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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1959,

South China...2,

Kitchee...

K...K...KITCHEE IN CHAOS

Glamour Boys Splutter To

Defeat Against

South

China's Tenacious Ten

By I. M. MacTAVISH

SPORTING SAM

by Reg. Wootton

Bigger and better than ever" was supposed to be the Kitchee Police Start Opening Rugby

motto for this season. After yesterday's game at the Hong- kong Stadium we can only conclude that it goes for their clangers too. In their time the boys in blue have dropped some beauties but their 2-1 defeat by South China yesterday certainly goes into the bigger and better category should I say "bigger and worst"?

or

All praise to South China for their eventual victory. They got a grand goal before the Kitchee defenders had had a chance to hitch up their shorts: they lost their goalkeeper in the 16th minute: yet depleted as they were, they fought this bitterly disappointing Kitchee side to a standstill and finished in classic style by scoring the winning goal six minutes from the end.

Game With A

Bang, Then Fizz Out

By PAK LO

Kicking off with 14 men, the police started their opening game of the sea- son with a bang on Saturday when they overran the Whitfield Won- derers for most of the first half of their game, until the Wanderers scored their opening try.

Having giver South China | readiness to have a shot at goalgerous combination of Wong once Chi-kount and Ho Cheung-yau their due let us make no ones but Young Wal-lo never

After that, however, the Police back line collapsed, and the Wanderers left clutches and

little

Mok else. VCzy about the fact that Kitchee | got himself out of the

the field the worthy winners by 11 points (one goal, two tries) to three only is

poor should have won titis ganse of Lau Yee while Leung Wan Chun-wan

for all his undoubled shadow of his old self and points ( penalty goal). hance down. They had chances hung.

of the young Lee Tak-wai is Anding it is still shori galore: fer sixty minutes they ability,

indeed to f1 Lev #ghting heart that would cable very hard

Earlier on in the afternoon, were faced by a ten-man South

100ts. Yuk-tak's

He

now worits RAF, playing with five while they had tim to reap the benefits of his China line-up

hard enough but. and

comers to rugby were no match their full strength

even cleverness.

crowd when they lost Lau Chi-lum 15

There was wide difference of behind the scrum for the faster this

opinion as to the possible out-and more experienced Sappers minuter

the end they before

game In the im- "A" side, the jatier winning by still had the territorial advan

come of he mediale

period: 14 points (one goal, two tries, prematch inge. Y in spite of all that,

there was however, no want of

one penalty goal) to nll. they were lucky not to be two

support for South China, goals down at the interval and several more before the vnd.

This Kitchee display ranks with the poorest they have produced in yearn and one could only wonder what te falks.

A near capacity paid some 500,000 to

a dis- game. If they expected

they play of first class soccer inust have been sadly disappoint- ed but they surely fell satisfied that they had had their money's worth in drama and incident as well as in the spectacle of see. ing South Chinu make a thrilling nt heavy showing in the face

The Play

The packed stadium buŊt into roar as the champions a great

the Bashed-into

kick-of.

The Caroline Hill Days may from the have lost 3 great

who only a week ago | odds, were acclaiming the 9-0 vic- tory they scored over hapless Sing Tao, though! about his latest effort.

Deserving Fate

The

Ł

Kitchee suffered

Jate they deserved. They never played a paying game and for all the preponderance of called tg names they lacked one man capable of sizing up the situation and planning necordingly.

attack

On the other ground at Boun- dary Street an uninspired Club side were lucky to beat 32nd Medium against the run of the play by 9 points (two tries, one penalty goal) to six points (one ry, one penalty goal), while on right

the other side of the harbour. The cheers Club "B" went down to a much deal of reached a throbbing crescendo atter and strong XV in the 1st their skill but on this showings Ho

hended bril-Lanes by 10 ponts (two guls) they still have a healthy ra- liantly into the net.

to thron points (one try). South China almost. scored tton of leam spirit and it was

Incidentally on Friday the 1st immediately afterwards again

Lanes trounced HMS Cavalier Actice eventually and when

by 47 points to 3 points, the found the football feet 15

Navy boys showing obvious lack minutes had gone. In their of training in their first game. first worthwhile

Lau alluck Kin-cheung

Кубк received

that and little else, that anw them through to two points yesterday.

Unexpected Hero

Chi-kwan

in-1

it

saved the silua- dramatically tion by

heading the ball over the bar when goal seemed certain,

Kitchee falled completely lo their numerical ad- cash in Vantage. Instead of shooting at every opportunity they tried to walk the ball into the net and sland-in keeper, Ho Chi-kwan, was never once in real danger before the interval,

unexpected hero of the jury and in the ensuing metee The

last-minute sele-Luk Tuk-hay victory was

He started tions Ifo Chi-kwan

within Ulf at outside-left and

the The pattern of play simply

seconds of the start of nervated for the Kitchee at-

game he brought out a great tacks

switched to the te te

rour from the crowd by racing right wing But they persisted into the goalmouth and beating Loun Wai-hung out of position Wong Shiu-woo in plying with the ball and it was not all ends up with a fine hender. until late in the game that the

the 16th minute goal- in,

Kin-cheung threw Janky winger showed enough keeper Lau courage to battle it out with imself from his goal in a de- tough-as-teak Luk Tak-hay.

effort to |sperzic

thwart

Nine out of ten Kitchee moves storted and inished in the same way. The team sadly lacked imagination and originality and neither Szato Man nor Lau Chi- lam was capable of dictating the run of play as sucrestul inside

forwards must do.

Yet, strangely enough, Kit- chee's greatest shortcoming was at half-back whern Chan Chi- kong and wolt Yau spent most of their time on a misguided mission. Both of them played exactly the same game and even when their side was enjoying the luxury of the 'extra' man they were frequently caught with the ball and dispossessed.

Lacks Fighting Heart

This was unforgivable and with Ko Po-krang, being far

were

леуст

The second half started with Another quick goal. This time Kitchee attack. In this he sucit fell to Kitchee Leung Wai- ceeded but he was badly injured hung started the move. Young

Police v. Whitfield

Wanderers

played from a lineout on the Police 25.

very well at fly-half. He was uncovered and once lië | Church was the best of the hind broken through, needed threes, and Puckett was safe al only spead to carry him to a full back, though he was seldom score under the posts. Themp-under pressure. For the RAF only Ahern and Dixon stood out son converted. 8-3

Finally the Wanderers put on In the forwards, the backs be- passing display that was the | ing well below scratch. best of the day, with the ball Horton opened the scoring In moving smoothly across all the the fourth minute threes and back again to Davies who scored half way out. No conversion, 11-3.

Club "B" v.

1st Lancs

with 2

penalty conversion that hit the upright and bounced in. There was no further scoring untit Just before half time when the altmez

penalised were

five yards from their own line. The Sappers, being well out on the wing, took the short kick and Pollard crashed his way over and was awarded a try. No com VOTRION, $-0.

Late Iza tho scoond hall Church Increased the Sappers lead when he crossed the line we}}

on after

RETZ PUT three-cum-forward move. No conversion, D-0.

The Lones threes were far superior to Club's in this game, and though their forwards were better in the loose the Lanes lost posesion In the serums and were forced to share the ineouts.

Finally Dugmore scored from The Club's threes, however, a loose mout on the RAF line, could do nothing with the bail and Horton converted to make and were not helped by having it 14-0. to play with 14 men throughout the second half.

In the first half Hattrick The Police gave the Wan- scored after a nice three move down derers no chance at the start us

which saw him touch their puck completely halfway out. Woodward dominated the scrums and the

converted to make it 5-0 Lincouts, and their threes looked

In the second half a forward quile settled down

Club followed by a But this state of affairs did rush by

a chanée be loase maul gave Hall not last long. The Police

he dived and their covering weakened Pan 10 tire, especially the backs, and seizing the ball

over the line for the only score levelled for Club. No conversion, 5-3, When the Police

Before full time,

a Club the scores fast after half ume they settled back into their attack fell apart and Pickering old defensive ways, and tils picked up close to his own line, gave the Wanderers theand went downfield to score in chancer they

Woodward were` looking the corner.

con- verted. 10-3. Biach again insisted on going blind from the base of the scrum, thus starving his own break- after one through the Wanderers simply put the strength of their threes: on the blind side, with the re- sult that the Polleo were ther outclassed taclically.

in the process and took no Wal-to took a hard and pushed further part in the match. Young the ball back to the left-winger Ho Chi-kwan donned the yellow who, in his turn, sent a beautiful sweater and proceeded to keep cross Wong Kwok-kee. The real like a very competen! out unmarked right-winger lost no side left. He hurdly looked the time i lashing the ball into the 1-art but his unorthodox methods net. were still too good for Kitchee and in the second half he made one thrilling save in tipping a Berce drive from Wong Kwek- kee over the bur.

pleased

threes, and performance everybody except Kitches and be well deserved

the cheers

It is

of io fans and the hand

shakes of his colleagues

which he received both at the interval and again at full time.

mcasudo

Fiddled And Fluffed

They were

for.

The

was

A Delight

were

as

v. RE

RAF Kai Tak "A"

......

Club v. 32nd Medium Regt

The 32nd Medium had a good

lively pack, and though they

were forced to share the scrums were all over the Club excepi for the Club's spasmodic at- tacks.

But when the Club did attack they made no mistake and it was this that gave them victory. The Club threes in the centre handled badly, the wings hardly ever seeing the ball The Club pack with Whiteley, Penman and Boss well to the fore, made all the difference, but the Club were definitely lucky to win here.

They need more training in

a hurry, and will Have to do

Like the Club the 32nd's

were poor at handling.

of the two,

DODGERS UPSET BY INDIANS IN

WEEKEND SOFTBALL

Yim Pitches Perfect Game For SCAA By OLLY VAS

A resounding and timely triple over the fence, a perfect pitching performance and the sudden stoppage of a game highlighted the weekend softball matches at King's Park,

On Saturday afternoon, in a game marred by very poor umpiring, the Indians upset the Dodgers 7-6. Ricky Oliveira blasted the ball over the fence to drive in Olaes for the winning run from second base, with one out in the bottom half of the ninth inning.

Vivian 100, fossed out Winnie Chang si Byst and closed: the Matadora Irining, with ref sn other strikeout, Margaret Trul being the victim of Xim's blazing fast ball

the winners

The Austers from Shatin ore, to be complimented for a Ane gesture of sportsmanship in not claiming a forfeit against the Cardinals in another Junior league game as the match had to be abruptly stopped when The SCAA girls then settled the latter's Eddie Rozario was down to open their account, No forced to retire from the game fewer than 10 batiere strode up after being involved in a col-to the plate to faco Annable lision with a team-mato.

Chin and when That the score was 37-1 in were ahead 6-0, the Cards favour the fifth- It might have been double Inning incident took pixos was figures then had not Matador only incidental. The Austers left-felder Jennie Leung come were fully cniffled, under the up with the flelding gom of the rules, to claim the match be-

week. cause of the ability of the Cards to coniuue since the lalter only had eight player on the field against the usual regulation nine.

I understand the match will be replayed from the fifth inning onwards at some later date.

Impressive Debuts

She made a seemingly im possible catch of a ball that fell way behind the foul line and then smartly relayed the ball to third to catch SCAA runnen Margaret Lam napping. Lam had taken off from the base be- fore the catch apparet.lly under the impression that no Matador felder could possibly hope to get under the bad). Jennie

A proved her wrong.

ង. double play, indeed, by the Maladors.

Yim's Day

The Cheyennes led all the way to beat the Giants 9-5 and the four Japanese boys from New Asla College team that lost - -10 to the Pandas made very impressive debuts, They showed near perfect ball sense

The fourth and Afth innings in fleiding and hitting but will proved to be merely repetitions have to remember that it's soft-of the early

with hall they're playing now,

not deadly accuracy Yin Lal-

ones as

baseball. More often than not sheung retired the Matadors in

they

wero thumbed out for leaving the bases they occupied 100 soon!

ladies' In the only

game played over the weekend, Yim Lai-sheume tossed

& perfect China AA game. The South team stcam-rollerod over the Matadors to the tune of 20-0 and the Caroline Hill squad played errorless ball to back her up.

In the first inning she struck out Annabelle Chin and Linda Hsu and made Francis Lat pop pop up. Another strikeout, fly and a weakly hit ball to the infeld saw the Matadors going down in order arath in the

A

second inning Surprisingly enough the losers were this stage putting up quite a fight.

The SCAA team could only hit oft solitary 17anage a Arabella Chin in the first two Innings and two runners were left high and dry without being able to scoTU.

1-2-3 fashion without giving || them an earthly chance of even taking a lusty swing at her fast pliches,

The losers Annabelle Chin once again had to face a pro- cemion of SCAA batters as 10 and then 14 determined Caroliners pounded her pliches all over the ball park

In the fourth and fifth furings

respectively.

Of course I had to be called off at the end of the nth inning for was 11-0 in the fourth,

then 20-0.

The Matadors are to be con- gratulated for trying so hurd to break into the scoring column. Annabelle Chin gave up 11 hits while her team-mates committed 10 fetding errors. As for SCAA they left ma in no doubt se all as to why they are defending champions. It

dennitely Tim's day. She faced the minimum number of ballers, 15,

season's

first out perfect game,

third in pitching the the top of the

In Yim Lal-shews

struck

was

Wins

Saint Crespin

Triomphe

The

After A Dead-Heat

Paris, Oct. 4.

but looked the more likely team Prince Aly Khan's Saint Crespin gained a drama- tic victory in France's richest, horse race, the Prix De L'Arc De Triomphe over one and half miles at Longchamps today, winning on an ob jection after dead-heating with M. Dupres' Midnight Sun.

Against the run of the play Penman opened the Club score when he got the ball from a serum and scored well out. No conversion. 3-0.

Killchee now had everything to Sain by plunging into methodi

they, attack but instead died and fluffed their way to eventual disaster. The first warning came when Lee Tak- was just missed, Lator Woog Chi. kizung bad his great header brilliantly caved by the Kitchee

The airmen with their new-something about their threes. goalkeeper.... and then Ho

comers filling five berths put up Wanderers backs Luk Tak-hay and Kwok Kam-Cheung-you almost did the trick too qually dragged out of post-hung were determined defenders with a snap shot

the rur.

far superior, and their handling a good fight, and with little threes tion the whole side Boundered but it was really Lau Yee who

delight to watch, with more experience should show & between everybody rushing up held the champions'

Even when they lost Lau Chi- their two halves, Smith and big improvement. rear lines

Their tackling was their big- in attack or racing back en together. He was

lam, Ko Po-keung and his mates Kirkland givlag an inspiring rough and

for by tackling failed to realise the seriousness display. mass to defend their goal.

tough, but he was effective, and of

Their forwards ledgest weakness, the situation.

were not stopping Szela Ylu and Ng Tim-loy a largo

by Cleary of his side's caught flatfooted and out of post-

hammered steadily high they

their men, and with another air- at the Police pack, who gradu man having to cover the tackler better than very success was due to his efforts. Hon six minutes

from the end ally became discouraged ordinary full-backs and some of

they left huge gaps in the de- when Ho Cheung-you carved his the latter's tackling was

way into the D of the penalty they saw their efforts frittered fence wilch the Sappera for- than just a little suspect,

wards were quick to use, area before unleashing a grand Goalkeeper Wont Shia-w00

shot which finished in the back made one magnificent flying save in

the second half wht indeed. Leung Kam-yew is still somehow he got to a dashing header from Wong Chi-keung a locug way short of Caroline South China's inside-right very the serum after a strong at- and held it in his grasp while Hill class and Lo-Chung-kwong nearly repeated his goalscoring tack by the Wanderers, and

Is much too liable to be swept act before referee Lyttle sounded whipped through to score well. still high in the air....but he

which sent theout. the 'all clear' was not blameless when both up in the mood of the goals were scored.

When his side is on top he goes gallant South China boys home

tide L

in well deserved ecstasy. Of the other Kitchee players, great guns When the Wong Kwok-kee

running the other way he can VERDICT: Tland grinding sirugic

hard Very

without stuff but little classy football Dchieving very much.

Bonth China deserved to. Wła Once again the least said if only for their resolute spirit, about the South China front Kitchee .... big names and ga rank the better. Nowadays

were just the qid Klicher there is the potentially dan-

noed I say more.

showed

NOTICE

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

more

Programmes and Entry Forms for the 2nd Race Mect- ing 1969/60 to be held on Saturday 17th and Monday 19th October, 1959 (weather permitting) may be obtained at the Secretary's Oce, Alexandra House; the Club House, Happy Valley; and the Stables, Shan Kwong Road.

Entries close at 12 o'clock

оп Tuesday,

- NOON

October, 1959.

Oth

By Order of the Stewards,

A. E. ARNOLD,

Becretary,

Very Ordinary

China Frankly, the South wing-halves were very ordinary of the met.

Karny.

The game was really over, but

THE GAMBOLS

{TO A HIDEOUS.

SHE LOOKE

COAT AUREL TERRIBLE

BOUGHT" ONG

EN IT

away.

The Pollec mlased many chances from penalty kicks in the first half, then Ġill of the Wanderers got the ball from

in a

This breakthrough by the Sappers forwards was parti- cularly noticeable in the line outs for here the RAF defence tris weakest.

Nice Run

Five minutes before half-time Gard equalised with a penalty conversion, but a nice run by Bennett from the 25 with an inside" pass to Perman saw the latter score and the Club led 6-3 at halftime.

The Seppery threes, however, were not in the same class az No opasion. 3-0.

In the second half Bennett In the Boca half Blach their forwards, and their handi

had to leave the field with a lovelying was indiferent

times, minor lady, but Wigget, gave broke through

regularly squeezed the Club a chance to win with a rup, was caught with a yard while they to za and the Wanderers their wings out of the game by penalty conversio from the were penalised for nok geruming across field,

Had it 25. 9-3. the store leasing the ball. Ilobbs con not been for this

A good forward rush by the would have been much, higher. 32nd pack saw Williams score verted, 3-5,

Horton Martindale put the Wanderers

and Wins shone in but the conversion was missed

Walker leaving the final score 9-6, ahead again with a beautiful try the forwards, while

by Barry Appleby

WIL

NIGET. TIMME WE MEET

GAS FOR LOY

in

After studying photographs of riding in his first Prix De L'Are thrilling finish in which bare-De

Triomphe. Saint Crespin, won the England, ly half a length separated the who,

rst five horses, the stowards Eclipse Stakes and was fourth failed to separate Saint Crespin in the Epsom Derby, was sixth or seventh and Midnight Sun. But both around. Jockup's, Australian Goonge position for threequarters of the

Fabre, race.

Moore and

Jacques

the

·

lodged objections,

studied Stewards then

Almost Together moving film and finally awarded

In the final straight, Mid- first place to. Moore's U. They were expected to issue an night Skin, Balat Crophi and

Primera all made their effort, announcement later.

The official distance stood as Lester Figgott caned Primera Arat pisce but could a dead-heat and only a short into. hond behind came Count not hold on Midnight Sun and Daudiffees-Pasquier's Le Loup Saint Crespin, Le Loup Garou came up very Ganou in third place. A further and M Carina short neck away fourth was M. fast on the outaldo and the five B. Dolbeus' Mi Carine to com-herce svrent across the line plote a clean aweep for France. almost together,

Favourite

The only English entry, Mr SJoel's Primera, was another short neck behind in Anh place. The heavily backet favourite, M. Cino El Cuca Herbager, finished ninth of the 25 starters. Aly Khan was not prespat Do wo: Bint Crespin wio, but the victory win - worth 48,240,700 francs (284,457), which brought hits totel winnings of the season In Lashes to 191; million france With 60,000 poundła - woes, In

Herbager, unbouton in Avo previous outings, this year, stud backed to win 17 Innes for a 10 francs stake, started badly feuter.

Super MG

Sets Record

Salt Flatz, Utah, Oct. 8,

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