1947-04-19 — Page 8

Extended Soccer

Season Isaia

Big Threat

To County Cricket

(BY ARCHIE QUICK)

The decision of the 'Football Asociation and Football League to extend the present season until June 14, to enable 200 match arrears to be played off was the only reasonable conclu- sion they could arrive at, in my opinion, but a most important outcome is the threat to county cricket.

like In turn centres

Horaham, Chelmsford, Maidstone, Taunton, and Worcester the effect will be hardly with felt, for rabid cricket supporters still and their way to the pleasant green Ackls of the southern counties. Even in Leicester

where

support the elty and comes from outside there is a sharp division between

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1947.

SPORTS FEATURES

Hold Everything For The Season's Third Interport Soccer Match

(BY SEE-TEE)

This promises to be a heavy week-end for several local footballers and most particularly for the service players who took part in yesterday's game with Saigon some of them are due to play for the Colony against Saigon in the Interport game on Sunday. In many ways it is a pity that extreme pressure on the fixture programme makes it imperative to play off league matches today.

Tomorrow the Interpart match) fills the football completely. Today's varied league programine includes two most interesting league encounters South China's match with 27th Field Regt. at Chusowny Easy and the second meeting of the Chinese Amateur Sporting Club and Sing Tho on the Club ground. If holh South Chinn and the Gunners Soccer and cricket fans the impacted their usual elevens this should will hardly be noticeable, but Satur- day soccer until June is going to have big financial effeel in large elies like Manchester, Leeds, Dris

fis

be, a very close game.

In their last league meeting the Amateurs gave Sing Too a very bad fright. In ercely fought first tol, Londou, Portsmouth, Southamp-half they more than held their own

while un tou and Cardiff,

two showing a speed and determination grounds-Northampton and Sheffield which made the redoubtable chain- United's-league soccer and 'county plans fight back with ericket are played on the same en-

they had. But the slendering play closure,

and greater football craft of Sing through. The Amateurs Too won could not stick the terrific pace they set and this, combined with a little duck, gave Sing Tan a clear cut 4-1 victory.

Can you imagine the reduction there will be in Saturday attendances

Lords and Oval Jf Soccer Is on, and how many people do you think wedd go and watch Glamorgan and Northamptonshire say, if Cardiff City are battling down road at Ninian Park?

It is a very serious thing not only for clubs but for players. County eric- ket clubs have struggled for years in post war days the depressing effect of Australian Tests further reduced en- thusiasm for sports and even without this latest blow we were saying county clubs were in their death threes unless conditions of play were altered.

What will happen now? And how are clubs going to pay professionals wages? One result of all this, i see, is an exodus of players to league clubs where In non-league towns like Keighley, Castletown, Nelson, etc, cure rals, come fine league

Lop

can very

cricket spectators will roll up for their Saturday afternoon's bright cricket. And I suppose Jack Apple. yard will

thousands on draw

Roundbay Sunday afternoons in

Leeds to watch Park,

prus playing for Leeda General Hospital

cricke! Yes! league

well profit handsomely from a change.

two county secre- I have spoken to taries, B Grihs of Sussex, and Desmond

of Hampshire, and Eager of although they think soccer matches at Brighton. Portsmouth, Southamp ton and Bournemouth will affect them, they consider it will only be slight in their cases us the majority of their support comes from outside urban areas. But they do think as do, that apart from the rural dis- tricts of Southern England county cricket is going to face up to severe money blow,

that

Doesn't Like

Aussie Press

U.S. Davis Cup

Critical

GOOD HONGKONG TEAM

more

The Hongkong team to meet Sai- gon tomorrow is about the best which has been selected this year. Only in one place might it be Improved Inskip of the Duvons hus than played his way into Interport Soccer, Tao of Sing Tao bus many good performances to his credit but his inclusion in a forward line which does not include his regular partner, Laj Shul-wing, or indeed any Sing Tao player is the

Football Laws

HANDS!

A not-so-very old song gues "Sny It over and over again; over and theme ver again." Naturally the in not connected with football: It belongs to quite another page of this

.

issue! But it is an apt lead for this

week's article on football law.

"Over and over again" has it been said that it is the intentional in- fringement of Law 12 which should be penalised, and even thea not always. In recent weeks I have been more and more astonished at the number of football followers who just do not know that Law 12 reads "A player shall be penalised if intentionally handles the ball. By "football followers" I players and spectators. In last Sun- day's Governor's Cup game there was one incident of "hands" which Is worth noting.

mean

The ball was bobbing about in a scrimmage. Suddenly It was kicked quickly and it struck a player on "the" knce and ricocheted' sharply on to the buck of a defender's up- per arm. The defender hardly knew what had happened but im- mediately the cry was taken up be- hind

""Hands!" "Hands!", me Already the referee

bnd

made a Player quick gesture Indicating "Play on,

nevertheless, the excited. comment continued and it is certain that at least a duzen persons left Causeway Bay on Sunday afternoon fully con vinced that their favourites had been

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NEW YORK.When the Ameri- can tennis player Billy Talbert re- turned from a winter sports tour hel-used, spoke in high admiration for tennis followers in Australia, but spoke out against Australian

lan newspapers.

In their advices to referees and players the FA make special TC- ference to mistoken penalising of Talbert levelled his particular ob-hands." To referees they say "un- jections to

newspaper ac less the hand or arm Australian counts of several incidents Mulloy, there might well be cented on the strikes the mosl of ball it is not a foul." Emphasis them involving Gardnar winner of one Davis Cup singles word "strikes." victory, and his reported disputes

with spectators and officials.

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The Australian sports writers did

tennis matches not report the

They seemed to be looking such. for anything that would put us in a bad fight.

"In or

one match, there was a drunk in the stands who kept heckling Mulloy on every shot. Finally Mul- loy dropped his racquet, molioned to the fellow and sald if you think you can do any better, down."

come ол

"Everybody in the stands up- plauded. Nobody thought anything. more about it. Yet all the papers came out the next morning that Mulley had challenged a spectator to a fight."

"SOLD HIS SEAT” .

exag-

As for Mulloy's reported dif- ferences with officials, Talberti insisted they were merely gerated accounts of formal requests whịch Malloy, was perfectly justified in making

"But the funniest thing," he went on, "was the time during the Aus- tralian Championships when I went out and sat the grass near the court so I could see the play from the ground. One newpaper the next day said the tournament people had sold my seal in the stands for pound and had no place to sit." "The Australian people were swell," ho said, "during both the

Davli Cup matches and the tourna- ments and extubitions afterward. But the way the newspapers treated us was terrible."

Talbert and Mulloy, the United States double champions, remained in Australia to participato in several exhibitions and a few tournaments after America's Davis Cup victory. Talbert, did not play in Davis Cup events.--Associated Press.

Arthur Peaùù says:

EFT of diagramı shown the d

terengo between scotits

REDO

OPINK

good enooker shot or a bad one. Blok is the ball on. pink is ngalust the cushion, black near a baulk pocket. The othv= QUA plain- batt stroke to pocket

blue โ салу, ви

nothing and in A bad shot.

Play tho good shot with pow• crtul lott side and follow-through on cus-ball to pocket blue and leave position on pink an indicated. Bwing your cua with free- dom to scure tho' shot.

Billard stroke on right shows the

beat of several teinping openings. Begin by playing the simple in on white as indicated to trave object ball near the centre of top cushion. Pocket the enay red trom hand "WILTE your next atroke and you should leave excellent position of the top of the table.

SPORTING SAM

Powell, brilliant Commandos goalkeeper, minkes a spectacular clearance for the Hongkong FA in the Governor's Cup match against the Chinese Federation last Sunday.England Studio, į

least bit chancy. Tano may come off-I hope he does.

Opinions will certainly vary as 10 the leading player in local footbull Just now. I have often referred to the consistent good form and clean, clever play of Sing Tao's halfback, Lau Chung-sang to the phenomenal goal-keeping of Powell of Commando and to the heady skill of B. Gosano, the Saints' captain. These three players are always In the minds of any interport selection committee: they are all a credit to local football.

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Throughout the season Chow Man- chi of South China has always been in the selectors' minds but has pro- perly been given second place to Lai Shul-wing the Sing Tao

captain: Chow and Lai appear regularly in the Inside left berth for their respective clubs. In the past fort- night, however, Chow Man-chi has shown a burst of form which has astonished even his most fervent admirers, of which he has many,

THE VERSATILE CHOW

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receive his miniature trophy from Mr_Morse: right well deserved it. To the players the advice_reads "Refrain from claiming for hands" A referee will act on his own Initia- tive in such a matter; moreover, if you claim and the referee considers the offence accidental, you will have put yourself and your team at o disadvantage."

There isn't much to add to that, it's so plainly put that all I need say in conclusion is that there are times when a referee will ignore inten tional handling. He is authorised to refrain from awarding free kicks (or penalty kicks), 1 he is quite satisfied that if he did so award it would be to the advantage of the alde committing the offence.

Caughoo, the 100 to 1 Irish winner of the 1947 Grand National at Aintree, being led in after its easy victory.- Associated Press.

NOTES FROM THE MOUND

YEA! IT'S SOFTBALL AGAIN: INTERNATIONAL SERIES

{BY "SPECTATOR")

goce to

Championship of the International Series

Great Britain, who easily accounted for China in the final played last Sunday. It was expected to be that easy the Chinese going down to the tune of 11 runs to nil. Neither would any close follower of the game have put the British down to win the Series; but the latter, stole the whole International “show" with their determined playing and fighting spirit which brought them a popular and well deserved success.

The oMeinl softball season (yea! It's softball again-the management thinks softball sounds so much nicer than fastball and that's about all

p.m.

SPORTS

DIARY

Congrats, G.B.!

there is to the change of the name liveries with a few fast ones. Saul's of the game) is not to end with the pick-ups niso rendered effect nil to last match in the International. a change of strategy to bunting. The League champions, the Giants, The only two players from the are to be given a chance to show China side who appeared to play up what sort of play has brought them by the standard of finalists in an the "Doc" Molthen Shield, so the International Series were. Bill Woo League has arranged for an exhibland Luke Bunn who, however, were tion game with the Champs pitched at a disadvantage with lack of co- against e representative Rest of operation. Colony team. This ult is to be played tomorrow at 10.30 a.m.

The following players have been selected

service for the Rest:-

to do

LOTS OF FUN

The usual annual Softball

POOR U.S. WALKER CUP PROSPECTS

(BY ARCHIE QUICK),

England's No, 1 amateur golier of the moment, Leonard Crawley, also". an Essex County cricketer, has been In the United States on a journ alistic tour and has had the unique 'opportunity of studying - at first band Amerlen's candidates for the Walker Cup team to oppose Crent Britain at St Andrews in May.

Ho is of the opinion that Britain will win. Long-driving. red mustachioed "LG". gives the following reasons. Six of America's team will be Haksmen, or 09 wo know them artisans, who have never before had ex- perience of big galleries and fight- ing in the pit. Only two of them Jinve ever been to Britain before and they are not very well dequaint- cd

the idiosyncrasies of our ect with

Two of them courses.

em are slicers. Now slicing is all very well in United States on inland courses with no wind but, says Leonard, heaven help allcers at St Andrews. The wind will get them and they will. finish in the North Sea.

And finally not one of the visitors has had any play with small ball in use here. Odds, he says, arc stacked heavily in Britain's favour for once.

Crawley also welcomes the Irials that are being held by the Golf Union. It will ensure our fielding. the very best possible team.

We too

are likely to Include at. leaut two artisans. Ono will al- most certainly be Norman, a very fac golfer from Buswood, Surrey, and the other may well be Dudley, the bus conductor from Leatherbend. Crawley himself, if he retains form he was in at last season's back end, the President's and when he won Putler at Rye this year, is likely to play first for Britain in singles and doubles. He is definitely our best: match play amateur,

He tells me niso that the veteran Francis Oulmet is coming over ‘ogalu as non-playing American captain.

Boxing To Lead Off Olympics

LONDON-Little Oscar Casanovas nť Argentina kept Europe from making a clean sweep of the boxing championships in the last Olymple games at Berlin In 1930,

Dance Is to be revivedi So Indies and In the first revival of the games gentlemen, be there at the Peninsula here next year, the ring teams- Hotel come May 21 Bill Woo, manager: Herbie Quon, lots of fun with prizes, prize-giving to defend

It's going to be with "blacklisted" Germany unable Joe Franco, Kalisa Nazarin, A. P. and all! The damage is $10 per flyweight championships will lead. the heavyweight and Pereira, A. R. Razack, Stan Wear head but you'll find your money's

White,

Doc Molthen's Shell House ofce und

TODAY

Soccer-1st Div.

Club, 5.30 Sookunpoo.-RAF "'.

Bunn, George ard, Luke Navy-27th RA v. South China, Leonard, Leo Vieira, Gerry Gosano, most softball players.

Tony Alves, A. A. Rumjahn, Dave worth Tickets may be obtained at 5.30 p.m.

Jindoo Hussain and Showboat All. Caroline Hl-Kwong Wah

Igmar Erikesen. Devons. 4 pm..

The following la the Glant team: Caroline Ill-St. Joseph's V.

Tavares (pltcher), Charlie Eastern 5.30 p.m.

manager (catcher), A. H. Club.-CASC v. Sing Too, 5.30 Bakar (first base), A. K. Markar

p.m.

pain.

Second Division

1.

CASC,

4

Cricket

KCC.-KCC v. RAF, 2 p.m.

Lawn Bowls

We all knew that Chow was clever inside forward but

Lew -realised-that-he-could-be-such-n

tower of strength in an emergency p.m. When his captain and pivot, Leung, had to leave the field in the first quarter of an hour of South China's Senior Shield Anal, Chow stepped into the breach at once. He more than filled the pivotal position; he proceeded to dominate the centre of the field with the result that Chang Kom-hol, Sing Tao's centre forward, was obliged to roam far and wide in pursuit of the bail. Sing Tao scored two goals while Chow was playing at half back but neither was the result of any error of his. KBGC.-KBGC V. IRC, 3.15 p.m.

In the Sing Tao-less Federation XI

Lawn Tennis inst Sunday clearly it was Chow's brilliant play

loft which

CRO-Exhibition matches for the inside inspired his less experienced team

am Kho Sin-kle Memorial Fund, 3 p.m. mates. He

Was

the first Chinese forward to have crack at the FA

SUNDAY goal, he was the one forward who was quick to see tactical openings

Soccer and he was often back between the during the first half an

ing

hulves

Figueiredo,

(second base), B. M. Omar (third bose), Billy Soares (short stop), Gus Rosario eft field), I. M. Omar (centre field), Pako Baptista (right

GLARINGLY FAULTY

Kame

were

Club Sing Too v. Navy, 4 p.m. Navy South China V. RASC, 4 field)-and-Chuck Quinn (ruver).. Military,-Land Fores v. 27th RA, p.m.

The Chinese battery of Herbic Military-KI: Chec

A1 Devons, Quon (pitcher)

Lou and 5.30 p.m.

(catcher) was

foult glaringly ot Sookunpoo.-RASC

in again and again which resulted not a few of the eleven runs scored by Great Britain. Quon pitched the worst ever seen of him in this or puy season. His pitches wild too often while his fielding was

easiest poor, fumbling the

catch This erstwhile colony's best twirler સામ

Quan's nothing right it was poorest day! Then Al Lati loose ball behind the platter, thro ing the pill anywhere but the right pluce. Other fielders were at a lose as to what was his next play. If the pegging had more direction,

thera would have been some excuse. tween the two, the pitcher and cat-: cher vied with each other for more

the The outstanding player in

was unquestionably Stan Leonard. Time and again he was called on to score his mates home and in the four times he went to

Navy. Interport: Hongkong hour's play when It seemed that this Salgon, 5 p.m. unusual Federation eleven was going

པ་་

to be sadly overrun. I liked his un- selfish distribution of the ball, Time and again he swept a slanting ground pass out to Cheuk, his outside man and varied this with swinging crosses which rose awkardly over the heads of the FA half backs. Chow re- colved a very special ovation from the crowd when he came forward to

BISLEY OLYMPICS.

London.-Bisley, famous range in Surrey for British riflemen, will be

Second Division Soakumpoo. Police v. Signals, 4

p.m.

Cadre, 4.30 p.m.

Sookumpoo-Dockyard v. Chinese

Club-RAMC v. Club, 5.30 p.m. Cricket

errors.

Kame

Be-

the plate he made a hit every time; and Great Britain runs scored in.

RIGHT SPIRIT THERE

Great Britain started

with their all-important third baseman, captain Dave Leonard, not in the team. KCC-KCC v, University, 11 am. Dave sprained a muscle in a foot-

Softball.

· King's Park,-League Champions

the scene of the shooting competition. Resi, 10.30 am. for the 1048 Olymples.

p.m.

Lawn Tennis

An the events have not been de ided, the Olympic Organising com CRC-Exhibition matches for the mittee reported, but will probably Kho Sin-kle Memorial. Fund, 3.30 include full bore at 500 yards, any target pistol calibre 22 inches. (5.5 milimetre), at 50 metres, and rifle callure 22 inches (6.5 milimetre) at 50 metres-Associated Press,

In

ball game in the previous day. But spite of that British boys' fightingest spirit was not lacking. and with manager, backstopper Hol Wingleo, leading them, they went about in workmanlike manner.

Lawn Bowls

wild throws, together with untimely KCC-KCC v. Craigengower, 3.15 walks Riven by pitcher

p.m.

By Reg. Wootton

Scoring began when Chinese cat- cher Al Lau interfered with batter Sid Hollands, who then arrived at first. A wild throw to second by the catcher saw Sid reach third. More

Quon and timely bingles by GB players saw the first, three runs scored by the winriers. Runs thereafter came in regularly until Quon wag yanked from the mound. Why wasn't. Lou beriched at the same time is a mys- tery, especially with Dlek Chung there arouring to get started. G. G.. Lee substituted in the hurling job, but whilst he played gallantly, which Is his lot, the Britishers' position was too consolidated to be threatened.

Meanwhile, the carlier. reverses

which apparently were too much to withstand had most of the Chinese discouraged and they even falled to connect more than three measly bingles against the floaters delivered by George Saul. Soul, however, must be congratulated on pitching heady ball-ho does mix«hla de-

He's Walking 60 Miles A Day

Sixty miles a day in the average being covered by Bert Couzens who is walking 3,000 miles round Britain, He is maintaining a speed" of "just under five miles per hour.

off the 17 sporting events,

Nearly 12,000 persons. will be able to watch the bouts in the arena at suburban Wembley, scene of most of

the Olymples, from the opening July 29 through to August

4.

Ringside spectators will be sented a special floor, built over the swimsning pool which hastily stripped after

will be the final champion has been acclaimed for thi tankemen Associated Press.

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