1959-05-18 — Page 7

South China.

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1959.

Tung Wah

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Dubious

A VICTORY WITHOUT HONOUR Reward

S. China Batter Their Way To Senior Shield Football Title

By 1. M. MACTAVISH

If you are the squeamish typo...if you look only for cheap flattery and the platitudes that mask the stark un- pleasant truth...if you live in the belief that football is still a game played by sportsmen...do not read a single line of this report.

The record books and history will show that South China won the 1959 Senior Shield final by beating Tung Wah by four goals to two. Physically and statistically that will be true morally it will rank as the greatest sporting lie of all

time.

This game was often a dis grace to the fair name of foot ball and the full respon- albility for such ப disgusting spectacle rests ingloriously on South China.

We were treated to a display of battering-ram soccer by the "Champions how unworthy they were of their proud title- which betrayed both their in- bom fear of defeat and their undisguised determination win at any price.

Savage Tackling

gaily from wing to wing with such effect that South China's big-name defenders realised they were heading for trouble. They realised too that they could not play themselves out of danger..

they obviously decided to kick them-

selves out of it.

the guise of the show 'game of our domestic season.

When South China suddenly

realised the danger that confronted them they set about the opposition First Lau You with a will, took half WEL dozen purposeful steps to his left and put a full stop to the threat that existed in the twinkling feet of Tung

Some of the South China tackling was primitively savage und I shall never know how Loreveral of the Tung Wah players

escaped sous injury..

South China have never been at a lower ebb and the bevy of club officials who scrambled to get into the 'victory' photographi

showed by their action that they condoued The tactics of their players.

have One would thought they would have been ushamed to have been in the same group as some of the men who wore South China's colours yesterday.

Wah winger Au Ping-lin. The winger never recovered and he was never able to display his abilly as he hobbled nizout

one good leg.

Major Battlo

time

This is one of South China's dubious rewards for their lovelling-out tactics yesterday:

With two of Tung Wah's forwards put practically out of action, the strain on the Tung Wah defence was too much for them in the second half.

With the score standing at 1-1 after 51 minutes of play South China's Lee Yuk-tak (extreme right) cracks the ball into the corner of the net to put South China in the lead, and as far as Tung Wah was concerned the game was practically over. China Mall

Photo.

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He never fully recovered.

Things were really warming up by now and ne Lo Kwek- ta pushed a lovely pass down the right wing the scene was set for the game's major battle.

Penalty

the field after altenilon but was feree. That was the Brst Bellon never more than a passenger for the man with the whistle look the rest of the match.

to halt South China's ruugh play. In spite of the South Chinet passed almost unnoticed and tactics Tung Wah were still go. Lau Yes. You Chi-ping and Luk Ing well and 115

their long us Lo Tak-hay went

merry Kwok-tai kept clear of the fly-way with occasional assists from ing boots they were at in with Kwok Kam-hung, and even Ho a chance. Lau Chi-ping must) Cheung-ynu. have realised that, too, for he Tung Wah kept up the moved right over to the South struggle but with two forwards

bone-virtually, ineffective it was China left flank and his

$$

The open spaces and his passing bit. Getting the bali in mid- and prompting did the trick. neid he literally battered his in the 51st minute Lee Yuk-way through the South China ink cracked the ball into the defencD and finished up with roof of the net and the blush on the ball in the net... while goalkeeper Wong Shlu-woo's face the referee stood back in sd- was as red as the scorer's shirt miration pointing to the centre. ...but worse was to follow. Personally I counted three fouls Two minutes later the South committed by the Ting Wak China centre-forward slipped a pivot during his excursion but neat pass to Wong Chi-keung my colleague assessed the in- too and the winger scored with a discretions at fouri The order

shattering body tacklo left the much and soon South China he Colony inside-lett sprawling in gan to reap the dubious rewards

grass. It was pain on the blatant and as deliberate as that. I am but exaggerating one little bit.

With the

I have never hidden behind a screen of innuendos... and 1

Winger Au Ping-lin cut eTORA In this will not do so now.

side During this South China

little Ng the penalty area and was lucky third rate which brought not a marsel of Wai-hung on the opposite side to creeps decapitation in a de- honour to its organisation by its of the field also looked promis parable tekla by Lou Yee The

low shot that again eluded the of the boot reigned supreme as Kwok-

Verdict: A deplorable... victory yesterday 1 name Lau ing with a rasping shot that ball rolled on and

und Lak Rashed over the bar but a few Moon-wah moved towards it he

goalkeeper rather easily, for their levelling-out tactics,

A Shocker

disgusting.... affair. which Yec, Lou Chi-ping.

was stashed to the ground in

Wong Chi-keung caught the

brings not an orice of credit to Tak-hay as the chief culprits of minutes later he, too, was over

the crudest of crude fackles by .. but if you are the wide line tur repairs after a

Tung Wah defence in two minds

score al 3-1 the Hongkong football. Mr W. 3. T. the place

Lau Chi-ping. The referee im-

against a concerted South China

game was really over and when Louey the HKFA president pre- thinking of preparing a suitable boots-up sliding tackle

attack. mediately painted to the penalty

Ho Cheung-yau inid on another sented the trophies at the end Ho Cheung-you and potion save a mution ton for Ng Lau Chl-ping.

Lee Yuk-tak did the spade chance for Wong Chi-keung the and I would have given many a Luk Tak-hay seemed reluc- spol. Wai-man, the Tung Wah centre-

Lant to be left out of the strong- The award produced a goal,

work, Yiu Cheuk-yin took a little winger kicked the ground half who allowed himself to be

And as soon as Lo Kwok-lai | hand, and at the second attempt but in doing so he deceived the penny for his thoughts. act and his tackle-in-Lo Kwok-tal scored from

Nevertheless, something could provoked into vicious retaliation

behind the referee's spot with a shot that went in showed signs of regaining is the little right winger got the Tung Wah custodian

and the have been calvaged with Juit ... and reforce Derbyshire cidentally

the ex-control Lau Yee took up ball Into the net for the equali-ball trickled into the net to give fair ration of strong control, I handling Lack-oh Ho Ying-fun left the off the post, but it was an

gual for it cost Tung cause' and his crude attack on

the champlons a 4-1 lead. a sprightly veleron nursing a pair pensive

have never seen so many "crude contributed

their the Inside-loft earned him

Ng Wai-man seni Ho Cheung- and deliberate fouls pass in- distasteful of painful thighs and looking Wal the full services of

from the most uncomfortable. centre-forward who returned to mild reprimand I site. The ball swung about affair which masqueraded under obviously

Let me sum this whole thing up for you like this,

Tung Wah started the game

In briliant style. They were whose wenk-s-water

artis faster and much more of the situation enterprising Than the Caroline great deal to the

FOUR D. JONES

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ser just before the interval.

Tung Wah then called some hidden reserve of strength 3au sprawling into the penatly sufficiently punished. In spite and staged a

but of the 28,501 people et. It all the only player actually find pre-interval ren rally... but strangely enough who saw the incident only one booked was Lau Chi-ping for a this came to an abrupt end when ... the referee thought it vicious allding tackle on Lo Lau Chi-ping felled Lo Kwok-was a good tackle. Personally I Kwok-tai in the second half.. End with a powerful rabbit punch thought it was a shocker a

penalty if ever there was one..

For about fifteen minutes of the second half there were two

to the back of the neck.

Odds Too Great

Teams

South China: Lou Kin-cheung, Lau Chi-ping, Kwok Kam-hung, Luk Tak-hay, Lau Yee, Lo Chi-

The odds were now too great games in progress... the main and South China took over con- one and a private one in which Kwong-cheung Wong

trol es noon as the second half | Luk Tak-hay waged a private keung Ho Cheung-yau, Lee got under way. Tung Wah's war with Lo Kwok-tal ap- Yuk-tok, Yiu Cheuk-yin, Mok forwards were no longer physic-parently under the impresión | Chun-wah.

ally capable of taking the strain that he had been harshly treated Tung Wah: Wong Shlutwoo, off the defence. The end was if ever a player asked for Szeto Yiu, Lee Kwok-wah, Chan in sight,

all he got it was Luk Tak-hay. Fal-hung, Ng Wai-man, Wong

Yu Cheuk-yin is too great a tactician to miss such an oppor- tunity. He slipped quietly into

With the game dragging to a Chi-kong. Au Ping-in, Ho dismal clore Ng Wai-man de-Ying-fun, Kwok Moon-wah, Lo clded to brighten things up a Kwok-tal, Ng Wai-hung,

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