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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 18, 1940.
WAHOOS SCORE CLOSE WIN OVER WILDCATS
J. Anderson And Gloria Mar Hit Homers
TO-DAY'S BADMINTON
Therese Noronha Pitches Well
By "Grandstand"
pro-
Following is to-day's "B" Divi- sion Badminton League gramme and some of the teams: J. R. C.
น. King's College V. Chung Han
Police
V. R. C. St. John's K. C. C.
V.
V.
Kowloon Tong
medios' dump along first base, all scored on third-sacker Gladys "Grandma" Hutchinson's wild heave to first.
King's College:÷S. P. Chan and K. J. Attwell; W. C. Chung and K. L. Luf: K. H. Lo and T. Lam.
J.A.C.-M. Talan and A. R. Poliak; B. Godkin and J. Odell; Dr. F. Ramler and L. Landolt.
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Potloe:-W. Gilles and L. Gordon: A.
R. S. Major and C. Y. Stu; I. Mac- Donald and H. Dingsdale.
IN SPITE OF the fact that the odds were against them, the Wahoos humbled Wildcats by shading them 17-16 in a game featured by a last inning rally which netted them five markers. The Wahoos drew first blood by denting the counting station eight times in the initial frame, but the
On the Reds turn with the Untamed Felines replied with a cluster of nine runs
stick, Babida slashed out a triple Kwok; Peter Lo and Joe Tsang: S. T. Kowloon Tong:-Joha Chen and F. H. and scored on 1 wild heave. in the second to take the lead.
Chan and S. C. Chan. Ny
Fadona's singled All the
In the ninth Rees, short and stored Betty Fitzgerald chalked a single each. were up after two outs.
when Sorcaro tallied one more on "Cinny" Re-or the winning run. Castro's expensive bungle of Thelma Motta's slow roller, started Wildcats on 3 merry-gu- round. In the third frame both sides playai shut-out ball, with field ng masterpieces,
runs
With the top end of the batting order cumig up in the fourth, Wahoos squeezed another marker the fifth, Wildcats had a chance to break the tie when hurler Thelma Collaro doubled, but was run down when she attempted to advance of Cynthia "Sailor” da Motta's grounder, Thelma Motta and pinch-hitter Dolly Brown were erased next in order,
In the sixth Irene Castilho drew a pass, and romped home with the te-breaker on Jackie Anderson's homer. There,
Noronha doubled and added an - other marker as pitcher Thelina Coliaco heaved a wild one to first. In the Wildcat's turn at that the leadershup changed hands again, with the Wildcats ringing up four counters on
only one safe
blow, helped by four Wahoo bungles. In the last stenza, the Green Shirted Owls shellack- ad Wildeat hurter Thelma Col lae for five ran
and three error. tall es counted 11
three hits Thee Wildca
he last inning
with only one out for the Wildcats. for them to trail only one behind. from "Slugger“ Pereira walked but was forced out by Thelma Collares' grounder to short-stop. Irene Castilho, Cynthia Motta flied out to end the game.
"Big Chief Wahoo" Therese Noronha
hurling her first gamme this sea- Son did very
well andi limit-
ed the Wildcats to 10 safe- ties, whilst her males collected ning off Thelma Collaco, Wildcat "ace-pitcher."
Buth of hem struck out one. With the exception of second- sacker Socœro Castro, the Wahoo infield showed perfect co-opera- tion.
Circult clouts were made by hind-snatcher Jackie Anderson of the Wahoos, whilst Gloria Mar of the Untamed Felines replied with pair of round-trippers, bat- ting in two ahead of her in the first frame,
Therese Noronha batted safely three times out of five, including a pair of doubles, whilst Jackie Anderson. Mary Mar, Irene "Slugger" Pereira, and Thelma Collaco were also good for twe a-piece.
Extra Inning Played In the first extra Inning game of the season, the Cardinals nosed out the Recreio Ramblerettes by 22-21 after nine, innings of play. Efegina Bubida went the route for the Cards, but only fanned one and walked one, whilst Jerry Jorge on the rubber for the Rames blerettes, finned two, and issued free transportation to first to three Redbirds. Marle Roza cat- ching for the Cards was relieved in the fifth by Marina Wilson, the former allowing one passed ball whilst the latter was guilty of three,
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Ramblerettes took off a good start of four runs in the first and five in the third, whilst the Red- birds could only reply with total of fve, In the fourth inning the Curds blitzkreiged the Rees for seven tallies on three bingles assisted by five miscuns. Another splurge of four, runs, in the sixth gave the Redbirds the leadership and the gume would have ended in the seventh. had “Naty" Faladonin not booted "Ding". Lopes' fly to left to givel her a life, with one away. Ding „Lopet romped. home the the equaliser on "Cinny". Remédios slughine triple to leit :Qiga Slivn, andy Melvig Camura flied out in order. – In Diội frat overtime in--| ning, both sides were blanked. hough both sides connected
over
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