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MEET THE GOLFER WHO CAN'T

AFFORD TO TURN PROFESSIONAL

£10,000-a-year

for this amateur

Jack Wood talks man to man with Jack Nicklaus

WOOD accuptod

TOOD: AT 21 you are GI the world's top amateur golfor. Your aggregate score in the Jost two American Opona put you #hood of professionals and amateurs

alike, your

corning= oro in tho £10,000-a-year region and it has been said that you cannot afford to turn pro.

NICKLAUS: I do not carn that much at the moment but soon I will--and more. Ad- mitedly much of my business in insurance comes from con-

the tacts made in golf, but don't

everyone in Lacis?

life use his con-

But you would

earn much, much more as a pro.

50. I have had 1 guess some good offers, but I Al looking ahead to the time um forty. By then want to and П profession, have

that profession. I position In

would not like to spend my whole life playing golf,

a

JACK NICKLAUS "I don't play for laughs"

You were never bored?.

And time now for a quick talo-wagger or two....

One of the now soccor clubs in tho First Division undor the might wall play name of "The Expatriates." the official According to fixture list

But you do almost that now,,

You never get bored doing just inued by the HKFA newcomers Yuon

I am working hard at insur- something you want to do well. unce this summer. haven't When I am practising 1 get Long-the original "Up the played

nearly cnough gol. mad with myself if I hit shots

Jui Territories, boys"-will not | That's why

now I am off the line or alert or long. crazy ihat @ man can't play a single competitive hooking some of my tee shots It's

and chipping badly. I guess I master a little thing like a golf game at Yuen Long....

have got 10 work harder at ball. the game.

"The Blackpool officials and United while, on his ways back travelled abroad ander

They to the Colony, players were wonderful.

he saw Roma, Hongkong banner. could not do enough for us and pay Internationale In Rome and we were treated in every as members of the staff".

When asked for his most important Impression of En Ellah Football Kang Wah-k had no hesitation in eingling "My trip to England was n

out the fitness of the players. wonderful experience. will rely participate

"The general

standard of more than any of his immediate learned tremendoustness

was astonishing. IL domestic it the

amount ubout football applied to every player on the

Stats, and I have come back to staff.

յո Juniors simply had to get fit or Hongkong with many

they wern

of new ideas as well as with respective teams and, to prove

put

their very different

under they were fully match-fit, they standing of professional played at a funtastic

pace In soccer".

practice and friendly matches.

"Seeing

this side of pro- fessional football mude realise how much we in Hong

to learn atout have getting up to match pitch."

The exsual observer was na: predecessors dech prompted to inquire affairs of the Hongkong Foot- why men should go to such ball Association Ltd, trogklas

executive vice-presidents he could power in the Football Assoriswell for an Bion. Does the resultant pre committee which

to secure

With his very unoilicial watch

If this is an

1

stige justify the effort or is it accurate prediction--will be all merely

to the good of the association. ぐはさせ of ebullient

rentemen exercising a super-

ehaiged sense of aportaron- ship in their own perullar

way?

The pr.math of the AGM R cftc lah princluated with some hard tection, oring but

the astonishing about-face, the you-suratiy -ny-back-and-11- scratch - yours situation which devel pad this year was e-stain- ly a new one. It gave a cheap hoddine to the progretlings On the strength of the cut

the Anual Gentil come of Meeting there World 13 nd quite Juztention jur

feeling of abject dismay antielpation of a new season is

Ann Haydon in final

inter.

These were Kung Wah-kit

words of Polley, mentor

Thai 15 4110 only

the pretation

I can pul

of the on the doctor's eventual de- Hongkong's first-ever good clston

Ambassador of Football, when I nomination to accept

$00:7 after his for the presidency. It is the talked to him

recent return from the United enly real ray of hope at the

Kingdom. nigment.

Two vital things

Added to that of course there is the

that ill-disguised fact felalchim will. by force of circumstances, be

CUITY- recent pelled in keep u very close

the football raf1

scene walch and, when you remember that we finished last season playing eur soccer under armed guard, that is hardly surprising.

If we try to believe all that is past is now a closed chapter we might well ask what can be done to improve the soccer situation in the future.

it seems to me the Incoming Toronto, Sept. 15. Connell must do two vital Ann Haydon of Birmingham. things if it really intends to put England, top sveded in the football back on its feel. Some women's singles, Wh meet reforms are Imperative. Toronto's second-seeded Ana First of all it must ban the Barclay of Toronto in the final press from at Counell and of the Canadian Tennis Cham- | Commitice meetings and it must pleships on Sunday.

set

for organisation Issuing omela) statenwerts im- all sessions; edlately after decisions and findings only are important.

Miss Haydon today Trouncesi Marion Boundy of Mantreal, 6-0, 0-0, and Miss Barclay heat Louise Drown of Torunks, 6-9, 2-0, 0-1,--AP.

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No doubt this would cause a certain amount of criticisin at first but the officers of the Association must be free to express opinions and points of view without being quoted ---- maybe out of context in the newspapers.

Secondly the Association must settle once and for all the burning and persisteal allega- flons of gambing and under- the counter professionalism. With this in view it ist engage the

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The popular pivot was very distressed about a report in a vernacular newspaper which suggested that during an in- terview in Britain he had anid that his visit to the English Football Kene was ‘a waste of

time and that he had spent all his strength running round Bele.

Main impression

"Nothing could be further from the truth", said Kung, "I was definitely tough going and I certainly did not think any players ever had to train as hard as we had to do at Black- pool. At first we found it a bit beyond us but as we got All- Atter in fact than we have ever been in our lives-we took a full part in the Blackpool training programme.

"It took w Dome time to get used to the heavy schedule of of distance rumoing and burst sprinting. In the early stages- and I know I speak for both Chen Ying-un and myself-we spent several painful nights nursing our leg muscles back to something like normal.

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keng

reserves

Wrong ideas

The Intensity and accuracy

football.

me

say that the much publicised star-studded Italian rame looked very slow and crude after what he had seen in England.

Exemplary

Chen Ying-un, who returned to Hongkong ahead of Kung Wah-kit, was, like his senior colleague, unstinted in his praise of the trip to Blackpool. He too confessed he had learned a great

deal.

There are of course these in our midst who, for very obvious

A chance romark made at the Club Stodlum dur- ing

Shlold the Stanloy matches reminded me of a cynical comment mode somo the manager yours ago by

Our senior Ambasador was reasons-mainly that they have of a famous British League also very much impressed by no part of the projeel like to side. He said: "I'vo just

of set themselves

up as destruc- sant my star contre-half to the tackling in First Division Live critics and on the be pyscho-analysed by

basis that everyone is entitled to his opinion, they are wel The speed of the game, the come

whatever close marking and the power satisfaction

strange they can obtain ful tackling made all very from their chorts. exclling and I'm afraid many of my old ideas about British

wrong.

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two enthusiastic

.but

it

most fairytale-like" and now have horizons.

experience new soccer

:

own

chiropodist....

In the pattern of things in the new sot-up in the

#

is now quite undeniable that U.K, young Cheung Chi-doy football turned out to be quite footballers have enjoyed an al- ed by his club to the pool

young Colony has been officially nominat

"I always Imagined that

of 15 players from which the British Leums

played the

senior side will normally be 'long-ball but In fact short.

selected. Tho talented 'Chi- quick passing is very much They have by their the modern pattern.

noso boy is now very definite- admission learned a great deal. "I was fortunate enough to They found new ideas.....newly in the big-time.......... see the Spurs in their opening methods.....ondi now stan- Rumour has it that match at Blackpool and they dards. Hongkong football can prominent England cricket were certainly a finc Leum. Their forward line was

professional will be wintering very fast and very elever and their

Maybe must Important of all

at least for part of the defence was like a wall across

Is the fact that these two time-in Hongkong.... the field. They had a wonder

young sportsmen were, by ful Ars! half but Blackpool

their disciplined conduct, in-- saved the game with

a good dustry, and willingness fightback after the interval.”

make friends, exemplary am- During his stay in Lancashire bassadors of Colony soccer.... the young policeman also saw and that's much more than we Blackburn Rovers, Wolverhamp-can say about many other She Meld players and officials who have

Com

Wanderers and

KORE

only benefi from such new understandings.

Love it

Will you ever turn pro? No, Sir! I have made up my mind on that, 1 lave golf and to keep it as the cther want

Insurance and working for my baby wc expect soon is the other half. I would be kinda unhappy if golf was the whole of the deal,

half of my life. wife and the

When did you begin goll My dad had to give up to game with a bad ankle. The dec

Dad wanted company told him he would have to do some, walking or finish a cripple. and at the age of ten I began playing.

Being company for dad was the start then?

As a kid I always liked to do things well. I liked games that I could play on my own. I was

How far is your normal drive? If I have got to get length, 300 yards or so. But most guys can hit them that für in the sop bracket. 11's round the greens you have to do the real "work. That little old pitch to the pin and I menn to the pin-is the vital shot.

Sam Socad and, Arnold Pal- mer keep their eye in fishing.

I do the same. I would never xilck a worm on the end of a line, but I can spend all day fly- fishing.

How else do you relax?

I like musie. I guess I've read two hooks nit the way through my life one on golf, the other

on insurance,

Do you ever play golf for fun? Hell, nu! It's much too dim- cult a game to play for laughs.

like to win everything I go

a good goal kicker and basket-in for. 1. have collected a few

ball scurer because could practice those things on my

own. When I began golf would often spend 12 hours day practising.

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