MARS
NEEDLE SOFTBALL MATCH
Canuckettes Lead For Two Innings
Wildcats Score Four Runs In Third-Inning Rally
By "Grandstand”
THE LADIES' SOFTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP WAS DECIDED ON SUNDAY, WHEN THE WILD- CATS ROLLED OVER THE CANADIAN CHINESE CUTIES 9-7 IN THEIR FINAL GAME OF THE SEA- SON, TO ANNEX THE SOUTHARD SHIELD.
Whilst hurler Thelma Collaco was handcuffing the Canuckettes with three measly hits, her team- mates collected eight safeties off Maple Leaf fire- ball tosser Mary Ng, five of which were bunched up in the third for a five-rün uprising. Collaco fanned four and also walked four, whilst Mary Ng whiffed two and passed none.
the! In her seven innings on mound, Thelma Collaco threw al total
of 113 balls compared to Mary Ng's 92 pitches in six ses- sions.
Both teams were keved up to a highly nervous condition, and Food Belding was not a feature of the game, the victors being guilty
of 13 errors to the losers' seven. The Maple Leafs threatened from the start, when they had two on bases on walks after two were gone, but Mary Ng hit into a force play for no gain. In the next chapter. however, Jay Wong
life on a muft was given
and scored on Lily Lee's slow roller for the first Canadian run, whilst Dot Louie tallied again in the third frame on two Wildcat bobbles,
For the first two frames, the Canuckettes felled tighter than the lid on a molasses jar as the Untamed Felines were retired in order without having so much as a smell of first base, but in the third stanza, the Walloping Wild- cats unleashed a five-hit attack to garner four markers and take the lead, then piling on another four counters in the next session on two hits assisted by four Muple Leaf miscues.
Late Rally
Booting five times in an erratic flelding display in the fifth, the Wildcats conceded two Canadian
runs,
Trailing 9-4 in the last frame, the Canuckettes staged a spirited late-rally, but could only push across three markers, before the Wildcats went into a huddle and retired the side,
Wildcat
arranged
V.R.C. Chung
LEAGUE TABLES
TO DATE
SENIOR LEAGUE
Cosmopolitans
Liga Portuguese South China
Royal Scots
8th R.A. C.B.A.
,667
SENIOR LEAGUE
MOHAWKS BEAT CANUCKS
By ""Grandstand”
Shellacking
Cyclone
hurler Pinky Pineda for 15 667 safeties, the Chinese Base- ballers triumphed over the
CUP FINAL POSTPONED
The Final of the "Artillery Soccer Cup" between 20th R.A. and 30th R.A, which was to be played to-day has been postponed.
SERVICE CORPS' CRICKET WIN
Royal Army Service Corps de- feated Royal Corps of Signals by runs in the Semi-Final of the Small Units Cricket Knock Out Competition at Sookunpoo yester-
day.
Scores:-
R.A.S.C.
444 Cyclones 9-3 in a game 1/cpl. Logan, e Love, b Murphy..
W.
L. Pcto.
St. Joseph's
10 2
,633
Hong Kong Battballers
11 3
.786
| Indiana
10 3
.769
Recreio Aces
6 5
.545
Cyclones
7 7
,500
Chinese Baseballers Filipinos
0 7
.417
2 10
.167
Canadian Chinese
0 13
.000
JUNIOR LEAGUE
10 1
.909
H
9 2
.816
Recreio Bézs R.A.F.
€ 3
6 3
$ 4
,600
4 5
.444
4
5
J 6
.333
3 7
.300 devoid of interest.
8
151
0
7
,000
LADIES' LEAGUE
Wildcats
13 1
Canadian Chinese
12 2
.857*
Wahoos
To
4
.714
Cardinals
6
6
.571
Baby Panthers Recreio Rambltrettes
7 7
4 10
1 13
.07 Taking advantage of three Chin-
1 13
.071
0
1.000
esc miscues In the second, the Cyclones chalked up two
runs,
1
.760
and managed one
more tally,
4
2
2
2
1
0 4
.000
06
.000
Royal Engineers
It is understood that a team to
Britain In represent Great
the Chung Hwa
Little Flowers Ladies' International Softball
INTER-HONG LEAGUE series in being formed, and a Hong Kong Bańkera practice has been
for Shott Offers to-morrow at Kowloon Football Texaco Ollers Club, whilst a meeting will be held at Club de Recreio at 6.30 p.m. this evening to discuss Por- tuga's entry. All those interested are invited to attend.
Lacos Chartered Bankers Cables Greenspots
BROWN PLAYS BIG PART IN BIG
Cpl. Young. b Dixon
Sgt. French, 1.b.w.. b Dixon
Two expensive wild heaves by Capt. Dewar, b Murphy Cyclone hindsnatcher Ahdor Sgt. Hamlen, not out 929 Rumjahn in
Sgt. Benford, b Murphy
the first
chapter Lieut. Howell, c Dixon, b Murphy. gave the Chinese Baseballers a Cpl. Glen, e Dixon, b Murphy batting L/Cpl. Gavier, e Lees, b Dixon
two-run lead, whilst a
500 rampage in the second netted the Sgt. Martin, st., b Murphy .286 Llumen four more counters. Sgt. Mason, b Murphy
52
Extras (85, LB)
Total
120
Bowling Analysia
0. M R. 13 2 58 12.1 0 52
W.
7
667 when Barriey Abbas dented the Dixon .500 counting station on three suc-, Murphy .600 cessive bobbles.
V.R.C. PLAY-OFF WIN
By "Grandstand”
VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB claimed the right to be first holders of the Limjap trophy.em- blematic of Second Division softball supremacy, when they dished out the most one-sided defeat of the season to the Chung Hwa Maroons, swamping them 16-3 in the Junior League play-off on Sunday.
SIGNALS Benford, e Hamlen. b Dewar
Denhani Crury, who went the Sharland, c Logan, b Dewar route for the Chinese Baseballers, Murphy, 1.b... b Young whiffed seven and walked three, Tomlinson, st., b Martin whilst the Cyclone twirler passed Dixon, b Young one, and fanned none. The big Mr. Bucke, Young guns of the offensive were Nip Cupsey, not out...
|Pitcher. st. Hamlen, b Dewar Lum and John Fisher, both or
Lithauer. 1.b.w., b Young whom batted safely three times Love, b Young
in four batting chances, but it Lees, st., Dewar Was Cyclone centre-gardener, Extras (B9, NB1) "Sunburn" Omar, who stole the
thunder, when
he
Nip Lum's bingle
shoestringed
over second
base to rob him of él perfect Dewar batting day.
Although Omar
Young
Martin
fanned Was
in his first trip to the plate, he atoned for it by cracking out ገ single.
Mohawks Win
Behind the two-hit pitching of Johnson, the Mohawks humiliated
the Canadian Chinese 10-1 to preserve their 'flickering pennant
hopes. Bill Woo, toeing the rub-
ber for the Canucks, was found for 11 blows, of which seven
Total
Bowling Analysis
0. M
12
4
22
6
1
J
1
4
YESTERDAY'S BADMINTON RESULTS
Following were the results
10
42
of
were bunched up in the first for yesterday's Badminton Champion-
eight (count 'em) Mohawk runs. whilst Johnson walked two in his
ship:-
JUNIOR DOUBLES Brown, pitched his team to vic-team's three safeties with a triple
V.R.C. slabster, Sonny "Jock"P. F. Choy clouted two of his initial mound performance..
A. L. Fisher and P. Wynter Pete Fitch poled out the long- Blyth beat R. M. Lavalle and N. formance, by turning out a three-tre-fielder Charlie Quin and key- which would have been a four- tory in a stellar mound per-und a single, whilst V. R. C. cen-est hit of the game with a triple, A. Beltrao 15-3, 15-1, hit job in which he whiffed three, stoner Bimby
JUNIOR SINGLES "Sparky" Ablỏng bagger had he not stumbled be- passed one to first, and aided his also batted safely two in three,tween first and second. Johnnie 15-9. own cause by banging out the the former driving in three runs Shuberg, Fitch and Davis were only homer of the fracas with the for his side,
third-sacker Gloria Mar connected for the only ex-buses clogged. tra-base clout of the fracas with
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two-bagger, whilst Jay Wong Chung Hwa hurler P. F. Choy had four stolen bases to her ero pitched for four innings and was dit. Eight Canuckettes died on replaced by Al Lau on the hill in the sacks as compared with the the fifth canto. Choy, who yicided two stranded by the Wildcats.
six safeties during his tenure on the mound, struck out three, but Socorro Castro Shines issued seven free tickets to first, whilst chucker Lau was too liber-
In the other game in the ladies al with his hits, allowing the loop, Wahoos subdued the Pan-Crusaders to nick him for three thers 13-7 in a five-inning tilt. safeties in the fifth inning. Big Chief Therese Noronha toiled |
on the slab for the Owls and
fanned two, whilst Lelia Xavier;}
First Blood
hurling for the Pantherettes, sent] Chung Hwa drew Arst blood three Owls down swinging with when Bill Chang made second or her tricky upshoots. Noronha a wild heave in the initial frame issued free transportation to first and scored on Choy's triple t to seven Panthers,
deep right, but the Cruïādērs "rë
The Owls scored In every plied with a cluster of four mark inning, and based their victory on erg in their turn with the bat two clusters of runs which totalled when hindsnatcher Alex Big
10 in the first two frames.
Boy" Azedo came through with E
Regina Xavier out at first.
Only one druble-killing was basa-cleaning triple. made, when Socorro Castro In the next frame P. K. Lat clamped her handa on Lolla Xavier's hot liner and tossed Comped in on Brown's only wild pitch of the game for the second Three-baggers were belted in Victorians produced another four
Chung Hwa marker, but the "Therese Noronha and Panther run splurge on two hits to in- rookie gardener Patsy Ribeiro, the latter being nailed at the plate increase the lead.
attempting to stretch it into a Another Chung Hwa tally
homer..
Ladies' Internationals
trickled over the plate wher. gürdener Loney Long drew n pass, pilfered second and scored
on Azedo's wild heave. Wahoo keystoner Socorro Castro For the rest of the tussle, the had a perfect day with the hickory Mardons were blanked in one returning a three in three per-two, three order, except in the formances, whilst Pantherette seventh, when C. Ho singled Hilda Soares also registered two- to centre, but was left stranded In two. Both of Irene Castilho's on second, shtöties went for doubles,
Chung Hwa pitcher
also good for a double apiece.
J. Odell beat M. Talan; 17-14,
P. A. Yvanovich received a walkover from H. Dingsdale..
C. Ingenohl's Cigars
CIMGENOHT.