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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1947.

..SPORTS FEATURES..

The Way Is Open For Reorganising Our Sport On More Ambitious Lines

(By "RECORDER"}

Two years have passed since the re-occupation of Hongkong and much of the Colony's normal sports pros.

Much has been done toward gramme has returned,

even to inclu

the acceleration of the return of sport, ding sporting goods as a sought-for item on official pur- chasing missions.

We had football back with us rond around Hongkong Island that within the first few months of would be ideal for staging a-marathon August 30, 1945. Softball came in

or a road-walking championship. We have had here at one time or an softball other practically every sport under

a good second by a short head. There were football

and

Jenguen within the first year. Much the sun imaginable short of skiing more has come back nince Jawn and the down-hill slalom.

bowls was

rong third, followed To mention a few items that fell by basketball, boxing, cricket, swim-into discard even before the war-a ming, chess, athletics and tennis.

championship, a billiard

bridge

In the past year we have gone championship, an athletic association

through

and softbali Reasons in football fand the annual open athleile meet.

belleve,

We have had Colony homing pigeon races, even, Open championships in tennis anu Boven-a-mild rugger as well. race meetings have been since post-war

ships

I

roller-skating Tace The or was it a gure-skating cham-

us planship on rollers? Arst

with November, 1945. The

lawn bowls open champion-

under Bro

and

Much, is said of youth, of the the spirit of UNO, of fair play, of way first post-war swimming mavernents that bring together youth t are due at the end of of many races and creeds. We have

the month.

only recently

experienced youth

"Yet much--I would even say meeting one another in a contest mure-of the Colony's annual where the stake was something sporting programme is yet to come voster than a laurel wreath. back. The new resident may

Ho

may

the im-

miss as much of it as the old one not so much, be it an idea no one The age of Colonel Blimp Is past, even be under Pension that Hongkong was a back-shares with me, because the sport wart place from the sportsman's lug spirit is dead, but because in common with much of the world, point of

we have not taken full advantage of what sport offers

view. For his information 1 must Any that we have entered to all tastes, It is to be hoped that we will la time start catering again for the hockey, badminton, billiards and bridge aspirants to a local cham- pionship.

return Kowloon

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year

Travel broadens. Every

Americans," Czechs, thousands of Scandinavians-fo mention the coun- tries that have long since under- stood the necessity for this-send tir.usands of young men and women to compete abroad.

It may be football, fymnastics, The effect is tennis or swimming.

A nationwide association the same, offers opportunilles to the young man and woman to go abroad who economically, on his or her own, could not have afforded it in many

of Sundays,

years

The leagues yet to come back aro the cricket. tennis, badminton, fawn hawls and hockey leagues. Some of the big annual affairs yet to are the Harbour Race, the Marathon, the Open Gulf championships and the Trevessa Trophy Race for ship's boats. Not to mention one of the Colony's big- gest and most gaily beflagged events of the year, The Hongkong Rifle Lad we in Hongkong finances Association's annual Bisley meet, or enough we could fellow example. the Fanling point-to-points,

We haven't the finances. We Jack, REHABILITATION SNAC worse than this, that, far-sightedness The snag everywhere is rehabilita- in organisation that could open for tion and its cost. The snag in there us limitless opportunities to make surely enough but it is surprising the

many what has been done where a will a thing that to us remains a neces: found a way. Here I must harp on sity. Be it not urgent, we are still a favourite theme and bring out once waiting on the men who will meet, more the suggestion that the Colony's will calculate, organise and make future lies much in the tourist trade. It possible.

We should build for the future an annual sporting programme of in- terest not only to ourselves but to our neighbours who would as casily flock here, as they do in America or

ог

tourist trade subaldise

WHY NOT GET

Europe to any odd corner of the IT STARTED?

continent, to watch a contest

=4003 interest

sufficient for the

of

of the south-eastern Pacific

Last week one of my reader's, who

is also one of the Colony's not a Far Eastern interport, for

better swimmers, took me lo task having suggested that any football league that we could stage decathlon could be a real test of here. Entries could well be Shang- hal, Canton, Macao, Manila, Saigon, physical fitness that did not include

Singapore, Penang and Ipoh, not to mention host of other football cen- tres in the Far East?

swimming

Here, therefore, I present for his a decathlon that should approval satisfy the swimmer as well as the runner, jumper and weight man.

Tat it be high jump, long jump, shot put, Javelin throw, 440 yards, 50 yards free style, 50 yards breast stroke, 50 yards back stroke, 440 yards free style and the one mile or two mile runs,

"Watch out for that wicket-keeper-just as you're going to swipe the ball he'll ask you what you're doing here instead of working to speed production or something."

Our West Indies Team Face Big Task

By JACK HOBBS

Famous England and Surrey batsman

Make no mistake, our cricketers who will tour the West Indies this season face no easy task.. Remember that on the last visit, in 1935, we lost two matches and won only one.

This 1935 team, too, included cricket is concerned-a non-playing Bob Wyatt as captain, Wally skipper. Hammond, Patsy Hendren, Maurice Leyland, Leslie Ames, Jack Iddon, Errol Holmes, Ken- neth Farnes, and Eric Hollies.

Is the 1947 team

any belter?

last Looking back on the

lour I came across this summary:-

"England'a failure was due to There was a lack various causes.

My notion is that such a title will prove too big. Of course, a man with a captaincy title can do things which help on a tour abroad.

He can manage the party, be the official spokesman, and he can help in choosing the team, even if he is not wholly responsible for its selec-

lon

Summed up,, this means that the idea of putting Alien in charge la not a bad one. Ail my experience tell me, however, that it will sull be necessary to have a captain on duty in the middle.

of real pace, in bowling as a strained neck left Fares out of two Tests, and Jim Smith could not and his form on hard wickets, while there was a shortage of spin bowlers."

The past is worth recall-for its lessons.

There is time for the 13 cricketers who bave been selected to go this winter to take a good rest from the game before they start on the series of matches there. Tha opening fxture is not until the Recond their

week of January.

There is also time for the selectors to consider whether 13 players for that trip is really enough.

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Test Problem

Not Solved

the

By JACK HOBBS Judging from the results Tests with South Africa worked out quite satisfactorily from tho England point of view-better, perhaps, than we dared hope. Even so, we must put them at their proper luation. The South Afri- enna ought to have won the first Test and they came near to winning the last after our declaration,

in With a little more enterprise tatting they would have gone home better pleased with themselves.

There was a somewhat grim re- minder on the last day of the last Test that our bowling is short of the be mailed for when the Autralians con

The score in the last South Afri- con Innings tells its story. I would quarters certainly go to my winter in a more contented frame of mind If our bowling had stood up better.

standard which

Much as we have searched, wo have not made any great bowling discoveries. Butler is an Excep tion, perhaps although one 车载- cessful Test is not sufficient to Justify a thoroughly confident verdict. Disturbing part of this lack of bowl- ers is that some of those whom we might have been tempted to rush forward early on Tremlett is a As there is no ready-made Test typical example have not thorough- match captain available, the selec-ly fulfilled early promise. tors may have had at the back of it. we don't break their hearts on the These bowlers will come, especially could help us find a slipper for the pitches we prepare before they are future.

There must be somebody charic there to change the bowling, 10 place the field, to help "think" the other fellows out

minds the idea that

Alien

I take it there are three possible in the party-Cranstone,

I don't think they are, especially captains

broken in as bowlers.

THE NEED IS SPEED

nu Edrich-how he was missed for his enthusiastle shock bowling

Special Training For Britain's 1948 Olympic Officials

Next July, the eyes of the whole sporting world will be focussed on England and particularly Wembley, when this country's prestige will fluctuate to the way the Olympics are conducted, especially from

an ad. ministrative point of view.

ARCHIE QUICK says....

Sing Tao Are Making Fine Impression

"Hongkong Tigers,"

I With between 50 and 00 nationa competing, naturally eno expects that dimeuitles will arise through language and their own national in terpretation of amateur rulings and the way that Britain will conduct harself

the Games will earn through much approval.

The organisation of some recent amateur athletic meets have proved that better administration is needed.. The majority of the meet's timetables to run behind schedule, some as much na an hour or so.

The centro of the track ንዓ -the cluttered with officials, and com-

Were

Sing Tao Sports Club, may not putitors and the announcement of a win many matches in England result have been unacountably de.. because of lack of experience, curate.

layed and have often proved inac but they will leave behind them If this is to happen at Wembley, memory of good sportsmanship. |«part from the severe criticism that abroad, Immaculately attired in yellow would be lovelied from and black banded jerseys and neither the press nor the British smartly tailored yellow shorta. sporting publle would enally forgive Fuch mismanagement, but the British they look like so many Arkry

Swarmed to Olympic Committee is fully aware Wasps as they Liback. But there was acrupulous fairness in all they did.

to the fact.

are

So while Britain's athletes training and bringing thenmeives to concert pitch for the Gamen, another body of men will soon be going into training.

Games strarter,

When they met the piek of the Athenian, Lengue at Enfield the other evening they played fast, clover football, but the old falling

SLIP-UPS INEXCUSABLE that is always present in called upon to offate during the These will do the men who will be thantal fonois-lack of finish in front of goal showed itself. keeper, announcers, ote. They will time- judges, They lost 5-1 as they lost 5-2 undergo a special course of instruc to Dulwich Hamlet, but it was notion as to the duties which will be. mean ordeal to set them to have so thorough that any slip-upa will be to face such a high standard of inexcusable. amateur football elevens set.

na these two

NOT DISGRACED The Tigers may be defeated in all their matches (not: this was written before Sing Tao defented Oxford City-Ed), but they will not be disgraced.

The Chinese Aminssador and .Football Association Stanley Rous spectators

were

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Uslo and

Another point for the administra- tive office to handle is the sore need by British athletes for some decent track suits. This is not the result of the austerity"

Before Bending her the war, Britain Was teams abread, wearing a multi- coloured collection of track suits that has looked as if Britain is the poor relation of Athletics.

At the Europeap Gamer at Secretary

the British boys last

year, among the

girls at Enfield and at a looked a ragged lot compared

the with

and Italians. function after the match His Ex- Russian arty dressed Swedes,

It was cellency spoke of the better feel-.

even brought back to rstep with a jolt last ing among nations such tours as Britain's doorstep

and Jordan of year, at the White City track meet,

and France. looked forward to seeing an between Gt. Britain

around English team in the Far East The French team paraded

the track uniformly attired in blue before long.

and white suita while the British This Jaunt of the Tigers is a team

team como out in everything and high-powered,

organised anything. Some of the competitors tour that may well cost £250,000, were content to come out in their It entails over 20,000 miles of running togs. travel, and until it broke down en route for the United Kingdom the party had their own private aeroplane."

of Sutton

well

•

From

om a psychological viewpoint it is evident that a smartly athlete has an advantage, especially dressxl

when It comes to the women.

However, the lack of uniforms are prove embarrassing to The French Federation

for

promoting

•and/folog

made

to

the

ing championships

has

En route the team played in the Philippines, Malaya, Burma with considerable success; | and before they leave for home Europan

next month, in October, visits will also be at Monte

request that teams paid to Holland und Eire.

shall be uniformly dressed, The team manager, said the the cap fils, wear it but by Tigors had come as willing and

Bil means let British athletes who apt pupils to the home of foot are abroad representing their coun- ball and they meant to learn all try wear something resembling o the time from their failures and uniform too.-United Press. mistakes.

Off the field the players are coloured golfing jackets, flannels identically clad in smart two- and blue club ties.

season.

thiant

Tanner of Oxford University, who got his England

cap last Athenian officials toll me that they now consider themselves They are creating a fine im-superior to the rival Isthmians pression.

after last year's scoop of the pool YUE THE STAR

In county cup competitions. I. Against the Athenian League feel too they are playing better if it is agreed as I feel it must be Edrich and Grimth. There are no

the star was the goalkeeper, Yue professional candidates for the cap- the G. O. Allen will not be a

football in the last Test!-has shown us.

the supposedly taincy, even full-time player on the tour.

Yiu-tak, whose anticipation and senior Isthmians. one big need. It is speed. He is named na captain. Cricketers appeal.

Thank goodness the -senson has agility were remarkable.

And the officials want any certainly fast bowlers-do not So each of the three could be

shown 13 that in

In some directions we Phipps scored, thres goals servicemen oversens who think usually renew their youth at 45. We acting captain in turn in the first

against him, and now that they have the playing ability to sent 14 players, plus a manager, for three Tests, and the manager-cap-are ready for anything.

tain could give the leadership on Denis Compton who

We have a couple in Edrich and Vaughan of Sutton and Jordan of get in touch with one or other of a similar task br 1933.*.

the Bell In the fourth to the one themselves at the top of the class.

have placed Tilbury have turned profen- the Athenian League cluba upon who had best handled the side in

Denis plays cricket in the right sionals, I consider this Barnet returning home. the Arst thred.

spirit. He is

Is Impregnated with the centreforward the best leader in make a special appeal to de- quality of

the countrymuch better than mobees to do я0. of adventure. Din confident that Len Hutton

What about sponsoring Far Eastern boxing titles? If we don't come down to it some other port will in due time. We will even miss probably in got ting a fair share of the title fights for Hongkong. We are yet asleep. That is understandable. The time is not quite ripe for a full-fledged gula but It would, of course, have to be many months have already passed staged over a number of days. To during which much

work sult spade

the local temperament, one could could have been done.

hardly interfere with Saturday ASTOUNDING IMPROVEMENT football or cricket. We could start Our swimmers this year have off some Sunday with the first five shown considerable, even astounding events listed. improvement on the post-war best. Then, on the following Wednesday When are we going to see them com-

we could have the three short swims. peting in a pool in which Shanghal, On Friday we could have the 440 Mantin and Singapore are repre- yards free style and the following sented?

Sunday the mile or two mile run. We have

even had polo in The best time for it would be Hongkong. Our horses were nothing butunin, that is to soy-between to brag about but our players were

now and mid-December. The best worth watching. We love a long people to organise such

which Wo could name the Hongkong Decathlon, would be the Chinese YMCA, the South and China

Association, the Victoria Recreation Club, and the Area Sports Board all in committee. Who will start the ball rolling?

clam and polni-scoring I would suggest a system that started with 200 as base with 1,000 points for the best per- formance in each event. The base Susteeniside necessary to dis

Apply

SPORTING SAM

un event,

non-finishers and non-pare ticipants in any of the 10 events:

Performances between best and poorest would be scaled mathemati- cally. Should the Contest prove poppler records in every event set upbya Hongkong, Decathloner would in future years serve for 1,000 points and the record-breaker

the year he breaks the record would have the beneßt of scoring over 1,000 in his particular specialty, To continue doing so th'a subsequent year he would have, to continue Improving.

NON-PLAYING CAPT?

Assuming that G. O. Allen will not be in any Test eleven, it seems that he can, roughly, be given a title which is a new one so far as

Arthur Penli says:

TRIKER was accused of showing off because when the game was all on the black he "pooteted black via two cushions as shown in dinkrat. I disagree with this crit

advise you to play the diagram strok

enough to

BLACK

41 turb

black

ir

you do not happen to Docket it.

This gives ou double

chance, thopo.. black of:

and it is good anodker to exploit it...

Alternatively, you can do nothing except play direct on black-for- safety, bad stroke on the le of "the balls oud-the state of the game. With red out of the scoring zone when you are forced by the billard leste indicated on centre of diagram. the thin in-off white Into the middle pocket in the atroke I advise you to May.

By Reg. Wootton

that idea had any

"DUPLICATE" PLAYER

There is a point about Grinth. will be there next stason, back to his In the party as chosen he is praebesi, and if Washbrook does not join tieally the only "duplicate" player him once-inore at the top of the tree - wicket-keeper. That brings us we have plenty of potential openers back to the potential merits of the to keep him company.

Not least important among our Party In

General

It can scurely be suggested that it sets is a wicketkeeper.worthy to Is really a tip-top side-al any rate, Moreover, Godfrey Evans will even- rank with the best of all time. not the best. Abstentions such 25tually be the sort of batsman op- Len Ew.ton and Denis Compton, ponents will be glad us see back in plus players it was considered wise the pavilion. to rest, have reduced the paper strength. CYNI

Washbrook and Douglas Wright come under the "take a rest” heading. I agree to für as Wright concerned, but Washbrook has not recently shown signs of being Ured.

p

In the case of a batsman, how- ever the need is not Бо much to save him from getting tired as to

save him from: going 'stule.

Hè has got it all in the stroke sense, the solo remaining | need- If we want a wicketkeeper who hits hundreds being that extra ult of concentration or discretion which comes to a batsman - In- stinotigely, she matures, Kennel Cranston must also be better as he gains experience..

season, we can be of good cheer, Big Generally, looking back on. thia There is also this point to be re-tainment that draws the people.

cricket' hus.come tuck asan. enter- membered. When choice is made of

Even Yorkshiremen, taking the players who deserve to be in the broad view, can find.consolation in party, somebody" to 20

left out

make foom

has for them.

the comparative failure' ́of the sidet to place, or Brookes, or Smithson Yorkshire's less has been a general in the county champlonship table.

gain.

would have had to be omitted it Washbrook had gone in,, Majority opinion seems to be in favour of experiments. We can't have It both ways.

י.

Jack Ikin gets another chance,

Shanghai Want

and this time may be given the op- To Send Cricket portunity of proving that he can be Team To H.K.

a Test match bowler.

I would still like to see Alee

come

Bedser in the party. It is one of There is a possibility that a team our big hopes, despite the fact that of Shanghai cricketers will there has not been so much devil down 10 Hongkong during next in his bowling recently.

scaBON,

Four months' rest prior to the trip Pat Mudar, Shanghal Interporter might have, put him on his feet)-ls in touch with leading Hongkong again and more food-which I hope cricketers and is trying to get a team will be available in the West Indies, together. If a 100m does come here and which, the big frame of a fast it will probably thelûde Donnk! bowler needs might have helped Leach, Tory Wilson and Pat In the come-back,

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