THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1936.
NORTHERN TEAMS FAVOURED IN F. A. CUP DRAW
Clubhouse Chatter
By: "Veritas LONDON
Football Association CLUBS
Should Revise The Interport Rules
OBSOLESCENT REGULATIONS WHICH ARE NOT EVEN
BEING OBEYED
SHARE
LUCK
MILLWALL HOME
PALACE AWAY
London, Dec. 1.".
The draw for the second round of the competition proper of the English Cup, which
PERTINENT reminder that; aRmIn two Ports and is left uncontrolled matches will be played on
within a comparatively short time we shall be in the throes and excitement of a foot- ball Interport was given by the publication in these columns
yesterday of Shanghai's necep- tance of Hongkong's invitation to send a team down here next February. From now on, n). though we shall have Charity Cups, Tai Wah Cups, Shields. and ordinary league programmes to diverl our interest, lurking behind everything will be thoughts of the Interport and of the Colony's prospects of K<!- taining that which splendidly won last" year.
Ridiculous Rule
at
concern
Was 60
Brilliant Form By Cambridge XV
London, Dec. 1. Cambridge University, playing their last match be- fore the annual inter-Varsity rugby encounter next week, showed briliant form to-day. They defeated Mr. J. E. Greenwood's XV of 35 points to 16 Kenter.
by any rule at all. It is possinte December 12, was made to-day) fer. the Eame player to remain at as follows:- member of football clubs in Shang-
ап
v. Clapton O....
affiliated Mansfield
v. Bournemoutli
hal and Hongkont, which autora Carlisle tically nakes him member Shanghai
l'erhaps
of
v. Dartford
v. Swindon
v. Darlington
v. Bosion or Spenny
Moor
v. Trevi & Pelters
y. T. Wells Rangers y. Gillingham
S. Liverpool Crewe
the Hongkong and Shildon Football Associations. Cardiff the ideal arrangement Lincoln or would be frame the rule in three) N. Brighton v. Oldham sections. 1. That a player must be a
Burton member of a
club adilated to a Ipswich recognised Football Association. 2. That the player must alto reside Walsati within rádius of 200 miles of his Walthamstow v. Exeter club's
3. Beadquarters.
That the Accrington player must be an afiliated member Wrexham of the Association, and must reside within 200 miles radius of the As summuncmosome FAINEANNEBÆREREAommunurnsociation's headquarters for at least our month before the Interport its complete deletion from the rules contest. Here you have rufe governing the Interport compell-which is both watertight and should tion, or amendment of it to bring satisfy any participants in the In- It in line with present day require terport competition. ments. As yet the F.A. has
ì
Crystal P. or Bouthend
Reading Millwall Bristol R.
v. Q. P. Rangers
v. Rotherham or Har- tlepools
v. York
v. Newport
v. Gateshead v. Southport
An unconventional pose by Jain Henry Lewin, the coloured boxer who successfully defended his title ngainst Len Harvey, and who now wants to challenge Braddock for the world's heavyweight crown
Should Obstructive Tennis Ball On The Court Call
For A
(By A Lawn Têénnis Correspondent)
"Let"?
BADMINTON, HANDBOOK NOW READY
Informative Brochure For Players
Occasionally during a rally a ball from an adjacent match comes to ignore either that is archaic Another Attribute
-Reuter. The necessity of Its revision.
The south of England has not been¦ across the court. When this happens, should a "let" ipso facto be Burnt the moment there is th
particularly favoured by the draw,¦ given (or, phrased more properly, should the point be replayed)? cause to
ouracires There are three alternatives: actu- about the composition
Seven teams will have to travel long only two, the second of Hong-ly
being IT has one other attribute, it will distances to the North, and prospects kong's team: Doubtlens the ques- SUB-
Either sub-divided.
to scrap the do away with any sort of ques- of a big southern representation In Club tournament at Dulwich a week a point to be replayed in "eiroy ball" In the course of the Covered Courts who have lately taken to ordering tion will be thoroughly worked out, rule in its entirety and Jeave the tionable interpretation and appllen- the next round of the Cup are not or will work itself out, by the time competition without any regulation which the present ruling has especially bright.
or two ago, the umpire in charge of circumstances. They have, I think, Chinese New Year arrivés. Never- tion governing qualification, or encouraged. It cannot be claimed theless there are one or two polnis amend the existing law to make
The two "baby" teams-Dartford one of the most important matches probably taken too much into con- 341
the Hongkong F.A. has commonsense connected with the Interport com-
and practicable. haved in an entirely upright man- both struck unlucky in the draw, the three or four occasions when an out-ed-without
be-and Tunbridge Wells Rangers have of the meeting stopped the play and sideration the concluding words of
ordered the point to be replayed on the rule the
point shall be reploy- petition, notably rules, which may Few would advocate the first line ner by including in the Interport former having to visit Shildon and side bail come across the court an tion to the only reason for replaying paying suficient alten- be worthy of comment, even at this of neilon becauяu one can quite some
The offelal handbook of the Hong- uf the Chinese stage. I think it was something easily appreciate the necessity for Though it is sald that the Canton
players, the Rangers to go up to Accrington, which he was officiating. There has it that the player has been hinder kong Badminton Association ins now like two years ugo that I drew
Walthamstow has been fortunate been a good deal of discussion as to ed." some sort of qualification, largely players wiso igure in Hongkong enough to be drawn at home, and whether he was right in, so doing.ed, he will generally say so; and even secure copies by application, to the If he has in fact been hinder- been issued, and club secretaries may ~~~~attention-
the because quite a number of leatting football -{fruiticaaly: la the
have residences in anomalous Rulo
the they will entertain Exeter, thus give us see what the rules bay on the if 12 which insists footballers are constantly travelling Colony, the FA has no check asing them a fair chance of making the one which covers it is almost certainly say so for him. If Cop recond floor Bank of Chino the if he doesn't, his opponent wilt Hongkong Advertisers and Publishers dint only players actually resident between Shanghai and Hongkong, to where those residencés
Port shall be eligible to play and quite a number of unfortunate When players register they simply
are further advance in the competition.
Of the southern third division "In case a player is hladored
Kure 21, which russ as follows:— 110 appeal la made from either player,
-Building, Duddell Street- for What Port in the Interport com- precedents could be established state their place of abode
in the umpire would be wiser not to
It is an excellent little brochure It is still there, and, 1 their petition.
participation
is trams, Clapton Orient, in Interpert "Hongkong".
Bournemouth
containing essential information for believe I am right in saying, it is contests WAB not controlled.
There is no indica- Gillingham; Queen's Park Rangers making a stroke by anything not interfers. Ation as to their postal address. And have to journey to the other end of manent fixture of the court, the point within his control, except a per-
all local badminton players. In addi still surreptitiously broken.
THE STATIONARY OBJECT_ It is qualification of some description op- while it is probably true these Can- England for their ties, but Reading, shall be replayet."
tion to the season's Axtures, the book. Apropos of the "stray ball,' probably the moat ridiculous rule to peors necessary. Shall I be rest- ton players have residences here, Millwall, Bristol Rovers,
Jet includes the rules of the associn- be Imposed on competition of dential or through affiliation?
problem lately submitted to the ton Crystal this descriptilom a challenge which
From this it would appear that the Council of the L.T.A. was solved as ion and the Lengue, as well as the "ACUMINATIEKVIDACEAdiant enjoy home draws.
Palace or Southend, and Cardiff intention is that-u-player shall not follows: "Any stationary object lying rules of badminton, with diagrams.
be hindered in making his stroke"
A review of last year's activities the surface of the court shall be and prospects for this season on by suc
such a happening "hot with ans deemed to be part of such surface;
appear Control" as a coming from an- but if the ball in play strikes an other cou
court across the floor, or in the object moving along of above INDIAN CRICKET air, in such a way as to distruct his surface of the court, a let must the
attention from the stroke he is
is about TOUR SEQUEL
to make. It 15 "hindering" that
the Suppose, the important
w that a font
has driven his example, opponent into a bad position, and has
me right up to the net to
make winning volley, and, us he is in the net of making it, a ball comes into or across his court behind hima ball which he does not even see it
I throw out to the perpetrators of The Alternatives
it and to those who would defend
13. In its strictest interpretation it
Fit is deemed preferable to im
Our Daily Golf Hint
..
bars at least 50 per cent. of our pose a residential qualification, most eligibio interporters, for by
then the rule should be trained in taking
the words "actually resident" such a way as to permit all players, surely means that a player must
live
part in Hongkong F.A.
at that Port. Now it is com- competitions, who work and reside mon knowledge that a dozen of our within a certain radius, to remain Lending Chiasse players Ilve
work in Canton for five days "the" week, and usually
Hongkong - during the
sec
are
It is stretching imagination to fine point to argue that under such circumstances these playera considered to be "actually resident" in Hongkong.
It is Obsolescent
Association could
A moving body is the arch enemy that ruins shots at intervals with every club.
Miss Helme
GOING KENYA
under the interport Competition rule they are actually residentin
Sir John Beaumont Denies Report
Bombay. Dee, 1
requested
is
come
for
allowed."
return
in the early part of the book, and where will be found a tabulated list of club secretaries, captains and players.
CRICKET BROADCAST
BALL-FOR-BALL_DESCRIPTION. OF THE FIRST TEST Cricket lovers in Hongkong will be pleased to hear that a ball-for-ball
10
will
be
Station
The "stationary object" to which the Arst part of this
ruling refers is and eligible to represent Hongkong In
carly always a ball. If a player is of the Interport. The same ruling.
sumelently enretess and regardless of only
naturally would apply to Shangini.
his own interests, or indeed lazy week-ends. The radius could be set at some
court, he must take the concequencos enough, to leave a ball lying in his thing ke 200 miles, which would thus include Canton,
of the ball in play hitting it. If Alternatively Hongkong and Canton, and therefore debarred Vizianagram, captain of the All-India
The message.. that the Maharajah) would seem to be the hardest of luck return of his opponents does hit 1 description of the First Test between
DCK he Shanghai
That he should be deprived of on allowed Jule 20 (c)_14-England-and-Australfa, commending that qualification for paicipation It is a foolish position and
agree from taking part in an Interport. cricket team which loured Englund/ almost certain ace by the umpire at the ball in play it he can at Brisbane on Friday, December 4,
succeed. In so doing. Needless in the
one last summer, had Interport should"
solely which could
the stopping play and ordering the point
It is say,
infrequently indets that affiliation o either simply adjusted.
be very easily on a player's
andl
publication
of the report of the com- not been "hindered" in making a for a ball bitting another ball on the to be played again. He has certainly success attends his effort to do su, Association. This is the more sen-
mittee that enquired into the causes stroke. But this particular umpire ground is apt to behave in a manner PERHAPS I am In danger of sible method, but it is also the
thrashing a dead horse in em- most likely to meet with post Break 'Em All!
for the sending home of the Indian phasising that this Is an obsoles- tion because it is possible' för
order the stroke been cancelled, and
10 be replayed avail. cent rule. I know I have pleaded similar position to arise us that of)
the following regardless of whether the player had
There might, of course, be
A resume of each day's play will substituted.
other objects than Vils before and urged for either the player who travels between the THE announcement made yester-
a ball lying be given from 5 p.m. to 5.10 p. for been hindered or not.
stationary on the surface of day that Shanghai had accepted "Sir John Beaumont (Chairman of
the the duration of the match. It is
conceivable that he court, c.g., on a windy day an empty course, the may have considered that the other ball-box might be blown on to the Hongkong's invitation to participate the Committee), replying to
telegram In an Interport, also prompts me to Vizianagram says the reports which a possible reply to the volley by
Maharajah player might be hindered in making (Continued on Page 9.) point out Rule 13 of the Interport appeared regarding the findings of having seen a ball - come across his Competition which makes no men- the Beaumont Committee is entirely opponent's court, but this is stretch- Lion whatever of Invitations but unauthorised and untrue."-Reuter. ing the argument very far Indeed.
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one
a
does insist that "Entries must be
sent to the Hon. Secretary of the Hongkong Football Association be
broadcast from. VK3LR, Melbourne, s.m. (Hongkong time), stopping for The broadcast will begin at 9.55 tin at 11.30 a.m., and, will con-
Test cricketer, R. Amarnath, has now #pparently considered it his duty to for which anticipation is of Uttle tinue from 12.16 p.m. to 4 p.m.
from the
fore ist of November of the year NEWCOMER WINS.
is
GOLF TITLE
RALPH GULDAHL'S PERFORMANCE
Augusta, Ca., Nov, 29.
Italph Guldahl,
As the lawyers say, the damage is too remate. In any case, any subsequent stroke in the rally is not the stroke that is actually being made, and it la to that stroke in being, and to the player who is making, or about to make, it that the Rule only applies. IS THE UMPIRE THE SOLE JUDGE?
preceding the competition It is de- sired to enter." Now here another of those dut-of-date regu- lations, which in point of fact bas been studiously ignored for years.
It is said that the umpire is the By practice it has become the cor-
sole judge of whether a player has: irectproceduro for the Ports-to-
been "hindered" or not by an in- -eldent-of-this-nature-7 cannot agrou invite each other to participate In
with this proposition; It seems to me annual Interport matches, Yet the
newcomer to that (conceding good faith) the rule stresses that entries must be the ranks of top-light golfers in player himself must be, at any rate, sent to the Hongkong F.A.
Amorica, ·to-day captured the the best, if not the sole, judge, of Why Augusts persist with
Open Ullo in the annual whether he has been hindered or not. such a useless "rule? tournament sponsored here by the No player of the game would raise These sorts of regulations which veteran Bobby Jones and
nny objection to having the point re- associates. have become antedated do nothing
op- but create unnecessary confusion. cash prize for first place, Henry ponent has really been impeded in What is more important, by treat Picard, of Hershey, Pa., Metropolitan making his stroke by a circumstance ing them in such a cavaller fashion, Open champion in 1935, and Denny outside his control; indeed, It is Shute, former British open champion, nearly always the case that he says, A precedent is established by which tied for sccond with 285 each und "You'd better have a lot for that." It is arguable that other rules con- split $1,300 plusa for second and} And even if his opponent does not nected with this competition can bo Ignored. Why, for should we trouble
part
Slution VK3LR will operate on a wave-length of 31.34 metres (0,580 kilocycles).
At the
HONGKONG HOTEL
in the. ~
ROOF GARDEN,
AND
THE "GRIPPS"
is card of 303 won him the $1,000 played when he sees that his DINNER DANCES NIGHTLY.
example
third places.
about the lost of Rule 12. which says that crews of sen-going ships shall not
be
to so, it is always open to a player who has been hindered by a stray ball to ask the umpire if he can have a "let."
In that case (and such a request
eligible to play for any Port, OLYMPIC SWIMMER TO would almost never be made. un-
and that no more than three Ser vice
players shall be included in any one team? Surely, on a ques tion of principle, it fa no more to break that rule than to wink at another which demands that tries for the Interport competition
cn-
BE MARRIED
Tokyo, Nov. 30.
fairly) the Umpire would (and should) always allow the point to be replayed; but it. no purt of his duty, in my opinion, to order it to ho replayed without being appealed to, and may enuse a great unfairness to a player who is really not Bindered; as ali. Cerulny na muy use his discretion in such a matter. but he should bear in mind that the real point is whether or not the
shall be sent to the H.K.F.A. But Engagement of Miss Hideko Maye we shouldn't think of breaking sec-hata, Olymble Swimmer, to Mr. tion 2 of Rule 12. Why then break Masahiko Hyodo, a physician at Rule 137 And if we consider Rule inched to the Medical College in 13 is impracticable, why not scrap Nagoya, was announced here to-day. 117 One tasks the Hongkong F.A. Miss Mayehota was one of the main player his been hindered in making should set itself before this scaron pillars of the Japanese aquatle team na stroke; and just as certainly be Interport Competition regulations. 200-metre breastroke championship.
should not order a replay merely
.
SATURDAY 5th DECEMBER WITH
EULA HOFF and BOB BURNETT BOB and BERTIE HELLMAN: ART CARNEIRO and HIS BAND
IN THE ROOE GARDEN. EXTENSION TILL 2 A.M.
RESERVATIONS PHONE 30281
is completed, is the revision of the is the Berlin Games, annexing the because a stray, ball has come into THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.
But I'm prepared to lay a small be: The bridegroom-to-be is the seventh the court without the player being in that the same string of rules exist son of the late Kinsalu Maruno; in question was only one of several this time next year.
the least hindered by it. The umpire former tutor of the Emperor.
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