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Opening ceremonies, exhibition matches on Sunday start off softball season
By OLLY VAS
The official ceremonies to usher in the 1961-62 softball season will be held this Sunday at the Hongkong Softball Associa- tion Ground and an interesting programme has been plan. ned for the occasion.
THE CHINA MAIL,
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1961.
FARLY FAM
TO
Cockney kid who makes goals his business
By DENNIS DREW
For the first time in the history of the game, matches will this season be played throughout the week on the new playing field at Mission Road. The Little League baseballers and teams of Japanese sponge-ballers, will be making use of the ground on weekdays and the weekends will be taken up by a heavy schedule of softball matches in the three divisions. This is not the only thing of most of last season's players: xious to go for long hits. The The 15-year-old Cockney kid walked into the *new,' for the sport has nove such as K. K. Sil, Eddie Yeung, unknown can be dangerius for been hondured by Sir Michael | PKC.
Chan, the opposition, so the Navy boys Turner's acceptance u! the Klondike Wong, L. C. Poom cant be under-rated. HKSA's invitation to be the und } C. Wang Be Is first-ever Patron of Softball le trying to persuntie Junior Pang, : the Colony.
ne mean burk.r, to sign the The various teams, in fall istuina form. Unless Fing uniform, will assemble on the and Salleh thew up in
this sen on the feld at 1.30 pm and by king SCAA uniferen
o defueling champions stund chance of banging their title.
courtesy of the Commissioner at Pellee, Me H. W. E. Heath, an te the band of the HK Palier Force will hea the parade of teams that will march past tận slands before un assembly of VIPs from the sports world. This will be followed by the breaking of the Union Jack and a few words from the Commis- sloner
"Dix** Softball. Molthe He will then wall an Sir Michael Turner to address the gathering and to present the prizes to the winners of the last cumpetition held Little Langues.
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HUW
Yeung, YK.
Confident
th
In the Junior division thr White Sox and the Indiaus
bould fight it out for the But
e with perhaps the Pondas having 1452 outside chance, The rest of the league will Jiant · have in look in.
With sony
Ex-Sentiles anci
experienced ex-StardusUS
in the team the White Sox o be the logical entendera The trupity
A
for
j
Ray Cordeiro's Giants weirs 18 traight games last year to end
Jew tr.os. Die Sekurity Nin makes its debut in the! up as Junior Lengue ebunnplots.
Junius sigad p ex-Pandas
Lengin under the Ray b infielder Peter
management of Brian Holden. Hahn. Juck
They are mostly Chinese players Collar, lefthander Tony Rod-
drawn from the staff of the HK th rigues,
forowr Cheyenne Security and Payroll Protective
Nulle: Bayer, Manuel
of the Association Ltd and they are St Modenps and roached by Sony Azevedo, Alackhawks as well as the two they Can guard thus bases) Baune brothers, Gury and equally well they might come up! Kagie. He must depend on with some good perfomaness,. either Wille Christa or Reggie though they are inexpertened. Hammel to do the pliching but Hay wat oozing with confidence When 1 het spoke to him, "Ill beer sy team to at least segund
BARONIK the
Strongest side
dmire his outlook all the same, Watch it for the Giants 10 Preduce the occasional
upset when least expected,
The teams will disperse after the raising of the IKSA colours and the crowd will then given the opportunity of seeing, ice with a bit of luck," he two exhibition matches. The said. He will be needing more first of these is scheduled to than a bit of luck but we mast begin around 3.30 pm when the Litle League champions, the Giants. take on the Rest in three innings of barebail. The
International champions, Portugal clash with the HKSA Selection is ve Inning of softball immediately afterwartis, to bring the day's ceremonies to a close.
current
Softball
This year's League gets un der
way in October and
*
to uf 16 cams will be com- peting for honours in the res pective divisions.
In the Senior League entries have been received from de fending champions South China AA, the Cheyennes, the Giants and the United States Navy.
Ning teams will
be seen in the Junior diviskon. They are the Austers, White Sex. Indions, a Pandas, Security Nine, SCAA, Hongkong University, Overseas and New Asia.
The Ladies League has only three teams, two from SCAA and ! The Pirates
Five rounds each will be played off in the Senior and Ladies' divisions atkl two reunds in the hundors making a total of 15, 10 and 10 matches per team respectively,
In the Senior section the Cheycubes, under new mana- ger Ed 'Chief Carvalho, ap- pear to have the strunkent side of the four team with such players 34 Peter d'Almada. Johnay Chaves, Vie Pedruco, the two Dayaram boys, Lionel and Moti aud others who were in the line-
Last up
year when
the Cheyennes were the runners* up.
Favourites
Pedruco, the ageless pitcher, is expected to toss the team to the championship and he should be teasing the striken with great confidence as he will be having the backing of u really streng batting side that Includiều tulog Rers' ke Danny Gosano, Onofre Souza and Robert Remedios. They must be rated as pre-season favourites to win The title now
held by SCAA.
David Lo is having rom* trouble rounding up a sumetent- ly streng nine to provide the Cheyennes with any sort of up- poslilon. At the time of writing plener A. I. Salleh hus Stij Hot signed up whild shalwarts Benny Omar and Artur Qzorla dave tescil in se glove 'which leaves SCAA to an unenviablo Pution, 50 far Lo bas managed to retain the services
Australian funeral service for top Malayan jockey
Sydney, Sept. 21. Sydney's racing world packer Randwick Catholic Church to day for the funeral service for the Jale Noel McCrowdie, Malaya's top Jockey who was killed in a car crash on Sept. 8. He was alat one of Australia's mont successful postwar light- weight Jockeys before going th Malbyn.
Jockeys, trainers, alablehanda and racing club officials were aking thứ 800 mourners at the funeral. He is survived by a widow, a noti and a daughter.-- China Mall Special,
As for the
the
U.S. Navy movement of their station ships precludes the possibility of any- one predicting just how the sailors will fare this year. Now and then a team with a first- class pitcher shows up t hall park and produces a sensa tional upset but on the whole the Navy teams are notoriously weak in Belding and always an-
MADDOCKS BY Four D. Jones
[9,140)
FERDINAND
Ladies' League
10
The Austers. Overseas, HKU, New Asia and SCAA are not expected to put up more than token opposition
top three learns.
to the
Tils will be Ofe playing season when it will be difficult! 10 judge which team will und in
the cellar.
an eye
o
spacious First Division ground wondering: "Will I make the grade?”
slightly-built
Jimmy Greaves had nothing to worry about at Chelsen - his record there was soon to prove that. He was in their League side to stay when only 17 and capped by England at 19.
Greaves has always
loved the game, but there was a period In 1987 when he was fed up with football, bimelf, and
Chelsea.
Manager Ted Drake put is Inger on the problem-te boy wonder had been playing 100 MUCH football. The tialct was put on his up-
ու plorances aid
surces- fully passed the one crisis peim in his brilliant Sueter lit
Century of goals
Nothing but the best has been
good enough for the boy born at Poplar in London's East End on February 20, 1010. Greaves, the star who wears Jong baggy shorts and has a boyish grin, kes to be FIRST.
can happen,
As for the ladies, anything! and usually dons, j but the SCAA "B" under Show. He scored in his first game for boat Alf's capable coaching are the team to keep The odds are in favour of the the SCAA 'A' with The Pirates ender Manuel Xavier the leam to upset If all the big nemer he: has cullared turn up in full
force.
WELL, WHAT DO YOU THINK T
DAD? CAN YOU PLACE
THE BOY?
YES, I COULD USE HIM IN A
PANTOMIME, THINK
THE FLUTTERS
HERE WE ARE...
DEAR GİR, TA FOR YOUR LETTER I HAVEN'T GOT NOTHIN' SO WILL CLOSE WISHIN' YOU A HAPPY. CHRISTMAS YOURS TRULY.
BERT CERT?
SCRATCH
BRICK BRADFORD
WHY IS EVERYONG
RIDING BY DEMANDED THAT
WE LAND...HOW WHERD ARE THEY?
AND NOW SNAKESPEARE
Chelsea juniors; in his first theg for the third and second teams, and in his first League game (against Tolten- hom). He also scored in his first England youth inter- national first Under-23 later- national first full interna-
| BELT UP IDIOT. DON'T RUIN
TO BE OR NOT TO BE, THAT IS THE SET-UP WITH CULTURE
THE QUESTION...
USE YOUR LOAF, SEE- ADD A BIT OF SOFT SCAP AN' STOP THE ROT RIGHT"
FROM THE START!
I DON'T KNOW... JOME~) THING 19 YEAY
WRONG ABCRET": THIS PLACE!
MAYCS WE
THINK SOD
JIMMY GREAVES ... England cap at 19
tional. mitaten.
and Arst World Cup
Transferred to the Italian club Stilan in an £86,000 deal in June 1981, he naturally sred in hig first Lengte game for them, 100, Jimmy has made goals his trad
ners. Three months before his 21st birthday he Leenme the youngest player to score 100: PooiLall League goals. Not harl for the bright-eyed youngster "who wondered if he would be good enough!
YOW!
YES, I'LL GIVE
YOU A CONTRACT FOR FIVE WEEKS IN BOLTON
YOU WON'T
REGRET IT, DAN UKE
I MEAN THIS BOY
WILL BE BIG MONEY
PERSONALLY MESELF, {THİNK WE'RE LETTINĖ "EM OFF LIGHT NOT TELUN' )
EM TO MIND THEIR OWN
FUPPIN' BUSINESS,...
MAYOILERHAPS SHOULD GET GE YOURD' EİGHT, BACK TO THE SADRI HAMK) SHIP AND BLAST OUT OF HEAU)
THAT MUST ES
THE PORT ◆HUP VIGOR'
OFFICE
By Mik
'RELAX-WE SHANT' HEAR NO MORE ONCE
THEY KNOW WE'RE
KOT JOININ****
By Paul Norrla
WELL SHA! you gry BACH, WAPIE, I'LL GO
IN... ANOTHER
ELECTRIC-BYE DOOR. IT'S OPENING)
ILL
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GET MEK
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Worldwide TV coverage of Tokyo Olympic Games may be possible
Tokyo, Sept. 21.
ROY SWETMAN
RETIRES
London, Sept. 21. hoy Swetan, the Surrey and England wicketkeeper, has
deckled to Petire from Bret- clans cricket in ender to devote all his time to busineİ,
Swetman, 28 next month, mads h rat-class Lit 30 1953. He toured Pakistan with the MCC "A" side in 1855-30 and went to Australia and New Zealand in 1958-50. He played
in two Tusts in Austraila and two in New Zealand.
in
The
People throughout the world may have a ringside seat watching the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games
In 1950 e representel Eng- in "their own living room,
and three times against India Hisqtayne Sakomlzy, the Satellites such as America's and the following winter played Japanese Postul Service and Echo I now in the global orbit West the tent four Tests in Communication Milster, said | are required tu bounce the
Indies, Chine Moll terlay Japan hopes to complete radio-TV signals. Japan's Inter- 1a project to relay live radio and national Telephone and Tels- TV programes thaugholff the grum Company plans to put world by means of pojanithlea- uloft a mammoli balloon to Dan selites by the time of the¦ help in the projected cosmic 194 Olymples."
Satellites
communication.
TIN Japanese government earlier disclosed it latents to complete the construction of
Sakamiry implied the pro- Asia's biggest parabolle antenna Jeel would larply depend on 21 Tegund near Teleyo for was The United States which in the Olymple Games trans- exported to launch a number, mision. The antenna will be 30 of communication satellites metres in diameter and have lop by the time of the plymples. output of three megawatts.
Sports Diary
TODAY
Tennis
Undersea cable
Special,
CHESS
By LEONARD BARDEN
Tho Sicilian Defence is today's most favoured opening for producing swashbuckling and exciting games, replacing the gambits of old. Here is a inc Slelian from this year's Western Province champion- ship in South Africa (Barriotz v Rubinstein). 1 P-K4, P-QH4; 2 Kt-KB3, H-Q03; 3 P--Q4, PxP: 4 KtxP. Kt-83;5 Kt B3, PK3; 8 Kt (Q4) Kt5, B-Kt5; 1 Kt-Q6 ch. On the other hand, Pacific undersea enble linking K-B6 th, K-B1: 10 3- frans K2: 8 B-KB4. P-K4: 9 Japan and the United States KK, BXKt ch? (much better will be completed by 1914
119...Q-R4 at once); 11 PXB. facilitate the Olymple Coints-R4; 13 Q-Q0 ch, KK; 13.
Exkti, QXP ch: 14 K-Q1 QXR ch; 16 K—Q2, Q—K:7: 16 Archery
Meanwhile, delegates of Euro-P-QR31, Q-K3: 17 BXKIP. Sumper League seventh round, pear broadcasting networks are XP ch: 18 B-K2, Q-B5 chi KGV, sighters it's pm.
Tokyo
with 19 K-QI, P-KR3; 20 Q-E8 confer
ch, K-R2; 21 QxRch, K-K3; Japanese officials in connection with the Olympic Games 22 B-B6, Resigns. I 22... QXKP; 23 Q-Kt7 th, KxK; Carveage.
24 B-Q3 wins the queen, Japanese oficials expect that 1 Dietslon: Tung Wah v
2,580 to 3,000 Sing
Japanive and Too (Clubs: Caroline Tv KR chee 18. China: Pollca v Anny (Police) all matches at 5.30 p
Brea
Lit clanpionato, malehes 3.30 coverage.
!
t'ploy HK,
Bowl Mixed air matches
pro.
TOMORROW
Boccer
It serve Division: Tung Woh v
V
Blog Tao HV); Caroline Hiv Kitchee (S. Chlas): Police v "Army italice i matches at 4 pm.
2nd Division: Club (Club) pm: RAF Ting Sing (UV) Talkeo 4 pm: AFS V CAA (BV) 4 pm Itan- kem v Prison) $50 pin. Watsons B&9
5.30 pm; Proventive Service "y (IV) 5.30 pm.
Athletics
Ġymme
Navires Open Championships
NK Sum. 2 pm.
1st
Blowis
Division: Recreio "Blye" CCC, pm.
inter-liong. Tales matches at Kidc. c. Recreio, KCC CCC.
HCC closing day and presenta- tion of prizes. 5.30 pin.
#
foreign reporters, photographers, radio and TV announcers and movie and TV cameranen will
cover the Games-AP.
Solution No. 8104: 1 R-R7,
XKI; 2 R-Kt6, or 1 KIXP: 2 R-QBZ, or 1 ki B: 2 PQ5, or 1..
Kt-Q3: 2 Kt-H7, or 1... Kt clae: 2 RXRt disch mates accordingly.
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