THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 22, 1941:
Rain Does Not
Not Deter Girl Softball Players Therese Noronha's Fine Pitching Ramblerettes **************
Start Well But Fade Out
By "Grandstand”
ALTHOUGH THE CONDITION OF THE GROUND ON SATURDAY AS THE RESULT OF THE RAIN, WAS SO BAD THAT THE COMPLETE MEN'S SENIOR LEAGUE SCHEDULE HAD TO BE POSTPONED, THE FULL LADIES' LEAGUE PRO- GRAMME WAS PLAYED.
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LEAGUE TABLES
Indiana
Canadian Chineso
Chun Hwa
V.R.C.
South China
JUNIOR LEAGUE
By "Grandstand”
&
K.C.C. SHOULD BEAT ST. JOHN'S
By "Adrem" -
With Henry Eardley out of the St. John's team, Kowloon Cricket Club have every chance of beating the In the Junior loop, the their "B" Division League R.A.F. shaded the Liga Portuguesa 8-7 after ex- tra innings were played.
Saints in
Badminton match at the Cathedral Hall this even- ing.
If St. John's do lose they will not have to undergo the inconven- ence of going in o the Senior Division, as their record would to if they secured their fourth successive win at the expense of K.C.C., who have also been unbeaten this year.
The Souzamen took the lead up. to the seventh chapter, but the Airmen raflied and knotted the count six-all. In the eighth and ninth, both sides were unable to push over the tie-breaker, but in oblige them .750
867 the third overtime stanza the Kai .626
Tak squad allied twice to the .571 Liga's lone marker to take the
game.
TO DATE
SENIOR LEAQUE
W. L.. Pet. Hong Kong Baseballers 7 2 .778 St. Joseph's
778
7 2
6
3
,067
Cyclones
6
Recreio Aces
4 3
4 GOO .571
Chinese Baseballers Filipinos
3
1 7
0 9
4 .429 .125 .000
JUNIOR LEAGUE
7
5 1
0 1,000 .833
R.A.F.
G 2
Recreio Becs Cosmos
4 ૩
5 3
4 3
Liga Portuguèse Royal Scots
3 4 .429
3
4
.429
2
7
,222
1 7
.125
LADIES' LEAGUE Canadian Chinese
9 0 1,000
WHdcats
Wahoos
2
В 1 .889 .818
Panthers
6 5 .546
13
Cardinals
-5 6 455
Ramblerettes
3 8 .273
Little Flowers
1 9 Chung Hwa
0 10 INTER-HONG LEAGUE
100 ,000
to
Hong Kong Bankers Shell Ollera
3 0 1.000
3 1 ,750
Texaco Lacas
3 $ 750
2 î
.667
Chartered Bankers Cables Greenspots
1
# 4
Behind the Sunday pitching of "Big Chief" Therese Noronha, the Wahoos whitewashed the Lit- tle Flowers 10-0 in a seven-inning tilt featured by hurler Noronha's 10 erasures via the strikeout route.
Although Johnnie "Take your innings, sixth-inning Wildcat time" Fonseca's Florinhas have uprising, which counted for improved tremendously since their | markers, gave the latter a 21-6 Jast outing, they were no match | victory over the Ramblerettes. for the more experienced Wahoos, Starting with only eight players and only managed to reach second on the field, Cardinal short-stop base once, when Aida "Sweet-as- | Betty Fitzgerald was allowed apple-cider" Castro heaved the make up the team for the Recs, Florinha third-sucker easy and for a while it looked us if the grounder, high, wide and hand- Wildcats had bitten off more than soine. Socorro Sequeira was the] they could chew, as Betty assisted only Little Flower to connect in six put-outs. Therese Noronha for a safety, by Slashing a single over the initial sack.
un
The wet condition of the ground caused errors 10 be committed wholesale by both sides, the Un- tamed Felines bungling nine times
Lily Rozario Deputises to the Ramblerettes' eleven, of
which Lolly Rodrigues was res- In the absence of regular ponsible for no less than five. Florinha hurler Lily Silva, who: Lily "Sunshine" Mar's heavy was unable to play. Lily Rozario stick-work was outstanding, She worked on the slab, and fanned batted safely three times out of three Greenshirted Owls, and al-five, and hit the only homers and lowed only one walk. Ten Little two-baggers clouted in the game. Flowers withered before Therese Slabstress Thelma Collaco for Noronha's shoots, whilst two were the Wildcats farned four, and given free tickets to first.
passed three, whilst Gerry Jorge on the mound for the Recs walked Wahoos, starting with their re- gular Ime-up.
lead-off hitter four and struck-out none. Yvonne Yolle, Irene "Tomboy" Castilho and Jackie Anderson, punched out three singles in I'OW, to garner their first two markers, after which they adopted milder tactics, by resorting to bunting, and were held scoreless for the next two frames, although Jackie Anderson was given a life on Lilian Foster's fumble, but was left stranded on second.
i
neat
a
the
Panthers Nosed Out
Despite a late rally which net- led them eight runs in the sixth
8th R.A. C.B.A.
Royal Engineers
The
Q 4
7 .000
KOTEWALL CUP MATCH OFF
Kotewall
,500
.000
000
Despite Wally Welford's deter- mination to chalk up their first victory--he turned out a full team the Recreio Bees triumphed over
the Sappers 11-6.
Other matches this eveningTM should result in victories for Vic- toria Recreation Club, King Col- lege and St. Andrew's. Programme And Teams
Following is to-day's Badmin- ton League programme and some of the teams:-- J.R.C.
In the night-cap, chief-umpire Welford called the South China- 8th R.A. tussle during the sixth, on account of the heavy rain which rendered the ground un- Recreio suitable for play. South China, St. John's leading 11-3 at that stage, were St. Andrew's V. therefore awarded the game.
LADIES' LEAGUE SOFTBALL SELECTIONS
V.
V.
V.
V.R.C. King's College K.C.C.
Police
St. John's-D. Kwok asd E. Kennard; N. L. Smith and P. Wil- son: R. Maynard and G. S. Ladd.
J.R.C.-A. R. Poliak and S. Ramler; L. Landau and A. Odell; B. Godkin and M. Talan.
St. Andrew's:-E. F. Fincher and H. Kew; A. E. Brown and S. A: y; M. M. Davies and B. Gille- spic.
King's College:-T. Lam and K. H. Lo; K. L. Lui and H. T. Woo; S. P. Chan and W. C. Chung.
Police: W. Gillies and L. Gor- don; R. Hagarth and J. Shepherd; J. Macdonald and H. Dingsdale.
Recreio P. A. Yvanovich and P. P. Botelho; A. E. Xavier and A.
The following team has been selected to represent the Ladies' Cup football Softball League in match against match between Navy and Army, Kowloon Football Club, starting at E. Noronha; E. A. R. Alves and which was to have been played at 2.15 p.m. on Chinese New Year's B. T. Gosano, Caroline Hill this afternoon at 4 Day: - First-String Battery - p.m., has been postponed as Navy Therese Noronha and Jackie An- are unable to field a side.
derson; Second-String Battery- Mary Ng and Dot Louie; First Base-Lily
Base Mar; Second Celeste Marques; Third Base Gloria Mar; Short-Stop - Irene
ARMY-CLUB HOCKEY MATCH OFF
to the
The hockey match between Castilho; Left-Field-Irene Perei- and seventh frames, the Panthers Army (British Ranks) and the ra; Centre-Field Betty Fitzger- were nosed out by the Cardinals Hong Kong Hockey Club was not ald; Right-Field-Theresa Mar- 14-13, in a game featured by Red-played at Sookunpoo yesterday ques. Utility-Yvonne Yolle. bird coach "Doc" Molthen's fiery afternoon due to the poor wea- All proceeds will go protest against the umpire's de- ther. cision on a play between third and home. Finding no ground for the protest, the decision was not re- versed by the umpires.
Socorro "Soso" Castro's dump scored Jeannette "Blondie" Yolle in the fourth for one more marker, but in the fifth and sixth
The Panthers opened the scor- frames, the Wahoos rolled up
ing with a three-hitter which net- four-hit attack to dent the home- ted them three tallies, blanking plate seven times and salt
the Redbirds in the first frame. and only allowing them a single game away.
Yvonne Yolle, Jackie Anderson marker in the next, but the deter- and Socorro Castro all collected mined Cards replied with two two safeties each, whilst Jackie clusters of runs in the third and Anderson carned fielding honours fourth to put them ahead 9-5. by handling 13 chances withou! Yvonne Yoile was credited error. with no fewer than four stolen
bases.
Sixth Inning Uprising
Although the Recreio Rambler- ettes put up a game fight for five
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Making effective use of their
in the
two singles off Babida sixth, the Pantherettes cha'ked up ave tallies to threaten the Cardin- als once more, although the Red- birds tallied four times at their { turn with the bat.
With the last inning coming up. the Cards were shut out, whilst the Panthers needed only four runs to tie the score, and came to within a shade of knotting the count as they scored three times, only to lose the decision.
Bomber Fund.
MIDDLESBROUGH CENTRE-FORWARD
The
H.K.C.C. TEAM FOR BIG MATCH
following will represent Hong Kong Cricket Club against Kowloon Cricket Club on January 27 and 28 at 11 am, on each day, at Chater Road:
H. Owen-Hughes, L. T. Ride, Major D. C. E. Grose, 2/Lieut. T. A. Pearce, 2/Lieut. J. L. C. Pearce, D. McLellan, F. Baker, T. G. C. Knight, A. E. Perry, D. 1. Bosan- quet and R. H. Griffiths.
The following wil represent Hong Kong Cricket Club second eleven against the Police on Sa- Lurday at Chater Road at 2 p.m.:
C. W. E. Bishop (Capt.), N. D. Booker, G. J. P. Carey, H. Owen-
W. G. Finnie, I. P. Tamworth and
SEASON'S TOP-SCORER in the Soccer Re- Hughes D. O. Parsons, D. S. Robb, gionals is 18-year-old George Stobart. There must H. J. Armstrong, G. P. Charlton,
be something in the Middlesbrough air which suits E. w. Pudney. centre-forwards, writes L. V. Manning in the "Daily
Sketch."
No club ever had such a rich succession as George Elliott, Andy Wilson, George Camsell, and Michael Fenton. All discovered and developed by the club. Total cost less than £500.
COLONY CHESS TOURNEY DRAW
The draw. round by round, for the Colony Open Chess Champion- ship Tournament (1941) has been announced as follows:-
Yet it was Middlesbrough, spa- During their amateur spell there cialists in home talent, who paid was a unique gentleman named the first £1,000 transfer fee--for Hill Drury, of Darlington, who TUES. FEB, 4:-D. E. de Carval- Eferina Babida. on the slab. Alt Common,
was so much the pukka amateur ho v C. M. Sequeira; G. S. Coxhend v fanned two and passed three, whilst Lelia "La-la" Xavier toil-day labelled this "sensation" as a Durlington, but insisted on paying valho: Karpovich v Sequeira: Weiss V And the historians of the day that he not only paid his fare from E. Zimmern: L. Karpovich v K. Weiss. THURS.. FEB. 0:-Zimmern. v Car- ing for the Panther Kittens was record that must stand unchal- his admission fee to he ground!
Coxhead. up form, and whiffed two lenged for all time! You couldn't Had he been born a decade lat- TUES., FEB. 11:-Carvalho v Weiss, only.
get a second-rate junior for that
most er,
amateur clubs would Sequeira v Zimmern, Coxhead v Kar- Although Batty Fitzgerald's before the war break, four-in-five batting was the
have very firmly blackballed Mr.povich.
THURS. FEB. 13:-Coxhrad v Car- best of the fracas, she bungled The Champion Amateur Hill Drury.
valho, Weiss v Sequeira, Zimmern v Anyhow, Mr. Drury deserves a Karpovich.
nat
both fielding chances that came
her way, whilst Cardinal keyi Most people have, I guess, for-niche In history alongside the TUES FEB 18: Carvalho v Kar staner Gilly da Motta's three gotten that Middlesbrough went Corinthian who refused to take a povich. Sequeira v Coxhead, Zimmern safeties brought in three mark-amateur after three years of pro- penalty kick because he consider-V Wetes.
THURS, FEB, 20:—Sequeira -v Car” era for her alde,
fessionalism, and, in fact, won the|ed this low-brow. intrusion into valho, Zimmern v Coxhead, Weles y Regina Xavier gave a very poor Amateur Cup in successive years the rule book of a gentleman's Karpovich, display in the windy alley for the (1894 and 1895) before again go-game to be rank bad form. Panthers, miscuing six of the eighting professional. chances that came her way,
Notes/On The Rules For the benefit of certain critics who are unable to understand the Softball code, these few notes-are meant to clear up the umpires de- cis'on on the protested play above mentioned.
TUES., FEB. 25;-Carvalho' `ÿ`Zim- Imern.. Sequeira v Karpovich, Coxhead
Found In Dressing Room ˇ WURS, FEB. 27:-Wefas v Carvni-
v Zimmern.
order to avoid. being, touched by ball, in the: hand of; a fielder, The note appended below the rule Forces and George Camsell near- TUES, MARCH 4-Carvalho v Cox- When with Mickie Fenton In the Zimmern v Sequeira, Karpovich v
¡Coxhead, emphasises that the possession of the ball in the controling factoring the end of his great career. head, Sequeira v Weiss, Karpovich v
Middlesbrough had to look Zimmern, In the play protested, it was around for another centre: they THURS, MARCH 6:-Karpovich" "y- generally agreed that the ball was found him in their own dressing Carvalho, Cokhead y Sequeira, Weiss only relayed from one player to another, not one of the fieldors
Shortly before the war Wilf] Rule 29, Sec. 8 of the Official making any attempt to tag., the Softball Rules says that a runner runner. Therefore, it doesn't take Gillow had signed the youth Stob- BOWLING ALLEYS is out, if in running to any base, much imagination to see that the bart from a junior Tyneside club,
In the Senior Championship of he runs more than three feet from runner was not avoiding being. Given his chance, Stobbart Boen the Kowloon Chess Club playerḍ a direct line between a base and tagged, because, no one was tag- began gotting goals-and in a way yesterday evening, B. D. Evans the next one in regular or reverse ging herlew
which marked hini to be a player, defeated W. Lee.
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