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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1959.

SATURDAY SPORTS SPOT Mother's Note

It Looks Like Being A ONE THAT TOTTENHAM DIDN'T GET

Cheerless Start To

ジ

The New Soccer Season

RUMBLE

MUMBLE

JUMBLE!!! Instead of the traditional three hearty cheers these are the salutes boing accorded to dear old King Soccar as ho takos his place in sporting prominence for another season.

Let me predict here and now that there are some mighty interesting weeks ahead and I don't mean just on the field of play.

Down the highways, byways,

in the blackest back ally- ways of Hongkeng'a soccerduin there RIC ominious

Lin-

bles and grumbles which may yet provide the vital

clue that

w lens to the unwinding of

the present jumble of football afTalr. Bitterness, bom in the

tark realation that no-hul

By

I. M. MACTAVISH

barred is now the order of there and it could be that the better to

day, hus givett some of our foolball folks n new driving determination to beat the drum in the Aut interrete. The Dutcome might be more than just a le surprising.

During the past few days a

well-known local personality

Current Stories

wait for the state- probing poker of the individual inent of decounts on the tour whom I have mentioned above before carrying the discussion to Just Inglesi conclusion will see it burst into the sort of its fame that will throw some real how money

ean

the have light on the subject.

slightest influence on the rights or wrongs of what happened in Malayn it is very difficult indeed to see. Could be that the two extra games will be ae- claimed if it is found that the favourable tour resulted in o Anuncial report but that they will be decrled if the statement happens to have a sanguinary countenance.

has been craging himself with Nevertheless, quite apart from the sports pages of vernaculat the actions of any Individual, be newspapers I understand that he an official of the IKFA he is having approved transit, there is surely a direct chai

of ge to the Amodation in many tions prépared of a number articles dealing with the inter- of the current stories which are in circulation and to the rumour- Leam movements of some of

mongers usually prettx their Hongkong's top soccer names,

stories with the remark "C cording to the Chinese press.... livere would seem to be an avenue of exploration that might be worth following. It moy, of

Club Loyalties

He apparently feels that this tenure, produce very little but ime he's on the right path and, the mere fact that it has been if he can encourage the HKFA checked could do nothing

to show the camo jealousy

of good.

reputation as it has done in

other matters, he might yet

render the game a very valuable servlet.

*

The switching of club loyal-Congratulations to

ties has reached strangely ligh properlions this year

and the

Souza

but

Irene

man in the street may well bo pardoned, if lie is wondering why established big name stars should and it advantageous of

Hongkong's new First Lady of necessary to leave a big mue- cessful club for a place in the the Greens is indeed a worthy

champion. With a fine appre ranks of another team whose football fortunes the in-clation of the spirit of the game

in

Bui nuclei affairs and allegations of mismanagemtat are no more than corollaries to the main issue which is surely the miserable - and controversial efforts of the players we sent out to an International competition to do! battle in Colony colours,

Malaya Games

The agency reports of rough and dirty play in some of the

this

Defiant Dwyer, of West Ham, flings himself at the feet of the Spurs' leader Bobby Smith in a recent match. The Spurs won 2-1-Express Photo,

themselves far too much that is surely the ONLY con- with what they can get out of sideration which can be allowed what to influence the deliberations of the gatio rather than

our parent association. they can pul lalo it, For a few golden years in the post-, a thin superficial layer of real fril class taleni Eave the Colony a reputation which, under that top layer, was never justified.

war era

as a first

a common

sease

kinder then it was last Sunday ceremony should the opening be a colourful one.

Hi en over the fence, bays

#

$

In-

Colony football Is currently It will re- at a very low ebb. quire courage and determina- blun

"Talc-wagger" und a lot of plain speaking, to put it back on its cidentally

the current fet. The new council has al- catch phrase in Colony footbad ready shown a lively spark that says, rather cryptically,.. has been absent in recent horses and carriages have bever years and I will be interesting been so expensive...!! to see if the present members are willing to tackle the prob. lem with the Impersonal sourcefulness which La Bow necessary if our aling gume is not to become a chronic help- less invalid.

*

*

Big name yeterans who would al- pul in the crowds have

JUST- ways been much more portant than bringing on pro- mising youngsters under pro- gressive club or even associa

couching system. Tom ton

was frustrated at Sneddon winning the earlier games and the allega every turn and, of course, the

divide tussle Colony Ladies Lawn tons of "txing" In the final constani

Hongkong and Bowls Singles Champion- match against Malaya are being talent between

Talwon has had a most dis ship.

waved aside, as unreliable, un-

While turbing effecl Onl the locul worthy and unfounded, it is true there must be a shado game. If the Colony is to sur

This Finnily. class soccer

this week.. In this part of the let us any a very special wel of the writer's opinion in what vive

come to a new softball season, he reports, it is stretching things power

un-arrangement must be arrived at The swipe and swat boys and a bit for to believe that neutral world then

launch their new and a hly developed repertoire reporters invented coming season nust be very of its skills dre has made a moet savoury version of what they on this question of representa- girls will

campaign at King's Parke is to the saw. understand that the tion.

I important contribution

afternoon and if the weather is Melais fortuitously If the players were

pro-family Cup Collecting Compala team

George has already brought back from Malaya B fessionals, such a move would Husband

ki ha rink to the Colony couple of English language re- be easy to understand for they would almost certainly out with M. B. Hesan for the would have been much more. title and tomorrow he will fight poris, but I've heard that it

let u player be making their shift because Singles crown. In his present interesting if they had brought with dual qualifications be free It was financially adysta form he must be regarded as 'in bnek a tape recording of some to decide which International

cous to do so

but for with a real chunice even against of the on-the-spot comments colours he wants to wear. Thal amateurs to do the Bare such an accomplished sportsman made by

party or is a fundamentul of Individual 1 Indian thing

very different as Hassan but, if he manages to

of some freedom and liberty. No one produced translations instter.

pull it off, there will be high of their reports.

it removed old-nks in the Souza household

but once a of tomorrow night.

These things apart, the truth even restricted

his decision is that

everyone in Far East player has made

it should be binding for all re- football now knows. what we

games in which have known only too well but Presentative which we have managed to dis- Hongkong is Involved. guise from prying eyes.

· uncertain Indeed.

It is quite impossible. course, le report many of the stories which are at present go- ing the rounds, Everyone Οι

them probably has the touch of truth or the, vital crumb of

*

Low Ebb

By all meonis

wanis

to see

credulity but one always henra THREE ROUSING RA hot we are on the skids and In other words

them from

whose man

brother's amal's sister's boy- friend knows for a fact that a certain happening actually look place because someone at tho end of another and similar un- reliable chain of communica- tions had got the information trem a reliable source,

Unfortunately thin thing is hardly fuel for the fact finding fire but, on the other

port

of

or

to

it a player

RAH..

freely and willingly decides he RAH'S

we are travelling downhill at an wisites to represent a community for those members alarming rote,

olker than this Colony, then he of the Council of the

Colony footboll standards of should not be considered for gumes against HKFA who have mode 50 play and conduct have nosedived selection for very clear their dissatis in the past three or four years visiting teams which come

At the moment faction with the affairs of and under weak leadership play here.

n : ht done to halt Hongkong migh: suffer the recent Hongkong visit nothing has been

but that is a purely temporary the decline. to Malaya.

situation and in the long run it The truth of the matter is would contribute to an overall that for ten many people....improvement in Hongkong's do. players 104 elab officialsmestic and International re alike... have cuncerned presentation. and after all

By Exactly the same token a hand, it is also true that general resounding brickbat to those

ly where there's smoke there's Couucillurs who decided it was

THE

GAMBOLS

› THE FLOWERS LOOK

WONDERFUL)

ITS BEEN HARD WORK FOR YOU,,

DARWING

by Barry Applely

AND THEYRE A GREAT

CREDIT TO YOU

BUT I DO BOMETIMES WIGH WE HAD SOME FLOWERS COULD PICK

Answers To Sports Quiz

1. 10.4 secs,

2. 1948 they shared the title with Middlesex in 1940,

3, 1957.

4. Andrew and Dexter,

5. Avery Brundage,

6. (0) Austrailan, (b) Swedish, (c) Jamatean, (d) Polish,

7. Shot-putting.

4. Ingemar Johansson,

9. Jaines J. Corbell,

10. Lindsay Hassett.

AIR-INDIA

Moss For U.S. Grand Prix

Los Angeles, Sept. 18. Stirling Moss of England, rated the world's greatest sports car driver, yester day signed to compete in the U.S. Grand Prix at Riverside Raceway, Moss whe made a flying visit to Los Angeles today, said he

would drive a 4.2 Aston-Martin in the Oct 10 and 11 event. The Engman kos won his last three European races and in the thick of the battle for the driving championship of the world-UPI,

Did The Trick

For Edwin

BY ROY PESKETT

London.

If Mrs Holliday, of Royston, near Barnsley, had not scèn an advertisement in the Daily Mail, hor 19-year-old son, Edwin, might novot have been chosen for Eng-. land's Under-23 team to miöst Hunguty at Goodlton Paik, Everton, next Wednesday.

1

(Fulham):

Macedo Four years ago, when Edwin

Cohen was leaving school, and Mun (Fulham), Allen (Stoke); Selters didn't quite know what to do (W. Broni.) (cnpt:), Seali (Chel- wila him, the read that Middles-son), dieGuinness (Manchester brough manager Bob Dennison U.); Brabrook (Chelsea). Greaves was holding a trial for young (Chelsea), Pointer (Burndey), players,

Chaillon Manchester U.).

Dennison told me: "I got a Holliday (Middleskto). Jetter from MIS Holliday. I Réserves: Knubp (Leicester), wondered, at first, why aho Mella (Liverpool)-Daily Mall.

didn't apply to Barnsley. Then

I thought if she has taken this trouble, I'll have a look at the

lad.

HIS BUSINESS

"It took only a few minutes to size him up. Before the end of the trial I had offered him. A place on the ground staff,"

The tall, the left winger made his debut for Middles- broth at West Ham in Decem- bor 1957, and is a member of s Hne which has scored 23 goals this season.

nowbomer

In

Holliday should know t business, for he is a nephew of Colin Grainger, Sunder- Land and England outside George Cohen, the 19-year-old Fulham right back, is the other the Young England team. O him, skipper Johnny Haynes, first hit stardom in the Under 23's, says:

"He is dedicated to winning He flies his an England cap, football very seriously, trains

hard,

Anc aralin very

pungster to have on your side."

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