1960-04-02 — Page 15

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1960.

SATURDAY SPORTS SPOT

The Youth Football Competition earns bouquets for some, brickbats for others

By I. M. MacTAVISH

The future is in the hands of the youth of today. In varying forms that statement has been mado many times and, if you believe there is merit in its context, then you will applaud the materialisation of the HKFA's plans for a well- administered Youth Football competition.

The general progressive structure of Colony football has never quite mea- sured up to the game's importance in the community." There has always been a serious gap between the school level and the regular junior and senior competitions organised by the Hongkong Football Association and, while many may point with justified pride to the achievements of the Miniature Pootball Association, it is surely un- deniable that we need and need badly —a linking tournament on orthodox lines to provide natural continuity for the young men who are genuinely interested in advancing in the game.

The new officially-sponsored competition will go a long why to ling that gap.

their

Heipate. Let's hope they, Youth genes as you can. know

own business will be well rewarded. best.

However this is not the fina time such a thing has happened

However, If the IKTA is to be engratulated on its enter prise in making the necessary arrangement for the tourning back to South China's luke- anent careful examination of warm. Almost Indifferent the entry list shows that the organizers have not received the direct support they had every right 10 expect from Some of their most powerful members.

Praise

SPORTING SAM

by Reg. Wootton

London Express servico.

If it did not attract the crowds; it would soon die but if on the other hand it provided a diver- slon why shouldn't that part of the population who want to see

thein, the matter will be pursued¦ only one really doubtful decision further..

in the eleven-bout programme.

In congratulating the winners we must spare a thought also for the 1st Bn. the Cheshire Regi- Inter-Unit nent who provided such altra-be given the chance to do so.

Champlon- tive opposition.

Personally, I have no axe to grind but I am just against any form of censorship in entertain- ment of this kind. Let the box

The FARELF Team Boxing ship at the Mcpherson Stadium on Wednesday evening provided some Present indications are that office reflect and decide public.

very exciting entertain- ment.

The occasion produced com- mendable courage, hard hitting, splendid sportsmanship and a the very correct resuit, for boxers of the Royal Tank Regi- ment, who won to keep the title ihem- You in Hongkong, showed

selves to be the more versatile and more accomplished per- formers.

and many people are now think-The police sports ground at Boundary Street *has taken $1 tremendous pounding this season be- cause the soccer clubs in the Colony have quickly realised that there is generous paying public for the game in Kowloon.

It is in fact almost true to say

attitude a year ago when the idea of sending a youth team to Malaya was proposed. I be- lieve my memory serves me right that South actually opposed the Idea al the beginning but later had at least partial change of view,

China

No matter how powerful that Boundary Street has today

to the Idea organisation may be, it can, in become the most popular if not the long run, take out of the the must important football game only as much as it is will-ground in the community. ing to put into it. This Youth

The response has been overwhelming in some parts and HMB, for ex-

ample, found themselves faced Competition, if it follows the Until now Is grentesi draw- with a mountain of applica-

pattern of similar efforts clse-back Is in the fact that accom- tions

front would-be com-

a reliable modatie is Umited to arsund where, will provide petitors.

guizle to the future; it will9,000. On occasion there have The Busmen, however poorly

himont certainly put a lot of been as many thousands turned could be allowed In their present first ten may be likely talent on display and it is nway

And thing that it is and the Police officials are now playing, are sill great suppor maybe

to develop come anxiously awaiting the end uf not possible they game and deserve the warment praise for player-club bond so that terms the season in order to put their and reconstruction which have taken the trouble renovation entering three teams.

เส Bind and prepare young plans into operation. as one would ex- players for youth competitions such a virile or do not see the cream of their gonisolion, have entered two talent joining clubs which did teams. So have Eastern while not even take part.

ters of the

Sing Too, pect from

Kitekeo are in the list with

one tenai These are the

nonic plus marks,

come to the other

Now we side of The account.. and is little short of astonishing to And that the best equiõped club

Colony South in the China-are not represented,

What a dismal Irreconcilable

South Chitin eituation this is, have a line ground and n vast membership covering a wide range of

sporting activities.

This year they have shown a commendable willingness Lo

When the new season rally along the fans will find a big-

and better

Boundary

Ker

Street.

Additional stands

be

I am not for a moment saug- gesting that South China are coldly planning to sit on the stdelines with notebooks at the alert. poised to make lening sweeps among the most promising players. I am merely ainting a possibility for, after all, many young will find a fine 20 feet wide Chinese boys would he de-running track reparating them lighted and flattered to

betrum the touchline. Invited to join up at Carotine HEI!.

The playing pitch in to turned round at right angles to the present one. Additional stands will be constructed to give seating accommodation for around 10,000 spectators who

Also a tragedy

The complete reconstruction will be enrried out in two phases and the first phase only) 13 represented in

above the

11 is also a tragedy-although planning.

of lesser significance to. And

the wrestling project I feeling. The man-in-the-sleret told you about last week can use that as his barometer

in the most practical way. will not materialise. I am! Informed that the pro- moters are currently find. ing it very diMcult to get a licence,

I've said before....and I re- pest again....that wrestling is

controversial form of enter.

it or you tainment, You like Once again the organtonilen don't but surely in a mature adult was excellent, both inside and community such as ours it would outside the ring, and there was succeed or fail on its own merit,

If

MILESTONES OF SPORT

COMPTON'S TEST DEBUT

By ARCHIE QUICK

you are statistically minded, which Denis Compton certainly was not, and care for records, which he abhorred and ignored, it is of interest to note his pre-war record. How many people can say which was his Test debut, how many Tests he played in before the outbreak of hostilities, and his batting and bowling figures by then?

י

Tomorrow is Senior Shield Final day and no final in recent years has aroused less enthusiasm than this

one.

The contestants....Kitchee and Tung Wah....have plenty of talent in their sides but Kitchee in particular have dis- appointed the fans so often this

season that the event is causing hardly a stir in the football community.

A big crowd

No doubt there will we a big erowd for Dve traditional beca- ston but I cannot recall a game of this importance gencrating so

le interest

and that is not a good thing for football

The Senior Shield is the show game of the domestic season IL should be the Wembley of the Far East. Let us hope the two teams hit their best form and do something to ralee the match to the heights and may the deserves belter team win.

་

Wimbledon's chance of

a lifetime

By JOHN COTTRELL

Wimbledon lawn tennis authorities have the chance of making the biggest bargain of their lives. But will they snap it up?

The

social event as a world tennis Jamboree, continue to make huge proflin despite the lowering of the standard of amateur tennis, But how long con Wimbledon stand alone after other championships have become open?

bargain: Jack Kramer's, The Championships, as much a offer to bring the world's best tennis player-hla profes alanato-to Wimbledon if the prize money is set at E6,800. That ta the prize money offered to professionals playing in their minature championship at London's Empire Pool, Wembley. The same sunt for playing in the biggest tennis tournament on earth strikes me as being most reasonable.

suggestion has been Yet the

made that the professionals should compete at Wimbledon for a top prize of £100-and liberal expenses.

The argument is that Wimble- don, more than any other major tournament,

get can along without the profession- als very well. And this is very true at present.

In fact, Wimbledon could have the best af both worlds. They could put the prize money at £6,000 and still make ne much money to plough, back into the amateur game through

Lawn Tennis Association.

the

I feel certain that the loss in providing 20,000 prize money could be offset

in- E the creased television Revenue which the professionals would bring.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

11th Race Meeting

Saturday, 9th and Saturday, 16th April, 1960.

(To be held under the Rules of the Hong Kong Jockey Club) THE PROGRAMME WILL CONSIST OF 21 RACES (There will be 10 races on the 1st Day and 11 races on the 2nd Day) The First Beli will be rung at 1.30 pm, on the 1st Day, On the 2nd Day the First Bell will be rung at 11,30 am, and the Tn interval will be after the Fourth Race (1,80 p.m.)

1. Secretary's Office at Alexandra Houso will close at 11.45 a.m. on the 1st Day and at 10.09. a.m. on the 2nd Day,

MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE

.

..And finally a typical

No person without an Admission Badge will be admitted. snippet from England. Admission Badges must be prominently deployed throughout the When the players of a meeting.

Admission Badges at $10.00 each per day are obtainable only. well known club report

Member. Admission Badges - back to their hend on the written introduction of a quarters for the start of may be obtained during office hours from the Cash Sweep Officer of the Club at Queen's Buliding, Chater Road; 5 D'Aguilar Street; next season they will find King's Road, North Point and 382 Nathan Road. ADMISSION the BADGES WILL NOT BE ON SALE AT THE SECRETARY'S a special tablet on

OFFICES. wall of the dressing room.

will

read.... "From

BACE C now on we stop playing

Tim football...we start work advance ing at it".

In direct contrast to his New Zealand were all out a inspired batting, second time for 167-batting only the sold arithmetic is that heten men owing to an injury to warm, fluent,

made his Test debut at the Oval | the fairheaded Page. A most in 1037 against the New Zen- satisfactory feature of this

It eight matches Innings was that debutent Comp- landers, played against them, the West Indieston took two wickets in six ovens and the Austrnilans before he for 34

clean bowling runs, became a soldier, had twelve Molney and Dumming with his innings for an average of 62 and slows out of the back of his left

hand. took two wickets for 62 runs,

This was the first we Compton was a slim, hand-had seen of Compton's "China-

Bome

youngster as he strode men" and his quickly delivered NEW to the wicket that day lovers.

1037, August

to face the Compton, I recall, was not KIND bowling of speedmen Cowie and Vivian, who had already claimed the wickets of Len Hutton and Charlie Barnett.

A legend

"Cyrll Washbrook was at the other and to greet the boy, nine-

long over his 65, treating the

Kiwi attack in the

Cavalier

OF

fashion we all got to know to SMOKE!

well in later years, and I have often wondered what Comp- tan's final first-class figures would have been if the wat had not intervened.

give young players a chance in their smlor soccer sido....yet

In due time a concrete centre-teen years and three months old

Even in Tung Wah missing from the list stand will be constructed. This who was to become a legend in they have not entered a single of competing teams, Nowadays

is designed an excellent lines to his own lifetime. this maugural Youth they are numbered wong 'the

big-wigs of the game in Hong-provide four dressing rooms, to did not stay

Tuvais settled kong. They have many famous gether with appropriate Lukewarm attitude players in their lineup gad, or watch officials and the club another Adonis of the cricket

team in Competition.

while it is true they have 110 ground of their, own, that is not It. there is one club that really important as the tourna should have been in this showment is scheduled to be played right up the limit it is surely on specially alloted pitches. South China. They have the

Nevertheless, In spite of the resQuits

bitter disappointment which glamcur of their name IN enough to make yngsters flock many will feel at the fallure of

and

cheer

to wear their colours in any competition.

South China and Tung Wah to

participate, the entry list is 50 rich and full it is already very clear that the competition will Keen followers of the game be a great success without them. are wondering why the cham- If you enjoy your football free

withheld plona have

their from all the inevitable frills of support for, superficially at the prerent day senior game in least, they are the club in the Hongkong make a very special best position of all to par- point of seeing as many of the

PAT WHALLIS, APPRENTICE RIDER BRUEVES THE LEGEND OF A. PHANTOM DEVIL HORSE THAT "HAUNTƏ BALLYCOULY RACE

HE'S RIDING WELL. HE'LL DE

· THAT APPRENTICE / PLACEO - HE

EIDER OF YOURS, / COULD WIN, ON, COME ON,

committee.

Off balls to leg

those days he was Washbrook, swording off balls to lex, playing long, but Denia every shot in the book and a lot in with Joe Hardstaff, which are not..

He had Just started with pull things round. world.

Arsenal too--a Ang Bll-round They thrived, and the awkard-athlete to which all ball games It is inevitable In these ness of the position, did not.de- come naturally. days that any organisation ter these two free-hitting bats- engaged in ground planning men from following their natural should have to face up to the style. Unfortunately, when he He had been playing football very modern problem of had reached and looked set for Hendon and cricket for floodUrhung... and the for his century, Compton was Southgate when he turned pro- Hongkong Palico Sports A- run out in a misunderstanding. į fessional-ihe same as his elder sociation is no exception. which I remember resulted in brother Leslie for the Highbury

club both batsmen being of the same football

and Middlesex Second-rate floodlighting is a end.

cricket. greater disadvantage Lo the Hardstaff went on to get 103 That New Zealand match at game than none at all but, on—and it was just as well these | Kennington was the third and the other hand, really efficient two men of Middlesex and lost of an unsatisfactory tour lighting is an expensive faellity. Nottingham got some runs for which ended in stalemate, but it' "However, I am told by one of the England total reached only was notable in that it did give the officials that lights will be 254 for seven when Walter us Compton-and another young considered and If It is felt that Robins declared five runs ahead [debutant by the name of Leon- there is a genuine need for of the New Zealand total. ard Hutton!

AND THEN.

HE CAN STILL MAKE IT..... HE'S GOING TO

ONNO - WIGATS ARPASICOP

PM BORRY, MISS FORTUNE, BUT IT LOOKED AS IF YOUR RIDER PLALED HIS | HORSE - AND NOT | VERY CLEVERLY HAVE TO BE AN

ENOTY

THERE MLAST BE AN EXPLANATION

LET'S TALK TO HW

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ALL TOBACCO

Cigaritos

SMALL CIGANS

$2.10 a pack

Sole Distributors: TABAQUERIA FILIPINA (HONGKONG) LTD. Central Buliding Pedder Street. Tel. 33928.

ADM SION BADGES WILL NOT DE AVAILABLE AT THE

ISE ON RACE DAYS.

will be obtainable at the Club Hovise if ordered in m the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 72811). HILDREN under the age of seventeen years (Western NO 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 Gole.

Any person leaving the Enclosure will be required to pay the requislie 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 $20.00 each for the 1st Day, $22.00 each for the 2nd Day and $42.00 dach for both days may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Offices at Queen's Building, Chater Road: 6 D'Aquilar Street and 382 Nathan Road, Kowloon, during office hours.

Tickets reserved and available but not paid for by 10.00 a.m. on Friday, 8th April, 1960, will be sold and the reservation cancelled for future Meetings.

Special Cash Sweep Tickets on the Hong Kong Derby scheduled to be run on 30th April, 1900, at $2,00 each may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Officca of the Club.

The office hours of the Cash Sweep Offices of the Club are

as follows:

Queen's Buliding, Chater Road and 5 D'Agullar Street, Hong

Keng

Mondays to Fridays

Saturday, 2nd April

Saturday, 9th April

Saturday, 16th April

a.m. to 5 pm.

a.m. to 12.30 p.m. am, to 11 a..

a.m. to 10 m

King's Road, North Point, Hong Kong and 382 Nathan Road, Kowloon:

Mondays to Fridays Saturday, 2nd April Saturday, 9th April Saturday, 10th April

Hong Kong, 2nd April, 1980.

10a.m. to 4 p.m.

a.m. to 11,45 àm,

9 am to 11am. CLOSED.

By Order of the Stewards, A. E. ARNOLD. Secretary.

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