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SPORTS SPOT IT'LL BE BETWEEN ST

Congratulations, hearty congratulations, to Police soccer skip- por, Kung Wah-kit and to shy, retiring Salesion schoolboy Chan Yin-sun on their spectacular election as Hongkong's first over 'Ambassadors of Football'. What a magnificent honour it is for those two worthy sports» The experience of their young lifetimes now lies ahead: a whole new world of football understanding awaits them: above all the Colony can be assured it will have a couple of first class representatives at Blackpool.

mon.

Kung Wah-kit who goes to the lied Kingdom as the Senior Ambassador is the son of a merchant how th the limbeg business in Rangoon, He is

"While all that happened In would have liked to hear, How- the piceting is essentially a clored chapter it is no regret tha, the Commitice took two all hêurs of deliberations

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Sver, the mere fact that, ti there highly commercialised days, the Urban Council oMeer: found time to air their views on the subject was most reassuring ...and in fairness to oMeldi. dom one cannot leave the tople without commenting on the tremendous progress that has already been made.

Well equipped

The 'greatest thing hockey player at heart" noticed its facilities for casual

This will not be his first trip abroad. He foured Australia with Eastere a few years ago.

PADDY AND RIGHT ROYAL AT ASCOT HEATH TODAY

By VERNON MORGAN

Ascot Heath, July '15. '

A race takes place here today which should decide which is the best horse in the world over one and half miles.

Sports Diary

TODAY Bowls

Even those contents which | Bt Paddy won the Derby and St do not have representatives | Loger last year and has only re- would hardly dare to say they cently won the Eelipse Stakes In have better racehorse than record lime. Right Royal won the either Britain's, St Paddy or French Derby this year and la France's Right Royal who for and away the best horse of clash in the King George VI ha age in France. and Queen Elizabeth Stakes One of the intriguing aspects over one and a half miles for of the race is which of the a prize of £23,000,

quartet will make the running. Though so much money is Apostle is always ridden from- at stake the four-year-old 81 behind. There are doubts about Paddy, owned by Sir Victor the staying ability of Rockavan Bassoon, and the three-yCAT-

though he is bred for stamina. old Right Royal, owned by

Right Royal will probably not Madame Jean Couturie,

want to, and it may well be champions in their respective

left in St Paddy to meko all countries are so outstanding

his own running. A slow pace they they have, frightened

seems inevitable.--Reuter. away thost of the oppostilon and, only two horses both from Britain, the four-year- old Apostle and the three- year-old Roohavon will no- company them to the posi. Even though there have been Formeny upsets in big races here this season it is unthinkable that either of these could win though Al extreme left is Mr A. L. Nery of BOAC and at extreme right Mir Apostle, a son Blue Peler, 15 a really line handicapper with P. W. D. Fairbanks of Hongkong Bottlers Inc.---China Mail photo.

come Arst class succenses to undermine -will examine the report and are made to

con-, in order to make a point would his credit, while Rockavon a son Consult community leaders] Adence In a project, a cause, or, be amusing if it was not so of Rockefella was the winner of j

2nd Division: KBGC familiar with local football¦even in serne cases, an organisa-} pathetic.

the Two Thousand Guineas at

Recrela "W" vece vangen Recrelo "B" v UsПc. organisation before deciding tion, a club or a sportsman.

Often there is a shameless Newmarket this year.

Swimming what steps should be taken,

Fortunately such endeav-il-concealed axe-to-grind altl- It thus becomes virtual Idies' Recreation Club ours are no transparently, tude about much of it. While duel between the two cham-galu, 3.50 pm. shallow that seeing through sport-be it football, softball,pions, the paternal grandslro them is not difficult and, al- lawn bowls or tiddlywinks of both of which was Hyperlon. though they may temporarily, thrives on

objective St Paddy is a really handsome biurr the truth of the issue, criticism....however outspoken they have a strange way oft is difficult to see what blowing right back in the face benefits if any it gains from

much of the of the perpetrators, action

-directed, 11- conceived and even fl-Intended Hongkong sports in general

elforts so prevalent at the pre- and soccer in particular have

eent time. lived all too long in an caviron- ment of this kind. The village It is said that a game is on pump mentality has falled inactivity in which there is no some spheres to grow up with penalty for losing....but, boy, the community's rise to big what of the strange ingredients

The two Ambassadors of Football, Chan Yin-sun of Saleslan School (second from left) and Kung Wah-kit of Police (third from left) with their statuettes after the announcement of the results and presentation of statuettes and certificates at the Gloucester Hotel last Tuesday.

25 years of age and aan muke it: choice from among u spector in the Hongkong Police collection of very worthy Force. He Is keen all-round, candidates. sportsman and after leaving St The second part of the show Joseph's College with a eredit-took place at the Gloucester able record he played Senior Hotel where, before a powerful soccer first as a 'prodigy with gathering of the Colony's foot- Kitchee and then with Eastern ball lenders headed by Mr before he joined the Pelice. W. S. T. Loucy and Mr Mok Hongkong today is excep- Many Colony honours have Hing, President and Chairman | tionally well equipped to meet come his way.

respectively of the Hongkong the requirements of organised, | Football Association, Mr A. L. spari. Quietly and almost un-

Nery of BOAC announced the relaxed recreation have also: decision of the Selection Com-grown and,

while the demands mitee, presented air line te-of the mass of the populatim hots, certificates Rid large who so desperately need space Nevertheless he makes no scerct of the fact, this is The

statuettes to the two Ambulan-for breathing and exercising are greatest thing that has

dors and smaller statuettes and still far from satisfied, much bas ever

all the happened to him and he is certificates to

players been achieved. That is a point who had gained a place in the which should not be forgotten. Anal public polis.

"Playing fields rellect the character and devotion of community" said a regal per- sonatlly not so long ago, it is against the Journalist who start- a fine observation. In spite of ed what they say are malicious the Inevitable

a vestige Intermittent rumblik without criticism the Colony has no truth or foundation. need to be ashamed of the pro- it fias made in this reas respect.

looking forward eagerly lo scting England, its football clubs and, maybe most im- portant of all, in high-power League matches in progress. At the other end of his jet- propelled magic-carpet trip Kung will have a happy reunion with his sister who has been in London for three years studying nursing. It will be a

proud

day for both of them when they meet in the stirring atmosphere which belongs so exclusively to London.

The story of Chan Yin-sun This is a true-life Cinderella tate with a youthful male here. Sun is the eldest of a family of eight children and from earllest time he has had to work

is a very different one indeed.

his

hard for every little bit of pro-

gress and pleasure that have

Fitting finale

This glittering occasion was a suitable finale to the first phase of what has been a must stimulating sporting adven- ture. Already there is con- fident indication that wo-shall ses the contest with certain

rular feature of the calendar.

Bottlers

It is of course impossible to

check the source or authenticity of the suggestion and much press and private

argament roger around the subject. One source of information how alleges that bentor football ofleints are con- | Bidering taking legal

'Be patient'

of

as

healthy

modifications—becoming a re- It is true of course that while Frankly the sporting com-city' status and the careless that sometimes go into the soccer facilities for organised crowd-munity, has little brief for the abandon with which blatant in-process of winning"....on and

In Hongkong accuracles are projected as facts off the field....and elsewhere. For the moment Hongkonguiling sport appear to have en-present remme

the blackest joyed some preferential priority football. After together with

and Sunkist Growers the general impression may be season in Colony history the

their associate materially influenced by

the officials can export few medals sponsers, Woh Klu Yat Po, Re essentially spectacular nature of or commendations but for diffusion, BOAC and the China Mail,

giant stadio and imposing all that I disfire the hidden tremendous satisfaction OD

can look back with

swimming pools bullt to Olymple dangers of n 'leakage' story standards.

much as I despise the betrayal highly successful first venture.

It is Important to remember, of condences by the wanton great lift to the lagging tailendike the itandang Stadium gives matters discussed behind closed contest gave however, that while an arena and, repopitblow disclosure of

desire to 'prove' in print that "he is well Informed Con lead writer and his informant precarious situations.

The ambillous

of a disappointing season and st facilities to only a small num- doors. The apparently Irresistible

come his way. In this he was the same time aroused unprece backed on the onc hand by dented enthusiasm among

parents determined to sacrifice

much to give him and his followers of the game.

brothers and sisters ...some-

thing worthwhile, and on the

other by the understanding

and unstinted guidance of his | SPACE school.

'Deserved'

D

☆☆☆

the

Space space surely no word achieves greater pro- minence or enjoys more repetition at the present time.

On Thursday I spoke to school masier who knows him well and I cannot do better than quote his exact words. He said: No boy ever deserved such a wonderful break more than he He la popular yet modest, doca. outwardly shy yet intensely de- termined. His school must be very proud of the honour that has come his way if only be-play, amusement, cause in their pride they have

ment after the satisfaction of knowing that the boy who sports the Saleslun School badge on his blazer in England will be credli to the Colony and to himself."

Internationally it is tied to such words as rockets, satellies congested Hongkong it is linked and scientific progress: here in very simply with recreation. dictionary

According to one good 'recreation' means retresh-

The climax of the contest on Tuesday was really divided Into two vital parts. At 4 pm the Special Selection Com- mittee met nt Rediffusion House to examine the merits of all those players who had been elected to a place in the final two teams and who had in- dicated their desire to be con- sidered for the trip to England. The composition of the Com- mittce was as follows: Mr Lee Men-kit (Chairman of the HKFA Interport Sub-committee, repre- menting the Hongkong Football Association), Rev Fr A. Reislag (Hongkong Schools Sports Association), Mr R. Lenion (Hongkong Football Referees' Association), Mr Alfred Ho (Wah Klu Yat Po), Mr Charles Webster (South China Morning Post Group) and Mr Jock Sloan

(Redlituslon).

ber of active sporting par- ticipants it also provides fret class restful reercation for the more passive thousands who wish to enjoy the 'pleasurable cccupation of leisure time just sitting, watching and extrcising their lungs!!

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have said before in this volumin and I say again that I simply cannot believe Gov- ernment is, or tan remain, in- different to the current soccer trend but I can see no benefi aceruing from

this what at stage von bo no more than svgoulative and provocative - dabbling.

In this age of takeover bids and annexations It was. surely only a matter of To those who would meddle time before a touch of say... be patient....let things sensationalism along these take their courro...that may lines got an airing here. be interesting enough for every-

"The alley" is bizzing and buzzing at the moment

With

that.

onc.

"The saying that goes: only good that is done in the good I do" conversely, "if I didn't do It then it wasn't good"?

or

occupation of leisure time, and in the vernacular press

toll, pleasurable speculation over a suggestion Have you ever heard the old beneficial sport.

with present Colony cir-gedly submitted by the

as the result of a report alle

hend curnstances in mind It was of an unidentified Government most encouraging to hear of Department, an exchange of views on the Government

the Hongkong subitci of "space for recrea to re-organise the management may take steps affairs of the Hongkong" Fool- ball Association.

trhe

tion at a recent meeting of the Urban Couneli.

Maybe the replies given to pertinent questions locked the golden lining many sportsmen

original article also

suggests that the Governor ---- when he returns to the Colony

It is a most Interesting pointer to a particular kind of complex generally of the inferiority nature whereby in a game of no-rules and feiver ethles efforts

SS. President Cleveland

SAILING TO SAN FRANCISCO SEPT. 6

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son of Aureole, owned by the Queen. Right Royal is not a very striking looking colt by the British sire Owen Tudor.

"Handsome is as handsome docs" goes the saying. and many ugly ducklings"

have bealen their better looking rivals in the past but it will come дяв real surprise to. the British if St Paddy 13 beaten in spite of the con- siderable optimism of the French in their colt.

Balb have Impressive recards.

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it Division: Recreio "D" v Re- crelow KnGC v re, CCC RDC, KCC v TC. USRC v me.

RRCC V KCC. FRC "O" PRC 2nd Division: IC "C" VIRC "A", HRPC V CCC, FC v HENC.

3rd Division: CCC HKFC, TC ✓ USAC, FC v 8C, KDC v KBGC. Ladies 1st Division: USRC CCC, TC v KBGC.

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