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THE· CHINA MAIL,- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY ✨ 28,- 1959.

SATURDAY SPORTS

HKFA Get

Get A Black Mark For Last Sunday's Long Delayed Kick-Off

SPORTING 'SAM

PLAYERS OFFICIALS

It is understood that KMB are seriously considering sending a letter of protest to the. Hongkong Football Association. The Burmen are reported, to be more than a little annoyed. about certain circumstances connected with their game against Tung Wah last Sunday. and I'm sure that we shall look forward every clear thinking follower of the game will support if and when their protest. The letter may already have been forward-protest is received ed to the Football Association. :

HENRY LONGHurst on Golf

SPOT MAGIC CARPET

by Reg. Wootton

London Express Bervice.

It is all very, interesting and view they had great, stated........but whether you do

to ☐ deal

to long 扣 making or not there is no doubt that further expression of opinions their courageous decision. there is an ever widening belief KMB's letter of Maybe their open numission of that amateurlem in isolation

at HKFA

the circumstances which exist cannot go on indefinitely. in Sweden will encourage other

For the records I subscribe to countries to follow their lead that later view... do you? and dcelare quite frankly that their ployers also receive

Headquarters.

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According to my information-which came direct and first hand

The Hongkong Amateur from a senior official of the club-the KMB folks take the

Athletic Association is to be congratulated on its ar greatest exception to the fact that, after their players had

rangements for the 30,000 got ready for a game which was officially scheduled to

meires event at Caroline start at half past three, they had to hang around kickingHill last Sunday.

The organisation was Arst their heels until ten minutes past four.

class and the visiting runners were accorded every opportunity

In case you are unaware of players deserved such treat. the predisposing factors which ment and the fact that they got led up this controversial It showed once again how little hiatus let me explain that the some officials cared for the per- big game of the afternoon was tinent things in the game. preceded by a Junior Shield match between Army and Tung Wah which went into extra time..

but even at that the KMB-Tung. Wah league game could have started on time.

However, in spite of the in- clement weather in spite of the cold miserable afternoon in spite of the fact that

sitting out

fans were uxposed patiently for the kick-off HKFA hierarchy persisted in going ahead with a performance by the Bugle and Drum Team of the United States Marines.

Carad Little

The match and it was one

to KM cf vital moment

semi-darkness and finished in in the gathering gloom it would have been very easy for either Ride to

a mistake have made which could have lost. them the two points-

.

Fully Justified

By

I. M. MACTAVISH

SBMC

were at the criticism. They jongleung Stadium by invita tion and they did their part really well. What a pity the HKFA did not show the unanimity of thought and purpose as ald these visiting bandsmen for if ever there was an example of muddled think- fun it was demonstrated on this

never have Wah's good showing and KMB

monetary rewards for playing

dootball.

farcical and the

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I

:

SOMETIMES think that in some ways our North Americas golfing, friends are more fortunate in their weather than we are.

At least they know where they are. In Octo-. ber or November they close the course and there's an end of it till May.

boots

In the meantime ዝሰር

brown mess, smooth - soled and aquelch about, alternately protruded ka akla from under iwisting our ankles on ground his nightshirt end who contess trozen hord as a rock or losing ed, afterwards · that it was the our shoes in the mud when it first time he had ever played suddenly thaws.

on gram.

Soon we shall be seeing the familiar, pletures of frustrated members rowing across some of the riverside courses and even that super-fairway, the Preston by-pass, looks like playing "pre ferred lies" for months to come.

Mellow Sunshine.

Still, I would give a lot for a game in the mellow sunshine al Gezirch and to be sitting once again on the terrace watching those scavengers of the East, correctly ΚΠΟΙΗΤΙ 03 kites

to seize alber

For myself 4 can do without swooping down ....and finally a few tale-golf in disconfort but it so people's lunches from the trays

happens that in company with on the waiters' heads. waggers.

an enthusiastic friend who 1

increasingly

Amateurism" Is becoming For the benefit of those cwaiting his golden bowler frem From Cairo, giving polite Swedish decision is merely one good people who took the the War Office I had promised miss, I think, to the course in more step along the toad to trouble to write to me and myself a few days of play on the middle of the now deseried some exceptionally congenial race-course at Baghdad, the 'open' competition in all speris.telephone me about the courses. All, it seems, are likely magle carpet would set me

Army-Kitchee afair at to be unplayable.

down in Ceylon, origin of the Will Not Stop it

Bine "Where every prospect Boundary Street last Sun-

Dream Tour pleases and only man is villa"

above It is coming as sure as night day let me say only that, I

and the place to which follows day. The hypocrites was At the Hongkong So instead I have beef sitting all I should like one day to who swear amateur purity Stadium and in conse- unashamedly by the re and return. with the right hand upruised while they pay out or receive quence I have no opinion to indulging in a tour of the world,

We could have dreaming of some of the lovely Colombo,

a game at where the train fees in the left palm behind express.

places in which I have had the

ACTOSS whistles its way slowly their back will only deler the I have heard to many conflict-luck to play and to which, if the full swing of the pendulum, to give of their best in spite of

Ing reports about the whole pocket permitted, I should now the course with bodies clinging They certainly will not stop seeking affair that I think it repair till the call of England precariously to the engine and the inclement weather.

small boys It and, as a world per would be better to leave it to came again. Some, alag are not strategic points to stop the arc stationed at The organisers and the com-sonality declared recently petitore did a grand job. What I am a normal healthy man

the HKFA and the Army FA to what they were but what does

that matter?

crows pinching the ball almost great pity they did not get

And although I might be called deal with the matter each in its

before it comes to rest; and better support from the public.

middle aged 1 confidently pre-own way.

The first, strangely, is Gezireh, from there we should spiral our What a pity the Taiwan rugby which was never Oh, I know it was a bad night, dict that within my lifetime I

a great gulf way 6,000 ft. up into the Ele- shall ନ୯ the end of the team did not arrive as planned course and has now, they tell phant Walk" country and play Already home, been turned by Nasser into at Nuwarn Ellych, perhaps the old shooting has started as far as sportsmen.

the segregation of professional and en Wednesday.

treining camp. The greens cll most beautiful course in amateur

amalcurlan cannot Talwan participation in fashioned

the sloped towards the Nile, though whole of the East. exist

this much longer in

Asian Games soccer competition they did not appear to, and what material-minded,

rush-e-day, 15 concerned....rumour has with this and the "nap," which helter-skelter world. There is } that no longer a stigma on profes-eligibility of the players is being run sharply unhill, it was enough

protest

the caused the ball on occasions to sionalism: today no one grudges sent from Down-Under...ilfe to drive an earnest golfer round the reward paid for skill in is never dull....Lastly, when the bend..

and I know too that there were

important counter-attractions but an international event of this kind deserved much better support than it received.

Why Such Apathy?

a

about

we present banners to visitors

thousands of loyal rain-soaked The referee who had charge on the of the game tried to meet the waiting circumstances by using a white the ball during the later part of the

second half (that ineldentally occision.

another

Interesting provides

I was indeed an eventful day it certainly and, quile nurt from Tring point) but while helped 12 should been necessary.

lors of a vital point, it threw up Any protest which KMB have an Intresting point to regard,

This raises a most interesting The bandsmen were once made or will make is fully to the eventual use of the white

point. fantastic ball.

Athletics in America sport." again excellent but that does justified. The whole

and Britain nowadays attract not alter the situation one little affair was snd reflection

First of all tet me say that I on

It was to this that I have Maybe you do not agree with they should be something which bumper crowds and bit for they were not playing the on-the-spot management of thought the referee tild the only

retent these views: maybe you be will be a credit to us when later always attributed my defeat. In the lleve the case has been over-Í displayed............

by an elderly sheikh whose for the pleasure of the im- the HKFA and some officials thing possible in the circum-television films shown patient crowd but to their dis- came out of L with little stances short of asking for the Colony have given some indica-

of foedlights to be switched on but tan

the tremendous credit. advantage and niso to the dis

enthusiasm -which exists In advantage of the players of both The Bond of the UnitedIt has long been established

United other countries for truck and sides. Neither the fans nor the States Marines stand above league football in the

field events. Hig events on the Kingdom--and that is still the best domestic compeillion in the continent of Europe and as for world-that it is inadvisable and auth as Australia pull in unfair tu switch from a rodden spectators in huge numbers.... leather ball to a non-absorbant why then is there such apathy white ball during a game.

in Hongkong?

MILLIONAIRE BUYS NATIONAL

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Mr Bernard Sunley, one of Britain's newest millionaires, has bought Slippery Serpent, the 9-1 Grand National favourite. The price has not been disclosed.

Before Slippery Serpenti won at Gowran Park, Ireland, last week, I could have been bought for £7,000 with a contingency payment of a further £2,500 if A won the Grand National.

Several English trainers re fused to buy it that figure, and the price la certain to have gone up considerably since then.

!

The horse will remain in Ire- Jord to be trained by Tom

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Lavish Host

He is known as one of the country's most lavish hest. Two yours alo be spent £3,000 'at

FA Ruling

It is a subject which under- went expert examination and the Andings were 50 avez- whelming that the Football

It is true our own long dis- tance athletes may not be up to International standards but the runner who came here from Japan last week most certainly were.

sure the officials of that organisa-

Associations in the United It must be most disheartening Kingdom Issued a ruling making to the HKAAA although I am It compulsory for the referee to make his decision as to the ball tion will not allow such circum- to be used BEFORE THE GAME stances to divert them from their

WAS STARTED. The matter planned task of fostering on ever was later referred by the Home widening interest in their acti- associations to FIFA who in villes. turn advised members to follow

The 30,000 metres was a first {' a similar plan....and FIFA also class idea.it was a first class introduced the ruling for inter- show...It thoroughly deserved national matches over which Grat class audience....It was they had control

a first closs shame it did not get It is a point of view which it. mukes an awful lot of common-i sense for there is not the slightesi doubt that changing The decision of the from a heavy rain soaked leather Swedish Football Assocla ball to a dry plastle or painted tion not to enter a side in ball cun change the whole characteristic of the game. the next Olympic Games be

+

of

In last Sunday's match it cause the amateur status of Claridges on the coming-out could have weighed heavily in their players is suspect parly of his younger, daughter favour of KMB whose fast

• Annabella.

Joan," he 25-year-old Maerclose internassing is one of the must be raising a roar

estab Unhid styles In Colony horse laughs around other daughter, who became the bride football. The Busmen were hav-parts of the world....and of farmer James Tice at St. ing the greatest difficully, in that includes Hongkong. Marks, Mayfair, last month, had moving the leaden ball about

Avery

Brundage Blasts

The 'Soft' American

By DEREK JOHN

London.

Might Be Fun

it

After this, stopping briefly for a sound at Singapore, might be fun to join the MC.C many of whom are capital golf- however beastly some people may be about their cricket.

in

A game at Rose Bay Sydney or of Royal Melbourne, where they are to play the Canada Cup In November, would be most agrevable at this time of year.

One might be able to encour- ago Ted Dexter, if his cricketing Journey proves to have been un- fruitful, to turn his thoughts et once to the Walker Cup. What double that would be- Test match and the Walker Cup in the same year!

Mr Avery Brundage, 71-year-old millionaire president of the Internationale may is well complete

Olymple Committee, is the toughest-talking, hardest-hitting adminis trator in the world of sport today..

Like a volcano, he is powerful and unpredictable and has a habit of erupting from time to time and sending shudders over a sizeable part of the world.

Now, after an unusially fong, Olympics. And the European spell of silence, Brundage has countries are progressing much exploded again. This time he faster than we are.... Jaunches and of the severest at- tacks

made against

ever

American athletics.

"If it weren't for our Negro athletes, we would be out of the picture.

American athletes, he said, do not try hard enough in the longer distance events.

Now that we are so far afield, Lhr circuit and come home the other way, when a stop at Hawall would appear to be indicated.

Though the celebrated beach

being renewed morning by men with truckloads of sand, the golf |course is delightful.

at Walki is something of a dis- appointment

The real object, however, would be to land us on the Monterey Peninsulo, south, et

"A lot of chaps can run the San Francisco, on whose shtres first half-mile in two minutes, we should find Cypress. Point but running the second half and Pebble Beach, constitutes The real test, "They can't do 11 because The body Most photographed

"We are sofi," he declares. If this were only Brundage's | wants to stop."

ophion, the outburst, might be

The Roal Test What is the trouble? I agree with Brundage that a high standard of living has made Americans Jazy

Using the American magazine, Sports Illustrated, as his plot- form, he says that, the United

Most American ecuntry-club States has Lecome a second-

noted with interest, but nothing

courses bear a strong similarity, that Americans are becoming o class track power in athletics,

more. But when his words are

but these two cre different. reposted by the world's. No. 1 nation of spectators.

Much has been written about them and I suppose that the |althlete it is time to ask! IS sonciling radically wrong with

that Cypress Peint with tho Overtaken Long Ago American athletics?

gréen jütting out into the ocean In

Is the most widely photographed Milwaukee this month, "You take Olympic medals as Herb Elliott of Australia also

Eighty-three per cent of the hole in golf. Never mind. I only a standard, and we werE WEIS fichti* biggest" "uch" "party" of 1931. md they tertamfly lonker di Ta Swacs dere runners-up ↑ LUARGA TONY BRO” in Tack and softly plhletes Ate) households in the Urilted States wish I wore standing there.now,

predicted a Huguan have a cast one-television not watching the pelicandying. The previous owner of Slip belter side after Mr Lyttle had in the last Games and won the field. Australia, on a per capita sweep of the Olympics it Wes-One in every three Americans along the surface of the Pacific, perv Serpent was Mr Nixioj made the best of a bad job and Olymple title In 1954. So basts, won ten Umes as many tern athictes "don't get on the owns a motor-car. The accent listening to the scallons barking Halley; of Waterford, Eire.

called for a white ball,

the rocksand, doubtless, prestige point of medals as we did in the last ball."

is on airmchair sport and com- | an fortable travel,

playing Ave off the tee. Americans have always been Finally, we might make a in- for more interested in sprints Ryder Cup roconnaissance than long-distance events, and land in the deport on the other an analysis of Olymple results aide of the mountains, where the Indicates that this preference air is truly like champagne, zo Is growing stronger,

that you notice it the mement you get out of the aeroplane, and everybody sheds the cares of this world.

TAE

WHEWEND

GAMBOLS

IF I COULD HAVE MY ALLOWANCE A LITTLE CARLY THESES A DEVON,

GEORGE, ARE YOU

LISTENING?

from 11

By Barry Appleby

GAYE, DEAR, I'VE JUST HAD AN AWFUL ACCIDENT WITH THIS NEW PULLOVER YOU

|_ KNITTED FOR ME

NOW WHEN 1, OPRAH. IT WONY DO IN ONE

· EAR AND OUT: THE ONER

ROME

GAS IS TOPS

SAYS MR THERM

In the 1950 Olympics, there was not one American in the frat six of the 1,500 metres 3,000 metres, 10,000 metres, 2,000- And if after its long journey. metre walk, 60,000-metre walk, the màgic carpet, clioso this 3,000-metro steeplechase, and moment, to break down, there the marathon.

would be no complaints from

But in 1952 Americans came me. second In the Olympie 3,500 metres and first in the 3,000 metres steeplechase.

Americans have not fuißked' in the first six of the marathion since 1928. Yet the United States has won more places. In the first six of this even than any other country.

Supreme In Sprints

But I cannot agree, with,

Answers To Sports Quiz

Statiana's in 1920.

Brundage that the United States) 3 Wimbledon Tadios".

has become a second-class track

| power. "They remain; suprema

champlas

cver the shorter distaticos, get tirani National.

Three Athrricabs jointle hold]ch. Yes”

Manchester United..

The 300 metros: world record. 2 American also hold the world |1270.-No! recordy für the 200 metras, 400 matres, 4 X 100 metres (with Germany), 110-metre hurdles, 200-metra: hurdles, "and" -499

· metro-hundies:))

And

Davey Murre of the United

Elsteryl

FD. Melbourné,“ Australia:

Stales la abjurouched only - by 16. Fibya Pattūruots. Che detent

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