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THE CHINA MAIL; - SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1958.

MAY THE BETTER TEAM WIN

CART-HORSE HELPED

A horse show jumping championship is the ambition of 17-year-old Heather Mellor, who has just returned to England from Cyprus.

Heather Arst learned to ride in Egypt and then on arrival in Cyprus two years ago she obtained a soven-year-old scraggy Cypriot cart-horse named Meadow Brown for £32.

She fed it and trained it so successfully that within a year Heather and "Brownie" had won their first prize at a gymkhana. Since then they have never looked back and as this picture shows Heather's accumulation is growing steadily. -Express Photo,

THE GOOD OLD DAYS

BY HENRY LÒNGHURST

South China Are Firmly Established As Favourites To Win Senior Shield

Says I. M. MacTAVISH

Tickets.....

these precious little chits that entitle one to a tickets for seat at the Hongkong Stadium tomorrow the Senior Shield 'match between South China and KMB these are the magic passports to popularity at this very moment.

It is impossible to escape the hopeful money-flashing hordes who even at

the eleventh hour have not yet given up their search for one of the. little coloured briefs that will get them into the game of the season. Wherever one turns, there is dockets pass through football, natural assumption seems to be will play at outside sure to be someone who knows hands' and one hopes in the end that be

Chow Shut-hung that you have somTIO remote into 'Toolball hands. It is the right with connection with the football faithful fans who support the dlling the inside berth... and, world and it is nearly im-game week in and week out of course, Lau Chl-lum moving possible to convince them that who deserve the satisfaction of to the vacant Inside left position. you have neither a couple of sitting in at the show games of

That may prove to be an spare tickets tucked away in a the season.

accurate forecast, but I should safe and secret pocket nor the

The "Easter paraders" who slightest influence in obtaining

are seen only in the best seals one from some official or other

on the big occasion are really who is on the inside.

This, la, of course, a healthy very unimportant in the overall soccer scene and it is a pity that sign for it shows that whatever their influence in other circles else has happened the fan gives them preference over the and even the casual

big-game followers. have not lost their regular followers of the game when match like the Senior football fervour, but it also Shield Final is being played. raises the question of equitable distribution of tickets.

Every year at this time in the is a United Kingdom there vigorous press campaign in the correspondence columns of the national newspapers in which world and the British football

wife suggest new and allegedly better schemes for the distribution of Cup Final (ickets than the official one employed by the Football Association.

Fairer System

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Probable Teams

SPORTING SAM

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by Reg. Wootton

Everything Goes Wrong In Winterbottom's World Cup Team-Building Plans

By ARCHIE QUICK,

Everything is happening to frustrate Walter Winterbottom's team- building plans for the World Soccer Cup competition in Sweden this coming summer. First there was Munich which stripped him of the services of four key players.

Fairly Cortain this game and it did not suit

Then fog, snow and ice caused League match postponements and these have mount- ed up to a congestion which has resulted in the Wales versus England “Under 23" match being put back a month and so denied Mr Winterbottom a glimpse of the up-and-coming youngsters operating together.

For the record: "Fair Cities" They are wanted for those brook (Chelsea) were claim-

by It od

the RAF for their does not mean the competing not be surprised to see Chow postponed League Axtures.

against places ого particularly plc- Shul-hung in the No. 9 shirt also meant that the England match in Birmingham

Royal Navy Kelseyturesque, aimply that they are with versatile Lau Kal-chuitearn could not get together for the one of the inside forward bertha a trial against the "Under 23's." (Arsenal) and Groves (Arsenal) Citles which organise Fairs.·'

even on the right wing Scotland has had three such substituted. As can be imagined,

Some time ago Chelsea for- or where he has often played well games, but unexpected obstacles the team were just 11 units and in the past.

have cropped up one after the were saved from defent only by ward Johnny McNichol told me a last minuto penalty by Langley. "Wonder Boy" Jimmy Greaves other for England.

could caused near riot among the was a most unusual colleague to Nothing, however, prevent a

command of German to lose him for long periods and Winterbottom's major I expect to see the teams line ning gleam or calisfaction Spurs, and needed the acrgeant play with, Said Johnny "I seem England's Referee Busch to quell the pro- then he pops up in an empty eyes as he watched up as followUNI~~

space to dribble through and South China; Lau Kin-cheung: Youth Eleven beat Austria 3-2 on testing.

score! Creaves wor like that in From goal- Chi-ping, Yet in spite of all the super- Lou

Kwok Kom- Arsenal's ground.

I cannot sce ficial criticism, and the hung; Luk Tak-hay, Lau Yee, Hokeeper to outside left there was

Not one London player has Haynes' style."

dovetailing into the alleged shortenings, it is dim-Chi-kwan; Wong Chi-keung, Ho rich promise here, even if the cult to suggest a fairer system Choung-you, Lee Yuk-tak, Yiu Austrians did catch them on the appeared in every round of this these two

other it is fairly certain the London tong passes wants the than we have now for our local Chouk-yin and Mok Chun-wah. hop with two goals in thirty long drawn out competition and England team, Haynes, with his

There are KMB: Wat Fat-kim; Lo Pak, seconds.

Football Association will not inside forward to be in his ticket distribution." weeknesses, of coures

but Lo

Barry Bridges, for instance. Kwok-leung; Tang Sum, Lau Tim. Leung Kit; Ng Tim-loy, Here is yet another boy fit and enter it again even if they do correct position the whole time. bring the trophy back un- They are too much aliko to be they are more related to per- sonalities than to principles... Chow Shul-hung, Laus Kai-chu, ready to take his place among expectedly from Spain next May. effective.

other Juniors in and I am on the side of those Lau Chi-lam and Lau Shu-wah, the many who believe the HKFA does a

These are two powerful teams. Ted Drake's senior Chelsen side. This campaign is usually con- very good job in this respect. but both have weaknesses and Brabrook, Greaves, Ciles, Tindall, luctes crcording to D set It is probably a wise. suggestion it will be Interesting to see how Allen, Nicholas, Block and now Bridges. Was ever a club more generally bolls that we should leave well alone, the opposition exploits them.

In recent months South China blessed with teenage forwards? Just before 5 o'clock tomorrow

with a chronie Nicholas was in this Youth team

too have played" afternoon

and both Greaves And weakness at right back... #rest South China and KMB as

a suspicion of reckless im Brabrook are qualified. What an they run out on the field for the maturity at left back..... and a

embarrassment of riches! Senior Shield Final.

grave risk DI expensive For many football folks impetuosity at right half,

thrill there is 靄 greater

than this game like in the more routine But probably more exacting chase after the League Championship. That is something for the in dividual to decide for himself, of course, but, personally, I have always found a particular thrill in the "sudden-death" knock- out competitions,

In the good old days when the gentry were the gentry and an amateur never practised, the upper crust of golfers, so far as I can gather, simply did not reckon to play in winter. Some put their clubs away on the opening day of the portridge season, while others lingered on to enjoy September at North Berwick, where they would be photographed by Mr Balmain for the shiny shilling weeklies as they sat beside the wall, waiting in the hold-up on the 16th tee. These connoisseurs had crest- The conception crystallised in ed a welfare state of their own,

the minds of two of us sinul-attern and on which, far from being jealous, taneously many years ago, and down to the fact that I allow my mind to dwell with I recall the scene as though it writers have failed nostalgie

altempts to get a ticket, contentment.

We They were, shot pheasant and hunted foxes 1 Christmas and then pushed off into the sunsiune and, as my favourite comedian has it, the best of luck to them Nevertheless, as the winter turn- ed at last, there will have come to those who were true golfers at heart an experience which we lesser mortals year by year car, share.

False Alarm

were

basic-

ing in the sun culside the White Horse on the Great North Road near Euten Socon, attired in the "corespondent" shoes that were then the order of the day, and soon were due to play together in the University match at Rye, My companion furthermore was due, though he can hardly have suspected it at the time, to be Amateur Champion within two years-Eric Martin Smith.

A Rich Variety

This is what I have long since

Since then I have lived to known in The Day. Like Easter, it has enjoy The Day in a rich variety

my Own

mind os

no fixed place in the calendar, of places, and Sometimes it is early, always nearly all of them. with the possibility of it being at Sondwich, with a falec alarm, and sometimes singing and the white clfs shin-

is un ubconscionable time ang across the baya ang on has waxed lyrical coming; but come eventually I which one

was does. I have a suspicion and perhaps too often. Anothe

on the Downs 01 Royal East- hope that it, may come soon,

bourne-a form of architectural..

the

In their

English Problem

The English problem is very no that which much the same exists hate except of course, that is on a much larger scale. It is, a problem strangely enough,

answer without a satisfactory

for for It is true to say that every person who golg inside, for the stadium

a big game thero are hundreds left outside who are disappointed. Stadle have no elastic sides.

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a great cheer will

Much Speculation

which has their defence quently shown a certain loose ness and shakiness in recent

weeks.

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Fine Calibre Then there is Barry Smith, of Manchester United. Но was unable to piny, but, as a rigat back they are inking of him

level as the late Cu the same

KMB will undoubtedly. feel the absence and the lack of the goalscoring power of Lam Kam tung who has long been an im- portant cog in their forward machine ...but quite honest-Duncan Edwards, Proise In- England also had a right greater concorn for deed, ly I feel

fre winger of fine collbro in Fred Twist, of Liverpool, and grand from West Ham, youngsters Barnsley, Shefeld, Wolverhamp ton (of course), while Chelsen supplied third player in goal- keeper Smart. Mr Winterbottom Elmost smirked!

Mr afterwards: and the 'Under 23's we should have no worry for the future. All we have to do is strike the right blood."

Englard worried

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me

Winterbottom told

"What with, these

was manager

The balance of public opinion Hongkong is currently having

has swayed backwards and for- can remember a spate of proposals for a com-

wards but now, with the news that it is almost certain that Two came Elete change of polley in the

Wal Fat-kim ond Lou Tim of tickets for big the larks distribution

Lam Kum-tong will not be t

can be brilliant or tantalisingly games generally and the Senior

to play, South China are firmly indifferent in turn, but provided Shield Final in particular, but in spite of everything it is dim-tablished as favourites. They they get on with the job in would be well advised, however, hand and forget the gallery' scheme better cult to visualise a

strong not to understimate the fighting the defence may be

tho spirit of the Busmen from across enough

even keep then the present one.

attack team I think every practical person

the harbour for even without brilliant South China The Day has certain indis-ly "bad" golf, as downland golf wild agree that it is advantage brillant Lan Kam-tong-their under control for long enough though over the report that

to Duy and in fact disirable to

conductor-in-chief they ·will pensable qualities, The sun is always declared to be,

to give their own front rank a Blackburn Rover Ronnie Clay- a bone in his not be eally beaten.

chance to cash in on the Southton had chipped must be shining, the primroses which I am particularly addicted have a large pre-sole of tickets..

Janee, "He is indispensable at when I look Indeed there are those who be-

China defensive uncertainty, must be out, it must be warnsmore especially

right halt in the England team," enough to play in a sleeveless down from the first fairway and lieve all tickets for the Shield

It is a most interesting game he said, "and even if it is be pre-sold in pullover and the greens must savour the fact that I am now Final should

There has been much specula-indeed and it may be that cut-nothing serious it still stops my

will coax, the training plans," have been mawn-partly be one of those golfers silhouetted order to prevent ticketless fans

tion Blo cause of the first scent of new-on the skyline, at whom, na nj from making a fruitless journey

the possible KMD rent adversity

Busmen to unexp:cled heights

Ill-Fated line-up as far as the forwards mown grass and partly to see small boy at school, one used tuto Sookrunpoo, That seems log-

in something the same way as are concerned, and it is my own Manchester United bave done What an ill-fated competition the sun glistening on the cries- look up with furtive envy from cal enough to me and I believe the Police authoritles would cross pattern left by the mower. the great unseen.

Perhaps the most memorable welcome the iden as it would option that our curiousity we back in the United Kingdom the Fair Cities Cup has turned when falth

not be finally satisfted until the It is a moment

but whatever the out-out to be! Inaugurated in 1955, control cull

team actually takes the field. returns after an English winter, day occurred at Saunton, where enable

come let us hope we see a game it has dragged on interminably were already further the teeming thousands

a credit to Hongkong but it should be finally settled in the world is good, and one might the tulip farms

There are several possibilities that is

two great Barcelona on May 1 with victory even take few swings with the ablaze and other parts of Eng- who flock to the Stadium when-

bir

game and it seems almost certain that football..... the patent heavy-headed short club land were reported to be under ever there is a

Ng Tim-loy - now recovered teams involved and above all to for the home team.

London draw 2-2 with the that has so long been lying idle snow.

The Colony has a hard core

from the ugly injury received the players who are privileged in the umbrella stand-thus dis- neighbouring

fake part in such a dio-Spaniards in the 1st "leg" of the in last week's ill-advised Char- to

Anal of football enthusiasts and, geri-

Stamford Bridge. covering that, far from having a

the present 1ty game will be brought into tinguished occasion.

but they were I wish them all the sports-Chelsea, fum grip with the last two

erally speaking, method of ticket distribution, the line. The big question now

MAY THE remnant of the team originally fingers of the left hand, as laid

which is mainly through Leagus concerns which position he and man's wish...

selected and it looks as if May 1 down in the text books, one has

clubs, ensures that at least the his malos will occupy.

The BETTER TEAM WIN.

will see only a makeshift side none at all.

aelding for it is only two days before the Wembley Cup Final and also many London clubs

In will be on tour overseas. adition Haynes, Langley and Macedo may be playmig for Fulham in the Wembley Final. Also on May 2 there is due a World Cup trial match between England Sentor and the Inter- national "Under 23's." That combination of circumstances should just about strip the Barcelona match of London's first choices.

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scene across the

bay at Westward Ho with the Burrows, as they call the flat that great expanse on which course lies gleaming placidly la the spring sunshine.

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