THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 9, 1941.
Recreio Aces Trumped By St. Joseph's In League Finale Frankie Gonzalez In S. CHINA Brilliant Pitching Form TO TOUR
By "Grandstand”
ST. JOSEPH'S WOUND UP THE SENIOR LEAGUE IN WHIRLWIND FASHION WHEN THEY TRUMPED THE RECREIO ACES FOR A 3-0 CALCIMINING IN A DAZZLING, ERRORLESS DISPLAY, TO ANNEX THE LI KWOK-YING SHIELD AND THE SEASON'S SOFTBALL TITLE WHICH GOES WITH IT.
With the exception of Lino Gosano, who was still on the sick-list, mentor Riri Noronha fielded the identical team which ecstatic scribes last year called the unbeatable team. The Rambling Recs were a wonderful thing, so was the one horse shay until the automobile took it's place!
for
Yessir, Collegian hinler Frankie, of which he stretched into doubles. [Gonzalez just about settled that: George Sauza and Art Czoria beth mythical Heerem jinx once and cuffed a brace of singles m their for all, when he muzzled The Ran the chances, to ernaar blens' attillery, and tolesd out fo hare of the homUN meady ongles, the only tunes th Aces placed unner: 11 hase whilst his team mates were Fol Jecting seven safeties of amund- man Geny Gosabo. But here the story
Hopes Run High
Out Of Fire
In the other better tlf. the Chinese Basebailer - pulled tr Kame can of the thie, with a five Tan upang . the with frame, to make good a two run dedicul, the Baume ending 8-4 in favour of the Laumet
SIX
nitie
Inaugurating the initud 12 2009
Although essung free fronspor - for the Rees Caro Marques tation to first to
Islanders. grounded out Tu Souzac whilst hurley Dunham Crary bore down Tony Peewee Alves popped out fan the muches atud whiffed to Ozono for the first two erasures: Filipinos, yielding Two scaltered Recreio hopes ran high as Zinho | hits, whilst chucker Lefty Amper Gosano pickled one to tight, but aftowed 10 safeties, of which twoj was left stranded as brother Geny were doubles. fied out to deep right
George White and Willie Wilson
St
FINAL SENIOR LEAGUE TABLE
Joseph's
HK. Baseballera
*
W L. Pela.
12
3
.867 786
Indian Softballers
214
Chinese Baseballeis
7
7
500
Cyclones
}
500
Recreio Aces
500
Flipinas
12
143
U
J
000
Canadian Chinese
INTER-HONG LEAGUE
STRAITS
By "Referee"
As the proposed Aus- tralian tour has fallen through, and the visit to Manila cancelled owing to the decision of the P.A.A.F. following the unpleasant incidents which followed the Eas- tern-Y.C.O game there South China recently, Athletic Association have decided to tour the Straits Settlements and the Fe- derated Malay States during the Summer.
been
Negotiations.
now have completed and the team is expect - ed to leave munediately after the Governor's Cup game. All arrange- Linens have been made in Singa -
by Pau Ka-ping. former South China goalkeeper and cap- tain
M By "Grandstand"
South present
China only intend to play in the Straits Playing before a hand-but it is possible that when there. they may receive invitations to
P
In the Sammis' 10m with the both connected safely two in four) ful of spectators, the visit Java and other places, hickory, they tou were blanked, times, the latter including a ring- Lacas shellacked the Shell! although "Oz" Ozorio slashed ang double, whilst hurler Denham Oilers 10-2 to earn a 9-6 Lee Wai-tong and single to right and pilfered second, Crary, clouted the other But Dave Leonani grinded out to base blow end the chapter
In the next canto Jindoo H
LATE
sain and his ash into one for a two-bagger. pilfered thud. and ambled home ik slabete Gerry Gosang threw
mle the l which completely eludes hand snatcher Charde Figueiredo
In the t
George strengken! the key for cushyun, and deed the pentagon on Ozorio's Laney bangle, lo ant other Collegian tally
singled.
•
111 the fitth fractate. another Omarman aspeted GLUTON 1
pay-off station, when Zuphu Go- sano tried to make good a delayed! throw to first which went so wide first-cker Nick Beltrao couldre'l have reached with a tent-pole
Aces' Only Threat
extra-
The team will be emptained by will include a number of junior players for the sake of giving them experience.
GRAPHIC GOLF
TOP OF BACKSTROKE
RIGHT
BODY POSITION
KEPT CONSTANT
• WRONG.
PLAYER'S BODY STILTED BALANCE POOR, MUSCLES TAUT
2
The Backstroke
By Best Ball
221
Many a golfer makes the mistake of thinking that by drawing his body up in the backstroke to a degree that causes a definite sway to the right and a tensing of all the muscles, he is putting him- self in the best possible posi-
tion
correctly. the curtain- victory in The Filipinos dished only twin-killing of the
fracas raiser on the Kowloon tight gardener Ildefonso hauling Football Club ground. down Howard Lee's long fly, and pegging Stahl off first
MINDANAO
SOON STRIKE BEST FORM
By "Grandstand"
At the sun-drenched Caroline Hill ballpark on
Both teants played air-tight ball For the Best frame, both sides be ing retired in order, but a couple of Lavas miscues int the secund chapter allowed three Shell, tallies to cross the pan for a flying star The Dockyard team, however
limmed the lead by pushing one! matker across in the third, and maleashed 20 barrage Ul three safebes Im a five-run splurge in Thith, the fourth session to lake the tead, and cinched the game by] poduring another cluster of Three
the last stauza
Longest Hits
Madeen Accull
and H. A.
The only time the Aces looked Saturday, the U.S.S. Min- "Baby" Abbas both banged like breaking the string of early-danao nine smartly drub-the-baggers for the longest hits
season Easter eggs. centre-gardener
Bertie stashed
was when bed
a Canadian squad|
in one dead over the middle cushion by 18-1 for a single, and was sacrificed to season practice game.
an early- second un Nick Beltrae's Dicky Alves' slow roller to short Mindanao hurler Powlawski, the advanced Bertie to third, where Pulverising Polack, turned on the he died as Johnnie Fonseca tapped heat from the initial chapter and Frankie Gonzalez whiffed nine Canadians as he fed
one to hurler
dtemp
of the day.
Skipper Jimmy South had e chance of being the hero of the day, when he strolled up to the platter, with the sacks soused
He swinging two bats.
only feeble tapped out a
roller to hurler Ablong for. choice, however. Laca moundsman Nazarip fan-
NO TENNIS YESTERDAY
Owing to the unfit state of the ground yesterday, caused by the Championship tennis matches were played.
TO-DAY'S MATCHES
Following IS to-day's Tennis Championship programme.
OPEN SINGLES
George Choa เ Tsu Wai-pur
(Stand Court).
Pang Ol-lum v 1. D. Rumjahn
(8).
CLUB HANDICAP SINGLES J. Stirling Lee (2/6) v E. R. Childe (plus 1/6) (6).
CLUB HANDICAP DOUBLES T. C. Monaghan and T. J. Gould (---15.2) v G. W. Sewell and D. a ficider's M. MacDougall (15.11) (4).
CLUB HANDICAP MIXED
DOUBLES
J. S. Theobald and Mrs. Torrible ·
to put power into his swing. As can be seen from the smaller, lower panel above, such 2 player is all wrapped up in his effort and it is going to take consider- able unwrapping to bring the clubhead back to the ball Quite likely the weight will remain on the right foot during this effort and cause the player to fall away from the bail at impact. The lager panel discloses
executed smoothly
full backswing, in which the body has turned well around yet its puertion has remained con- tant. There is no contortion here, the body can unwind naturally and evenly on the downstroke with the greatest amount of precision,
Next Article: Relaxing Left Hand Grip may alter Right's Hold On Club.
MISHAPS AT THE VALLEY
By "Rapier"
Master Li Shiu-fai, son
(15) v A. H. Barwel and Mrs. of Mr. Li Po-chun, had a
then his torrid heaves, mixing speed with curves, WOS
whilst losing ned three and walked three, whilst j chucker "W kt" Bill Smith, famed Bimby Ablong, who toiled on the
Tour | Oxlade (5/6) (3). six Chasemen, but walked no less: bill for the Oilers, walked
without whifting any, than ten to first.
Powlawski allowed two safeties, whilst Smith
WAS nicked for 11 blows.
and was flagged at first.
The big gun of the day Jindoo "Muscle-bound" Hussain, who wiped off the stigma of the label "hitless wonder," with which he was one time dubbed, by lash- ing the horsehide for { perfect batting mark in his three times af the dish, with three safeties, all
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The Mindanaoans jumped right into the lead with a four-mun
Free Hitting
ARMY RUGBY In a friendly tilt, the Texaco Oilers trounced the Cosmopolitan
“SEVENS”. start in the initial frame on two Club nine 7-2 in a friendly uli, singles, assisted by
hitting
both i featuring free two Maple!
The annual Army Leaf bobbles,
sides. Texacan short-stop, Johnnie Side
Rugby tournament Schaberg. led the parade with a yesterday when six first
away.
couldn't reach
after two
were
un
from miraculous escape serious injury this morn- ing.
He was taking out Portrush, be- longing to Mr. H. Leigh, which has been entered for the Taiwan Bay Seven-a-Handicap (Second Section) to be began run on Saturday, for its preparų- round tion gallop. On reaching the mile
For four innings the Canadians three-base blow and a pair of matches were played at Sookun- post the pony turned around and first base, and it doubles in four trips to the plat pou The quarter-finals, semi-bolted, running back to the looked like no-hit shutout, ter, and Lone Star Ranger Lar-finals and final will be played at stabies. when Pinky Higgins connected for rupin Lawrence, who worked on Sookunpoo on Saturday, the first a blooper to short centre, pilfered the slab, was nicked for
game, commencing at 3 pan. safeties. Cosmopolitan moundsmen The following were yesterday's Blas and Remedius yielded, eight results:- blows.
second and scored
on a sacrifice and two wild heaves, to save the Canadians from a whitewashing.
Hammering Smith for four safeties, the Mindanuo barking bats pushed six counters over the pan in the sixth, whilst another splurge of five tallies on only one. safety in the seventh froze the game for them.
seven
EXHIBITION
SOFTBALL
fence
Blocked off by a Russian trainer and a Chinese mafoo in the mid- dle of the grass track, the pony collided with the bamboo and Master Li was hurled from the saddie, luckily coming down on R.hts back with his head missing
the ground by inches,
1. Scots "A" beat 12th Cst. R. A. "B" 9-0.
5th. A.A. R.A. "A" Scots "B" 17-0.
beat
"B"
Undaunted by the imishap. Master Li later went out on the "A" | pony, which was led by a mafoo to the mile post, from where the R.A. mile gallop was completed.
15th R.A.. "C" beat M'sex
0-0,
5th R.A. "B" þeat M'sex 3-0,
R.A.M.C. best 8th Cst. At a meeting held yesterday at "g" 19-0. the Club Lusitano of representa- RE. "A" beat 12th Cst, tives.of all clubs amliated to Hong "A" 18-0, Kong Softball Association, it was R.E. "B" also qualified for the The following will represent decided to stage two exhibition next round their opponents, 8th Craigengower Cricket Club in a games on Easter Monday for the Cst, R.A. A having withdrawn Second Division League Cricket benefit of the Chinese Warphan from the tournament. match against Kowloon Cricket Fund........
C.C.C. TEAM FOR VITAL MATCH
Later Mr. R. M. Wood took out R.A. Well Done, belong to Mr. R, H. C., for a trot. On reaching the 1-1/2 mile post, the pony stumbled and Mr. Wood was unseated although he was completely uninjured and remounted to finish the exercise.
FOAL RECORD SET A. M. Omur (Capt), N. Brond- the Stanley Mohawks, whilst tho that only a limited number of tie-
number A record BOWLING ALLEYS bridge. U. H. Esmail, A. B. Ham- pennant winners in the Ladies' kots will be sold, and enthusiasts
son, A. Hung, C. W. Lam, E. A. loop, the Wildcats, will engage an are advised to obtain these at the foals was registered with, the Tel. 21800 Loc. J. W. Leonard, T. Lock, All-Star team.
carliest opportunity to avoid dis-Jockey Club during 1840 states a. U. M. Omar and W. K. Way. It was revealed at the meeting i appointment,
message from New York.
HONG KONG
Lookhart AJ.
Club on Saturday, at 2.00 p.m., on The Senior League winners, St. the K.C.C. ground:--
Joseph's, wore selected to meet
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