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SEE TEE'S SERIES ON

The Laws Of Association Football

6.-THE LINESMAN'S DUTIES

In their memorandum dealing with co-operation between Referees and Linesmen the Football Association goes to some lengths to distinguish the kinds of duties which Referees may assign (1) Neutral linesmen who are qualified officials and (2) Club linesmen, who, even though they, may be fully qualified officials, are not neutral.

If these instructions are taken very literally the Re. feree should only allot to the Club linesman auch duties as signalling when the ball goes out of play over the touch- lines and indicating which team should take the throw-in from touch.

This necessary

limitation on the

scope which a Referee may give a

OLD-TIMER

Club linesman with regard to ques- PICTURE OF AN tions of fact affecting the play should not deter linesmen from schooling themselves in the many matters upon which the Referee, in special circum-

may ask their views,

Above

stances, all, however, it must be r membered that no matter who is linesman, & neutral official or one supplied by

by the Club, the Referee's Authority

Is obsolute and all duties performed by linesmen are subject to the decision of the Referee.

Nevertheless, the more one knows of the Laws of the Game the more Interest it holds, and the simpler it is to pass the test and quality for the whistle.

THE THROW-IN

By CRISPIN LEUTY

Gilbert Jessop's day was n long time ago. He, was in his prime before the 1914-18 war. But everybody who remembers it was then will re- cricket as member Jessop Jessop, of Gloucester and England; the 17:17 who stood up to the greatest bowlers in the world and scored off them at speed: the batsman who once mnde 191 runs in 90 minutės; the hero of eight Tests against the Australians.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1948.

"RECORDER" COMMENTS ON

SPORTS FEATURES THE UPSET OLYMPICS

NORTHWEST'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE OLYMPIC GAMES

Members of the U.S. Olympic team, who live or have lived in the Pacific Northwest pose aboard the Liner American while en route to England for the games.

Foreground (kneeling) Ky Ebright (left) formerly of Seattle, now University of California crew coach, and Ray Daughters, Seattle Athletic club conch. The three girls ure: (left to right) Nancy Merki Lees, Asheville, N.C., formerly of Portland, top

Orc.; Brenda Helser, San Francisco, former Portland student; and Sue Zimmerman, Portland.

In rear (left to right) George Pocock, Scattle, rigger for crew;

Clem Eischem,7 Vancouver, Wash.; Al Morgan, Seattle; Fred Wilt, Anderson, Ind., formerly of Pullman, Wash.; Norm Buvick, Seattle; Gordon Giovanelll; Seattle;. Bob Will, Seattle; Bob Martin, Tacoma; Warren Westlund, Seattle, and Robert Likins, San Jose, Calif.; formerly of Port-

land-AP Wirephoto.

Club Hnesmen's duties are usually with the throw-in more associated from touch than any other metho of re-starting play. It is important lis friends called him Jessopus. that

should know Just what But to the cricketing crowds of constitutes properly taken throw-Britain and Australla he was always in. These points are outlined in the Croucher. considerable detail in the Referees' Chart under Law

The with an items

15,

to be concerned ДЕС the way in which the ball is thrown and positions

of the thrower's feet. This question of the thrower's feet is double-edged. First of all the feet must be stationary at the point over which the boll went out of play.

KNEES BENT

on

That nickname was clamped him for the manner of his stance at the wicket; lie looked as though his knees were always bent.

And, by Jessopus, what a swiper he was.

of

or three

an alions as sharp as in the when he knocked 'em round houses.

I found him the other day. of 74, white bair, balding, but erect, steady alert, his pale-blue eyes as

days

man

Many players huve a why edging unfeld with two hesitatory faints at throwing the ball; others blandly ignore the lines man who points out the proper place from which the throw should be taken,

Some players have been known to gain as much as ten yarda by these "nibbling" tricks. By doing this they secure in unfair

over

advantage

their opponents-it Just isn't playing the game.

The Croucher of today is, ever, Hittle breathless; his troubles him, and we

the

how- heart

learned that in the last six years he has not yards been more than a hundred from the house where he lives with his vicar son.

We sipped dry sherry as he an- Any Inesman, neutral or other-nounced he was not going to talis wise, should not hesitate to wave his about cricket. He then started off dag high above his head when such

about erickel, came back to it later, tactics are used. The Referee will and ended on cricket. do the rest.

Arthur Peall says:

S pot black looks inviting, but I often missed in average club

SITUDXCT.

It not as simple as it napears and needs careful handling. A

BLACK

mera grauð on

cushion) will defect black And rum the

Avold tila trap. The

side of the packet is the target ------ Bide on cus-balt cannot help and in very likely to apoli the shot. Play A steady atroke as directed, and black will go down.

Exhibition hard stroke is shown on right of diagram

White 18 aimost in line Wh

Cue-ball, in hand. 1 Bocket Jap played full on white to send it boggling across pocket, as cue-tali JUT WATU spite back until it runa When the pocket in open

The other item to watch in con-

nection with the thrower's feet is to ensure that a part of each foot is either on the touch-line or away and clear beyond it. Thus it is quile order for a player to throw

in

Of top-class cricket today he says; Too much of it is played. There are too many big matches. A man gets no Jet-up. It's like the old saying about killing the goose."

NETS IN GARDEN

the

The Croucher looked out of french windows and said, "Can you see the nets at the bottom of the Horden?"

The nets enclosed a strip of turf used by his chip-off-the-old block cricketing son, the Rev. G. L. 0. Jessop, for a bit of bowling and batting practice with boys from the parish.

The Croucher sometimes goes down to the nets and gives expert ndvice.

A

"It would cost £4 n week or more place for, a gardener to keep the straight but I can't afford £200 year at any rate not for a gardener. The cost of living today.... It will never alter in my time." Ap- Croucher was finding living today parently like most other people the bit of a pinch.

The Croucher took up a cigarette.

Some Reflections

Chess

On

Tournaments

By "RECORDER"

The Colony Reserve Chess Tournament, completed this week, deserves special study for more reasons than one. It has qualified two players for next year's Colony Open Chess Championship final, both of whom well de- serve their places in the championship, but its results have given rise to much dissatisfaction and much speculation.

non-

It is pointed out that the Old Guard Seniors all finished top of the player qualified for the championship of the Kowloon Chess Club, which qualification would do for definition of a "Senior."

For that matter, five of the players who qualified for this year's Colony Open Final were not and are not qualified for the Champlonship of the Kowloon Chess Club, and are, therefore, not "Seniors.”

marred by Colony Reserve Chess Tourney, 1948

of them

The tournament WAS four walk-overs, three study for Jurists, let alone com→ mitices,

D. E. de Carvalho

involved They

L. Karpovich A. Biriukoff

These three walkovers Senior players in each case. had a feature in common-a com- plete lack of magnanimity.

As a result of these walkovers, one of the four players involved has re- signed from the Kowloon Chess Club, another threatened to resign from the tournament but was talked

out of it, and two have threatened to resign from the Club Committee, body which, strangely, has nothing whatsoever to do with the organisa-

11on

BACK-STAGE

been a

There has

re-

considerable

V. N. Dounaeft Joseph Tausz Karel Weiss

Arthur Gomes V. V. Kolntcholf B. W. Carter Jacob Ramier

A. Archangelsky

MAGNANIMITY MINUS

The lack of magnanimity men- amount of back-stage conversation loned earlier arises not from the on what the result of the tourna-walkovers so much as from attitudes ment did or did not prove.

adopted after they had been passed

by the Senior players that where

It is sald for the Senior players as such.

A tournament must be played they did lose to non-Seniors it was with rules. These are necessary if

an off-day mood for chess. commented "Terrible price today."

just resting on the line, while the and entered the political field. He

the ball when his heels are only

parts of his feet are

other

within the lines. Should he raise one or both heels when throwing, however,

and lose contact with the line, it

would be a foul throw.

LAST WEEK'S POSER

It was the question of the centro forward who gave the ball a second kick (into touch) from a klek-off following a goal which formed lust week's soccer law problem. What rhould be the Referee's ruling?

Law B. which, among other things, ticals with the kick-off, states that the player taking the kick shall not play the ball a second time until it has been played by another player.

un

That he kicked it into touch in so doing does not affect the post- tion: the proper award of the Re- feree

indirect free-kick ugainst the rentre forward's team, taken from the place where he played the ball the second Ume.

A GOAL?

K

C R A Total

10

1 1

5%

4/2

The London Games will perhaps be longest remem. bered for the fact that no sports writer the world over...... and scores tried-managed to pick more than a half-dozen winners in nearly 30 events in athletics, Even less suc cessful were the forecast people in aquatics.

› Maxwell Stiles, America's top-ranking authority on track and field forcenata, who had picked 15 winners in the Berlin Games, has a score of just six to date with six oventa left unfinished.

13is good shots in the dark were first in the high jump, Finland's Mel Patton in the 200 metreg dash, Ericki Kalaja's second place in the Roy Cochran in the 400 metres low pole vault, and Sweden's Arno Ah- hurdles, Willie Steele in the long mann's first place in the hop, step jump, Tore Sjoestrandt in the 3,000 and jump. metres steeplechase, Fanny Blan- kers-Koen in the women's hurdles

PATICI

Micheline Ostermeyer in the women's shot put.

Of these six, forecasters pleked on Cochran, Steele and Ostermeyer as an almost unanimous choice.

Beyond some backing for Pation to win the 200-metres and just n little for, Whitfield to win the 800, there is hardly a man who picked single winner in the four shorter

recen.

Dozens of forecasters pleked Reift as krly second for the 5,000- metres and Zatopek as likely second for 10,000-meires run. The Belgian and the Czech came in first.

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT

It is difficult to pick the most disappointing performer of the Games. So many disappointed, that face-hiding would involve whole Olymple teams.

women who succeeded

It is not so much the men and that have made the London Games the big- gest "upset Olymples" In the modern series. It is the impressive list of champions who falled to place even in the final, let alone the first three.

Aus- Outstanding examples are trulla's John Treloar in the sprints, tho Canada's Don MacFarlane In 400 metres, New Zealand's Douglas Harris In the 800 metres, Finland's Viljo Heino in the 10,000 metres.

ANTI-CLIMAX

In the fold events, the high jump and hop, step and jump saw each n half-dozen favoured Analista blanked out. The former 'event was a terride anti-ellinax to form shown over two years and, the latter caW two athletes favoured for the gold medal both fall to make the first six.

The weight ovents only went to form. There was little to choose

As a unit, the most disappointing between, zay, Thompson and De- show, on pre-Olymple expectations, lancy in the shot put or Rautavaara was put up by the South Americans and Seympur in the Javelin throw. who have thus far managed

The women, paced by all- Iong second place in the women's jump, a finalist in the high hurdles Founders Fanny Blankers-Koen and Micheline Ostermeyer, have ved and seem to be heading. at the

Lip 10 the forecasters. Another moment, for first place in the De-highly-favoured all-rounder,

AI- gentina's Noemi Simonetto has had

content with to remain

a silver 'alcappointing Most

individual, medal. though food-polsoning would ex* cuse him, is France's star frce styler Alex Jany, picked almost un- animously 10

all three free style swims.

cathlon.

win

Other disappointments who rank high are Panama's Lloyd LaBeach

At the moment it seems as though the greatest Olymple performance of all time will be set by Fanny gold Koen who has already two medals in her scorebook and is well on the way to two more with a fifth

in the two sprints, Jamaica's Herb yet a definite possibility. She could have made it alx if she did not McKenley in the 400 metres, France's Marcel Hansenne

scratch, from the long jump. and Britain's John Parlett in the 800. And, contrary to all Olympic metres, and, almost in a class by tradition. Fanny Koen is no super- himself, Finland's Viljo Heino in bullt specimen of an Amazon. the 10,000 metres.

She is matronly and attractive. Biggest upsets are Dillard's win | Much more so Franco's Micheline in the 100-metres. Ceylon's Duncan Ostermeyer and the standard in White's second place in the low feminine charm is the highest in | hurdles, Australian John Winter's] Olymple history.

ARTHUR WINT WANTS TO LEARN POLE-VAULTING

By HAROLD PALMER

I could scarcely believe the big, long-striding Jamaican half-miler Arthur Wint was serious when he confided to me that he proposed devoting a whole winter to learning the pole vault. Especially when he admitted he did not like pole vaulting.

one to

a pretty fast time.

The

of the law. Very much at fault is that it is a strain on the nerves to of the tournament beyond the tendency among Senior

So he explained. He will be 32 when the Olympic fact that it contributed three

players, wait a whole evening for the up- Games are held at Helsinki in 1952. "I shall be too old presentatives to the Colony Open seriously than it should be taken. Karpovich who, once arrived, will

moro In particular, to take chess

pearance of a player like Welss or

for the half-mile then," he said, "so I am thinking about Chess Chaniplonship Committee.·

be quite content to, make a night

going in for the Decathlon," of it n the game till three in the

The pole vault is not the only↑ High ́Jump; · 6f1. when serving one of the Decathlon's ten events with the RAF in Canada. morning.

However true that is, most non-that would be new to Wint; but he Long Jump: 24ft. 2lm., still Seniors, would tackle the.

be the sume believes it would

Jamaican record. problem by gallantly giving the trouble him most.

120 yards hurdles: 16sec. when game away rather than demanding

running as a junior, HIS BEST EFFORTS

He tells me ho has not run à mile a walkover, entering on same risky

or 1500 metres in competition, but This is no idle day-dreaming on obviously he would be capable of purely a matter of their being in only to take care of one dificult combination that would lose, perhaps

Let me give an idea them this, I can only where all

type. Tournaments have been known win, but, whatever result, get the Wint's part.

10 contestants entered game over in no time.

of his possibilities as a Decathlon "How does one tell when into the spirit of the competition

man. Here are his best efforts at It would be a red-felter day for the various events: 16 in

off-day

with a desire to win but with little amour propre impaired if they did general good-feeling when a desire generally

100 agreed-on not.

metres: Best time for 100 The last

Club Intermediate to enjoy chess rather than play it surmise in the Club that one of the Tournament, that saw hardly with a view to upholding reputatlan yards 0.9sce. In Jamaica. classiest players is Jacob Ramler game postponed beyond two days, is extends to everyone entering a 400 metres: 47sec. F Sweden, who happens to be in a mood

a good example. the game just about once cut of every 10 times he sits down to it. On the other hand, there have lils record for the tournament is been tournaments that raw two games' won and eight lost. one particular type going all out to Ramler, if he took more Interest make himself extremely unpopular Carvalho or Karpovich included, to limit of the rules, taking advan- in winning. could hold anyone. by, while staying strictly within the

a close game.

tago of everything thet had not by the One thing that may be said in the been completely covered so-called Juniors' favour is that rules. they have not contributed toward

in

an

opponent mood?'

puf

It Is

a

furecast that the Socialists would be defeated at the next election, say- ing: "It was the women who them in. It will be the women

who'll put them out next time."

THE LAST INNINGS

the

He tried hard to keep off topic that made his name famous, but could not refrain from a tribute to W. G. Grace, and the memory that it was 54 years ago when they met. He remembered, too, that the season then was one of the wettest on record.

"I've not played cricket since 1015, I think It was," he said,

"We were at Sir Robert

Peel's pince near Llchfeld and our op- ponents hud Barnes as one of their bowlers. I hit up 97. Not a bad farewell to the game, eh?"

an

for

Боте

marring the tournament by claim- Without going into case histories, that it in ob- ing walkovers. To be fair, neither one may mention has Karpovich or Welsa.

solutely legal and above board in The one walkover standing in chess match, having once decid Tausz's favour was not claimed by to move a particular piece, to put | him. It was awarded to him despite it in one's pocket and wander off

is being willing to play off a for a half-hour's slesta. postponed game.

However legal that would be, it To be absolutely fair also, it must is a doubtful point that be admitted that the walkovers would take advantage of it. claimed by Carvalho and Biriukoff anyone, his general, unpopularity can be ascribed to the fact that, as within a very short time would be members of the Club Committee, it very pronounced, was up to them to set an example bat- even

at the cost of appearing Comparing on attitude like this unsportsmanlike.

to a walkover claim would not be So, all things added up, no one too far-fetched:

The Croucher went back to the room where he is spending the sun- set of his life in an armchair, his back to the light, reading, putting on the radio and gazing at two pletures on the wall.

A goal has just been scored and the centro-forward of the team losing the goal, instead of tapping One picture is a magazine, diagram the ball gently to one of his team showing the variety of his

tates, makes a running kick at Itting strokes, the other a water while it's on its spot in the centre colour of his old bot and cricket of the field. The Referee gave gear called "The End of the Sca- the signal for him to do so. Tho son."

ball, carried on a high wind, went As he gazes at those pictures to straight into the opponent's goal morrow he'll turn on the radio and withoat another player touching I listen to the fourth Test match of The Referee awards what?

1048.

SPORTING SAM

CUP FINAL TICKET -FIVE POUND!

anyone

Should

is at fault about anything. Yet, There may come a day in local much material arises for dissatis chess when the general quality of faction.

players will be so high that the As I have stated before in there non-participation of a known out- columns, I repent that no one is standing local player would not be I at fault, that is, on the strict letter missed.

By Reg. Wootton

SORRY MATE FORGERY?

This, unfortunately, is not

true

| Lodny, Our better players are fow nad far between, though, it may be cald optimistically. the second bests are moving up at a very en- couraging rate.

• REASON 'ENOUGH? However encouraging this im provement zato may be, there is an almost concerted effort among the Old Guard Beniors to limit, Senior

competition to themselves. The result of the Reserve Tournament Is, therefore, pointed to as reason enough for this attitude,

The player claiming a walkover may" "justify" himself by suggesting

tournament.

1940.

Weight, discus, Javelin and pole- vault would all be new to him. He has no idea how he would shape at them, but is quito hopeful.

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