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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1959.
SATURDAY SPORTS SPOT
What Is The Mystery Of The Sweet To Sour Soccer Side?
By I. M. MacTAVISH
SPORTING SAM
TROTTERS,
-RIDING SCHOOL
by Reg. Wootton
efforts...Kİ the way they has taken his final bow. Hils
shodding tears ...for myself boxing history. He will not be This
msily forgotten. course"
What makes a football team go sour? What strange influenced the heckland almost had name is melibly written in
reduces a great side to a scrambling collection of eleven disconnected units?
These are both topical and timely questions: they are being asked in Britain and they are being asked right hore in Hongkong.
The death of Max Baer,
the former benvyweight champion of the world, writes the final chapter to one of the most colourful
that careers
even the boxing profession has ever known. Maxic
mysadfcent of n Agure
his man and In of way
the one bitters hardest
ever, to duck between the ropes.
Six months ago I sat in the magnificent grandstands at Wembley and watched the eventual winners Nottingham Forest start off by playing first class attacking football and later, after they had lost a player through injury, I saw them produce an intelligent, but never negative, defensive prime the game.
On that warm Cup Final May the Teft-half neither dhy the Forest, looked....und in forward vncnricles have fact wore....8 great team. Italisfactorily filled.
of
the
been
back in top gear the better it will be for the game in the i Colony.
the
A
However, player lows is not the with real worry
KMB Tresent despondent side. The switching of three
cunnet players simply
xc- the rcuat for
change in attitude which is nowadays so painfully obvious in the
The team.
fighting spirit The has gale.
enthusiasm which was so much part and has stric parcel of their drained away
is true they lost the services of who broke n leg Rov Dwight Put that misfortun apart They did not seem to have innjor worry in the world
A gambling
would man readily have risked flutter on their chances of doing well in
the current season
but, as things are going, he would have plunged his money un sveter 1- fully, for the Cup-holders Binding it very diBcult inderd
hit any
sustained Fort of form and their confidence being badly shaken,
to
ого
Rockbottom Season
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The following comment was
made recently in tain:
"Pools are for fools, but if the present extent of pool betting is to be inken ns a reliable guide then it would seem that the modern world is accumu- lating an ever growing population of fools."
London Express Bervien
week's 'tale-wagger* was inspired by a letter which appeared in the China Mail during the week in which a COT respondent expressed-as he was fully entitled to do --his opinion on various aspects of football... and football 'experts' Soccer is the most ackle of games and it yould be a very courageous and foolhardy individual who would set him.
AS self on "expert." How- EVIT the letter brought mind an incident which
to hap-
No matter what the purists pened in Britain a fow yourd
rany think about it thee is not the slightest doubt that poot I had the pleasure of seeing betting on football,...and him in action only once. That racing....are nowadays !m- was when he was defeated by portant factors in many of the The visit of Barry Mackay Tommy Farr in London, but in big sporting countries of the sul a superb work. The possibility of and Mike Franks, the defeat he was
wonderful collecting a big pelse for a small American tennis stars, chowman
sportsman.
templa- stake is an irresistable
ser In apparently aroused differ-
ton for millions who ent feelings in different
the astronomie odds a short cut people, but I was particu
a financial fortune, larly interested in the comments of one spectator two who watched the and even the
their big name stars seemed to be
visitors playing playing under a feeling of
excellent Singles match defeatlam
i
Last Sunday the side was well and truly beaten by Tung
achieved wh
their ever reaching
ut the LRC on Wednesday evening.
The
28
he
ago.
8 Wrong Results
A well-known football willer - Esed to finish off his weekly column by giving his fore- casts for selected games. One week he gave a forecast list of
eight results which eventually proved to be all wrong. This caused a great deal of coustic correspondence and the 'expert' wits who
Pool Betting In HK? was the butt of the
sqem to thrive on such a situa-
has
Hongkong almout completely scope of pool batting. have of course been those local enthusiasts who have regularly sent their wecidy forecasts to the United Kingdom....but that may soon he unnecessary.
long been tion. outside the There
even
It was in this match with Farr that Baer produced his classic performance when, in the heat of a tremendous exchange of blows, Buddenly turned his back on Farr. walked, to the горев,
"The columnists' own reaction, bowed to a cheering lady fan
however, was rather interesting. at the ringside, and then
in his next article he challenged calmly turned round to re-
any one of the folks who had
the engage the astonished British
newspaper to fighter though nothing
written to
The losing finalists, Luton | Wah
forecast eight wrong results. unusual had happened. Town, have followed their suc- victory without
gentleman concerned is
He sustained his challenge for Baer was a never to be fur-
I predict that there will be a poveral weeks and Anally echsful run in the Cup with a the standard that would have him a good class club player rockbottom season so far. The enabled them to overcome the but when I asked him how he gotten personally and as those
his big announcement in the very declared himself the undefeated Hatta booked no better the Busmen of a short time ago. had enjoyed the exhibition his who saw him in action in
contest with Primo near future regarding an attrac- champion of the Wrong Result The KMB ordinary when they played al
tenin was too comment was "Actually I found¦ famous.
will Givers!!! The Camera will testify ho may tive new project which rather Wembley
One
alarming. and their continued inept for words.
could it
Next ume you feel sort of form has poor
live in this part of resulted
at innot help but wonder what has fellows played the strokes I've have had a heart of gold, but make pool betting possible for
'expertish'....have
go rejozation talk being heard in tupped to
aggressive struggled for years to produce when the mood took trim, he folks who
the Far East. 'Nuff said for the forecasting eight WRONG Laton hindquarters at Ken-Aight-for-every-ball attitude of with an case and simplicity had ists of iron.
now wait and see, "The Clown Prince of Boxing" moment;
results. Lau Tim the resolute fast that made a mockery of all my f Luton, like Forest, have tackling of Lo Kwok-leun, many famous players in their the virility of Leung
Kit, th shks. They have men whose bo starous spirit of Chow Shiu- names are household words, hong,. and mayb most im- yet at this moment they are purlinit of rill, the tireless, struggling desperately to hold endless foraging of Lam Kam- an to their First Divison tong. status.
worth Road.
What has happened to these twn Cro final teams? What suble change has come them in the short spaco of six months?
over
the
No Easy Answer
0
It is all top easy to hit man or a team when they are down That
something I
bali's whole attraction teperds to the CLUB
HONG KONG JOCKEY
4TH RACE MEETING Saturday 21st and Saturday 28th November, 1959. (To be held under the Rules of the Hong Kong Jockey Club)
THE PROGRAMME WILL CONBIST OF 10 RACES The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m. and the First Race run at 2.00 pm. on both days.
The Secretary's Office at Alexandra House will close at 11.45 am. on both days.
No
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE
person without an admission badge, which must be prominently displayed throughout the meeting, will bo admitted. Admisalor. Badges at $10.00 each per day are obtainable during office hours from the Club's Cash Sweep Offices, at Queen's Buliding, Chuter Road, 5 D'Agullar Street, King's Road, North Point, and 362 Nathan Road, only on the written Introduction of a Member.
ADMISSION BADGES WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE AT THE RACE COURSE ON RACE DAYS.
Tiffins will be obtainable at the Club House if ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 72811).
NO CHILDREN under the age of seventeen years, Western Standard will be admitted to the Club's premises during the Meeting.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The price of admission will be $3.00 each per day payable, at the Gate,
Any person leaving the Enclosure will be required to pay the requisite fee of $3.00 in order to gain re-admission,
MEALS and REFRESHMENTS will be available in the RESTAURANT.
CASH SWEEPS
Through Cash Sweep Tickets at 16.00 each per day and $32.00 for both days may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Ofmera at Queen's Ellding, (Chater Road), 5, D'Aguilar Street and 382 Nathan Road, Kowloon, during office hours.
Tickets reserved and available bit not paid for by 10.00a.m. on Friday, 20th November, 1959, will be sold and the reservation cancelled for future Meetings.
Cash Sweep Tickets at $2.00 each for the last race on 28th November, 1959, may be obtained from the Club's Cash Swedp Offices.
follows
The Office hours of the Club's Com Sweep, Offices are as Queen's Building (Cluster Road) and 6, D'Aguilar Street, Hong
Kang
Wock-days, Mondays to Fridays
Saturday 14th November
Saturday 21st and
Saturday 28th November.*******
9 am to 5pm.
am. to li a.m.
If you can give a salsfactory ve no desire to do. There answer to these questions you is no easy answer to the KMB
probably
pin-point the problem of lost form just as clusive factor on which there is no immediate solution troubles of Nottinghan Fluctuations in form are the Forest or Leitor Town worry and torment of foolball but the first essential in each officials and the despair of funs case is that team despondency the world over. The game would love a great deal of its must be prevented at all costs. apread if Pomcore stumbled upon some means of standardis- ing the playing potential players....but, it only by the prevention of ulcers among manors, the finder football would certainly reap rich reward
3
of
The biggest KMB need now is for skipper Lau Tim to roll up his sleeves encourage hia colleaguer to do the same and together fight their way out of their present depression.
A team with much talent and good in it simply must not be allowed to slide, All the dressing room talking will have no effect it the pinyers do not make a real attempt to shed their noccer shackles.
But A Shadow As with Nottingham Forest In England KMB in Hongkong and Luton Town
Busman re 50 with The once great side that hos always been Frankly I believe the future currently but a shadow of the among the biggest crowd fortunes cf KMB rest mainly football in with Lau Tim. He is the pullers in postwar the Colony. When one realises corner stone of the side and he, the wealth of talent that is probably ΜΟΤΟ than unyone still available within their else on or off the field--can
the Busmen back
resembling thetr ranks it is very hard indeed to culde understand why they liave something fallen away as badly as they former glory
Make no mistake about it... have.
needs Some folks will point to the Hongkong football fact that they have lost three powerful, colourful,
successful offer that as the KMB side in its
competitions players and reason. They could of course and the sooner the Busmen are be right. When a forward Jine is siddenly denied Vie
ices of two stars like Lau Chi-lam and Loung Wal-hung Its effort must certainly suffer. The Busmen also -lost Chan Chi-kong but whereas Young Kwok-kit has proved a more than adequate replacement for
NOTICE
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
Programmes and Entry Forms for the 5th Race Meet 11950/60 to be held on Saturday 12th and Saturday 19th December, 1959. (weather permitting) may be obtained
9 am to 11.89, p.st the Secretary's Office, Alexandra House; the Club House, Happy Valley; and the Stables, ShanKwong Поди.
King's Road, North Point, Hong Kong and 382 Nathan Road,
Kowloon anim
Wock-days, Mondays to Fridays Saturday 14 November ...
"Saturday"Zist” and
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19 am to 4 pm.
9 am to 11:45 am.
Bakırday 28th November .............
By Order of the Stewards,
Hong Kong, 14th November, 1989.
a. to 11 #L
A. E. Arnold,
Secretary.
Entrlas cloan at 12 o'clock. NOON on Tuesday, Ist Detomber, 1859.,
By Order of the Stewards,
AE ARNOLD,
Becretary
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