WEHR CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1961.
SATURDAY SPORTS SPOT
How green was our Stadium Valley-once !!
Last Saturday, as a member of the general public, I went along
to see the Military Tattoo at the Hongkong Stadium.
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By I. M. MacTAVISH
STORY WITH TWO SIDES
Every now and again one comes across a perfect sporting example of the axiom that there is very often two sides to a story.
Here is an incident which demonstrates this fact
very clearly.
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| thought it was an excellent show. I enjoyed every minute of it. Last Sunday morning, as an active member of the football community, Įstai I went back to have a look at the playing pitch. What a tragedy of pitting, rutting and scarred discolouration it revealed.
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dene wrong in racing has been
to try low hard to win.
I have never palled up horse in my life"
However, in announcing the decision
AJU of the mittee, Sir Alua Polier Bidl Schumacher's record shawed " "his complete disregard for the rules of racing and
the Biety of his fellow riders."
Eight reprimands
This was despite 연료 jong set of warnings
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Sam Schumacher. "[ ភាវៈ Then with that alky
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Its tikr any thing condition.
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will Say the stadium is community property and not a preserve of The fouthall fraternity
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THE ROYAL HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
4TH RACE MEETING
Saturday, 25th November and Saturday, 2nd December, 1961.
heid andien the Rules of The Royal Hong Kong Jos key China
THE PROGRAMME WILL CONSIST OF 16 RACES
(There will to $
gorous:
the allow to use ane
as thing I have evet
if you like But this was rather subtly qualified when it was revealed that since 1957 Schumacher has had eight re bands #three
them
(reveren, eight suspensions
e and three warnings
leed these are two sides to every stairy so much depr von who is telling af
1st class $8, 2nd class $10!!
It's enough to make a showman or an impresario pull his hair out by the roots. It is surely the most illogical bit of sports promotion event Hongkong has ever been asked to swallow.
the
Just HARI
thanking every fan who is asked to bitsinel
the planning that asks hindert has a right to feel he wait the sacred pubite to pay $10 to the recognised top stregli see Hongking's second best side dake the Bel Tha Wil
true when we pas fler bentut given the oppor tomate see the Colony s tas teven
earlie
at S8 2 kw
That is only a bit of the
whirin strange stination.
hax ariser over the double series wi
show
KAMES
against th Swedish and Yugoslavian visitors VIMBOTS. Here Is the Colony embarking on two important
international engagements et
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admittedly selecting twa com pleiely different "best" sides. How The Purne at all that
semad le man have 14:3 BEST
The parvilege of playing in all Heart Song enoots |- Che Treal honest and when set: Hongkong side tartes out against visiting team it should be the avaiable collection
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pavers at the selectors' disposal
Too astonishing
The BIOL which sees the strongest all Hongkong
3 Po Bell will be rung at 1:30 pm and the Para Ract | Swedish En 122
en both days.
riever
into We opening Combori
white
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at the 1st Day and 8 race on the 2nd Bay), being and
Came agatel cula
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a reserve selex Ackied against Yugoslavian national
The Saray' Office Alexanita House will close at 11 45 a.m. t. 5th day?
MEMBERS ENCLOSURE
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which is in fact that country's full World Cup team, is simply too astonishing to be trov
Selection to the All-Hong- kong side is the highest award
footballer Colony
J
can
Lion and the Combined Chinese or any other title! you like to use — are inferior: honours and the fact that the
Admission to the Members Enclosite can be gained only by the trance to Ane Members Stand and upon production of Badges and Brooches, which must be worn throughout the duration of the mirting in such a manner to be readily identified Members wishing to proceed to Club Boxes na the 4th and th
! se from the 2nd Floor Fles of the Public Stand must de The Mombuis' Stand, using the lift or stairs.
Yog lav lans.
tra
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1 stealion connes CLONE 10 being famous
miti-Eu opvan Il- Butler's whause recurd in revend
entitles them te he arded as one of the quistand- ing suceer nations. of the da Thuge who have epeked their couple of years, and who ...besmet turing the pasi also remembe the sparkling show their last side gave here a few
years agu. will realisr
d
CLUB LOYALTY
IS MISSING
Sitting in the grandstand at Boundary street during the First Division match between Police and Happy Valley } was mos! in- terested in a comment by Roy Moss the former Colony star who has just returned from leave in the United Kingdom. Ily, looking almost fit enough | 1. lep righ back into the saine, was talking about the 111 F
intensity o
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