1961-05-27 — Page 15

SPORTS SPOT EUROPEAN SOCCER OWES

SATURDAY

Black Tuesday - are the authorities prepared to risk it again?

By I. M. MacTAVISH

The magnificent fighting display given by the Colony's Chinese footballers in Tuesday night's match against the English Football Association team did a tremendous amount to restore faith and confidence in the players.

or

It also opened the eyes of many folks who did not know

that the local boys had maybe conveniently forgotten

can be extremely competent when they are allowed to play unfettered.

But do not let the players' glittering efforts bind you to the much more important and rer- tainly much more pressing fact that longkong football has come ent of this series facing the big gest crisis of its turbulent e. Soccer now 'stands uncertain and dangerously confused at

the cruss roads.

Lowest obb

as it is

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That

something whleb will not tolerate Jah Citizen

Sammy Soccer-fon whatever

it. But the may think about present situation is not the out-

of P come

mere 'one night") apre,

The Hame has indeed reached lowest club. In the span of

cold trust and

stark susplejon have brought us to the very verge of self desiruo- tion.

of all this to The tragedy that it comes at a Ume when our players have proved again. that, if given the chance, they can be top class performers.

a few short years all the earlier

The eye-opening class of foot- good work of fur-sighted pall produced by the Chinese

has mrs and builders

come The trust, the boys on Tuesday evening used to crashing down.

It*

a regular feature of our nifairs. Now it has become so exceptional that many spectators who saw this game stood back in surprise.

SPORTING SAM

by Rog. Wootton

that

Interested in the events on the vindiepting display field are

using these circum- | grond second game... the FA stances to exploit their own party leavea with our best

probably holds qui the main New Zenland and later In

America.

ends. It is this element which wishes for a successful tour in challenge to society... and to

soccer.

The inevitable consequence of all this is that decent folks of all nationallies will hence- forth give serious second thoughts to going near a foot ball natch....and the leaders or our commually will shy away

of from the doubtful honour being the VIP in attendance, No person of prominence will want to be associated-however re- motely with the sort of cœenes witnessed after the Brazilian I well as the British serles....anul frankly....who could quito blame them.

The right kind of people are In danger of being driven away from the game and it can only suffer from such an exodus.

counter-

Our hope

Loudon Express Bervice

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IT ALL TO FRANCE'S BACKROOM BOYS

By SIR GEORGE GRAHAM

(Former Secretary of the Boottish FA)

All over Europe at the moment, football is being

dominated by the World Cup. One desperate battle after another is being fought in the scramble for places among the qualifiers for Chile next summer.

With so many local erio- keters on leave in ́the British The World Cup started in of his sparide since he returned Isles at the present time it was

1930.

I wonder how many otto Rheins from Real Madrid decided to arrange a mistch you can guess which European last year. with the 'Old Stagers' prob- country has qualified for the Is magnificent "win" in the ably beller recognised

Anal stages 35

EVERY

Justo time in attack,

Fontaine-the former players in the Colony,; those 31 yearu?

And there is World Cup record goal-scorer The Test-of nerves or only one,

-has twice and his leg broken capacity is scheduled to take Would Jou plump for In the past year. place on July 28 and is no-Hungary? Or Italy? Or Spain? |parently being referred

10 üs

All have the international re- The Brenchley

cords, Flower Show

But no do Gennany, Match. The

Yugoslavia Dad, for that matter, announcement ignideantly states that the our neighbours. England. players will assemble in "The Star at Matfield at 1 o'clock and also rather significantly tails to mention when the game

Our hope now must be that the English players and ofcials will consider that the good in Hongkong football will rise about the present trend and hat, when they report back to the Football Association In | Londen, they will recall our at

tributes as well as the less de- strable aspects of our affairs.

Now the visitors have gone, {will slart.

problems, bigger Our 'blacker than ever, linger on. Strong action on many sides is our degrading imperative if decay is to be arrested before becomes completely chronic and Incurable.

and

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with Willow-wielding

difference is the subject

д

the

Quite an event The occasion will certainly

for ac not lack personalities carding to information available ED far stalwarts like Pat Howard-Dobson, Rory Macpher- son and

giant swiper, stumper, enthusiast,

broadcaster and Peier Chubb will all be there. The future

It should be quite an event. Talk about Chopsticks in What of the future?

of our tale-end story this exile ... indeed, this could be a Rumours and

contribution week. It is a pleasant major around the rumours are dying

little

affair MCC's brighter cricket cam Hongkong possible acts community. The and intentiona of Government nlthough it is being..........or Our players must now be Are the current tople of many a

rather will be....enacted educated to the fact that the conversation....but it would be

in the United Kingdom. Indeed to dangerous' game holds rich and legitimate The soccer well has run dry. its for talent and ability. wander into worthless specula- Miss for, as dear le There is nothing shobby or Too many folks have for loodegrading about being a profes. Sunshine. Durls lang been more concerned with stonal sportsinun and a man who would say....whatever will be convinced only earns his wages openty and onwili.be. I am

will be but 1 the basis of individual ability is free

embarrassing shackles which any other system can product,

The disturbance whitch follow-endence, the respect and the ed second match last Tues-

all gone. Even esiem have day changes the whole local, the presence

of the Brat full Incon- English representative side in slation and, ceivable that a large slice of our Hongkong football history could Folie Force should be expected do no better than half the to stand by at every big game etadium for elthor game to curb brand of Impetuous their short series, hooliganism which could SU violence. turn to mub

action must Stane prsitive falten.

To put it very huntly, Foot- ball in Hongkong has now LP- come a clear and real threat to pubile safely,

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what could be taken put of the rame rather than what could be put into it and all the nounting Jealousies... dis

CRICKET'S BIGGEST TEST

ATTACK, ENGLAND

Says West Indian star fast bowler in an interview with CRAWFORD WHITE

the

The hotbed

Now, however, comes throbbing realisation Internal reformation may be

very

tion

that something enter refuse

Day...

tells of a match

of

paign.

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wan

A fów weeks ago, il reported that Fontaine would probably not play again, but I have Just bad word that his leg is now out of plaster and his hopes to play again for Rheims and France next season.

No justice!

And the third

But how many of you would take France? Few, I think- yel France it is. And it looks As if they'll bo there again next summer,

of the great Very appropriate, too, We Inside trio, Roger Planion, is Scots are apt to boast about the expected to jola # South contribution we have made to American club at the end of the football, Yet the French have season and will probably not be done more to put glamour into the game than any other country

the world.

It

Evil days

Frenchmen

two was

Delzuney

and Jules Henri Rimet--who were the pluncers and designers of the World Cup. And again it was France who planned

the and started European Cup, the greatest club tournament in the world.

available to France next season.

Just the same, France have already beater Finland (away) and Bulgaria (home) In their section and should reach the

dinals once again.

"The first World Cup (without any qualifying "sections) WOR played in Uruguay in 1930. Only four European sides went

France, Belgium, Yugoslavia and Rumania.

Tournament after tournament eloce then France have gained It is true that the game has a place ainong the ellte. Fre- fallen on rather evil days in quently they played with great France at present, Attendances distinction.

But they have never won the have tumbled and once-grent clubs are struggling to survive. World Cup. And the European

The International, team, too, Cup

never left Spain twice been badly

Rheims have hit. Our old although

opponent, reached the final. There isn't Raymond Kopa, has lost much any justice!

bas

This wook's tale-waggor News from Guy Pritchard

that could is a question. What has write a new chapter in Kent happened to that inquiry cricketing history .. and it about 'them what don't try could also be the incan writing a new record in the as hard as they ought'?—or the field 23 1 stock book of one of these de-is everyone now happy in friend and briliant lipster of what form

it will ghtful pubs in the Hop County, the Valley?" luke.

For years the visit of an Eukland team was to be our Krentest moment. The visiting F.A. players and their officials the certainly made their contribu- ton to that hope our own footballers rose to the occasion

that

too

late and that it could, of sheer in a manner that surprised even recessity, bd forced on the game the staunchest fans: yet the tour from the outsid÷, Moreover | finished In bitter disappoint- the game is to go on and payment.

its way something must be done Everyone who loves the game, about the 'Aberd:en gate' whilch or who merely appreciates fair he Incrasable fills the towering hillside above play, will regret

irresponsible cle- the Hongkong Stadium and is blot which the hatbed of much of the cur-¡ment stamped across the occn-

slon. rent troubis

someone

....or how

...the Dalry Farm

Wesley Hall, Test cricket's fastest bowler, has just

returned to Accrington to play in the Lanca- steps giving Lane Crawford's shire League after a highly successful tour with West Indies in Australia. He knows their, Kowicon Motor strength-and their weaknesses, if they have would any!

part in giving cricket ita new What is more, he played a big sparkle, new vitally, and new interest.

same

We can do no more than offer our apologies to the visitors: they deserve no less. for they were no party to what happened and their conduct Wan above reproach. They were welcome, dignified, and talented tourists.

Congratulations

I wonder how many stamps the Post Office would sell it stcod en the GPO. them away free

the Bus Cmpuny ..or any other trading concer if circumstances fare offered the paying publle the

No doubt they will leave here the or same goods,

fact that do not disguise the form and success. If they see a In fact, exactly what is happen they enjoyed their two matches series will be decided on their services, for nothing. Tint is with very mixed feelings. They

they лге accurate ing as far as foolball at the weakness

...they found Hongkong enough to keep bowling at Hongkong Stadium 15 con hospitality lo be as warm as they And no matter how good the

cerned.

had been led to expect....they Trueman's fast out.

found our Chinese players batsman,

The whole thing is crazy za

but it will swinger and the one Stathar

worthy opponents pitch cuts back of the

are

crazy can be. How can any Their mighty difficult to play.

organisation official or pri-be hard for them to forget the accuracy holds the key.

vate accept such a situa- disgusting scenes which kept them confined to their dressing llow many bouncers per over Garry Sobers. He's the best

be per-

room for a long time after the in the world. After him it's not should a fast bowler

The Government built the game was over: a delay which easy to grade them. There's a mitted?

was unfortunately necessary for think about how Stadium....it

into a group all the same high class-

Bowling is deal with the Hongkong Fool- their personal safety, May, Cowdrey, Dexter (of Eag-many I will bowl.

Just bowl. When land). Harvey, O'Neill. Simpson fun for me.

conditions of one of the (Australia). Worrell and Kanhai I'm walking back I sometimes ball Association to run it and think I'll try a bouncer. Then (West Indies).

So my man-to-man talk with the 23-year-old West Indian was bound to produce a fresh and authoritative oplulon..........

Who in the bent bataman you've ever bowled to?

I

never

tion?

entered

that

Who is Australia's most dan- I just bowl it. My idea is to agreement was that all matches unsettle the batsman and lot against visiting teams had to be gerous batsman?

Neil, Harvey, Norman O'Neill him know I'm

a fast bowler played there.

le seemed to play the best I

could bowl with such ease,

Challenge

in-

on us a

and Bobby Simpson are good, and keep him looking for on- Bringing world class football Two an over should be teams to the remote location but I pick Harvey, despite his other. bad kelt in the Teals against us. the limit.

which we Occupy is an

business expensive creasingly and certainly the HKEA cannot You have forced England and be expected to carry

body spending Australian

wear philanthropic batsmen to

free intertainment for an ever doubt the most growing gallery of non-paying Oficialdom MUST сак

What Is your sssessment of

O'Neill and Simpson?

tralians O'Neill especially rate as the bravest?

I was always told the Aus- chest protectors. Whom do you thousands of dollars to provide were suspect outside the off

Without

stump. And I agree that O'Neill Is a strong right-hand courageous I've seen is Auatre-fans. ployer who likes his on-sidea's Colin McDonald-no grent operate. shots, But he hathmered me straite player but a great opener for four hours in a row when I who his to be dug out.

bowied Just outside his off stump!

No

matter how often he is hit he never fiches, never grumbles, Simpson was my victim atx and is bang behind the line of times out of mine, but there was the next one.

about the no distinct pattern

way I got him.

Do you think England have the batsmen to hit the Austra llan attack as Worrell, Sobers, Kanhol, and Alexander

Cowdrey,

Exploitation?

The vital thing to be re- membered is that the thou- sands are on the side simply because they want lo act the particular football match which is in progress. If they did not get the best the and seats in the house' free Dexter are world class. Eng-majority of them would willing- He was occasionally caught land have the stroke players,ly pay to go into the Stadium behind the wicket and was not so have Australla. Each must ....but as long as the procent happy when the ball was Riting. resolve to use them. And I'm i situation

persists who

Solid

last winter?

What WHE Harvey's

weak-

Yes, May,

news?

can

But who is? And who can make certain England's best chance of criticise them for getting their the Bft fast enough on Eng-winning is to go straight into entertainment for nothing? His wicket?

attack. That's how Benaud wit

Many

Any impressions of other play it,

keen observers believò Australian batsmen?

It both siden take up the that what is happening now is Peter Burge solid, very challenge the series could be merely the end-product of there nolid. He was the only Austra-overy bit an glorious as our tour recent years of painfully obvious Han who drove me. And Alan in Australia last winter. And delcrioration during which Davidson with the only man that, we're told, put cricket events on and off the held have who hooked me. As fur Kenback on the map. We were stirred the fans to a hypercriti- McKay, no matter what I did hejbeaten, but the result didn't cal state. Nowadays they nee always seemed to be still there! seem to matter.

malice, corruption and mystery Spinners worry him masti '

Who do you think will win. where it is very doubtful ir ik What advicë have you, then, Engand or Australia?

Fexista....and of course · they for Trueman and Slatkam' at That's a tough one. It's 50-50. have found a dangerous way of the start of this seriok?

But if young Australians, ke making their feelings known to Trueman and Statham are the Quick, "Missen, Gaunt, and Me- | those in charge. most accurate fast - bowling ‡čenzie got used to English con-

combination in the world and Ifditions quickly they will be Unfortunately there is a drep

think the Englanif-Auslrolle very hard to best.

suspleipu

To finish on such a bitter note would hardly do justice to the

sterling efforts of the players of both sides, and to the Palice,

when the emergency arose.

Hongkong's footballers dc- serve the congratulations of all who enjoyed their refreshing,

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