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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 18, 1941.-
ST. JOSEPH'S HITTING SHOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR CYCLONES League Leaders At Full Strength THELMA MARQUES
Herbie Quon TO-MORROW'S
A Catcher! SOFTBALL
By "Grandstand”
HEAD-LINING THE senior loop three-game programme, the St. Joseph's-Cyclones clash slated for 2.45 p.m. should be the most interesting game of the week-end.
Although the Cyclones are de- Camucks, revived by the return of finitely out of the pennant race. Coach Bill Woo, will go all out to they are determined to win this chalk up one victory at least be- game in order to finish in the top fore the season ends. Geegee Lee half of the League standing, and. will probably toe the rubber, with whilst the Collegians are definitely Tormer smoke-ball hurler Herbie Ross Mark, the heavier sluggers, the Cyclones Quon behind the bat, are the best defensive players in T. Lee and Luke Bunn will prob- the loop, as evidenced by the fact ably take care of the bases with that they managed to win several Bill Woo in the windy alley. light games in the beginning of For the Waggonermen, Cy
will the season with Pinky Pineda, an "Screwball" Junes inexperienced' pitcher, who is mound duties, with Joe "Dend- satisfled just to toss them over. end" Morris receiving, Ernie Hearther will guard the initial However, for to-morrow's en-station: Davis, the keystone, and counter, inentor "Sunburn" Omar Lou Leight the hot-corner,
with has decided to start speed-ball Fitch at short-stop, whilst ball-
hawks will Crews and Reardon. Albert Leon- Sperry,
and ard, Cyclone Bakar, Leonard have been nominated to officiate the game.
artist, "Kelly" Silva-Netto, with Skelly Razack catching. The other members of the infleld will be Markar Jr.. first-base, A. A. Ab- bas. second-base; Sherry third-base; and Ahdor Rumjahn at the short-stop gap.
Bux.
The Saints, who are making a bid for the gonfalon, being at pre- sent tied with the Mohawks for the lead, will be putting out their best, and manager “Choppy" Omar will start first-string battery of Frankie "Bashful" Gonzales and Hal Winglee. "Powerhouse" Stan Leonard, "Ozo" Ozorio, George
be Hank
JUNIOR
LEAGUE
assume
By "Grandstand”
Stan
In the opener of the
PROGRAMME
Following is to-morrow's soft- ball programme:—
SENIOR LEAGUE
[At Kowloon Football Ground)
Chinese Baseballers
Filipinos
St.
(1.30 p.m.)
("Duc" Molthen, Stan Leonard and
"Sunburn" Omar.) Joseph's
(2.45 p.m.)
♥
Cyclones
(Harry Campos, Уолсу Marques
and Bill Woo.)
H.K. Baseballers
(4.00 p.m.)
Leonard, (A)
Leonard.)
V
Canadian Chinese
Bakar
and
Sinn
JUNIOR LEAGUE (At the Chatham Road Military Football Ground)
R.A.F.
V Liga Portuguesa
1900 a.m.) (Pinky Biggins, Dan Oliver and
Filtinghoff )
Royal Scots
10 15 0..) (Phix Gillespie,
Daddy Souza }
Recreio Bees
(11.30 a.m.)
Central Britishers
C Coelho and
Royal Engineers
(Cecil Winklee. Nelson Ma and
V
8th R.A.
Tommy Young.) South China
(12.45 p.m.) (Welford, Mike Mendonca and
Wilfred Lawrence, }
LADIES' LEAGUE
(At the Kowloon Football Ground) Wildcats
Recreio Ramblerettes
(9:00 a.m.)
Y
Hat Winglee. Bimby Ablong and
Dave Walker.)
Little Flowers
(10.30 a.m.)
V Wahoos
(Nip Lum, Charlie Figueredo and
Bill Woo.)
"No-Hit" Souza, and Dave Leon-Junior softball loop qua- Baby Panthers ard will be cavorting around the
bases. with Henry Shoestring Ali, Jindoo Hussain and Ski Pow-
lawski out in the garden.
The decision should be very
close, but the Saints have the slight edge in heavier stick
work.
You can't win games without hitters, and that's just what the Cyclones haven't got.
Umpires for this game will be Harry Campos, Vancy Marques
and Bill Woo.
Crary Doubtful Starter
F
druple bill at 9 a.m. "the R.A.F., headed by Plug Gillespie, take on the Liga Portuguesa
what should be a very evenly matched game..
in
412 00 noon.)
V
Cardinals
(Nick Beitrao, Hal Winglee and J.
Fonseca.)
Y
INTER-HONG LEAGUE (At the Marina Ground) Texaco Oilers
Green Spots (11.15 . } (Bob Laurel,
Barradas,)
Arthur Ribeiro and
JUST COULDN'T MAKE MISTAKE!
By "Grandstand"
WITH THE EXCEPTION of the Baby Panth- ers-Cardinals tussle, which might prove to be of slight interest, the ladies' programme for this week does not promise anything exciting.
The
Pantherettes, who havej
been noticed to be falling off in form lately, are now under the
of coaching
V.R.C. playing- AL- Gussie Noronha. manager though former coach Cesa "Donald Duck" Xavier is still scen at practices his interest is purely of a supervisory nature, as he is still medically advised to take it
easy.
Novel-Fractice
In order to impress upon the team the necessity of an accurate throw after a fumble. at the las' week y workout of this "A" class i team as coach
calls them their diminutive relief
Gussie Noronha
TO-DAY'S RUGBY
The semi-final round matches
second-sacker, Thelma "Peanut" in the local International Rugby
Marques, was asked to fumble a
stration.
this
grounder, pick the ball up and tournament will take place complete the play, in a demon-afternoon on the Navy ground, where England will meet Ireland and Scotland will at 2.30 p.m. meet Wales at 4 p.m.
The teams are: ENGLAND—Thompson (Club); (Club), Paul (Navy), (Army). and Marsh
Imagine Thelmale embarrass. ment when she Just couldn't fumble them... how hard she tried!
The line-D
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for their game Day against the Redbirds will be Lelie Coombes "La-la" Xavier on the mound with (Army); Charter (Club) (Capt.) Theresa Marques behind the bat- and Bowden (Navy); Manfield (Club), Heas- Celeste Marques, Thelma (Navy). Burford Marques, Regina Xavier and Alex man (Club): King (Navy), Bom- Mendonca will be the infield, with pas (Army); Wright-Nooth (Fo
and lice), Hewitt (Army) and Need- Norma Silva, Hilda Sonres Theresita Botelho. the fly-chasers. ham (Club).
ter.
IRELAND—Morahan (Navy); Page (Army), Giblin (Army), Cardinals' Problems
Clue (Army) and A. N. Other; The third place Airmen are the heavier sluggers, but with a full
The Cardinals seem to be hay- Culinan (Police), Mullen (Army), team out, the
'Souzamen should week, this is one game they can- ing a bit of trouble, with their Stout (Club); Hackett. (Club), give the Gillespiemen a good run Gunners have improved immen- out of action, with an arm sprain-lice). Hynes. (Club) and Mohan
not lose, although the Stanley first-string hurler Efegina Babida Thornbil (Navy); Dempsey (Po sely since their first outing, whened last week. Going through their (Army). the other teams usually got tired roster, the logical pitcher would ~SCOTLAND: Taylor (Police);
for their money.
·
Field captain Damsui d'Aquino may not be able to turn out on
Macdonald (Army). Stewart be Gladys "Grandma” Hutchinson, Į running round the bases. account of Volunteer duties, in
and (Club), Douglass ... (Army) Bill Quon will be on the slab who chucked last season for the which event mentor Daddy Souza
for Nam Hwa, with Cecil Winglee now defunct Cubs, and it came as (Club) Thomson (Club); Watson McGill (Navy): Aitkenhead I the line-up, At 1.30 p.m. the Filipinos take will be included in
First base will receiving.
be a surprise to me last week, when on the Chinese Baseballers. It is Hemsley and Gillespie will be
(Navy), Ford (Army), Macrae a rookie twirler, (Club): Sutherland (Army), Mil- not quite sure whether Den Crary, the battery for the Kai Tak squad, guarded by Bill Yum, whilst Tom- Adi Zimmern,
Coelho will be my Young, Harry "Gabby" Chinn was started on the mound.
Jar (Army): Kennedy (Club), ace-hurler for the Elumen, will whilst port-sider
Pinkerton be available, but that shouldn't tossing them over to Ibara behind, and Charlie G. W. Ng will be the
usual be Taylor (Club) and other infielders.
Marie Roza' will as worry anybody, except,
the batter, for the Liga.
(Army). the seen h'nd-snatching, whilst The rest of the Liga line-up will the Filipinos, as the Baseballers
rest of the infield positions are Moore (Club). Richards (Army), WALES: — Hopkins (Club); are tipped to take this game. be "Bunty" Neves at first, E. "Pas-
rathe uncertain, but will prob- In Crary's absence, George 50$ at second, T. Gill at short-stop "Horse-shoe" White will prob. and Tony Pereira at the hot-cor- ably take over the pitching as- ner. Outfielders will be Dicky signment with Nip. Lum hind- Botelho, J. Remedios and Daddy snatching, whilst Tatong Amper Souza,
maybe,
and Bob Laurel will from the bat- Immediately after this gaine, tery for the Islanders.
the Royal Scots tangle with the Arbitrators will be "Doc" Mol-Central Britishers, with Smudge then, Stan Leonard and "Sunburn" | Smith and Dan Oliver forming Omar.
the battery of the latter.
TO-DAY'S BOWLS
ably be between Betty Fitzgerald, Kitty Bush. GIlly .da .Motta and Betty Clarke.
At 9.00 am, the Wildcats tangle Kowloon Cricket Club will en- with the Recreio Ramblerettes. tertain United Services Recrea- Thelma Colaco will toss them tion Club in a friendly lawn bowls over for the Untamed Felines. match to-day at Cox's Road, com- whilst Ramblerette slabstress will mencing at 2 p.m.
be Gerry Jorge.. Being both su- Following will represent Kow-perior with the stick, and on the feld, the Wildcats should have no loon Cricket Club:-
R. S. Capell. B. Wylie, A. Steven difficulty in chalking up this one. In the night-cap, the Hong Kong At 11.30 a.m. the Recreio Bees and V. C..Lahrum (skip); C. Bow- the Royal En-den, R. T. Burch, P. Wellwood Baseballers, generally recognised cross bats with
Canucks Out For Blood
*S. China Must Win
At 10.45 the Greenshirted Wa-
as the most colourful team in the gineers, followed by the South and H. Overy (skip); A. C. Trib-hoos take on the Little Flowers. circuit. will clash with the Cana-China-8th R. A. tussle. In spite ble, A. H. Martin, A. W. Smith dian Chinese, Although the odds of the fact that the Wongmen and J. Fraser (skip). Reserves, L. are heavily against them, the were trimmed by the Cosmos last Jack and A. E. P. Guest,
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A.P. PEREIRA BEATS HARVEY
In a
charity billiards match played last evening at the Sold- lers' Club, 'Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps beat Royal · Army Medical Corps by four out of six games played, the points being 1188 to 009, devel
L/CpMAP: Pereira, did well, beating Cpl. J. H. Harvey, GarriTM son champion, by 200 to 101 Pereira also scored the biggest breaks of the evening, 47, 52 and 48.
Prizes were distributed to the Ruccessful contestants by Col.. N. | Forde. All proceeds of the even-
ing wil go to the B.W.OF...
Full scores, are as follow: Falconer, of the Royal Scots Capt. F. P. Sequeira (V.C.- senior League soccer team, has beat L. W, V. Dixon, 200-150; Sgt. been suspended for the rest of the Rakusen (V.C.) beat S/S, C. Ter- season, as the result of an inci- ran 200-140; Sgt. Remedios (V.C:) 'dent in a match against Kwong lost to Sgt. E. W. Wyre 198-2000 Wah.
Pte. Ma M. da Silva (V.C.) bent This decision was reached at the Pte. A. Howe 200-118; Pie. Hick- meeting of the Emergency Com- man (V.C.) lost to Ple. J. Why- mittee of the Hong Kong Football bro 192-200; L/Cpl. A. P. Pereira Association hold yesterday even- (VC) beat Cpl. J. H. Harvey Jing.
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