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Tomorrow, England expects... but so does Hongkong
By I. M. MacTAVISH
SPORTING SAM
by Reg. Wootton
fous — of all who come this way.
Is In this moud that we
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onto the playing nelds of an Internationalists and other country it is ideed hard ration of top class talent, Rea! to believe that our cricketers do open-eliza boy was the fore-
was not Jul- Elted. The presence of a true top-line like Gauner Stirrup Such an attitude simply is not merely emphasised the paucity
of the listic talent on
view Much of it was crude novice ESTUCT.
look to the English tourists for not mind whether they win or cact. It simply
lose. reassurance. We want the to
of all the be the justication. things we have written and i said about the true merits of cricket.
Tomorrow, for the first time in history, an official representa
tive side from the United Kingdom will grace the Colony's Let us football fields. It is a most important occasion. hope that the illustrious visitors realise fully the resport-Britlah football. sibility that rests on their shoulders...and in their books. The British brought football to Hongkong. They convinced the local population-particularly the excitement-loving Chinese-that it was a great game. The teachers were sincere: the pupils were apt and soc- cer grew steadily in popularity until today it is the most important crowd-pulling activity in our community.
years
tje, Wa
through the Calvay Bethalt bas roached Tradically and femimentally
in is overall concepti British and the HKFA's long standing amin to the Football Ap-i sutation has been maintained
a strong stabilising and ph up to the present time.
Bitter memories
Somehow I feel that this time our confidence will be re- warded, The Hongkong players and the current Colony sile is a good one by any standards. ---stwuld not be easily benten. The visitors may have to fight success they hard
achieve.
for.
any
Two weeks ago I wrote.
about the development of
so
the success In our community there are achieved. the sintus of more dainage
a case of their being
many fans who still take 3 British football In this party a par with our own
spreial delight in saying "I saw
Last week the limelight ut the wortu
had The Amateurs flug,
nuthing лек arct
Matthews and Blackpool when chifted to Sal Kung and I was were completely outclassed in, thúng Vifferent To show us,
they played in Hongkong".......... delighted to tell you of the all the matches they played. Even the apparently powerful | Let us hope that in the future work that has been done there, Peruvian team, with Ave of the they will say, with the same Now I have further news from Tos miseralze memory jar-
men who defeated England by sort of pride, that they say, this progressive Jocation. unt:i Blackl were
four goals to one, had to admit Finney and his English FA sed evaxed to call her
their defeat in what will always beteuring tearn. jouanes home from Australia remettered S big Charlie Our visitors could earn no Cop
or years, ag in two Wright's game. Imatches thy preduced on. and une superb display.
I took them just a hundred
Quite apart fon all the 'tioubts, suspicious ALER Bewusu- And eighty nudes to pa tea which have been prevalenti British football back in perspec- Trent times there can be no thee in Chinese eyes. The sport denying the otential
In spite of thi auny people d have been disappointed at the almost complet lack of Briti sade coming to Hongkong. The visit
Hendon is remembered
plemently
ey rune
valuation
who has
屋
STR
a sensibly,
in
the
to
Unia Kingdom tries hard
kite * ill-adverti nbarra reries undertaken by Pegasus at a time when they were holters trf the Amadeur Cup.
talent
in community remember, the | voulch exists in Hongkong fool – į magic of Stanley Matthews, the 16.11. brilliance of Jimmy Hagan, and ↑ the thuishing Charnley
and it is a reali pleasure to welcome the big felles tack again with the PA side
of Ray Something special?
In recent times we have town touring terms from Peru, Costa The Bes
about that
Ria Porto Hie, Switzerland, ventare the better. Time has
Sweden, Austria, Israel....and, done little to wipe out flu i may they soon be
colinetan er softes the tri- from Brazil. In the man terners of what was a prestige- have been disappointing. destrovine adoir
has nul been due
forgotten
If trite to say the three-folks suggest to their
iremendous match visti did
compared to Binckpool:
DISSENSION IN
BRITAIN'S
TENNIS RANKS
By DEREK JOHN
they This One Lecans
Big letdown
the Yuen Long football The failure of established team and the pleasure boxers like Dixon, Bojacke, which the northern com- Cmberland and Harris, not 10 mention Wong Pak-ileg. to slep munity has derived from into the ring was a bit letdown. far, No doubt there was adequate reason for every unfortunate in- cident bul that did not make the programme any more acceptable to the public. A few words of apology for all the changes would have been a nice gesture.
One can have a great deal of If things go well the new Saisympathy for the HKABA. The Kung organisation hopes 1° officers of the Association apply for membership of the in tremendous amount Third Division of the Colonyd work for very
little re- League. Let us hope their apm. Let us hope
they will lication is given the considera-not be discouraged and that whey tooking Lack on their I hope this will be the first tion their enterprise deserves.
post-war Hongkong team The Army has now com- 1000-61 season they will balance show against to win an Interport match pletely levelled and returfed the this anti-climax against Malaya'. So said local playing field and accord the many outstanding prume-
to reliable Information tions which they staged, skipper Frank Findlay in
Liz Ashermen tevis visiting
playing
grester tribute.
an interview with erst-win nd excellent while cricketing star Tony | Incitities.
of
a!
Myatt which was brand- The Bitle teams of today are
before the the big ones of tomorrow cast just
and the Yuen Longs and the Colony cricketers left for Sai Kongs are the
whiffs of Singapore a few days ago. fresh air we need so badly. Findlay's interview bristled with confidence, It Was ob- vious that he felt he was taking!
į
A "tale wagger"?—Let ́s
00 appropriate suggest signaturo tune for the week- end. How about "Little Alice blew down"?
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The English travellers conne during at u rad of a sEMG which
have bren lis- www appointed-and even disillusion-
the poor efforts of ei by Surression of big name visitors,
Frankly,
expect Tom Foney and his colleagues to produce something special. Brst-rate side to do battle! Last week's charity Boxi.ig
We make no bones about that
Show provided an un- worthy finale to what has been a most successful and encouraging season's work by the Hongkong Amateur Boxing Associa tion.
with our near neighbours.... and he seemned determined to They come under it proudi
coax his players to light every in local eyes-inch of the way to chalk up a It has hammer which
whether the tourists like it Hongkong victory. not- an England Log. in other words the fans expect an With this theme still ringing international class performance in our ears it was rather a from the PA side in both of the surprise and something of a games it will play.
disappointment to read mana- iger Bob Bell's reported com- The appeal of boxing to the It can be taken for granted iments soon after The main locul crowds depends almost
the Englishmen will not party's arrival In Singapore. that
on having entirely underestimate the opposition
smattering of Chinese boxers on they will enrolinter here and no
Strange utterance the bill. When this element doubt Tom Finney will have
is not adequately satisfied the been well Informed that Coa
They Chinese fans stay away. Rien side. a Peruvian side, and
have little Interest in watching the current Swiss champions--
two European opponents In The Young Boys of Berne--a!!
action....no matter how good Facked with established World
the pugilists happen to be. Cup Internationalists,
Bobby Wilson, Britain's No. 2 lawn tennis player,
is angry with Mike.
No-he has not crossed swords again with pro fessional player Mike Davies. This time it is another Mike who has roused battling Bobby
20-year-old Mike Sangster, the "wonder boy" of the British game.
have a chance to set new Empire records.
in the current One sentence "British Lawn Tennis" magazine has stirred ap trouble between these two players who may well be fighting for Britain together in the Davis Cup this year.
There, outspoken Sangster writes: "As I see it, there are two courses open to me. The first is to do a "Wilson' and stay in England, only playing in the tournament where I can do well and on the surface which suits me best-rrass," No wonder, Wilson is hopping mad. In the past year he hos played in all the major tourna- ments
up
On
were re-
cetly, beaten in Hongkong.
football
desperately
According to the Reuter re- port published In the China Mail on Thursday Mr Bell said: 'We hope to play good cricket and do not mind if we win or love".
is
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talr
Tomorrow's 'greats'
A local boxing ring sur- rounded by noisy excllable partisan Chinese supporters comes to life In the best traditions of the sport. The fans applaud, cheer, and cntourage their countrymen and in doing so they whip up the environment In which boxing is at its best.
Laat week's show must have
If this is an accurate report Whatever the result of the and is not # sentence taken out games we want more than ange for a bigger context it is . thing else to see an exemplary strange utterance. Certainly from this FA team participation in a game
is the show Colony
issue and needs the reassurance that Dri-punctuated
majur
Eport with cliches new; lish football is still free from extolling food losers....the the cheap dramatics, the tem- game's the thing....and so on, peramental tantrums, end de- but to read that a fiery, hostile, plorable netd conduct which we fast bowler, and an astute club have now come to regard as skipper like Bob Bell publlely essentials of the Continental and declares on behalf of his team Latin American sides who come we do not mind if we win been just about the quietest in here in a blaze of unjuslifed, lose"...takes a
There of Colony boxing history, bit
almost were long periods of publicity.
swallowing
complete silence....A silence The object of every sporting of indifference. In may seem strange to the members of the English party contest is surely to win honour-
The HKABA, however inno- that someone should be writably, or, when the fortunes go Ing in this veln....but we against you, to lose gracefully, ¦ cent, has to accept a large slice have been let down so badly but ofter all the hurd work of of the blame for the disappoin
the training the ing affair. They pre-painted and so often in recent years preparation,
of the 10umament with a touch of that we have become scepti- travelling and the honour eni -
Colony's colours champions.. if not actually suspic- carrying the
May 31, South Africa is due to leave the Common-
become und wealth republic.
a
One man who has nipped an smartly to beat the deadline is discus-thrower Eltranco Malun with a throw of 186 ft 6 ins, nearly two feet better thun the uld record of fellow South | African Stan du Plessis,
This may well be the last to a Australia-the Empire record credited outside Wimbledon and United States Springbok. Meanwhile, it is still Championship: un grass, and the not certain that South Africans Italian and French Champion will remain on the list of E- pire record holders after May ships un hard rourts.
31.
As he argues, these are scarcely tournaments where he can expert to do well.
'A pity'
I understand that this ques- į tion will be discussed at the next meeting of the Fmptre Federation. It could result In
He tells me: "It is true that I several non-Springbok athletes proter grays. But the fact is suddenly finding themselves re- that I played more tournaments cognised as Empire record hoiti-
on hard courts last year than ers and Empire Games cham-
on grass.
As for staying in England,
pions.
Broke his neck
One man who would be af fected is Gert Potgieter, the South Afclean hurdler who won the Empire 440 yards hurdles
Cardiff in the world record time of 49.7 sech and was also a member of the winning 4 x 440 yard relay
team.
1 played Jast year in Lie United States, France, Italy. Canada and Egypt. I cannot manage
more Overseas trips than that if I aim to keep my job outside the game.” In the circumstance. It seems a pity that Mike Sangster, a comparative newcomer to top fennis, should make such per- sonal remarks about Wilson. Especially at a time when there is hope of building better under- This courageous Springbok, standing between players in who broke his neck playing Britain's Davis Cup team.. rugby a few years ago, is now It is a ball durt and one only | making another amazing come- hopes that they make up thin back-after a car crash In Ger quarrel before it develops into many which cost him the sight A bitter feud which seriously of his left cyc, interferes with Britain's Davis Cup hopes.
He has recently run 100 yards
In 10.2 nec, and the low hudeg
in 20.1 sec. He told reporters:
Records reshuffle The Judgment of distance
13
| very much more difficult with
one cyc. I find I have to con-
This is the hat month incentrate ots the hurdles far more
which Springbok athletes' than I did in the past.
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