BE TAGGED EXCEPT ANCHOR
IN A FORCED PLAY
Local Relief Association Accepts Sponsorship Of Series
TO-DAY'S "SPOTLIGHT"
(By "SHORTSTOP")
A question has come to my notice regarding an appeal play in last Sunday's game between the H.K. Baseball Club and the Filipino Club.
BASE-RUNNER, ON FIRST RUNS BEFORE FLY HAS BEEN CAUGHT BY CENTRE-FIELDER. HE REACHES SEC- OND, AND BY THAT TIME THE BALL HAS BEEN THROWN TO THE SHORTSTOP, WHO DOES NOT TAG THE RUNNER, AND THE LATTER RETURNS TO FIRST BASE. IS THE RUN- NER OUT?
No! It was not a forced play as the ball was caught, and he was not tagged. Rule 27, Section 8, states that a base-runner is out "if, when a fair or foul hit ball (other than a foul tip) is legally caught by a fielder, such ball is legally held by a fielder on the base occupied by the base-runner when such ball is batted, or the base- runner is touched with the ball in the hand of a fielder, before he retouches such base after such fair or foul hit ball is so caught.”
Provided that the base-runner shall not be out in such case, if, after the ball is legally caught, it is delivered to the bat by the pitcher before the fielder holds it on said base, or touches the base- runner out with it; but if the base-runner,, in attempting to reach a base, detaches it from its fastenings before being put out, he shall be declared safe. A base-runner who holds his base on a fly ball shall have the right to advance the moment the ball touches a fielder.
Note. This is an appeal play and the umpire should not ~ make any decision until his attention has beeu called to it and the play actually made at the base in question.
An
SPONSORSHIP ACCEPTED
Bill Woo, àbove, manager, held Captain and first baseman of the Canadian Chinese Club.
Amateur Athletic Association Lea-
official communication has gue. In 1932, he played on the been received by the Secretary of McGill University team, which is the Softball League, from the China clear indication that he was of ese Youth Medical Relief Associa- championship calibre. tion, accepting the sponsorship of In football, Bill was considered a the International Softball Sreies, natural caller, and played quarter- and adding that they will procure a suitable ground for play.
A meeting of the League will be held soon to discuss the final details of this proposed Series.
“SPOTLIGHT”
back for the various teams of which he was a member.
Bill's best showing in athletics. was in basketball, winning the Que- bec Provincial Junior Basketball' championship in 1980 and TE next year, the same team defeated the Northern New York State cham- pions, from Plattsburg, and during that same year Bill had the dis- dian Chinese Club, was born at Mon-tinction of being selected on treal, Canada, in 1914. – He receiv-Montreal All-Star team which play- ed all his schooling in Canada, and ed against the famous "Winnipeg attended McGill University for a Toilers." Canadian senior cham- year.
pions for three years,
William J. K. Woo, managing cap tain and first baseman of the Cana
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Bill, who was "Willie" until after High School days, has been promin- ently connected with all major sports, starring in basketball and In 1933, Bill played for Notre football and ice hockey. In High Dame de Grace, in high class com- School he was a representative of Pany, and was later appointed coach the football, ice hockey and basket of the Montreal Central Y.M.C.A, ball squads, and had the honour of juvenile basketball team, which won
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FOT Championship
the Tocal being elected the captain of the last named sport in his final year.
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Bill came to China in 1984 and China - Athletic Association___~Hef_Bill is "the whole works” in the took up athletic coaching at Shang- was chosen by the Hong Kong Canadian Chinese Club's Softball hai, while as a member of the Basketball Federation to coach an nine, and it is certain that if be In ice hockey, he played in staff of the Liang Klang Physical all-star team in the Colony to re had better material to work with, Spalding Hockey League, the Church School. ~He now coucher basketball prese this city in the C.NA, meet the team would be serious conten- League and in the old Montreal at St. Joseph's College and South at Shanghai, which was postponed. Iders for the pennant.