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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1960.

Tung Wah OF

3

TRAGEDY

Kitchee .

5,

DAY

TOLEDO'S

Senior Shield final produces comedy, tragedy, errors, queer decisions--but very little football

By I. M. MacTAVISH

In what was openly described as the poorest Senior Shield Final in living memory Kitchee claimed the Trophy when they de- footed Tung Wah by five goals to three at the Hongkong Stadium yesterday.

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As the show-game of the Colony's football season the occasion was

dismal advertisement for senior soccer. The proceedings often bor- dered on the farcical. with here and there, touches of comedy and tragedy to punctuate the strange goings on.

During the course of the afternoon four Foals were scored by players putting the ball into their own net

but,

in spite of the fact that three of the 'owa-goals' were to their advantage, Kitchee deserved to win for they did contrive to put on an occasional act resembling conventional footbril.

From start to finish that is something Tung Wab did not succeed in doing. They have never been so poor and so dis- was Jointed. Their Alsplay quite unworthy of the occasion,

I WAS A wet miserable afternoon, The football match- ed the conditions. and as though to make the day com- plete we saw an equally in- conalatent show of refereeing.

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The Colony right-back unmolested and he had all the turp round time in the world and clear the ball upfield...

renson but for some strange

could not which he probably explain himself, Toledo took a couple of steps and hit the ball hard towards his own goal. great strained

A

hush came over

the stadium....for goalkeeper Kwok Chow-ming had already advanced

from his charge.......... and the ball rolled into the not.

With a lead of 4-1 the Shield looked to be as good as on the Kitctice sidebord

but us though to give his mates a shock Chan Chi-kong hnd a go at the philanthropic 'own-goal business and filted Tung Wah a goal to

lose the margin to 4-2.

idea cariler in the game deeldest Toledo who had started the to have another go at it and in the 70th minute he swung his boot at a shot which was going wide of the post. The ball flash- ed into the net... the wrong like a bullet.... and Kitcher now bed five goals on the scoreboard alwugh they had In fuct scored only two.

It was

Jet... a terrible moment for Toledo, lle appeared very rallied and it looked as though ke was trying to shift the blame to the goalkeeper.... but that wan unjustified. This was Toledo's 'can' from start to finish for above all he brake

one of football's cardinal laws...never pass hack straight towards your goal. Always aim wide...." Chan Chi-kong reminded the crowd that he once had u re- a sharpshooter and and putation as

'Worst Senior' Final'

After the game a well-known football personality said to me "In many respects that is the Senior Final I worst watched in 50 years

hevo

seen

don't think I have missed more than a couple in all that time.”

I haven't Personally anything like so many but for my money I never want to see another one like this.

Ja the

whole

00

minutes there was not a single combined

movement that stands out in the the memory. In fact as gume ended the predominant thoughts were of inexplicable defensive errors

equally decisione inexplicable

overall question and the how these two teams had ever reached the final.

of

The game got off to a good enough start when the referee excellent Judgment showed

to use & white In deciding ball from the kick-off 1 and he also do erved full marks for his strong action in the seventh minule.

Appalling tackle

Young Cheung Chi-doy pushed

Final goal

fust to add variety to the closing stages Tung Wah pivot Ny Wal-man ambled up to the other end....and, when the ball bobbed about loose in the after a Kitchee penalty area

swipe at it corner, he took end had the satisfaction of see- ing it sal into the back of the

he was just wide of the Tunget to make the final score 5-3. Wah post with a powerful try from 20 yards,

Bad decision

cut into the

Four minutes before the in- subely terval Kitchen should have been awarded a penalty kick. Szete Man

the right wing it area from lost the ball.. retrieved

..anch as it broke loose c was sent sprawling by Wong vicious Chi-kong whose almost tackle was an ill-concealed and blatant foul. The whistle sounded , bul a great groun

went up from the crowd when it was seen that the referee Was Elving Churchill's famous victory sign which in modern football nowadays indicates the Iniquitous indirect free-idck.

I thought this was a rank

VERDICT: Anyone who has doubled the stories about the

deterioration alarmlog

'ef Colony football should have seen this game. There was not a-single redeeming feature, Chan Fai-hang was the only Tung Wah player to produce

anything like his real form:

Yet

Woman's bargain

horse

wins the Grand National

New marks set in

all events at U.S.

swimming meeting

New Haven, Apr. 3.

United States Olympic swimming hopes soared during the weekend when the new marks were set in all 14 racing events at the National AASU Championships.

theli delence-Kwok Chow- ming apart--was shocking........

Yiu and the forward linn ....... Cheuk-yin and all..., existed only on paper. Kitchee deserved to win.

Entrants swam with one cyo not a single cheer greeted the

Yale's presentation of the Shield to on the finish line in

Whitney pool and the Payne them after the gume, Chi-lam, Leung Wal-hung and other on the upcoming Olymples Kwok Yau they had the game's in Rome this summer.

George Harrison. 21. of few entertaining personalities.

Only 23,000 fans attended the game they suffered In silence. There

hardly a cheer worthy of the name in the whole 90 minutes.

was

In Lau

bud decision... If this was The unatch will be remem-

not worth a penalty kiek bered only as a statistle in the doubt if I have ever seen any-record book.

thing that was.

In the few seconds that re-

before

malned

interval the completed an

The teams

the ball ahead and Yiu Cheuk-Yeung Wai-to

HITCHEE: Wong Shiu-0, yla went racing through the inglorious hat-trick of missed Ng Tim-lo, Szeto Yiu, Ma at the other Shiu-ling, Ko Pokong, Chan middle. As he got to a sput eltlers....while near the 10 yards line he was

Blandford, Calif, was the top Individual polat scorer with led at four 17 points. He minuica 28.6 seconds for e 400-yard individual medley.

former Lieut. Jeft Farrell, Oklahoma alicte now a Navy

DRIVER KILLED Omour attending Vale, was an

AT RIVERSIDE GRAND PRIX

other standout of the three-day Saturday meet which ended

night. He set American morks of 2:00.2 in the 22-yard free. style and 48,2 in the yard freestyle.

the

sent crashing to the ground by Wong Shiu-woo from Lo Kwok-lam, Yeung Wai-to, Kwok Yau, Riverside Grand Prix by a take-up of the team,

an appalling tackle by Ko Po- inmmediately keung who was booked by the referee. The K- chee skipper deserved no less... he was maybe a shade fortunate to be allowed to stay on field.

the

Warning

100.

the

probable

Gus Stager of Michigan, Olympic swimnring coach, can. Riverside, Apr. 3.

U.S. ceded that the squad the Carroll Shelby, last year's will send to Rome will have Le Mans Grand Prix champion, pushed his Birdcage Maserati plenty of depth but ite made no to the hilt today to win the comment about end Yiu Cheuk-yin almost beat Chi-kong. Szeto Man, Lau Cal-

minute and 23 seconds over jal's pass,

Leung Wal-hung.

TUNG

WAH: Kwok Chow. defending champion Ken Miles. Death marred the race when ming, Toledo, Wong Chi-kong, Argentine champion Count Vou Chani Fal-hung, Ng Wai-man, Dory flipped his Porschers-60 Lau Chin-kau, Lau Yee-keung, on the fourth turn with six laps Lo Kwok-tai, Cheung Chi-day, to go. Race oficialn said the Yi Cheuk-yin, Kwong Ying-41-year-old veteran of world racing was killed instantly. -- Referee: Mr Darbyshire.

UPI.

Whatever hopes Tung Wah have had of staging a may second half revival, they dled a quick and tragic death. Six minutes after the re-start Kitchee broke away. At the last In the 11th minute Lau Chi-moment Wong Chi-kong had a

speculative drive great chance to save the situa lam tried a

tion but instead of pushing the from 23 yards and it took a big bail wide of the past he drove it leap by Kwok Chow-ming to Up Into the back of his own net. ... and Kitchee were two up without scoring a goal!!!

It over the top.

The next quarter of an hour! was as drab and listless as any- thing you could imagine and it was hard to believe the two sides were playing for the right to have their name inscribed on the Senior Shield.

half-hour Juct before the mark Kwok Yau decided to have

D

go

himself and his

Two minutes later the score wux 3-0 when Lau Chi-lam took advantage of complete confusion in the Tung Wan defence bang the ball home,

to

'Out of step' Two goals in two minutes was drive appeared to take Kwok too much for a game like this Chow-ming by surprise. The and the players took a 20-minute Tung Wah goalkeeper palmed recess when the ball was booted the ball out right to the feet of aimlessly from end to end ap- Youry Wal-to who was stand-parently in the hope that another Ing unmarked on the six yards major mistake would produce a line,

Tho

centre goal for someone. It did and Herher

the whole goal Lau Yee-keung scored for Tung forward had

Wah. yowning in front of him but he beat the ground in dis- Fust his shot soared high over the bar.

Fantastic mistake

It might have worked

even

yia.

'BIG ATHLETIC EVENTS

NOT FOR WOMEN'

Auckland, Apr. 3. Women should keep out of big athletic events Biko the Olympic Games and the Bri-

Empire and Common wealth Games, mys Austra- lia's top coach, "Iron Man" Fercy Ceratty.

flali

Cerutty, who coaches Australia's world mile record holder, Herb Elliott, said here: "In the hard competitivo grind of athletic events the

like the "Olympie and Empire Games, there, la no place for women unless they no longer want to be women.

further but the referee 'got out of slep when strange things were happening round Kitchee goal, Ng Tim-loy tried to pull the feet from Lo Kwok- This was but the first of a tal us he ploughed through the sumber of queer misses and defence....he missed but Ke the center-forward actually Po-keung made no mistake, Ho fuffed an even more obvious crashed heavily into the Tung chance faur minates Inter Wah kalde-right and literally When again he hanged the flattened him.

ball over the 10p,

This time seemed it just had to be inn penalty kick....in fact when Tung Wah had a brief

the whistle sounded a Itches ings immediately afterwards

ball Hittle Kwong Ying-yin player actually rolled the and made his one and only contribu- towards the spot....but it was tion to the game when his shot the old Churchill sign again.... brought out the best in Wong and Tung. Wah got an Indirect froo-kick just ten yards from Shi-woo.

the Kitchen goal-line,

Then came a simply fantas tic mistake by Toledo....and a goal for Klichee. The ball wer pushed shemd by Ma Shtu-Ung and, as Yeung Wal-to and the Tung Wah centre-half," Wal-mart, went for it, the ball somehow alltheredi between them

and went on towards

Talostoy

NA

A minule later: the referés showed his real worth'.......... at i the other end!!! Will at EX- cellent bit of quick thinking he gave Kitchen the benefit of the advantage rulo after Young Wai-to wis tuuled with the result that Leang Wai. hung collared the ball

scored a neat, goal.

and

"Women

running. jumping and throwing was all right when the spart was truly amateur and largely the province of schoolgirls"

Cerutty, who tn his Bixtles and is renowned for his tough training schedules, Iturally said women, WE'D

and they should graceful Bimit their sport to exercise that developed that grace. Runningoi to win it to meintaln grace — KYNba'ties, and swimming were idest.— China Mali Special. ·

THE GAMBOLS

(charge of LATE ACIAN

I'M SURE THIS IS THE PLACE

Merryman 11, ridden by 22- Wol year-old Gerry Boott, the Grand National Steeplo. chase at Aintree, Liverpool, recently, by 15 lengths fro Lord Leverhulme's Badarloch, ridden by 6. Mellor, with Mr B. Sunley's Clear Proût, rid den by B. Wilkinson, lengthy away third,

Merryman 11, a former hunter and point-to-pointer, is own ed by Miss Wilfred Wallace of Edinburgh he was, her first Grand National -runner Neville trained by and Crump of Middleham, York- shine. Miss Walace bought the horse at bargain price as five-year-old.

Photo shows Merryman 11, with Gerry Scolt up, passing the Na- post to win the Grand tional-Renterphoto,

TAN JOE-HOK KEEPS U.S.

SHUTTLE TITLE

Hilladulo, Apr. 3. Defending mon's singles champion Ton Joe-hok of Djakarta, Indonesia, ro- tained his crown in the U.S. Amatour Badminton Tournament tonight by beating Charoen Watto- nassin of Thailand, 15-6 and 15-8 in the final. In the Indies doubles, Judy and Sue Devlin of Daltimore beat Margaret Varner of Wil- mington, Delaware, and Dot O'Nell, New Haven, Connecticut, 15-13 and 15-4.

In the men's doubles, Finn Kobbero of Denmark and Wat- tanassin boat Jim Poole of San Diego, Californin, and Manuel Armendarez of Los Angeles, 15-0 and 15-0.

Earlier, Miss Devlin SUD- Dessfully turned

the back challenge of Miss Yammer to her women's singles

relain title.

Miss Devlin, who beat Miss Varner only three weeks ago In the all-England touracy,

dropped the first game 6-11, hér first set loss in the tournament. But she bounced back to win 11-7 the next two games by scores and regain her tile.

Miss, Varner gained a measure of revenge

later match when she teamed up with

Donmack's Finn Kobbero to

TAN JOE-HOK

Four changes in England XI

to play Scots

London, Apr. 3.

capture the mixed doubles title For their match against Boot-

with a 15-7, 15-2 sweep over Miss Devlin and Bunky Roach, Philadelphia.---UPI.

World hurdles

lond at Hampden Park, Glasgow, on April 9, Eogland have made four changes from the side which beat Ireland 2-1 at Wembley Inst Noyem-

ber.

record broken the only new cap, replace Don

Baton Rouge, Apr. 3.

Don Styron (United States) beat the world 220 yards and 200 motres (218 yards two foot) hurdles records with time of 21.9 seconds in a 220-yard ovent here last night.

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Fellow - Americon hurdler Elias Gilbert sot the official record for both distances (22.1 seconds) in May 1958. -Router.

Top European table

tennis stars to tour- Japan this year

Zagreb, Apr. 3.

Aus Europe's top table tennis stars have been invited to Japan for a trial tour prior to the 1960 World Championships at Peking, it was learned here yesterday.

John Henricks, the tralian who is attending the University Southern Califor- Rex Aubrey, the nla, and Australian who used to swim for Yale, cautioned tho Atrericans not to get their swimming hopes too blek for this summer's Olymple com- Detition. Henricks, who helped win the Southern California

with 70 points, team crown pointed out that Australia has 1 freestyle the world's No. swimmer in John Konrads Henricks fald Konrads was ex- pected to enter the 400 and 1,500 metres freestyle events at the Olympics,

"And if he gets greedy, he'll go for the 100-metro title also,” Bold Henricks, who won that crown in the 1950 games.

Aubrey granted that there has been a tremendous Im- provement in United Statca swimming performances but and Australia' still holds most of the world marks.

CHESS

by LEONARD BARDEN

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Here is an ending from netual "Maybe the United States is play: White to move and win. catching

with Australia. up

Solution No. 5795; 1 B-KIS America has depth but that threat 2 B-27), xxR; 2 Q- doesn't help when a few from R3, or 1... QxR; 2 Kt-H?, or KL-QS; 2 KL-K3, or t Australia can take most of the..

... QxKt ch; 2 B-Q7. Olympic gold medals," Aubrey Enid.-UPL

London Exprace Barotce.

by Barry Applebis

WELL, ITS TOO LATE FOR A SHOW NOW

Jimmy Armileld (Blackpool) and Ray Wilson (Huddersfield),

Howe and Tony Allen at full- back. Bill Stater (Wolverhump- ton Wanderer), comes th for Ken Brown (West Ham) at centre-half, and Bobby Charl-

ton displaces Edwin Holliday (Middlesbrough) on the lett wing, where he has been playing recently for Manchester United,

The team is: Ron Springot! (Skemeld Wednesday); Jimmy Armfeld (Blackpool), Hay Wil- son (Huddersfield); Ren Clayton (Blackburn, Captain), Dill Slater (Wolverhampton Wan- derers), Ron Flowers (Wolver- hampton -Wanderers); Connelly (Burriley), Johnny Haynes (Fulham), Joe Baker Hibernian), Roy Parry Bolton), Bobby Charlton (Manchester United), China Mail Special

John

India lead

in Davis Cup tie

Colombo, Apr. 3. India gained a 2-0 lead over Ceylon by winning both singles on the opening day of the first round Eastern Zone Davis Cup te here today.

Results were:

Ramanathan

Krishnan beat

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D. D. N. Selvadurai 6-0, 6-0, 0-1, Defending European cham- Naresh Kumar beat Bernard pion Zoltan Berczik of Hungary, | Pinto 6-2, 6-3, 6-3. hip team-mate Ferenc Sido, and The doubles will be played to the

Yugoslav Villin morrow and the reverse singles Harangzo and Josip Vogrine, on Tuesday. will start their tour on May 20, Sido told UPI

"wo

They will go at the official

Invitation of the Japanese Table Tennis Federation and compete

in a total of 17 tournaments all

Winners of the tie will meet Thailand In the Eastern Zone semi-final-Reuter.

over Japan during 45-day Knockout win

period, Sido added,

"They are probably keen to test us before next year's World Championships," the Hungarian "We X- veteran player added. pett to Japanese

tours.

at least 30

meet

top players in 17 different

They will certainly draw their conclusions from our showing there but it will be extremely good ex- Iperience for us.”

for

Sugar Ray

Baltimore, Apr. 8.

former

Sagar Ray Robinson,

world middleweight boxing champion, krooked ení - Tony Baldoni (Pennsylvania) in one, minule 40 seconds scheduled ten-round bere last night.

fight

It was a 'warm-up' bout for

Sido mid the number of high class table tennis players in Jupan is considerably higher thun in Europe and he la ex-Robinson before his attempt porting a tough trial during his to regain the world ütle from stay in the Far East-UFI.. Paul Pender (Boston) on April

HOT WATER

in.

an

instant

WITH GAS

29.

A terrific right cross knocked out Baldoni, dumping him Dat on his back. It was moveral minutes before he came around. A right to the body had put him down on one.kote. He got up, but Robinson fore in to floor him for the full count.-Reuter.

Win for MCC

Belize, Apr. 8. MCC beat a Governor's XI by 218 runs in their one-day match hare yesterday. ...-

The

batted freely in making 278 for eight dođaréd and then dismissed the home side for. 09. -China Mali špeciál,