1961-04-03 — Page 9

Happy Valley

BLIMEY!

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1961.

.1, South China

LESTER PIGGOTT AIMS

WHAT A THRILLER TO REMAIN BRITAIN'S

South China saved by penalty-kick in the closing seconds

By I M. MacTAVISH

This game had everything; everything, that is, except a decisivo result. As a spectacle it was magnificent in its glittering climax. It had drama

disappointmonta highlights. low lights

spills

skill

thrills

tragedy.

personalities

and a controversy final minute of tension that will surely never be forgotten by the thousands of fans who packed the Hongkong Stadium to the rafters or countless thousands more on their ofton pro- carious porches on the surrounding hillsides.

play.

spol.

£1

Happy Valley's goalkeeper Wong Shlu-woo makes a gallant but vain at- tempt to stop this penalty shot by South China left-back Kwok Kam-hung (not in photo). The penalty gave South. China their match-saving goal barely a minute before the end.-China Mail photo.

tragedy it was for goalkeeper Lau Kin-chung.

through

It

In the end a strange justice was done. After 110 gruelling minutes the

He took a bad gea!-kick. scoreboard still read South China 1, Happy Valley. . . 1. That

Who Imracdiately clipped to my mind was justice for neither side deserved to lose, yet South The ball went to Au Pang-nin was al. China, as long as they live, will never be nearer to defeat. In fact back, Kwok Moon-wah

in a flash and

he pivoted they saved their reputation in the

though hampered most exciting fashion-with

and drove the ball into the net. penalty-kick-when" only ̧¡ seconds of the original time were left for

South China appealed for 'hands-personally I thought it was unjustified-but the referee walked back half ai The Ars half was a long after, a diplomatic consultation allowed the anel walin,

tusste dozen steps

strenuous

with South with a finesman no doubt with thumping heart,

The for the blast of the referee's China If anything having the goal to stand.

The rest you know. attacking edge. They had many whistle,

efforts to their stadium rocked and rolled with When it came he ran forward, commendable

then and still hit the ball hard and low to credit but when the half-time this game to its nerve-tingling

final moments right hand while blew they were Wong Shi-woo's

with it through 201 The lemon ne roured ascalless. ...and must have "dled

83 both sides Man- citu minutes thousand premature deaths as thoughts were of Wong

to gain the vital goal strove

moant a place in the that Senior Shield fins). Neither suc- but if the replay ceeded produces just a fraction of the pulsating entertainment will sum be game warth going a long way to see. VERDICT. Blimey... what

should Yet the champions never have been in that pre- carious position. By all the accepted precedents they should have been comfortably In the leal bul thercly hungs the greatest story of the game: the story of the heroles of a man called Lok Tak-hing.

The Happy Valley and Colony full-back wrote his name, all over this match with as courageous and magnificent

the ball clipped the post before was getting a timely werd in ihn edging itself into the net. ear from the referee: Lau Tim's

The ball had hardly been painful pre-Intory.1 injury.

and the case with which Au

getting Pang-nin was Kwok Kam-hung.

a display of last últoli defen- | centred_when the final whistle xive work as it has ever been blew. For Happy Valley it was a case of so near and yet so far

South for

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my pleasure to watch. Five times in this thrill- packed encounter Lok somehow escape narrow enough to shut- contrived to clear off the goal ter the norvee of Har when his goalkeeper had been beaten and when the ost confident and loyal

South China players

olher on a goal.

even

thefr

should porters.

have been congratulating each

If Happy Valley had

sup-

herces

Most heroic

good service

In Lok Tak-hing and Wong)

hcd Shlu-wo they also

out- in: sending pericrmers

Chan Charalam, Liu

Tim, and They also trom Wong

In the last couple of seasonsle Au Pang-in. Lok Tak-hing his risen from ot

neur obscurity

to become the Man-wal, who spolled a lot of

not

most colourful and certainly his best work with his Okl the most heroic of aur de tandeney to take the man, and fende e simply does

whase know when he is beates and nky Leg Wai-hung

secend-hall display made his but for his efforts yesterday Happy Valley would have been upposite number and chief rival out of the keture long before for honours look very

reto Indeed. the end.

The cher Happy Valley stal- want was goalkeeper Wong Ts

second

Of the other: in the side

werker Bien kuca

Shi-woo. whose flying save tremendously, hard but Kwok

the second Moon-wah-who

midway throuştir

half ranked as perbly

was booked the era vicious attack on So Men3→

greatest single thrill of the p-did little except snatch the vital real. Veleran Chu Wing- game. The big goalkeeper was caught going the wrong way keung found the pace a bit be- when Lee Tak-wat crashed ayond him and wing-hall Lau tremendous drive goalwards Chin-ku Ens played better

but with a cat-like leap, Bylogowany times. clutch and a spectacular clear- nner Wang brought the fans to! their feat in spontaneous cheers. It was well deserved nezlalm. A football crowd ticarly loves a thril and this glorious bit of goalkeeping was just the thing to get them roaring,

Make no mistake about t this Happy Valley side knew exactly what it was trying to do and the fact that South China played far below their recent form was really indication of the Success which the green-and-whites achieved.

A disappointment

An

South China, except in their endeavour and willingness to

n sad disappolnunezi.

071

Dut, before describing the contributions made to the af- ternoon's entertainment by the individual players jet më re- capture för 700 the most dramatic moment of the night every inch of the way, Colony football season.

An were unforgettable climax if ever I They started well but Inter

they allowed themselves to be The stadium clock was in its binned down by the Happy Vei- final minute. Happy Valley were ley close marking tacties in a Jending by a solitary goal scored in the 60th minute by the day they had few stars and way one hardly expected, On Kwok Moon-wah, South China,nly Luk Tak-hay. Lo Chung as belts the great side they un doubtedly are, were still fight- kwong, Leung sm-yee

saw one.

and

ing desperately to save the sadly under-rated Lee Takt-wal day. The pressure on the Happy can look back on the afternoon

with real untisfaction. was unrelenting. Valley gönl

It was no secret before Shots were showered towards Wong Shiu-woo from every game that goalkeeper Lau Kin- engle but it seemed that with chicung was suffering from

round

Unjustified appcal

After what seemed like an unusually long interval Happy Valley résumed as though de- termined to sweep the "cham- plons out of their path to the inal. They were now having much more of the game and it when was no real surprise they took the lead in the 66th)

ob. minute...but

what

A

...

Was

Valley eventually win the trophy they should strike a special modal for their fullback. This

his day... and what a day it was. Chun Chorn-lami and Kwok Moon-wah both had their names taken but, in spite of the keen tackling and rolentlass tension throughout, the game was It nover rough or dirty. could very casily havo de- teriorated. ¡, the fact that it did not do so was due in

to great measure excellent contribution by refered Petilo. All in all o fino Easter Parado.

THE TEAMS

an

HAPPY it

VALLEY:

Wong Shiu"wna, Lek Tak-hing. Chín

Wong Charn-lam.

Man-wai, Au Lau Tim, Lau Chin-kou,

Wing-keung, Pang-nin, Chu

Tse Bien-

Lau Kin- Kwok

CHINA:

a thriller. They should Kwck Moon-wah, issue tranquilisers for the kuen, Leung Wai-hung

SOUTH spectators at the replay.chtung, Luk Tak-hay,

in Chúa kwong In the end a draw was a Kam-hung.

Loung Kam-you, good result even if neither So Man-po, side will agree. Lok Tak- Weng Chi-keung, Ho Cheung- yau, Lee Tak-wal, Kwok You, hing WAS the premier Mok Chun-wah.

REFEREE: Mr I. Petric. personality and if Happy

Four D. Jones

EVERY CLOUD

HAS A SINISTER

LINING

FERDINAND

the

NANCY

the vital seconds, ticking away patatul ball on the neck and he Lau Tim and his tenaciou certainly had scme shaky mates were to claim the honour moments. The biggest surprise.

lowering Gl

South China's | however, was the runaround colours for the first time this which Kwok Kam-hung Kot

censon.

Then it happened.

The penalty

from Au Panz-nin. The chin- plon's Colony star has seldom bron beaten so easily or so often

with and, together

normally

this

An all-out South China at-sterdy So Mmm-po, produced the in the tack took them into the Heppy uncharacterialle wobble Valley penalty area and in the South China defence. The for- Longest of atmospheres the word lin, worked very hard bat referee who handled a testing selden, it over, prodixed and often provocative game delightful man-to-man football with commendable understand-ter which they are noted. ing--awarded an indirect free-in fact we saw it only in the kick to the champions on the briefort of flashes. alx yards inc.

It would be pointless to go No Action writer could have through a Came of Rds kind thought up a more spectacular incident by incident. Suffelent lead to a Anal climax. As the is it to any that it was packed South Chins boys fired the with the meat or a really big goalwards an arm shot occation: there was a sellout out and, with the crack of house, a glöclaim afternoon 2. leather on firth to dramatise j nad twenty two players lond eiluation...tha' · referen ready to contest every inch of was polating to the penalty | territory.

Apot.

Happy Valley raleed a half-

hearteti proteri and; in their

natural appointment,

coult blomoliem.

In nhushed

Who.

archa little

Kwok Kame-trung came up so

tako the kick. What a responsi»

INTERNATIONAL SOCCER

Madrid, Apr. 2.

blilty for any player. Whatever Spain bool France 2-0 in a

and however he felt he certain Moeg international here today.

ly bolrayed no nereer ao ho scorlug, a gopl ́in each half,

calmly placed the ball on the Brutar.

JONES ENTERS,THE FUN-FAIR.....

I WONDER WHAT PART OF ITALY THIS

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FOR HRAZ

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OUT ESTAPLISHID

ON EARTH):

Yuen Long

team makes history

made

History was at the Hongkong Stadium yesterday when Yuen Long by defcating 517 became the first side from the New Territories to win a place in the Junior Shield final.

ever

Yuen Long beat their more fancied op- ponents by five goals to three after an in- cident packed game in

two which from the '517'. Ledm were given

orders.

players

CHAMPION JOCKEY

By CHARLES, BENSON

It took Gordon Richards more than 25 years to win the Derby, Before he had even reached his 25th birthday, Lester Piggott had won it three times, scored In all the other four classics and finished up the 1900 flat-racing season as champion jockey. Now, with the start of the 1961 season, many people believe that Piggott will win his fourth Derby, his time on Pinturischio.

Bronzed and Alt after a winter in the sun of Nassau, Miami, and India, Lestor is inclined la damp theis optimistte forecasts.

"Pinturlechlo 15 a. nice colt" says Lester, who is never one to rhapsodice about his mounts.

"But he has never had a race, so we don't know whether he is real Derby material yet.”

All the same, I would be in- clined to watch out for Piggott and Pinturischlo In 1901.

Happier

|

.

the country-Telle Elolie and St Paddy.·

Both are trained by Noel Mur. less and, although every effort. will be made to see that they de not clash yet awhile. Inevitably they must meet somer of later, probably in the King George Vi and Queen Elizabeth Stokes at Aseat in July.

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Curiously, enough, Pelite Etoile, possibly the best : horse that Piggott has ever rld- den and certainly one of the best mares of the century, who gave, the jockey his biggest dia- Lester, seems to have got appointment when she was ra- beaton in that over the worst of als weight ther unluckity problems and he will start the same Ascot race last year.

riding, at abous Bat. Tb., which is normal for him at this time of year. When the weather gets warm-| Afterwards Piggott came in er, he will be able to do less, for some criticism from those The thing that struck me who considered that he gave hla most about Lester when I talked | inount too 'much ground to make to him was that he seems much up in the straight. happler and self-confident than

Piggott himself attributed the he did in the past.

defeat to the longer grass and This extra confidence I would more yielding ground faced attribute to two things:

there than in previous outings remembering and is worth Firstly, the achievement last that he rode the filly in an al- season of perhaps his great-most identical fashion in her

ambition the Jockeys' previous successes. Championship.

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his marriage to ✪ Secondly,

Susan Armstrong, daughter of Newmarket trainer Sam Armstrong.

It is her practice to remain Fin the background, "but Susan undoubtedly contributed to Les- ter's Championship year by on couraging him and acting often as a kind of unpaid 'secretary,)

helping him to fix suitable mounts,

In many ways, Lester · Pig- gott is an enigmatic character *almost a dual character — for in the saddle he oozes con- donce, whilo.out of it, in the paat, he has been difficult and and rather shy.

He has been accused, mainly by those who do not know him, of being curl, unyielding, and humourless.

There charges are unjustified, for. When you know him. Les

and Next month, at about the time ter is pleasant company marching

of the first Newmarket meeting Possessed of a very real sense

of humour. Ling in tact, Susca Piggott is RR- pecting her first child pad this,

For instance, I asked one is surely bred to racing. what hts ambition was this

Ke laughed and said: "TO

Yuen Long will now meet Happy Valley in the final,

STRUTH! HE LOOKS LIKE TROUBLE, I MUST WARN THE

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It is no secret, of course, that he earns a lot of money, but his critics would like to think of him accumulating it relentlessly, grimly, and not joking about it.

What do his fellow Jockeys think of him?

It would be foolish to pretend that he has always been the most popular Ature

in the weighing-room.

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Frequently, some jockey other, probably older than him, has grumbled at something Les- ter has done in a race.

"He hit me on the head with his whip" or "He practically -- put me over the rails" are com plaints that I have heard against him.

But when I have asked "the" objector whether he proposed to do anything about it, he would invariably follow up with some- thing like.

"It was only · over-keennesa ...I might have done the same myself."

His rivalry with súch as Dong Smith and Harry Carr Is very strong, basically, but they are food of him, and realise that his only fault is o slightly over-developed will wiif indeed that is a fault af all

to

For Lester Piggott, the sea, Jon will be a period of hard work...

Jockeys work long hours; up with

the fork for riding out with the first lot, a quick break- fast possibly ride out Dgain, off to the races-perhaps twice if there is an evening, mesing and home again, for dinner, the orio Equare meat of the day.......

Lester Ilves frugally in his. house, Florize), at Newmarket. During the season he travels a great deal, much of it by air, to, the various faço meetings,

Many racing people thought bo satisfied with his he might 1000 championshly season and lake things easier this year. He has no Intention of roluxing, though, as I learned when ashed-him what he thought of his chances of being champion In 1001.

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Must as good as they were in 1000," he replied. ̧*

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