THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 21, 1940
SECOND DIVISION
BASEBALL
H-K-C-C'S H. B. PROTEST DISALLOWED FINE WIN
By "Skip"
Although Duncan went down badly to McNeill who preserved his unbeaten record, both Brown and Maughan were well up with the result that the Cricket Club scored a sensational win over Craigengower, at the Valley.
Bert Maughan's rink beat Lewis to the extent of 10 shots and were good value for the win, Mouat again being useful as second man to Maughan and George Castello sim- ply glorying in the many heavy shots he
had to put up.
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At a meeting held at the Brook H.B. pitcher M. Arculli, had finished | hours which is one of the quickest in Club yesterday, the Committee of the batting, the Umpire did not allow him the local League, and Hong Kong Baseball League, augment- | his five warm-up throws, as suggestion of delay on the part of any ed by Johnny Mayhew in the shown in the explanatory notes in one team is absurd, as the weather role
..of advisor, rejected the Rule 30, Section 2, which reads as was fine."
brought by man-follows:
As Umpire Wilson contended that the ball protest of H.B.
At the beginning of each in-crossed the plate before Dave Leonard, the
protest (1) was immediately thrown out. ager Hal Winglee, regarding their contest against. Chinese Baseball Club ning the pitcher is allowed to throw Protest (2) was also thrown out because five balls to the catcher, or to an in- the Umpire is the sole judge of the length last Saturday.
felder for 'warming-up' practice, the of time the pitcher is permitted to warm batsman refraining from occupying his up as per Rule 31, footnote:
Not only is there a penalty of a position in the box at the home called ball against the pitcher If he fails to plate.
deliver. the ball to the batter within 20 sec- onds but if the Umpire concludes that he is trying to delay the game he may call a balk which would score a runner on third base and advance a runner on any other base..
Winglee's protest was that: (1) In the first of the sixth, with H.B. at bat, Leonard stole home from third. The Umpire called him safe, and then afterwards called the batter out. The Umpire did not allow the run to score. My protest is based on the ruling set out in Rule 52, which states that.
Bill Way's four put up a sterner fight against Brown but the superb consistency of Alec Pearce and Mackenzie proved too much. for them. Modi did well as second man but neither Lock nor Way were up to scratch. McNeill's rink proved far too strong for Duncan although the latter played well against big odds and saved the game at the very last head when he drew second shot with the enemy lying five for victory. Razack, and Randall, who seems wasted as second man, and more especially Zimmern outplayed their opposite numbers most of the way through e game. McNeill with an easier task than Duncan's played steadily. | run should be allowed.
HARD FIGHT
"One run shall be scored every time a base-runner, after having legally touched the first three bases, shall le- gally touch the home plate before three men are put out...
Taikoo had to fight desperately hard to retain the points against the Police, even though they were at home, and it was only through a revival on the part of Stainton's rink, who scored on all the last five heads, which saved the day. The home team were trailing until the 10th and but scraped home by four shots. Although Stainton played a fine game against Willie McLeod, an equally good skip, to win by a couple, Dick Keown really carried the day for he was always leading Bill Hollands and won by nine shots despite some good work by J. C. Altken- J. Atkins on the card--and his skip. Al- though Hillon was not as good as usual, Main was steady and Donald Munro very deadly, as was Keown himself. Andy Wright had the only visiting win when he overcame Chalmers by seven shots. His rink played very well together and always had a slight edge on Chalmers' men.
Kowloon Football Club surprised by the magnitude of their win against Club de Re creio, for whom only O. P. Remedios won though he only saved his unbeaten record by a singleton. He overcame Bill Simpson after a good game in which he always held the lead. Bob Hughes was the outstanding. man on the losers' side though Simpson's heavy ones were good willst all of the Portuguese team were steady, one always coming in if the others falled.
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The third put-out was not made be-] fore the runner reached home, as the Umpire called the runner safe and then the batter out, and therefore the
(2) In the last of the sixth, after the
AN APPRECIATION
OF J. C. BROWN
By "Skip"
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By the passing of Johnny Brown, lawn bowls in Hong Kong has lost a worthy ex- ponent and one against whom it was always a pleasure to play. Not only was his man- ner on the green charming but he was the first to give credit to an opponent for a good shot. I have recollections of playing him in a club competition some years ago and, thanks to a good handicap, was winning, when he played his last wood to turn the tables. It was a really good shot yet be seemed almost apologetic for having secur ed it and so eliminating a younger player.
In 1927, when Kowloon Dock went through the season unbeaten, Johnny Brown was runner-up to Bob Lapsley in the Open Sin- gles Championship and he secured his first Interport "cap" to play Number Three to Younghusband had a big win at the ex- Adam Holland, who beat Sandy Malcolm by pense of Eddie Sousa whose team were out-
a single shot. He again went to Shanghai bowled. Joe Gibson and Joe Eastman play-in 1932, playing in all three games as three ed a really great game as lead and second to U. M. Omar. The side won all their man, Hall was very steady and the home
games and he earned his place the follow- skip, though having few chances to shine,ing year, again playing in the same position played his part well.
with Omar, when the rink won the deciding game.
Field's four were always pressing Yvano- vich for whom Remedios did the best, Charlie Alves as third man being narrow many times. Tony Lapsley was leading well for the home skip, who was very good after, the interval, whilst Chittenden played a consistent game all through.
C.S.C.C. SWAMPED
Kowloon Bowling Green Club were all over the Civil Servants right from the start, and were nearly 40 to the good at the break, Sid Eccleshall had all the bad, luck that was going against Guy and had to face a deficit of 24 shots to 1 at the above stage and though he held his own 'subsequently he could make no headway.
Morton played a wonderful game as lead to Guy and the following men backed him up well. Lockhart had a similar game against Hillyer who was never in the run- ning, although all his front men played well; Ted Searle was really outstanding as three to the home skip. Charlie Strange, himself, very nearly held Bob Duncan for he was in deadly form and seemed unlucky to lose by means of losing a four to Duncan at the last head, though I do not mean it to be understood that it was not a good four. Pope was again Duncan's best man, though Levett also did well and, as I have indicat- ed, Charlie Strange had a decided edge on his opposing skip.
Kowloon Tong, playing at home, scored a great win over Kowloon Cricket Club, all rinks sharing in the spoils, Tommy Carr's rink, hitherto unbeak 3, came a cropper at the hands of Tony Basto, and this after leading by 10 shots to nil after four heads.
These four heads were all Carr's so to speak for he played like a wizard early on In the game and was by no means poor subsequently.
The opposition was too strong for the re- mainder of the game and the visitors could score only four more shots to Basto's 31. The Suburbanites played like men possessed, Mackay was good and Tacchi, apart from one single head, was never anywhere near him, whilst Hau kept on putting them in as required. Harry. Gitting, opposed to- Ted Ramsay, who was probably the best of the opposition taking the game us a whole, draw or put yard or two on with equal facility. Tony Basta played his best game of the season, and rose to 'great heights.
even
On the middle rink Kow just beat Spary, a former team-mate, after a vary game, a five towards the finish 'turning the scales. Though Ted Castro was good, it was really a skips' game, as both of them played very well. Bob Marks, skipping the other visiting rink, was also in the limo- light but hik: efforts, and those of Parsons his number three, could not quite save the' game against Stephens' four, who were all Very sady
The Umpire insisted on playing ball after only three throws were made, In view of the above and that insufficient time was given to the pitcher to rest the protest is made. There was no de- lay, as Arculli threw his first warm-up pitch the moment he got out and the catcher never took any peg to second as has been customarily done in the local League.
Owing to insufficient warming up Bill Chang, first man up for Chung Hwa, made a hit off Arculli.
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(3) After calling 'play' at the com- mencement of the above inning, the Umpire proceeded to call one ball in favour of the batsman, although the pitcher was not ready (as pointed out in 2) to do so, and he was not even near his box as he was watching the catcher's signals at that time. As there is no ruling allowing an umpire to call a ball when the pitcher is not in the box, the protest is made.
This game finished in less than two
P.O.C. BEAT
GOVERNMENT HOUSE
In a friendly Lawn Bowls game played at Stanley on Wednesday, Prison Officers' Club beat Government House team by 24 shots.
P.O.C.
Government House W. Walker
S. H. Marvin W. E. Webber J. W. FitzGerald W. J. Bagley (skip)
V. H. Freeman
(skip)
J. W. Hudson C. Gowland T. M. Pile
S. Hodge F. N. Hill J. M. McCutcheon I join with my readers in offering the A. Jillor deepest sympathy to his widow and two daughters, Mrs. "Joe" Eastman and Mrs. Munro.
(skip)
Totals.....
223
22
Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith J. Newton
J. W. Denkin
(skip)
W. Cornell
F. Flippance
B. A. Archbutt
20
A. Shields
19
(skip)
18
J. A. Fraser
Sir Atholl MacGregor
E. A. Searle
J. Smith
(skip)
12
50
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