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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1936. ⠀
NORTHERN TEAMS FAVOURED IN F. A. CUP DRAW
Clubhouse Chattor
LONDON
By Veritas
CLUBS
Football Association Should Revise The Interport Rules
OBSOLESCENT REGULATIONS WHICH ARE NOT EVEN
BEING OBEYED
PERTINENT reminder that i stuememmam
within a comparatively short time we shall be in thei throes and excitemeal of a foot- ball Interport was given, by the publication in these columns yesterday of Shanghai'a recep- tance of Hongkong's invitation to send a team down here next February. From now on,
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though we shall have Charity Cups, Lai Wah Cups, Shields and ordinary league programmes to divert our interest, lurking behind everything will be thoughts of the Interport and of the Colony's prospects of re-
which taining that splendidly von last year. Ridiculous Rulo
BUT at the
cause 10 about
'kong's
WAH
وان
connected with the Interport com-
UTERCANCIANOC] Brilliant Form By Cambridge XV
London, Dec. 1. Cambridge University, playing. their last match be- tore 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-Rruler.
cominonsense and
SHARE
LUCK
MILLWALL HOME
PALACE AWAY
London, Dec. 1..
on
The draw for the second round of the competition proper · of the English Cup, which two Ports_and_is__left__uncontrolled matches will be played by hay rule at all. It is possibic December 12, was made to-day for the same player to remain a as follows: member of football clubs in Shang- hal and Hongkong, which utoms Carlisle
eally makes hira มก anitlated Mansfeld member of the Hongkong and Shildan
Shanghed Football Associations. Cardiff
v. Clapton 0.
v. Bournemouth
v. Dartford v. Swindon
N. Brighton v. Oldham
v. Darlington
v. Boston or Spenny
Moor
Perhaps the ideal arrangement Linesin or would be frame the rule in three rections. 1. That a ployer must be a Burton member of
club ollated to a Ipswich recognised Football Association. That the player must also resicle a radius of 200 miles of his lub's hendquarters. That player must be an affiliated member Wrexham v. Gillingham of the Association, und must
reside S. Liverpool within 200 miles radius of the
within Winn
3.
Walsall v. Yeovil & Petters Walthamstow v. Exeter the Accrington
v.. T. Wells Rangers
macsociation's headquarters for at least Crewe
TT bas
the
because quite a number of leading football have residences, in 12 Whicht insists
where
v. Q. P. Rangers v. Rollerhatn or Har- tlepools
v. York
V. Newport
v. Gateshead v. Southport
Reuter.
An unconventional pose by. Jalin Henry Lewis, the coloured boxer who successfully defended his title ngainst Len Harvey, and who now wants to challenge Braddock for the world's heavyweight crowo.
Should Obstructive Tennis Ball On The Court Call
For A
(By A Lawn Tennis Correspondent)
"Let"?
Occasionally during a rally a ball from an adjacent match comes BADMINTON HANDBOOK across the court. When this happens, should a "let" ipso facto be given (or, phrased more properly, should the point be roplayed)?
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NOW READY
Informative Brochure For Players
one month before the interport Crystal For its complete deletion from the rules content. litre you have u rule Southend governing the Interport competi- Which is both watertight and should| Iteading tion, or amendment of it to bring satisfy any participants in the In-Millwall It in line with present day require terpurt competition.
Bristol R. ments. As yet the F.A. has chosen to ignore either that it is archaic Another Attribute
The south of England has not been moment there is no or The necessity of its revision.
particularly. Lavoured by the draw. Seven teams will have to travel long ourselves There are three alternatives: actu- concern
being of Hongly only two the second the composition
one other attribute, it will) distances to the North, und prospecta In the course of the Cavered Courts who have lately taken to ordering Father to scrap the team.. Doubtless the ques- sub-divided.
ruic in its entirety and leave the tionable Interpretation and appllen- the next round of the Cup 'are not
in away with any sort of ques- of a big southern representation in Club tournament at Dulwich a week a point to be replayed in "stray ball" tion will be thoroughly worked out,
or two ago, the umpire in charge of circumstances. They have, I think, without any regulation which the present ruling has especially bright. or will work itself out, by the time competition Chinese New Year arrives. Never-lon governing qualification, or encouraged. It cannot be claimed The two "baby" teams-Dartford one of the most important matches probably taken too much into con- theless there are one or two points amend the existing law to make it that the Hongkong F.A. has
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 replay- practicable. huved in un entirely upright man- both struck unlucky in the draw, the three or four occasions when an out- ed"--without paying sufficient atten-
*The_official_handbook of the Hong- petition, notably rutes, which may te woon duuret te arst une nor by including in the interport former having to visit Shildon and side bail came across the court on tion to the only reason for replnen kong Badminton Association has now
action because one can quite be worthy of comment, even at this ot
Kome
Chinese players. the Rangers to go up to Accrington. which he was officiating. There has it that the player has been “hinder- stage, I
think it was something easily appreciate the necessity for Though it is said that the Canton Walthamstow has been fortunate been a good deal of discussion us to ed." If he has in fact been hinder-been issued, and club secretaries may ilko two years ngo that I drew sume sort of qualification, largely players
who gure 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 attention (fruitlessly) to the
footballers are constantly travelling Colony, the F.. has no check using them a fair chance of making point. The one which covers it is obnost certainly say so for him. If Guild Buddell Street. of Chine anomalous itale
the they will entertain Exeter, thus giv Let us see what the rules say on the if he doesn't, his opponent will Hongkong Advertisers and Publishers between Shanghal and Hongkong, ta
those residences are. further advance in the competition. and quite a number of unfortunate; When players register they simply Of the southern third division tule 21, which runs as follows: na appeal is made from either player, Building, Duddell Street.
"In case a player is hindered in the umpire would be wiser not to thelr precedents could be established if state
place uf abode Is teams, Clapton Orient, Bournemouth, making a stroke by anything not interfere. their participation In Interpart "Hongkong". There is no indica- Gillingham, Queen's Park Rangers contests was not controlled.
Ation as to their postal tiddress. And have to journey to the other end or within his control, except a per- qualification of some description ap- while it is probably true these Can England for their ties, but Reading, manent fixture of the court, the point
shall be replayed." tou players have residences here, | Millwall, Bristol Rovers, Crystal From this it would appear that the Palace or Southend," and Cardiff Intention is that a player shall not ÉSEJUTATYMUSTERTTILALESCRITSERLAUFENTHUSIASTELO tem enjoy home draws.
be hindered in making his stroke" by such a.happening "not within his control" us a ball coming from an other court across the floor, or in the air, in such a way as to distract his attention from the stroke he is about to make. It is the "hindering" that
The "stationary object" to which is the important point. Suppose, for
CRICKET BROADCAST that a pinyer has driven his the first part of this ruling refers is into a bad position, and has early always a ball. If a player is
suficiently coreless and regardless of BALL-FOR-BALL DESCRIPTION come right up to the net to make his own interests, or indeed, Jazy Interport. The same ruling,
OF THE FIRST-TEST --- winning volley, and, as he-is-in-the enough, to leave a ball lying in his naturally would apply to Shanghai.
act of making it, a ball comes into court, he must take the consequences Cricket lovers in Hongkong will The radius could be set at some-
or across his court behind him of the ball in play hitting it. If he pleased to hear that a ball-for-ball thing like 200 miles, which would
ball which he does not even set returns of his opponents does hit it. description of the First Test between under thus include Cahion.
the Interport Competition
Bombay, Dec. 1. rule they are actually resident in The message that the Maharajah would seem to be the hardest of luck) he is allowed by Rule 20 (e) to, England and Australia, commencing Alternatively
und Conton, Hongkong
and therefore debarred Vizianagram, captain of the All-India that he should be deprived of an Shanghal Association, could agree from. taking part in an Interpart. cricket team which toured England stopping play and ordering the point say, it is infe, indeed that will be broadcast from that qualifiention, for participation It is a foolish position and one last summer, had in the Interport should rest solely which could be very easily and
milation to either simply adjusted. on a player's Association. This is the more sen-
that only players actually resident at Port shall be eligible to play for that Fort in the Interport com- petition. It la all there, and, 1 believe I um right in saying, it is still surreptitiously broken. It is
the probably most ridiculous rule to be imposed on A competition of this description, challenge which I throw out to the perpetrators of it and to those who would defend it. In its strictest interpretation it bars at least 50 per cent of our most eligible interporters, for by the words. "actunity resident"
It
surely means that a player must live at that Port. Now it is com- mon knowledge that a dozen of our leading Chinese players live and work in Canton for five-dilys of the week and usually only Hongkong during the week-ends. It is stretching imagination to fine point to argue that under such circumstances These players are : considered to be. "actually' resident" In Hongkong.
It is Obsolescent
Shall it be resi- penra necessary. dential or through affiliation?
The Alternatives
TP it is deemed preferable to im-)
pose a residential qualification,
then the rule should be framed in such a way as to permit all players, taking part in Hongkong FA competillons, who work and reside within a certain radius, to remain eligible to represent Hongkong in the
Our Daily Golf Hint
A moving body is the arch enemy that ruina shots at intervals with every club. --Miss-Bélme:
PERHAPS I am in danger of sible method, but it is also the one Break 'Em All!
thrashing a dead horse in em-most likely to meet with opposi phasising that this is an obsoles- tion because It is possible for cent rule. I know I have pleaded similar position to arise as that of this before and urged for either the player who travels between the
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INDIAN CRICKET TOUR SEQUEL
Sir John Beaumont Denies Report
It is an excellent little brochure- containing essential information for all local badminton players. In addi- THE STATIONARY OBJECT-
tion to the acason's fixtures, the book- Apropos of the "stray ball," #1
let includes the rules of the associa= problem lately submitted to the tion and the League, as well as the Council of the L.T.A. was solved as rules of badminton, with diagrams. follows: "Any stationary object lying
A review of last year's activities on the surface of the court shall be and prospects for this season appear deemed to be part of such surface: in the early part of the book, and but if the bail, in play strikes an elsewhere will be found a tabulated object moving along or above the list of club secretaries, captains and surface of the court, a let must be
players. allowed."
succeed in so
can almost certain nce by the umpire return the ball in play, it he
Needless to requested the
to be played again. He has certumy success attends his effort to do xu, of the report of the com- not been hindered" in making his for a ball hitting another ball on the publication mittee that enquired into the causes struke. But this particular umpire ground is apt to behave in a manner for the sending home of the Indian Test cricketer, R. Amarnath, has now apparently considered it his duty to for which anticipation is of little order the stroke to be replayed avall. There might, of course, be been cancelled, and the following regardless of whether the player had other objects than a ball lying substituted,
stationary on the surface of the court, e.g., on windy day an empty ball-box might be blown on to the (Continued on Page 9.)
been hindered or hot.
11 is of course, conceivable that he may have considered that the other player might be hindered in making having seen a ball come across his opponent's court, but this is stretch- ing the argument very far indeed. As the lawyers say, the damage is too remolc, In any cases not the stroke subsequent stroke in the rally is
that is actually being made, and it is
NEWCOMER WINS to that stroke in being, and to the
GOLF-TITLE-
player who is making, or about to make, it that the itale only uppites
IS THE UMPIRE THE SOLE JUDGE?
announcement day that Shanghai had accepted "Sir John Beaumont (Chairman of Hongkong's invitation to participate the Committee) replying to the telegram from the Maharajah in an Interport, also prompts me to Vizianagram says the reports which possible reply to the volley by point out Rule 13 of the Interport appeared regarding the Andings of Competition which-makes-no-men-the-Beaumont Committee is entirely tlon whatever of Invitations but unauthorised and untrue.”—Reuter. door, insist that "Entries must be sent to the Hon. Secretary of the Hongkong Football Association be- fore 1st of November of the year { preceding the competition it is de- wired to enter." Now here is another of those out-of-date regu- lations, which in point of fact has been studiously ignored for years.
It is said that the umpire is the sole judge of whether a player ha By practice it has become the cor-
been "hindered" or not by an in- rect procedure for the Ports to
ckdent of this nature. I cannot agree Invite each other to participate - In
Augusta, Ga., Nov. 29.
with this proposition; it seems to me annual Interport matches. Yet the Ralph Guldahl, a newcomer to that (conceding, good faith) rule stresses that entries must be the ranks
of top-flight golfers in player himself must be, at any rate, America, to-day captured the the best, if not the sole, judge, of sent to the Hongkong F.A. Why Augustu persist with
Open title in the annual whether he has been hindered or not Buch a useless rule? tournament sponsored here by the No player of the game would raise These sorts of regulations which veteran Bobby Jones and associates. any objection to having the point re- have become antedated do nothing His card of 283 won him the $1,000 played when he sees that his op- been impeded in but create unnecessary confusion, cash prize for first place. Henry ponen! has really What is more important, by treat- Picard, of Hershey, Pa., Metropolitan making his stroke by a circumstance oulside his control; indeed, it is ing them in such a cavaller fashion, Open champion in 1935, and Donearly always the case that he says, a precedent is established by which Shute, former British open champion, it is arguable that other rules con- tied for second with 283
RALPH GULDAHL'S PERFORMANCE
nected with this compeition can split a $1,300 purse, for second and be ignored, Why, for example third places.
should we trouble about the inst
part
of Rule 19, which says that
crews of sea-going ships shall not
be
the
"you'd better have a lot for that." And even if his opponent does not do so, it is always open to a player, who has been hindered by a ́stroyi ball to ask the umpire if he can have A:"ict,
eligible to play for any Port, OLYMPIC SWIMMER TO would a case fund such a request
und that no more than three Ser- vice players shall be included in
any one team? Surely, on a ques- tion of principle, it is no more to break that rule than to winle at another which demands that tries for the Interport competition shall be sent to the HK.F.A.7. But
en-
BE: MARRIED
Tokyo, Nov. 30.." Engagement of Miss Hideko Maye we shouldn't think of breaking sec- hala, Olymple Swimmer, to Mr. tion 2 of Rule 12. Why then break Masahiko Hyodo, a physician at Hulo 137 And If we consider Rule tached to the Medical College
(und
almost never bq made fairly) the umpire would should) always allow the polat to replayed; but it is no part of his duty, in
my opinion, to order it to be replayed without being appealed to, and may cause a great unfairness to a player who is really not
ແ "hinderea
ne muy all. Certainly e use his discretion in such a matter, but ho should bear in mind that the or not the
13 is impracticable, why not nerop Nagoya, was announced here to-day real point is whether
17 One task the Hongkong F.A. Miss Mayehata was one of the main player has been hindered in making should set itself before this season pillars of the Japanese aquatic team has stroke; and just as certainly he | should not order a replay merely
Interport Competition regulations, 200-metre breastroke championship.
at Brisbane on Friday, December 4, Station VK3LR, Melbourne. am. (Hongkong time), stopping for The broadcast will begin at 9.55 tiffin at 11.30 am., and will con tinue from 12.16 p.m. to 4 p.m.
A resume of each day's play will be given from 5 p.m. to 5.10 p.m. for the duration of the match.
Station VK3LR will operate on a
khocycles).
wave-length of 31,34 metres (0,680
At the
HONGKONG HOTEL
in the
ROOF GARDEN
AND
THE "CRIPPS
DINNER DANCES NIGHTLY
SATURDAY 5th DECEMBER
WITH
EULA HOFF and BOB BURNETT BOB and BERTIE HELLMAN ART CARNEIRO and HIS BAND
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EXTENSION TILL 2 A.M.
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is completed, is the revision of the in 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 bet 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 Kinaaku Maruno, the least hindered by it. The umpire this time next year.
former tulor of the Emperor.;
In question was only one of several
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