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BRITAIN SURPRISES-PORTUGAL LOSE: CHINESE NOSED OUT IN BEST GAME
PLAYED THIS SEASON
International Baseball Series Open In H.K.
Contrary to expectations. Britain easily defeated Portugal, by 16 runs to 3, in the first game of the Mamak International The best game of the year was seen yesterday morning. Series. when América posed through to a 3-1 victory over China.
The Hongkong Baseballers won their first and last victory of the season, when, with the help of, Ave Tulsa players, they de- feated the Mindanao by 5 tallies to 4, after an extra innings.
The Fartugal-Britain clash pro-f Scores: ided a great surprise for the local | America fans who had considered that the
British aquad would prove to be Runs no match for the well balanced Hits Portuguese aggregation.
UNHAPPY TIME
Spotty Pereira, hurling for the losers had an unhappy time and conceded Britain 12 safeties and 3 free passes, which together with his team-mates' eight errors gave the winners their huge score.
Dave Leopard pitched through out the game for Britain and held the apposition, to five hits..
The Portuguese ran into a three run lead in the first frame. were held scoreless thereafter.
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U.S. BASEBALL
RESULTS
NEW YORK, Aar. 27 (Beuter} -The following games in the Major League Were played yesterday:--
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh
New York
SPORTS & GENERAL
Eastern Win Philanthropy
Easily
And Business
CHARITY SOCCER
AT VALLEY
1
P.
E.
E.
2
6
1
fans.
B 8" 0
As indicated
LORD HEWART ON
• MIXING THE TWO
·,, ན, "Business is business and ph- In a charity football match played at the Hongkong Football lanthropy is philanthropy, but if Club ground yesterday, the Eastern people mix the two they may run Athletic Association defeated a considerable risk of being misun Combined Hongkong team by ave derstood," said the Lord Chief goals to one.
Justice, Lord Hewart, summing up the King's The match, which was the first in-a Ubel "action"In to be played this season, was well Bench Division recently. supported by a large crowd, of
The spectal jury found for the defendants, the proprietors, prin- by the result.ters and editor of "Truth," in the Eastern was the much stronger action brought by the Company team, especially during the second of Veteran Motorists, Ltd, and Viscount Elibank. chairman of half of the game.
of the In the opening stages, play was the executive committee rather duil until 15 minutes later company" formed to control the when Castilho sent in a beautiful affairs of the organisation, Judg- corner shot to open the score for ment was accordingly entered for 21 the Rest. It was not until near the defendants, with costs.
the end of the half that Wong Man-kwat equalised.
Fletcher homered for the Pirates and Ott (twice) for the Giants
Battery: Schumacher and Dan- ning.
8 7
0 3 0 0.0 0 0
3
1 1 0 2 0 0·0-4
China
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Cincinnati Brooklyn
Runa Hits
0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 001 02 4 MINDANAO RALLY The Hongkong Baseballers en- listed the services of McClanahan, Sartain; Lemming, Hoffman and
5
2
5
Battery: Walters and Lombardi.
Chicago Boston
I
8 12
2
1 8
Leiber homered for the Cubs.
Bellamy to gain a narrow win over Battery: French, and Mancuso, the Mindanao gang. With the
game in the Mindanao's favour 4-2 St. Louis
at the end of the sixth, fans were Philadelphia but preparing to pack up. when the Baseballers staged a rally in the Britain tallled twice the last of the seventh to make up the dinals. second and put the game when they garnered" five markers Hoffman
on ice arrears.
continued
to pitch on four hits in the third stanza. grand ball to blank the sailors in Pittsburgh Three tallies on 3 bingles, the the first of the eighth. With the New York Afth and six markers on only two Baseballers batting, in their half safeties in the seventh completed of the same frame, "Paintpot" Thomas unleashed a wild throw when attempting to peg Higgins at second, for Lemming to
their scoring.
Scores: Britain"
Runs
Hits Portugat Run's
Fits
*
6 7
13 02 5 0 3 0 6-16 1 1 4 1 3 0 212
3 0 0 0.0 ទ 03
27
Eastern attacked with more vigour after the interval and add
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The plaintiffs had complained (producing an annuši income. of articles in Truth" of June 8 should make all the facts plain?" and 22, 1938, which, they alleged, Insinuated that there was con- ed four more Wong Man-wal. Idcealment and obscurity about the Tak-ki, Cheung Chuen-hol and Hau Ching-to scoring.
Tam Kwan-kon custodian of the Combined played excep- timally well while. Castilho also 1 shone in the forward line.
THE TEAMS
way that money members was spent.
subscribed
by
THE MODERN IDEALIST The defence was that the arti cles did not bear the meaning the and plaintiffs attached to them
#JOIN THIS HOLY WAR" The jury might think it quite legitimate for a writer in a public newspaper to say: "In our opinion it is highly undesirable to mix up commercial proft with "high ideals."
The defendants had not sald that but they had suggested it
The following were the teams:-had no defamatory meaning, Fair quite plainly.
The plaintiffs had stated public- Combined XI:--Tam Kwan-kdn; comment was also pleaded.
ly, in so many words: "Join this Bowen, Costa; Lau Ka-bul, Yeung Lord Hewart said that the mo-holy war. this crusade against Tse-chong. Honniball; Castilho, P. dern Idealist might, if one scratch-road accidents. Come and join
Jorge, D. Leonard, Cheuk Shek-led beneath his surface, be found us." kam and Wong King-cheung. to be an astute man of business.
Was that an appear? If it was. Eastern XI-Lau Hin-hon; La Business was quite proper, phi-then was it right to say. as the Wai-kuen, Tsang Chin-wan; Lau lanthropy was admirable, but mis defendants had said, that any or Chu-tsan, Hsu King-shing. Tsang chief might arise if under the ganisation which appealed to the Ying-kuen;
Yung-sum, garb or mask of philanthropy.publie for money owed to the Chung Wong Man-kwal,
Tak-kl, persons carried on a business. public the duty of disclosing how Cruen-hol and Hau "I find it 'dimcult to try to con-that money was spent? ceive another entity which com-
5 10. 0 10
Medwick homered for the Car-
Battery: C. Davis and Padgett.
0 8
.. 3
9
1
0
Demaree homered for the Giants: Battery: Melton and Danning.
cross
Cincinnati Brooklyning
1" 8
6. 9
1
2
Cheung
Camilll homered for the Dodgers. Battery: Casey and Phelps.
Ching-to.
8. 13
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WIN
1.7
1
H
Battery: Page and Hartnett.
11 12
0
,
4
.9
0
the plate with the winning tally.
PITCHING DUEL
Hofman for the Club and Mockeviculs for Mindanao staged a.
3 0 0 1 1 0.08 pitching duel with the honours Chicago
FEVER - HEAT.
fairly even, both striking out six Boston batters and issuing three' walks, The China-America battle had but Mockevicuts conceded 10 ht's the fans at fever heat throughout to Hoffman's 8. the game and was replete with
For the winners McClanahan. St. Louis good plays and threatening mo Lemming. Rodgers and Hoffman Philadelphia ments. Both squads were blanked connected for two hits apiece, in the frst frame, but in the while Badrick, Chase and Doug as second America scored all three of repeated for the losers. Hoffman their markers after Y. T. Chan and "Horseface" Douglas were the throw with two longest hitters with a triple bagger had bobbled a
awag.
In this frame, Koslosky fled to
Wong for the first out, Douglas hit U.S.S. Mindanao
a hot liner to Wu for the second
Battery: Bowman' and Padgett,
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston Chicago
aplece.
Scores:
1 2 3 4 5.6 7 8
0.0 1.2 1 0 0 0
4
Washington Detroit
down. Vetkepler drew a free pass Runs
and Miles
way when
pitched Ball.
also got on the
easy Hits dodge. a . K. he failed to
Runs With two away. Billy Clague Hits slashed a daisy cutter to Bill Hong Sling who nelded cleanly and
pegged to Chan at the initial sack.
The last named, however, dropped
the ball to give Clague a life and
allow Vetkepler to tally.
America took full advantage of this let-off, when Wilson belted a triple bagger to the leftfield fençe to drive in Miles and Clague. "Foochie" Chase flied out to Hong Sling for the third out with America holding`s winning land.
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WOMEN'S TEAM
OF CRICKETERS
Visit To Australia
This Year
The English Women's cricket team for Australia is due to pass
through Colombo about the third
week "in November. This is the The Yanks again threatened in second time the Women's Cricket
R.
H. E.
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$
5 10 0
Battery: Dietrich and Schlueter.
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0
8 8
0
tht
Gehringer homered for Tigers.
Battery: McKain and Tebbetts.
New York St. Louis
12 0
1 3
Laabs homered for the Browns. Battery: Hadley and Dickey.
Philadelphia Cleveland
5-16 3
12 7
Q
Battery: Milnar and Hemsley.
FIRING PRACTICE Light, gan firing practice will the fourth Douglas belted a hard Association of England are sending be carried out from the Mount hit single to centre and Vetkepler out a team to Australia. The first Davis Area between the hours of followed with a bingle to right, team was sent out four years ago am. and 2 pm. to-day. Ho's throw-in got away from Chan
Anti-Aircraft firing practice will but Nip`Lum recovered and nailed and won the rubber in Australia.
Since then the Australian women be carried out from the Mount. Douglas at the plate.
yethepler, who had taken a lead cricketers have toured England and Davis Area between the hours of off the middle cushion, was caught done very well, sharing the hon-9 am and 2 p.m. to-day. when "Nip Lum whipped the pellet jours in the Tests, ・・
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Firing Area 'D' will be affected The C.C.A are in communication in each case. to Wally' Ching to complete'a neatý double killing. Miles went down with the English women's team Swinging to and the stanza.
Light gun Bring practice will be. whose manager is. Miss Este carried out between the hours of The only Chinese reply came in Parish, while the captain will be 8 pm and 12 midnight to-day the last half of the same inning: Miss Betty Archdale, who led the 29, 30 and 31 August and Septem- Wally Ching took a called third side on the first tour. It is expected ber, 1939. -strike for the first out. Chaney that the tourists will be afforded Chan walked and Earl Wong facilities for a game in Colombo fanned: 8ing drew an Anne At least nets will be provided Oakley, and Wu loaded the bags for practice.
· FIRST CLASS PLAYERS
Firing Area "C" will be affected.
Ton January 27 and the Third Test when Mier, bobbled his grounder
at Melbourne commencing on Feb- ruary 10.
•With Tommy Chan batting for
The touring team also includes
The final match of the tour "Dynamo" Ho, Milen baulked to
several first class hockey players will be played a+ allow Chaney Chan to score and it might be possible to arrange against an Australian
Malbourne With runners on second and game of hockey between the visi-February 16 and 16. third Tommy Chan disappointedtors and a Ceylon Women's team
The team the Chinese supportsis by striking in the afternoon.
will pass through Colombo "on their way back to England early
out
GREAT DEFENCE
One of the members of the Ensin March. lish team is Miss Aline Brown, who, America, never threatened there is a sister of the old Cambridge HOCKEY PLAYERS after, faced with the great de- blue and England cricketer F. R.
Mias Elsie Farish, manager, 33 fence of the Chinese but coming Brown, who also toured Austrails years of age. Played hockey for into the last of the seventh two in 1832-33 with the MC.C. team Essex for 5 years and has been President of the Essex Women's tellig behind the losers made a led by D. R. Jardine greek but unavailing effort. Apart from Miss Archdale who Hockey Association since 1936. Geke Wu died to Vetkenler at has visited Australia before the She visited America in 1936 to only other member of the English attend the Women's International Troy, Chan-amashed a bingle side who has been to Austrails Hockey Association Conference. through sin box and advanced to with the last team is Miss E. Miss Betty Archdale has played when Choy drove the pill Snowball, the clever little wicket-hockey for Kent and the East of the left field foul line, keeper and opening batsman." England Amid intense excitement
Chan
The English team will open Miss Betty Belton years old," was forced out by A. Li's grounder their tour at Perth on December 1 played hockey for Worce MUCK TWIổ tạo Away, and she against West Australia. They will Misa Audrey Collins 24 tying runs on the use No Fam then play against 8. Apstralia, was born in Just failed with a hit that feu foul Victoria and 9, Wales before for Club in Liver along the first base une and ended the First Test starting at Bydney
Mika Doro game when he finally find out on January 6, The Second Test plays hockey for Tetkepler in the garden
will be played at Adelaide, starting of England,
old-
nockey
$50
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