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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1958.

Saturday Soccer Spot

THE MAGIC OF STAN

Soccer's First Gentleman Is A Legend Wherever The Game Is Played

By I. M. MACTAVISH

This weekend Hongkong will have its first opportunity of seeing Blackpool, one of Britain's most famous professional football teams, in action,

It is already certain that this will be a great double occasion and whatever the result of the two games we must con- gratulate the Hongkong Football Association, not only on its enterprise, but also on its tenacity,

It would have been very casy a week or so ago to have thrown the whole provocative project overboard. Such a decision would have been both pardonable and understandable in view of all the frustrat- ing complications which arose. But I can assure you that if that had happened it would have been ́ag`bitter a disappointment to the mem- hers of the Blackpool club as it would have been to the football fans in this soccer-minded Colony.

The visit of the Tangerines is surely the greatest thing that has ever happened to Hongkong football. The Blackpool advance party which arrived a few days ago has already created a first-class impression in this community and there is no doubt that Mr Albert Hindley the Chairman of the club will be able to give the rest of the team plenty. of good local advice when they arrive.

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In spite of Blackpool's impres- | world to entertain the Aug-1 Sammy Cox, the famous alve record down through the trallons and of course he is Scottish defender, never tiréd years I am sure the club offlelols taking the long way home to of telling of his many tussles will not, misunderstund or feel play here. North and South with Stanley and he was once lighted if I say that Hongkong Americu have also seen him in quoted as saying that he hoped is keyed up to the point of action and his achievements in the Scottish selectors would go Impatience to see Stanley Mat- many European countries are | thews in action,

bright spots in enecer history.

The position which

he holds

in the game is surely unique and in these days of changing

ideals and values it may be that

ha

Personal

Pleasure

MATTHEWS

STANLEY MATTHEWS, THE FOOTBALLER — EIGHTY-SIX TIMES' ENGLISH INTERNATIONAL-Photo shows him in action in one of the League

matches (on left)-Reuter Photo,

on and on picking him as he story about Cook sending a most | Hongkong 10,000 miles tryin' they saw Matthews play right felt certain that on the law of legal-looking document to the the Scrileg of his greatest at the top of ble form'. averages Matthews was bound Irish Selectors informing them triumphs-ere is a red carpet to have a bad game some time that ho

The Blackpool offteluls are de- had just investigated welcome for him in the twilight lighted with the then for once he might his family history,

conditiona This was of his magnificent career, under which they will have lo look good by comparison.

alleged to have established that

Close Views

side than

Greatest. Occasion

I count it as one of my per- we shall never see his like agat.sonat pleasures that 1 have

he was more Irish on his right It should be appreciated too ploy. They are well aware that More has been written about him watched him play on many than about any other man who occasions and in many different

his left, so would that Stanley is not coming, beren ongkong they are going to made football t career.

they please select him at right as a sort of star turn in ordinary face the strongest opposition they circumstances. I have watched He is known, at least by re-him tempt, lease and fantallise By Coolt was destined to get get him as far away from Mat-na

One of my schoolday pats back and not left back and thus company; he is here as one cog have tackled since they left home .. and they are determined powerful team In which to keep their unbeaten record. putation, wherever the gune Is my countrymen on the inter come particularly close views of thews as possible without actual- there are many brilliant foot- played and even those who have national held. I have watched Stanley in action and I'm surely dropping him.

ballers who have themselves never seen him dazzle the op- him tempi, tense and tantalise the old maestro must have

won the highest honours the position enjoy 0 strange losing side at Wembley in a Cup many memories of his tits with

Cook once said that if Stanley game has to offer. familiarity with him. To them Final-how often 1 have wish the

was ever on the run the Pulice tough lovable Irishman he represents everything that is ca I could have been present who himself won so many of clusive winger because

should engage him to trace the best in football.

when Blackpool won that the game's honours. memorable Anat In 19531 1 An Idealist

lave also watched him in the Cook-who Uved in Scotland domestic League games which from his earliest days..was Mattliews is legend,

Truth From Fictioning the backbone of English great storyteller and it was magical, legend which has en-football and also as though to almost inevitable that when he hanced the game hé hus ́ served prove he was human after all gol chin - wagging, Stanley Stanley so well, but he is more than I saw hun blotted right out of Matthews WAS one of his jeet of 50 that. He is an Idealist whose wartime Scottish Cup match favourite

subjects. career has been inspired by his by a young player called I alway the story was never-ending search for soccer | belleve-McCluskey who played against Cook himself. perfection,

for St Mirren and who strangely enough dropped right out of Stanley would be the last to the game almost immediately suggest that he has come any-after his hour of success against where near to finding it bul Matthews.

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are

those who have played with him, and against him, believe i he has come acarce to it than anyone else yet. When one has the opportunity of speaking to him, it quickly obvious that he is still searching and still learning.

Or such stuff is greatnes6 made. In such a man is the truc essence of football to be found. It would be interesting some time to try and enlculate the miles. Matthews has travelled to play football! He has performed In some of the remote paris of Africa where the locul fans had him crowned King of Football'; he has just been half across the

SPORTS QUIZ

1. Who was the last, boxer to

win a world heavyweight tile ight in the first round? And whom did be knock out?

2. Which country won: (a)

the first Wightman Cup con test, (b) the first Davis Cup contost.?

3. With which sports do

you

associate these brothers:- (a) Joli and Mel Charles, (b) Alec ond Eric Bedser, (e) Dick und Randolph Turpin?

4. Which country will be the host for the World. Soccer Cup competition f 1902.

6. Two golfers have won the American Women's Open Championship three times. Namo one of them.

one

6. Which, cricketer has made

the highest more in Test innings while he was captain of England?

7. Which tennis player reached the Wimbledon men's singles Anal In 1924, 1925, 1920, 1927 and 19207

B. Whom did featherweight Hogan Kid Bass beat last year to become the first Nigerian holder of a world boxing title?

9. The VIth British Empire Games will be held in Wales in July. Which countries

have already staged....... the Empire Garaca?

10. Horn at Manasan, Colorado

from

., won world tile Jess' Willard... held it. for Boven years," - What le-the nuine?

(Answers on Page 17)

I think many of the best stories about Stanley are the true or twisted ones told by the players who have, over a wide span of years, been kis contemporaries,

THE

WEEK-END

10

from the

inside-forwards

The stage is now set for the Unsung and almost unknown greatest occasion in our footbali here in Hongkong for example history. Our boys will play as no one knows him better than Is veteran guest star Jimmy they haya never done before to from the back'

Hagan from Sheffield United, prove to their Illustrious guesta one of the greatest ball-play that Hongkong football also has

England a proud tradition to maintain {has ever produced and who was Much depends on Ho Cheung- of you and Yiu Cheuk-yin in attock has been the sub-rubbed of the due rewards

and on the steadiness of Lau many such stories his skill by World War 11.

Yee in defence but whatever that it is now difficult ..and

There the truth

feeling that is a risic that Hagan happens I have told separate

fiction.

However, I always re- will steal the show in Hong-Blickpool will know they have

the playing conditions been in a game. member being told personally kong for

I am doing no tipping this A brilliant Irish contemporary by a well-known full back with here will be ideal for his style when Cook

hearts of the time but I believe Blackpool was a pint-sized Inside-forward he knew exactly how to stop mention to our visitors that the our

was with Everton a fashionable London club that of play but the

Chinese fons and let me will win only if they can subdue named Alex Stevenson who rose Matthews--but that he had not football fans

two brillant Inside for- in this

Colony wards. to fame with Glasgow Rangers, finished working on the second Stevey never and it is said that many of the keep lm out of the Old Bailey!!

skill-will be and the powerful lights

will Matthews-Cook stories were con-

wishing and willing Stanley provide a supreme setting for Such then Is the magic of Matthews to a pinnacle perforthe game.. jured up in Stevey's brain. Matthews. It cannot be analyærd (mance

may it be an so that in the years to excellent one There was, for example, yet it cannot be depied. It is came

pupetuated, they can tell the new an all Hongkong fans hope, by pre international surely significant that hero in generation at footballers that the magle of Matthews.

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