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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1957.
AN OPEN LETTER TO SOUTH CHINA
FROM I.
McDonald Can Help Brentford Out Of Division Four
Says BERNARD JOY
Malcolm
Can abrewd, philosophical manager McDonald bring to Brentford the successfut touch with which he transformed Scottish club Kilmarnock?
M. MacTAVISH
And Other
Other Matters
Gentlemen,
Football is the greatest game in the world, and while many virile minorities may challenge that statement, there is little doubt that in any universal poll it would leave all the others trailing for behind. It is certainly Hongkong's most popular sport.
Its greatness, its sustained popularity, and its appeal to the masses of the world are due to the fact that it is a man's game...played by men ...yet retaining a sufficient degree of basic simplicity to make it relatively easy to understand.
Co
bollers...but it is the inevitable.
Today it forms onc of the strangely warped senso of back from their present sojour strongest. common bonds e- humour who seems to take in Malaya. Then rife rumours Iween nations and between special delight on a Saturday may become firm facts, Circumstances tempt the question. Kilmarnock were communities whose habits and evening in passing on insceuralo What is going on is no credit fourth from the bottom of the Scottish Second Division customs nre as dissimilor
information to legitimate en- lo so-called amateur football so-called amateur foot- when McDonald, a former Kilmarnock player, became their football pitches are alike quiries for the closing score in and manager in 1960 after four years with Brentford. They d yet, strangely enough, the Colony's various lawn bowie
football can from time to matches. were in the red financially, mid he knew little about the time stir up dissension and players.
even bitterness. -particularly when as sometimes hoppats in the heat of a vital game-the rules are transgressed.
After seven years' absence, forward, during his playing days McDonald returned to Grifo for Brentford and Aldershot. Park to find Brentford also Inside-right Johnny Rainford In a grade lower than they and. upstanding right-half should be, heavily in debt, George Bristow, who managed and he has seen only
twp only 23 League games between player, Ken Coote and Erle them last season, may be two Formona, in Longué netion. of the key players.
HIGHEST PLACE
Rainford has the command of the ball and tactical experience which an inside forward He lifted Kilmarnock into the requires, but often enszares Scottish First Division in less himself In long dribbles. than four years. Last season Bristow, who was bindered by they were third-their highest-a thigh Injury earlier this year, ever position--were runners-up In the Scottish Cup, and they made a profi of £11,500.
I have known McDonald as a
A few years ago the manager of a famous British club was asked why his side had finished at the foot of the League and had in consequence been relegated to the Second Division
Ha reply was a classic. He said "My men were as big, as strong, and a tough as any in the competition... but my directors and I steadfastly re- fused to allow them to join in any brutal battle for League survival. Relegation is the penalty we are having to pay for our self respect but we Σανα not lost faith in
good honest football. We shall be back in the. First Division next senson," And so they were.
NOT ONLY THE LETTER
wondering Maybe you are in
what all this has to do with you,
must harness his love of attack to the need to keep close to the Inside, forward he is marking,
With thoughtful, constructive. player, coach, trainer and now Tom Wilson, who comes from manager. Iron grey haired, Fulham on a free transfer, at tanned and brown-eyed, he is right-back, the defence could be slow to talk and smile. He welded into a solld shield impresses with his solid grasp before Gerald Cakebread of soccer essentials, discipline goal, provided the backs cover and unruffled temperament. the middle Instead of con-
I have no doubt that he will
.be successful at Griffin Park,
but he needs time, and time he does not possess,
centrating on the wingers.
LIMITED
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+
I'll tell you and stress that this is purely a opinion. You may not agree.
The queer thing is that this individuo!" has Ho permanent home and seems to turn up at the end of different telephone lines from time to time.
culmination of what has been officially tolerated for years. There are those who believe there may be a real showdown just ahend, That could be the greatest thing that has happen- ed here in years.
Nearest Yet
To Hammond's
Record
Now
SPORTING SAM
400
by Reg. Wootton
Goal Average Is Going
To Be The Big Factor This Soccer Season
Says ARCHIE QUICK
The going is tough in the two Sections of the Third Divisions of the Football League this season; tougher than ever before. Already two players have been sent off before the 1957-58 season is a week old, four have had their names taken and there have been five stretcher cases-ong broken log, one dislocated elbow and threo.concussions!
With
After a few draks at the finish of a long tiring afternoon such an Det may seem Very funny to the perpetratar en although I know that one of the senior onleials of one of our oldest clubs was seriously per- turbed when he overheard a club member deliberately passing on erroneous information of this nature a few weeks ago, and I
Let me recall. At the end of this season the top team in either believe the issue reached the committee table. before it Wils
section will go into the Second Division as usual. The two bottom teams finally allowed to rest,
Strange that Wally Hem-
of Division Two, plus the second to twelfth clubs in both sections will The Colony press and broad-mond's 78 catchos in the then form the new Division Three and the two sets of clubs in the casting stallons try hard to keep the public up-to-date with the 1928 season has remained a thirteenth to twenty-fourth positions will constitute the Fourth Division. Iatest news about our sporting record so long while so many activities. They deserve the co other cricket records have It is going to be the sur- operation and the
to the wicket. Denis responded Robin Marlar behind one of the simple boon ocaten.
vival of the fittest, and In characteristic fashion by hit- Eastbourne sight screens teach- courtesy of correct formation
The best felder's total since what when they take the trouble to 1928 was John Langridge's
50 unlike a scramble it is al-innings of Sir Donald Bradman
the last ing hití hovi to bowl leg breaks. ting 143. 39 telephone for It... or, alter-
two years ago.
ready proving to be. I have at the Oval when he was out
There is no end to the lnd's Surrey's natively, if the person who re-
seen only one match-that second ball for a "duck" after ingenuity, for at Worthing he ceives the call does not in fact Mickey Stewart has made 74.
made another capture, this ilme It was at slip that Hammond between Brighton and receiving a similar ovation. personal have the required information
took most of his catches.
70-year-old George Guru, the The Bournemouth-and for two or is unwilling to get it --- During part of last season and then at least he could do the great left-hand splaner Charles of the better class Third | dramatic Compton acted his part man-watching his native Not-
a high sense of the former England opening bat Parker was his chiel "Zeodor" already in the two gumes in caller the common courtesy of but there were times when Tom Division elevens they put up of worcester's over worked bowl- county of his residence, it was in the final curtain to the misery | tinghamshire play Sussex, the which your team has been en- saying so. To give him a com Goddard, the off-spinner, used a display which clearlyers. It was an innings I would indeed an experience to watch Fourth fessionalspositonal experi-gaged since their return to the pletely distorted result is the to provide him with many trifles showed that only goala mat- have been
there Colony
been cheapest of cheap humour. across the way.
honoured to have this grand old man bowling to some of your This annoying wrong-result
Stewart is rather different. He | ter. Cultured football for witnessed and I shall always the Hove schoolboy behind the Is still good enough for First One is at outside-left, where players have infringed not only trait took on a new significanes fields at short leg and has the paying public is a regret that I missed it,
Worthing pavilion. "Ho can Division football, Grow only only Billy Bloomfield, 17-year-the letter but the whole spirit last wook-end when the score telther the height or reach
of accondary matter.
bow a genuine leg break evap fr minnows of the Fourth old brother of Arsenal's Jimmy of the mules. Sometimes these in a vital game was distorted to Hammond. But I think he ig
He played, so I am told, with now," said George. Division when the two Third Bloomfleld, can claim to be # Indiscretions have been noted such an extent that it cetially more aglie in throwing himself
the carefree abandon and un- Even he and penalised by the referee, changed the whole aspect of the about to catch the
Goal average is going to orthodoxy of the days when he impossible sections are reorganised next natural left-winget.
Looking on with me was prefers, to be Inside.
but on many other occaalons Second Division Championship, than Hammond ever was.
be the big factor this sea-hed kneecaps and a more slen- year,
Ano collection of former sporting they have escaped the attention
Hammond's record excludes son. Clubs struggling next off the back foot, the sweeps to
dor waistline. The "on-drives | stars-Arthus Gilligan, the ep- of the man with the whistle Players and supporters were wicket-keepers.
England captain, Adrian Dog- even they did not pass un-left with a completely
April in the middle of the leg which are his own copy- The top wicket-keeper
gart and Norman Creek, noticed na for as the unfortunate impression of how the sensch's Leslie Amex, who in 1929 caught tables will probably have right and the cover drive were great Corinthian footballers at opponents and trained obser- | competition had worked out 70 and slumped 43. The 127 their fates decided by frac-all there, executed in his inimit the palmy amatour days of the vers were concerned.
and all because of a warped victims make a record and otions of a goal. More often Edrich-playing his last game as Wainscott, inside forward with and Russell able style. Pity was that Bill middle twenties, Your club is too great to he sunse of humour... and I do the 79 catches. |cheapened like this. Loyalty and KNOW that that is so because
than not there is a bunch of Middlesex caplain did not all Leeds, Barnsley, Leicester and enthusiasm among players und
was one of three callers who
clubs in the, say, tonth to the old prolife run-getting role Hull. He is now a Worthing their desire to give everything were assured that what turned they have for their sldc aze out to be the WRONG result son of Warwickshire's leg spin- same number laudable virtues ... provided | wos RIGHT.
ner Eric Hollies, another leg- Therefore,
of points. period, but Erich was howled what they have to give is with-
INJURED THUMB goals being for nine, spinner, Doug Wright of Kent,
and it was Jack becomes the most senior first scored now in August will Robertson who partnered Denis count so importantly at the for most of the glorious while. He took a century too, and the for final reckoning next May. pair of them must have remem- bered how a quarter of a century ago on the same Lorda ground they sold store cards "on com- mission,"
"As TESOURCES
. Looming over the season is there are 20 full-time the spectre of the Division. I would be a ments are inevitable. disaster it Grifin Park, which
mited
TO-
McDonald needs time, because My forecast is that Brentford Brentford bad only three points will scrape into the new Third to spare from inishing in the Division next year, with two or kotiem half of the Southern three places in hand. Lanking Section in May: because he and further ahead, I say that they new trainer Fred Monk cannot could be back in the Second
size up their own tenm: Division by 1260, because Brentford have lost experienced men Wally Bragg.
-(London Bren Service). Jeft Taylor, Sld Tlekridge and
Terry Robinson.
Monk will be a great help in the Bght for survival because he was an Intelligent footballer, at other right-back or
trim and
THIN
Pioneer
Flest in fashiont Ploneer's lighter looking, cooler.
centre.
Analogi tratt} mylewa"irim, thin line to ektle your slacka la solos. Put the treft in your robý todmit
I
SPORTS QUIZ
Who won the World Heavyweight boxing title from Jess Willard and inter lost it to Gune Tunney?
2 What happens if a felder takes a catch in his Ticket cap?
record7
4
In which game knight attack a castle?
instances when
have
wrong
Sportsmanship stretches he
is
With the retirement this sea-fifteenth positions with the They were together for a brief
with his Middlesex "win." publican.
in the bounds of all that, theyond the touchline...the boun-class cricketer in England. game stands for.
5 How many points are these well follow.
A
fall
ht
Hollies, who has taken inore wickets (2,315) than has scored runs, entered first- class cricket 25 years ago. Wright was also a begliner that
year.
GOAL AVERAGE
For instance, last season Next in cenfority are Cyril Washbrook (1033); El Edrich Newport County (twelfth), (1934); and Will Wooller (1035). ODD GIRL OUT
some
Out come
-English
Reading (thirteenth) and Northampton (fourteenth)
And one of the
Ironics of soccer is that last searon South- end United went nine games
OCCASIONAL GAME
D
the
The Sussex innings whe not- able for two fine performances by Jin Parkes (who has got back into England's Test team) and Don Smith (who narrowly missed being picked). They were racing each other for the 2,000 runs mark, and both look- ed infinitely superior on the day to the Rev. David Sheppard, who has run into a bad patch. He Was, however, hampered by an injured thumb,
for also
his
One or two of your players dary...or the ditch round the What a pity it doesn't are building up an unfortunate green.
clways stretch as far as the end for themselves and of the club telephone Luel!! Teputation when one serg them being sterly spoken: to by the re- feree for their crude behaviour
DON'T BE FOOLED in Charity gate when there is
Don't be fooled by the absolutely nothkig at stake, one present apparent quiet on the can only wonder what might Colony's football front and don't happen when the relenticus let the full in spicy news coor pressure of League and Shield you into the belief that all is
When Hendren and Hearne football comes around aga peaceful in soccerdom... for £10 each to spend on a visit to in the Southern Section. and Edrich took over, and now Sixty Russian athletes, given each ended with 45 points finished their careers Compton a few weeks time.
belleve me, nothing could be London, entered Oxford Street Rochdale and Scunthorpe, in faded. Both of them say they Sussex link present South China has remained further from the truth.
their speli of limelight has Gurn was not the only Notts the forefront of Colony tool-
stores to One who has his car close to clothes.
buy ball down through the years be- the ground tells me that things clutching parcels.
the seesaw positions in the will play the 69 happily
on hand to proudly watch occasional ganio 3 What is the name of the cause they have played-what-are
Northern Section, had 48 for the county-Denis D$ an son perform was old Jia boal in which Mr Donold ever the cost-good, honest, bursing point
slowly rumbling up to
Odd girl out was shot-putter points. The import of goal amateur but the Worcester Parkes, now the Nottingham- Campbell established the wholesome football. If there tell
and I can Tamara Tyshkevitch. present world's water speed should be any relaxation of clus moment the officials
anshire couch and the only cricket- you that at this very had her 10 In her pocket.
She still average is thus clearly de-match marked the end of
era. An era which Iras been er ever tú spore 3,000 runs are of one of principles....or any deteriora our biggest clubs ate desperately her size. She weights 17 stone.
Tamara could and nothing in monstrated,
beneficial both to England and tako 100 wickets in a season. O! Middlesex, and has given so young Jim, Gunn sald: “Lucky tlon at the code of conduct by concerned about whether or not Her vital statistics: 40, 30, 48. cdn a
players....then
much pleasure to true cricket England to be able to do with- from they are going to football
be able to So she dipped into her
lovers the world over.
out him. Ho and Tom Graveney aminence could very retain their star players for the pocket-money to buy a good
That would be Incoming sCRIOR.
are the best stroko makers before scoring a victory whereas The strange thing is, and it is the country In the ten years since i turst
In fact, the other evening one
this season they have maximum not generally known, that when (b) a blue ball in snooks had the pleasure of secing your fet the senior officials of the club Here's one answer
points from their flist two games. I first met these two they were
Dooland, the South team in action I have Leen
told me that
half a dozen of of boxers, who get tired of sit- total in the land.
for wives and ten goals scored the anest professional outside letts. Camp- Australian, was captaining Notts the biggest names on
for the first time, and he told Those tenton had gone from Hendon to their ting at the ringside; step into goals in August could easily gave Arsenal aki Edrich moved from me that the news that he books had so far flatly refused the ring yourself. In recen: years, when many of my per
to put pen to paper: at the time
them from the Fourth Division | Norwich City to Spurs. Also not returning to Adelaide at season's One woman who 7 For which English county gonal efforts were directed to of
has done next May! No wonder, therefore, well known is the fact that end had resulted in his bereit our conversation it was just that did cricketers W. G. Grace, wards the beating of your le
is Mrs Margaretha that everything is being ser- Wally Hammond, that other reaching admitted that only four of the Sjolin, wife of Swedish Olympic need to getting the ball into the great batsman,
little more than G. L. Jessop and W. R. presentatives, I never
lost that club's 'name' players had re-baxing champion Stig Stolin.net. In the game I saw no one professional
also a £2,000. After all the benent Hammond play?
outside admiration.
let is for past services, not what I signed.
She has become an official box-
would have recognised in Brigh-with
Rovers. Bristot Let me repent
To am going do, and I have been In common with many others 8 With which sports do yout deprecate the present trends. worte in this column several
something I ing referee.
Mrs Stolin,
ten and Bournemouth two teams follow the coincidence Edrich five years at Trent Bridge. associate--(a) The Brooklyn
mother of three who played such good football and Hammond both reverted to am going home to get my boys Dodgers; (b) The Crosta hope sincerely that it is merely months ago "the Colony children, is the first woman
a year ago.
amatour status and Compton educated there, she 'I am going a passing phase which will be players are not going to accept qualify for this position in Swe-
will do so if he ever playa first to try to make thệ Australian eliminated by the traditional planned reforms lightly,"
den, She gained plenty of ex- c. and
cles cricket again.
team against England thxt year, → Which famous American discipline of your grand old how the clubs are finding it out pertence by watching more than
Goonesenu Is a ready-made alle tennis star was known as
club.
the hard way. They have no one 100 fights, keeping a score card
Not- rounder to follow me at "Poker Face?”.
Yours in sport,
on each; then she took a train-
tingham." As they say away out Westing course
gained her ...thinge are mighly interest certificate. ing, but it is my considered Mrs Sjolin thinks boxing is no nostalgia of Lords when the Gay Have boy who is cricket made, complete the "double" this sun-
other Cavaller of the crease went out He follows the Sussex team inper. to bat against Worcestershire, all their home gamos, and the I and his was cheered all the way last time I saw film be had got |
worth (a) a try in rugbytragedy.
(c) a bull in darts?
6 Who is the holder of the steadfast admirer of your o:
world long jump record? ganidation. Even
Run?
*
10 A world champion swimmer
took the part of Tarzan in American filma? Ndine, please
(Angwors soo Faro 17)
SLOW PACED
manager
Aston Villa, Cupholders, were unbeaten at cricket until they met Wednesbury. With af over to Wednesbury requited 20 ring
to win Villacaptain, Brio Houghton, thought it was a safe draw 10 he threw the ball to Derek Fac for that last over. Pace the centre forward who played in everyoría un 'Villa'a "quéecastul Cuplics Inst season except the Final, is no bowler, however, and Wedambury dually got those 29 nip
ti follows: 00:46,68,
I. M. MacTAVISH
*
but themselves to blame.
A new menace has recently | óvinion that the
really
moal,
arch
more dangerous than
mado an appearance in our INTERESTING Ume will cond sports: midst... He is a character with when Eltekee and Eastern get
POP
HAD ANY QAN DOWN HERE THIS
YEAR?
-(London Expron Service),
(COPKILIĞINT
to
So Deals Compton has played his last match es a professionaf for Middlesex. There was deep
Wittycombe fair
YES- BUT FRED'S HAG MORE
HOW CAN .. TRIKTİ POSSIBLY
WE GOT MORE
REBT OK
06.
AKRES THAIMI
THEY HAULS?"
was
There is a small 13-year-olti
PRECIOUS DROPS
FOR PRECIOUS MOMENTS.
CHERRY HEERING
JARDINE MATKHION & CO. LTD.
Bruce
I
Dooland was the first thau” to-
A GOOD IDEA
London District of the, Army has hit úpón a good idéaĂ week's 'confia is to be he Woolwich to train uult officess
NCOA
at
timekeeping have the app
Students will
Judy of putting them into practice at the Armin which are being beld sigu tan sously
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