NANCY
AUNT FRITZI SAYS SHE HASN'T HAD ANY MAIL FOR A WEEK --- I
WONDER WHAT'S
WRONG
MAYBE SOMEONE.
IS STEALIN'
IT FROM
D' MAIL BOX!
Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 29, 1939. By Ernie Bushmiller
G' MORNIN'!
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ENGLISH FOOTBALL IS RICH IN QUALITY
Lawton Has Many Rivals
As Centre-Forward In
ENTERTAINING
Baseball
England's National XI NEW YORK
By ARBITER (Frank M. Carruthers)
London, Aug. 3.
English football is accumulating riches in romarkablo profusion. This is especially true in regard to contro forwards. 1 cannot, in fact, re- member a period when the game has had a quartet to equal Lawton, Westcott, Drake and Steele.
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OUTFITS SUCCEED
New York, Aug. 28.
matches played in the Major Base- | ball League:
BASEBALL
PLAYED
DURING
THE WEEK-END
(By "Bingle")
Fans were treated to first class baseball on The following were the results of Sunday when the United States of America hum- |bled China, 3-1, in the International Series, while on Saturday Britain upset the dopesters by taking Portugal, 16-3, in a one-sided fray. Hongkong Baseball Club's last league game with U. S. S. Bat-Mindanao was forfeited to the gunboat, as the
National League
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Redlegs could not field a team. In a friendly The House of Quality & Service
There may, ton, be a fifth of equal leader, will again he available, but distinction in Tadman before, the it can be taken for granted that the Oft hammered for the Gients. new season has run far. Already no new-style teamwork will be pre-tery-Glunts, player is more sure with his shots served and this should ensure a con- ning. in Anding the ungelatable plices in france of the club's success.
3 game, augmented by the Tulsamen, the Molthen- quad than the Charlton man.
Throughout last season the Arsenal But to all these players 1 would strove to justify the £14,000 fee paid say, "You will be counted a success for Byn Jones, and to the In Dattery--Braves, Morgan and Lopez, the nightcap.
Moure homered for the Cardinals, mon nosed out the Mindanaons, 5-4, yesterday, in only as long as you continue to result was a bb; disappointment. In- store. Your Jub is 1101 to play deed, in my view, the attempt to
Chicago
5 7 U football' but to put the ball in the ¦ make him à Jamer will never suc Philadelphur... 3 11
eced net."
und unless a is abandoned the Russel homered for the Cub Tom Lawton made a handsome; unsettlement of the team will con-Battery--Cubr. Rool and Hartnett. contribution to Everton's champion, tinue.
American League
ship triumph last season, but tu- At Wolverhampton the plan was to wards the end it was said "he's play- į bring Jones into the attack at every obviously ing too much football," with the in- opportunity. The order plication that he had begun to Taney | was "Give the ball to Bryn." The himself as a ball worker.
Arsenal, however, made him distri-
New York Detroit dog DiMaggio homered twice
tery.-Yankres, Riso and Dickey,
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the
classy pitching of winning game for the Hongkong side skipper Dave Leonard, of the Union with Pinky Higgins receiving. Brewers, the British squad had ments, but nothing serious came of There were a few explosive mo- somewhat exisy time of it on Satur-them. The Hongkong team scored day. Dave allowed only five safeties their five counts on ten blows, while while his mates collected 12 blows! Mindango's four, runs eff the
eight safeties. Hongkong were guilly easy benders of Spotty of five bobbles while Mindanno hind
come in on
The same critical brick has been i butor-in-chief and he showed that Keller once for the Yankees. Bat-perciru, whose hooks weren't work only free chalked up to them.
buried at Drake, with no account taken of the injuries which have en- tailed three operations.
A CRAFTER
part.
inker
he is not fitted to the
Apparently the club are not pres pared try to buy back their old power. They are, however, exceps Lonally well off for young players, although n a rebuilding process time and patience to complete, and 1 think further changes may be re- quired in the half-back line. The Arsenal have never adequately filled the places of Bob John and Charlle Jones at wing half
I sympathise with Lawton in his desire to have a part in the schemes of the Everton team and in weighing liltri as England's centre forward the authorities should not forget how he inde inade some of Hall's five goals s against Ireland. But
until the Gallacher type of
of centre forward again has the essing of the clubs 1
um afraid Lawton will have to subordinate his; ambitions to that of scoring.
Everton, in spite of the star per- formances of Lawton and Mercer, the No.
I discovery of Un season, owed their success to team work which seemed to me to come about Instine- | jury. lively rather than to be planned.
STOKE POLICY
Cleveland
6 -10 5 12 Williams homered for the Red Sox and Trosky for the Indians. Battery, -Red Sox. Auker and Peacock.
Washington
1
ing at all on Saturday.
Britain was blanked in the first) frume, while the Portuguese crossed the plate three times on three blows und an error. Portugal didn't score again.
St. Loui ... 12 17
With two markers in the second. Travis homered for the Senutors canta, Britain added another five in and Hefner for the Browns, Battery, the third on the first of their two
Browns, Trotter and Horshany. | merry-go-rounds, the other coming. The match between Philadelphia in the last when six-tallies crossed; If any team advance beyond ex-Jand Chicago will be played at night. The plate on only two hits and two pectations it may be Stoke, lucky in Reuter. their retention of Stanley Matthews, for whom they might any day receive £15,000, and in the Steele from his troublesome knee in Billiards
recovery
pt
But if we are to see the full possi-
It was, in Tact, achieved by a de- bilties of Stake, I think it is essen, дели attack which tial that they should make n good parture from the the club hoye favoured and
the start and
all bottom-of-the-table banished. Someone
players had no doubt us to the vital fears be
at
part played by Bentham as a leg in Stoke is strangely apprehensive and La formation. As one of the apt to order stern defensive mea- old types of grafters, Bentham did sures at the first threat of trouble a proliglous amount of work, and I would like to see the rein relaxed he not only filled in the gaps but and the young champions given their covered a defensive weakness which heads. The policy would not
entaili I believe would otherwise have any risks that could not be checked existed.
and IL might produce surprising inspiring results.
I bape Thomson,
an
FAMOUS STATE EXPRESSES
and of course
Volunteers Beat "C" Coy. Middlesex
miscues.
One of Best Games- Seen Here
Sunday's curtain raiser was just The only double play of the fray about the best game
seen around was executed by Sammy Izati in the these parts, when America, with the last when, unassisted, he brought of ald of four Tulsamen. four Min- two kallings: a fly off Johnny Alvares dannons, two Hongkongites and a to nail Eddie Carvalho at the key-Union Brewer, took the game away tone-sack. Britain earned the right from the Chinese to enter the final to meet America in the final thist of the International Series.
cries,
Hongkong B.C. Forfeit Tie
Both twirlers, Miles and Enr] Wong. went the route for their re- spective teams, and both allowed four hits,
The three American runs came in the second stanza. Koslosky flied to
and Douglas
flied to
the petkeller was given a pass)
third.
The Soldiers' Club Dillard Tourna ment match between the "C" Com- Portuguese Company of the Hong- pany, Middlesex Regiment, and the]
Hongkong Baseball Club, the cellar while Miles reached first on being kong Volunteurs was played last champs of the campaign, gave away hit by a pitched ball. Clogue belted evening and resulted in a win for their last tussie to U. S. S. Mindanao a grounder to second
Chaney the Volunteers by 705,
by forfeiture. In the friendly con- Chang, on first, fumbled to allow the L/Cpl. A. P. Pereira played very test that ensued, Hep-eat Hoffman, s
irst run to cross the plate. Vetket- well to beat his opponent by 142 in Tulsa's champ Jitterbug, hurled a ler came in on top of catcher Nip 200 up with the highest break, of the
evening-33.
Scores:
Portuguese Coy.
"C" Cay.
Pto, M. M. Silva
Plc L. A. Rocha
200 200
Pte. Melior 128 Pie. Aldridge
347
Pte. J. F. V. Tubeiro 200 Pie, Halfold⚫07 Capt. F. P. Sequeira 200 Pte. Connolly
154 Pte. E. A. V. Reinedics 200 Fie, Green ป Cpl. J. C. Bemedios 200 Pte. Helllada 63 L/Sgt. J. D. Remedior 200 Cpl. Horn L/Cpl. A. P. Pereira 200 821. Burrell
1000
but
Lum's left foot and play was sus- pended for several minutes. High Jumper Wilson was the hero of the
Athletic Meeting day, however, for with his triple to
Now Cancelled
the left cabbage patch he chased in two of his mates.
Highlights of the battle were the Paris, Aug. 29.
two double killings which had the The French Athletic Federation fans roaring. In the third, Douglas 81 has cancelled the Anglo-French caught Lum's attempt to dump, and Gathletic meeting for Paris on Sunday had Choy flatfooted off first. In the Bowing to the international situation. next, douglas tried to steal home on
--Reuter.
Vetketler's single to right. Dynamo Ho threw the ball to Chan, who let It go by his brogans; Lum the ball up before it became a passed scooped ball and tagged Douglas who sliding in Then, with Vetketler taking a man-sized lead off 'second, alert Lum whipped the ball to short- stop Wally Ching for the double play. It certainly was smart baseball-for the Chinese!
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