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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY '1, 1981..

SATURDAY SPORTS SPOT

Soccer Ambassadors collect

nearly a quarter of a million votes!

Nearly a quarter of a million votes had been cast in the Ambassador of Football contest which ended. last night. The public response was tremendous: the interest in the fluctuations of the poll was, a real eye-opener. Thirty-nine players received votes for a place in the Senior side and support was forthcoming, for 25 players in the Junior section.

One of the big bright moments; the eyes of the Committee. Bach ; In the voting came on Thursday | player will be considered on hi inorning when supporters arriv-| merits and the one in each group ed at the voting booth with most likely to derive the greatest 10,000....yes....nineteen thou- | benefit from a visit to Blackpool, sand...votes for young Wong and most capable of passing an Sze-keung!!

that beneft when he returns to the Colony, will be nominated.

The whole concept of the compelliton has given a re- Two among 22 freshing touch to the typically players now stand right on the drab end-of-season alinosphere edge of a wonderful experience. And Hongkong Boltlers The big question now is....who together with their associates are they? We shall have to walt

is

when

By I. M.

MacTAVISH

tell you about this week hus it In

generous

• measure. After retereeing

a rather

every stadium would ! have a protesilve dome; when every game would be presented like u grand gala show with speeinture enjoying theatrelike comfort. He polisted out that if bolsterdus match between two A ballet dancer could not per-youth sides in Wales he sub-

mited a form perfecily on firm ground

report which read: one day, or a waterlogger Jubilant delinquents. The losera winners behaved like fnce next and on of were not quite so adult." ico on the one following it, why should a footballer, who ia Full marks ..

Mr Referee Howadays a highly paid public here's more power to your

entier, bis expected to do whistle,

su?

Super stadium

"It seemed a sound enough argument and when I left the

when convert

This wook's

of the

on

tale-wagger

ngar.

of its potential und Sanlurd to talk football with concerns a contrast in caro. a South American millionaire Looking down on Sookunpoo predict that in 50 years who Incidentally described and can see the playing sur- from now the whole himself as an impresario of taco

and sport....I character and presenta colball

Hongkong an imnicdiate

Stadium being nurted skil- tion of the game will have almost

to the bellef that the soccerfully back to sparkling green changed completely",

pitch would become, in the not | health

* troutmont These words are contained In,

very distant future, sort of of completo rest and

reallso Hongkong a letter written by a farsighted super stage. I didn't

expert caro while Just how qulekly I was going spurtsman who has been altend- Ing the current American Soccer

to get proot of this....strong, by, at Caroline Hill and on Tournament in New York.

atcei and concrete proof,

the Army Sports Ground, the He

already "The Brazthan with whom I

doop SCUFI and bed á

lunch appointment ravogos are being relentless- brought an' American from ly torn still deeper and Texas alour with him and. wider as gamo

after game having heard all the popular and training spell after stories I expected something big. I was not disappointed, training spell go on, appor On the contrary I listened in catly endlessly. Both fascination and looked at pic grounds have already lost a tures which made me almost full month of their vital embarrassed for the so-called recuparation spall and are quito browned off. The way things are going they wil look pretty tired and joded when

in the project, BOAC, Wabin few more days before we can Kiu Yat Po, Rediffusion and, supply the answer.

man who knows what he is talking about and whose opinion

Is frequently sought at interan-

tlonal level; If his Arst words

in all modesty, the China Mall | A modern jet-propelled mngle

are due congratulations for carpet awalts: good old are striking those that follow their sporting efforts in fashioned goldent opportunity are no less so. anaking Honghong's first lies ahead.... hero's luck to Ambassadors of Football con- those who now no

anxiously tes such a resounding success. await the final decisions,

Final stage

Now the proceedings move

inth their final decisive stage.

The names of the 11 players

the Senior who topped

and Juror poll go forward to the Special Selection Committee and, while the votes they received in the public ballot will no doubt be remembered as an indication Keneral, and 110 doubt set of partisan, support, each eleven players wil start equal in

"Football as we know it to

In an interesting review of the development of soccer he says: "Modern football hed its birth in The United Kingdom and even in these days of far-fetched claims, With

Strange

few, will dispute that, cricket firmly entrenched 4.5 day-in spite of its une accepted summer sport, foot- doubted popularity and its bait was pursued as a winter Imposing history-is still activity. in the Infancy of its development public

дя entertainment. Those who have controlled it so far have almost completely missed an understanding

COUNTY CRICKET

Hants still in the lead despite defeat; Middlesex now second

London, June 30.

"Maybe i was a feeling of bravado, maybe it was a caso of the joy of living and achievement.... or

more

likely it was sheer ignorance .... but, for some strange re- son, it seemed right to the carly players and officials that the game should be played in slush, snow, mud, ice or An strength sapping near-Arctic; conditions when it was an act

sports archas I had visited so often in Britain,

"This Texan really had a story to teli und pictures to

se 11. He told me of a

September comos great new sports arena being along. We shall have to constructed at Houston in his open a Colony branch of the home state and I can do no SPBDFP....the Society for belter than quote a press cut- the Protoction of Battered ting which appeared recently

Football the United Kingdom. It and Defenceless read "The world's first and only Pitches. coveted air-conditioned stackin seating 65,000 is now under construction at Houston, Texas.

in

is going to be the tst word in sports presentation.""

"Planned as a venue for foot- ball, baseball, boxing and con- of courage to turn out and afventions its, playing field major achievement merely to scating accommodation are .com- stay on one's feet.

pletely roofed over. Further- more, the gross will grow inside, "How can football-rent tool for the roof is to be of trans- ball be played in such condi-lucent plastic, which will admit tions? Frankly it cannot hul it the range ot Bght spectrum Is this stubborn determination to necessary for the turf's culti- prove how tough it can be that vation. is counting heavily against Bri- tish football today.

"There will be no trouble with smoke or hot air.. This will be. extracted from the top of the domed roof 202 feet above the pinying surface,

"As the game in its path of progress spread out from the British Isles it travelled north south, east and west and in "Every minute 250,000 cuble

Hampshire, leaders of the English Cricket County many cases it reached places feet of fresh air will be drawn Championship table, batted badly against the which enjoyed cricket weather, into the stadium. Floodlighting Middlesex spin attack at Lord's today, and were beaten by 131 runs. But they kept their lead at the top of the table.

round, instead of wasting their events and when football is and better, the whole year will be laid on for evening strength and energy trying to being played the dirt arcas on kick a rodden ball through a sea the baseball dlemond will bo of mud or trying to keep their turfed over to provide a perfect shire by two wickets in an- balance on + treacheroua ley gross surface. Middlesex moved up to second T pine at the expense of York- other exelting finish,

surface the players of the 'New shire, Who mei unexpectedly i Their vielury was the result Soccer Zones were able to con-

centrate on seventh stiff resistance frum Derbyshire of a spirited

artistry and ball- control safe in the knowledge that only in the most exceptional and

circumstances would they ever be troubled with a ton-weight ball and quagmire of a pitch.

wickel

Brlan

al Sheffield and had to be con- stand 101 in 125 minutes by

four points from a tent with

Alan Lightfoot drawn match. Yerkshire dropped Crump. Northants had beeri set

to make 381, and earlier in the Galeday Brian Reynolds had paved

the way with a hard-hit 77.

down to third place.

A century by Bob enotted Middlesex to set Bacap-

"In many countries where

shire to nuke 201 In 210 At Tunbridge Wells; Kent this idealistic situation did not

minutes,

Wild strokes Alan Mess non took the vital wicket of West Indian Hoy Marshall when Hamp shive went in and afterwards

Humyubire's other leading butsmen proceeded to get themselves out by the use of Acne very wild strokes.

Derek Morgan and Ian Bux- 10g baited defiantly for Derby shire, and Yorkshire were left to make 100 at two a minute. They lost quick wickets to fast bowlers Jackson and Rhodes and had made 75 for six wickets

by the close. England's Cowdrey, who

filled

beat Nottinghamshire

by two exist all the year round the of wickets. Nottinghamshire 327 tankers intelligently called for nine declared and 235, Kenthalt during the bad months and 339 for seven declared and 229 resumed their domestic rom- for eight (M. Cowdrey 135), petitions when better conditions Kent 14 points.

returned. In

the mid-season breake many of the chibs went on overseas tours to improve their knowledge, their bank balances, and to my mind that is a much more sen- Elble time to take on unknown upposition than at the end of a long tiring season ankle drep in good old British mad.

At Northampton: Northamp tonshire beat Worcestershire by two wickets. Worcestershire 250 and 254 for five declared Northamptonshire 133 and 384 for eight (B. Reynolds 77, B. Crump 70, s. Lightfoo! 100). Northamptonshire IZ polnis. Worcestershice four points.

Results

runs.

as well

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'Offbeat' conceptions

"Several times in recent years I have seen both the England International teams beaten in Europe. The against this or that country on show they lost

a certain date but it is my

Intriguing feature

"Probably the most intrigu- Ing feature of all is that when the arena is converted Kròni baseball to football it will need odly the pressing of a button and the stands, holding 10,000 seata, will move round од steel rails

until they parallel with the football *idelines.

аге

tho

Of course this sort of thing по опе costs money--although in' Texas seems particularly worried about that and bill for the new Housian stadium will Pozne to just

£7,700,000:..."

"It is

believed come of the visiting

South American ometals were most interested in this project. The latest reports suggest that at least Awo covered stedja will' be

Ticar

constructed there in the future,...and it is no secret that the big thinking Spaniards are also interested.""

1 feel attle overawed by ft all. When you realise this opinion they lost the games

particular stadium is going to epat just 123,200,000 Hongkong months before in the squetching | dollars I'm sure you will know surfaces of Old Trafford.. why. At that sort of

price Whlie Hart Lane Ibrox grandlose football reforms, are Tyn castle and many moro far beyond the reach of com.. like them.

munities much bigger and wealibler than ours....unless, of course, we can strike, oil at Spoirunpoo,

Results of today's matches were: captain, Colin At Ashby-De-La-Zouch: Sus-and Scotland

in the sex beat Lolcestershire by 215 econd Test against Australia atruns. Sussex 308 and 120. Lel records will Lord's, and who was out firstcestershire 113 and 100 (D. Bates bail in the first innings against five for 27), Sussex 14 points; Nettinghamshire at Tunbridge At Liverpool: Lancashire beat Wells, hit peak form in the Gloucestershire

by 188 second innings and bis 135 out Lancashire 240 and 200 for five of 185

Gloucestershire in two-and-a-quarter declared,

114 hours enabled-Kent to score an

and 138. Lancashire 14 points, exciting win.

AL Swansea: Warwickshire bent, Glamorgan by 131 runs, Warwickshire 193 and 208 for seven declared (N. Horner 76, J. Kennedy 78), Glamorgan 221- and 111, (A. Jones B1). War- wickshire 12 points. Glamorgan two points,

Exciting finish

"

Kent, set to make 224 al 70 cn hour, reached their target with two wickets in hand and three minutes of the extra half- hour to spare.

Northamptonshire ended run of seven successive de feats by lieating Worocalpr

Sports Diary

TODAY Walking

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Annual Round The Island walk

Lawn Mowin

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Div 1: Recreio "W" v KBGC; CCC v liectela "IF"; KCC v FC, VBIČ v KDC; Taikoo y me.

DIY 4: IRC "án v uker, PRC "D" IBC "G; FC v PRO "A" CECU HKENY.

DIY 3; [[KFC v Talkoo; BC V CCC; EDCY FG. BUCCC » KGC

Ladies' Dengue Div 1: COC; KOGU V JKFC,

Bocery..

Talkoo v

Youth League: Happy Vallek, “w Eastern 8. China ground's

017 vtion ring (3. Chios ground) 6.30 pm.

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At Lord's: Middlezox beat Middlesex. 190 and 280, (R. Gale Hampshire by 131 runs. 111). Hampshire 190 and 149. Middlesex 12 points. Hampshire four,

·

At Easiboutie: Cambridge

"Today one hears a tre- meridquis lot of talk about re- Kokins' and' while, I firmly t- lieve there will be soma fundamental changes in Piel- fish football I also hollave the ident important Inpovallons will be forced upon the 'Kome asipelations by revolutionary tbloking and action, how bo- coming ovideni id offer parts of the world.

University Beat' Col Stevens' "Recently I had an oppor

XI by fiye wickets. Col. Stevens'. XI 291 and 222. Cam

funity to exchangé onihions and vlewa akith leaders of game bilüge University 139′ for live i in some of the more progressive declared and 180 for Ave (R. countries and I was shaken by Thomson 30 not out).

the I think the appropriate

At the tyal: Match drawn. modern term witch. I learned Surfey "287' Tur eht declared from my teenage daughter is--- and 247 for eight declared offbeat conceptiolle on-

(R. Tindall 45), Oxford Uni-countered,

versity 24 and, 204 for seven

(D. Gren i not out).

"Frankly some of It wa

A

At Shefell March drawn. Itile frightening to my con Derbyshire 101 and 248 (W. | #Cryptive inind but now on re- Ostes 437 Du, Morgan 11, 7 | (evtidh "1 fit it all most Buxon 40. F. Triemua five for stimulating. One Spentah 03), Yorkshire 334 and 25 for meatieren told me he ipokod x Yorkshire four points, -- forward to the day when soccer Heuler.

bresti In INDOOR sport:

re-

Don't ever belleve, the sug

gestion that soccer forces have no sense of humour. Some of them definitely possess such a quallly..., and one I can

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