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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1934.

HOME FOOTBALL LOCAL FOOTBALL CRITICISM OF

NORTHEAST WEST SOUTHTM

Kingscott

London, January. 2. In 1991 I was a player short for the Derby Midland team, which was to go to Gainsborough. It was Saturday moming, and I was in a dilemma.

At that time I was a clerk in a audit department of the Midland Railway. I mentioned my difhoul- ty to a fellow clark. This was about nine o'clock in the morning and the train was due to leave with the team ad 10-90).

An office boy happened to over hear that conversation. That of boy deserves an England Interna- tional cap

For he said "Why don't you take Stove Bloomer?"

"Who's Steve Bloomer """I asked "The captain of our team." said the lad. He's only about 18, but he's a jolly good player."

"Where does he work 1" I asked. "Down the line ut Fletchers' Foundry. Shall I go and fetch

im 1

"Yes, in

.I said.

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double quick time,"

He did. Young Bloomer came to the platform about five minu tea before the train was due to go It was a cold February morning. hat he had no overcoat and carried aamall patent leather bag, minas handle, tucked under his arm. We took him along. He played outside left ant gave a marvellous performance.

Magnificent Forwards.

The Leicester forwards played magnificantly in the loose. J, W. Allan got quite a good share of the ball for the Barbarians in the strums, and J. Waters, J. Beattie,. and Wateyn Thome were very good forward in the game. Some of his out of touch. Waters was the best line-out work was first class, and he made three bursts in the closing minutes which, had they boen batter supported, would have led to scores.

The brothers Meikle and Gerrard, who was included at the request of the English selectors who were at the game, were the best Leicester. backs, and in the pack Beamish, Constantine, and Harris played grandly

The Barbarian prospects seemed good when Lind followed his dropp- et gral by a fine try, but the lead at half-time by scoring two younger Meikle gave Leicester the autiful tries and dropping a goal. He scored another try immedi- ately the game was resumed. Then K. C. Fyfe ended some Barbarian pressure by scoring after a run from anid-field.

Jackson Hustled

.

Disaster overtook the Barbarians. Jackson was bustled by the Leices ter forwards, and wild passes lot Gadney send Gerrard in at the cor ner. Shortly after Crown mapped up a loose pass, scared at the posts, and kicked a goal, and the end came So this mere stripling of a buy with Beattie making a heroic effort continued to pay for. Derhy Mid-to go through after selling a de-. laad to the end of the season, when lightful""dummy” to two defending the Derby County club took over the Midland, lack, stock, and bar- rol-Stove Bloomer included,

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players.

O'Dowd

Changes in Fixtures

and Grounds

The following changes in the fixture and grounds are notified.

The following been made. Saturday, 27th Janu

additions havia. ary, 1904.

Schior Shield. Second round: South China y R Navy

Caroline Hill de 4.0 p.m. replay.

Jualor Shield. Second round-

H.K. Club v South Wales

Borderers H.K.F.C ground at 2.30 p.m. Sunday, 29th January, 1934

Hongkong League. Division

Recreio V Athlétio

Kowloon FC. ground.

at 4.0, p.m.

FOLLOWING MATCHES ARE POSTPONED

·

Saturday, 27th January, 1934. HONGKONG LEAGUE.

Division I

H. K. Polic South China Division II.

▾ R.A. y Recreio.

Lincoln Regt. v Kowloon F.C. Division III.

R.E.

v S.W. Borderers, Sunday, 28th January, 1934. Division 1.

HONGKONG LEAGUE.

Division II.

R. Navy v Athletic.

S.W. Borderers v South China.

FOLLOWING CHANGES OF

GROUNDS ARE MÅDE,

Saturday, 27th January, 1934.

HONGKONG LEAGUE. Division I..

H.K.г.O. v Lincoln Regt.

H.K.F.C. at 4.0p.m.

Division II.

Young Indiana y R.A.

Military H.V. at 230 p.m.

He became England's great in

What is going to happen when side right And Scotland's bug-O'Dowd is it once more Craig, the fear. Bloomer got his usual goal Scottish third-back specialist, was the papers used to say.

an undoubted success in that Sun- derland match and no manager is Twenty shree International caps he got, and 35 goals in the football likely to change a winning team in League. This when a goal was

circumstances such as Chelsea are nearly twice as hard to get as it is back to holster up a defence which at present, Chelsea, need a third to-day.

In later years I often refereed unsteady because of the weakness EPSTEIN'S

matches in which Bloomer was playing.

An International Trial

One incident dicks in my me- mory. It was the International Trial between North and South af the Crystal Palace. Bloomer was playing in his famous position as inside right.

In those days it was the custon

is

at wing-half.

O'Dowd is a elever footballer. In

a greet team he would be a great centre-half. His ball control is un- surpassed by any other half-back in the country, including even great James Gibson.

D

the

A good footballer, it is said with some truth, can play anywhere. I have an iden that O'Dowd would make a fine inside-left. He already has the defensive qualities for that:

forwards lack. His constructive ubility has never been questioned. t seems to me that he would be the ideal man to give Gallacher the ball on the floor.

BOOK

ILLUSTRATIONS

A Volume Strange

And Obscure

of the players, immediately the position, which other Chelses inside the last book which Epstein proposes

whistle went, to make a dash for the bat and keep it as a souvenir,

Time was about due. The ball

me

was about to be thrown in.

-Bloomer saw

look at my watch and asked "How long Mr Kingscott!"

Time's up now." I said, and as the man threw in the hall I blew the whistle

Up jumped Bloomer, grabbed the ball, and led the pinyers off the held with a wild dash.

But the

custom developed into such an ugly feature of the game in later years that it was stopped. The referee thereafter look charge of the ball and returned it to the dressing room..

In the later part of his career Bloomer was transferred to Mid- dlesbrough, and he gave them yen man service at a time when they badly needed help and when Derby County had several young players waiting.

Eventually, he went to Germany training players and was interned there when the war broke out, Now he is back on Derby's staff and helps to look for players. He is the sare good-hearted "Steve."

Barbarians Lose Record

Leicester defeated the Barbarians at Leicester yesterday by 21 points to 10. The Tourists, who have been unbeaten since March, 1932, yielded their record to a team which, on the day's play, was much better to gether and slightly ahead in all departmente,

..

One assumes that the Gallacher business is finished. I hope so. Everybody got a bit tired of it. As

football sensation it fell very fat. I am much more interested in the Arsenal. In point of transfers aid they must now be fielding their rhea peat team for years.

The first and, according to the artist, to illustrate is published to-day: It is called "The Book of Affinity" by Moysheh Oyved, with seven full- page illustrations in colour by Epstein.

This is an odd volume in the sense that it fills no hitherto vacant niche in the structure of English literature. It cannot be placed in literary history much more procisely than could the uncompleted essay of a certain youth- ful aspirant to fame who entitled his first paper, "Man and the Universe Past, Present and Future."

Arsenal are hardly likely to in- terfere with a winning and youth-lishers as "a well-known connoisseur Mr. Oyved is described by his pub- ful combination, If James refains of Art." As to that. I must plead

in the reserves" what are the odds ignorance. His present excursion into that the club receive a few offers print reveals him as a thinker passion for his services I should be aurately desirous of exploring all the prised if inquiries have not already avenues indicated by post-war philo been made. Mr. Herbert Chapman sophy. In these avenes, it is not has tried to prove that inside-for. surprising to find, be loses his way, wards are not as scarce as managers sometimes in prose, sometimes in imagine-but most clubs find it ex-poetry, the two vehicles of expression tremely difficult to develop or even being frequently confused. buy these key-men.

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SCHOOLS

Sex, Sport, Crime And Jazz

Are the present school standards too high

The question was propounded at a conference of headmasters held at the "Merchant Taylors School, Sandy Lodge, at which the education of the boy of average ability was the principal subject dissect:

Dr. Cyril Norwood, headmaster of Harrow, presided, and mentioned that the matter was now engaging the at- 1.tention of a consultative committee of the Board of Education, who bad asked for the view of the conference.

Amongst the opinions expressed was one that a vast amount now taught in the schools could have no conceivable value to any profession.

Fitting Boys For Life, Mr. G. C. Turner (Marlborough Collegat, who opened the discussion, described the boy of average ability as one who was not going to carry his academic education above the school stage. What were they endeavouring to prepare that boy to baại

He suggested they were trying to make him it to make the best use of opportunities which came his way and in his own sphere do the best of which he was capabla.

"The chief danger in which wo stand," he said, "is that of thinking that it is our business somehow to produce a finished product, implying some belief or fear it may be that learning ends at school.

"The idea of a well-balanced cur- riculum is in great danger of missing the most essential aims of intellectual education, which are a sense of one's ignorance and the courage of facing the arduous task of knowing some thing well.

"It is only in this attempt that s

boy will acquire the power to think

accurately and weigh evidence, which

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is the best equipment in a world of THE ALL EUROPEAN ORCHESTRA

propaganda and psychological ploitations of all kinda”

ex-

Mr. J. L. Andrews (Exeter) com plained that the boy of average ability was made to work on subjects which- were quite pnsuitable to him and in a way often injurious to his health, leaving in his mind a lasting contempt for knowledge.

...

!

Suffelency of Three 'R's'.

So far as the minimum requirements for any profession were concerned be thought the present standards at school were too high. There was no conceivable value to any profession. vast amount taught that could have

"What is really necessary," he went on," is not much more than the "Three B's' of the elemenitory school.".

A boy should be able to:

Read with discrimination; Form a judgment and weight evidence;

Express himself well in spoken English;

Write well and be able to do a certain number. of mechanical pro cesses in easy arithmetic;

Speak colloquially a few simple sentences in a foreign language and be able to translate them into his own tongue

"This," said Mr. Andrews, "was an appreciation of what modern science is, and all that is demanded from a hoy in any ordinary profession.

citizen outside his profession f Should "What is required from the good be not be taught something about the international regulation of war?" We send boys out into world only half aware of the difficulties of sex, and of the elementary facts of human biology and of the vast changes in the relations between the sexes which have occurred in our own generation

The most formidable difficulty con fronting the reader of this ponderous Tottenham Hotspur

book is the settlement of the question: Toltenham Hotspur will probably

What is it about? The shadowy here try in 1924 to forget the Christmas of the text is a creature whom the of 1933

author calls "the He-She," who is an they slipped back was Lake, Hudlife now confronting us. Mr. Oyved One of the reasons why alleged solver of all the problems of darfield's left-winger, one of the invites us to accept this being as a god most versatile forwards in modern and seer, but in his godship and his football. Clem Stephenson forecasts powers of prophecy he is inarticulate a cap for Luke. He played like an In prose-verse the author of He-She Spurs Huddersfield prefer him at international winger against the thus expresses himself: inside-left. I have seen him at out- side-right.

"Immediately a cry was raised for the princely coffee, became more and

like banners Buttered in mid-air. ago man derived, ·* mare clamorous. To fan the revolt the Critic boldly lettered menas, which

'Down with He-She and his Har- mony.

good shot. He played havoc with He is free, fast, clever, and a the Tottenham right flank, where Felton and Colquhoun could make little of him. There is

not much The Barbarians, however, were wrong with the 'Spurs.

.. just a disorganised by an injury to W. R. little tightening up here and thore Logan, who hurt his shoulder, in the in defence; but winning or losing first half and took H. G. Owen-they always provide entertaining Smith's place at full-back during fare. the second period. Owen-Smith

played as an extra three-quarter, and first Vaughan Jones and then

"H. Lind essayed the role of serum- half, without, however, much suc-

Bess,

CRICKET

C. C.

The game was full of good play, ARMY VERSUS CRAIGENGOWER which provided plenty of thrille for the large holiday crowd.. Lind, who was the outstanding player in

the Barbarian sick, gave the match

Tomocheeko Must Go !

A Lake of Blood for a Cup of Coffee. Coffee of Cofips"

but we are discussing the case of boys more oppropriate to the University, "You may suggest the discussion is

who are not going to the University, and who will get their further educa tion from the cinema, the wireless, the daily Press and the lending library.

""All of them are of potential value and of tremendous good in the oduca tion of the country. Bat would you think me vastly wrong if I were to suggest that the average boy or aver.

From the films sex appeal, From the Press the news in the sports columns,

From the libraries detective novels, And from the wireless jazz !...

"It is not our business to suggest to Exuberant water colours.

boys how they can have a wiser selec tion and broader range of judgement?" Mr. Epstein has found his 'feet on Mr. G. Kendall (University College a path on which others besides myself School) said a Board of Education in may be expected to stumble. The quiry had shown that the boy who was exuberant water colours, reproduced good at brain work was also good at with notable care and accuracy, with | manual work. Bat-if a boy was not glorified are all that even He-She give him more manual work. which the text is enhanced and, good at brain work it, was better to could desire. ' They express in a mediam which Epstein is rapidly

Schools and Peace. mastering all Hia-Her intensity, and

Viscount Coeil, who addressed the

The following have been selected to give the impresion of being by-pro- Conference on "The Study of Interna a great start off by dropping a goal represent the Army in the above league ducts of a twin soul on fire, but tional Relations welcomed reports almost from the kick-off. The Dungower C.C. to be playixd at Craigen- proves himself again a clever inter-schools that the young people of this cricket match against the Craigen-generating beat, not light. The artist that came from universities and fermline player wai dangerous gower ground on Saturday, 26th every time he WAR in posacation, January, 1934, commencing at 8.00 Proter.

but both he and Crabtree worsham- pered somewhat by ill-timed passes from K. L. T. Jackson, who played

much below form. Jackson kicked

well, kut he was often beaten by Slow.

One of the Features of the game was the duel between. Logan and Gladney, and while in his usuL) place the Edinburgh Wanderer held his own. In the second half Gad- day, of course, had an easier time, Sand ke started off his backs unbam-

wered.

PT. Williama (R.A.)

D. B. Michell (RA) Lieut. C. Garthwaite (RA) Libat. R. J. Walker (RE) Lient. A. J. Btocker S.W.B. Lieut. D. B. Butler B.Q. Lieut. F. T. Williams E Lanca. 0.8.M.J, Elwan E. Lanes. Cpl. E. Ballard RAS.O Opl. W. E. College R.A.M.C. Pte. WT. Whitley R.A.S.C. Reserve: Sgt ET. Taylor RAP.C. Score:L/Bdr. Ives, Umpire:--W.O.L R. Jordan H..

country were keen on peace. In Ger

So Aure-footed is be that "bae's many those who taught the students impression is that the drawings had not carried away the same vivid inspired the text rather than the text impression of the horrors of war, and the drawings. He threads his way perhaps in other defeated-countries, through Mr. Oyved's maze of words war was by no means as unpopular as with enviable ingenuity and despatch, it was here. because he evidently perceives the Replying to question from the quality of the author's pent-up emo. Rev. J. H. 8. Bailey (Lancaster School) tional message, and translates it as to whether the policy of this country accessfully out of the written word ought not to be to refuse to take part and into the pictorial form, retaining in any war on the Continent, Lord

both its vagueness and its intensity Cebu said the miggestion was just not

Those who like Blake at his latest and wildest may like "The Book of Affinity,"

practicable. We should be forced into

a waŋ, just an Americs found herself forced into the last war,

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