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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1958.

SOFTBALL SCENE What's Best in Kowloon

SPORTS PERSONALITIES

WONG CHI-KEUNG

TONY He Took Only

[MYATT}

Two Years To

Become A Soccer Star

Today, he is in coach to the 3rd

Two short years ago, he was just another soccer player. the words of Mr Chu Kwok-lun, Taiwan's assistant Asian Games, "The best outside-right in the Colony." Such has been the rapid rise to fame of dimunitive Wort Chi-keung, who despite hun ve foot four inch freme is a power- ful player with loads of stamina and plenty of guts.

He admires maestre Mathews Colony stalwarts, Yu Cheuk- yin. He Cheung-yau ant Mark Chun-with are great pinyers, but, he has copied no one.

1tle competition, his game lin- | hero. For with the score tled a proved slowly but surely

2-2 and extra time almost fully When he returned to Hong-extended, he headed home a kong he joined the Happy Valley brilliant goal to push his team succer club and started playing to a 3-2 victory. second división secer.

the

Renius of he thinks

His one wish is "to play good soccer always," and the perhaps

ent en

The Koreans, Wong told me, were a very good team, pinying hure, fast soccer. He still feels, however, that Israel should have won the louvy as they had

every team strong in

depart- ment of the game. Penunded As far as soccer

The Big Break On one particular outing for Wong was the Valley team, notired by South China skipper Yue Cheuk-yin, who approached him after the game.

hard,"

also by his boss, who is a meme | locally. Wong feels 41 is why he his bome seb

ber of Narn Wah, Wong signed Ching, with firm favourite

up wh Thusiasts of the sport.

the Caroliners, When South China's regutze outside-right left to play for an- other team, Wong was picked to the vacuat berth, It was the

Practised Hard

greatness.

Wung has always been arbi- Ticats in

for ais quest

soccer afe practised hund at every opportunity azul always hoped that same day he would be able to play for his country. Little did he realise. howeve that his dream would one day become a reality

Wong was born in Hongkong bul went to Macno when he was very young. He returned to the Colony Iwo years ago as an em- ployee of the Tal Yip Steamship Company

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is concerned that South "provided

they work sentor should take the title again this year. It they want to know just hów to do this my advice to them is to follow the example of this le mun big break he had been waiting | with a big heart, - for and he made full use of #!. Needless to say, he impressed with his dashing the selector tactics and has been in the team ever since.

But this was not the end.

Match Hero

When the names

were listed Tatwan

for players to represent

during the 3rd Asian Games s Tokyo, Wung's was among them. He played four games during The Toormement and was in the During his stay in the Portugu-Taiwan X1 that met Korea ese Colony, he played miniature the Aul. When this game end- soccer and though there was very ed, it was Wong who was

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Some Players Simply Cannot Take Praise In The Right Spirit

By "TIME-OUT*

Surely you must have heard it said more than once that too much of a good thing can be bad? Well, it has finally happened at King's Park. I mean the reaction regarding too much praise lavished, merely out of a sense of fairness and in recognition of a job well done, on a hitherto unsung Junior Leaguer.

Two short seasons ago the oft-heard complaint was that Junior softball received too little coverage. But this no longer holds true today and in fact, in my case, my words unwittingly had too strong an effect on one of minor division prima donnas --and here's the story on it.

Recently after receiving a directive from the HKSA to the effect that all teams must wear uniforms during league matches Junior fean tumed up properly attired except for one youngster who could not be per- suaded to conform tu require cren to.

Head In Clouds

baviour. Let's hope these words wlli have the desired effect of deflating his ego because the read to stardom, is littered with reputations of softball's **Bird Boya" who have yet to earn the coveted the of "Most Valuabic Player".

avalable before consideration can be given to granting a post- ronement but nowhere in the i ruling dors it say that names must be submilted.

No names were asked for or

Saints submitted in the Senior

ord Braves affnir.

Xuve

In the Cheyennes and Navy one the Cheyennes vohatardy 1 the nuumes of the players as a sign of good fulth,

Why then must Jamier leana claiming excroption he subjected to such officious treatment)

Obnoxious Practice

I take up my pen again u Niedless to say he went into the cause of the Junker league a tantrum, was benehod and bad | because of what I consider the the humiliation of seeing his high-handed attitude or one side beaten in what should have official of the Association in his been en 'easy' game for his col-handling of a recent request for

G postponement leagues. Mind you, all this in

of a minor full view of the fans seated in

division game just inst week. the mands, 100!

The request was based on the

There is no call for the Auso- non-availability of six playerS who were allegedly engaged in clation to view the request with

Force duties Defence

suspicion in this particular case becausa traniy-there were a where have I heard this excuse

have before?) and that should have lew others which should

investigation been good cuough for the Asso-merlied elation. I say "good enough" be dontally the request was denied The bot ask you how many teams can PROVE they have any real grounds to ghum postponements because of so-called Defence Force annual camps cr Sunday field exercises?

(now

con-

This ofcial had cause audacity to ask the team comed to NAME the players involved!

It had been painfully apparen i

thai our leaper Int weeks mental "stur" had been walking with his head in the clouds and wearing a softball cap a few sizes 100 small becau of the headlines he received from

should this column! Well, he realize that in his case and mine we both have duties to perform, though vt totally nalure, he 10 s and to the readers

I can find no precodent

or in the entitled to hear of outstanding such a request now

nd- decade of softball playing performances that merit

Onion.

different team-matës who are

A very unfavourable impres- sion of bod sportsmanship and sheer childishness has already be- been created by his silly

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