THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1959.
SATURDAY SPORTS SPOT
Mixture Of Fearlessness And Folly In Colony Football Selectors' Latest Efforts
The Interport Committee of the Hongkong Football Association has certainly set the tongues wagging about the two teams they have nominated to meet our colourful visitors from Costa Rica next weekend.
Moving around in our soccer circles it is interesting to listen to the different reactions and 1 gather from conversations with sports writers on the vernacular press that there is a considerable undercurrent of hostility to the line-ups an- nounced for the All-Hongkong and Hongkong Selection
teams.
Over and over again it has put
mittemen
should
be
offee Individuals... box
Toon only 39 been gid Chat in matting their value, and
In the elements selections our Interport Com- Equalifying
quite al selections,
might tearless: that primarily they Ou the surface one should disregard every
way that this time they hav sideration exert current form dane 11 these things but thỏ the two and
une looks
that in
building
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By
SPORTING SAM
BOXING NEWS (
CUT EYES WONT BOTHER MY BOY SAYS SAM
by Reg. Wootton
London Express Bervice
will adopt a moderate point of view and that the niggling aspects connceled with the ex- pensive Costa Bean series are ret magisfied out of their true perspective.
Henry Longhurst On Golf
WELL DONE!
One of the most interesting aspects of the Walker Cup golf team, which is due to play the Americans at Muirfield on May 15 and 16, was the method of its announcement.
This seemed to me a mode] | How much better in such caree of its kind and, though it is to ray' whyi none of my business, I could
not help feeling that M.C.C. With great regrei. guid selectors, whose pubile relations Oppenheimer, the selectors felt have never been wholly satis that Thirlwell's putting was not factory, would save themselves at the moment reliable enough a grent deal of uninformed nor did they think his method cristelam by taking a leaf out lent ittelf to any sudden im- of Mr Raymond Oppenheimer's proviment. book.
"The Collector'
In Scotland they would naturally be wondering about Hittle Sindy Saedler, who came Into prominence by Anishing Most teams, at golf or any cecond in the special tournament other game, very nearly picknt Lytham, themselves, leaving a few places
there will be thore folks who; siel--which the Interport Com- will back the actions of the intttee has placed in them. Interport Committee but few i will quibble about the decision Nevertheless there are Now they mader to promote lanky two dangerous grumbles rolling Leung Wai-hung full Colony around. The tuns are anything status. The tall busman har but hayoy about the price played brilliantly this season structure which has been fixed and he is. a more dangerous for the Costa Rican gümes and, and imaginative winger thor when that is added to the un- the man he had now displaced. rest which has arisen over the of visits
Hongkong needs the alimulant from good OVCITERN I think he's going to All the teams, there could be noun- ! teams and to be able to afford
fortunate influence on the gate. these coulres the all-cur cholce but their reasons. And,
1. M. MACTAVISH
representative side they should team the more "grumblin" but there is no more unpleasant berth on the left touchline for
give thought to compatiblity become the doubts.
spectacle than to see a once a long time to come, great star being sent le the i
All in the safe manner
these changes opposite
FRED NORRIS BREAKS TWO
RECORDS
Took Courago
con-
more
I
can
dircellon. Let The star who swallow and even in fact under It certainly took courage to hus won nrclaim finish his stand but quite frankly the I try the less common leave Viu Chenk-yin and Mok career on a log ente.. don't be Chun-wah out of the Colony paternising.....don't
sense and logie du 1 see in the nomination ut Kung Wah-kit as inove descending....his achievements adv. 11 was fearles
his service to the gaine Hongkong's second best pivot, and, while Mok Chun-wil has and The vald claim to & plaee in the deserve better than the "east- e-up on present form, it is off" treatment which has been bard to nagine any All-long-accorded! to Mok Chun-wali, kong team without Yu Cheuk-
yin.
It is true the little Souili
Different Case
Yiu Cheuk-yin's ense is same
China star has been strangely thing quite different. He will inconsistent this
sen:n
That is something that takes an awful lot of swallowing. Personally I do not believe he comes anywhere neur that mting. Kung is very much sus- peel on his teft hand side and for my money the right man to wear the Colony's No. 6 shirt
but come again for he is still tarts Lau Tim of KMD, The buy
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that may well have been due and away the finest ball player fellow Is head and shoulders to the many injuries he has have....quffe aport from above any other centro-haft we suffered, He hans not been the fact that by instinet he is have and I don't mean that really 11 for a
Tong Ume and, muster of the open spuen und only in a physical rense, remembering the excellent easily the best football Reld service he has given to local marshal we have in this part of He is player of great ex- perience, zure in the tackle and football over A number of the world.
capable of dominating the mid- years, L might have been
He answered the selectors in die of the feld against the better
If the interport Com-his Own
In hu ༥:1
gaine strongest opposit
To milice had left
out of him
that past Kitchee on Wednesday mud his only real rivals for their rekoning rather
when he reso above the very honours are Ginger Woodcock subjecting Dy ไป the in~
obvious offerts of his mort of the Army and Lam Sheung- glorious position of being crent injury to guide hits tear yee who has been nominated for pkked A3 + reserve for to a ne victory while showing the left-half berth in the All that is really what it is.
all ord sundry the benefits to Hongkong side. - be derived from the use of the According to Mally stories
upen space....and of course already 52 circulation Yiu Cheok-yin will not play In the Hongkong Selection and only yesterday i heard a big wager being 'offered on this score... without being accepted!!
The Real Root Yiu Cheuk-ylu without Mok Chun-wah Is only hair the player he is with him and the continued deterioration in the aukide-left's play my be the real root of the whole story.
The little winger has clearly had his day. As he is playing La presnt he
how to score goals when they Dangerous Grumbles
are needed most.
Yu Chouk-yin has not how evir been playing consistently well and the Selectors took a fearless and thoroughly justified step in dropping him from the All-Hongkong team....but the ingredients of tear and folly ot # bit mixed when they chose him to fill the No. 10 shirt in the second-berts'....or the "Stiffs" as they would be called in Britain.
Worth His Place
The relegation of Lau Tim to be a reserve for the Reserves. I something I Just cannot understand. He is too good a player to be pushed about like this and the whole thing must be very disheartening for his colleagues. The fans don't like t alter and will be most in-
tite ut terosting to see how expected selections are reflected in the gates at the two games the visitors will play in Hong- kong.
These are practical points about the teams and although On current form Lo Kwok-tal is the job of simply is not
a sportswriter worth place in the
Is well worth Colony
his place and to express
his views on such change tine-up but if Iv rather sad to nothing I have said about Yiu matters that does not se him also being relegated to Chouk-yin should detruct from my hopes that both Colony the ccond-best status. Mok that fact, The Tung Wah inside-terms will give first class per- Chun-wah has long been a left has had a grand season and ] formatees next week-end. pilar in Hongkong football. He personally I rate him the con- has played some
In days gone by and in magnificent sistently dangerous, and pront-
other countries the games and In doing to has able torward in our soccer at many delighted countless thousands the iroment. True he lacks selectors have taken a panning of fun. TE would have been some of Yiu Cheuk-yin's polish and a blistering when they have much
Bracious if
greater strength and been enterprising enough the but his
unfamiliar and sekretora hatt ueknowledged that finishing power are good sub- announce part service by leaving him out stitutes.
even an unpopular team. <ogether,
The arguments about the time no one can accuse our treatment dished out to Yhu selectors of pandering to anyone It is a grand sight to see a Cheuk-in and Mck Chun-wah and now it is up to the players Central Prossing pleclimbing the with heatedly runs for they have picked to justify the
hdder step by step to the top long time to come. No doubt confidence albeit controvers |
Fred Norris, the 36- year-old mine worker from the Dalton United Harriers, winning the AAA 70 milos track event at the Hur- lingham meeting recently. His time of 48 mins 32.4 soca broke his own
British Empire record, and
best porformance for the
meet Photo.
more
THE GAMBOLS
ph
Barry Lablely
I hope this is not so....but in Hongkong football the
fals
i have shown themselves stubborn when things are not quite to their liking and,
sec the situation now, a lot is going to depend on the attitude which the vernacular press adopts.
Support Needed
The sportswriters show hostility then we might have a crowd problem-or rather a fuck-of-crowd problem.
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If ever there was an casion when the football for lunes lay in the power of the pen it is now...and in the best interesis of Hongkong soccer it le to he hoped that
everyone
ARTIE...
THEATRE
THIJA
TOMMY
TROOPER
КОМАНА
AND HER
BANCING DOO
* suppose it will now be the four Beverley Siurra ..?”
London Express Bervice,
Answers To Sports Quiz
1. (0) Eleven, (b) Seven,
(c) Twelve.
2. (a) Goff, (b) Cricket, (e)
Boxing. 3. Archie Moore, world light-heavyweight cham-
plon.
Game Is The Thing
support of the soccer public. That support must be
ropre- Fented in hard cash at the box office. It would be a tragedy if balanes of anything were to upret the on this important occasion.
these requirements
·
In the case of the Walker While predicting a brilliant Cup only one debatpble at future for him, Oppenheimer the end.
said that he was not seriously considered because he had os On this occasion, for the first et had no experience to harden time in my own experience, him to the bts vecasion. the selectors gave not only their
after all, why not?
True or False?
The announcement of the team was made in the handsome
The last place, said their Chalemon, lay between W. D. Smuth, the 41-year-old Selkirk new building of the Diamond player who finished Bfth In the Corporation In Charterhouse Open Championship at St Street, thus bringing to my Andrews and is known among ; ming a story the veracity of which I have been challenging Scottish friends as "The the Colicctor" on account of
and Raymond Oppenheimer equally stoutly maintaining for | Bfteen years,
With Groat Regret Conhall at a time when
Regarding it as virtually
a
My advice 10 the football hla pubiles "Forgot any minor disappointments you may feelquency with which he takes their money, and another player about the team selections....ge long and give the players who
who naturally was, not named. are wearing Hongkong colours Jour unstinted support both physically and vocally....Even allowing for the fact that big names like Yiu Cheuk-yin, Mok dead-heat, they chose the other Chun-wah, Lau Tim, and Korimply on the ground that he Po-kuung will be missing there was younger. Hain cn Smith- is still a wealth of talent In the but I dare say most people, All Hongkong side and they faced with this problem, would could....and should....give have done the same. very good account of themselves
It was realised that golfers in against the accomplished Latin- the north of England would be American footballers."
disappointed that a plaer could
!
a
During the war he Was П Controller In the RAF, at the Germans were making a last despairing effort by launching flying bombs from acroplones over the North Sen.
One day when he was direc-
ting operations all the flying bombs were shot down except one, which was last seen mak- Ing its way "Hal" said Oppenheimer, "a towards London.
nice thing if it hilt my office"
The game is sUl the thing,' not be found for Alan Thiriwell. 'It did,
FREDDIE
COX PLANS
TO BUILD NEW PORTSMOUTH TEAM
By ALAN HOBY
What has happened to the fabulous luck of Freddie Cox? This season
it has vanished-like Lady Docker's jewels. Two years ago this chunky ex-wartime pilot with the fighter's face was the rising young manager of the hour. His £4,000 team of nobodies from Bourne mouth, in the Third Division, were the rage of football.
In a rocketing Cup run they rubbed out Wolves und Spurs, then gave Manchester United's Red Devils the fright of their famous young lives.
Never had the fame of Fre- derick James Arthur Cox stood higher not even £12 those heady days when he was battering-ram right winger for Arsenal.
4
But look at Freddie Cox to-- world day.
4. Davey Moore,
featherweight champion.
5. Marshal Pil and Oxo.
His Future
to
6. D. Lewis Jones (Wales). 7. Hans Red).
This
8. (a) Sydney, (b) Lord's.
After just manager
of
onc
First
scason
25
Division
9. Nottingham Forest and Partsmouth (where he moved from Bournemouth), he 13 Luton, Forest have won | the Cup once at Crystal hedged and hemmed in Palace in 1800
disaster.
10. None.
PHEW! THATS A STIFF
OF GAY
SHE MUST FEEL
* BADLY IN HEED OF
ANOTHER ONE! THUG JEN'T LAKE SAVE
İVE JUST READ THAT
GING GOOD FOR
CLEANING RINGO
DUSSELDORF.
A PICK ME-OFF
ONE FOR THIS TIME
NEXT TIME I USE A TOWEL TO FLICK THE DUST OFF MY GUDES I'LL MAKE SURE THAT' GAYE DOBEN'T: SEE NE
Fly
AIR-INDIA
HOT WATER
by:
and Maurice Selters, of West Bromwich, came from Bradford. Port Vale, and Exeter.
"The only difference is that und to plunge my Third Division players straight into the first team--instead of first club Tooming them in the
- style with the reserves,
"Again, I suppose, there was a certain resentment regarding the new boys, and the changes in playing style I introduced.
"Some players, too, Uke Jimmy Dickinson, who ts beyond reproach both on and off the field—he' will be given ho a coaching job here when retiros — aren't getting Dry younger.
"It has been a gradual run- down and to remedy it takes
FREDDIE COX-time Unfortunately, time he
always been one step ahead of
Not only have Pompey dropped through the relegation first team he gets £20. But it us. If we could have put the trap-door into the Second
Division, but ... there is vaat! he is injured as a reserve he clock forward 15 month, wo
yeculation concerning Cautare would have-been-K
"Uprichard, who fractured a Personal futurs in foalball.
Last week I went down to hand playing for the reserves, demanded £20, I told him thot, Portsmouth, to find out for my under club rules, it couldn't be self the FACTS behind the Cox dore, And he didn't like it. "crash."
And what did I discover?
I found town in turmoil
town torn by rumours
'Rubbish' "It's true I made him train
Club Hostel
“And the future?". I queried." "We've built A WONDERFUL YOUTH TEAM," said Freddie Cox proudly. “We've scoured
country the
for tem, The ond
of rows a town agitated on his own at that time but modern trend is to find but fascinated by Albert not the first time injured develop your own players, Quixall's "allegations — It players have trained by them-hotel at Southsca. This we will "The club has just bought an newspaper article fur which the selves, Manchester United star has "It is also true I asked him turn into a hotel big enough
to house 18 young players. sinco apologised that there is to train alone because of the unhappiness and backbiting atmosphere."
"It will have every modern backstage at Fration Park.
continued, convenience, large dining quietly: "You knDAY . is room and games room, and here Not Worried rubbish to say I have reduced we will mould the character of
Pompey to the status of a Third the new Pompey. Division side.
AND I found Freddle Cox a worried, ulcer- ridden, butt-end of a man, os one might have thought from the lond of trouble he carries, but the same buoyant, plumpish - he is half a stone heavier than two years back
as-ever football boss,
blunt-
Freddie Cox
"When I camo bere discipline was bad. There was also only a Dmked amount of↑ money to spend -- and Üye positions to strengthen.
"Of course, I could have gona for a big-name stor like Tony "The talk," I said, as he Decherty, now of. Arsenal, but greeted me with a warm band-I tried to spread the land. shake, "is that you have turned plug the holes, I went Pompey into a Third Division Third Division clubs for players. club, that players are unhappy,
that you have enemies.
罪
It makes me angry.
instant
WITH GAS
"I know," Cox replied, "and
'Takes Time'
to
to
"What people forget is that
#
"Deportment, diet, dia elpline these 15-17-year-olds will get the best," Pompey's chlef went on. “It may seem laughable now, but I aim to make Portemonth the Man- chester United of the South Coast."
"You'ro not downhearted abdul being relegated' then?" I' reuid again..
“No, I am not,” he replied. "Disappointed, naturally,, De-
pressed, never,”
As Freddie Cox rom from his
"A lot of frouble has been famous clubs like Arsenal. and ↑ chair the old chocty; confident. chucod
Becausb Norman West Bromwich Albion havo grin flashed out for a moment. Uprichard, our Irish goalkeeper, done exactly the same thing has told the world I gave him
"Gunners like Jimmy Bloom- "Don't worry about. UB...or 1 raw da But, as I think field, David Herd, and Dave | M2"; "hơ...” said.
"I've a fo
and. North now, but Portsmouth, will be
you know, there a sliding Bowen cata from Brentford, board. Things may look "bad scale of pay at Portsmouth. Blockport County,
**YTO DRY_Top. WRECK, and if a | ampton.
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