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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 11, 1941.
ST. JOSEPH'S MEET RECREIO IN VITAL MATCH TO-MORROW Recreio Greatly Affected By Injuries TO-DAY'S
Another "Needle" Match In The Junior Division
By "Grandstand"
TO-MORROW'S
SOFTBALL PROGRAMME
SENIOR LEAGUE
(At the Kowloon Football Ground) Canadian Chinese v Chinese Baseballers
11.30 p.m.)
Chuck
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Another capacity house is anticipated at the
"Doc" Multhen. when St. Kowloon Football Club Ground to-morrow, Joseph's clash with the Recreio Aces in the Senior Softball League return encounter scheduled for four p.m.
The Saints, who are tied with the Hong Kong Baseballers for first place, are determined to hang on to their present Leagu· standing, whilst the Aces, who have dropped three games to the other's two, are still optimistically entertaining hopes of a Moh- awk setback to put them in the pennant race once
more.
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Woo ni then
Jay Natty of Gemge Souza's aud-, the versatile Ruff von bathing skamp, invator Choppy Tor-up, then outlook has taken Vodlegram as Com a sudden tum. and they almost emplating
the wrested a game from the tight- duffle Banting order, and it is persund heldung Cyclones that Artur Oza" Ozuno will plura Soua in the lead-uff slot.
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The starting pitcher has not ve been named, but it will be either Frankie "Bashful" Gonzales Charlie Manson. Stan "Power- house Leonard will guard the initial sack with Ozoric at second, and Leonard at third, whilst the short-stop gap will be plugged up by George Souza, Ballhawks will bo Henry "Shoe-string
Ali, indoe Hussan and Ski Powlaw-
Recreio Weak
The intended Recreio line-up has never been as weak before. If you think that their last-minute line-up last week against the Mohawks was weak, then you've got another think coming. As my fran' Avichy the Rat would say
Yuh am heard nuttin' yet."
It seems that. although Zinho Gosdro was on the disabled list bast week, he chose to keep the hot-corner for the Rees, with the reant that his injured knee has got worse, and he has been ad- vised to lay off for the rest of the season
Pereira will
i The Maple Laufs will probably | Belt Boss Mark, T Lee, Bill Woo! and Luke Bulin mi the infield.
with Geegee Ler and Horbie Quon
as their battery.
by
Waggoner and Dave Walker.} Filipinos
H.K. Baseballers] (2.45 p.)
H. Quon. Nip Lam and Bill Woo St. Joseph's
V Recreio Aces
(4.00 pm) (Abe Lầu. Chuck Waggoner and Bal
Woo F
JUNIOR LEAGUE (At the Chatham Road Military Football Ground)
South China
09.00
Cosmos.
1} K Lau. Richard
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VR.C.
10 15 21 3 + Welfs Welford, C'er Wingire
1} Aquino Royal Engineers T30 am)
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Hoy Maxwell Bubbies Remedios
and Ed Silva 1
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Bth R A.
112.45 in) (Welford, Tony Pereira and Dadd
SOUZA
LADIES' LEAGUE (At the Kowloon Football Ground)
Canadian
W
Cardinals
(9:00 am)
Mike Mendonca. C. Marques and J
Fonseca Chung Hwa
The Lumen will be represented | Den f super-charged haltery Crary and Nip Lam. "Doc" Molthen,
Chuck Wag goner and Dave Walker will um- pae this game.
In the other tussle at 2.45 p.m. the Hong Kong Baseballers tak) on the Filipinos. As the Wag- gemmermen are not expecting any opposition from the Islanders, it is quite likely that "Doc" Molthen will be given a chance on the mound, although Cy "Screwball" Jones will probably start.
Filipino chucker will be Tatong Amper, with Bob Laurel catch- ing. Hervie Quon, Nip Lum and Bill Woo, will be the arbitrators.
JUNIOR LEAGUE
By "Grandstand"
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LADIES SOFTBALL LEAGUE
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By "Grandstand''
RUGBY
Nayy, who have Carter back to lead them, will meet Volunteers in their Rugby match to-day, al 4 p.m. on the Police ground Boundary Street.
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Carter is playing at fly-half in place of O'Riordan, and Beattie is an absentee from the back row of the scrum. being replaced by
the curtain-raiser of the Eager. Ladies Softball League at the Following is Navy's team: L1. Kowloon Football
S/Lt. McGill, Ground, the Morahan;
Tel. Cardinals tangle with the Cana-Honeywill, A/Ldg. Tel. Paul and dian Chinese in the only interest-A/Ldg. Tel. Bowden; Lt. Carler ing tilt in this week's schedule in (Capt.) and Lt. Rutherford; S/Lt. the ladies' loop.
Winter, Lt. Watson, Sergeant Manfield; C.P.O. Wtr. King, L.A.C. Stockham; A.B. Longmuir. S/14 Fager and S/Lt, Poole.
Reserves:-S/LĮ, Kennedy. Cat. Lamble, L.S.A. Palmer, S/L!.
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Although the Redbirds have a much faster hurler in Efegina Babida, they are not likely to take this game,
the Calfuckette felding is much tighter.
Mary Ng will probably take on Carey and P.O. Wilson. mound duties with Dot Laule The Volunteers team is as fol- catching.
Although Alice Mar. relet hurler, İs Coming tan fine,
F. M. Thompson; D. I. Bosan - the Maple
quet, D. G. Day, T. O. Morgan and Leats are not taking
D. H Stewart; J (Charter and any chances, coming info the home stretch without a loss chalk J. M. Thomson; A. F Walkden, R
Burford, 1. M Macrae; R
ed against them.
lows:
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Maure Roza will probably cately, Gairdner, A M Kennedy; G. B for the Cards, although she has Godfrey, A. J. G. Taylor and E. W
Stout. not been seen at tractices lately
A 2.45
Polic p.m. ut Kitty Bush, Gilly d.. Motta, [
on the Betty Fitzgerald and Grandma! ground, a mixed "A" fifteen will Hutchinsun will guard the base-meet the Police, the mixed team baths, with rookie Pat
being as follows: Jorge. Petty Clarke and Naty Faledona in the out-feld.
It is not quite certain whether Chinese, Marina Wilson will be able to play yet, being put out of action some time ago when her finger had an argument with a bell! Needless to sav. the ball won the argument!
Unipires for this game will bej Mike Mendonca, Caco Marques and Johnnie Fonseca.
Baby Panthers 10.30 am } (Herbie Quon, J Delgado and Dave
Walker.) Little Flowers
(12.00 noon.}
V Wildcats
(Nick Beltrão, Charbe Figueredo and Chung Hwa Should Win
cables
CMarques)
INTER-HONG LEAGUE (At the Marina Ground)
V Greenspots
(1 15 a.m.)
(Bub Laurel, M Souza and C
Rozario)
V.R.C. SOFTBALL
TEAM
game
Capt. Barclay; P. B. Wilson, D B. Nelson, L/Bdr. Richards and L/Sgt Marsh; Capt. Scriven and Castleton, J Moodie: L.. A. Benn, L/Cpl. Morgan: R. Olsen, R. G
F. W. R. Hackett: B. Hynes. Redman and A. N. Other.
CENTRE
Chung Hwa Should Win COURT'S
Ella Chinn's Chung Hwa lassies will most probably be handed out another shellacking when they cross bats with the Baby Panth-
ESCAPE
J.
ers. Lella Xavier and Theresita The sacred turf of the Botelho will be the Pan-famous centre court at
therette buttery, whilst their
escape from Nazi venom
usual infield line-up will be Wimbledon had a narrow Celeste Marques, first? Sarah Kwong, second; Alex Mendonça third, and Regina Xavier, short-recently.
Marques, against
Hildu
One of three high explosive.
Soares, and England Lawn Tennis Club re-
Another Track-Meet?
cently crashed through the com- petitors' stand and flung debris on to the court.
The following will represent stop. V.R.C. in their Second Division Hailhawks will be Theresita bombs which dropped on the All- Softball League Chung Hwa to-morrow at 10,15 Thelma "Peanut" Marques. a.m, on the Chatham Road ground: A. C. Brown, A. H. Azedo, M. M. de V. Soares, R. Maxwell, A. Similarly, Spotty
The Wildcats-Little
The stand, occupied at one time Flower When the Chung Hwa nine meet E. Ablong, Jr., A, V. Ozorio. E. clash at 12.00 not be able to turn out this Sab- The V.R.C. squad at the Chathamn Ribeiro,
or another by the world's greatest will more likely C Quinn, bath.
Road Football Ground at 10.15 Pereira, E. D. da
Roza- than not be another run around lawn tennis stars, was bad y dam- Roza, F. Bar- affair. Florinha The result has been a wholesalea.m. the Junior League Champion-radas, R. Castro, S. Izatt, A. A. Lily
battery will be aged when the bomb penetrate.
the roof of the centre court build- Silva and Hilda Antonia, switching of positions, and now ship will probably be decided. Remedios, A. A. Noronha, C. Ro- whilst Thema Collaco will be ing, crashed through the stand and Henry Old Marse Barros will In view of their superior field-Į zario, P. Antonio. be holding the
tossing them over to Cynthia da į exploded on the ground below. initial bag, with ing, the Chung Hwamen are tip- Nick Beltrao keeping second.
ped to take this tilt, and, unless Bertie Gosano will have to guard iwirler Jock Brown of the Victor- third with Tony "Peewee" Alves fans can do more than just toss in his old spot, the windy alley. them over to hindsnatcher Alee In the event of Eddie "Doctor" | Azedo, the V.R.C. fielders will be Gorano being unavailable, I have in for a hot time, when they come given to understand that up against some of the heaviest hurler Gerry Gosane will have to
swatters in the junior loop. patrol the centre patch, with
Right gardener P. K. "Profes- Johnnic Alvares taking on mound sor Luu and first-sacker Bill Chang having been indulging in a slugging
spree the lust [ew
been
duties.
The others forming the garden 1rio will probably be Johnnie games. Victorian first-sacker will Fonseca and Dicky Alves.
either be Dave Hutchinson Ming Soares, whilst the mid-way satchel will be kept by Roy Max- well, with Al Ozario guarding the hot-corner. The windy alley will be kept by none other than Bim- by the Blimp' Ablong.
Careful Selection Of Umpires
The umpires for this game have been carefully selected, and cannot imagine anybody better suited to take the plate than Abe Li, Chuck Waggoner and Bill
Woo will be in charge of the bases.
Ernie Ribeiro, Cecil Quinn and Lionel Roza-Pereira will be pa- trolling the wide open spaces.
Chung Hwa's Team
Spectators will be assured that there will not be a repetition. of For the Chung Hwa team, Jay last week's farcical umpiring, in Liu will be on the mound, with which, on one occasion, a runner Fung, behind the bat. The rest of was called 'safe' at the home the line up will be Bill Chang, plate, and was called out again, first-basè; Al Lau, second base; when the catcher ran after him P. F. Choy, third base, and Kwok and tagged him with the ball,
in the short-stop position. Gar deners will be Richard · Chung, Loney Loong and P. K. Lau.
Umpires for this important Welford, game will be, Welfy
How can? If he didn't touch the plate when he sild home, how could he be called safe.
And if he was safe, how could he be called out afterwards? Cecil Winglee and D. Aquino, hetcha somebody's. having a good "taught
Another umpire in the same game, gave his decisions sitting down,
Canuck Revival:
Nam Hwa Favoured /
At 9.00 a.m. South China take on the Cosmos, with the Nam Hwa lot "having a "slight edge" "in' this game, Battery for South China will be Bill Quon and Cecil Wing- leo,
At 1.30 p.m. the Chinese Baso- ballers,take on the cellar champs, If the Royal Engineers can put the Canadian Chinese. At their up a team, they will fangle with first meeting, which nearly result Daddy Souza's Liga Portug ed in an exhibition of fisticuffs, boys, whilst the RIA.E.. mees
the Canucks, were badly, beaten, 8th RA, in the last game at 12:4 but with the recent addition
牌照
PONY AUCTION.
Motta.
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Yum-tong): chestnut mare, 14
auction of China pony griffins, ell-
Good prices were obtained at an hands 1 inch, $1,200, (A. Black). gible to run
Chestnut, 14 hands, $690, (Wong at the forthcoming Yan); chestnut stallion, 14 hands Hong Kong Jockey Club annual|1 inch, $3,000, (Frank Gray). meeting, held in the paddock of Brown, 14 hands 1 inch, $875, the Jockey Club yesterday.
(H. F. She); bay mare, 14 hands 1 prices and purchasers, follows:
The list of ponies sold, their inch, $1,400, (Slu Yuen-tong); and Starlet, 1939 sub-griffin, 14 hands, Chestnut, 14 hands, $550, (Hsu $85, (Choy Sih-liang).
Royal Box
Adjo'ning the competitors' stand is the Committee Box where the King and Queen and other mem- bers of the Royal Family sit when they visit the championships.
Miss Nora Cleather, secretary of the Club, said the damage to the turf caused by the debris has been put right, but repairs to the stand will probably not be undertake. until after the war.
The All-England Lawn Tennis
Before The Downstroke Championships have been played
By BEST BALL
A slight pause at the top of the stroke is nothing
in stroke mechanics.
new
Such a
GRAPHIC GOLF
· LAWBON, LITTLE
PAUSES BRIEFLY. AT TOP OF 'STROKE
feature was employed and advocated as far back as-1910) by James Braid. The big:item - is that this advice has: Jost, none of its efficacy in the in- tervening years. Tommy Arme our made particularly goodi use of it during his heyday, andɩ Lawson, Little still!.con-- tinues to employ it.
The cessation af movement. at the top mustulang bufįmo¬ mentary not over a quartetni, a second for it prolopaed will result in tensing the muscles. In the brief time lig pause endures, there is a cama. plete stop between the up- stroke alle dow so that the lattaj aan start hout the friatium, which might re-3 sulty wg fleyip down before : (the-bad was completed.☺ Not, this allerwona mora ♥ complate: wrist cocks
tho downswin leisurely fashio the speed can he creused as LH, KIT
ingethevelupkas the top. they
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on the present courts since 1922, when the club moved from its old | headquarters in another part of
Wimbledon-Reuter..
CHAMPION
IN RAF
RONNE RACERS WIDL, BE GLAD TOŊHEAR. THAT CHAM- PIONAGEKRY TOMMY CAREY“ IS VERY MUCH. ALIVE AND KICKING WRITES L. V. MAN- NINGA
His in the REAE, and was in the front line, almost as soon as he was in uniform. *He is a “ground-nien? "ahil confessed to
me that he humihad, mara thrills and escapes. thom he ever dreamed of Desa Joskey on the ¿flats on over thematicks;!
“Jam one of many who hope to sea Tommy baelo', undir: Jockey. @dushwa silab aridus National Hunt Rules omniswhen the War rèlensės · him from
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