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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB NINTH (ANNUAL) RACE MEETING
Saturday 1st, Wednesday 5th and Saturday 8th March, 1958 (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 Noon each day.
The Tin Interval is after the Fourth Race (1.30 pm) each day.
The Secretary's Ofco at Alexandra House will close at 10.00 .m. each day.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE
NO PERSON WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED. All parsons MUST wear their badges prominently displayed throughout the meeting.
Admission Badges at $10.00 each per day are obtainable prior!
Queen's to the Meeting from the Club's Cash Sweep Offers, Building, Chater Road and Nathan Road, Kowloon, only on the! written introduction of a Member, and on production of his Guest Record Card Members are limited to 0 guests each Race Day,, and will be responsible for all guests introduced by them.
Tins will be obtainable at the Club House if ordered in, advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 72811).
The 6th Floor is restricted to Members and Lodies wearing: Lady's Brooches.
NO CHILDREN will be admitted to the Club's promises during the Meeting. For this purpose a Child is a person under the age of seventeen years, Western Standard.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The price of admission will be $3.09'oach per day payable
at the date.
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 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 Batting 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 days between each day an exception is being made for the Annual Race Meeting. Through Cash Sweep tickets, therefore, at $20 each per day or $50 for the three days of the Meoting may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Offices at Queen's Building (Chater Road) and 6, 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 9,000 may be reserved for all race meetings na 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 Meeing if it is found that sales may not reach the number reserved in the series 1 to 3,000.
Tickets reserved and available but not paid for by 10.00a.m. on Friday, 28th February, will be sold and the reservation cancelled for future Meetings,
THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1959.
FOOTBALL'S FICKLE FOLLOWERS
TODAY'S RUGBY
Big Battle Of The Pentangular Tournament This Afternoon
By "PAK LO"
The big battle of the Pentangular Tournament is set for this afternoon when at 3 p.m. on the Police ground in Boundary Street the Army and the Club meet for the top honours. With only one point between them a win for either team means victory in the Tournament.
in the same ground later in the afternoon at 4.15 p.m. the Police meet the Airmen. Here again there is close interest for only two points separate these XVs in the Pentangular table.
The Infest news on the Taiwan XV is that the tour has had to be cancelled due to unforeseen deulies. It is hoped that more definite and betler arrangements
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The Army has a strong pack, but the return of Miller to the j Club promises some fun in tie: lineouts where Wynn uniil nów has reigned the undisputed king.
can be made for next season. There little difference in the In the major game this after-weights of the packs and Hung. noon both XVs have made one the Club hooker, should be much change and both are in the full better against O'Donnell than back position. Club have had he was in the trials.
recent addition to their mem- bers and it is he who takes his place at full back this afternoon. According to the Club captain he is a very good full buck, so anything Club are that if stronger them before.
The Army have had to release Leppard for boxing this week and Green is sent back to full Ich with Evans coming in to This rather wing forward. weakens the defensive power of the Army, for Green, though a good tackler, is still a wing forward and his positioning not all it should be,
SPORTS QUIZ
1. Who captained England's cricket team. In the first oficial Test match agalast Australia?
2. One country has won ari tournament Olympic team
every time it has entered for it. Which counlay? And which tournament?
3.
What
sports would expect to sre Colombes,
Paris
you
(b)
Holmenkollen, near Oslo?
4. In what sports do you have
an
eagle, (b)
-(1) smatch. (c) a jack. (1) jock-knife?
3
a
The Army halves are fast, but Gilbertson, it well covered, Inclined to get fustered ond this is always dangerous in this vital position. That O'Kelly the better fly half then Gil- bertson goes without saying and the Club threes should get moving, today.
Of the two sets of threes the
Club's look the more dangerous. Cooie has been brought in on one wing and Cheong is on the With Valentine iu other aide.
bolind the centre
O'Kelly this is an attacking set of threes who should create havoc with the Army defence.
draw
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Famous Sports Stars I Have Met
DUNCAN EDWARDS
By Archie Quick
Firecrackers Can Be Anything But Funny In
A
Large Crowd
Says I. M. MacTAVISH
The football fan is surely the most fickle personality in the length and breadth of the world of sport. It is quite impossible to forecast accurately what he will do . or even when he will do it, and 1 boliove there is surely some subtle connection between the great uncertainty which is the very soul of the game itself and the fickle streak in those who follow it.
ba
Let me give you an interesting example of what I mean, When news of the fourth game between a Colony side and the visitors from Korea leaked out several knowing folks told me confidently that it would not draw a big crowd to the Hongkong Stadium. Similar opinion wan voiced Inment of others is restrick! 13 word with his Korean counter- scetions of the press and I certainly not the right place: past and suggested that the
should Looked for a time as though the The laughter with which some visiting players prophets were going to be prov-spectators saw fit to greet the strongly advised to cut out the ed right.
preventive work of the police fraught ping. He also saw DL... The
quickly on his own admission to me.... demand for pre-sale would have changed
unduly brisk ancugh to telets was not
Recusation to alve similar and even at seven o'clock on and recrimination had on acci- | Hongkong boys,
game itdent occurred. the evening of the
That hardly seemed as though there would Congratulations to the memelinvlour of an official involved in crowd bets of the Police, and the 1 match where only the purest present. Then, as though some Specials, who did an excellent tactics were being employed.
difficult I was most reassure
only be a
one
nominal
bitter
circum-
had opened the succer Job in very sluke gates, the flow of specln-rtanen. tora started to increase and trying to see such thoughtful work half past seven the whole pic-in progress.
had changed as if by mngle furo
another near capacity craw was in the making.
Two years ago high up in the Austrian Alps, above Innsbruck I was walking along the beautiful road batween the villages of Mutters and Natters when towards
camo a me
familiar, massive figure with the rolling gait of a soaman. It was Duncan Edwards, nineteen-year old footballing genius destined to dla in the Munich air disaster oven before he had matured to full flowor.
Great
The Army threes passing of late has been disappointing and the greatest danger to the Clu in the Army's threes Hadow, for given the ball and the vestige of an opening he is more than capable of
All in all, then, a slightl vantage to the Army in the a stronger ad- forwards and vantage to the Club threes and
as were this Dudley halves, and they should just | (Worcestershire) boy's schlove- ments as left hall for England manage a win in this match.
would by no and Manchester United the years means be impossible, but a ahead would undoubtedly have Club is my shown him to be the greatest victory for the forecast.
artist in the world. soccer" think that claim cannot be Look at this boy's challenged, record-It matches bls stature;
"full" Eighteen
International "caps" for England before he had come of age, appearances in England's "Under "23" team, the "B" sido, England's Youth and Schoolboys, a Cup Final
medal winners'
and League Championship medals, as well as numerous games for the Army representative eleven.
Police v. RAF
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In the other Penutngular the
un Polico aro flelding an changed team; unchanged ip the sense that it is the same on paper as last weekend and, trouble today requires the services of the Police, they will be out in
full
5. Which sports comprise the providing that
Modern Pentathlon?
6. What are the surnames of these world famous sports- nen (8) Dr Roger Gilbert Ellas XXXXXXX: (b) Victor XXXXXXX; (c) George
Sir
Donald
XXXXXXX
7. Is a
faulted if
badminton
he misses shuttle when serving?
player the
8. Who was the only boxer to
knock out Jack Dempsey?
9. Which country became the hest for 80 years to win a Rugby Union
Test series against South Africa?
no
The Airmen have McNamara at scrum half and this XV may well suprise the Palice for Jast week they held the Army throughout the first halt.
The bustling
tactics of the heavier Police forwards should, however, pay didvidends for it is the pack that
Is the strongest link in the RAF side, end if they are cowed then the Police threes, though weak in passing, have the little extra that should carry them through to victory. The RAF threes do
I
que definitely they would not
But somehow the pull of the big occasion is hard to resist. The football fans of Hongkong are no more pervious to it than the fans in any other country- but they do have the ability to accept the unexpected soccer let-downs good grace that is often missing among the fans in other parts of the world.
with
a
level-headedness and
-Case--Of Values .. Since last Wednesday I have been asked on several occasions why the too of my report w
at variance with
somewhat
abstract scales,
advice.to
the
the
Bo
The many carnest discussiona which look place at the end of the game were also indicative of what the regular. fans thought of the whole performance. One fan was heard to suggest that the HKFA, should send a party on to the field to clear up the nxes another suggested a sweepstake on the number bruises on the legs of several nominated players... and there were many other comments no less significant.
Self-Protection
of
For those who enjoy statistics, it is rather interesting to report fewer than 10 free
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That is the story of the masses. is also, however, the story of individuals. At the game I saw a number of enthusiasts had assured me earlier that bined Chinese-Korean
who others dealing with the Com-
gap I to not intend to be pompous or facetious when I say that confine my reports and com- m ments to what I son and how I analyse it. If my views ATO different
from those of other writers that does not cause me that no any worry, neither does it make me or them wrong. It is all kicks were awarded against Ha
Cheung-you usually
EQ dis- 4 case of values and concep-
lons and it would be a dull tion. Not once as far as I re- creet for pushing and obstruc- world if everybody saw every member did his tactics cause an thing in the same light
Infiary to an opponent....but or fudged it on the same
[ much of what ho A Safety Valve
was born in a spirit. of self- One of the reasons for this protection in a game in which However, even here there are
subject being raised now is no it was necessary to strike first me when a safety valve has doubt connected with the fact or be struck. to blow. In these moments one that I laid a greater emphasis
A correspondent to the China feels an undercurrent of oppre- than did others on the un-Mall some weeks ago said that hension and realises how easy savoury
tactics
which punce I had 'a thing about rough it would be for trouble start Munted the game, This isplay. Maybe he is right and it
our established sense of good a typical case where different
he means by it that I'disilke humour were to falt.
produce
then
I could not it intensely three original During the
Now agree with him more. Korean series, garnes
I know that the dislike of last the seasonal recrackers were Gymbols of the spectators' ap
widely shared by preclation of seme grand foot- toll on the holiday occasional run of stuit we saw at the
By my assessment the gener- many, many others.
Rough, dirty play is still rough, Somehow one felt they were the Hongkong Stadium on Tuesday dirty play no matter how anyone only things that really express- ed the feelings of the thousands as just the kind of thing cal-ixes to assess, justify, or describa He could play anywhere, Just packed around the ground. We than propress the game in
prejudice
As far as I'm concerned. I Tother it. as John Charles
can, and, all greeted each salvo with laughter Colony. In the early stages the honest-to-goodness manly foot
the shall go on applauding rent things being oven, ho might and pleasure....and in the evon have surpassed the huge spirit of the time we failed to visitors played with a bitter-ball whenever I sec. It played
ness and bite that soon number of "caps"
Pro- and no mattor by whom it is gained by appreciate just how dangerous voked our
representatives Billy Wright.
to played....and by exactly the the whole thing really was.
0110 same token I shall never hesitate The police showed a wonder. retaliation, but there are
or two things about the game to criticise strongly, but. I hope ful degree of toleranco and
I would like to point out now.. obfectively, the kind of football understanding and I think it
to which we were treated last For the beneût of those who was this sensible attitude that
would try to close their eyes to Tuesday. kept The discharge of fire-
the behaviour of the players, let Can there be any other worth- crackers within reasonable
Good is good me tell them that at the half- | while standard?
stage an official of the and bad is surely bad, no matter limits....and at the same time
Hongkong team went and had a how it is judged. crowd at manageable level.
The capacity crowd which attended the fourth game on Tuesday contained
number of enthusiasts who hod armed
YOUNGEST PLAYER
When I met him that sunny afternoon in the Tyrol he ha Just concluded a season of 4 matches Cup, League Bad World Cup for Manchester, Inter
of the
Tekels over 3,000 will also be issued consecutively but10. What's the name? "Captain not have the penetrative power nationals for England in various maintained the humour of the
particular numbers ennnot he reserved as Through Tickels.
The reservation of any particular number does not confer
on the registered holder any rights whatsoever unless the ticket) bearing the appropriate number is ismued to and can be produced. by the holder.
The Stewards reserve the right to refuse any subscription also the right to remove any nume from Subscription Lists with- out stating reasons for their action.
Tickets for the Cash Sweep on the last raco of the Meeting at $2.00 each and Tickets for the Spreial Cash Sweep on the Hong Kong Derby scheduled to be run on 10th May, 1958, at $2.00 cach may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Offees at:- Queen's Building (Chater Road) and 5, D'Aguilar Street on
Thursday 27th, Friday 28th February Monday 3rd Tuesday 4th Thursday 6th and Friday 7th March
Saturday 1st, Wednesday 5th and Saturday 8th March
382, Nathan Itood, Kowloon
February,
Thursday 27th, Friday 28th Munday 3rd, Tuesday 4th Thursday 6th and Friday 7th March
TOTALISATOR
9am to 5 pm.
10 am to 4 pm.
of an international team.. has won over 80 caps for his country....has played
for the same club since he was 15....a centre-half,"
(Answers Bee Pazo 17.)
NOTICE
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
Programmes and Entry
on the wings to break through teams and all of the Army's what is for them a strong de-games, The youngest player fence and the Police should ever to play for England, he was win and win well.
still eligible for the Youth team The oliver two scheduled when in England's senior eloven, themselves with ♫ plentiful games are cancelled. The Club But football was his life, and he supply of firecracker smumuni-
scrubbed theirs 30 was soon talking" "shop,"
tion which was obviously in that they may appear in force laud, he said, been to Scon- tended to be a salute to the
their senior side dinavia with England, down in
Hongkong's Combinco Chinese were going to BOOKG.
"B" have
to cheer on and the able to due to a shortage of men.
He
RAF are no longer the Balkans with England's turn out a second X and in Germany for the Army, Unfortunately our footballers alt since the close of the League failed to eg-operate. The Anal season.
He had gone to Aus-whistle arrived without a goal tria for a rest with his family, being chaiked up ... and, in
Today's Teams but when I mentioned the thelk moment of frustration, the
Club: Miles, Cooke, McTavish, famous visitor to an Innkeeper fans decided on an after-the-
in Mutters he said he knew match fireworks display. Valentine. Cheong, 9 am to 10 am Forms for the 10th Race Stoward, Howe, Hung, Williams, been
O'Kelly, him, for had not Herr Edwards
dicking tennis ball in the passageways leading to the With the crowd tightly packed Meeting 1967/68 to be held H. Miller, Ross, Campbell, about with the village children! exlts this was a most dangerous on Saturday, 22nd March, Wright, Penman.
Anny:. Green Bede-Cox. 1968, (weather permitting)|
Matt Busby kept it a closely practice and it could have led to muy be obtained at the Goulds, Haddow, Sharp, Gilbert-guarded secret, but there was serious accident and injury to
son, Robertson, Linhom, period of worry a year or innocent spectators.. Backers are advised ngi to destroy or throw away their Secretary's Office, Alexandra O'Donnell, MacIntosh, Wynn, so are when It was thought tickets until after the "ull clear" olgnat has been exhibited. House; the Club House, Muntz, Busby,
Hemmingway that Edwards might fall victim ALL WINNING TICKETS AND TICKETS FOR REFUNDS Iloppy Valley; and the Evans.
o intanille paralysis. But, just RAF: Gland, Brackenbury, as he fought for his life in the COURSE ON THE DAY TO WHICH THEY REFER, NOT LATER Stables, Shan Kwong Road.
hospital, Willingham, Myers, Coombes, Munich
Maltacol, tremendous physique spabled RACE OF THE DAY HAS BEEN SCHEDULED TO BE RUN. Entries close at 12 o'clock Corash, McNamara,
Fowler, A. N.. Other, Siccle, aim to conquer the dread pollo PAYMENT WILL NOT BE MADE ON TORN OR DIS-NOON oa Tuesday, 11th
Philips, Samuels,: Southwick, Despite his swashbuckling ap- FIGURED TICKETS.
March, 1058.
Aldridge.
pearance 011 the field, his-† Palico
Lloyd, Marsh, Scott, wholehearted, tackles and up By Order of the Stewards, Stevin, O'Regan, Riach, Lelligit, geld dashes, ho was a quiet buy A. E. ARNOLD, Walsh, Cunningham, Shellar, of the pitch. He gained many Seerotary, Brown, Forsythe, Walker, caps," but the last was only
Bryan, Johnston:
the came size as the rat:
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THAN ONE HOUR AFTER THE TIME FOR WHICH THE LAST
Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, otc, will not be permitted to operate within the precincts of the Hong Kong Jockey Club,
By Order of the Stewards,
POP
A. E, ARNOLD, Secretary.
SOMETIMES FEEL LIKE JUMPING|
W THE RIVER
1 CET DEPRESSED
MYSELF, EVERYBODY GEEMS TO
NEUROTIC.
I'M CALM, WELL:BALANCED
AND HAPPY
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THESE
DAYS
ENOUGH
Balmy days
"THEN YOU' SHOVLI
SEE A PSYCH
RIGHT
AWAY!
AULERS
So
PRECIOUS DROPS
@FOR PRECIQUE MOMENTS.
CHERRY HEERING
his
Cheap Bravado The police tried hard to put a slop to it immediately, but their very necessary and timely inter- : vention was the signal for an outburst of cheap bravado by thoughtless fans who, from the obscurity-of the densely packed" throngs, continued to defy, police sppeals....jualified appeals that they were, and continued to tmperil the safety of others." by the indiscriminate throwing of:
values
senses of variable comments.
The Early Stages Tuesday's type of footballis
culated
way
to
Nominate YOUR
other....
Hongkong Footballer Of The Year
Members of the public are invited to
Year for the current season. nominate Hongkong's Footballer of the
It is a popularity poll organised by the China Mail, and nomination coupons will be accepted until the closing date to be announced later.
The two qualifications for nomination are:
(1) Footballing prowess.
(2) Sportsmanship on the field of play, Nominations should be addressed
lighted crackors which frequently the Editor, China Mail, Wyndham Street.
exploded just abaya the heads of the crowd of dropped among them as they threaded thole way. to the exits,
"The police were badlý hand- cireun- capped both by the. stances and by the attitude" of Home of the loss responsible spectators, and one could but admire the patlance and tact which they allowed in handling a situation which could easily have deteriorated, had it down, mishandled.
Crackers are traditional Chin~ eso symbols of celebration und. do and would dream of profil- biling theirýma at tharibi tlaze and in the right place. A back.
To the Editor, China Mail,
My nomination for Hongkong's Footballer of the Year, taking into account his playing ability and his sportsmanship on the field of play 18:
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