a great game, Don. You didn't put a foot wrong. I'll bet you wished you could have one like that every week." I could only reply with a gring "yes, but what about the win- ning bonus. Roy?”

I belleve myself that player in his twenties would handicap his career if he were closely tied to ILN

similar hotel or business, But I think one way round a very difficult problem would be this. If a man stayed with club ten to fifteen years as Lofthouse has done, then he should

be allowed curlly for his family in this

aru | way.

habit Actually it is really a and 1 suppose in the years to come many players will discard Very This form of protection, forw of the continental slurs wear shin-guards. Like Taylor, they feel they can move faster more freely, Jand they rightly argue that if the game is played properly you shouldn't stund much chance of a shin In- Jury.

anck

This

tnie.

This would be one way of rewarding loyal

servants, and if a chay stayed with a club for that length of time he is hard- ly likely,

run off the ralis. Even if he did, who would be to blame but hìmacjf?

And whether he was lond- lord, of an hotel or not, he could still go off the ralis. After all, Of quite

theru are plenty of cases of course you do come up against footballers who ruined their the ruthless player who will

careers by spending too much "come over the top et the time round a bar, even though ball" to crick

on the shin they weren't the owner you but in my experience very landlord! few chips get injured on i part of the leg. By far the greatest crop of leg injuries are due to muscle strains, torn liga ments or prola injuries.

A HABIT

I have often fell like diseart- ing my own shin-guards-but I have worn them for so long that

10 has become a habit. Yet I cas, see the point of view oď young players who follow the Continental style of wearing no protection at all.

think the rule all young players should employ is this: he feels vugler without shin guards then don't wear them. If t the other hand he feels a bit wary when going in for the ball without any pro- tection, then of course it would be wiser to wear guards, I as simple as that.

The great controversy ns to Bolton Wanderers whether should allow Nat Lofthouse to become landlord of an hotel must be distressing to club und player.

every

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PAYMENT SYSTEM

cr the

A former manager of an fçe hockey team has outlined to me a system of payment which he thinks Soccer could well copy from the lee hockey game. This gentleman is Incensed that top line Soccer stars like Stan Mat- thews, John Charles and Tom Finney can only get the same pay, na players who haven't got their ability.

His suggestion la this That clubs should be graded and per- mitted a certain fixed amount for a wages bill. For instance, a First Division club might be allowed to spend £500 a week to pay their players. It would be up to the manager to decide how many players he

would have on his books, and how he paid each man individually.

Apparently this is adopted in

ice hockey. So that out of the £500 the star man may get £40 a week; others £30, and down the scale to those getting a

steady £15.

What

As

Norman Low has done a great Job piloting Workington into a promotion bidding place in the Northern Section. Now he has signed up for n new jub

to keep Port manager trying, Vale In the Second Division, It is a lough assignement for Mr Low and I am sure his many friends In football will wish him the best of luck in his new job.

Was

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Ivor Broad's name

tho with

But I manager friend, Ivor. dînies

When Mr Low left. World

club as player

sea my old that he is moving to Workington. Having been player-manager at Carlisic immediately after the war, he knows the snags of the dual job. The huge successes of Raich Carter and Poler Doherty made many clubs seek player- managers, but since then some of the gilt has worn off the job.

Mud-splattered Chelsea outside-right Brabook (left) and a Bolton defender send up a spray of mud and water as they chase the ball in the First Division match at Stamford Bridge, London, on February 23. They ended in a 2-2 draw.—

Cold

by

Reuterphoto.

Comfort

HENRY LONGHURST

Lured by the sight of crocuses, primroses, and even the odd daffodil in full bloom in the garden, I had thought to be now enjoying the first glorious week-end of spring golf. Unhappily, this coincided with a member of the household being informed by a lady in the village of a new guaranteed patent cold cure-two and a-half tablets three times a day, my dear, and you can't go wrong. What sort of a cold I should have had, if any, without this preparation being forced upon me is a matter of speculation. The one which now immobilises me exceeds all records,

Cazing bleakly out upon the world, however, I obocrve two Chaps following the Carter-redeeming prospects the first Doherty trail to the manager's that it is raining steadily and chair have found that it is we could not have played any- | mighty hard, und often 117)- way:

the second that there lies rewarding work, When you are

those who ahead

for of us, playing you cannot be on the

follow It in

from perron or look-out for fresh talent of your afur, a vintage year of

gulf. own. That's

why player- Every alternate year we have managers are not so numerous the Walker and Ryder Cups in as they were.

the same year, and this is one of thein-ūja professionals at

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Foreign Entries Dominate Philippines Championships

home at Lindrick, the amateurs "away" at the Minnckhada Country Club, Minneapolis,

EXPEDITION

This latter will be no mean expedition, as the team will Bƒ first to Canada to play in the championsid thart,

and later

HOME SOCCER STANDINGS

London, Mar. 2. English and Scottish Football League standing after today's matches were as follows.

Manchester Un,

Preston .... Tattenham

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Babur May Be Best Of Elsey's Big Three

Says RICHARD BAERLEIN

The Yorkshire trainer, Captain Charles Elsey, saddled two winners at Lincoln last year, although his Yorkshire gallops were snowbound for moat" of the winter. In such an open year ́an this Elsey Is sure to come to Lincoln with some fancied candidates,

He has three horses in the fand this is just what is required Lincolnshire Handicap-Dlonisto, for the Lincoln.

Babur and Orinthia. It la Babur won in the opening naturally far too early to week of the season when he decide which will be the best beat a moderate field for the Df the three, and the stable Eat! of Sefton Handicap at Jockey, Edgar Britt, can only Liverpool.

choose

between Dionisio, and Bobur because he cannot "do" the weight on Orinthia.

Personally, I hope he chooses Babur, because Dionisio was

DISAPPOINTING

He won

two further ruces, one of which was in October, He finished six lenghts in front

something of a disappointment of River Line in very heavy

towards the end of last season,

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When Dionisio made his first song at Heydock, Sirloily on that form he has the beating of appearance last year in the River Line at Lincoln, but at Newmarket could be Free Handicap

dangerous to Lake he was most impressive in the

that form at its face paddock, though slightly back-

value, ward.

Babur ran Di rather dis- He was not quite as well appointing roce in the Liverpool backed as his stable companion, Autumn Cup, though there was Honeylight who eventually no evidence in the martel that won, Dionisio finished third, he was in the least foncled.

He held two lengths and a neck behind

a good position as Honeylight, to whom he was they entered the straight, and I giving 4lb.

thought he was going to fight out the finish

The form appeared excellent when Honeylight won the 1,000 Guineas Q fortnight later, Meanwhile,

Dionisio had! won

MODERATE

He gradually died away, and

a bandicap at Ripon over alx It was obvious that he dá not

furlongs,

REQUMED

stay a mile and a quarter, "This

will not count against him Lincoln

at

outing of the

From that

Dionista time,

Orinthia

wns placed four mede no further progress,

Hemnes but cild not win a race was narrowly beaten at Chester until her list bry Stephanotis in 412

un-season,

when sho took 1 satisfactory race, but the form moderate event at

મ was not subsequently enhanced head. by any of the contestants.

First Division

P. W.D.L. F. A. Pu. 082 44 40

48 42 43 37 40

Dionisio failed to reach the first three in any of hla

Wolverhampton

Blackpool Arsenal

Leeds Birmingham

Balton

Newcastle West Bromwich Chelsea

Everton Aston Villa Wednesday Manchester ċ Luton Town Cardiff Sunderland Portsmouth Chariton

Leicester

Stuke

13

10

& 11 12

2 25

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Second Division

Notts Forest ..

Blackbaun Bristol Rov, West Ham Bwansea Liverpool Shefeld U, Middlesbro

to the US. Amateur. Perhaps they will number among them some mute and as yet inglorious Jack McLean to

to reach the final. Can it really

be 21 years ago that he was edged out at the 37th at Garden City? I can ace it now, The style at the 34th turned me against stymies j Huddersfeld for ever.

are

from

Doncaster

Leyton Orient.. Rotherham Grimsby Tow

31 10

34 0 30 7

70 18

A. Pts.

No one can follow golf over Barnsley the years without gradually Fulham dividing the great

Courses of Bristol C. Britain

into sympathetle and Lincoln unsympathetic. I mean, I need

Bury Porf Vale..... hardly emphasise, the courses, Notts County.. 31 7 20 37 70 19 not the clubs. The most un-

Third Division (Jouth) It would be up to each player

sympathetic, to me, are Hoy-

P. W. D. to negotiate bris own wages every

lake, the scene of this year's Colchester ..... Manila, Mar. 4. This character says soccer year.

34 17 0 You learn

English championship, and Car-Torquay *** Foreign entries dominated various events yesterday noustle. They yield nothing, they Southampton .. Ipswich ........

34 17 7 10 from ice hockey in this Can After mil, the club rule is

respect I wonder. I should in the National Open Sports Meet here, winning the There and R

34 13 11 11 ready to hammer is up to

you Walsall.... player to abide by club rules imagine there would be many swimming and track and field events and shattering

the word

Brighton go; and, and discipline, And

snags to such a scheme.

Q.P. Rangere .. Philippine records as well. who yet

bulld Bournemouth if you do happen to would happen if two or three cannot foel great sympathy for

Northampton stars were hurt and new men Except in the

up ideas above your station. tennis tournament, entries from they are waiting for you with a Lofthouse,

Shrewsbury #110 Of the most

Formosa, Australia and Japan hugged the sports lime-knock-out finish.

Heading light,

Gingham Among

the

sympathetic Millwall courses I have always number-Newport won in one-two order theed Formby, Tumberry, Glen-

Akershot Javelin Throw, Yang heaving agles, Lindrick, Newcastle, Co.

Brentford the spear for a distance of 200 Down, and, from memories of Southend feet 0% ins.

too long ago,

Hollinwell, and Exeter

Plymouth these, It'so happens, there Crystal Pai. 10,000-meire_run event will be played this year re- Coventry was easily won by Liu Shich-spectively the Amateur Cham-Swindon chang and Pi Ld-ming, both of pionship, the PGA Champion Norwich Formosa, both coming in with a ship, and a special 72 holes time of 35 mins, 38.8 secs. stroke competition designed for Scottish Walker Cup aspirants,

Workington Women's Championship,

Hartlepools the Ryder Cup, the Interna er tionals, and the Masters' Tour- | Bradford City..

Stockport nament.

Accrington .......... Chesterfeld

Hon-hearted players in the

game who has given grcul ser- vice to Bolton and England.

had to be bought? That wages bill would have to be drastically Prorganised, wouldn't it?

WASTED TRIP

In swimming Australio's John Devilt, holder of the world re-

smashed the local record when he clocked 60.3 seconds, almost three seconds ahead of Filipino Dakula Arabaria who came in and second.

He has still a good few years football left in hlin, bul like No one envica Referee Sher-cord in the 100 metres freestyle, the rest of us, he wants to get į security for his wife and family when his playing days are over. After all, the cheers of the past

Sports Diary

TODAY

Tennis

Colony Tennis Championships HKCC at 4.30 p.m.

TOMORROW

Athletics

al

HK Technical College Fifth Annual Sports Meet SCAA Stadium. 2 p.in,

Coll

Ladies Foursomes semi-finals,

UNIONI

1 Fictional?

2 Adventures

3 Funny man

lock af Sheffield his job in dc- elding that Fratton Park was mplayable the other week for the Portsmouth v Sunderland me. Wo Sunderland players find travelled down Friday morning, and then had to eptch the Saturday alght siceper back to the north-east without playing a game.

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I thought Fratton Park just fit for play. So did one or tw other Sunderland players. But I think with both clubs fighting for points to avold is safer to play egation, it

The

Wu Chin-yun (Formosa) won the women's shot put with distance of 30 ft. 15% ins.

on

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Third Division (North)

A.PW.

Barrow

York City

Wrexham

Gary Winram, also of Austra- a won the 400-metre swim event In 4 mins. 40.7 seconds,

The American entry from the and David Thiele (Austraila) copped the 100-metre backstroke Tachikawa airbase, Japan, Jun- gen, won the Hammer Throw event in 1 min. 3,4 seconds.

Australian The

with a heave of 140 ft. 8% ins, quartet of Winram, Thicke, Wilkinson and

way ahead of the second place Devitt easily won the

winner, 4 x 200-

Dison, metre relay in 0 mins. 20.0 s005.

also of Tachi-

NATIONAL HEROINE kawa, who threw only 117 ft

Formby, where Miss Diana 3 ins. In track and field Wu Tsun-

Fishwick became as near

artsal and Hu Chang-nan copped

a national Scunthorpe perfect, conditions as possible. Irst and seccad places in the

heroine overnight by defeating Hull City

Carlisle don't know whether this factor Hop, Step and Jump. Wu leapt

athe American, Miss Glenna Rochdale weighed with the referee at 45 feet eight

Collett, in the final of the Darlington and inches Frattcn all. But

Women's Championship, is one altax Town.. Park was while Hu made it in 44 ft. 3%

In tennis, Filipines downed of the most senior, as well as Oldham covered by sheets of water. In 'ins.

Bradford in foreign entries, although top-most congenial clubs those conditions one slip could

Formosa's Yang

England. Oateshead Chuan-seeded Esteban Reyes of Mexico, It is

Matisfield characterised, by the fir cost a goal, and I don't think kuang and Halh

Ting-shing survived.

trees which separate it from the Chester

Southport can sands, along which you The Philippines singles cham-drive home at 100 m.ph. to

Tranmere Crewe plon and Davis Cupper Ray Southport, the huge stuffed hip- mundo Douro outlasted Mexican popotamnus at the top of the Antonio Palafox in a thrilling stairs, Jack Barlow, the steward, four-set match, winning by 6-1; who must have been there up Rangers G-2, 6-7, 7-5, while the No. 2 wards of 35 years, and the fact Metherwell Filipino ace, Felicisimo Ampon, that in the old days, when they Halth stovers.. ousied the Australian Junior had a tin shed club-house, the Karock player, Neil Gibson, 0-0, 6-0, whisky was kept under a trap Aberdeen 6-2-France-Presse,

door in the floor with a nolice Celtic saying "A moderate go, three- Hibernia

Queen's Park, pence."

Partick A Londen club of my acquaint-Dunfermline

Fast Fife anco a year or two ngo served 18,000 lunches and took 210,000 Mirren

Aindria

Queen o' Bouth Fakirk Aur, United

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Oslo, Mar. 3. Helmut Recknagel of East Germany today won the inter- national ski jump competition at Holmenkollen near Oslo, with a total of 227.5 points,

1889 the profit from bar and catering was 148. 8d. Maybe they will do better during the Amateur,

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He appears, therefore, to be weighted up to his best form, which he mry prove unable le confirm.

Bobur 13 lice Dionisio, sprinter who can last a mile,

can

Ayr by

Blacy's three horses

now four-year-olds and have made abnormal improvement since last season. But judged on their form then, Babur is tho only one who should Interest Lincolnshire Hordicap backers,

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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

NINTH (ANNUAL), RACE, MEETING. Saturday 2nd, Wednesday 6th and Saturday 9th March, 1957.

(To be held under the Rules of the Hong Kong Jockey Club) THE PROGRAMME WILL CONSIST OF 30 RACES,

The First Bell will be run at 11.30 am, and the First Race run at 12.00 Neon each day.

The Tin interval is piter the Fourth Race (1,30 pan) each day.

The Secretary's Office at Alexandra House will close at 10.00 am, each day.

MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE

NO PERSON WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED, All persons MUST wear their badges prominently displayed throughout the meeting.

Admission Badges at $10.00 each per day are obtainable from the Club's Cash Sweep Office, at Queen's Building, Chater Road only on the written introduction of a Member, who will be. responsible for all visitors introduced by him.

Tiffins will be obtainable at the Club House if ordered in' advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 72811).

The 8th Floor is restricted to Members and Ladies wearing Lady's Brooches.

NO CHILDREN will be admitted to the Club's premises during. the Meeting. For this purpose a Child la 'a 'person under the age of seventeen years, Western Standard.

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE

The price of admission will be $3.00 each per day payable at the Gate.

Any person leaving the Enclosure will be required to pay the requisite fee of $3.00 in order to gala re-admission..

MEALS and REFRESHMENTS will be obtainable in the RESTAURANT.

SERVANTS

Servants must remain in their employers' boxes except for

passing through on their duties. They may on no account use the Belling Booths or Pay Out Booths in the Enclosures.

CASH SWEEPS

Although Through Tickets cannot normally be purchased for each day of a Meeting unless there is an interval of at least Ave daya between each day an exception is being made for the Armual Race Meeting. Through Cash Sweep tickets, therefore, at $20 each per day or $60 for the three days of the Meeting may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Offices at Queen's Building (Chater Rond) and 5, D'Agullar Street. during normal office hours and until 10.00 am. on each day of the Meeting.

Particular numbers within the series 1 to 3,000, may be reserved for all race meetings as Through Tickets. Such tickets will be issued consecutively only and the right is reserved by the Stewards to cancel any reservation for Through Tickets for a particular Meeling if it is found that sales may not reach the number reserved in the series 1 to 8,000.

Tickets reserved and available but not paid for by 10.00 am. on Friday, 1st March, will be sold and the reservation cancelled for future Meetings.

Latind consecutively but

Tickets over 3,000 will also be Imued

particular numbers cannot be reserved as Through Tickéts.

The reservation of any particular number does not confer on the registered holder any rights whatsoever unless the ticket bearing the appropriate number is issued to and can be produced by the holder.

The Stewards reserve the right to refuse any subscription also the right to remove any name from Subscription Lists without stating reasons for their selion,

Cash Sweep Tickets on the last race of the Mooling at $2,00 cach may be oblained from the Cath Sweep Offices at - Queen's Building (Chaler Road), B, D'Agußor Bireet, and 382, Nathon Road during normal office hours and unul 10.00 am, on the day of the Race Meeting.

SPECIAL CASH SWEEP

Tickets for the Special Caali Sweep on the Hong Kong Derby scheduled to be run on 11th May, 1007, at $2.00 each, may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Ofices, i

VILATOTALISATOR

Backers are advised not to destroy or throw away their tickets until after the "all clear" signal has been exhibited.

ALL WINNING TICKETS AND TICKETS FOR REFUNDS MUST BE PRESENTED FOR PAYMENT AT THE RACE COURSE ON THE DAY TO WHICH THEY REFER, NOT LATER THAN ONE HOUR AFTER THE TIME FOR WHICH THE LAST RACE OF THE DAY HAS BEEN SCHEDULED TO DE RUN,

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Bookmakers, Tie Tor men, etc. will not be permitted to operate within the precincts of the Hong Kong.Jockey Club, 999

By: Order 'of the Browardo,

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Buoretary.