1951-01-10 — Page 6

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1951. Scored From

The Ground

Gage, the Gillingham goalie (on right) looking on in the match against Millwall as the ball goes into the net scored by Johnson (seen in the centre) the Millwall outside right.

John Macadams' Column

And Why Not Sir Gordon?

We've been thinking a lot about these New Year Honours and, although it isn't any business of ours, it occurs to us that honours are like money: they are made round to go round.

This is not to say that there shouldn't be credit where credit is due in the theatre, in the cinema, in Parlia ment, in the trade union assemblies and in the diplomatic cockpits.

But if a man or woman is to be honoured for making people laugh or making them cry, or making them think or making them shiver, why, in the name of all that's wonderful shouldn't' they be honoured by a grateful country for making it cheer?

Asta matter of fact, it has always been a fancy of ours that when we have been brought up to laugh, very vor tremble at the sound of the voice of a Mr or Mrs. Joe-Spak, it does us no good whatever to find ourselves all of a sudden going through the self-same emotions at the behest of Sir Joseph (or Dame Josephine) Soak.

However that may be and the great body politic seems to like the business-we can see no earthly reason why the body of men and women who do more to raise the enthusiasms of the mass of people in this country shouldn't get more of the titular kudos out of it. We mean, of course, the sports players,

HOBBS OR SUTCLIFFE We, personally, started the hare that finished its race with a knighthood for Don Bradman. Is there any more reason why such a revered figure as Jack Hobbs shouldn't have been equally honoured? Or Herbert Sutcliffe, the other half of the late great opening partnership, who is currently scintillating as a Yorkshire J.P.?

What has Henry Cotton ever done, except raise the standard of professional golf in this and every other country, to make him ineligible for the highest honour his country could give him?

What did Jimmie Braid ever do beside casting a mantle of gentlemanliness across every course be played on to stop us remembering him as Sir James OF even as Lord Walton of Heath?

Were there ever two nïembers of the fighting fraternity who would so trace a knighthood as Jack Peterson and Ten Harvey --two men as impeccable in their manners outside the fring as they

times does he have to win the championship and give vast crowds the run-of-all-runs for their money to qualify?

And, if you have to go back a little way in Soccer, could you miss Willie Maley or, if you come forward, how much better could you do than Stanley Mat- thews, or, back again, Alan Morton?

By any present-day standards of handing out honours, all these men would measure up to any theatre-arts-politics class.

So would Joe Davis, who put and has kept billiards and snooker on the British and world sporting map for a quar- ter of a century, and what would

say of Sydney Wooderson for his contribution -except that he deserves the best we have!

you

As for the

women athletes, there's a Dame in the making in most of them. Your choice is as good as ours, but we'd jart off with Kay Menzies, sport's

No. 1 Lady.

London Express Service).

SPORTS TEAMS

The following are hockey and cricket teams for matches to be played today.

HOCKEY

SUPERSTITION OVER COLOURS

IN SOCCER FIELD

By VERNON MORGAN

London, Jan. 9.

Most sportsmen are superstitious to some degree, and soccer teams believe that playing in their "lucky" shirts help them to win. Or rather that if they do not play in their "lucky" shirts they will lose.

When seeing England beaten by the United States at Bello Horizonte in Brazil in the "Upset of the Century," it erossed my mind at the time that England were "tempting fate" by wearing their second colours of blue shirts and white shorts instead of their customary white shirts and blue shorts.

League clubs, particularly in have blue as their first colour Cup ties, do everything in their and red as their second. power to have their own team There is an official rule that turn out in their first instead of if both clubs have the samé second colours because presum- colours in Cup ties both must ably the

first colours are the change. If they have the same luckier though there may, of second colours then the teams course, be exceptions.

must toss and the unlucky club

In the weekend Cup tie be choose a third colour. tween Chelsea and Rochdale the But it may not be unlucky, clubs had to decide which col-perhaps the new

Lancs Bowlersours they would wear for both prove to

Flying Out

London, Jan. 9. The MCC announced to. night that Roy Tattersall and Brian Statham, the two Lancashire bowlers who are to reinforce the touring team in Australia, will leave London by air on Friday morning.

They are due in Sydney on Tuesday, when tne MCC will be playing in Tasmania. The first game in which the new bowlers may be able to play is the fixture at Renmark against the South Austra- Ha Country team January 24 and 25. Reuter.

A

on

colours may be the lucky ones. Arsenal had to find

a third colour for their Cup final last year and the old gold jerseys

Dorothy Head's they wore brought them victory

New Title

Bombay, Jan. 9.

Chelsea won the toss made by telephone against Rochdale and took the option of playing in red, their second colour.

ARTIST'S DREAM

Miss Dorothy Head, of the United States, won the women's. singles title in the All-India wants clubs to wear distinctive A sportsman artist in Bristol Hard Court Lawn Tennis Cham-colours and he has spent 11 pionships here today.

years in devising shirts for all

She defeated another United the English League clubs so that States player, Mrs Rita Ander-they will never clash, son, by 6-3, 7-5 in the final.

Jaroslav Drobny, former Czech Davis Cup player, and Sven Davidsson, of Sweden. won the men's doubles title, beating the United States pair,

Alfred Kovaleski and Irvin Dorfman, by 6-3, 6-1 and 6-4,-Reuter.

Cruel Blow Parsons And Chelsea

By ARCHIE QUICK

For

They

£3,600 per match is an expensive price for a/club to pay for the services of any professional footballer. But that is what it looks as though it may cost Chelsea for Eric Parsons. bought him from West Ham United for £18,000 he has played five matches and now he tells me he expects he will have to undergo · · a cartilage operation which will keep him out of the game at least until March. No help here for Chelsea

in their relegation fight.

was

the

said the authorities

hazardly, but has tried to make He has not devised them hap- each club's shirt at the district from which they instance, Arsenal being

come. For the "Gunners" would have a mill- tary type of shirt, Derby County "The Rames"would have

something "sheeplike," while Portsmouth would have a shirt suitable to a club whose chief patrons are nautical men. The shirts would each have an emblem suitable to the club. This artist says he has em- ployed 36 colours in his scheme, while he had taken the trouble to design stockings to match each shirt.

It is perhaps all an artist's dream because there are many League clubs playing today who would hate to

change colours

the scheme all clubs

they have worn since their in- ception more than 50 years ago. would only work if

Furthermore, agreed to the idea. It would outside it for the whole idea to

only require one club to stand, fall to the ground-Reuter.

Transvaal Wins Cricket Tourney

It is. a cruel blow for club, the players if some of the huge

Pretoria, Jan. 9. and player. Only

eighteen profits in the pools were diver- cricket tournament when they Transvaal won the Curie Cup months ago Parsons gained a ted to help injured and dis- beat North-Eastern place in England's "B" team tressed players arid

through

Transvaal adjudged the best Union's Benevolent Fund. "They to spare.

by two wickets with a minute player in the field against Fin-are dying to help us"

Transvaal, who still land at Helsinki.. Army XI against RAF at Sookun.

Parsons "but

have a match in hand, were poo in a 1st Division League Hockey At a time like this one can

say "No"".

given the task of scoring 285 match. commencing 3.30 p.m.-pt Partridge, Caut Fitzgibbon.

runs in 200 minutes to win. L/CH

get an insight into the psy- McKenzie, CQMS Grant, Major Lamchological effect such an injury ginning to worry

Manager Billy Birrel is be-

They did this for the loss of bie, L/Cpl Taylor, L/Cp! Gardner,

about has on a player. Travelling Stamford Bridge

the eight wickets. The final Dudley, QMS Webb. Reserves. Wo Worthing home I learned some-Division One table. It would nine wickets Capt Stubbs, Rev Crawford. Cant back with Parsons

Club's pre-scores were: North-Eastern his carious position at the foot of Transvaal II Firth, ORQMS Clarke.

159 and 389 for thing of his hopes and fears for be a tragedy if a club with such svaal 264 and 288 for eight.

declared: Tran- HQ Land Forces in cricket the future. "Makes you wonder support gates average 40,000 Corps at the Kowloon Cricket Club "Makes you worry about being worst. match against Royal Army Pay if you have finished" he

Natal won the trophy when said. when they are playing at their, the last- at 1:30 pm. -Major Capel, Major

competition

was went Billett, Capt Pickles (Captain), Capt signed on next July. That is a Second Division.

down to the held in 1946-47.-Reuter. CSM Vincent. CSM Taylor, L/Cpl Porter, Capt Pritchard, Capt Grant, pro's annual worry. Hope I hold Hulls, SSM Thornycroft, Sgt Hal Umpire. Set Temple. Scorer. SSM

Ray

CRICKET

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All players are requester to be at the ground by 1.15 p.m.

RUGBY xv

Club "Strollers" v 15 Obs Battery at Club ground. Kick-off at 5.10 p.m. this afternoon.

F. Clemo, Shannon, T. Roberts, Fram Gauntlet V. Roberts, Craig, 39u are earning,"

Bobertson,

to

GETS AWARD

on long enough for a second Buying players such as Par- benefit. Have not had enough sons however, presents a tricky JOHN MARSHALL time since Army to amass capital sufficient himself

I came out of the problem,

for as the player says he has not yet to start a business. Professional played a good game for his football is a chancy business. club. "Trouble is" says Parsons Only a few finish well off. You that when Ted Fenton took The

Melbourne have to save the

Australian swimmer, short while over from Charlie Paynter at John Marshall, studying at Yale West Ham we had to alter our University, United style to something like the won the Australasian section of States has Spurs short passing game. Now the Helms Athletic Foundation at Chelsea I have got to revert Award for 1950. to the old West Ham style and

Mc

the ground) by plapadi by INF

DYING TO

HELP US Barsons went on to entirely agree would be

for,fering

Marshall holds ently my gume Isuf records from, 200

mile Reuter.