THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 28, 1938
FEMALE OF SPECIES IS DEADLY
LOIS TERRY'S MOST AMAZING RECORD IN SOFTBALL HISTORY
ONE OF THE GAME'S FINEST
ALL-ROUNDERS
(By HARRY CULVER)
That bard who first called public attention to the premises that the female of the species is more deadly than the male, should have been introduced to Lois Terry, the terror of the soft- ball diamonds. He could easily have made it even more em- phatic concerning the deadliness of the southpaw female of the species!
Four years ago, LaBelle Terry, then a platinum blonde, burst upon feminine softball like a bombshell. The game, was just undergoing transition from the bloomer girl variety of ball to A snappy, short-pantied brand that was beginning to bring in the fans in droves, and Terry was just the gal who gave the sport its biggest impetus.
She was practically unbeat- able, with by far the fastest de- livery of any of the girl twirlers, and a heck of a lot faster than many of the men twirlers of that early vintage. Her team, the original Chappellés, rode to the Southern California cham- pionship behind the Terry's mighty south-paw arm.
SATURDAY'S RESULTS AND GOAL-SCORERS
FIRST DIVISION S. China "A"... 2 S. China "B".. 0
Lai Shui-wing, Loo Fai-wing. Middlesex... 3 Police
Courtney,
Ferrier, Grogan, Pearson. . Howlett,
SECOND DIVISIÓN Enstern.
0 Police
IN FIRST PLACE To-day, four years later, the same Terry has almost single- American League at Fiedler Field, handedly landed her Orange Lion-needing but a victory to-night ettes into the lead in the fast against Bank of America to clinch first place and a place in the final play-off.
SATURDAY'S HOME FOOTBALL RESULTS
(Continued from Page 24)
F. A. CUP (FIRST ROUND) Chester
Doncaster
Halifax
8 Bradford City
7 Rochdale
Needless to say, she keeps a scrap-book of her activity. The other day a friend of hers, a rabid Terry fan, pored through the ac- cumulation and came out with the information that Lois has in her four-year apan, pitched no less than 172 full games.
Of these she has won 136 and lost only 36-a four-year record that any male pitcher would give his shirt for.
HOME RUN MARK Terry has struck out 2064 bat- ters during that period, which also
4 New Brighton 2 includes a goodly number of games 3 in which he has not gone the full route, else her average would have
Lincoln
4 Barrow
Horden Wel. Hartlepools
1 Chorley
2 Accrington
4 Carlisle
Walsall
Scarborough 0 Southport
2 Crewe
Scunthorpe 4 Lancaster C.
1 been something around 16 strike- 1 outs per game. She has whiffed 18 per game on a great many occa-
1
One of the visiting softball team and she doesn't look so soft!--
Osions, mostly during the first two BADMINTON
2 years when the class of opposing
2 batters was not as high as it is
1 now.
Oldham
Hull
4 Rotherham
Runcorn Darlington Wrexham
3 Wellington T. 0
4 Stalybridge
0
1 Port Vale
2
Gainsborough
Trinity
2 Gateshead
1
A
1
North Shields 1 Stockport Workington 1 Mansfield
Southend Folkestone
Swindon Walthamstow
Avenue.
Yeovil &
Pettera
Chelmsford
3 Corinthians
2 Colchester U. 1 6 Lowestoft T. Tunbridge Wells
2. Brighton
4 Kidderminster
Ipswich City 7 Street Bournemouth 2 Bristol City Reading 8 Newport Watford- 4 Northampton Crystal Palaoc 1 Queen's P.R.
3 Exeter
Torquay. Aldershot Bristol R.
Cheltenham T.
Clapton 0. Bromley
'..
But her pitching prowess 18 not the only reason why the Orange Lionettes are at the top:
of the heap. Lois rates, as the
PROGRAMME
FOR THE WEEK
COLONY MIXED DOUBLES TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP
The following are the results to date of games played in the First
heaviest hitter in softball, and The following is this week's League Round of the Colony Mixed Doubles
proof of that contention is the fact that one night she clouted two balls over the right field fence at Fairfax Field, a feat unmatched by any girl batter, and a record equalled by few of the male hitters.
Her four-year batting average is over 400. She takes a natural swing, leaning into the pitch like
Babe Ruth.
Badminton programme:
TO-DAY
"A" Division Y.M.C.A. (C.) v Recreio, University "B" v King's College
"B" Division
St. Andrew's 'A' v Kloon Tong “A'
TO-MORROW Ladies' Division
VY.M.CA.' (E)
Recreio
[ Terry admits that the toughest St. Andrew's race she ever got into was the cur- Becrelo, "B" rent American League struggle, what with Columbia Pictures, Young's Market, Bank of America
Lawn Tennis Championship, organ- ised by Chinese Recreation Club:---
Taui Wai-pui and Miss' P. Ander- son beat Lieut. Col. Smith; and Mrs. M. S. del Court, 6-2, 4-6 and 6-2
W. A. H. Duff and Miss A, Tylø beat Lee, Wai-tong and Miss Ling, 62 and 6-1
Lieut. G. A. L Wood And M Clifford beat E. C. Fincher and Mrs. Williams, 6-2 and 6-1; |0, Kumjahn and Mise R. Rumjahn beat Capt. C. H. R. Hyde and Miss Abraham, 6-4 and 6-8
Chan Chi-keung and Misa Lo Han- yee beat H. J. Armstrong: and Mrs. LR. Andrews, 6-3, 6-7 and 6-9, WEDNESDAY
Lient. Cdr. N. Kennedy and Miss Griffiths boat Teul Yan-pai and Miss "B" Division
Yeung Wat-bun, 14-6, 6-9 and 6-3. thin a game of the first-place Kloon Tong By St. John's
The two outstanding games, be 1 Guildford City 1 Lionettes. The Bank of America Wanderera
Chung, Wahtween H. D. Bo 4 Peterboroughs 1 laggies, who will confront the play on neutral court to be arranged Whitham; and--
(Wanderers” and Chung Wah to Chiu and T. A. Cardiff
Terry to-night, have been going by Wanderers). Hayes
like a house afire, and the battle “Apeley
looms as Btting climax to the
Reuter.
Talkoo
St. John's
FRIDAY brad-Doubles
Recreio Univeralty
Mrs. C. C. Mrs. J. P. and Miss
W. H-156 and life, and Mrs. G. C. Burnett, must week as tho Tournament