THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1957.
TIGERS IN A TANGLE
They Are The Season's Biggest Disappointment
Says I. M. MacTAVISH
Famous
Sports Stars I Have Met
W. J. A. Davies & C. A. Kershaw
[Man in the air is
Kwok Moon-wah of{ the Combined Chinoso bowl-
Rest's
THIS AFTERNOON'S RUGBY
ing over the Root The "Pre-Christmas Nicol and press Tournament Comes
goalkeeper, Mac-
photographers in
this sequence pic-
ture. This incident To An
To An End Today
occured in the Box- ing Day charity soccer match at
its close With the year drawing so quickly to
I found myself wondering about the current football season. 1 have been having a look at the affairs of the various clubs and I have been trying hard to make an accurato' assessment of their offorts to fulfil the promise that obviously you do not get the Wang Photo.
was held out for them in September.
To my mind the most surprising thing so far has not been the continued success of KMB or South China, but rather the almost complete failure of Sing Tao to live up to their pre-season and early season expectations.
I
two veterans
is the real reason for Sing Tao's inability to full the high hopes we held out so confidently for them ngo.
a few short months
ways the Tigers | passing of these have been the really big dis appointment of the season. On paper they have a strong and powerful side with a collection of established stars, yet on the field the side has frequently proved to be inept, weak, and The stars have too often failed to twinkle.
ALISON
As we watched the prepara- tions for the present many of us were cheered by the knowledge that the Jets as they had been affectionately called a couple of seasons earlier. were once again being brought
inte together
one ten
team. think many of us were pleased because it incont u reversal of the player-plating tolley which saw the Tigers stripped of their brillant youngsters just a year carlier
but, after a pro- mising start, the Sing Too side fel apart at the seams and il has languished near the foot of the League table for a long
time.
The Idoal Blond
Why It should be so.is some- thing of a mystery to many The ofeials have a wealth of talent at their disposal. They have playing resources which should have provided the ideal blend of youth and experience, but generally there has been strange incompatibility about two ingredients in the side, and in that fallure to mix harmoniously fes, I think, the secret of their indifferent season so far.
these
of
A Big Moment
South China and KMB have maintained their nock and neck race to the Utle, They now go into the New Year with only a single point between them and advantage in favour of the Busmen. The second meeting of these two sides will be a big moment . par- avold Hleularly if they can
By ARCHIE QUICK
When you are a cub reporter
Anme perspective as you do after thirty odd years of news- chasing. Where onco you hero-worshipped you are in-
bed, through experience and
a hard-bitter sreptielam which Is an accepted mantle of the Fourth Estate, to look upon the same people as idols with clay feet, Some stars, however, never wither and to me are such a pair os W. J. A. Davies and
places at the willingness and readiness of the Councillors of the HKFA first of all to propose
A Kershaw, the immortal and later to accept such a mea pair of Royal Navy and England
There sure.
is widespread Rugby halfbacks. Which is a agreement too with my content of a phenomenon for noe tion that it is a move which can who, although he had a Rugby benefit only a pampered minor-background, wes drogged up in ity.
the Soccer school.
-Kershaw and Davies Jun-
By "PAK LO” ́·
Caroline Hill when This afternoon brings the end of what has been known as the pre- Christmas Tournament, with Club "A" on top and Garrison a very close second. After their display last week anything can happen in this afternoon's games.
the Chinese scored a 5-1 victory.—T.C.
LEYTON ORIENT'S
HAS NOTHING TO
By ALAN: HOBY
BOSS HIDE
Every morning soon after eight o'clock a black- and-silver-grey Rolls-Bentley purrs to a stop outside an unpretentious building in London's East End.
As
In many letters I have read:
Hemselves upon my the suggestion that it is a move printed that should be fought every inch 'memory when 1 storted journ- War One, of the way...and that the flight, alism after World should he less
backed by the and saw them in action with who the United Services (Poris- fashionable clubs stant to main nothing by it. In mouth). It had to be mid-wech the for otherwise fact the reverse is the truth, for matches
Here, surrounded by tier Why did he choose football the wealthier the wealthy clubs handling cute was not for me. become the greater will be their But the biggest impact they upon tier of white boxes and when a specialist ordered him to pleasant smell of new calm his nerves by finding a watching the | further loss of points in the
of Colony inade upon me was grip on the plums football and that is dednitely them on odd mornings of the leather, Harry Zussman presides hobby?
Established over the boot and shoo empire Kitche
manage to
bad for the general advance ceaseless practice. stumble shaklly but successfully ment of the game here in Hong- Internationals though they were, which has brought him wealth
these two Lieutenant-Com- on in their quest for points long. Their high League position belles their ability.
meantime,
mjil
At the other end of the table things are beginning to look really in for the Royal Air Force. The Airmen are Anding it tough going this season end although there
ough furtion of
scems to
always
ability in the side, the power or influence which marshals col lective and Individual ability to
ol Lent advantage the
Y workable team plan is sadly missing.
won
The situnion at the foot of the League y far from being a angle team problem, however,
of
Stepping Stone
manders never failed to turn ant most mornings carly and
perfection try to achieve
in their passing.
1030
Club "A" meet RAF Jaland at 4.15 p.m. at Causeway Bay with the Navy taking on 48th Brigade in the curtain-raiser at 3.00 p.m. Over at Army Boundary Street at 3.00 p.m. the two teams who did the most to upset all calculations last week, Club "D" and the Police, clash, and following them, at 4.15 p.m. RAF Mainland face Garrison,
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time of Mainland, although they did As is aval at this the year, with mid-work ac-well, did not really come up to tivities in full swing, the teams the standard of Club "A" "last In the for- changed, wecit, especially only slightly
of their and most ore
from Club an unusual number of changes. | advantages
fumbles.
with 10
hough Club "A" and "B" show wards,
Mme Garrison
Today's Teams
In the first match. between faster trees.and heavier packc Brigade and Navy, the Army should therefore, win again the uniformed chauffeur whips open the door a short,xy is the more likely to win, smiling, dapper man steps out, weaves his way for though they failed to shine through some packing-cases, and briskly climbs the last week they have a strong two flights of narrow stairs leading to his small, potential, and the Navy turned in a very disappointing display
Navy: Freeman, Event, Bradby, Allfrey, Watson Hall-Murray last time they looks the fold homely office.
Thomas, Tiruce, sama,
Boorock. Smith, fortaque, Vellings, Wixon, When these two mot carlier Forward.
Pelica: Johnstone, Reynolds, en in the season Brigade won
Machi, Le- Scott,
Adrigham, Wein1. comfortably and though Navy Shelley. is again fairly strong this week- Foythe, Brown, end, the Brigado should just Millor. Clob
Cooks. "A Kickwood. scrape through to a victory,
Dalgleish, Cheong. Ingin O'Kelly. Bleward, Wüllane, King Shaffer,
Wright, Campbell, Elina.
Club "Martin, Stevens, Stoon,
Tancock Lal MacCallum, Vainer. Howe Whiteley. Kilvetė,
Swindley, Sum
and success,
Sporting Streak
extinction.
Only Improbable
to
Miller Hoes,
Home News
Once again my. UIC curTCS=
Sald Harry at the time; The And here, too, he conducts
told me I ought to much of the business connected specialist with that other little empire siurt collecting Jades. But there which he rules as chairman is a sporting streak in all of us. It is interesting at this time
the trouble-torn, scandal-rent Some fellows go in for horse
Club "A" should also manage Carpenter, Elliott,
mura Like A Hare of the year in look at the pro-
world of Leyton Orient........
racing. I went into football." to beat the Islanders, who do gress which some
of the Ser-
Davies, running like a hare,
For the other week the cheery, But what ho has never said not have a strong enough pack recent threw the ball at all angles and funillled football firmoment of was how, vlees ployers who in
when he first took to overcome the Club forwards, years have played in the Colony heights, and there was Kershaw Horry Zussman suddenly seem over at Leyton, the club was and it is hardly possible you are making back home in the to take that awkward-looking ed to dissolvo-almost like a struggling concorn, facing will note I no longer use the United Kingdom
ball as casily us if he were miraie..
word "Impossible" that the According to a recent check pleking apples from trees, Overnight the man all soccer Nut only were: Ortent bottom
of the International play so badly two weeks run- details some of the best known And then through the drill in knows as "Happy Harry" found of the table: they had a £42.000 Club "A" back division could pondent has been busy, sendirá
Ámi once
more the playern it was found that the reverse. Serum half and stand himself confronted by sensation overdraft. The financial rocks
after their Trials, ning, especially following were all on first team off half; bois techniques came al rumours of corruption and lay just ahead.
question of nationality h earlier promise.
rented It's hend, Walee duty on the same Saturday: the same to this pair in unison, illegal payments at Layton By revealing the canto hard- On several occasions I have
Billy Robson (Workington), these two Navai Oeers in
Orient.
beadedriese which brought him a The Islanders will be at full originally included in their the former ᎪᏁ. seen the RAF side benten | Terry Charlesworth (Scunth-close harmony,
fortune in Still Beaming
commerce, Harry strength, but their threes still selection
Jolu Granger gumes which they should have rope), __Mike_
(York Between then they won 38
Zussian completely altered this lack cohesion, and their wings 100 Yards Champion, Indeed, these rumours were so gloomy picture, International "caps". They have lost throuan Cly), Derek Reeves (Southamp English
He Epent do not see enough of the ball. Young (Oxford U.), as xight Hogan (Horile- with Davis the senior partner unsavoury that he immediately generously-but wisely.... lack of sustained concentratio: ton) Terry
The victors' laurels,
basis that his the wing on the and for want of an enlightened pools and Duyo MacLaren because he had two seasons of wrote to the Football League Ho took out Alec Stock and Clab then for this match. grandparents were Welsh, How- tharti inquiry
news studes over, later appreciation of the opposition. (Leicester City). George (Gln- recognition between the 1914- asking for an offelal
Snw Orient about into c Few teams can survive in the ger) Higgins has been in and 18 trouble. They were never into Orient's affairs,
Second Division. Ila watched a When Club "B" and Police Young has decided to remain I am confident that If the First Division when such cir-
out of Hibernians side and parted in home Internationals, Yet even in this crisis he was fine new £40,000 stand so up.meet, there should be quite a "English" and was picked as cumstances persist. Tigers side of a
Allen has also been in the East however, between
and stille bland and benevolent- couple of
good match, but both these reserve wing for England. No Hush-Hush 1023, except that Davies did looking beas,
teams Fife League team.
ore inclined to con Scotland, too, are having their Feasons ago could have been
He still beamed behind his
Successful business barons centrate on their forwards at troubles with R. Dorward, kept together without the in
Another group of players are not play against Wales in 1920
and 1922. Only because he thick, hom-rimmed spectacles as like Harry Zussman, of course, alt times, so a forward game who was the outstanding back terrapilon which saw severn! of
he fold ussosintes: "Why should are common enough in football. will probably be the result.
the first Scottish trial, us- was injured! the best young players spending and Kwong Wuh, Police, Sing doing well in professional foot-
These memories camę flood- I worry? I'm Innocent. "I've got But It is a fallacy that they
able to be considered for salec a season in other colours, they Tao, CAA and even the Army ball outside the Jurisdiction of ittle the Football League, Erstwhile
make money out of the game. Club "B" after their tion bound of guy: mishap. would be one of the outstanding must be more than a
their lowly Command Workshop, RENE back because of a meeting nothing to hide...."
-But what is he really like, this They don't. They pour it.in. teams in the senior competition concerned about
wonderful win, will be all dute ja sill in hospitaliti: N position... while Tung Wah Army and Colony akipper Alex with another famous Engilsh
Harry differs from to do it again and it is probable
France, who meet "Scotland much interest in the games in lar players of his time... is tired Major C.K.T. Faithfull, who mine years ago, took up many of them is that he doesn't that they will, for though and Club are surely taking as Fraser.me of the most popu-ternational, the recently re-self-made business man of 47
In collusion with that burly football m. doctor's orders, us at act like a big hot water botter than their opponents last are expected to wolecto Polleo were definitely much at Murrayfield, on January 11, Downlays captain of South
Irish character, Mujer W.. rolaxation from over-work:?
interfere with the manager's Shields. Harry Crompton is ("Horsey") Drowne, Major Until his as they do in their own engage-
friend, Oriental job." he says.
week, they failed to cross the side that beat, Rumania 3940'In peting in a similar capacity for Faithfull was the mainstay of vice-chalkman Frank Harris, į The last thing he wants is Une and their attack,.. though Bardeaux recently. ments...
Nuneaton, Jimmy Haydock in A couple of points either way
a match. Harry any hush-hushing in this Orient well developed, lacked penetra
England's trials will be held iment, stationer on the other Zusaman had never kicked affair. Ho is determined that ing power on the wings.
on the 4th January with Hodg could have the greatest indvenco with Buxton, Longland, Stevens, the Duke of Wellington's Begi took hi In the current competition. 1 Robson, and Burke are playing side of Porinuutis Harbour at football or watched a game in all the facts shall be made
in the Southem League White New Barracks, Gosport, What his life.
Club "B" have that power, som takding his place in The known. ever there was a case, of a
He had been far too. Buzy And the future?
and they should win by a small Rest" XV, while Extra is in the a formidable foursome toy Bird-in-the-hand being worth Tommy Doyle is doing well in
"England" XV, yet only re- the Lancashire League....
Own Shoreditch were, and what tents In the darling, his un- į something, it is in the fact that
We must wait and seo, But, margin this afternoon.
cently in a Durham-Lancashire up-and-coming
thing I am prepared to
Garrison should not have a match Hodgson outhooked. The list is far from being ayes of a junior Just entering wholesale business from scratch one. known fighting for a 'place-in-the teams who have points now
run and putting every-may eventually find that they exhaustive, but it is surely journalism. But such was their and billing it into a £1,000,000 wager that in the snug toy busy time this uticaon, Evans, who was reported to be
offen down in Shoreditch where thing they had into each game are priceless possessions, For obvious that football in Kong magnetism that even a decade enterprise. have now become established. deveral of the teams I have kong can be a very useful step-and a half later one meets such Moreover, the "headaches" le vie Groves signed for Arachot, for ley played RAF Mainland overcoming a dose of 'Gu, but Lancashire selectora autoencountered on his hard-wan | irrepressible
during the week and with only the Hatry Zussman
fifteen minutos
just dropped their last ma's Eng- No longer are they striving named above, points-gathering
remembers mutically Inmo at Home.
him, way to the top were far worse will continue to be his haPPY managed to compo, though by land hooler and Captain and he no if not going to be easy in the ping stone to progress in the as Minfer Falthfull and for glamourous success:
and Kershaw than any of the problems, ke¦ Indiarubber, self, longer are they chasing every months to come and there may
and so we come to the Browno, Davies
--(London: Express Sarvico). points (1 goal, 1 penalty goal) has not played for them sinco
to 3 points (1 penalty goá‡).
-November 9, ball: no longer are they willing be many remorseful moments
(COPYRIGHT) · to put in that vital Bit extra to in May when two relegated end of a year which, in a foot- for the great sportsmon they uns to grapple with as Leylon
clubs look back at the samies ball sente, has been eventful were,
todynasbie effort to
The
aesemble the team has not met with the saceras it deserved .... not because there has been any perlicutan loss of individual ability bul because there has been a subtle change tttludo to the game among the younger men in the side.
The
of
which these other teams play
cover the clip of a colleague: they let slip so easily through There is, however, new hope in not particularly" butstanding, no longer are they the great team they their angers.
No Doubt. At All andere best wishes to those in
and, in consequence,
might have been.
I would be unfair of course
as for
the future;; and I extend-- my whose care the future of Colony Many thanks to all of you soccer lles. To the players:az to lay all the blame for the who wrote to me regarding the freddo from injuries to the Tigers partial eclipse on the provision for bighur charges for tela officials, a treedom from youtusters' plates.
The certain stand stata at the long controversy; and, the wildpin to veterans aro getting older and kong Stadium I think it is satisfy players. spectatorná as soccer's two grand a great pity that the omelets and, sports wrilats; to tho old men, Flash Harry Hau of the Honghang Football Asadministratore... an understand. Yung-sang and Cheung Kam sociallon cannot read what you ing of the problems of the fana hol, aro concerned, the end of have said about it but the who support the are ในบ long and distinguishzod law being what it is, I'm ureald the forethought to plan, self- Careers In now. very much in I duell have to keep some of leady and to work on for the aight Time is no reimatloss your comments to myself. long term good of the eme With footballers" on it is with Nevertheless, there is not the May, I wishyou) ali a hoppy all; other farma of life and it alightest doubt, kint, there is Now Yeur is One, in ^orkin' May 10 that the impending, strong, resentment in ghany you. Hḍpne may be resized.
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