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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1950-

WHEELCHAIR MARKSMAN ENGLAND'S FOOTBALL XI

With her eyes on the target, Robin Imray draws her bow in a wheelchair archery contest held at the Ministry of Pensions Spinal Injury Centre at Stoke Mandeville, England. Miss Imray, a former member of the WAAF who was injured in a war-time accident, competed with 15 others.

There's A Future

In The Idea Of Floodlit

Football

By ARCHIE QUICK

been

Southampton Football Club have always pioneers in soccer, They were the first club south of London to embrace professionalism, the first non-League club, to reach the FA Cup final, and now they have became the first. League club to experiment with floodlit | foolball.

Unfortunately, after weeks of preparations, the game was spoiled by tantalizing fog, but we saw enough to be able to say that there is a definite future in the idea. The Southampton club had A member of the Brazilian bold me ercoled sixteen 1,500-walt lamps Football Association

all important League on their grandstands and they that ware just sufficient to pierce matches in South America are the gloom. On a clear night I played at night before

did not think that the exhibition would crowds but that they tiave" been an outstanding have to contend with weather

such as this. success.

The players controlled and OVER 10,000 CAME

and Over 10,000 spectators turned passed the ball perfectly

what I saw of the game was and

interesting

up for

the

game,

tihe

LIKELY TO BE COMPLETELY REBUILT

London, Nov. 8. England's international football outlook may undergo a big change in the near future, for it appears the time has come for drastic action in order to restore England's waning prestige.

The disappointing display of England against Ireland recently means that the Selectors have to start all over again and will probably result in much shuffling in the team to meet Wales at Sunderland on November 15.

The biggest problem lies in the attack, which has failed to produce fire and accuracy in front of goal. In recent years the Selectors have relied mostly on clever ball artists like. Stanley Matthews, Tom Finney and Wilf Mannion, but now, it is advocated, the Selectors should aim at results and forget entertainment value.

The problem may be parti Lee, of Derby-did not come up ally solved by choosing two to expectations against Ireland. strong, fast wingas who cut out the frills which, although pretty to watch, give the defenders the time to cover thcdr goal.

COCKELL AIMS

John

HIGHER

Simpson, manager

MATTHEWS OUT?

has

of Don Cockell, Britain's It would mean the exclu-

Matthews, who new Cruiserweight Cham-sion of pion, has lost no time stak- been hailed as the greatest ball player of all time, but tibe ing an official claim for wizard of dribble" has reach- Don to be rated as an in-ed the "veteran" stage for a ternational star.

footballer.

Matthews can still baffle the best of backs, but his tactics often hold back a forward line in these days of spood.

Simpson says he has written to the Boxing Board of Control asking that Cockell be acclaimed Champion of the British Empire

The return of Stanley Mor- and acknowledged as Britain's

tensen at inside right has been official contender for the

suggested, Mortensen's amaz- European title held by Alberting turn of speed and, sure- Yvel, the Frenchman from

footedness in the penalty area Algeria.

has brought many a goal for England. Lately he seems to have lost some of his speed, but still remains one of the

forwards most cangerous the game.

The Board, it is probable, will lose no time furthering Cockell's claim to fight Yvel-but there be difficulties on the Empire question,

may

in

IN THE RING

AND MANNION?- For one thing, titles have to be won in the ring. Also, there

This would mean dumping at least two Dominions will Mannion, since it appears cruiserweights with equally that Eddie Balley, of Totten- legitimate claims on Empire ham, has made the inside-left

position his own.

arc

England have not been able to

That rare combination of speed, ball control and power is practically non-existent in English football today, Fow changes in the England defence

the expected, but centre-half, Allenby Chilton, does not seem able yet to rise to the occasion.-Reuter.

are

new

Freddie Brown

Says "No" -And Wins

A breeze that threatened.... to ruffle the cordiality of the MCC tour of Australia' has blown over, and captain. Freddie Brown has won his first "All or none" round as far as distinctions between professionals and-amateurs in his team are concerned.

Matter was brought to a head when the exclusive Adelaide Club, following the pattern of previous MCC tours, invited

in the team to use the cljb;' ignoring vice-captain Denis: Compton and the other profes- sionals,

honours.

One is Dave Sands, who, in addition to his Empire middle- | find a successor to Tommy Law-Brown and the other amateurs weight title, is also the cruiser ton for the centre-forward posi- newest And-Jack and heavyweight champion of tion. The Australia. The other is South champion George Africa's Hunter.

Promoter

Jack Solomons

might do worse than consider a Cockell v. Hunter fight for the Empire championship when he visits South Africa in December.

-(London Express Service)

Rugby huge England's

League Team

at Leeds on

London, Nov. 8. England's Rugby League team.

play France November 11 shows five changes from that which beat Wales on

10

Southampton and Bournemouth think night football is a thing of players: I spoke bo wore all the future in England but only enthusiastic about the novelty.

for training, particularly for October 14. They said they could see the

A. Burnell, of Hunslet, and It gives white-painted ball quite easily local club amateurs.

them a chance of ball practice Poole, of Leeds, are newcomers excapt for some darkness

work is done to international football. Burnell the goalmouths, and the referee after the day's

who has been the automatic told me he was able to follow instead of dreary lapping of the replaces Bradshaw, of Wigan, quay quite well except that it pitch in darkness, but I cannot choice as England's scrum-half

since the war.

in

entailed a lot of extra running see about and that, he thought: the League basis.

should have ha'd linesmen torchps; instead, of flags.

Не

how it can be put on u

PARAMOUNT OBSTACLE The paramount obstacle is the

Three British

A PROPOSITION

Champions On Promptly, Brigadier M, A. One Programme

Green, team manager, ind Brown: visited the secretary of the club and gave the following proposition: In the interests of London, Nov. 8., team spirit, off the field as well. Two other British Boxing as on, it was felt that if the invitation was not amended to Champions, Eddie Thomas,

include all players, the amateurs Welterweight Cham-might not use the clue. pion, and Don Cockell, Light Heavyweight Champion, will be in the programme when the Heavyweight Champion, Bruce Woodcock, defends his boxing title against Jack on November 14 Gardiner

at Earl's Court, London.

Thomas fights Emanuel Clavel, of France, who recently gave Jackie Braddock, of Man- chester, a hard fight. The con- test will be over 10 rounds at

The new Light Heavyweight 10 stones, nine pounds.

The

Adelaide Club .saw.

Brown's point of view.

The Adelaide club is in a magnificent avenue facing, the

grounds of Government House with its leather chairs, big pic tures and general air of dignity, of the older it is like many West End clubs in London and is roughly the equivalent; of the, Athenaeum.,

It is difficult to understand that in Australia, of all countries, there should still exist clubs which wish to make this sort of ·· distinction. It was resented: before the war and is doubly.

-(London: Express Service)

had lack of pitches equipped with croft (Wigan), Danby (Salford) | Champion, Cockell, meets the resented. now,

aid add that this difficulty:

arisen would not have there been no fog,

THE GAMBOLS Barry Appaly

PLU

SOUP

ROUTE TO THE TO-NIGHT O SPENDING THE

DANISI

floodlights. Only League sides and leading amateur clubs could provide such facilities and the strain on the playing surface could be too great to permit continuous competition.

Southampton's set goal is to train their fifly local yongsters and in addition to the pitch they have floodlit their car park for head tennis and the rest of the training box of tricks.

The sixteen 1,500-watt lamps and their installation cost £600, supplied by the Supporters' Club, and the cost of the lighting worked out at only six shillings per hour...

The FA was repesented by its national team manager, Mr. Walter-Winterbottom, and at the dinner which followeż, the demonstration, he said that what he had seen that evenligshad" definitely given him ideas for follow up experiments in the

counties.

Cunliffe

American, Lloyd Marshall, over

The team is as follows: E. Ward (Bradford Northern), Hilton Broome (Wigan), Ash

Burnell (Wigan), (Hunslet), Gee (Wigan), Egan (War- (Leigh), Featherstone, rington), R, Ryan (Warrington), Poola (Leeds) and H. Street (Dewsbury).-Reuter.

Rugger Results

London, Nov. 8. The following were the re

games played sults of rugger yesterday: :

RUGBY UNION County Championship matolies : Hampshire 3, Eastern Coun ties 6,

Sussex 8, Birmingham 22.

Other matches Richinond, 8; Oxford 0. Cambridge University 24, Guy's Hospital 0.

at 12 stones,

10 rounds pounds.

attractive Another

10

bout

should be the meeting between WORK-AND-SPORT

Johnny Williams, of, Rugby. and the American, George Kaplan, over 10 rounds. Wil- liams has not fought since his badly cut in the final Heavyweight eliminator bout with Gardiner at Leicester several months ago.-Reuter.

eyes were

TABLE TENNIS HITS WALES

com.

Peter

28-year-old Heatly, national and Empire high diving champion, has been awarded a prize from the Institution of Civil Engineers for a paper on the construction and design of the modern swimming, bath,

Heatly is a Bachelor of Science and a former engineer-" ing lecturer at Edinburgh University.

-(Londos: Express Service) };

Glamorgan are new petitors, in this year's county table tennis championship--the FA XI Beat Devonport Services 8, Royal ] first ! time, the competition has Naval Engineer College 6, spread beyond England. Indeed, Welsh Edinburgh University 3, the admission of this United Hospitals London 17 county has meant an alteration Reuter.

to the rules.

Army

· Londrin®Nov. 87% A: Football Association/ beat an Ardy femm by thres

goale to two, as dig har 200

Reuter.