ON THE
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1958.
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SOFTBALL SCENE Whats Best in Kowloos
SPORTS PERSONALITIES
TONY MYATT
BUJI
DHABHER
A Fine All-Round
Sportsman Who
Plays For Fun
Rules Clear On Protests Based On Decisions Involving Judgment
By "TIME OUT”
It is a good rule in life never to apologise. The right sort of people do not want apologies and the wrong sort invariably take mean advantage of them.
I only hope Fred Diesta Sr does not belong to the latter class because quite unwittingly I gave readers of this column the impression that in the course of his duties as a plate umpire during the Seminoles versus Pandas softball match two short weeks ago his decision to call off this particular match in the sixth inning was influenced by the fact that his own team the Dodgers were scheduled to play off the final game of the day and that completing the seventh and final frame of the Senior match would have resulted in a subsequent delay and possible curtailment of Diesta's own game.
The inference in my remarks
unfortunate 111201 regret
was
table.
Anyway, having met lesta half-way and knowing that die Paatlus had sent in an official protest against hils decision 1
decided to investigate the facts
and came up instead with sume.
of judgment on the part of an decision tomorrow, umpire CANNOT be accepted.
This is a shocking example of the work of the Council whose members. up to now, 1 bad credited with more than the usual quota of sense in admin- Istrative matlers.
Anyhow I am aware there is factor involved since
This week our personality column brings you the story of one of the
Colony's finest southpaw all-rounders a young man with a fun-thing mintlely more interesting a time loving disposition which seems to seep through no matter how crucial the situation may seem to be.
Good-looking Buji Dhubher is as popular with the younger set as he is with his older associates and though he has reached the top at a very early age, success has not gone to his head.
He la modest To the extetil the Hongkong Chekel ("ob that it took an alumist te wad | 95.Umists last yea
half days trying to convince "What's your pet shot, Burp ¦ hum that he was worthy of hav-1 naked "Å cross hat," was his ing his name in print."
curt ply, 15 admitted later
Buji is the type of spurte that he held preference to the man who slikes an as playing | hook- natural struke for a game rarify for The fun softboller.
of it and 1 cunnot help but ad- inire his ability la fake defent with a salle and victory in his stride.
Born in Canton. Buji come to Hongkong "somvetare sharing 1838 or '39.**
A Natural
Softball
"
South Africa's
Cricket Prodigy
Johannesburg, Nov. 27. Ai Backer, [1 15-year-old has im- schoolboy batsman, pressed cricket officials here by scoring more than 800 runs so for this summer.
The wording of the protest on "Pandas
The Hurricanes take or the Oversous la ludies' match at 9.30 am, un bunday to open the day's programme.
The Hurricanes Frances da Silva's windmill pitching last week was in the opinion of one spectator "terrible". In spite of its the Overseas are milkely
to cause an upset.
Crucial Game
while i was making a nuisance this disputed match marted 30 of myself with the Softball odd minules late but that is Association!
horse of another colour. So 1 further decided to investigate
The Senior gante at 11 am. and I found out that the
between the pre-
pennant-conscious ceding
between Kime,
the Che entirs end the rejuvenated Mutactors and Torerors was not
US Navy team the "ckaway" has been postponed even othelal
No re-
the wresheet reads, protest bt༥īrJ2:45 the plate ampire called off the gare at
loning" and the sixt ference is made anywhere to the rekvant section of the rules under which the protest is made. In other words it is an official protest (followed up by a letter irum the Pandas) based 18 decision involving JUDGMENT and not # teclideality.
Absolute Farce The Council decided to ask Ed Carvalho, daminotes manager play off the last inning rather Then go to all the inconvenience of getting together a Protest Hoard to hear the case.
Only Four Innings
The alternoon matches feature the Cardinals against the Dod-
Only FOUR innings had been; gers and the Cheyennes against played off when the game was the Overseas, The underested culled with the score 13-3 in Cheyennes are Lipped to win favour of the Matadora, We ali and so are the Dodgers. | know that a soitball game can- A lot is being said about the not be considered as a "regula Cards Sonny Machado's hurling tion" match until FIVE or more these days. It will be up to complete innings have been Dlesta and company to explode played and I for one am
this very
myth of Machado's in- much surprised that the plate vinetullity on the mound by hun lo the showers mupire and the team managers sending
Hittle early in Involved showed
when NO
the game and book. respect for the rule
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tre- you recali the Filipinos amorance is bliss, the trke must mendous batting power and the In the event of Carvalhots be walking on air even now! pair of hits the Cords got off the
Now refusal then the Council would
for the week-end Stardusts' Gabriel Venpin what four centurios for his school consider the protest on its matches.
other forecast can you possibly The Stardusts and the Comets make? This is a crucial game feel and 100 out of 120 against Old | merite or otherwise!
What an absolute furce this is should account for the Austers for both sides and the Detter it whit be a long time before Johannians, a Transvaal senior
of in team-work Mall because the rules are quite clear and the Eagles respectively
the Dodgera with un afl-league Wr rome up
that protests involving accuracy the two Junior games down for should see them through.
softball, Buy has played mostly for the Braves and he has cleared the
with fence delves on several sume loftly occasions. He has also plaveet for the Blackhawks,
Whether it's cricket or soti- ball, hockey or footbull, rugby
His love for sport developed early and he woul' play every and any game that came his or tennis,
to
I
perthy
way... from tiddly winks
Laby. tervis, tables tempo elickel, sert, hockey, softball rounder of Buji's culibre.
basketball and many more. He
tried his hand at the fat
proved himself
every occasion.
und
il natural 170
Two games stand apart from being b
the lot, however, as
pel loves. These are errket and sofibull, in that order.
built youth, A tall, solidly who bats right handed and can also keep wicket, has scored
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Buji's league cricket begon during his school dys at King George V School. played in the second division at the Ime, and or leaving school Joined up with Craige. gower Cricket Club for whom he is been a regular member of the first tenth ever since,
Bu, plays as in most sports an all-round game of cricket, He bowls a medium to fast in-
& right hander). swinger (to once in a while he sends down a "Chinaman" and then chuckles
gels to himself if he
ham-
mered to the boundary.... and Is a very ready and
he
stylish bat when he LS not tempted to make one of its famous 'softball' strokes,
Terrible Twins
Joking apart, however, Buji has proved himself while play- Jag for his Club and for the Colony to
tremendous
be
asset to the side.
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of
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You have probably heard of CCC's "terrible twins". Buji Is the other 14 them, George Souza, When These two get together, bowlers have a codache, for they go on hit-and-run spree that's enought to discourage the most Un- discourageable.
Bull has been to Malaya on a couple of occaduns, once with the Hongkong Services XI and the next time with the Hong- kong inter-port team. In the latter tour, playing "gainst various
State sides as well as the
Interport squad, Maloya Buji became well-known with the bowlers over there as a real hard-hitter. He told me he scored a couple of 50's during the series.
Rough Time
Ma-
He played against the layana when they visited these ahores in 1955 and also against the Singapore Services XI that played here in 1944. On the latter occasion, if my memory does not fail me, I recall that Buil gave our Malayan friends quite a rough time with his medium-fast deliveries,
But feels, however, that his best performances to date were when he took nino wickets for only 13 runs against KCC years Deloro Inst, And when ho carried hin bat for 90 against
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