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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1994.

PRESTON N.E.S

N.E.'S ESCAPE

ESCAPE FROM COMPLETE DISASTER

OUR "FORM" GUIDE How Your Team Has Been

Faring In League

The following table reveals how each team in the four divi- slone of the English league have fared to date, the results includ ing their last five more matches up to yesterday.

The first figuro in each case, of course, is that of the team

concerned.

FIRST DIVISION.

Birmingham .. Derby Cr Lecán Anton Villa Choines Widdlenireo Leicester Liverpool Portsmouth Prenton ... Wednesday Sunderland Tottenham West Bromwich

THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH).

1-4 0-0 1-1 230-2

0-1 1-3 2-3 2-1 3-2 Aldershot .. 1-0 2-0 0-1 1-1 1-3] Brighton 2-0 2-3 -2 2-1 2-4 Bristol:C. 1-4 4-3 2-2 4-0 2-1 | Cardif 1-0 0-2 2-5 2-3 2-1 Clapton 0. 1-0 0-2 2-3 1-1 2-2 Coventry mee 0-1 0-1 3–2 0–3 1–5 | Exeter v.. 1-1 2-2 2-1 0-8 5-1 Gillingbars - 4-0 1-4 5-0 2-3 - Luton 0-4 2-2 3-3 3-1 1-2 Swindon 3-1 0-41-0 0-4 2-1 Cryala? P. 0-0 2-1 3-0 3-2 4-2) Brlaol R. 1-541-33-1 0-4 Watford 4-1 0-4 2-2 3-2 4-0 Charlton 1J34 1-2 1-2 2-2 Reading .. 0-0 1-0 2-2 1-3 1-2 Northampton. 5-1 1-2 2-0 2-2 1-2 Newport 1-1 3-2 2-2 2-2 2-3 Tarquar Stoke ..

4-1 2-0 0-3 3-0 3-2 1-4 4-0 0-0 8-0 0-0 Huddersfield ..

0-2 4-0 0-2 3-2 2-3 Rverlos.. Manchester C. 0-1 2-4 3-1 2-3 0-0 SECOND DIVISION

Wolves Blackburn Arsenal

Grimsby'..

Bradford

Brentford

Barntry

Rury

Southend Queen's P, R. Barnemouth Millwall

THIRD

1-1 1-0-0 1-1 4-0 Accrington 4-1 0-1 1-0 2-1 6-1 Crewe 013-3 3-1 2-1 1-6 Darlington 2-0 3-3 2-1 0-1 3-1 Gateshead 2-1 1-1 3 0-4 3-1 Halifax. Manchester. U. 1- 2-1 2-1 1-0 2-3 Lincoln

31 3-2 4-0 1-2 1-0 Rotherham 0-2 6-0 0-4 1-3 1-3 Stockport 6-0 1-3 1-3 2-2 1-3 Tranmere

Fulham

Notin F. Oldham... Port Vale

SWANACO

Barnsley

Norwich

Houthampton Blackpool Plymouth Bradford C. Newcastle Rolton Sheffield U." Notta C. Wull West Hara

0-2 2-1 1-2 2-1 0-1 Walsall

1-3 2-1 1-4 1-1 - Wrexham

Corinthians' Revival

THIS YEAR'S CUP

ENTRY

"There is an ambition, strong and definite, among the members of the Corinthian Football Club to-day to establish the club afresh. We aim at a permanent home our own home, if possible at a revival of the high

NEW STARTING ALMOST THE END THREE!

GATE

Innovation On British

Racecourses

The Northolt Executive has been experimenting with n typo of starting gate which is new to English race-courBON,

Tormed the "Benjamin Barrier." this starting gate has been in operation for nine years on the inerton Racecourse, near Cape roached perfection.

011-42-020nd play reached! 2-0 1-1 0-1 1-4 2-0 Carinthians of the pass great/ Town, and it is claimed to have}

3–1 3–1 1–1 2–2 2–2

4-0 1-2

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This was the reply of Mr. J. G. 2-0 1-2 2-0 3-19-Stevenson, honorary secretary of 1-2 0-6 3-1.5-333 the Corinthian Football Club, 0-0 0-2 1-1 6-3 2-2 when asked why the club had de 2-1 1-1 3-1 2-2 1-1 cided to enter for the Football 2–4 0–2 0–2 3–0 3–3 Association Cup competition 0-2 2-0 1-0 1-1 1-1 again this season.

They first entered in 1922-23, but dropped out last season when 0-4 2-1 1-3 4-1 1-1 they were not excused the first

2-0 2-1 1-1 5-5 1-3 1-3 6-0 3-1 2-2 2-0

3-1 0-2 1-1 6-2 5-1 4-2 0-2 4-1 2-2 1-1 two rounds. 1-0 4-3 1-1 1-0 1-4

"I admit," said Mr. Stevenson, 1–3 2–0 4–6 4–2 4that almost our sole assets at the 0-2 2-1 1-3 0-1 2-2 0-0 2-0 0-2 1-1 0-2 moment are the example of the past 4-1 2-0 2-0 0-2 1-1 and the spirit of the present. The 0-2 1-2 2-0 1-1 2-2 younger Corinthians are really tremendously keen. They want the DIVISION (NORTH),

club back on its old footing.

- 1-2 3-1 1-1 7-2 New Brighton

1-3 1-0 3-3 4-1 0-4 Donchater

1-0 1-2 2-1 2-2 3-0 York

-1 2-1 3-1 3-1 4-0 Chester

1-3 3-1 13 1-4 2-4 Mansfiel 0-1 3-1 4-1 1-5 4-2 Rochdale 2-0 2-3 0-1 4-0 0-4 Chesterfeld 3-1 1-2 1-3 6-1 0-2 Southport 1-4 1-1 0-0 1-3 2-7 Carlisle 0-2 0-5 1-3 1-2 3-2 Hartlepools 2-0 1-3 3-1 1-1 2-0 Barrow...

BILLIARDS

Steel Coulson Competition

next.

In Full Swing

in full

slone contests. The following are the results to date:

ST. PATRICK'S CLUB

a. a. D. Field

W. Funindikata

NOYAL ARTILLERY

81 Ret. R. Getmolt [29

(Break 491.

160 Fgz ft. Wand- 114

2-2 3-0, 1-2 2-3 1-2 1-42-3 3-1 4-1 1-1 1-2 2-2 0-4 0-1 1-2

SOURCES OF TALENT

"We regard the annual entry for 1-6 2-0 0-5 0-2 1-3 the Cup as a rallying ground, 1-0 0-0 6-3 1-0 2-There is no doubt that in the years 2-1 0-3 5-0 2-1 1-1 4-2 1-1 1-2 0-6 2-1 when we were in the competition, 1-1 2-0 6-0 1-2 1-3 the interest of all Corinthians and 4-0 2-2 2-1 2-0 3-1 their friends and supporters wan 0-2 2-3 1-1 2-2 2-3 then focussed sharply on the club, 3-0 0-0 4-0 2-2 3-1 and the keenness of our young 0-1 0-0 2-1 2-2 0-1 players this year was so urgent that

The barrier is of six strands, and it is operated by the pressure" of the starter's foot on a concealed lover, thus doing away with anti-

cipation of the starter's intentions.

YEARS AGO *

REMARKABLE PAGE IN HISTORY

OF MODERN FOOTBALL

By Frank M. Carruthers

OUR FORECAST

For Saturday Programme

The following is the special

Telegraph forecast for Saturday. Where tonms are marked in heavy type they are expected to win, and where no such indication is given, a draw is anticipated.

FIRST DIVISION,

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♥ Manchester City

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Football teems with stories which must for ever remain unwritten--the tragedies enacted behind closed doors and the broken lives of officials and players.

But there is one concerning Preston North End which may now be told for the first time, and there is no page in the history of the game comparable with it. ASTON VILLA ▼ Portsmouth

"It begins with overwhelming disaster and it continues with Chelsea the refusal of courageous men to go out and go under, their DERBY COUNTY ▾ Liverpool ceaseless struggle against forbidding odds, and their triumphant Everton progress. One would regard it as fiction if the facts were not MSBY TOWN Y HUDDERSFIELD v so poignantly true.

LEICESTER Three years ago Preston North sulta beyond expectation, and the STON N.E.

SUNDERLAND Y at such a speed that it is impos-End, a. club with imperishable great fight which was being made TUTTENHAN

Bo seized the imagination of the whampton ❤ become memories, crashed."

As the ilirectors faced the altua-publie that they made a gift of tion there seemed no way out. £1,000.

Preston," "The fractious horse tash Proud

Invin Soon

came the Cup-ties, and BARNSLEY fun the strands, they become discibles," the club who had won the these brought in very helpful re- HRADFORD C.

League championship without venne. Preston North End were BURNLEY losing a match, and in the same in fact, now safely launched on a MANCHESTER U. season captured the Cup without new ara, and they have never look- Notts C. conceding a single goal, had fallen ell back since.

Oldham into a state beyond repair.

When the lever is depressed, the barrier swings outwards and up- semi-circle EL wards, completing

sible for the

entagled.

· Should a

connected.

horses to

Constructed of steel

and phosphor-bronze, the gate has no unsightly posts or overhead wires, the machine at each side of the

connected by course being

underground control cable,

It is stated that in the nine years of Its service in South Africa there has been no accident In connection with the use of this machine.

2-0 0-2 0-2 2-0 1-1 any doubts that may have lingered STRANGE MISHAP

because of past failures were awept i

0-1 0-0 3-6 6-03-2 0-1 4-1 1-1 1 1 4-1 1-1 2-0 2-1 1-1 away 2-2 0-2 0-5 1-4 3-2 4-0 2-0 3-3 1-1 1-0

2-4 3-2 3-3 1-2 1-2 5-1 0-2 1-3 2-3 1-1 0-1 1-1 0-2 6-2 2-3 1-4 3-4-5-0 0-2 2-1

Canton Golf

CHAMPIONSHIP DRAW

over

Crystal Palace Manager Breaks Leg

Leeds United Imm

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West Bromwich

Wednesday

Blackburn R.

SECOND DIVISION.

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BLACKFOOL NORWICH C. BRENTFORD

When Mr. Taylor went to the PORT VALE So hopeless did the position seem rescue of the club It was decided Sheffield U. that it was actunity proposed and to diapense with the services of a Southampton seconded that the gates of Deep-manager. Instead, a committee Swansea

open dalo should be thrown

to comprising Mr. Taylor, Mr. Buck, who might Mr. James Melling, and Mr. Tom Luton

Blackburn amateurs or anyone

appointed to ike to play there.

That was only three years ago. take control, and they have been and to-day Preston North End can astonishingly successful. once more look the world in the In beginning his work Mr. ALION ROVERS ▾ Queen of South face as a First Division club. Taylor laid down two governing Ayr One man has been mainly respon principles. "We can only hope to CELTIC

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THIRD DIVISION.

SCOTTISH LEAGUE FIRST DIVISION,

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sible for this magnificent recovery, be successful" he said, "by striv. Dunfermline

fused to accept the position, ugly of young players, and this will turtin

WAITING

Queen's Park

Falkirk'

▼ RANGERS

F. A. CUP

Mr. James Taylor, a director forling to play the best type of foot- HAMILTON twenty years and steeped in all the ball. We must also take a long | HIDEDNIANS traditions of the famous club, review. The team must be built up "Since the club was formed in

KILMARNOCK 1882 we have had some great eras,

as it was. He was not propared take time and patience." the last of which produced the

to surrender without a last fight. Ashtons, Freddie Ewer, A. G. Bower, Creek and Doggart, and

AN. OFFER

It was in this way that hej K. E. Hegan.

Mr. J. Tresadern, the Crystal understand that whạn the started. I have met him In allİ CARLISLE "We may have to wait some Palace manager, who appeared in directors met on that fateful day parts of the country, usually with MANSFIELD time for another cycle, but I do the first Cup Final at Wembley three years ago Mr. Taylor anid in Mr. Buck as a companion, looking WORKINGTON ▼ not think it will be long in com-when with West Ham United, and effect, "Give me control for three with a quick, discerning eye for ing.

also gained on English internation-years and I will save the club." talent, and he has made some very Boathport

ard..

are really

I

forward, who was signed on from Gateshead

FIRST ROUND.

COVENTRY

Wigan Athletic Accrington Hirmingham .. Corporation

By Tramways New Brigaton

Y. Barrow. ▾ YORK

Stalybridge

Y Rochdale

Celtic

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✓ Darlington LINCOLN STOCKPORT Walpall

Scunthorpe

United or

Kettering Town Boston United Spennymoor

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Oxford and Cambridge, which are tice match in which he usually takes the meantime, but Mr. Taylor, ho must be surprised by what he DONCASTER "I see some improvement at al cap, broke his leg during a prac. There have been ready helpers in fine discoveries. Indeed, I think AM

closely associated with Mr. Nathan has accomplished in so short a Burton Town our chief sources of talent. They part. are working very hard at both

He had just kicked the ball when Buck, has really brought about the time and at such small cost. TRANMERE "Varsilice towards a higher stand he heard a bone snip in his left wonderful recovery. No one dis- Apart from Maxwell, the centre Canton, Nov. 20.

shin. He was removed to Croydon putes this. The annual billards league for the

The annual golf championship

RULES THE SAME

General Hospital, whore' a fracture

When Mr. Taylor took over the Kilmarnock at the beginning of Shildon Colliery steol Coulson trophy is now

was diagnosed, but after the in- control the club were heavily in this season at a substantial fuo. 1 North Shield or awing, and matches will be played matches will commence nt Tung

"What has encouraged me to be jured limb had been set he was debt, and the

Blyth Spartans v aach Friday evening until February Shan on Sunday next, 26th inst. optimistic, however, is the rapid allowed to go home by ambulance.

revenue at the believe the team now playing wero turnstiles was atil dwindling, got together for less than £10,000, CREWE when the first and second rounds

This Is the third time Mr. They were terribly short, too, of! It should be realised too that The opening matchen saw me are to be played. The preliminary strides being made at the public

schools, which

our Treandern has broken a bone in his compotent players, and it was there are other very rounds

match play ara

promising eighteen holes, with thirty-six purseries. I have myself played leg. The first occurred when he obvious that they could not begin players in the background pre- DARWEN

rovival until this year against Charterhouse, was a child' and the second in 1923

men were paring for promation. This is the ROTHERHAM fresh holea match play for the final.

Bradfold, Shrewsbury, and other when player-manager of Northamp- obtained.

Insurance which has been taken! The draw is as follows:

schools, and they are definitely ten. P. R. S. Walsham v. W. Moore:

Where were they to come from? for the future, and there is a con- HALIFAX ---Mr. Taylor visited London on a dent bollef that if the position CRESTER 100 HEL W. Hoemfeld 10 bye, F. A. Brodie; J. Jones . M.Petter. I think Charterhouse-has

grent_adventure. Ha went to sea of the club can be consolidated K. Ryan; byo, B. Tough; J. Linaker the finest team of its history.

Mr. Morton Cadman, the vice- this season they will once more chairman of Tottenham Hotspur. be a potent power in the Lengue.

BRISTOL R. "Will you let us have your two Mr. Taylor and his colleagues forwarda Harper and Rowley.7" he' who shouldered the responsibility SQUTHEND naked, putting all his cards on the of management have made many table. We have no money, but sacrifices. They have, in fact, Dulwich Hamlet Y TORQUAY

week by week.

three years to the business of the CHARLTON There is supposed to be no senti-club, Mr. Taylor, I understand, WATFORD ment in these transfer deals, but visits the ground almost daily, Yeovil & Petters

Guildford City although the two players had cost conching the players, and each BRIGHTON the Tottenham club a substantial week reviewing the last match and sum they agreed to risk losing their pointing out the defects and how SWINDON

they may be cured. He under- ALDERSHOT

A. Jordan

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5. Dawk

W. Daily

Total

(Break 41),

156 ., . Roch

1/R. T. Mat.

160 Jiaom

128

10 / W. Plakill 143

751

EAST LANCO

D. 8. M. Ella

"The boys' classes, held at High- v. R. T. Smith: bye, B. K. Batchelor; J. T. Smith v. A. N. bury and carried on afterwards, did Gorman; byc, M. A. Annett; C. wonderful work, I would like to Total 163 Pratt v. C. K. Smith; bye, C. E. see that iden revived and expanded."

C.P.O. CLUS

Mr. Stevenson was asked whether

CHINA PONIES CLASSIFICATION

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In communication from the

rc-closifactions of China pontes "The rules regarding member- are noted:

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Sort, Malone 150 Hhpt, Yromene. 140 OQMA. Thompson 150 Cl. N. Banham

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No club ever did a finer thing, takes, In fact, the work of the Uxbridge or "But it has never been exclu-

Wimbledon Joy will assist the Corinthians because they undoubtedly started professional manager, and with sively for the university men, and this season. He is an

BRISTOL C amateur the revival of the old North End,infinite patience and perseverance say emphatically that we have international, and with A. H. and they may be very proud of the he has brought Preston football QUEEN'S `P. R. Y never been snobbish in the slight-Chaddor will form the backbone of part which they so magnanimously back to the top class with a magical Barry eat degree. Nor are we now be ing forced to open our members fine half-back line. Burns plays played in helping to bring it about. touch.

I can imagine the mixed feelings ship to any man whom we would regularly for Brentford and will not

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of Mr. Taylor as he left Tottenham not have admitted before.

But Mr. Stevenson believes that after having carried out the this year's side will be better than negotiations, But there most people think. It is to the time for reflection before the next "Our membership rule amounts to future-soy three or four years' difficulty had to be overcome. |thla: a prospective member must be time--however, that those who now The team had to visit Plymouth

a good player and a good fellow.seek to bring back the Corinthiaus (and-who was going to pay the] In the past we have had such non- to their former might are working, fares? I only mention this to "Varsity men as Arthur Knight, The Crystal Palace ground will be indicate the financial state of the Howard Baker, and many others, used by the club only for matches club.

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