1936-10-26 — Page 8

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1936.

DESCRIPTIVE REPORTS OF LAI WAH CUP GAMES Civilians Reach Final: Chinese-Army Must Replay

LISSAMAN IS GOLF CHAMPION

Colony Title- With Card

Of 151

A. E. Lissaman is the new Colony amateur golf champion. Yesterday, taking part in the nn- mal championship, he returned an agregate of 151 (70 and 75) to win the tide by four strokes, is nearest opponent being Lt. Col. II. f. Blake,

who hid a score of 155 (82 and 76).

Llasaman played. consistently well under favourable conditions, and after doing nice 70 on the Old Course, was never seriously challenged.

L. Col. Binke, however, returned the best card for a single round, going over the New Course in a very due

74.

BRITISH NATIVE SWIMMING RECORD

FINE SHOOTING

BY KNOX

Navy Beaten After

Good Display

WILSON BRILLIANT

Civilians

(D. Knox 4)

(By "Veritas")

Royal Navy

(Cannel!)

1

CIVILIANS were flattered by the score in this Lai Wah Cup match on the Kowloon Foot- ball Club pitch yesterday, yet the brilliance of Donald Knox's shooting and the general efficien- cy of the team left them deserved winners.

not. Minhinnet was efficient in goal, al- Navy

team were as a three goals inferior, but there though a trifle nervous at the start. was nothing they could do about the remarkable marksmanship of Knox, while it has to be re- corded that the Nauticals were not at their best in front goal.

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FINE LOSING TEAM

Navy were one of the best tooms I have ever seen lose a match by one. They played tour goals to of beautiful football for long periods,

the

The match was interesting rather than spectacular: there were times when play became tedious. But the ane open movements of the Navy-scored men always commanded admiration. Civilians could not begin to emulate them until they had scored a second goat. Thereafter they became real, ilve team, and enjoyed most

FOR FRANK DOVE the play.

(By W. J. Howcroft)

A new Belilsh native swimming for 100ydn free style

record

towards the end

Talbot, Army inside left, in action yesterday against the Chinese Lai Wah Cup team.

SHANGHAI & HOCKEY LEAGUE

half backs being expecially Will Have

one

elever. But they should have seized more of their chances. Their marks- lot to be de- manship left quite sired, despite the fact that Cannell of best goals of the match.

Individually Wride was one of the best players on view, and he was and nicely supported by Bowers

trio Smith. Until they tired this looked capable of stopping any at- tack.

to

Behind them Wolverson and Hills offered (1 stout-hearted defence

or had scored their second goal. They which cracked only after Civilians

perfection, continually putting Fowler indulged in the one-back, gaine offride. But this was largely Fowler's his eye on the backs and ran for ward indiscriminately.

be put in some hard work, and of Johnson, who pained measure fault, as the winger failed to keep |

game in the first

Navy turned cut as a ndvertised. but Civilians were forced to make one change, Bliss being the victim of an injury. Forrow deputised, but by it cannot be said he fitted in F. Dove (Oller S.C.) and an Impres-especially well at right half, although sive display of butterfly breast stroke swinuming. were features of the at Marshall-street Fala Amateur fast month, when four of Germany's Olymple team took part in four straight swimming events and relay,

his is 18, enhanced Dave, who repulation

as a sprinter in grand style when he defeated the German, Helmuth Fischer, in a 100yds, match. Fischer has a record of 66 8-10sec. for 100 netres, and was fifth in the But Olymple sprint nt Berlin. he

catight

outswum and down the last length by Dove, who finished full of fire in 54sec.

was

B

he

When Fischer turned for the last with a lead of 2ft., Dove's lengt chance appeared hopeless, but quickened his stroke slightly to draw level with yds, to go. Dove then looked across at his rival, put the power into his stroke, and left the German standing to win a glorious race by a full second.

English Another

success when the Penguin man, french-Wi

a sparkling off carried Navy undoubtedly Arst-half honours and had they led it would have been a fairer reflec- tion of the play. As it was they

on level

ternis, both having scored once,

were

alder

Regarding their play generally it is difficult to understand why the Navy defence was pierced four times. It never collapsed, and ald not even falter until the cluse. The forwards did everything that is to be found in

One

This Year

Decision

in

SURPRISE FOR THE ARMY

RESERVE CHINESE TEAM NEARLY WINS

MATCH ABANDONED OWING TO · DARKNESS IN EXTRA TIME

*The Chinese

4 The Army

(Erin 2, Talbot)

(Chan Tak-fat 3, Henry Yeung)

Abandoned owing to darkness during extra time.

3

THE Army, tipped in most quarters to win this

Lại Wah Cup match on the Navy ground without difficulty, were taken completely by surprise and only darkness saved them defeat, the game being abandoned during extra time.

Chinese, although only field- ing two of the originally chosen team, gave an inspired display, putting the military players off their stride by precise and rapid movement of the ball.

At one stage Chinese led by two cleur gouls and it was not until Intej in the second half that the soldiers scored the equaliser. They were al-i ways in the peculiar position of try- ¦ Ing to save. the game.

SMART FOOTBALL

071

boisterous Army ultnek.

smart move-

ANOTHER HOLE-IN-ONE

iko Deep Playing over Water Bay course on Sunday week, Mr. W. N. Buyers sank his tee shot on the 8th hole (120 yards) for a one.

WELL DEFINED POLICY

LEAGUE FOOTBALL

NOT PLEASANT

Tactics Mar Match

AT CHATHAM ROAD

(By "Veritas")

East Lancs....2 Eastern....1

Coeman, Girißen)

(Chan l'ing-lot

THIS first division league

match, on the Chatham Road ground last Saturday was a shining example of how. boring football can be when certain unhappy features are allowed to predominate. It was a rough and tumblo game, shorn of niceties, and largely characterised by primitive and doubtful methods.

East Lanes nearly bluffel-them- selves into defeat. They bombarded the Eastern goal for long periods, but with such consistent inaccuracy that there appeared to be but a re- moto

chance

of them scoring. When

an equaliser came late in the second half it was rather an unsatisfactory sort of goal. A penally was awarded for something or other, but Gorman shot straight at the goalkeeper and then managed to scramble the ball into the net from the rebound.

HORRID TACTICS

Chinese exhibited a much better physical superiosition by sheer

IT

The match provided some football, the long swinging ments of the Army comparing determined tackling of the Chinese, favourably with the shorter, but very and they were often caught napping. оп the right Erwin was pretty

It needed a stretch of the imaging- neaf and accurate placements of the Shanghai, Oct 22. That a league will be conducted Chinese, who were conspicuous for wing, but Ridings suffered an early tion to appreciate that East Lanes use one of the best teams in the this year, was the decision made the manner in which they positioned injury and was not his usual self.

themselves both for intercepting Sandford disappointed, while Talbot league. I rather suspect they were yesterday evening at the annual

and Ferguson have played much upset by the smallness of the ground. general meeting of the Shanghal passes and receiving them.

Their Inter-play certainly went by The slight edge which the Chinese better.

the hoard, und finally they had to Hockey Association. The proposal had over their opponents all the time. to rescind the "no-league" decision

wear down the

This entailed made at the extraordinary meeting was chiefly due to the fact that they were quicker on the ball. In this

robustness were pre-

harsh tackling and last spring was read by Mr. H. L.

defined policy of play both fore and which the Chinese countered by hor Melchers and unanimously passed. respect the half backs

eminent.

and elbow work. Wong Wah-any played brilliantly aft and because of this were slightly rid ankle-tapping In making his proposal, Mr. Mel-

in goal and Wong Ping was one of the beiter team. chers briefly reviewed the past season,

best budits

view. Chan the

They opened in whirlwind fashion it says much for the referee that he WOG scarcely a. feature of and stated that the representatives of Hung-kwong, Lam Tak-po and He and within a very short time were maintained full control of the Kame

There Chan Tak- only four clubs and voted last spring Chor-yin were in splendid form and two goals to the good.

this match worth remembering pass from

Cheung admired the plucky Lustern defence, to abolish league play. He added

Moon-wing to open the scoring and while the enterprise of Sandford as that he had found that the opinions of formed a solid defence against the fui nccepted a

appor later he Chan Talt-tal was a rare

he presented on easy opening leader of the soldiers' unttuck was the majorty of players were directly opposed to the decision, and that he unlat up forward, but the player to flenry Yeung who netled, without commendable. On the other hand

hockey

decidedly who earned the chief, plaudits was dimculty. felt sure that interest the best copy-

Swain and Steele were would fade FINE CO-ORDINATION

Kames were Tang Kwong-sum who was Soldiers responded strongly and so-so-lah". A shocking positional books, yet they could not plant on

error was responsible for Eastern's For the first fifty minutes of the the goals. Some of their concerted "friendlies." When the proposal was stoppable on the right wing.

put to a vole, every hand was raised

Army, although playing quite well, Erwin shot a great goal, but i was

realise Home Navy were vastly superior in movements were a joy to behold.

did not in approval.

expectations. The quickly rullified when Tang Kwong- Wallace and McLeod dis- accuracy

and Cannell, of ball distribution,

Chan Tak-fai converted. Before the closing stages did they perform with Mr. W. C. Clarke was re-elected full backs were inclined to become sum sent over an ideal centre which goal in the first half, and only in the

any confidence. their attacks in which halves and played an indent understanding, yet

ratiled under pressure and it was as

As a whole the East Lanes made co-ordinated in

splendid invariably their best laid schemes president of the Association, the only forwards

well for the soldiers that Rowlands Interval Talbot reduced the arrears

penalty. by converting other nominee beng Mr. J. P. Jones. to came to nought.

was on top form.

Still fighting to get on level terms the fundamental blunder of keeping thin ball in the air. Half backs were Baxter was not quite so prominent The two vice-presidents elected were

Half backs were far and away the the Army spent most of the second Beltrao on the right wing as Johnson on the Mr. H. H. Melchers and Mr. J. P.

Mr. J. Kanyon was also leading lights. Campbell was at his half accomplishing it but finally always putting the ball too far ahead, while when the forwards were the chief left, the latter putting over sorne

and Taylor the

but voluntarily withdrew best and both Evans

Erwin got in again with a masterly

in shooting position they cleared the Civilions-defenders-scrambling.. after a tie bad resulted in the first proved first class stumbling blocks

bar every time. wonderful crosses which hand

Extra time was called, and in com- In the first halt the soldiers struck- In summing up one bound to ballot. Proposed by Mr. W. G. Clark, and at the same time-paid-attention drive. confess that Navy boasted, the Mr. W. J Silvey was unanimously re-to the needs of their own forwards.

The attack was full of good ideas parative darkness Chan Tak-fat put practically every part of the frame-

and

should have crossed over football craft, bat Ċivilians got the elected to the post of honorary secre goals.

Lary, while Mr. H. H. Melchers but they did not always carry them the Chinese ahead again. But

honorary out very well. The inside men were was found impossible to complete with a spate of goals to their credit. re-elected likewise

In the second half they rarely look- (Continued on Page 9.)

blt nonplussed by the first-time and the game.

ed dangerous and Sandford was the one man to cause Eastern any appre- hension. It was his scorching drive which paved the way for an easy goat by Griffen.

wore

style, were constant menace Rinckburn and Gosana.

These two players, with at centre-half stumbling blocks to Navy's ambitious and well conceived inovements.

Civilians took a vez

very long while! Passes were con- to settle down.

and astray, Strange Linually going

being notable offenders.

came

Beltrad

(Continued on Page 9.).

All five goals were good. Knox M. Y. Fleming too was inclined to put the Fiiliams, got home by a ball straight on to the toe of an yard from Hans Freese over 220yds. opponent, and quite frankly the ffrench-Willams dashed away at the Civilians were not enormously im- start to turn at 100yds, in 57 3-5 net.pressive during the first "43". Jyds. in front of Freese. He held on

when

und

to the advantage until the last 20yds.,

Freese speeded up, french-Willams tired somewhat, but he just managed to hold on to win In 2an. 21 3-5sec.-3-5sec. in front.

વાત

play

The one

man who magnificently and with great con- Civilians Wilson, sistency was

he AC- inside left. Furthermore

of amount complisited a terrific work, often acting as fourth half back, and then going up to Initi-

Hle "mado" two! ale the attacks.

was

was

it

all

RUGBY-THE

un-

BEST AND BRAVEST

OF ALL OUR TEAM GAMES

I regard Rugby football as the of Knox's goals, although the

our elven best and bravest of all Kowloon player must. be unstlated credit for his brilliant

can produce shooting.

All the same Wilson team-games, and the key man of the winners' sound reasons for my preference attack, and his display generally writes "Sentinel" to the Morn- was polished and immensely at-ing Post. In the first place, it has been evolved from a rough- and ready sport which was sur- prisingly popular with our lusty forefathers.

tractive.

BUTTERFLY STROKE USED Although Joachim Balke won the 100yds. breast stroke in 60 4-5sec., with John Davies second in 70sec., the race was exclting. They both used the new butterfly arm move- ment over the first two lengths. Owing to a misunderstanding, Davies left standing at the start, and was Balke was swimming before Davies had started. Even with this handi- cap, Davies was level at the end of the first length, but the effort was Loo much, and he could not hold Balke over the second length. This was Davies's first attempt in public with the butterfly stroke, and I am convinced that he would have re-and

tions,

KNOX'S PROMISE

On this display Knox has all the ear-marks of a coming Inter- port centre-forward. What I liked

was his most about him

to

certain

In the Seventeenth Century, no further back, on ok look

the year (especially

in pleking up the through pass, holldaya in

the

of course, his flery shooting Shrove Tuesday) the young men of with both feet. He is a fast-mover, neighbouring towns and villages all turried 60sec. under normal condi- a quick-thinker and is developing a over the country would turn out to technique, which should shortly put take part in football matches des- cribed by the Puritan Stubbes as "a him in the front rank of Hongkong friendlie kind of fight." The num The Cambridge University back- K. T Scott,

Invariably stroke representative,

of players was centro-forwards.

ber was outclassed in the 100yds, back-

I think it can be said that

was to force the ball across certala stroke against Hans Schwartz, whe selectors' experiment of pleking two unlimited, and the object as a rule travelled hard from pillar to post to Club wings was a success. Fowler boundaries. The only definite rule record the fast time of 63-1-58cc. and Fleming were both good in their for any form of these encounters with Scolt registering 73 1-5sec. Before the race I was advised to of method note the German'a quick turning, but I found this no quicker than that of the average swimmer Where he scores is in the push-off. I have

never seen a man

pus further, from the wall, or travel quicker under the water in the push- off than Schwartz did.

Owing to two other engagements In the gala, french-Williams was not available in the relay race, which

easily won

Germany

own

them. In

that one did not see a butt or handfast under the girdle."

scrum

when the late Arthur Croome rightly reprimanded me for describing golf as "a disease of middle age." But the

alone,

from apart tackling, the hand-off. etc., puts Rugger in a class by itself as nil-round test of the natural man's manhood. Two strong and skilful packs, struggling courageously get the ball, provide a spectacle of physical discipline as thrilling two eights racing for the lead. Egotism is cut out in either case; there can be no playing to the gallery,

to

213

once

It

work

EXCELLENT defending

Eastern were splendidly served by Tang Yat-ming in goal and the two backs, Tang Man-ming and Lei Ting- choy. Their covering of each other was much superior to that of Swain and Steele, and there were intervals when they dominated the field.

American critic's definition) "Interats" ie., short passes to this that-In the hitherto and (an

some side a fearsume physique; have

Last whom I have seen would have put stereotyped American game.

to Oxford University were

The Chinese atlack was not par- the wind up on a gorilla. The play. year

visited California, where the is n series of spasms, not continuous have

game is skilfully played, ticularly impressive, Cheng Shui- as ours is, and I could never under- English

hong, playing Inside right, made some I am told that stand why such huge, tough fellows but the tour had to be cancelled at

nice touches, but was Incilned to born free,' necording the lust moment. "naturally

meteorie fame of Obolensky treat the ball as though it were red to the written American Constitu- the

The Flying Prince" by hot and likely to burn him. Mostly (called tion-allow the coaches to work out

il their strategems beforehand and American sporting scribes) has al- he was in too much hurry to dispose dictate which of them shall be used ready crossed the Atlantic, so that of it, failing to draw the opposition whenever the ball is snapped back such a tour ought at least to from the "down".

or n

be

his

to

expenses.

pay first.

that

Chang Ping-lo on the right wing This is to be a purely domestic was lively and required careful A long run in the wrong direction, a thing I have never seen in our season, and we must not expect to watching. Actually he wasn't cover- There are other forms of football

much faster and more open game, see anything quite as thrilling as ed closely enough and often found in which the primitive man is al-

symbolic scrum,

seema

last year's historic matches between himself in possession without the Occurrence trequent

in Wales and New Zealand at Cardiff. slightest danger of being challenged the chief unwritten rule of the' lowed a little too much scope. Thus

American football. A classic in That terrific struggle, with its drama- until he had made a lot of ground. Gaelic game, a Republican sport in

stance is that of the Lafayette sprin- tie ending, a one point victory for the is goal was the reward of a nice Southern Ireland, is that you must only kick the ball when you cannot ter who ran 50 yards towards his Weishmen, was as excling for lis- display of initiative and quick think-

realizing teners-in as for the actual spectators Ing. own goal-line and then, It is said that a club kick the man,

the whole thanks to the genius for broad-

But I think it is fair to WDS match

mistake, returned championship played in the latitudes of Limerick, length of the field for a touchdown casting of our old friend Teddy neither team played anywhere near which proceeded for a full quarter (try). The same idea comes into Wakelam, who lives in the game he to true form. There was too much the story of a South Carolina college comments on and takes you inside of the "never mind the ball, get on of an hour before either players or

"tackle" back who broke through the ball. Probably this story is the "creeping af base invention Saxon." scheming to add to the dis- tress of a distressful country. But I have actually heard a game of Gaelic football, and the English

combatants ejaculations of (Erse, it would seem, is not a con- venient language to swear in) re called the opening stage of an all- In fight in the For West.

the

be contaior way, though it must was that players were forbidden to spectators noticed the absorice of great deal of inter-play between But the all-insportant point, is re- this respect Wilson and member is that the ball could be Bickford were much more in the carried as well as kicked so that limelight, especially towards the end the bold action of William Webb when they had a wenried Navy de- Ellis, who ran with the ball towards his opponents' goal on Big Side in tence guessing.

Civilians Intermediate line was not 1823, must have long been intelli-

Food as the Navy Beltrao was gently anticipated." outstanding in his defensive work,

My second reason is that Rugby but he fell short when it came to football has an appeal to the primi- setting hlu forwards in aution. tive man which is lacking in any in 2min, Strange was rarely conspicuous, and other team-game. It is, in fact, 63 4-6sec., while England, who had it was fortunate: for the wingers two kinds of sport in one, combining

Acree zest a slow reserve in their ranks, touch that A. V. Cosana was in such ir as it does the

resistible form. The game thing man-to-man contests as boxing and 100 Yards Free Bigla. P. Dove (Oiter) 1 might be sald about Forrow and wrestling with the swift and open 2.Julmuth, Fischer

100 Yards renat Stroke-1, J. Balko (Ger. | Blackburn, The Police 'back con- evolutions of such games as hockey TARAY) 3..J. G. Davies (Lewisham). Imin.stantly covered up errors by Forrow, and lacrosse. "Soccer is repressive, said an Irish 220 Tarde Free Style, M. Y. french whose positioning was at fault and Rugger oxpressive, Wiliams (Oxford Univ.): 3, 11. Freese (Der who did not begin to tackle correct-scrum half (retired) who put this game was well ndoft-over-looked truth perhaps a title ly until the many), 2min, 21 B-see.

too emphatically.... vanced.

GAN GOLF A DISEASE The winnera were wonderfully well served by Blackburn aud I don't wish to crab anybody's ther, Freese and Schwarts) best England Gosano, who looked as though they favourite sport-having been finally (Down, A. Archer,, and. D. Dekinson), In min. had been playing together for years. convinced of the folly of so doing

ed 2min. 65 2-5acc,

S&RDO.

10 Yard Backtreka-1. I, Schwarts (Germany): 1, K. T. Beolt (Cambridge Univ.) | imin, à defaec,

International Team: Rack-Germany (Man

5% 4-5000.

Such

And suddenly the air grow dark With swarms of monstrous B's, And the meekest mon's weakest

remark Contained at least alx D's.

TOO LADYLIKE

An American friend complains that our Rugby football is too "lady- the with like" in comparison eleven-a-side handling (man-hand- ling) game which collects such vant crowds in his own country. Certainly the armoured heroes that take part in that form of "organized murder"

YACHT

RACING

the opposition of his five-yard line, so to speak, with his intimate with the game" stuff about this match and was left with a clear run in impressions. His book on "Rugby to make it either pleasant or interest-

Football (J.. M. Dent) is the best Ing. One of the opposing "ends" chased treatise that has ever appeared on him, but, finding, he was not to be

1 shall never be convinènd. caught, had an Inspiration worthy the strategy and tactics of modern of one of the Marx brothers, When play.

ver, that however,

the famous sides the back had only ten yards to go, how

You're forty or fifty years ago would have

been run And

off their legs and over- the wrong way!" running he shouted: "Hey, Jones, Jones swung to the left and circled whelmed by the finest Afteen of to- back, not stopping until held by one day. Indeed, I bellove that of his team-mates. He had run 180 famous Oxford Fraternity captained yards and gained not un inch. Be- by Harry Vassall (whose vast calves Ileve it or believe it not, there's the recalled Carver Doone's) would have tale that is told.

held its own in any sort of a modern Ilorlequinnde.

CAMBRIDGE VISIT

Two years ago Cambridge Univer- ally visited the United States and played matches against Harvard, Princeton, Yale and a team repro- senting the combined Enstern Un

all four versitles. comfortably, and the critics were much impressed with their speedy Their visit seems to open play. have given on impetus to the use of

They

won

རྒྱུས་

the

Siskin. Wins 'Third Event in Cup Series

Four races in the third yachting series for the Commodore's Cup were salled on Saturday.over a distance of 10 miles.

Class The first ovent, for "" SHORT PASSING

yachts, was won by Slakin (Mr. D. The short passing at top speed Allen), while in the event for "A" among Vassall's nine forwards (the Class yachts, True Blue (Mr. H. S. fourth three-quarter had not then nouse) was first. Only three vessels been introduced) had never been started in the "G" Class, which was equalled except, occasionally, by won by Owl (Llout. Grace), and the (Lieut. J. E Gallaher's und Porter's New Zealand" and "Yelnas event resulted in teams. It has been suggested (see a win for

(Continued on Page 9.)

Moore),

Heron