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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1958-

Saturday Soccer Spot

Stop These Weak Excuses

DEFEAT IS NOT THE END IF THE RIGHT LESSONS ARE LEARNED FROM IT

By 1. M. MACTAVISH

For my money football is the greatest game in the world. Maybe you agroo and maybe you don't but I'm sure you will agree that the fans who follow its fortunes are a strange mixture of faith and fickleness,

Since Blackpool came here and chalked up double figures against the strongest side we could turn out all sorts of folks including some who should know better-have been spend- ing their time finding plausible excuses for the Combined Chinese.

The old hardy annual that the Chinese players were betting on the result has of course been trotted out and it sounds even hollower now than it Blackpool has ever done in the past. "What could you expect

are professionals" is another typical spot of repartee that one hears regularly. "Our boys were tired after their great efforts at Tokyo" has also had a pretty good airing.... and to all of them I say "Rub. bish".

The louni boys-and no one

with whom I have come in etn-fthe Olympic Committee

has

han a renter ndmation for tact. Defent is only as bumilt some 12 desslers on its table them than 1-were swamped by lg as you make it. JL cer- [ench — in varying form - con- "who | tainly is not the end of a soever taining allegations of profes- #collection of expertat

played too well for them, who regine. played too fast for them.

and, in a football sense, knew far tex much for them.

In

sionalism or other equally dis- qualifying infringements of the amateur gode and, that in every case footbull is the sport

In fact if our players have the wisdom to profit by their experience during the Black pool visit R could be the start | Involved. of a new era in which էլէ* players hy application and

could at last felt

tu relay

Strange Avenues

There wh no disgrace being beaten by Blackpool la

The rules of international com- the form hey displayed in

petitions are the same for every their second game here. The mutation

sport on the programme of a visitors were simply brillant their true potential.

particular meeting. The rules and all the threadbare straw-

that applied to swimming and grasping exCUSON now being

The Mail Bag volleyball at Tokyo also applied dragged my cannot change thal:

The mail bag this week har te football.... and those who neltho can they do our players

avory mixed affair and know the inside happenings i any good, Sympathy is the last been

I have the other two sports it seems that quite suddenly you slage. thing they need at this Sound ndvice offered and ne- good folks want to express your Bamed will also know what I am cepted in the right spirit would plons on various local toples. getting at,"

These are indeed welcome and do them much more good.

Let those who are belatedly I am always happy

These are the strange avenues trying to Anve'face by conjur- them to our other readers so ing up

remember that, if they like the discussion, opened up by that interesting fetter from a China Malt reader. that it Blackpool her put forthey may join in..

One letler thin week omet makes Involved and complex ward any pre-match nilils they

a well-karan sportsman reading.... but it also gives a would have sounded a lot more from

nut ai present netively new slant to the suggestion that authentic than the weak-us-who is

football but Hongkong should provide water post-match kcal stories connected with

in best conching fuellites only fur listen whose name stands for much baving to

these players we have nd- Ikongkong's sporting circles.

He takes Issue with me on my cated their willingness to repre- whten suggestion that Hongkong foot-sent this Colony in

and Blackpool And just finished a ball would beneat at this stage most of them were helle League and Cup campaign from the services of a top class wherein they earn their living of some FIFTY games played soccer couch-who should for in future competition. against top

opposition preference have a mud reputa- class

totion in the jaime, week from August very May. They had just

trivialities

We are now

to in zone quarters.

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Famous Sports Personalities I Have Met Cyril Washbrook

By Archie Quick

distinguished cricket caroor is drawing to a close, Rising forty-four. Lancashiro's Cyril Wash- brook realises that it is nearly time to call it a day. Still a technically correct bat, a rocont Lories of low scores has forced upon him tho conclusion that the high standard he onco sot himself is not now сол- sistently attainable.

I was appropriate that I should see him t agninst Subex at Hove, for It was nguirat that county he mude bis Aust-class debut in 1033 with a 40 in the second Inn- ings at Old Trafford. Only 19, he got his first century in his next match-against Surrey.

The time cane for his initial Test appearance In 1837. and then, inevitably, he and Hut ton became the rightful SUC- cessera to Hobbs and Sutcliffe. Sir Jack, by the way, was ni Hove this week to ste Cyril Washbrook, too, became heir to Hobbs cover-point position, and has been brillant there for over two decades,

NEVER COACHED Washbrook was A natural series and very correctly earn- giving serious consideration to cricketer, and was never coached Irom before ho left his native Black- ed the approval of the visiting the climination of soccer

Errors of the Glymple Games and it is the burn district to go to Old Traf players and officials.

of stated differences

opinion of no kessa ford. The game was his destiny, jugment, and

Avery Brundage and his unsmiling face on the pinion on a specific matter, are person than

We that 1980 may well be the last field shows how deeply he takes human failings but recently

the time that football will be in- ble profeusion. have twice seen errors in

in the Olympic His £14,000 benefit application of the laws of the cluded

in He shade If the appropriate od) in 1948 pul programme, game and I suggest

for Hutton, Olymple

reaches the totals raised is something our officials

such a decision then it seems Compton and Bedser, and Inter tighten up.

only a matter of time before he became Lancashire's first pru. lesser meciing-liko the Asian foreiunal captain. Games for example-follow the lead.

that musi

I have discussed this- matter at great length with some of the top administration officials who were nt Tokyo for the recent Aulon Games and I can tell you now that, if any of the compet- Ing!

the nations had raised question of the eligibility of the longkong players who partici. puted on behalf of Taiwan, it would almost certainly have been ruled that they did not comply with the rules laid down for the Games and were there tore ineligible 141

Committee

Well Chewed

I know that this subject was chewed over in Tokyo. well Hongleng's name kept cropping

to the

was made to

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As a first wicket Test bata- man be and futton put on 859 against South Africa at Jahan- nesbury in 1948-9 and in Aus- traila they hnd consecutive Test innings of 138, 137 and 100, fol- towed by 108 and 129 at Leeds In the next sericet

He also holds the first wickel record against the West Indies with Reg Simpson-of 212 al Nottingham.

He has also be honoured by the MCC by being elected a Test Match Selector. In that an it- role he was placed in

die vidious position in 1956 for was recalled the England against Die Australjans team up in the discussions both and right royally did he justify

accusations regard

his own Committee's selectionl professionalism which have

He is, of course, stil a Selector, ben

made agalmst them, and in relation to the cligibility

HOLDS 'RECORD of Hongkong players, who have That is not a statement of my never lived in Taiwan, to play

for that opinion but I can assure you

community in inter- that the whole question was national football competitions, exhaustively discussed h Tokyo The professional charge was 1: you have further opinion on and I understand that a Hong-not discussed officially because this subject I would be very

the authorities completed In one part of his letter my glad to hear them whether they Kong official was actually ap alang tiring lour in Australia. currespondent wys "I would eug- are for or against the point of roached to raise a protest but by an Individual who holds no that he refused to do so ..ificial position in the game. Hongkong red that while the players who view put forward by the pre-

the grounds that any such pru-One

well test must essentially come from informed needs the backing of they had in fact been reduced play in this Colony would bene-sent writer to this newspaper.

Also tucked away in the comer the Hongkong Football Associn- an official governing body if it I strength 12 efective in from the

first nadvice

bag was etrange tion. HONGKONG itself of the post single excuse class conch players. Not a

This le to get its message over, came from the visitors and they would not of necessity benet as alle tote containing a small

Domicility Clause one lacked it and for the get about the jub In hand many of the pingers would take cuting from my article va June

Blackpool's visit. There is a domiclitty clause in moment at least the matter with characteristic professional the first opportunity of sipping 2 regarding

representatiun rests. It will almost certainly he emelency. The result your all off to play for other communities It has been neully decorated with connection with

and not a raised again through more in- know.

Taiwan, 1 would suggested underlining where I said in the Aslan Gaines The long established

arm that the services of such a couch that less Blackpool took the single Taiwan player satisile fluential channels. Hongkong regarding ment in

hare seriously and did it and I on told that one visiting you suggest should be con- games

officini in Tokyo suggested that the blatantly open shamateur-fined to those players who have not enter into them with

attitude they if the players stated their con- ism in our football makes sinted their willingness to re-village-green" mrckery of the first local ex-

present

in mypresenta- might get the stuck of their life. tinued desire to represent that cuse the fact that our players | live ions"

The correspondent has added in lerritory then they should be have hind a comparatively easy I need hardly tell you that large red letters "What a Shock advised by

is no explanation commiilee of the games that been the mere reading of that extract and as there have

tour will touch a few people on a of the cryptic message I leave it they must go and live in the country for the appropriate but for the Asian Games shows tender spot. bol, whether at that, The real value of the gemainder they like it or not, one has

qualifying period which inciden- of the walling.

tally is five years.

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ANSWERS TO

appropriate SPORTS QUIZ

Nevertheless 1 would suggest adm there is more than just a to the auonymus gentleman that

1 repeal once again that I If we cannot accept defeat in morsel of good common sense is always dangerous to extract International competition grazer-behind It. Nevertheless, if my an item from a general text and have absolutely nothing against

concerned

and I fully and without benting then Information is as sound and se-mesent it in isolation and the players it would be better if we stayed curate as I think it is, the situa- he might and it interesting to think it is right they should be out of it. It WU are only tion may not arise in future compare what I wrote about the able to exercise their freedom happy warrior when we win whereby players from Hongkong visit with the parting remarks in this question of representa then there is little purpose in will be tempt away to repre- of Mr Eric Hayward, the tour live football PROVIDED THEY ESSENTIAL That would give

BATISFY THE entering serious competition at rent another territory.

OF THE COMPETI- Don't, however, get the idea much better balanced apprecio- RULES

TION IN WHICH THEY PLAY. I CRI only hope that our that Hongkong's is the only head tien of the situation.

At looking

their in the amateur melling pol Finally this week a brief word However even this aspect may players are heavy defeat in a more sensible Nothing could be further from about our referees who did ex-no longer be important for the are already well in the Blackpool powers-that-be way than some of the officials the truth and I am told fat tremely

all.

TUE

WECKENO

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He and Winston Place put on 350 unbroken for Lancashire against Sussex at Manchester in 1047, and in his 75 first class centuries he has hit two each against Australia, the West In- dies and the Gentlemen, and one against South Africa.

Of his 32,000 runa 2,570 were scored in Tests and he has reached 1,000 in a season on 13 occasions.

Now the sands

are running

1. Low Hood and Althea out, but he has earned himself a

Gibson,

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2. Amerka-peren |

plave in the game's Hall of Fame

since he left the Clitheroe and

3. Helen Willa-Moody-eight, Bridgnorth Grammar Schools,

4. Jean Borotra, Rent Lacoste,

Henri Cochet.

5. He won the Arst men's

singles title, in 1877. -

d. Lew Hood.

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Jean

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