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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1960.

SATURDAY SPORTS SPOT

A football pageant that has become a pilgrimage

As

you

By I. M. MacTAVISH

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read this I shall--if all the fortunes favour mo-be involved in some manner or other with the great sporting occasion which is summed up in the magic word Wembley.

I feel very fortunate and even privileged to be able to attend this the greatest of

all football feasts for the second year in succession.

like it.

COLONY

BRIDGE

FINALS

There is nothing quite

memor.

Just to be in the environment į ball with deadly precision, and which the Cup Final creates in a from long range hit a thell that no football fallower | able shat into the Blackpool net, ever forgets und it is the Sript f mere ish event that draws one back again and again.

In this respect I have been unusimally lucky. This will in

The finals of the Colony Open fuct be my fenth visit to the

Indlykual Bridge Champlon- ship will begin on Tursdays * 10 May, withs 28 players com-

peting for honours.

parat brom an Cup Final day. What memories are revived is the thoughts of the apimties love sen oh the Jush, vet TWO Qualifying rounds treacherous, turf of this ground which ended last Tuesday, 24 which, away back in 1925, was out of 44 players qualised for no more than the deserted hulk

Chunds. the

In

The

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sky was split with cheer and a spontaneous render- fg of 13taydon Races that will leg with War Jackie to the end of his days.

Regret

ecunly an historie double for after all it is little more tan stone's throw from Black- burn to

have Burnley who. already won the League title.

A few days ago I received this opinion from a director of unes of England's top clubs. He

Blackburn wrote "

have сип been having an Indifferent recently but I saw them twice Many football writers have in the Cup and, unless Wolves realise the form and described the gun as the best bi: top

the challenge. I scored at strength of that has ever been

there will be blue and Wembley. I am in no position: think

nearly

to make such a statement-white ribbons and not yellow enough and black ones on the Cup at

very presentation time

Lancashire will make happy place next Saturday |night"

The other four left over when the site of the jhoven' seen finalists were the seeded players, 1924-25 Empire Exhibition was Fitals but I have seen -Y, M. Chai, 1. 1. Sung, M. C.) deared away. Siu and Dorito Chen.

The finals wil be played in two sessions, the first on Tues- day, May 10, at the Indonesian Club. Duddeil Street, and thei seeund session on Tuesday. May i 17, ut Club Lusitano, both be gming at 6.15 pan.

The tournament is run by the Hongkong Contract Bridge As- sociation and master paints will

warded.

The 21 players who qualified! for the tails are:

G. Soul (294.5 match point). David Mok (289), N. K. You and Max Chen (289), it. Godkin (278), Lam King (276.21, P. T. Hus (284). T. W, Liang (272) Mrs C. Godkin (284), R. C. D. Brown (203.5). Mis K. Peky 1202,5), Y. M. Kun (259), T. Y. Tang (258.5). Long nd M. T.

S. A. Gull (258), E. Mirized an Norman Rey (251), 3. trnil (250). C. W. Chan and V, 1. Yong (254) T. V. No (253), 7. Y. Chang (2615), S. Salamy *(252) anch Paymund Chow

(51,5),

Y. . Trong and Mrs Hamilton tied for 250 with 260.5 prints ecch.

W. J.

phree

Unforgettable

Wan- could

few goals to compare with it in Ball the football I have watched.

Who among those present at the last pre-war tinal be. tween Wolverhampton derers and Portsmouths forret The alorious funeful Knailon as the famous Pompey

chimes roar In 3 great crescendo of human voices when

Hampshire the team. who had not been

sailed

Wolves'

given even an outside chance before the fame. Iterally

through the famous defence-Cullis and all-in win the Cup with magnificent 4-1 victory?

Of all the Cup Finals I have, seen this was the one that pave mo most pleasure.

It is one of my Insting regrets that I missed Stanley Matthews' greatest hour in 1953. He re- to interl Bolton Wanderers shreds and tatters with a never- to-by-forgotten display in

the closing minutes of that Final to

and that very

Naturally at this distance I can have no opinion for I have nol scen

team In either I just want to see ction

great game.

lay on the goals which enabled More than a game

his side to snatch vielony from ; what looked like certain defeat,

an

Wembley is of course mor than a game. It is n

pakenni that has become almost a soccer

Everything that can be wil ton about that peerless formany has surely, been wri-lgrimage. It stands for every- thing that Is best in well- ten again and again.

engamisel, well-managed football and no matter what England's international standing may be, there is nothing anywhere to compare with the superb stage

that makes management Cup Final a marvel of spilt .. and the second timing model of everything a great football ocension should be.

The film of these closing mimites has been shown countless occasions. Faatches of it have been in corporated into many different frameworks, but Always undimmed by the passing of lime-there has been the in- I had no particular interes!

comparable sparkle that is in either side but I bad Secti

the still unexplained 'magic Wolves play several times

or Matthews' in the suitably during the season and I had

majestic setting of Wembley. watched Portsmouth heal Hud- dersfield at Highbury in the

You

the history of semi-bual. Like the vas! | Wombley Stadium is liberally majority of football folks dotted with moments of irue thought the cup was a certainty football greatness. Unfortunate- for Wolverhampton,

ly Its green carpet has also seen n more than normal trail of national press was full tragedy. In recent years great of the stories of the glandutar players like Wally Barnes, Ray Frtment the Wolves players Wood, Bert Trautman and his

to be having were supposed

Team-mate Meadows, and old Pompey and Door

year Ruy Dwight bave all fai- before they Ken Rosewall and Met Ånder- | written off long

lea victim to serious injury on Cup Final day. forlight made it an aliran out .Australian Anal in the World Wembley

indoor Teanis Prefersiunat they Championships when they respec- tively beat America's Davis Cup star. Peruvian-born, Ales 01- medo and America's Tony Tra- bert.

All-Australian

pro tennis final

son

Melbourne, May

Iri tonight's quarter-hauls Resend best Olmedo 6-2 6-5. and Anderson beat Trabert 6-3,

6-3.

The PANOR ather Australian semi-n: Usts. Frank Sedgman and Lew Hoad will respectively. play Rosewall and Anderson in the sand-nols.

"The final will be played next week-AFP.

Sports Diary

TO-DAY Bowie

1, 2, 3rd matcher.

DIVELA

League

dinnor

Softball Annuat presentation and dance at Peninsula Hotel, 8 pm.

Boccer

Jet Divident Tung Wah v Happy Valley (JİK Stadium) 0.20 p.m.

Youth Cup: KMB "Ahung Fong v Youth United/KMB DIFE p.an. Flur-One-Seven/Kostern * Lan Kwg/Kitchee, 0.46 pm. both at Hongkort Studium.

The

wire

onto the pitch at but oh, how the challenge accepted They were magnificent

and how the crowd responded.

Historic double

Last

Many explanations have been

**

the

This is the last regular Saturday Sports Spoť I shall be writing for you for some time, I shall be seeing a great deal of sports in different parts of the world during the next four months or und from time to time I shall be reporting it ex- clusively for China Mail readers.

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me

In taking this temporary leave of you I would like to express It seemed that every neutral jaffered but not everyone agrees

my appreciation of the muny had been swept into the Port-on why the great arena should letters which you write to

thunting traff in its and to the editor of the China smouth cheer-ring and as gool have le followed goal the spirit of make-up: it lives on as one of Mail regarding the purely per- Wembley was vibrant as it had the hazards facing players who sai Views I offer in this probably never been before....in many cases are

realising column a life's ambition, maybe it is ports. evin a double ambition, of play-

or since.

The famous goal in the Cup Finol and play-

Morgan, the Portsmouth full- back, said to me later in his rich Scottish way "That was a game, Jad... if I never play aniter I'm satisfied...

Another of my great Wem- bley memories is the famous real which Jackie Mburn of

Newcastle United soored against Blackpool just at the. turn of the Offles.

One moment Blackpool were attacking, the next the scene had changed. The ball was swept upféld by United. It cžme 10 Milburn who at that time was probably the fastest man in English footbali, The big centre- forward raced ahead, met the i

j

ing at Wembley.

What lies in store for the 12

and in my various re-

That lift

re-

Critics, observers and' porters. . whether they cover plays, films, books... or spårt must expect some criticism in retum and provided both sides keep within fair limits their efforts can only be simulating.

players who will face the nerve-

ingling test before.

hundred thousand people today?

Wolves can no longer win the clusive double and there are thousands of fans in Lancashire who are con@dent that, just as Certainly no critle worth his they were for the League

pipped on the post salt resents retaliatory criticism Championship d I can assure you it is your so will they be beaten for the letters whether they be witty, Cup.

pointed, favourable, critical, nutty or even fruity that give partisan the Bite Bft that makes all the

difference.

That is of course point of view.

DOWN WITH AVERAGES DOWN

The County Championship is complicated enough

THE AGILITY OF CLAYTON, A WICKET-KEEPER WITH A PROMISING

FUTURE, SAYS ALEX BANNISTER, SAVED MCC

Cricket creeps

in with

almost un apologetic uir. Un- like other major games it has no official opening, and the season stumbles into a start in dribs and drabs.

This is a mistake – as big a mistake as allowing the champlonskin to be over- shadowed amually by the Test series. no matter hran

or the opposition insy be, or, as happens this season, when come counties are play- ing 32 championship matches. and the rest 28,

my mind this means an unreal championship and the blle, rightly wanting sim- mielty, dislikes an avertata system in which the number n points gained has to be

divided by the wamber of Axtures with all matches counting, even if any ari bandoned without A [211 being bowled.

Out and in

So now a game that has ΣΕΚΟΥΣΙΑ Increasingly dotty with Agures, and saturated with often stupid statistics becomes even more compli- cated and confusing.,

The cricket championship will not capture the support of the pubile unless I 19 simplified and the simpler! the better.

Out go the old slurs. In come the round hopefuls, No longer will first-class cricket regularly Feo Jim Laker. Godfrey Evans. Dennis Brookes, George Tribe, Cyril Washbrook, Arthur Jepson, Dicky Dodds or Vic Cannings,

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The encouraging fact that UNTU 0 never any: shortage of ambitious young- sters aiming to fill the gaps.

Watch those

For instance, at Canter- bury 20-year-old David Ed- wards has begun a trial porind with Kent. Nothing unusual in that? Only that

At the moment all Lanoa. Thank you all for your sup-David few 3,000 miles from

futher where his farms near Nairobi, to pre-?

shire is behind Blackburn port of his column

...which Kenya Rovers in the hope that they is now almost seven years old, can win and so give the cotton Time flies.

...O must I.

HERE.

ALEX BANNISTER'S

Cricket Comment

sent his claims as n all- rounder. He surely deserves to see his dreams hulled.

Edwards, the *!. Gin, Inverness-born David Larter, of Northamptonshire, Somar- wha re's Mike Lawrence, Tikr his father bowls les- breaks, are only hopefully starting their careers. Other youngsters. like Barry Knight, Essex's all-rounder and The Watts brothers from Northamptonshire, are emerg- ing from their apprentice- ships.

These are the youngsters 1 shell fellow with particular interest this season: Ako Hurd (Cambridge and Essex off-spinner), Tom Cartwright and Basil Bridge (Warwick- shire), Colin Hilton (Lanea- shire). George Richardson and fan Hall (Derbyshire), David Wille and Alan Was- nell (Hampshire). Ted Clark and Ron Honker (Middlesex) and Tony Buss (Sussex).

Already Gerge Clayton, Lanenshire's Wickelkeeper. has made his mark at the mest important ground of all to do so - Lord's.

A

FEW OVERTHROWS

Clayton, who started only last year. teck five catches for the MCC against York- shire on Saturday. He missed one but his form was c Imprereive as Clark's half- century.

some

A batsman who has shown Infinito

promise for time without always getting the results he should achieve may well do so this year. He is Donut Padgett, who was raped in 1858 and reared 2,158 runs for Yorkshire lost SEXISON.

It will not surprise me li the stylist Padgett becomes more thon it successful county player this summer."

Overdue

Jahn

of The no-balling Aldridze, the Worcestershire fast bowler, by umpire Jack Crace for throwing on Satur- day means that two bowls have been called within four days of the new season. The other'

Lock was Teny Cambridge.

A different

refreshment

refreshingly

different

last drop

al

EULMER'S

COPICKER

CIDER

No further proof is notdat that English cricket is deter - mined to get its house in order for the visit of Aus- tralia nexis year.

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Firm action is overdue, and

matter how ca- picant the task i for umpires. It remains their clear duty to holo stamp out an undesirable Lenture of

cricket

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HE'S ALIVE?

BLACK SANTA KILLED THREE JOCKEYS WHEN DUGGAN WAS RIDING AND BUGGAN WAS BLAMED.

HE SWORE HE'D RIDE THE HORSE AGAIN AND J

SPROVE WHICH OF THEM WAS THE KILLER.

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