THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 28, 1939
SOFTBALL NOTES
Margaret Oliveira's Hitting Three Mighty Homers Against The Cardinals
WILDCAT ERRORS COST
THEM GAME WITH
HONG KONG BALL GIRLS
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BY MARGARET OLIVEIRA'S Ruthian clouts and one homer each by Irene' Pereira and Dingdong Lopes, Recreio femmes ran roughshod over the «Cardinals for a 22-6 win in the Girls' Softball League.
Efeğenia Babida did creditable work on the mound for the Cards although she allowed the Ramblerettes 21 hits. Most of these hits could have been fielded but the Redbird -outfielders were a bit too slow on their dogs and misjudged several flies. Eleven boots by the Molthenmaids also help- ed the Ramblerettes pile up their imposing two-figure count..
BASEBALL CLUB WIN YET AGAIN
(By "GRANDSTAND")
In the Men's League opener on Sunday, Liga Portuguesa surprisingly held their own against Mindanao to top a 5-3 tussle with the American bluejackets.
On the field, the Liga boys outplayed the sailors who miscued six times to Liga's three.
With the willow wand, Mindanao hammered Tony Pereira for nine bingles while Shorty Davis allowed the Portuguese lads three safe blows.
Mindanao were first to score: in the sec- ond canto Poochie Chase and Bubbles
· Badrick crossed the plate after they got on on hits and were chased in by Red Tood, ..who singled to left field,
Liga answered with two tallies in the same frame, Ozorio and Santos scoring on four Mindanao errors: Liga took the lead in the third stanza when Gill tallied on a hit and two bobbles.
In the fourth, Mindanao jumped to the lead after Crooner Ruel and Red Todd scor- ed on a hit and two Liga bobbles. Mindanao pushed across another marker in the sixth while Liga were held scoreless in the last four frames. Crooner Ruel took honours by freezing four difficult flies. He also took batting honours with three hits in - three trips. A neat double killing was pull- ed by Ruel and Paintpot Thomas in the .seventh with Ozorio and Santos the victims.
The Portuguese gals miscued only seven times but they were not so cost- ly. Steady hurling by flinger Anna Noronha baffled the opposition, allow- ing the Redbirds four measly bin- gles. Babida struck out eight and yielded no walks while Ann Noronha fanned none and walked none.
Only one double play of the game occur- red in the fifth frame. Margaret Oliveira to Irene Pereira to Olga Ribeiro to nail Betty Longbottom and Naty Falladona.
Recreio Cards
305 30 3
0 2 2 100
R. H. E. 8-22 21 7 1- 6 4 11
H.B. GIRLS DO THEIR STUFFI
Biggest upset in the Women's League was staged by Hong Kong Ball girls when they
took Wildcats 8-3. Even the most optimis tic Ball Club supporters never expected to see the Ball girls take Wildcats to town.
Hits
Eight Wildcat errors just about, lost the game for them. The Leonardgirls miscued four tirnes which is tops for them. were evenly devided five aplece, but Wild- cats clouted the longest blows. Lily "Sun- Shine" Mar belted two homers and May Chung rapped a stinging double,
Ball girls, who batted first, rallied in the first frame with four markers on four er- Fors, a passed ball and a wildpitch with nary a hit. Wildcats replied with two tal- lies. Lily Mar homered to bring in sister Dot,
Ball girls came back with the stick in the second to garner three more runs an the same amount of hits.
From the second, on it was all Ball giria. Wildcats only scored one more in the sixth when Lily Mar smacked her second homer of the day.
fielding NANCY MAXWELL ONLY BRIGHT SPARK
R. H. E. Mindanao... 0 2 0 -2 0 1 0-5 9 6 Liga Portuguesa 0-2-1 ·0·0-0 0-3 3 3
A much-improved Hong Kong Baseball . Club nine humbied Kenny Wong's English' Forumers, 15-1. Forum played very loose ball and seemed to be in a stupor with 10 . errors chalked up against them. The were so bad that even Doc Molthen, stole home . on them!
-QUON YANKED
Bill Quon started on the rubber for Forum, but was yanked in the second after allow ing seven runs on six hits. Lam took over the assignment but he too was hammered by the Walkermen for six blows and eight
гипа.
The Hongkongites were in front both on the field and with the hickory, They only ...chalked up three errors and with the excep- tion of Red Bell and Freddie Barros, they all made hits. Three double plays were executed by the Walkermen. In the second, Dick ‘Venezia to Stagg nailing Kitchell and Bill Quon; in the fifth, Freddie Barros to Pat Jorge to dispose of Bill Quon and Pang: and in the seventh, Barros to Venezia to ‚ Stagg to eliminate Pang arid Loo.
Kitchell's lone tally in the last inning saved-Forum from a shut-out. He reached first on a wild throw by Doc Molthen, He reached third, on Pang's hit and then pro .ceeded to steal home..
The Baseballers made 12 hits, Forum 4. Doc fanned 4 and walked one, and Quon and Lam fanned two and passed two.
I did not see the Panthers-Cubs tussle but according to Bill "Scoop" Smith, coach of the Cubs, his girls were worse than terrible to take a 26-10 beating in the hands of the Panthers.
According to Bill, Nancy Maxwell was the one and only spark-plug in the Cuba' team. She was particularly outstanding in the attack with her stick-work and base running.
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Vivienne Churn, on the mound Cubs, was nicked for 14 hits while Celeste Marques, who toed the rubber for Panthers instead of Irene Tavares, did good work on the slab, She allowed six hits, struck out three and walked eight. Melvy Campos was the Big Bertha of the fray with two singles and a hefty homer in the last frame. R. H. E. 071 15 02-26 14 4 102 13 2 1-10 6 13 The nightcap saw Canadian Chinese girls run amuck to pile up a convincing 12 to 1 | victory over the Pirates, The "Maple Leafs" played flawless ball without a mis- cue. Maudie Read pitched good ball for the Pirates striking out five and walking one, but 10 errors made by her fielders gavė the game away.
Panthers Cubs
PROFITABLE FIFTH INNING
The game was tightly fought for tour innings. At the end of the fourth canto the score was 2-0 in favour of the Canucks. In the fifth Canadians staged a rally to add eight on six hits and three costly Buc's er- rors. The Pirates' only run was scored by Maudie Read in the last frame on a bingle and a sacrifice by Sinton..
Jean Lee took batting honours with a .750 average, and Dot Louie's triple, and, à dou- ble each by Rene Yuen, Ullan Khoo and Mabelle Loule were the longest hits of the encounter.
For the lasers Maudie Read and L. Beats were the outstanding batters with two hits apiece in their three' trips to the plate, R. H. I.
R. H. E. H.K.B.B.C. 141 010 x — 18-12 3 | Canadian Chinese 020 08:1 -1 -12 (10° 0 Forum EX-4000 000 )— 14:10. Mirates
0 0 0 0.00 1-1 8 10
LEAGUE STANDINGS
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MEN'S LEAGUE
Hong Kong Ball Club
Liga Portuguesa Forum
Central British Filipino Club
W. L. PC.
5 0 1,000 3 0
1.000 3·0 1.000
.750 .666
Canadian Chinese.
Recreio "A".
International A.C.
3 1
Chung Hwa
2 1
Recreio "B"
2 1
.668
Victoria Recreation Club
2 1
.666
Trojans
1 1 .500
H.K. Baseball Club
2 3
.400
Mindanao
2 3
.400
1 2
.393
1 3 .250
1 4
.200
0 4
.000
0 4
.000
WOMEN'S LEAGUE
W. L. PC.
3 0 1.000
Canadian Chinese
2 0 1.000
Wildcats
2 1 .666
Wahoos
1 1 500
Cardinals
1 2
.339
Hong Kong Ball Club
1 2
.333
Panthers
1 2
.333
1 2
.333
0 2
.000
No. 3 'M.G.
Recreio
Pirates Cubs
SOFTBALL BATTLE AT EANLING
--(By "GRANDSTAND")
Out at Fanling with the Volunteers last week a challenge by Sgt. Dave "Colonel" Walker of Field Ambulance was taken up by C.S.M. Porter of No. 8 M.G. with thirty bottles of beer as stake.
The fracas was limited to officers and N.C.O.'s of both units and the game. was staged on a sun-baked paddy field near by as no other suitable ground was available. The game started around 5 p.m. after the day's hard work, and in full uniform (hob nailed boots and all); the two units went at it hammer and tongs while the beer was cooling in the canteen.
After a struggle 3 M.G. finally emerged victorious 15-14. Cpl. Harold "Babyface" Winglee toed the rice stump for the Emma Gees with L/Cpl. Norman Mackay snatch- ing behind the pillow with the poise of a veteran urged presumably by the cooling beer! Cpl. "Ozo" Ozorio was the other flin- ger with Sgt. Bob Leigh receiving to com- plete the Field Ambulance battery.
gunners
RIDE AND STOUT SHINE Fielding gem for the machine was Cpl. Willis at left field where he froze all flies off the Medics bats. For the van- quished Major Ride at the hot corner and Lt Stout at the centre cabbage patch show- ed real baseball ability and were respon sible for most of their putouts. With the Willow wand Cpl. Norman Broadbridge was the big gun of the struggle knocking three P.S. The beer was consumed at lightning speed!
homers in succession.
THE TEAMS
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Field Ambulance Cpl. "Ozo" Ozorio Sgt. Bob Leigh
1b L/Cpl. Karpasheff
Cpl. Harold Winglee P
No. 3 M.G.
L/Cpl. N. Mackay Sgt. E. Zimmern Cpl. Q. Roylance L/Cpl. D. Hung C.S.M. Porter Cpl. D. J. Willis Cpl. J. Mackay
2b Sgt. Hanlon
Major Ride SS L/Cpl. Shillah
3b
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C.Q.M.S. Tiny Hume Lt. Stout
Cpl. N. Broadbridge rf Lt. Hardy-Scott
FOR
KAI TAK'S PLUCKY DISPLAY
{By "SCRUM HALF")
Harold Bidwell selected too strong a team to meet Kal Tak yesterday in a Rugby match on the Club ground, and the visitors went down by a goal and two tries (11 points) to nil after being 5-0 in arrears at the interval.
Carruthers and Cessford did not turn out for the winners, who brought in Thompson, who thus played for the first time since his bout of malaria; and Rutherford and made the neces- sary positional changes.
Bosanquet saw plenty of the ball on the wing and made use of his pace very well, though he is still inclined to run straight into his opponent. Van Leeuwen scored a nice try but was otherwise starved. These two; how- ever, were the only Club players to exert themselves, the others bearing in mind that an injury would pro- bably keep them out of Saturday's Triangular Tournament game against Army.
SIX OUTSIDE SCRUM
Kai Tak were handicapped by an injury to Cole, whose knee again gave trouble, and for quite a long spell they had only six mén outside the serum. A forward should have been taken out of the pack to fill the va- cancy. Fortunately, no scoring oc- curred when Cole was off, and when he came back he tackled Bidwell with gusto, despite the fact he was always limping. Stewart did not seem want the ball in the centre, and as a consequence Wright was the livewire of the attack, ably assisted by Wake- field. At forward, Bennett hooked well against a heavier pack and Gale, Gash and Hynes were prominent in the loose.
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Bidwell missed an easy penalty goal, the ball hitting the post, but soon after Bosanquet went over in the corner for Charter to kick a good goal. In the second half Van Leeuwen touched down in the corner and Bo- sanquet scored between the posts, both tries being unconverted.
Mr. Bidwell's XV-Thompson; Bosanquet, Bidwell, Lavalle and Van Leeuwen; Charter and Rutherford; Bompas, Burford, Stout, Walkden, Needham, Nelson, Benn and God- frey.
Kai Tak-Fowler: Cole, Wright, Stewart and Torry: Bidell and Wakefield; Stock- holm, Bennett, Schirn, Smith, Hynes, Gash, Taylor and Gale.
C.C.C. TEAMS The following have been selected to represent Craigengower Cricket Club 2.00 Saturday, commencing at
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1st XI (v. C. de R. Away):-E. Zimmern (Capt.), P. J. Billimoria A. R. H. Esmail A. B. Hamson, A. J. Hulse, A. K. Ismail E. A. Lee, H. P. Lim. W. Hong Sling. G. Winch, J. L. Young Saye, Scorer: W. Broad- bridge. Umpire: G. Ladd.
2nd XI (v. C. de R. Home):-B. R. Iranee (Capt.), N. Broadbridge, A. H. Esmail, U. H. Esmail, A. Hung, C. W. Lam, G. A. Lee, J. W. Leonard, T. Lock, A. M. Omar, W. K. Way. Scorer: H. W. Randall.
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