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Burnley's Mcllroy is

of the Police ground of Boundary Britain's best

on

:

Street between Club and Garrison will hold the greatest interest for all fans. This will be a crucial match for both

teamis:

Club, though well down the Pentangular Table at the moment, still have two games in harid after this match, and if they win this one they could still climb to the heights.

large coke, and some movements.

fine

Garrison cannot afford to lose tils match either, for should they do so, they will have no In the minor match of the hope of gaining the major ulle afternoon, Cluts "B" are fairly of the season.

strong, and certainly have the In the other Pentangular | better pack. Their threes vary ruatch the Pollos, who have considerably thought are strong the greatest chance of all of on the wings, while 5th Field clinching the Uitle have anhive good centres, but their CAKT rame against Un bok-alves have yet to settle down tom-of-the-table Airmen. This against hard opposition. game is at 3.15 p.m. on the "This could well be a forward Folloe ground.

batlle, with Club "B" just The remaining match of the mannging to produce that Hitle afternoon is at Soolampos, at exira that will give then 14.30 p.m., where Club "B" are | vietinty,

hoata to the 5th Field Regiment.

Without Scruby

In the big match of the after- noon, Club are of course with- out Scruby, just when they most need him, but despite this they have strong threes, who could win this game for them if given a chance. The Club pack is n Hitle stronger this weekgud, and should do better against the | Garrison pack, though the latter have u big advantage in the ¡loose.

to Aberdeen and the verdict will be the same.

player

Mention the name of Jimmy Mellroy in any dressing-room from Swansea This thick-legged Irishman, the inspiration behind Championship-chasing Burnley, is a players' player, one of the very few who is unanimously admitted to be a great footballer, by fellow professionals. They de- seribe him as the most complete inside-forward in Britain.

thought of so highly by other players.

above all, he has a footballing brain. and no man' has luded the art of free-kicks, throw-ins and corner-kicks what we call' re-stazis—more thoroughly.

On being chosen to play for England, Brian Connolly im- mediately gave to his Irish part- Greatness in football is a hard ner all the credit for his rise to thing to nall down. I can't be the top, dod when there were assessed by the number of goals! rumours of a transfer two scan man scores, by the number of sons ago. Burnley quickly made it clear that there wasn't enough

men he beats in a single run.

For instancó, just do a comer- Really, if you want to spoi | kick is being taken, he may say, money in Britain to buy Jimmy the glants of the game, you "Maire It a short one" loudly Mellroy.

should study the case with which enough for the opposition to hea a player such as Jimmy Mellroy and move out towards the touch- carries out the most complicated | Und for the ball that

Badly injured

Yet he seldom makes any big beadlines and he Im't A crowd magnet in the trail- tion of Stanley Matthews or Jackie Milburn,

In fact, I find it hard to say why he ls, and deservedly,

Wales has grievance

about New York

soccer tournament

has

a

By ARCHIE QUICK Garrison have the smoother Even forgetting Twickenham, Wales

grievance. A super-soccer tournament is to be held in New York this summer and every country in Europe was invited to the £150,000 spree by promoter Bill Cox except Welsh Wales.

moves.

comes.

never There is one particularly good story they'll tell you at Burnley about Jimmy McIlroy.

Tricked "shadow"

There was, for instance, a goal he scored against Preston at Deepdale recently. To the casual obberver, it must have seemed that the ball simply flew across our penalty area to Jimmy, who promptly glided it into the net. It happened in 蠱

maich,

Yet he had started moving against Chelsea I bolleve, when at the very moment the ball he was boing policed even more was kicked and I would rato į closely than usual.

10

this as one of the best rozis His usual tactie of calling for I've seen. It was

well a short corner and not getting taken that i didn't look good the ball was carried out. Then, and that, of course, Is the shrugging his shoulders in dis- hallmark of rentus,

gust, be sold to his "shadow, Then there was the rerent "These blessed wingers never game of Highbury when he was let you have it." so badly Injured that he could. only play at a walking pace. Yet. switching to contre-forward - notice how this has become at- cepted as the best spot for anilne and score. Injured player? he promptly paved the way for a 4-2 win,

Put off guard for a second, the shadow was about to reply then turned just in time to see the Irlahman streak along the

That's typical of this whimsical fellow who has played euch a big part in Burnley's rise towards the top of the table.

But he is definitely not a "one-man team." With players of the calibre of Connelly. Pilkingtoń, Pointer, Robson. Adamson, Angus and Elder, Burnley are obviously Mnuch more than that,

moving threes, und if their halves can get them going as they should, they almost

cer- tainly will be able to find the

- Re-starts gaps In the Club defence and score a try or two. When these

Allowing his team mates to two teams test met Club went

use him as a wall, playing the down to an unexpected 14-0

ball to him and getting it buck, defent, and Garrison could

he took complete control of the repent the dosage today, though That is an affront to the Land champions of each country will ¦ gome and Ársonal Und

n cluse Club will be fighting with every of My Fathers. Why, even Eire not necessarily be nominated view of a footballer of genfus. asset at their command to pro-was asked.

anat that, therefore, a point Others have seen it and re- duce victory.

The answer, of course, is that could have been stretched, and gretted it too, among them Italying in the Championship battle Despite this Garrison with Wales

included with at Windsor Park, Belfast, and Britain today, I have yet to meet does

a Welsh club not posses a a steadier supply of the ball, senior league. Every national three from England. Northern England at Wembley two years and the forwards to back up association Was Invited to Ireland, Scotland and Eire. The ago their attack should win. nominate a team, for this | Langue's succinct reply to that

"In what, technically, does his though a large margin is not tournament is nl club level, is Welsh clubs were con- expected. Whatever the re- and, of course, the four_sentor | sidered!"* suit both teams will be play-clubs of Wales, Cardiff City,

Strong police XV

ley, although nothing has been published yet.

Disappointed

ing a wide open game, and Swansea Town, Newport County Inter-club show for spectator interest this and Wrexham, pluy in the

Walley game will be hard to beat.

Barnes, former Football "English"

Lengue, Once, and nee only, did he "I shall return to my trade," Spectators will remember that Thus when the League was Arsenal and Welch captain and squeeze into the England i sido, Tommy replied softly. "I hold the Pollee spoiled their fine asked to nominate their choice Bow of the BBC, is acting as ogainst Holland in 1652. card number 9893 in the Print- Pentangular record when they was between their 92 clubs. agent for Mr Cox, and he told England won 1-, but Tommy ing. Bookbinding Paper let the Airmen draw with them On the grapevine I hear that

mer "If the American promo Hermer's genius, as usual, was Workers' Union. For this I pay the fast time they met..

tors had wanted International 7 their final selection was Burn-

various ignored.

2. d. subscription a week.

there the teams over Football Associations would Old job

have been approached, and then Wales would have stood 0 chance of competing. But this Cardiff City Chalaman, Ron is an inter-club show.

Wales Betcher, told me in London are in the sarrie difficulty over the other day that he was the European Cup compétition. very disappointed that Wales One of the Welsh clubs will had been left out of tam have to win the Football League ploture, and be thought the First Division Championship to leading club of the Prinsipal- | got in." ily should have been invited, As it happerin, at the moment, Cardiff, second in the Second Division, happen to be that leading club.

But in today's game the Police present a strong team, despite what is not very strong opposi tion, and they should win this game comfortably. Their pack is heavier, faster and stronge

in the past three years he has "I is what they call an out- played regularly for the best [of-trade' card, but it entitles football team in the country; me to go back to my old job as but only NOW. after all this a triding ranchine and guillo time, when it is probably too line operator, whenever I need inte, is his genius universally 10. And that is what I shall in, every aspect both in the

do when it is all over,"

loose and the tight, and should There was something almost provide a steady supply of the

they have so well this season, cat upset proved any team, and furthermore can

acclaimed.

sad footballer who creates his own

magic

As

own he

Tommy himself has come to recognise this with the resigned realism of the cockney,

"At 15 I was already working in the despatch office of a local printing works for 15s, Bd. week," he told mr.

impish funtasies, ht breath-catching goes along.

For this cockney kid from the Enst End, who used to carry a In tennis

hid ball

pocket not only wherever he went,

of side. pussesses complete mastery

the balf.

"When I signed on for Spurs a part-timer they had a great

"There were Eddle Bally. He is that modern rarity-a Ron Burge, Alt Ramsey, Billy personality who weds brain to Nicholson, our present manager

who, and all the rest. Also my style body swerve: an artist with a subile skilft or deft didn't At.

"It was then too that every splits defencer

Hackney one started saying I as the

11%

these words--as if he was six-backs,

the way Harmer sald ball for the backs. The Police

no longer an ally. Genly conscious that time was

or

Well, I wilí reassure him. hammer home their advantage Like Stanley Matthews

and with good solid tries. Tom Finney, when they were

TI

why I say the future is his.

Airmen, without Dixon

Mr Cox has hired a dozen

The

divided fournament. Into two reations, will last most of the summer, and the two sectional leaders will play off for the title In July,

I should think Burnley- it to be Burnley...will be a

In their early thirties, Tomay have no great strength in the leading clubs in Europe and is Is Harmer's best games, I be-pack and their backs will never now preparing to sell Soccer to pretty faded football team In leve. He ahead.

be given a chance to settle New York. Never har he felt stronger. down.

The players will scasom 1980-61. I also hear that get a pleasant jaunt, nice several players are to be col- played butter. And that's

The Pollee, having tost one hollday and good wages. Asked lccled by Walley Bornes and point to them already by not why Wales had been cold fused to bolster the sub-standard hammering them in their first shouldered, the Football League New York City aides. Well, matob, are taking no chances has replied logically, 1. think- Į that's a laugh for start! How- this afternoon, and plan to that there is to senior longue in ever, the aim is to pe xalariac start, and continue so if they the country and that is why the game in the United States, were playing either Garrison" Wales does not belong to the and to that end a little latitude or. Brigade. This game could | British Inter-Ledgue Board, and churicity in rules will not well be spectacolar with a Mr Bocche argued that the hurt.

For Tommy-and Tottenham modern football.

are not only the maestros of They are the Marshes he played on as a small for professional footballeuders of a great crusade-the

dummy,

wide open

boy.

Superb control

Even when he is hemmed In by players bigger than himself, Tommy's close control is 50 superb he can create time, and space with an uncanny wriggle, or waggle of his foot.

میرد

This then is the spry Soccer sprite whose wizardry rekindles memories of other pigmy giants --like the late, inimortal Alex James,

hls fellow-Scot, Hughie Gallacher, the centre forward I once saw dribble the ball past EIGHT playera AND the goalkeeper before ticking it Imperiously into the net.

But if there is n touch of the comte, on impudent breath of humour about Tommy's play, there is nothing whimsical about

his approach to the game.

For 32-year-old Thomas Charles Harner, son of A French pollster, In the fool-

Not brotherly

Artur George ran across the Zootball field during a Devon Cupila between Teign Villagu and Collaton United ant struck Quds brother Tommy George,

The refereo reported him and Arthur has been censured and fred the Dovoh County FA. Ho admitted hitting his brother about the head and face, but "It wou nothing to do with football and they had enga made it up."««Becewa dersión, «

I was bullt up' on

was too

weight-crusade

to make England a lifting and cod liver oil, but paramount Soccer power again. didn't make much difference,

-London Ezprem Sercics).

THAT'S THE PROPOSITION

LATER.....

MAJOR-FIVE THOU

FOR YOUR HORSE

Loses

DONE!

DEPEND ON IT, OKENSTONE #WILL LOSE,

KAR SILVER,

NOW YOU KNOW THE VÝHOLE STOR: BLVER MADA, THEN CRAZY QUARTER OF A MILLION DET

·DRENSTENS IS THE LAST OF

THE TEN HORSES.

AND BINTA DAREN'T SEAT YOUR RÜCK" HOLDING ALTHOUGH ZECCHI WANTE TO. HEL PARKLAY-FOR HIS

OWN SAML

...AND YOU ACCEPTED MAJOR. WELL, I'M SORRY, NO HORIE | TRAIN RUNG A CROOKED KAGE.

SHOLD HARD.

JANE!

|SKENSTONE'S FORM A NO SEZRET – HASN'T A CHANCE, BUT IF SEVER WILL PAY SO MUCH TO GUARANTEE LIT LOSES, WHAT MIGHT HE HAVIL }DONE IF I'D REFUSED?

IT BEGINS TO ADD UP, BUT NOT

TO MAKE SENSE, SOMEONE WAS TRYING TO MSIM GREMSTONE

LAST NIGHT. I THEN MR HOYTE

MAY KNOW THE ANOMERS.

THAT'S ABOUT.

SEVENTH, IS HIGH- AND NINTH HOMNES COME UP YOU COULD

OVE YOU FOR A LOMS DISTANCE CALLA NEZ HOYTE, YOUR BEYİNTİ HORAST

WON

TUBORG

TUBORG

BEER

ability lie?.

He can almool superbly with elther fool; he has wonderful ball control; he is strong and,

They will take a lot of hold-

and if there is a better team in

it.

is a better player than Jimmy Come to think of it, if there Mellroy, I have yet to meet him

100.

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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

8TH RACE MEETING

Saturday 6th and Saturday 13th February, 1960 (To be held under the Rules of the Hong Kong Jockey Club) THE PROGRAMME WILL CONSIST OF 10 RACES.

- (Û races on the 1st Day and 8 racts on the 2nd Day) The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m. and the First Race, run at 2,00 pan. on both days.

The Secretary's Office at Alexandra House will close at 11.45 a.m. on both days.

MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE

No person without an admission badge, which must be prominently displayed throughout the meating, will be admitted.

Admission Bodges at $10.00 each per day are obtainable during office hours from the Club's Cash Sweep Omecs, nt Queen's Building, Chater Road; 5, D'Aguliar Street, King's Road, North Point, and 302 Nathan Road, only on the written introduction of a Member.

ADMISSION BADGES WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE AT THE RACE COURSE ON RACE DAYS.

Tifins 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 yours, 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 Gute.

Any person leaving the Enclosure will be required to pay the requisito 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 $18.00 each per day and $2200 cach for both days may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Offices at Queen's Building. (Chater Road), 6, D'Agullar Street and 203 Nathan Road, Kowloon, during Office hours.

Tickets reserved and available but not paid for by 10.00am. on Friday, 6th February, 1000, will be sold and the reservation cancalled for future Meetings.

Special Cash Sweep Tickets at $2.00 each on the Pearce Memorial Cup scheduled to be run on 19th February, 1000 inoy be obtained from the Club's Cash sweep Offcos.

The office hours of the Club's

follows

...Cash Sweed Ofen ora

Queen's Building, (Chatër Rood) and 5, D'Aguilar Street, Hong

Kong, on-

0 ard, to 5 pm.

Wook-days, Mondays to Fridays Saturday 6th and Saturday 13th February ́9 am to 11 Bath Kings Road, North Point, Hong Kong and 991, Nathan Roid,

"Kowlooni an

10 am to 4 DAT Saturday 6th and Saturday 18th February 9 am to 11 am.

By Order at the Blewati,

* Wack-days, Mondays to Fridays

GANDI. PRICE

Hong Kong, 80th January, 1900,

A. K. Athotë,

Secretary