1947-10-04 — Page 8

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1947.

SPORTS FEATURES..

They Broke Records

Soccer Opening Provided

A Mixed Grill

(DY SEE TEE)

An interesting Second Division encounter is among the more attractive week-end soccer fixtures. It is the match between Sing Tao's second string and Hongkong Signals which is being played at Sookum- poo this afternoon.. Rivalling this is the First Divi- sion struggle between Kitchee (whose home ground is the Navy's) and the Devons: this game kicks off at 5 p.m. on the Causeway Bay ground today.

the

The Navy are at home to Chinese; out to the wings to break up down- Athletic at Causeway Bay to-morrow the-touch-line ne ralds were out- and will most certainly have their standing features of his play. Most was good centre halfbacks are tall and able The Colony swimming cham-works cut to beat a side which pionships which have been held conquered the RAF and the In- to use the head to advantage: Gil-

niskillings.

mour is no exception. The terrier- during the week have seen The first week-end of the local like worrying tactics of Mitchell.

Above soccer season produced a very mixed Irishmen's centre forward puzzled many records lowered.

stri11

of results. in the way

On many present. Mitchell knows that is A. V. Lopes, who set a new-

Saturday we had the R.A. beating the goal-keeper can be tackled and time of 2.55 for the 220 yards the R.N, 8-9, the Inniskillings beating charged if he in holding the ball and backstroke, and below Chan South Chinn 6-1 and Kitchee holding be ensured that Chu, the South China Chun-wan, who won the 440 a 5-1 advantage over Kowloon Tracewalks to the

enjoyed no unmolested the penalty edge of the yards free style in the record Ume of 5.19.

swamped the area before getting in his kick AOC by ten m

Goalkeepers should get

of the score of the day goals-the biggest

Sunday' results ball

it's with

In the Second Division

Navy's "

Ind their surprises and big

scores,

The Devons carried all before them scless y

at the Tolered

expressions of Injured innocence in beating Kwong Wah 9-1 and quite when charged. If the keeper is apart from these goals there were holding the bail or goes outside his other neitings disallowed for off-six yards goal area (whether he has side.

The ball or not) he is liable to be Expectations of a keen struggle charged in the same manter as any between the Inniskillings and South other player. Chinn last Saturday did nat It was something of an occasion materialise for the Chinese Club was at the Club ground last Saturday. able only to field a very weak team. Both the Club's soccer elevens won The result was that the Inniskillings their matches. The sentors beat the did not then get a real chance to Police 4-1 while the Second Division narrow victory show their paces for the younger and "B" team scored

R.A.S.C. That things, mure inexperienced Chinese players over

were became bewildered and discouraged looking up with Club soccer was as they were more and more out- evident towards the end of last played.

season and again, more recently, in the Seven-n-Side tournament,

FURIOUS PACE

GILMOUR IMPRESSES There were many close followers of the local game taking stock of the

There was a fair sized crowd at Inniskillings men on Saturday. The good play their centre nul, G-Boundary-street last Sunday after

considerably. His noon to see the RAF's game with nour, impressed

Athletic. Although the overhead ablity and his quick cute Chinese

match was played under conditions

Death Of A Tragic

Superb Swimmer

A few weeks ago,

during yards....and so it went on until the recent national swimming she finshed fourth in the 100

St. metres

championships in the

Women's

free-style

in

The Inniskillings first division football team which has made an impressive start in the 1947-8 football season.---- Ming Yuen.

The Chinese Played Football In 600 BC

(BY RECORDER)

People who spend any time wondering on why the Chinese have adapted themselves so well to football rest unaware of one interesting fact. It took an American historian to provide an answer.

.

The historian is Mr E. Norman Gardiner, whose book, Athletics of the Ancient World, has an ex- haustive chapter on the cumula- on the origin of live evidence football.

Mr Gardiner traces its remote past in England to an earliest reference dated 1050 A. D. Going further back into history, Mr Gar diner traces it back to Ancient China in 600 B.C., where, he says, it was at one time a rage over- many parts of the country.

The old Chinese game, accord- hot sun and very little wind, aing to one manuscript, was "too furious pace

was maintained right

of

from the word: go. There was a exhausting and undignified for an full mid-way through the second half emperor." Teams were chosen on (then CAA were leading 3-1 until the field. captaing elected by gen- the Airmen set up a succession determined raids to try to rave the game. Daynes, centre forward, had very bad luck with one terrific drive from fifteen

yards which crashed against the woodwork with Yu well beaten. The ball

Leonards Pool, we took advan, Monte Carlo. And we knew some the chance was lost,

tage of an off-spell to borrow a pair of trunks and get in the water ourselves.

An we executed a pancake land- ing and came up spluttering, an Amazonie figura bore down an us and we scuttled out of the way.

The Amazon was Nancy Riach, Britain's swimming hone. As she passed. she grinned a saltwater

and then began a eral acclaim system known as the "seventy kicks and the dribbles,"

Q

Exactly how the game was rebounded into play but there was no RAF forward played is unfortunately not pre- on hand to drive for pont again and served in any record though

thing was wrong,

Chinese Athletic showed that they book of rules has been unearthed fouls that She was not a natural swim- have a good, lively team. Although describing various forwards (said her coach, David their

misset several could be committed. mer Grabb. She became one by sheer ample-shots-at-goul-particularly in

Piecing together the available first half-they were often very the perseverance.

the mark and Taylor, in evidence, it seems that individual close to the RAF goal. had busy Although he gave away

ime. Tater playera had to dribble throuch risky

looking free kick, when he their ounosite numbers on the whipped the ball off the toes of an other team and, this accomplish Athittle forward and carried it out- s'de

She was the daughter of a retired police officer, who arrived too late in France to see his daughter alive, early enough to see her close friend Bert Kinnear. British backstroke champion, dis-

|

Arthur Peall saysı

1914-U. F Dm of

this automatically four Costiam, ftants, whose question aug. gents the stroke shown on right of diagram.

Answer 18 that striker does not torielt any points because he is lort

GRED

__BLACK_

RED

touchingy Any bail

Kartor Docketing rod in diagram atrikor

Jor touching another red which.

is not a dali on," he must play away from the touching ball without moving it and u ponalised for missing the ball “on” or for hitting Another bali.

Nominating spoted black as the nail “on," he played away correctly from the touching red and pocketod binck, a la strok scoring woven.

Left of diagram shows dtrikot Anookered for the last red after a foul. He nominated blus as his free- ball played it and planted red- In the top pocket a fair stroke. It 18 also a stroke if both red nad mlue had been pocketed Blue comes up and la re-spotted, red remalas in the pocket

In many parts of the country it was onu wed by ordinance, local dignitaries and justices of the peace guaranteeing themselves an afternoon siesta by the simple ex- pedient of disallowing the game altogether.

In the late Seventeenth Century

and the early Eighteenth Century

the game picked up considerably

aerewfaced seln, spluttered "Sun consolately trying not to believe anticipate, it was a great piece of ed, each player had a kick over a in general popularity and then

you later," and vanished in a cloud of spray.

We never saw her again. The next thing we heard was that she had died in Monte Carlo, after taking part in the European champlon hips.

the news.

added to his difffeunies.

The strong sun no silken cord suspended between two bamboo poles at a height of Buf the still uneven playing sur

than 80 feet from the She won with a laugh by the face of the Police ground hampered more time she was 17 she hold 28 the attempts of both sides o expielt ground. Each player then also Scottish and England records the short ground pass. The best took a kick aimed at an aperture and sho lost with a smile, know- tactles on such a playing plch is to

in a net about two feet in ing in recent months that the swing the bail about in the air,

diameter. slip-of-a-girl Cathie Gibson was WARTIME DISCOVERY Hable to push her off her swim- She was a wartime discovery.ming pedestals one by one. a girl who until the early war She was

a great-spirited girl, years could hardly swim at all said Cathie's father.

proceeded on a decline that found it toward the early 1800's 'prac- tically forgottan.

In the. gentleman hooligan, period that followed Wellington's statement about interesting batties being won on the playing Oolds of Elon, all rough and games came back into. new fashion of the bruiser schoolboy. mode after the

CONFIDENT DEVONS

have been many tumble There may The Devens, after their victories of 9-1 over Kwong Wah and 3-1 other kicks through many other over the Navy, will take the field obstacles, possibly as many a for this afternoon's game with 68 more. How goals

or points It was determination alone which She, maid Sydney Hirst, chair- Kitchee full of confidence, Kitches, were computed is lost to record.

however, have also

good yo made this Scots girl with the slimman of the United Nations swim-tries to their credit: 5—1-ngainst The ball was of leather stuffed older than soccer. The old Rugby legs and the big body struggle, to ming committee, #wad the swim her first 25 yards,

greatest swimmer the Empire hnd Kowloon Transport last Saturday Sho was almost revered by over produced... ono of the and 3-2 against Eastern on Wednes those who sought to copy her finest ambassadors Britain had day. The Devons clearly are one

could

with horsehair.

the strongest. service sides and A will

of

A eneral misconception that exists to-day is that rugger is

Rame was soccer. It so happened that in 1823 a Rugby student, A POET'S CONCEPT

William Webb Ellis, hard pressed

or heat her. When I first sought ever sunt abroad."

Some time between 50 and 130) in a metce, picked up the ball and be no surprise if they do not take her out, a little, sharp-faced girl

NO POT-HUNTER

both points this afternoon; Klchee. A.D. a poet named Lu Ya gottan with it underarm. Record has aaid. "That's her, there." and She was no pot-hunter.

football and leitt that he was severely censured She are worthy opponents but will have rhapsodie over indiated a buxom girl in á kilt. The Informauf was Cathie Gibson had she wanted, but Nancy Rinch bag

have turned professional to pull something unusual cut of the the following interesting linen that the ensuing correspon-

check

attack which Nancy's friend and closest rival, didn't want.

includes She was a school.

Insic and Connors, and the reverence in her voice teacher in Hamiton, in Lanark-

Hongkong Signals astounded not a was somethlax for professional shire, and felt she had a vocation

few lo

kcal football by toLowers of

inals of entering the

the with her swimming,

Through- out last season

could be relied upon always to put up a good sex ther 1-1 victory last Saturday was no fluke. They

meet

at Sookunpoo

athlétes to have heard.

BRIGHTEST HOPE

She got special leave for these She was the brightest hope of

European championships In British Olympic swimming, for Carlo, just so that she

Stanicy Shield

по

1948, and her path to the Olym- could win the 100 metres for record division side et Too's

plad was paved with titles.. Britain. And even though, the April 1944: she set up a new Bri-3dn't do it there would have this aftercon and this game promises tish 100 yards record in fil been no lessening in the warmth week-ond. Bing Tao's youngsters are to be one of the keenest of the 6-10socs......August 1944 she of the elvic reception Motherwell a nippy band of promising players: broke her own 220yds, free-style had planned for higShe was while the Sgnols (with their long record in 2mlas. 88.8sess.

August 1945: broke her 20 when she died, the women's experience of

counterpart of Sydney Wooderson,

own record (3mins. 38sets.) for the British women't free-style 500

SPORTING SAM

JOHN MACADAM

local football) are a strong, robust and workmanlike eleven. A draw is the most probabile result here.

By Reg. Wootton

that could to-diny, a good 18 con-dence in the English press as well turies after, serve to remind many as club and coffee house gossip a locul player of what football put him down as an outright bounder. It was just something that was not dono. It wasn't cricket. It wasn't even football.

·RUGGER IS BORN.

stands for:

"The ball flying across like the

moon

While the teams stand opposca. Captains are appointed and take

their places

Accoring to unchanging regula-

tions

There must bono partality But there must be determination

and coolness Without the slightest irritation at

failure And if all that : is necessary for

football How much tnore for the business

of life,"

Ellis

passed through many years of censure and became a figure almost of national Impor tance. So much so that fourteen years later the football club at Cambridge decided to find out for itself if a mora, fatereating.game with a football could be devised hat allowed handling of the bail, A trial was arranged and The earliest mention of foot-aroused conallerable enthusiasm,

Thus rugger was born: ball in England comes

Rugby chronicle circa 1050 A.D. About School did not adopt the new hundred years Inter there in men-game until some years after the ilon of "a solema gama of ball at Cambridge trini. Smithfeld on Shrove Tuesday."

in

In due course the School orected ERA OF PERSECUTION ja stone to Ellia's memory. The inscription reads: "This stone. Football in England then pass commemorates the exploit of ed through a long era of persecu-|William Webb Ellis who by a alon ns. though the Chinese had fem disregard of

rules of mited it to not boing a game for football an it was played in his emperors, it was generally con-time first took the ball in his colved in the Middle Agen, more arms and ran with it, thus origi- 10. in Elizabotlion times, that foot- | nating the distinctive features ́ball was no game for gentlemen, of the Rugby game,”

tho

Britain Has A Chance To Win Ryder Cup

(By ARCHIE QUICK)

There is a growing feeling in professional golfing circles that Britain has a chance in the Ryder Cup after all.

When I was at Brighton and times na Ward did and -mly chating heard, the PGA secretary, Com fourth and Afth prizest

mander Roo state that Great Britain Basis of opumism now is Bobby would beat the United States in the Locke's successes against the cream. competition at Portland, Oregon in of American professional talent. It November, I wasn't dubious is argued that while the United was downright certain he was wrong. States will have one or two top- notchers who may outclass our men, But now a wave of optimism in they will not have 10 men with the surging through the sport and . 1

think I am being carried along with average ability of the British side. It. It was not so much the fact that a score of 10 of beaten 22 times Besant on the final day of the season's last opch stroke competition at Stoko Poges, but the manner

in which

some of the Cup probables fought to attain a leading score of '270.

First of all there was the grand Reginald Whitcombe following up his record-equalling third round of 04 with an aggregate that was the

Него loweat of the season.

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And to fight at,

how they

·did Dat Rees, always best in a siluu- Jon like this started Ave shots bo- hind Whitcombe, but he got them back. with another round of 64, and

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that was not only good golf but on deal that might excusably have been too much for any golfer.

Then there was some more back-RE- to-the-wall play by Arthur Lees and Charles Ward, both of whom falled by only one stroke to catch tho leaders. Fancy

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