1959-02-21 — Page 19

THE CHINA ·MAIL,

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1959,"

SATURDAY SPORTS SPOT

Let Us Get Back To Sanity In The Choice

Of Football

Grounds

More and more does it become apparent that many of the men who control the football affairs of this Colony are being blinded by the glamour of the Hongkong Stadium. It is an attitude which is not serving the best interests of the game and the sooner there is a change of thought on the subject the better it will be for the average soccer followers and also in the long run, for the finances of all concerned.

I

Today only a fool pretends ground had been raised for cet- that money is not generally the tin advantageous positions

the attendance most Important consideration do not believe

foot would have been affected.

amateur

I think the fans would even to watch the have preferred the encounter at Caroline Hill for, like the Club Stadium, 1 offers

to Abetter

the match reasonable

ordinary followers of the ganie

in Hongkong bolk; with certain notable exceptions 未 the state ok the stands is more important to many club officials them state of the playing plich. Last week's charity between South China and KMB while not quite in the same category showed very clearly how the burning desire to do thing in a big rather than n .emptying practical way Instead of lling the grounds. Into

It is worth looking closely si the set-up.

Reasonable Shelter

The Colony's two top teama

were pitted against each other and the United States Morines Bugle and Drum team was in

attendance to put on a novel

and original show.. yet the ground was barely a third full. This game would have pack- ed the Club Stadium 'and even if the normal prices for that

and not only to those who are able to pay high prices. Three. dollars fifty cents is a princely of the fans sum to thousands who willingly pour their money but the soccer, coffers .. what our football pundits de vat Apparently want to admit that $2.49 or $1.20 is also a high

price to pay to sit out in the

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By

SPORTING SAM

by Reg. Wootton

with others I was of the opinion that the players who were most intimately concerned should have their say in the matter.

The points of the were explained them and the team captain asked a most significant question "If we play at the Club" he said, "we will most certainly pack the

London Express Service

Cily, nt & reported fee of | £3,000... or approximately (HK)50,000. Local fans will, I am suro wish him the best of luck with the Canaries.

Glorious Goal

There would seem to be a fine opening for BOMO enter prizing organisation to step in and sponsor open champion-

both proposal ships in

billiards and ancoker in something of the samo way as we have darts

excellently QT competitiona ganised and managed by San The second snippet concerns big Jim Murray whose glorious Miguel Brewery,

These

games are played goal against South China in the widely in the Services atid in Senior Shield Final of 1985 is many of the Colony's clubs.) still recalled. They are also played by many Murray who, like Mulleil, was Independent Individuals and a professional went home to the provided someone comes for- United Kingdom in a blaze of ward to get the balls rolling-publicity but almost before he до twist Intended-I'm sure had line to settle down he there would be a big response suffered a bad injury which

threatened to end his carcer more from local sportsmen.

workers and in fact it kept him out of active football for eighteen

I. M. MACTAVISH

a magnificent

how many The Hongkong Stadium is a stands wonderful architectural achieve will we get if we play at the ment. It is by any standard Stadium?"

sporis Arena The hondat reply was that the arousing the envy of visiting tearis ne fanious as Blackpool game would probably not at- and extracting the higheat tract very many more and the praise even from the great players decided they would he but it able to put up a better show. In Stanley Matthews. 1s becoming a drug,

Any offers... any willing to undertake a lot of hard but rewarding work. offers?

★

. any months,

Here are two Interesting concerning former

the packed Club than they items

would in the half-filled Hong-

kong Stadium. How right they Army stars who gave a lot were. The game was played as of pleasure to the Colony's originally planned and against football public a year or so all the predictions of the critics!

was won by the non-favoured

Our Wembley rein.

The grand stadium has a vital Last Sunday's game should Auly make our administrators and important pluce-in Colony It is the show plecy think and think deeply.

The football. present standard of football is of our community and as such no longer good enough to tempt it should be used sparingly and It would be a good thing it the fans into ketting a wet shirt then only for attractions belt-now and ngain some of our pre- and paying heavily for the priviting its status.

lege at the same time.

In

..even

It is in its way our Wembley the most palatal-but ex-but its value is being prejudiced possed surroundings,

by those folks who see it as a gold mine. It is nothing of the kind and I know that many folks subscribe to the view that Colony football was happier and richer before the greal stadulm at Sookunpeo made its appear-

Week-End Hockey ARMY 'A', NAV BHARAT IN KEY GAME TOMORROW

By TONY MYATT

ance.

team,

But, as Hongkong folks will

Murray probably remember, was nothing if not determined and he has now fought his way back to football fitness and has signed for Hastings in the Southern League. Let's hope he has better luck this time.

**

Finally a

The first news is óf tough-as-

note for our teak Joc Mullett

Wat- who in the Chinese friends

LOTA 1055-50 season played magnificent games at left-back ford, the English League sent administratur's took thel and centre-half in the Army club, has recently hit better'

and side:

form and. the manager of thoughts off the turnstiles

Joe, who was a full-time pro- the un what

the happens inside the touchlines.

mare

side attributes fessional with Birmingham Čily, | Our football could only bene- before coming to Hongitong, re- change in fortune to a turned to his club after his decision to move Chung, his spell in the Colony and for a Chinese Inside-forward or Ume was a regular first team wing-hall, to centre-half. player.

concentrated

St.

Д

Birmingham, however, were The side has not looked back going through a bed patch and since and all the critles who Joe last his place but he was decided Chung was too small he too good a player to be kept

This week I received most Interesting letter from Д soldier in which

the financial interests of Gov- lamented the fact that there down for very long and he hand too frail for the job are|

The 'Grounds Pool protects

ernment And the Hongkong Football Association would be

аге

no Colony

now being forced to eat the clubs of the hour, Norwich their words.

Open now been transferred to one of well advised cheourage a Billiards and Snooker Cham- much greater use of club pionships operative at the grounds for all but the most present time. Important matches of the season.

Ho goes on to enquire There are certain games on whether there is any possibility our fixture lists which are no- of such competitions being re- the started as he has heard that

turals tu be played on

GOLF'S TRIPLE CROWN

Studium. By all incons take they used to be held regularly. In three months them there but let us get bacit

to the essential domestic atmos-

Recreio 'A', well in the running for this season's

senior hockey league title, have a bye this ut the Club Stadium and week, but will be waiting anxiously for the result of the Army 'A' versus Nav Bharat encounter, scheduled for 2.30 p.m. at Sookunstimulating poo tomorrow.

This game should draw a big crowd and good hockey can be anticipated, providing the ground to not too slippery.

The soldiers have it in thera to take maximum points in this encounter, unles of course, Nav Bharat, creato upset, and it wil be a big one at that, for they are without the parvices

11 r.m. on Sunday is between IRC and HKHC. I favour the Indians to tolte maximum points here.

Not Impressive

The last sealor game оп Sunday will be between Macaensis 'A' and the Navy with

Caroline Hill for the others,

The Police have shown only too cleurly that a healthy and

atosphere

сад

be created and the success so worthily achieved at Boundary Street speaks for itself.

Vital Essential

of their slar the bully-off at 4 pp. at King's Who would not prefer to play

7 player, Pat Gardner.

If Army lose, or even if they draw Retrelo will becom

dongest contenders for this year's championship. The Por tuguese have 21 polnia from 13 games; Army 'A' 19 points from 11 games and Nay Bharat 17 points from 11 games,

The other senior game Blockunpoo to be played off

Parks.

come off as a trant and is Of late the Macan boys have would not be surprising to see them go down to the sailors, who although having not won any games recently have shown Impressive form.

Whatever the outcome of this at game it should be closely con- attested.

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IT DOESN'T TESTE

THE GAME AS WE

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Football is

game which flourishes in the right environ- ment; in fact the fans are A vital ssential to the Inbora thrills which ure associated with It. There is hardly, a player in front of 14,000 spectators packed tight into the Club the same number scattered Stadium than play in front of round the wide open spaces of the Government ground at Sookunpeo.

popular

In

This is an interesting query for both billiards and snooker Hongkong and there are many fine players around these parts.

are extremely

In his letter my correspon- dent makes this comment ... "In Hongkong you seem to play Just about every game in the book except the fine old games of billlards and snooker, Why? Don't the Chinese males who have a good eye for д ball like the games. there some other reason?

Any Offers?

nr is

and

for

In the days gone by, not so very long ago at that,

example used to delight on men like Spotty Pereira fans of the green cloth with big broke and deadly-potting and now that the matter has been

alsed it does seem a great Colony plty that there is no Championships at the present time.

That is not loose speculation for I was directly involved in Just that situation a few years go when it was proposed to switch a certain game to the Hongkong Stadium. In concert you?

I don't know the reason. Do

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ilme, Beltain may be holding all three di the team golf trophies whin they contest with the United States. Britain's Ryder Cup professionals won on home ground in 1997; Britain's women goiters re- the Curti Cup un American soll in 1958. Now it's the turn of the British amateurs who, on May 18, meet the Americans at Muir- feld, Scotland. They hope to win the Walker Cup for the first time since 1938.

tained

HIGH HOPES

British hopes are ligh because so many established ployers are having to fight for their places. Even Joe Carr, the one snan virlain of a place, is training harder than ever, Cerz Bellish Amateur golf cham

tion, la practising by floodlight =every=nigirt=the bottom of

his gorden.

He says: "I live on a golf course and I've got a couple of 1,000- watt bulbs fixed up as flood- 3ights. 1 hit 120 too shots and practice chipping end putting as well every night.

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Before business each morning. Joe a wholesale droper, does Boxc weight-lifting strengthen his arms and legs. Bri- Raymond Oppenheimner,

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