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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1949.
TEEN
GE
TOPICS
Teens Of Poland SOFTBALL NOTES
saw,
By BETTY BETZ
Behind that famous Iron Curtain at last, in War- It took three months before the Rus- sian authorities were convinced that I only wrote children's stories, and that my writing would be harmless.
I brought along a Camp Fire Girl party box and handed it to a barefoot little girl on the street comer who was selling radishes. ---
She was so sweet, but when I handed her the beautifully wrapped gift. she refused it with a terrified look on her
their tree services
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little exaggerated. It is not com- pulsory that all young people devote cleaning up rubble, digging dit face. It made me feel strange they don't volunteer, their food ches, and clearing forests...but if and uncomfortable, untilations might be cut, or they learned that if the Polish might not be permitted to go back people are friendly to the to school. Americans, or British, they risk being arrested or having their food rations cut.
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Local Teenagers In The Spotlight
Local teen agers are in the spot- } with ery swim story written,
light of sports news these days must be well known. What may with the Colony Swim Champian-not be obvious however, is the fact ships uncovering loads of young that Cheong is also a teen ager, talent..
and aside from the fact that he is one of the Colony's best swiza- The name of Cheong Kimmers, he is very much like the or which occurs almost inevitably dinary teen ager.
Cheong is very keen on jazz is music and dancing. He goes regu-
The short-stop has the most, throw, and if he doubts it at all, territory to cover as an infielder, the throw should not be made, as as his position is between second it has been found that in the but R the second baseman and third base, and is, therefore, baste the throw usually gets out closer and he is not too far off, larly to the cinema and reads a to a certain extent responsible of hand.
the throw should be a lob, should-good deal His most-liked maga for any hit that comes in that
er high, to enable the second direction.
Another important function of
are those with baseman to relay the ball to frst sines, however, the short-stop in local leagues, Is
sports articles, particularly swim- When you consider that most taking the throw from the catch-practice, the second baseman and
It is important
infield that
ming. players bat right-handed, he has er in attempting to retire a run the short-stop act as a pair, for a busy time. The player selected ner stealing second base. It is not only by constant team-work can and Peter
Then there are Malcolm Clemo
that
the efficiency of the
Thompson
can catch all kinds of man taking the throw, but locall be kered to its maxation rivals in the VRC Junior cham-
the runner;
Another task which
on the
who are
pionships being held in conjunc
for that position should be one uncommon to see the second base
grounders, be they "grass-cutters" circles assume that it is easier or "high-bounders." He usually far the short-stop to see the run plays
a bit deeper than the other her and ball at the same time short-stop, and, not an unimport on with the Colony Champion infelders in order to have more and thus avoid a mis-tag, and
ant one, is that when the third ships time to get behind the ball if it also the ball can be pegged to the?
baseman äelds a ball, he should
Peter scored his first-victory-on- move over to cover third-base, is a fast hit, and therefore has a short-stop side of the base to pre- especially on bunts when the Saturday night by winning the 100 longer throw, and every fraction vent the eine blocked by third-baseman has
yards back-stroke in the excellent to move. far of a second counts.
time of 74 seconds. Malcolm, who off his base. Many double plays A good short-stop will train himself to handle grounders with stop must be sure that it is not pecially when the bunter sehr win in the 50 yards
In taking the throw the short-have resulted in this manner, es- placed his school before personal honours, was unfortunate not to free style caught out at first and the ball is relayed to third in time to nail which followed immediately after the runner
from the inter-school relay event on coming down second base.
Saturday night As pointed out earlier in this
the short-stop article,
plays deeper than the other infielders, so he should see that he is not encroaching or the left-felder's territory. If necessary the left felder should be signalled to play further back to avoid a clash, and in any case, one job done by two players shows a lack in team- work and efficiency.
his feet in position to throw. It he is right handed then his left foot should be extended, with the rid right foot just behind the glove es a defence against a mud on a low grounder. on a high bounder his body should be behind the Slove
a rum and hit play, that is, when the runner starts off from frst and then the batter hits the ball.
If the shart-stop leaves his position too quickly a hit ball might just go through the vacant gap. therefore has to The short-step be very last on his feet with a All players, however, are not sure eye. perfect and errors do happen sometimes. On a fumble, the On a
are honest, hard Young Poles working and love their country. Life is very serious, and their However, I've met lots of smal-only fun may be when they oc- ler kids who follow me around casionally speak away to one of asking for "goaney" and "bal- the rambling parks of Warsaw,
which are unkempt, but beauti-short-stop should
double play, he is loons" in spite of all the secret
make up his nearer second base. then he police, who might even be stand-ully overgrown with wild but
mund in that split second whe-should lag the base himself and tercups and daisies. ing next to them.
ther or not be can still make the complete the play to first base,
and
Here you will see rosy cheeked Our United States Information Service in Warsaw has a beauti- girls dressed in their traditiona! fully stocked children's library, peasant costumes and laughing
kits
on the tall sprawled out afternoon films for Polish kids who want to learn about grass eating tiny "lody" (icc Life is not cream) sandwiches. America.
easy, but it is only the adults who complain and wish they were still living in the good old days.
The place used to be jammed every day, but you now find only a few brave youngsters who visit the USIS library and movies, for lear of being picked up by the
police.
Someone had told me there
"The younger people are being educated to the Communist way of thinking." said my cab driver, and that is nanserous becaus they know of nothing cise to com- in the full world they would re-
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Cynthia and Joan Eager are also prominent competitors in the Colony women's swim events. Cynthia particularly will most certainly be a fine swimmer of the all-round championship
class Shauna Anderson, Wong Yak-piar and Wong Kar-wah, are other teen agers figuring prominently is sports news these days.
Height of absurdity
DON'T BOTHER, TO
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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
By Lea Falk and Phil Davis
THAT WAS PERFECT, MANDRAKE." THERE'S NOTHING
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