1960-08-20 — Page 15

1. M. MâcTAVISH (Writing from London)

SATURDAY SPORTS SPOT Report on Hongkong personalities in United Kingdom sport

Ah....to be in Britain now that the start of the winter sports season and the Olympic Games are just around the corner.

thjuty he played very few games for the strugtig soldiers,

Spoirs Mard dirt of the Hong- kong picture but when he re- turned to Newcastic United he began once again to show some→

him international honours in

thing of the form which won his out erat, the famous

Recently

old London club, found them- selves in dire need of a top

and

During the last couple of weeks I have enjoyed a privileged spot nice tovard

on the sidelines while several of Britain's premier organi-ger Reggie Smith success satloris have prepared their strength for the stern sporting battles that lie ahead.

Spears

fully negotiated the transfer of Millwall had great hopes that Alan would lead the team to big things But alas the

suspect knee broke down in training and Spears has now hospital for entored a London

te reoval of his cartilage. This happy state of affairs will not surprise many people in Hongkong

but it has come as a great disappointment

Generally optimisti is abroad. "This is our year" seems to be the popular matto but even the sportsmen who make the claims know only too well that for many of their clubs and groups.....and even for their indiyi dual charges disappointment- bitter, heartless, remorseless dis appointment-lurks uncharted in the unpredictable future. They know, loo, that tho | the grtalėst football experts in plans, it looks as though he will both to Spears and his new

remain inactive during the first club,

of the season, A great pity of course....but as is orders" they say...."orders and it is very much a case of "...left, right, left, right,.... but....but don't for big

human errüt aba the almost Britain.

vulgar vagaries of luck will. Good luck....Day.... Crack few months

T'em in....!! also have a big influence on their well-laid plans. In cattle sporting chiefs the pany, with world over they have their fingers very lightly crossed.

MEANINGLESS because; "In the original Olympic Games in ancient Greece victory days of plenty for the winning athlete who was showered with gifts and money. And at one stage athletes could not compete in the Olympics unless they had

Every new spoming season, attended the tu-month course

like every new year, starts in / at a spectat training camp. Yet

a whin of hope, and optimism. Avery Brundage declares that

Last year's failures are con training camps of a few weeks

veniently forgotten in the eager for present athletes are against

physical contest. They are A anticipation of getting another the spirit of the Games."

mental challenge. because: UNREAL

"The

For four chance to prove just how wish definition of an amateur varies

years you have to decide how past form and past results football, hockey, water polo to achieve a peak performance. were. Defeatin 1 strangely have no place in Johnson's If you are something of an all-absent at this time, The excuse of the country.

Com-

New Deal. Nor have fene-round athlete you can attempt International Olympic

ing and rowing. mittee for allowing this is that

**These sports have

just they must not interfere in the

affairs

Olympics another jumped on to the internal

If you have country. To me that looks more band wagon. like expediency

honest them, why

and not billiards conviction.

Unreal, meaningless so much from country 10

"No one expeols, say, a vio- for linist to give his talents nothing. It just so happens that my talents enabled me to run better than other people, so why shouldn't a runner be able

to cash in like a violinist or

with anyone else

2 special ability?"

Sports Diary

TODAY Bowls

Recrelo

1st Division: HKFC v "B" FC Recreio KDC Y CCC, KEC v KBGC, IRC VTC.

2nd Division: C

F.

HKPSA V IRC "G". CCC v USRC. PRC HKCC.

3rd Division: KDCCCPRC XBGC, FC v HKCC. HERC V HKFC. SC v USRC.

Ladies 2nd Division: KBGC

PRC.

Soccer Combined Chinese v Lebanon Xİ at Carolina Hill. p.m.

Motoring

Shell Economy Run at Sek Kong, 6 p.m.

Swimming

LRC Championships, 3.p.m.

of

than

Farcical

as the

As far

Olympica are concerned, events

like

suooker?

***Those sports should have their own world champion- ships."

Just how does Johnson fate the Olymples?

"I leads to feteical situations. Take this business of athletics scholarships. British athletes

"The Olympic Games do have are not allowed to accept them qualities peculiar to themselves on pain of losing their amateur because of their historical im- sisius. And Mo amateur is plications. But these have allowed to compete against a nothing to do with amateurism." non-amateur-again the penalty i The Olympics are also the being loss of status,

supreme test for athletes, and "Logically, then, Erilish in this case Johnson wants athletes should lose their status things to remain just as they for competing against Americans are. who have taken up athletics scholarships."

It has been sugested that by eliminating other sports, athle tics events could be spread over a greater period, giving competi- tors an opportunity to compete

Johnson does NOT want to see athletes paid for comm- peling in the Olympics. He DOES, however, want pro-in more events,

Johnson does not agree. "The fessional athletes to be al- lowed to compete,

Olympics

more than a

are

Ω

Olympic Games Dramatize

World Confidence in Omega Precision

The Olympic Committee has such implicit faith in the Omega split second accuracy that it has once again entrusted Omega

responsibility with the

of timing the

1960 OLYMPIC GAMES AT ROME

The presence of Omega timers at the Olympic Games and other news-making sports events is dramatic proof of the confidence Omega precision commands throughout the world.

more than one event,

"But I feel that the element of the gamble should remaÏ21,

Watery Welcome

Who would have it other-

The competitor must weigh wiser Without the annual up- op whether tie will stand a

by putting surge of new-found enthusiasm belter chance everything into arte event or it would be a dark and dull by having a crack at two or sporting world indeed, miäre.

"It he tries for two metals and fails, that's bad luck I comes off, all the more credit to him.

Should be axed

leave the island" Charley. It's a great game-the

Aring game!!!

Basketball results

Bologna, Aug. 19, Yugoslavia beat Israel by othe point 62 10 61-in the Ölym- Hongkong's first Footballer ple basketball qualifying tourna of the Year Mike Granger, ment here today, the Yugoslav has been showing "great form ban team led 36-32 at hal-time. in York City's trials and the Canadians had led 33-90 at

Here now is news of " former Servicemen who bat....till contributed much to the Hongkong scent during their tenure in the Colony. That great long distance run- aer Bob Pape is ill covering these incredible miles with some measure of success. Last week- end he was prominent in Liverpool Marathon which he

the

won in 1958....bilt this time he could

the not quite match flashing form of his younger opponents and had to be satis- fied with third place.

It there has beeri áty - porary decline in the prowess of the sporting naval officer who did so much to put Hongkong

on the 'long-distance' map there'

bare-

а

cording to reports he seems ül last to have shaken of the effects of the many lajurfes which have to regularly retarded his, progrem in the rame. His club afelais hope for a complete recovery and believe this will be Mike's year,

Dave Maclaren Right away doris in the I have been checking up

has certainly been nothing but southwest corner of England an the activiiles of Hongkong guttering progress for personalities who are now in footed Anglo-Scot Bruce Tulloh another former Hongkong goal- at work preparing for his nrsl the United Kingdom and it is who will wear Britain's colours keeper, Dave Maclaren, is hard

In order to be at really surprising how many of at Rome.

Dave, whose colourful career. Chem are in the limelight at peak form for the Olympics, season with Plymouth Argyle,

has Tullohi

undergone

with the Royel Air Force in the the moment.

tremendous programme of pre- Far East w ham hitting the most topical paration Perhaps the

and "Of course, within the exisi-

well- many ing framework, things should story is that of young Cheung informed

athletic officials be- bigh spots in both Hongkong and Malaya, was transberred not be made unnecessarily Chi-doy's arrival in London, love that, either willingly or difficult by having say, the 1,500 Last Thursday morning his unwittingly, it was his rigid from Leicester City to Plymouth to his planned at the end of last season and he metres and 5,000 metres on one Conet plane descended on the adherence afternoon."

airport out of a dismal rain Olympic schedule that recently will now be playing alongsitle Leri Tiger Casey who, like Something else that would drenched sky to give the cost nim his British title..

Maclaren himself played samme come under the Johnson axe is sharpshooting centre-forward a all the spectacle of flag-waving, somewhat watery welcome. He

No surprise banner-carrying and

...... only of course he was national was in fine felfle, however, and anthems, "I know that this

Tulon is one of Britain's most soldier. would not prevent nationalistic his smiling counteriance liter

greeted Londoners from the objective and clear thinking feeling at the Games, but I feel that the Olympics should backpage of the mass circula-runners and it will be no sur-

prise 10 the British general rently in the news is school not lay itself open to fostering tion Evening News.

public-who have come to know teacher, Bert Allen who foc

his Cheung was obviously, fas him very well through time performed his particular "A certain amount of national | cinated with the sights regular bare-footed appearances brand of heroles behind feeling is no bad thing. But i albeit the rain-soaked sights in races which have been

woefully weak army defence. must be kept within bounds. of London as he drove from the televised, if he pulls something The 6' 2" custodian lost a pile This

can be done only by airport through the West End exceptional out of the bag at of goals to Hongkong's sharp- educating people to the view and C to his Blackpool Rome. If that actually happens shooting Chinese forwards but that just as the sport is greater bound train at Euston station, no ere will be more pleased in spite of all that there was than this artificial business of It was a bright new world for than the many friends he made never any doubt about his own amateurism, so it is also bigger the brilliant young Chinese in Hongkong. than the nationality of the men footballer and his many friends and women taking part."

it.

OLYMPIC QUIZ

1. What do the five inter Jaced rings the Olymple flag represent?.

2. The Olympic, motto

is:

"Citius, Altius, Fortius". What

does it mean?

3. What is the meaning of the ward Olymplad?

4. Where were the 8th, 12th and 13th Olymple Games held? 5. Who was the "Father of the Modern Olympic Games**?

(Answer on Page 16)

magifillount ganus in slougkong

The fourth goalkeeper cur-

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ability. Once again he starts the season as East Fife's first choice goalkeeper...but I notice be had

and fans will wish him the very From athletics to football to pick the ball out of the met

best of luck in the next vital steps of his struggle up the steep ladder to soccer stardom.

The ball is now squarely at his feet. If he bangs it into the nets in the United Kingdom with anything like the regularity he did last season in Hongkong his future success is assured.

It is understood that Cheung

and news, good and five times last Saturday!!! not so good, of many old

Down South àgain..., this time to Southampton .where the favourites who are now on

news of former Colony and the eve of another new Army star Derek Reeves is not season in the United so good. Derek, currently bask Kingdom.

ing in the title of England's top

Not surprisingly goalkeepers goal-scorer': got a nasty injury feature very strongly on my list, in the club's public trial and is Best remembered at the very doubtful for the opening Chi-doy will be flying to Rome moment is of course Hongkong's game at Rotherham this after- to help his former colleagues reging Footballer of the Year noon.

in their forthcoming Olymple.ble Charley Wright.

efforts and that he will be re- Here the latest news is not In hospital turning to Britain when the as good as it might have been

other players leave Rome on and as things are of the trothent Another former Hongkong their way back to Hongkong, there seems no likelihood of soldier is also in the injury Cheung's natural modesty and Wright making an immediate news....with a difference. Fool- his Oriental charm have already return to the professional ball fans will recall that in the won him many friends and if

limelight.

J

he does not make the headlines He is still tucked away on the it will not be for want of help Isle of Wight and, unless there and assistance from some of is a quick changé of military

„REAK” LIS 'THIS TINE **

KELLERHER

NEVER

YOU

PUT THE SETUPID THE AXUDAV

WHAT DO YOU

early part of last season the Army had a talented inside-for- ward called Spears and that due to a rather mysterious

THEN EITHER EX ENOUGH TO

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kange

Spain beat Canada 60-49 after

half-time,

Belgium defeated Czechoslova kla 70-68-Reuter.

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