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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1957.

FOR LEAGUE MATCHES Only One Junior

Junior Game Down For Decision

By "TIME OUT”.

A programme of six League softball matches has been arranged for the week-end with perhaps the best game being the Senior encounter between the Pandas and the Warriors to be played off tomorrow at 3.30 p.m.

Only one Junior League game is down for decision today, that between the Austers and the War Eagles. Both sides are just going through the motions in order to complete their fixtures for the rest of the sea- son. The Eagles are just above the Austers in the League standings and will be out to repeat their first round victory.

The outlook for tomorrow is much brighter, Fred Diesta's

Dodgers P. 1.

after their courageous showing last week against the champlon Seminole

Novice Affair

After the lunch break

WEEKEND

LET'S HAVE GOOD CLEAN SOCCER IN 1958 TO

BRING BACK THE CROWDS

Says TOM FINNEY

If a Good Fairy were to fly through my window and grant me three wishes for the New Year, these are the things I would ask for sport:

(a) A clean-up in soccer. I think the game is getting too fast. and losing much of its charm and skill. I would like to see more finesse, more ball control, more culture, because I think good football would bring the crowds back to the game. And at the same time I wish that those few players who will niggle and commit petty fouls would cut out the tough approach to the game. Let's have good clean football in 1958.

of the cellor- If you wish to read your sink to the depths when least in the game afternoon paper without Any expected to the despair of dwellers. The former team, re- from the Tol Interruptions this game will sult Diesto. However, if current form cruited mostly you nicely as it will be a routine is any criterion the Dodgers Tung Midale School, are absolute affair with the result depending must take this game easily at- Leginners with little knowledge on whoever makes the most though they will still recull that of the game, whilst the Athletics fielding errors,

carlier in the season, in a 3-hour can boast of one victory, over long marathon game Wah Ying the University, in six starts. Оустсав, under the bowed to them by anly one run. The

Kuidance of coach C. C. Lee, showed much team spirit in

openings. Sanultaneously C11 the "B" their initial outing, but this i

(b) My next wish, is for This is the period when we all ball brain to create

get nostalgie and look over the Yes, Danny's the boy for me, mide should take the 10 am. Neld, a comedy of errors should not enough to win games. The

Forgive me If I cluda an- 1954 post 12 months to cort out our Junior League game against enaue. Two green-behind-the-nod goes to the Athletics whose England to win the World Cup.

I played in the 1050 and should away the game series. I don't think England greatest sporting thrills. Here other award: BEST YOUNG Wah Ying in stride. The Dodgers cars ladies' aides, Lee Chi-hong's batting

PLAYER: This goes to Bryan und are capable of playing cham-Oversens

Mark Kwong's in their favour.

have ever had a better chance are just a few of mine. the Athletics are engaged

BEST TEAM OF THE YEAR: Douglas of Blackburn Rovers. plonship ball one week and then Chinese

Seminoles keep an appointment tht they have now. Is it too

Mu- Bryan has fairly shot to the hae with Frank Wong's University,much to hope that 1958 1 Eng-It looked at first to be

who chester United. In

early top. He is the man

Star Matthews as The champions are out for vieland's World Cup year?

for displaced (c) My last wish really is a months they looked a cert tory number 24 and, having

good the Cup. League and maybe the England's outside-right and yet those already trounced the U by a lop-FINAL wish. I had the

the Intter is still able to show us sided score of 20 to 1 two months fortune to play in the 1954 Cup European Cup. In

bril. they slipped flashes of Matthews-like ago, will take the field as favour Final, when Preston tust to months of 1057

they once. Young Douglos, on and Hes. Carvalho's boys have too West Brom. The marches on from their pinnacle. But

the off

feld, has many big guns to fire against the and before I hang up my boots still come in the TOP THREE.

young foot- who will be for good, my dearest wish is to Now Wolves have taken up friends. A fine

Manchester United left balfer and a very unassuming Univerally boys

collect a Cup-winner's medal, where banging their heads against a

elad. Perhups 1958 will be Preston's off. As December draws to stone wait,

close, Cup-winning year!

Stan Culits'

BEST DEFENDER: I'll give are boys romping away at the top of the you two, because I don't think Pinying First Division, and that wonder-1 can separate them.

for Preston I ful 2-2 draw in Madrid againat centre-forward

found the two most the European Cup-holders puts have them in for the utte of best difficult-to-beat team of 1957.

LIKE ALL THE OTHERS

By HENRY LONGHURST Every day our pride seems destined to be deflated in ways both great and small. Our gallant allies on their usual grand scale stage a misfirework display

One-Sided Game that can only bring to mind the instructions engraved The two Senior Lengue gumes on every schoolboy's memory, “Light the blue touch-will command only a little at- paper and retire immediately," while the tusslans tention. At 1.30 am, the Dod. on the other side of the fenco bring near to realityers clash with the US Navy the tale that has been going the rounds for some time now, concerning the two Russian scientists at the pearly gales, who, on being declined admission, replied, "We don't want to come in. We only want our ball back."

dearly love to have seen in all Snead's career was the round he played with a tree trunk.

Now, more properly within the province of this columns have to report that, following on the victory of the Japanese This occurred some years ago over the rost of the world at at his home club, White Sulphur Holf, a Kikuyu caddle has won Springs, Virginla, when he dis a competition at the Royal appeared into the woods and Nairobi Club with 18 consecutive came out with a small tree which he carved by hand into the form pars and a total of 73.

golf club-thus proving on the of a news from a friend in Kenya himself, incidentally, one of the club-maker-professionals who marked his card. "I have lasi

"

My Informant posses

never seen anything like it," he left in America. writes and I apologise on

his With this, plus. It is true, behalf for some faintly deroga- wedge, he holed the course in tory observations upon a number 70.

eminent of

professionals "he

hud imitated the style of Bobby Barr, our pro., to perfection, but his short gome was much super- ior. Into the bargain, he played Hike all the others with four clubs only: a number two wood, Hus, four und eight irons and a

putler.

"To see him use his 4 when he really wanted 0 reminded me of the art of the old golding generation developed when

Splendid Fun

Such deplorable frivolity will shock the solemnly dedicated golfer the kind at which those of denation, Stephen masters Leacock and P. G. Wodehouse, huve poked such splendid fun. With what delight, I thought, would they have been present In

railway carriage the other day

in Japon, when four of us were on our way from Tokyo to sam- eagles at Kawana.

was a youngster instead of hav-ple the local edition of Glen-

ing a bottery nf 14 clubs. short game was quite timmacul- ate and he took 25 putts for the round. I enjoyed it more than all the Dal Rees, Ken Bousileid and even Bobby Locke, who visited us a short time ugo, And to cap it all he made a excellent speech which could not have been bettered by anyone."

The winner, being ignorant, reasonably enough, of the some- what complicated definitions of amateur states and in particular the clause about carrying clubs for hire after the age of 16, ex- pressed the hope that soon he and his fellow caddle-enthusiasts would be playing Jp Amateur.

The train was making its way along a coast Bne that put the South of France in the shade, winding its

round Jittle way bays fringed with fir trees and burrowing through tunnels to emerge upon a scene even more enchanting on the other side. Inland terrace after terrace ol tangerine groves graced the hill-

sides.

Marvelling at the idyllic beauty of the scene we passed some trees in blossom with flowers of a particularly delicate shade of pinkish orange. They our Japanese companion the said, persimmon.

"Ah,"

the Dedicated Bald Golfer, "that's what they use for

My friend seeks to get round

were,

this by forming a Kikuyu artisan wooden clubs."

section splendid thought! — which would be offiliated to the Golfing Union of Kenya, "We have progressed a long way," he concludes, "from the lime 20 years ago when Arthur II-and I played two caddies, got beaten, and very nearly had to resign from the club."

With Bare Feet Perhaps I am getting crusty. but anything which reduces the artificial complications of the golf swing and in particular the salonnity with which the gume so often seems to be taken al- ways appeals to me. I take this big black fellow's feat in deing every hole In par with four clubs, and that of the thred caddies in Colombo who, I re- member, when I was there, had just level fours with bare feet and three clubs aplece as A corrective not merely to the members of their distinguished patron clubs but to all of us

For Instance I yield to no one

for in my admiration

Sam Snead's golf swing, I have a coloured, movie, which I have ween dozens of times and still enjoy, which I took

at the Thunderbird Club in California during the last Ryder Cup match in America. A line of pro- fessionals are practising side by alde, their clubs glinting as they Dash swiftly in the brilliant de- pert sunshine.

In the centre one of them scams almost to be playing in alow motion and this, of course, ia Snead. Nevertheless, though. this is indeed the postry of motion, what I should most

THE

WEEK-END

After Inst week's poor show- ig by the USS "Gurke". In contrast 10 the powerful hit- of the Dodgers, the Ung Filipinos are not expected to run into any sort of trouble. A one- sided gane, especially if the Dodgers turn out in full force as predicted.

The Anal game of the day bas Al Oliveira's Warriors matched against the Pandas under D. S. Ling. Without Jackie Wei the Pandas are a very ordinary team Indeed, since Lom Ping just hasn't got what it takes to be a pitcher. The tribe on the other hand hos one of the best hurlers in

the

League, "Goose" Wong, and un- less Wei makes an appearance at the ball-park the Warriers their first-round- will avenge defeat of 4-1 at the hands of the same Pandas.

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But for pure football, perhaps tingham Forest, and Syd Owen,

gave Real Madrid should get the of Luton. Neither

room to workin vote. I saw them at Old Traf- much ford. Only in flashes did we McKinley, the young Scot, see that superb controlled foot-charmed First Division

theby his play this scazon. ball which won for them European Cup, but the fleeting Owen has been on the soccer he moments of brilliance showed circuit for many years, but

hos not lost his ability to look me what made them the

like the rock of Gibraltar to standing team of Europe.

opposing centre-forwards.

Superb Captain

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BEST REFEREE: Well I don't BEST PLAYER; Sorry, you suppose I saw them all this past fons who year, but the two best who come Manchester United

are rooting for Duncan readily to inkad are Alf Bond

to (Fullam) and Edwards, but my vote goes

E. Crowford Donny Blanchflower of Spurs. (Doncaster).

there

Here is one of soccer's master Both these referees, when I pinners. A superb captain of aw them, were complete mas- Ireland; a non-stop Inspiration ters of the situation. They gave

and their decisions promptly. ai wing-half for his club his country, He is never still, were no arguments; they used always using that astute foot- the advantage rule expertly. In fact they were so good you real- ly didn't notice them. It is great help to the players when games are controlled so splen- didly.

Going by air?

then

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by Barry Applely

NOT EVEN YOU

OF COURSE I CAN KEEP WHY-1 BOUGHT THAT AND I HAVEN'T TOLD

A SECRET

HAT YESTERDAY YOU SAID WE couldn't AFFORD

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MOST EXCITING MATCH: This, I thought, was the Man- chester United v Bilbao return European Cup the in which

United, trailing 5-3 when the game started, pulled back those two gonla end won by 3-0. They thus won the tle on aggregate by 6-3.

'BEST. ENGLAND'S

PER- FORMANCES for many a year, I thought, came in 1957, when we played Wales at Cardiff and France at Wembley, Many

the people thought

French their players were not up to

sual high standard. Neverthe- less I personally thought Eng- land moved that day as sweetly as they have dime

the since great era of Will Mannion and Ralch Carter, England's moves against France I thought were really first class. Yes, on that day they looked good enough to win the World Cup. All they have to do is to find the same form in Stockholm in 19581

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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB SIXTH RACE MEETING

Wednesday 1st and Saturday 4th January 1956

(To be held under the Rules of the Hong Kong Jockey Club) THE PROGRAMME WILL Consist of 18 RACED. On the 1st Day the First Bell will be rung of 11.30 6.m. and the First Race run at 12.00 Noon. The Tiffin interval is after the Fourth Raco (1.30 p.m.).

On the 2nd Day the First Bell will be run at 1,30 p.m. and the First Race run at 2.00 pm.

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 Offlee, et Queen's Building, Chater Road and 302 Nathan Road only on the written introduction of a Member. who will be responsible for all visitors introduced by him, and

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

The 6th Floor is restricted to Members and Ladles wearing Lady's Brooches,

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

1. 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 gain re-admission.

MEALS and REFRESHMENTS will be obişinable in the RESTAURANT.

SERVANTS

Servants must remain in their employers' boxes except for passing through. on their duties. They may on no secount use the Belling Booths or Pay Out Booths in the Enclosures,

CASH SWEEPS

Through Cash Sweep Tickets at $30.00 each for both days may be obtained from the Cach Sweep Offices at Queen's Building. (Chafer Road), and 3. D'Aguilar Street during normal office hours and until 10.00 am. on the 1st day of the Race 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 Meeting it it is found that sales may not reach the number reserved in the series 1 to 3,000.

In the case of two-day Race Meetings, Through Tickets may be purchased for each day of the Meeting provided that the second day is on dide not less than Ave days after the first day. In all other cases Through Tickets will only be sold for the whole Meeting. Tickets reserved and avaliable but not paid for by 10.00 am. on Tuesday. 31st December 1987 will be sold and the reservation cancelled for future Meetings.

Tickets over 3,000 will also be issued consecutively but particular numbers cannot be reserved as Through Tickets.

The reservation of any particular number does not conter 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 action.

Tickets for the Special Cash Sweep on the Pearce Memorial Cup scheduled to be run on 25th January, 1958, at $2.00 each may bu obtained from the Cash Sweep Officer at:-.

Queen's Building (Chater Road) and 6,-D'Agullar Street on

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b.m. to 12.30 pm.

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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 BE RUN.

PAYMENTS WILL NOT BE MADE ON TOIN OR DISFIGURED TICKETS.

Bookmaker Tic Tac men, etc. will not be permitted to operate. within the precincts of the Hong Kong Jockey Club,

By Order of the stewer

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