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HOLIDAY SOCCER

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1949.

HONGKONG HOCKEY XI

THE STAGE IS SET FOR INTERPORT THRILLS

By "SEE TEE"

Matches with the fast, nippy footballers from Saigon hold the stage for the Chinese New Year holiday. Tomorrow the match is on a fall Interport basis and Hongkong meet the challenge of Saigon's best.

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“On Sunday, Saigon face another hard and gruelling match. They are to meet a strong Combined Chinese eleven.

League football is at a standstill over the holiday period, while three matches with the visitors from. Saigon draw upon the clubs" beat playing strength. Hongkong's team to meet Balgon tomorrow includes a heavier preponderance of Chinese players than ever before..

Only one servicenum, Weatherall of the Army and one other non-Chinese, Kiernan of the Club, are in the chosen eleven.

It includes no Portuguese member placed the soldiers very near of the St. Josephs' team, a matter for ürst three. surprise indeed when one considera the continuous good form of Xavier at right-wing. If any player is likely to be missed tomorrow It to Xavier.

team.

Another quality, which may be missed tomorrow is the steadiness of a player who is used to playing as a pivot. The centre half position well and truly termed "pivot"is

any the key position in Players who are used to holding i regularly, week-by-week, pre more obvious cholec than one who has played brilliant yet mercurial

wing-half or Che

the

the, and practicablo programme is sub-

mitted.

While the Army (HK) was fight-

Most certainly the Australians ing for a single point, the Army will produce the required program- (Kowloon) was making rings round me. Surely it is for consideration the Club, The Kowloon soldiers' that the Hongkong F.A. sbould try

make 7-0 victory puts them no more than to

arrangements for the three points behind the league English amateur footballers to come leaders with

two games in hand

bere.

English Party of amateur footballers were to come and a belter goal average.

to Hongkong, to play matches against our local chosen, it would would be a gala occasion indeed.

Speedy action would be required to to tack a visit to Hongkong on any itinerary arranged by the Aus trallons, but it is not in impos- sibility that the necessary arrange- one ments could be made. No

suitable the gule of such a visit,

interest

PAGING FAST ACTION

Of more than ordinary to Hongkong football is the news reported by the "Times) that at a meeting of the Football Associa Inside-on in London on Monday, January 10, the Football Association agreed Craighead is so much the obvious to send an amateur team to Australia would double the drawing power at

Hames forward.

selection for

it is this berth that the more astonishing that his name is not included even as a reserve.

TANG YEE-KIT BACK

The return of Tang Yee-kit to lead tho attack remedies bno 01 the Iamentable lapses in choosing the Colony's team to play the fret match with the Koreans.

a fast,

Tong has always played thrustful, sharp-shooting game: he has usually been well-marked, but time and again bas served his side well

Lagi Saturday, at Sookunboo, Tang, Yee-kit, almost saved the game for KMB. Above all, Tang Yee-kit plays a most scrupulously clean game. Even when battling unsupported against heavy odds, with the mendacious sections

the local crowd inciting players to other things, Tang has never waver- ed from his own particular brand of clean football

There are

otifer players of the Enme type. Chau Man-chi Lau Chung-sing and Fung King-cheungi to refer to only a few. There, are several others who, week after weck, play

Rood

clean football, serve their clubs well, and credit to narociation football.

Why more players of this quality are not included in representative teams is a matter for astonishment, Perhaps it is enough that virtue is its own reward.

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SOFTBALL CHATTER

International Series

Semi-Finals On Monday

By "SPECTATOR"

On the stage of Chinese New Year Holiday softball fare the spotlight is beamed on this senson's International Series. There is here plenty to serve the enthusiast. The beat of local talent will be on view.

The semi-finals of the yearly International Competition are to be decided on Monday. At 10.30 a.m. Portugal meet China. Pakistan clash with Great Britain at 2.30 p.m. Both are to be played on the CBA ground, King's Park, As if there isn't enough to satisfy, Spikes Guterres, Charlie

Quinn, full Lengue card

has been Gussy Pereira, Gerry Roza-Pereira, scheduled for the holidays. The heat and Joe Franco. Is on In the Senior loop

China Lo Chung-sang, Herbio Madcaps were virtually knocked out Quen, Bill Woo, Dick Chung, K. T of the ring by defeat last Sunday. Leung, P. F. Chol, Yeung Kar-sing Luke Duun, P. C, Wong, C. K. Choy, J. Kwon and P. Lo.

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race.

Of the three left of the former Big Four currently strongest con- tenders for the pennant, one more is to be pushed out of the way by the result of gome to be played Sunday. The VRC or Canadians will wiped off from the be practically ranks of the hopefuls after the two clash.

on

Week-end Stars

It is understood that a postpone ment was sought of the vital VRC- Nevertheless, it is to be hoped Canadian tit, because most of the that all these matches with Saigon | players are to take part

in next will provo happy, holiday occasions.day's International. Tired players strongest pennant-claiming Saints,

At ni why after this League fracas will not

give of their best, it was argued.

However, this needle game is to be played according to schedule, VRC having disagreed to a postpone ment. A red-hot struggle is antici-

Here again is another pated, holiday attraction,

There is 110 reason Chinese New Year should not be celebrated with three exciting games of football.

STRONG TEAM Salgon are bringing a strong team. Their specily trickiness_and_ cellent bal control pleased us no

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by Jock

Oscars For Boxers

HOME SPORTFRONT

Curb On Speedway

Transfer Deals

Firm steps to keep speedway clean and to cut out any jobbery in the transfer of star, riders this season havé been decided upon by the Control Board. Every deal in tho £1,000 class will be investigated, and now rulo will be made to check quick-change

moves.

At the moment a rider receives 10 percent. of his transfer fee after one season at a track, and a further 2 percent. for overy succeeding Белкоп.

casting a 2oz weight, took 182 and the golfer 87.

Fisherman's difficulty was in kis short casts. His longest was 108 yards. When within a rod'silengür of a hole he ran the weight to the rod end and dropped it into tho, hole.

He broke his line Ave' times, and was allowed another shot without

In future, if he moves within penalty. two years, he will get no percentago at all of his new transfer fee.

· FIRST FOAL AT 22 Record transfer

When a mare produces a foal at £2,000, pald by Wimbledon to the ripe old age of 20 it is, regarded Bradford for Alec Statham.

in horney circles as a most unusual event.

foo

60 for is

THROWER v. HITTER

When one has her first at 22-after B. II. Lyon, the Gloucestershire being hunted all her life-and captain of North Foreland Golf 24, it gives the

The Hongkong Hockey XI to play / cricketer, and E. McLennan, playing follows it with two more at 23 and

Macao in the Interport match on Sunday at 3 p.m. will leave to- morrow at 2.30 p.m. by the a. Wuruch.

Pictured above, they are, reading ordinary way. from the left.

In the

owner Justifiablo

Club, Broadstairs, will play a round cause to asic, is this a record? of golf with Lyon throwing the ball Miss Sylvia Calmady-Hamlyn, of from the tees and fairways, but Buckfast, South Devon, puts 11.0 taking a putter on the greens. and

question to Horse and Hound con- McLennan using his clube

cerning a

she onco

owned named Peg. case of Tully, a racehorse owned by. But in the records there is the Lady James Douglas.

They will play on the short course, with 18 holes varying from 40 to 140 yards.

Lyon's handicap is 4, McLennan's 5. Lyen la the challenger, thinks his

when the was 25. Equally extra- Tilly had her last foal in 1043

ordinary is the fact that up to 1949,

By GEORGE WHITING

J. A. Standing: Bhagat Singh, Oscars for boxers. After Suares, Li, Cdr. Alikén, E. Fowler. running an all-embracing cyo w. A. Reed (Captain), Capt over thousands of candidates in Monaghan and L/Tel. Mathewson. all parts of the world.

Bitting: 11. Cdr. Hale, B., T. medal-minded American friends! have decided that Freddie Mills, Lall Singh and A. Neary archer nearly always winning, and Gainsborough, who himself, was 27

Photo by Golden Studlo,

golfer v. fisherman. The fisherman, when Tilly died.

our

world cruiserweight champion, rates fourth in their annual "Fighter of the Year" list for 1948.

Freddie

is preceded by two! negroes and Frenchman, all world champions. Lightweight Ike Wi- lams, remembered here as the dole- ful young man who hammered Ronnie James at Cardiff two years ago, finished top of the poll Middl weight Marcel Cerdan, gold-toothed Idol of Paris, la named runner-up, and gets. a special "Fight of the Year" dward for his tempestuous championship win over Tony Zale.

Third was Joe Louis-with a "Round of the Year" prizo for his 11th round! knock-out of Jersey Joe Walcott "Surprise of the Year” — Sandy Saddler's featherweight title win over veteran Willie

le Pep. Outside

of Mills and flyweight champion Rinty Monaghan, British professionals are accorded only lowly positions

In America's "world" nwards. Bruas Woodcock is No. 13 heavyweight. Dick

and Turpin Vince Hawkins rate 9th and 17th among the middleweights.

Other Britons in the "special" lists are Johnny Molloy (8) and Ron

(13) Draper

featherweight; Jackle Paterson (0), Stan Rowan (D), Terry Allen (13), Teddy Gard- ner (15) at bantam. Dickie O'Sulli- van (3), Charlie Squire (B), Jackle Tennant Bryce (11) and Norman (17) among the flyweights.

master.

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Arturo Ozorlo, St Joseph's-Last week, this second baseman len. a big hand in his team's massacring the Madcaps out of all champion- ship hopes when they were shut- oul (9-0)—a

A WELCOME VISITOR round humiliation of their first- The apparently

Lucien (Luc) von Dam, Dutch under the capable managership of

a visitor middleweight champion, popular Jindoo Hussain, blasted the

retains to England this week, Madcaps with 10 solid hits, lively interest in the amateur ranks unhappy which included a circuit clout from which he sprang.

Dy Dave Leonard, a triple Brown and A double by Stan

Luc hopes to drop in at York Hall, blg Leonard.

Bethnal Green, where Repton BC Arturo clashed out the are hoxing a hot team put up by best average of the engagement with Jack-Peel--the-Birkenhead--school-- three hits in four trips,

followed closely by Stan Leonard's .500.

Robert Verlesyn, Madcaps--Modest, serious Robert was his cool self an put up a one-man retaliation against the mighty Saints while his When last he visited London, he side managed but four bingles off cailed in at the club gym, stripped, hurler Jock Brown,

who was, 0%

A and spent a morning coaching several usunt, backed by a million-dollar highly delighted youngsters. A few defence works Licky, alias Robert, months later, when the Repton team Pakistan enters the competition had his way in a way against tough visited Holland, they fourd Luc for the first time, The players who opposition with two hits in four at flapping a towel as a friendly rival Except for the omission of Xavier,brought India victory last seasontempts. This third baseman's star in the opposite corner. I like the look of the Hongkong have migrated en masse to Pakis-shone again in cloudy Madcapville. attack. Although Lee Tai-fal is not tan. Senior has the able A, H. yet back in the bewildering form he Bakar (Captain) and topnotcher B. Igmar Eriksen, VRC The alug struck at the end of last season, he M. Oinar (Vice-Captain) to co-ging Victorians banged at Doc has at least shown flashes of it re-operate with toward steering the Molthen's HKBC mercilessly to cently, Lee is a wingmon with a terrific, cannon-ball shot.

A.R. "Senior" Markar end in their last visit nearly two had the "good fortune" of having years ago. They had the knnek of starry players to be Manager of, tearing away suddenly from a de- and on record managed three India fensive pose, straight into 龉 most

International champion he squads to thrustful attack. Here, at least, ship, is again entrusted with what Chang's speed may be of advantage, looks like another champion squad. for his natural tendency to followformidable and all-round strong, but the attack right to the other end, under the banner of Pakistan. mny make recovery 21 hazardous

business.

.

Eric Keen's maxim that goals wilt not come if you don't shoot holds good. Every member of the for ward line should bear it in mind. Crack after crack at goal may crack the goal.

squad to another triumph and the 10-3 win, in the process of which

unit

Red carpets are not in order when professionals visit British amateur tournaments, but Van Dam has many friends among the Repton aminteurs.

When Football Is Just Another Job

of

first for Pakistan.

Eriksen hit top grade with Advancement from the semi-three hits after four times at By STANLEY MATTHEWS

the platter, which included nats is not unexpected, in spite of the

Charlie Quinn Most schoolboys have the am- having as opposition a reckonable double. Teammate

while George under tripled, Great Britain batlle

Saunders bition to become great foot- brainy Hal Winglee, in co-ordination and Alvaro Xavier doubled,

ballers, with the glamour with Coach Buster Hollands.

Gerry Roza-Pereira, VRC-Speedy playing for a famous team. The well-balanced attack, plus "on land" as he is "in the sea being the idols of Soccer's week-end's defent of near air-light defence of Pakistan Gerry is a champion swimmer-the Kowloon Motor Buses, the path to will be plebed against

hard-sure-catching outfielder, laid full millions, and winning an inter- the championship is now wide open hilting British contingent, which

claim to a starry perch by himself national cap or Cup medal. to South China "A". Fortunately the does not appear to possess an ol-1,000 of the week's games. An out- they often forget that football is just when he registered the only almighty The prospects thrill them-but situation is much more confused in together sound defence. The odge the junior division of the locul appears to go to the Pakistan boys standing performance by an all-

another job. League.

round sportsman, Lichy Luz stood out in the Ball Club's camp with a couple of safeties.

After last

A week ago Chinese Athletic were on top with South China ́one point behind in second .place. KMB

whe juniors;

bad no engage. ment last week-end, were In the third position with 20 points. from

12. matches

JUNIOR RACE

THE TEAMS

S. C. Wong and C. K. Chol, Chung The following are the teams: Pakistan-A. H. Bakar, B. M. Wah-Each smacked a homer to Omar, Sherry Bucks, Rahmat Samy, S.. H. Khan, S. K. Khan, Melbow out of the limelight his team's

conquerors,

had

-tho

They overlook the fact that ก youngster has to serve an apprentice- ship in football just as in any other trade.

It is only by hard genius, and a lot of work, a spot of

I havo often stressed this point,

pennant-aspiring grade to stardom ls made. Omar, A. H. Abbos, A X. Markar, Canadians, though the latter won, A. A. Ruminha, A. J. Hussain, A but only by one-run margin, and I am glad to see the Football 11. Ismail, Z A. Abbas, H. Hussain Canuck batters were unusually of Association have now.published a and S. Hamet. (Coaches: Alfred R. the picture, Popular Herbie Quon guide to a Soccer career.

and six-fooler A. H. Bakar, however, **Nelthen South China por Chinese Abbas and A. R. Razzek).

Athletle could force victories last Great Hall Dave Leonard, S. double aplece. The Canucks' show a bit of it with a tracking

Blind Contracts week-end. "At

This new booklet, "The Profes- Doalton favours KMB Věry kirongiy, Sid

They slonal Footballer," t out clearly will have to do better. The Junior Busnes are now live Harold Winglee, Fred Hyadınan, point Bahhid the leaders but with M. Pereira, Eric' Guest and Goor the race. Much will depend on the fies players agreements, and gives a

outcome of

their

difficult obstacle in very good idea of what it means to Saunders.

the VIC whom they meet this week take up football." Manager Charllo Figueiredo has and the latter are hot on the In their drawn game with Kitchee the best players for some time to championship trail too.

Every young player should get last Saturday. Chinese Athletic were represent Portugal with the return. Hilde Soares, Wahoos-Peppery of a copy. It fells what he can

of the Gosano brothers. The bat- Hilda led the ahow

the moment the Leonard. B. Ablong, Igor Eriksen, that day was unimpress remain in the conditions of employment, clari

free matches in hand.

often in · trouble. Three

Hollands, Buster

Hollands, wi

with a.500 for the Wahoos against

and

cannot do once he has signed a

the footbou know that a professional

Kitchee took the lead: Three times Ung prowess of Eddie, Bertie, Gerry average in sweet revenge they had to aurronder it.

and Lino has not been surpassed by champion

can be an amateur 'ccic- since they rave the game the subsequent Portugal representativas Canadians, by whom they were keter or golfer, but not an amateur

cold

their In

first-round clash.

C. swimmer, boxer, symasst, or athlele? Palsy Ribeiro alamméti Did you know that all professional Dick

South China's juntors, after fall ing to beat the Club's second string

a fortnight ago, faltered when con- / shoulder.

fronted by the Police last Sunday.

under Dig Chlef

Victory would have put them on Chung, in couldered ahört of his out n rousing triple to. Tive' HINia Footballers' contract to do everything

top of the table,

The Canucks wore out-necessary to get and keep them "B ting strength and that will probably hit by but shakey folding. selves in the best possible condition cause their downfall. However, which is their blantant weakness, to play ediciently and to play to the Another challenger for top post-the trickiness of the China boys ltd to thelg downfall.

best of their ability? tion in junior football who allowed may help spring a surprise, which, Avarita Choy, Canucks-Reported ""Then "tire two of the many points

valuable point to slip out of however, Is not expected.

to be a alat from Shanghal, the explained by the FA, and should go their hands last weekend wna the The two quads are comprised of played third for the first time for long way towards clearing up the "Army (UK),- -Their

with

ForturalE.L, BO and A. V. the Maple Leafers and dished out many misconceptions of a football War Department Chinese, who Gosuno, Wilfred Lawrence, Arturo hnll-round high-level perfor- career. are near the bottom of the table, Ozorld, Avichi Yvanovich," Arturs miance. She hit twice safely, in-. "Too many, players mentor”)

blindly seomed the very chance for collect= | Ozorio, Dick'e Alves, Billy Soxrow, cluding a triple." Her delding | Into" contraçia and live to Pegret

· Ing~ two-points which would have A.-P. Pozeirs, - Renny, Sequeira, showed she knows how,"""/

them.

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