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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1959.

SATURDAY SPORTS SPOT IRC Prove Themselves Worthy Lawn Bowls League Champions

By I. M. MACTAVISH

In many parts of the world today soccer is really big business and I cannot do better than start my column this wook with a dolightful story almost certainly fictitious recent applicant for the job of manager of one of England's loading teams.

about, a

After a long process of elimination a former star found himself the selected candidate and he was a very proud man as he was called for a private meeting with the club chairman,

It was with deflated ego he Jeft the boardroom a few short minutes afterwards on com pletion of a brief but important utterance by the head of the board.

1 had wald "In looking through the various pleves of correspondence wo have had

This is both a wise and pro- fitable palley and the club will reap the real beneft in the years to come.

The Hongkong Badminton As- cociation deserves nothing but praise for its endeavours to ser the Colony's name in its rightful place in the international me-

The second memory concern- ed one of the greatest shots right.

The mission to Malaya is an have ever had the pleasure of arcing on a bowling green. It expensive one and only those was the sort of effort that had who have been privileged to with you I notice with regret { friends, foes and impartini ol-peep behind the scenes can ap- that we did not inform you of servers clapping in spontaneous preciate how much effort had to the club's motto which reads "If {appreciation.

at Arst you don't succeed....

YOU'RE FIRED....Good after: Magnificent Effort

1100,"

The shot was played by Arnold Elle at a time when Jailure would have finished the Lawn Bowls. holds a very same. As he stepped up to roll special place in the affecte last wnog of the head he tlons of the Hongkong was faced with the position that his immediate opponent-M. B. sporting public. Many Hassaniny Ave and maybe vlaltors are surprised at even six shots. To an inexpert the importance which is observer like me there seemed accorded to what is often ttle or no salvation for

am any judge erroneously called an old dockmen and It

of Individual reactions, Elliot's man's game.'

front men held out little hope for his anal effort.

Last Saturday I had the plea sare of seeing the competitive aspect of the game exploited with determination and relent les commentration yet with a fine sense of good sportsmanship and fairplay that spoke volumes for the qualities of the en who week in and werk out in our hot humid summer rull their woods in the Colony's excellent Lawn Bowls League,

the

Hassan and his mates had done a pretty thorough Job of sewing up the situation but all of them, that is front men, opponents, and specta- tors had oounted without the Eure eye and steady arm of the KDC skip.

With uncanny skill, and with of good fortune that little bit which favours the brave, Ellot My enjoyment last Sataromehow contrived to twist and day centred on the needle bend his wood through an op- match between the strong renly impossible succession of

Indian Recreation Club team and those grand sportsmen from Kowloon Docks,

'ports' shot.

to score the very

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It was a magnificent effort, a shot ft to win a championshitp. But just as one swallow has What A Game! never made a mummer, so What a game this turned out shot even us great as this to be. At the half way stage was not enough to see his rink

or his toan through to victory, both teams were... more than The Indians wet rightly jubi- va£<v]>} with the virtual lant about their victory. They equality of the situation. Both have had a fine season, The sides had played like pective Colony has had no more worthy champions and t ld have champions than the men and been a recklers po.an who buys from Scokur.poo. would have forecast victory for

elther team.

Maybe it was the curry puffs maybe it was the tradi-

Monal Indian hospitality maybe it was the rub of the green or better staying power

but when play was sumed after the tes interval it was the Indians who steadily forged ahead. Consistency and endurance are the vital essen-

con-

go into the, gathering together of

ganisation. Ike the Hongkong Badminton Association $7,000

the necessary cash. To all oc-

princely sum and the fact that it has been raised, and the fact that the team is now In Malaya, is indeed a royal performance by the people behind the scenes. our on-the-court exponents can set the right kind of victory scal on the whole affair.

We must wait now and see !!

☆☆

Before the Hongkong soccer

party left the Colony to play in Malaya it was the general opinion of people close to the team that we had been fortunate in being drawn in an “easy” section of the annual Merdeka tournament. Maybe from a moral point of view it would have been better four representatives had gone overseas in the knowledge that they would have to tackle the big guns in the competitions

for it must have come as a great surprise to local football fal- very lowers to hear that a

side failed strong Hongkong to overcome Japan at the first #ttempt.

Our boys aventually dis- posed of the Japanese opposi tion in the relay but when one remembers the relative strengths of the two teams when they met in Hongkong not very long ago it is diff- cult to account for the neur failure of our leam in Malaya.

HK Standard Down? A few weeks ago I

gratulated the Hongkong According to many press re- Softball Association on ports most of the glory of the first the enterprise it displayed encounter went to our opponents and one can only wonder if our in sending its ladies re-standard has slipped alarmingly presentative team to or whether Japan has made Taiwan.

ostonishing progress.

tinis of all who aspire to league championship standard and in publicity bolh in the press and eliminating us

these important qualities it was the Indian Recreation Club boys who were superior.

Hassan played like the inter- nationalist hé is and a five at

through the medium of sound broadcasting and television.

Best Wishos

The tourists have now return-much weight on a single game It would be wrong to put too ed and the success of their ven- fure has been given wide but if Japan had succeeded in they very been plenty of Hongkong soul- did there would have nearly

searching to have been done.

The Merdeka, competition 19 Now another group of ladies becoming an excellent barometer a crucial stago ave not only have sallled forth from the of Far East football. It is a his own rink, but hin whole Colony In search of even well-organised affair and the team the stimulant they needed. | greater international laurois 1059 edition has indicated

subtle levelling out of standards. From that moment the Indians and the best wishes of our en- never really looked back and tire sporting community will go Korca, like Hongkong has found in the end they triumphed out to the Hongkong Uber Cup things this year just a bit harder albell narrowly-on all three team in their current visit 10

rinks

to ensure that the 1830 Malaya. Championship trophy would rest worthily on their rideboard. Quite apart from the ex- cellent sportsmanship and skill which both sides d played I left this memorable match with two special memories.

The first was of the foresight unud wisdom of the IRC celec- tors in introducing young players to their senior team.

Versatile Helen Kwong heads a group of young ladies who lack nothing in ambition or determination and, while the experts seem to give them little chance of success against the powerful and experienced Malayan team,

know enough about our representa

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tives to belleve that they will not be beaten easily if they are beaten at all.

GILCHRIST IS A MENACE

By ALEX BANNISTER

London.

The

and tougher than before. struggle for soccer supremacy. In This part of the world is becomi ing a most interesting one.

Past reputations nowadays count for very, little, Tio only thing that matters In victory on the field of play and once any of the so called bir names start missing out on that vital essential flier start falling to justify their post- tion.

International eminence is best achlovod, and prepared for, by regular matches against foreign Lopposition.

enough. Our Intest temper

The HKFA has shown a real ppreciation of this and the efforts they are making to bring midst attractive visitors to our during the incoming season should help our player to put As a protest against the tactics of Roy Gilchrist, an even sharper edge on their the West Indies Test howling express, Billclimb back to a more prominent play thus enabling them to Lawton, captain of Oldham, declared his side's position in Far East football. We innings closed at 21 for two wickets, with two have been in the doldrums long hours left for play last week, and conceded tamished defeat by Jepon shows the Central Lancashire League match to we still have much work to do. Middleton, who had made 178. The crowd zwarmed

round, throws, and is the fastest in the pavilion in uproar.

the busines A -day

Lawton, "The result måde no differ husband of actress Dora Eryan, enceto Makieton, who had told me why he took this sensa-alrently won the championship, tional step, which Was SUD or toteama in a challenging ported by his team and composition jagat A

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to Seamen next "After the ruino I had a drink with Gilchrist in the Saturday evening. *Three of the fvo batomowe tes

club bar, and we argued a The organisers, are reported to who had been to the prekso

bit. He hàd bli glow, and -!| have built tip a really attrac- were hit," he told me.....

Itad initie, 'He thinks-2\am | tlvo" programino featuring many "One of thooo hurt was a 15-

wrong.......I think I am right” of the, best Services bones in year-old boy. Gilchrist's open. Glichrist (hhwah senlithio Tari Bunt. Ing ball was a bouncer, "azid home from India after dia then followed, his usual ogreturreements with his captain, sporting entertainment and if Thin pataniacs in bo excellent.

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Gerry Alexarilor; - lias "bean you have not yet got a ticket "Umpires are empowered banned by the West Didit for you may will be lucky if you stop this sort of thing, but if the series with England during contact the D.O.P.T. at Land they don't someone bus gut to the winter, MA Forces, godimeters Ills tole male: 4. pyydet ja NE DHC, madh,,42 Jury i wagay, vindici || phordunizimboe 84121 Exten-

ut am convinced that he will rockod out the whole; kruni- sion 408. In pugilistic perinnen: kill a poor batman one of nem. I was bowling Indrly and the show give vitry, indication these days. In'uty, opinión, he 'faithfully.”

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