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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1961.

SATURDAY SPORTS SPOT

OF SOCKER

QUESTIONS

AND SOCCER PROBLEMS

By 1. M. MacTAVISH

Here is the news many local sportsmen have been waiting to

hear....

the fabulous 'Coles £3,000 Question' boxing com- potition is definitely going to take' place 'in Hongkong. The officials in charge of the filming project are due to arrive in the Colony on Friday, Oct. 13, and the contribution by Hongkong's sportsmen to this worldwide venture will be film- ed in four sessions during the following week,

That less than a month nway and those who wish to enter will have to get down lo som extensive reading pretty quickly.

BAN

for those

To recapitulate who may not know the full details i would tell you that *Colva £3,000 Question' Is one of Australia's biggest Television shows,

It was the initial success and the Astonishing ability revealed the winner of the fast ntion competition in Aus- tralin that encouraged! té sponsors to send Alming teams

to many parts of the world to

utilis

This will Include movie Peterson fight Walter Neusel? equipment 316 well

the UN

....did Micky Wallter cver Hems for Biht complete range of

U reigning Briushi the man who prefers to shoot middleweight champion?

did Floyd Paterson But this is only the start was the heavyweight champion-

ever win an Olymple title? the . Thus Hongitong winner's ship of the world ever contested prize will

be an all expense ir Australla?....then this cam- bald air trip to Melbourne for petition could be just your fatle a perind of two weeks, and cup of tea. a chaare fo match his boxing! know); <lje! against the other regional winners anul against Alstralia's eren site almante.

Local eliminators

23237:

The international sinal spek worthy challengers fur really going to be something to their own boxing

quiz chanbe resembered. The winner i plon

{will receive a prize valued at According to that information | A£3,000... hence the available here, these units will of the competition....and there be working in London, New will be sulluble rewards far York at Paris as well as In | those who just fait lʊ jonke 1. Hongkong and the wide plan

Quite a number of people i builds up to a grand Internu-

Bove already bega in touch tlo fan to Melbourne next

with me seeking guidance on February.

how to enter. Frankly, many of them

chance have Hule

of making the grade for the standard demanded 15 very! high. Some of the potential

however, participants,

sexin well giralined... but as it is! huperi

Big prizes

If the project is ambitious the

prizes are to less so.

The plan for Hongkong is an follows. Four sultable competi-

two

10

sume

arrange

of

competition!

eliminating

comed as quickly as possible.

Drop me a line and I will er that your one is hated over to the organisers without

This is the big chance.... have a go....you never know,

SPORTING SAM

124-FOOTBALL-WE “HEW BOY SAM SHOULD INCREASE THE SIZE OF THE GATES AT HOME GAMES

serves to heighten the preva-; having a number of first lent susplelon thai profes- performers in reserve. clonalism is rampant. Don't

zet

ke wroSk idea. I have the highest regard for honesi professionals who are not toa proud to state their calling... but I join up with those who have Iftile time for thr amateur football phoneys. and those who make Chem that way....if they are really that way.

mast

of

by Reg. Wootton

London Express Service.

einssion winning side in the team to meet South China tomorrow. If big names mean very

They have recruited some much these days one might tough and controversio? per- regard Kitchee as the bigges

sonalities and with established threat to South China... but

beef-trusters like Ng Wal- with memories of this club's man, Lee Kwok-wah (already regular star

booked and the sensor hasn't gathering con- palens dering the post-war

started), Lal Chin-kau Lee and years

the resutant Kang-wai and Kwok Shick In Cultures, thero

the side their games will neerusily be some reservation surely have plenty of incident. about their chances.

Let's hope it is of a different brand This time they have really ex-

from that produced Direct and Indirect gambling celled themselves in the auto-

agninst 317 In the Stanley is the root of the whole 113-

Shield. Savoury affair and it will be in staph business and with names teresting to see how the probleme Yu Cheuk-yln. Lo Kwok- is facitled,

lai. Kwuk Moon-wah, and Chan The returned chairman's 'eler. Fal-hung added to the fold they tion platform contnted poble probably feel satisfied that at promises to stamp out the preseast they will keep the turn-pull the best out of the Police st|r while the Army, with it tice in Hongkong football. He stiles eficking. Maybe they will, number of last year's pinyers certainly has plenty of scope for

renembering Kitchee's again available, are hoping for his activities.

inglorious past and Eastern's a better season. weeping sirs lost season, the fans may well adopt an attitude of walt and see.

Misfired

For the Polleo and the Army il must essentially be a CBS0 of wall and see. Taffy Evans may be

just the skipper to

Youngsters

* ★ ★ Today, with rather falter- ing steps, old King Soccer climbs back on to his throne. He does so in an atmosphere strangely re-

Mue the same sort of com- miniscent

The season's opening today: of Noel has misfired a bit due fe

Happy Valley are ngals well the

ment must apply to Sing Tan Coward's Immortal "Don't enneallation

and KMD. matchesuipped to chase South China

Both sides have a number of let's be beastly to the scheduled to be

at up the championship straight played Germans".

chance promising young players and a Boundary-street. with those

The police and if they

Be elegant have apparently been advised to play

football smaltering of experience, whose purpose it serves that the new playing surface **

the which is

blend their hallmark they

is successful trying hard to pretend softened by the heavy rains cald easily prove to be the most Tigers and the Busmen conta that some magic elixir is not yet ready for the strain attractive side in the competi-gure has been achieved by the of League football and the loyaltion. simple process of holding an annual general meet- ing.

50.

Quite sincerely I wish, for the

Kowloon fans will have to walt

until the second weekend in October before getting

their

are given

Names only

first soccer ration of the season, i In the big star chase Eastern, Tunk Wah and Kwong Wah have been left to serape the

And what of the leams?

of a persistent

rounding Let's be factual. Not a single thing, other than the election of

tors will be selected and drawn ent In pairs. The two winners of the further entries would be wel-good of the game, that it was heuts will go uns to the long- kong inal while as a reward for their co-operation the heat losers will each receive prize of photographle equip- ment to the value of A £200. This will include everything for the ambitious photographer.

delity

SPORTSMEN IN THE NEWS

new president, has happened o far to suggest that yester- day's black chauds are suddenly

be painted with

no

win

In spite of the allegations Bolton of The barrel for aroma sur- what they cun get. Tung their recent per Wah

certainly feel formance to Salzon no local the draught after their sejouni survey can start without phi- among the celebrities but East- thig South Ching in the

have the consolation of favourites box.

knowing that with any eleven triers they simply cannot be worse than they were

live

ern

in

if the

the prominently league competition. After the enenuruging showings by their i youngsters during their points- gathering run last season the to be KMB officials have every reason this quietly confident. time.

the

In the second game against Tom Finney's touring skle our players proved thai with the shackles Temayed they can be as good ar any. Is it too much to hope that they will get the chance to produce the sante enthosianmu and sparkling football in the months ahead?

This week's tale-wagger

For is a solute to tough-as-teak

If you know your interna-going

The double champions have Bonal boxing....particularly gilstening sunshine. Every in the faciles and the players to The beat winners will meet | 10 professional sphme.... dication suggCNIS

a year there will be keep their name among the

ago. in a two-part final and this your nowledge of the history i no drustic reforms

season's lenders. One of two time the loser will receive a of the game is wide enough to implied pledge to the fans that of their

The two new sides 517 and stars arc prize of photographle

certainly Yuen Long are names only. equip. | Jet you answer questions like they will get a fair and honest getting a bit long in the tooth Neither club will be fielding ment to the value of A£400!!!....how many times did Jack Frettirn for their niency, A but they are probably the only anything resembling the line-

sign of both would be welcome. team.... the real sense of ups that won prontation.. If you doubt the truth of that the word....among the big their first senior season let me tell you that a few days names in the competition.

517 Albert Mendum, the former have recruited experienced men ៧០ + well-known Chinese 'belting

Their players virtually man' refused a very together,

like ko Fa-keung, Yong Pul- Army skipper and Colony hundsuine wager

cat together, and dor, Szeto Sum and a number | right-half. Albert, of the on a list names for key positions or a whole structure of their

of train together every day. The of other velerans and they rip-roaring attack and can. pointments

pre- should be inble the powerful paration is

to consolidate nonball shot, has now put the sub-commitices of the HKFA.

along lines as their position in the league. His cuniment was: I wont side and there is no doubt that thorough as any professional

seal on his career. Last May No alter how Impartial he played for West Auck- neither give nor take okis on

one would want to be it was land in the Amateur Cup such a list... not when the as far as Hongkong is concerned | horses are as good as past the especially when the

They

Impossible not to feel appre- Tare a powerful force,

hensive about the other new-

Final at Wembley and last chips are!

coniers, Yuen Long down. that out for:

after Saturday he was in the ter showing in the Stanley England international side Shield. At the

for the match against ico- moment # seems doubtful if they will have one land. This was one Albert single player of their promo- that yan lion couldn't eat...

He turned champions into a record-breaking team

By John Fairgrieve

Before the famous London football club, Totten- ham Hotspur, signed David Mackay, the team had a reputation for playing attrac- tive football. No honours, however, had been won by them for years. In English League football, probably the most fiercely com- petitive in the world, strength and power is needed as well as skill,

on

puri".

You can work yourselves.

The situation various senior

teams

It seems likely they will be among the able to held an unchanged side

merely and still enjoy the un

characteristic Incał luxury of

Claire Ruth glad that husband's record still intact

New York, Sept. 22. Babe Ruth's widow suld to-

didin't the the Babe's record of 50 home runs lu 154 gomes... "That was one record I didn't

But after Mackay joined the club, the rewards day she was happy Ruger Maris

were rich.

Mackay signed for them in Physically, Mackay is not a want broken," said Mrs Claire March, 1959, towards the end of big man. In fact, for a League Ruth. I have the highest re- the 1950-50 season. He almost half-back, he might well be gard for Roger Maris. He's a scored with what was, lerally, called under-average. He stands fine hitter. But I must admit 31ls first kick for Tottenhem--valy ve feet seven inches in, I'm glad he didn't equal the an evening match against Dolton, and weighs itle short of Babe's 60. Gradually his powerful style and 154 pounds. On the field, his unquenchable enthuslasin at lack of height and weight left-half helped to transform the never noticed. Some opponents team.

consider him a glant.

Notable feat

"The Babe loved that record. He wanted to be known as the king of home runs forever." AP.

Sports Diary

TODAY Boccer

Mackay is a Scotsman, born In Edinburgh. His father way a keen binateur footballer, and, In the following sensun, Tul- even now, Mackay declares: " tenham narrowly fulled to win would be an amateur myself, it the Langue Championship. Last was not good enough to be a season, 1900-81, they wan both professional. I think that is on the Football Association Cup and sential attitude of mind for ail the Football League Champlon-young players. You have to love ship, English Football's two chief the game for itself. Your play honours. It was the first tins deteriorates as soon as you he this century and only the third i Kin to look on it as just part of sin TRU UV laicho time in the history of English routine." football that a club had per- formed this fent,

players, of

All Tottenham course. played well during that memorable season. Some, like centre-forward Bobby Smith, who won his first cap for England, surpassed them- selves. But it is certain that if any one man can be singled out for a major share of the credit, that man lu Mackay.

'Greatest honour"

par

a

Ja Division: Teng Wah v Bing Tas (Club) Caroline 18 v KI- chee (9, China): all matches nt 3.30

Reserve Divion: Tung Who Y

Carolina H Ichee (8. 4 m.

2nd Division: Club

Y. Trikoo (Club) 3 pin, IAT v Tung Bing (FIV) pm: ATB v CAA (HV) 4 pm; Ran Kers v Prison (RV) Watson v & v 30 pm:

3.30 bm Preventive Borvien V Gymnastic (HV) 5.30 pm.

Athletter Noyican Open Championships

Stadium, 4 pm,

nowin 1) Division: Recto CCC, 4 pm.

Mackay, although sill) in his middle 20%, speaks from fall experience. 114 career could be divided in (wra both parts would be oquaBy: BK Ifinatricum.

and

at

"Blue" v

In Scotland, he captained his fer-hong PAITE matches country. "The greatest honour of Rhod, ikire, fecreto, fccc, ccc All", he affirms. He also explain-kce clean asy and prolenta- ed his club, Hearl of Midlothian, tem ni pris, 8.30 pm. Many critics likened him to a and, while with them, won piece of machinery which never SentUsh Cup and Scottial Lea- stopped, and the comparison was gue Championship medals. He Justified. He gave the already-admits frankly: "I went to Eng- clever Tottenham team the land because I had won every- necessary urge to win as well as | thing possible in Beolland." to play good football.

His football has taken him all over Europe, where he has op He is probably the hardest pured" many of the greatest tackler in the sport in Bellain. names in the game. "I have And he has a remarkable store played against Puskas, of energy. Its preference is for Helano, Gento {a11 Rea! attacking play, and he has scor- Madrid), Jolm Charles (Juven- ed several onls for Tottenham. tus, Taly), and Fontale of But in tackling and strength France, Mackay ways. "ut no also make him a first-class de- || forward has ever given me sa fender, and he combines the two inany worries Jonny Laynes styles better than any other of Fulham, and captain of wing-half-back in Britain,

| England."

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