Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 13, 1941.
Teams Limbering-Up For League
Tulsa Trample. Chung Hwa Youngsters Underfoot: R. Engineers Trounced
(By “Ball Fan"}
Continuing their spring training, limbering - up sessions, local baseball teams dished up two more pre- season exhibition 'games over the week-end in heat- perspiring weather at the sun baked sand dunes of the Caroline Hill ball park, as ball fans throughout the Colony continue to dope out the chances of each team this season in real hot stove fashion.
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Weekend Stars
Al Simmons and Maxwell, Tulsa, Former Jed
a terrific Tulsa power clouling, attack with a pro- digious homer, double and single, to drive in six tallies with a spec-
Grandpa Leung's Chung Hwn]************ Maroons went down to their second straight southern train- ing defeat as Tulsa's mighty T rode roughshod home on a 12-4 "heh heh" win. The local Chin- ese "Connie Mack" had a gang of youngsters out there just up from the sandlots, who were taking in their first game under the big tent, and they showed a clear degree of back yard ball and inexperience in their pep-) pery efforts to retain a spot on the Chinese major league team this year.
TAKING a force shattering lead in
the first two frames, Uncle Sam's hard-hilting soilors found. a loop-hole in the offerings of Chinese hurler Al Lau to connect for thirteen solid safelles with successive_crosh- ing homeruns by slugger Maxwell and shortstop Al Simmons featuring 5th inning two run scoring attack.
heat Playing in torrid tropical which had the ball players
and Ians sweating to the
core, the brand of ball dished up by both teams had a "weary-labelled" tag marked all over it, with a few of the diamond artists stripping to the waist or relief from the Intense humidity. Tulsa's starting moundsman,
MacLanahan opened up ly confident style, but weaken- highly ed terribly in the 3rd canto to walk. six Chinese Maroons who only gor- nered two runs in this generous free pass melee, Rellet hurler Strickland tossed a steady game the next four frames to hold the Chinese to one solitary blow.
In
Lacular hickory-wielding perfor- ance: latter also figured in flic devastating attack with a cireult clout and single besides pilfering three
bags and coming home with three runs.
Dave Leonard and Baby Abbas, II.B. Beer-The old bam surprised hls most ardent supporters by hurling steady game to set the Engineers down with five measly bingles and a lone tally, striking out six Sappers in the rout: latter's run in the second frame started
their run scoring splurge,
MASS HORSE RACING
10,000 Prepared For Rassian Competitions MOSCOW, April 80 (Tuss).– The spring acason has com- menced at hippodromes in the southern districts of the U.9.9.R. Hundreds on thoroughbreds have been assembled for the Moscow, |Lvov, Tashkent, Pydtigorsk and other hippodromes, and 10,000 collective form. trotters and race- horses have been assigned for this your's competitions. The All-Union trotting championship will be held at
the Orlezen hippoderby for race.
The All-Union
horse
and trotters and traditional contests for the All-Union summer
and
Bill Chang-(Chung Hwa-catchor) dropped the ball and Tulsa Prizes for 4-year racehorses
scored one as seen in the picture.-Ming Yuen.
Cricket In America
Firmly Established
Figures For 1940 Season
3-year-old trotters will be for the first time held in Moscow as well as the U.SS.R. prize of race-horses on 0,400 metres distance and saddic horses on 4,000 metres. 235 draught horses will participate in the racing contests,
PEAKNESS STAKES WINNER TAKES KENTUCKY DERBY NEW YORK, May 12 (Reu- ter).---Mr Warren Wright's Whirlaway, winner of the Ken-
end, won the valuable Peakness
SAN FRANCISCO.-Cricket in the United States has the heavy clouling Brewers on gone along in such an unobtrusive manner since its intro-tucky Derby the previous week-
duction in 1751 that it is not generally known that it is played each summer from Boston to San Diego and from San Francisco to Philadelphia. ·
According to the Illinois Cric-
clubs competing for various As- sociation or League honours each
U.S. National ket Annual, there are nearly 100 Breast-stroke
Record Broken
| season.
New York State lends with 32
Don Bradman Recommended For
clubs (divided into four competitive Discharge From Army
BUFFALO, N.Y., May 2 (Reuter) groups); California is next with 20 the Northern California -Little Pally Aspinall, known as (10 in "The Minnow with the Flying Cricket Association and 10 in the Fish Style," smashed the National Southern California Griffith Parki Women's 220-yard breast stroko|A). Then comes the Massachusetta record at the age of 14 at the State C. L. with 11, Illinois C. A. 10, Women's Senior Amateur Athletic New Jersey C. 7. Philadelphia
L Union Swimming Championships C. A. 5, Rhode Island and Central hero.
Massachusetts C. L. 4, Missouri C. A. She covered the distance in 3:07.8 3, and Flint C. L. 3. P. F. Choy and Forrest Loong, minutes, slicing 1.2 seconds from the Chung Elwa's steady outilela due record set in 1940 by Fujiko Katsu- and veteran stars of last year's tini of Honolulu,
Cosmopolitan Composition
licated brilliant fy.
at Dy-shagging displays out the diflicultying fish stroke, in
came through with Patty swam the whole way using personal composition of the
there
tlubs in the Middle West and
10 the sand pastures, to nip which the arms are brought out of the Eastern States is unknown, but double overhand out in the San Francisco Bay region many the water in
In the well-known buð,
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Talsa scoring threats. The two fashion, Instead of
to
the orthodox the cosmopoillan side of the game is
Illustrated by the make-up,of-some| of the teams.
Veterans appear be rounding underwater breast stroke.
out rapidly into mid-season form
and coach" "Connie Mack" Leung
is banking heavily on these two outfield gems to be standout stars
this year.
Second string tosser Bill Chang, coming up to the slab in the 6th canto was greeted with a shower of baselits Including a sizzling double by Pete Petersen. Four Tulsa tallies denied the old platter in this frame as the mighty T rode home with their
straight spring training
third triumph,
DHUN Ruttonjee's H.B. Brew-
'Spurs Player
Killed In Flying Accident
The captain of the cricket team of
the Olymple Club (Ray Ockernal) is
Stakes at the Pimlico Course, Baltimore, by beating King
Cole by Ave lengths, with Our Boots, two lengths behind, third.
Whirlaway is the son of Blenheim, the English. Derby winner of 1030 Ridden by Eddie Arcaro, Whirlaway covered the Pimlico course of nine furlongs in one minute 584 seconda,
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The following SYDNEY, May 2-Licut)
rinks have been selected to represent the Hongkong Don Bradman. famous cric-Elecirle R.C. in a Lawn Bowls Lea "keter, has been recommended gue match against the Police R.C. at
Happy Valley on Saturday, 3.30 p.m.:: for discharge from the army w. E. Macfarlane, R. F. Gregory, for health reasons. Recently J. F. Barron and L. de Rome. -he has suffered from fibrositis
in the back muscles,
R. A. Owens, E, L. Groome, A, G, Gardner, and A. F. Paul,
A. P. Tarbuck, J. R. Way, C. E. Gahagan and J. K. Sloan.
Reserve, W. Stonehouse,
Anglo-American. Boxing Bouts For War Funds
from Adelaide (Australia); M. Mike Jacobs Adopts British Proposal
Anderson was born in Honolulu; C
S. R. Farley, W. S. Kennedy; and A.
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NEW YORK, (UP).-Promoter Mike Jacoba is Scincke in South Africa; and Jerry trying to arrange and Maurice Wolohan. George Bones,
a
series of six war
ROCKY MOUNTAINS
bouts in Harry Hughes, D. J. MacDaniel, and six United States' cities between the best United States M.P. J. Peterson are American-born of and British professional fighters for the benefit of the
Itish parentage.
British. Red Cross and Canteen Service.
CARBERRY, Man., Apr 7 (UP). -Leading Alrerafiman David
in
British
Wesley, 27. fatally injured flying accident near the Royal Air The president (and most consistent Force training school here, was-6 batsman) of the Golden Gate club— prominent college athlete and be J. M. Kealy-is from Ireland; C.] fore the war a member of the McMorine (secretary and leading ers sparked off their sea- famous Tottenham Hotspurs soccer bowler) and W. Cutler from Eng- son's campaign with a big 10-1 team. team.
land. opening exhibition victory over
Was fatally injured early
Then there is a group of Call- when he made a forced the Royal Engineers.
fornians-V. Welsh, W. and R. Mul- landing near No, 33 Service Hurling classy ball in
grew, K. Dorking, and W. Strel-ali his first Training School, 100 miles west of of whom played baseball in high mound effort of the current year, Winnipeg, after a routine night Bight. school and college and brought with slab artist Dave Leonard cashed in
hospital several hours them to the Golden Gate team keen-| with a "ding ho" tossing perform-He died in
ness, enthusiasm, and a highly com- ance to limit the Sappers with five
London Graduate
petitive spirit. measly blagles. "Hot tamale" Dave's fireball had the Engineers in a guess- A graduate of London University, ing mood as he sent out six via the Wesley was prominent in rugger und whiff route.
amateur boxer during his The beer kings opened up in the college years. He was heavyweight 2nd stanza when Baby
boxing champion at the university singled to centre, stole second and seven years ago. Prior to the war third, and crossed the platter with he taught languages in intermediate the first tally on a wild throw to schools in London.
Abbas
later.
ea an
first by Sapper moundsman Bary- An aunt, Mrs. S. Salr, lives at ftek.
North Battleford.
Leonardmen added three more runs in the next frame with A. K. Omar. Showboat AJI and Jindoo Hussain cruising home on a single: and two errors after Tarzan Ismail was tagged out at second,
Adamson Cup Golf
J. M. Thomson 77-9-60, and' M. A.
The Royal Engineers checked in Cairns 06-18-08 tied and qualified for with their lone tally in the 3rd on a the May competition of the Adamson single by Vic Foley who stole second, Cup at Happy Valley Golf Course dur- took third on a passed ball and rushing the week-end.
ed home on an overthrow.
Leonard's beermen added three
Test Standard
experience has THE baseball
proved to be especially valuableį in the mutter of fielding and li Is]
no exaggeration to say that one see fielding in somo of the
can
Cables were sent to London asking if six suggested British fur loughs for a team trip to the United States. It is believed that the furloughs can be ob tained because the proposal
Home Soccer pugilists could. obtain Fixtures For
The Week-end of the war matches originated
to
in England. LONDON, May 12 (Reuter)-~~~~The
Jacobs said he was eager following are the Home soccer fx-promote these bouts in New York, tures for the coming Saturday:
Los Angeles, Detroit, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago. He wa LONDON CUP
confident they would draw big gates Arsenal v. West Ham.
and make robust contributions to the British Red Cross and Canteen funds. Rival Organisation
SOUTH REGIONAL LEAGUE
Cardiff City. v. West Bromwich TACK Kearns, former manager of games of the Northern California Albion; Crystal Palace v. Southend; of Jack Dempsey,, subsequently C. A that would not be surpassed Fulham v. Millwall; Leicester v. Tot-announced that he has
formed an v.. Chelsea; organization to promote boxing shows throughout the country for the benefit of the British-American Am- bulance Corps.
and Australia.
High Scorera
In a test match between England tenham; Northampton
Portsmouth v. Aldershot.
HAMPSHIRE CUP SEMI-FINAL COME of the American-born boyɛ] Queens Park Rangers v. Wulford;
were among the high scorers of Reading v. Brentford, the U.S.A. for the 1940 season,
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In addition to staging his own shows at strategle locutions available
to men in training camps and to George Bones of The Olymple Club) - NORTII REGIONAL LEAGUE these active in defence projects, scored 106 retired against Sacra-
Kearns will cooperate with other Blackpool .v. Preston North End; promoters, in providing cards and Wanderers V. Manchester finances for their ambulance corps
mento and Jerry Wolohan, of name Bolton
team had a high score of 18 and City: Everton v. Shemeld United; fights. Ten percent of the gross gate more markers in the 4th inning and K. Omar who took first on an inßeld! finished the season with an average Grimsby v. Barnaley. finished off with a two run attack in error; showboat All's stinging dou- of 38.75 per innings the highest in the 6th when Charlie Manson open-blo to right drove in his two mates the Association.
ed up with a single followed by A, to end a high-scoring, brewery win.
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In their initiat ball playing AD- pearalice of the season at the train- ing secilen of the Caroline Hil sand dunes, H.B.'s beermen seem to have a pennant aspiring lineup that has real classy hitting power
·with plenty of experience and ball senso out there on the diamond, and should start as one of the fa- voured nines when the season rolls around in the near future,
Bhighly
●RINGING a grand ball season to a
successful climax,
dance held
annual softball dinner
the
Another, Bill Wright of the
CUNTHORPE CUP
Huddersfeld v. Bury; Tranmere Venice Club of Los Angeles, played |Rovers v. Chester. an innings against Santa Barbara that would have toon him the cheers of cricket fans the world Out of a total of 72 runs- he over. scored 60 of them in sizes. During the season he batted 20 times for a total of 650 runs; his highest score was 94; and his average 22.41 per Innings. V. Wolsh's 71 was the highest score for the League- Golden Gate Club Cup-winning
team.
It may seem strange to stress the over the week-end in the Rose Room fact that so many American-born boys are doing so well in cricket of the Peninsula Hotel went off with- out a hitch as a gala crowd of sofi- und the only reason for doing so is ball players and gashouse fans made because many Americans on viewing merry, to the sweet tunes of Art a cricket match for the first time Carneiro and his tie too rhythm always remark that it is much too tame and slow for the youth of this country.
thakers.
from
Addressing the large gathering wöll-defined spot at the "mike," President Ildefonso save ha brief, but clear, review; of soft- ball, Holage during the past year, and thanked players, managers srid all: (connected with the game" for their fine effort in bringing soft-
pinnacle
Centuries
CHESHIRE COUNTY BOWL REGIONAL MATCHES
Mansfield v. Roncaster Rovers: Stoke City v. Chesterfield, COMBINED COUNTIES CUP FINAL Middlesbrough v. Leeds United. LANCASILIRE CUP FINAL Manchester United v. Burnley.
OTHER MATCHIEŠ
Walsall v. Aston Villa. SCOTTISH CUP FINAL REPLAY
· (AT GLASGOW) Hearts v. Rangers,
CHARITY CUT FIRST ROUND Partick Thlatle v. Clyde,
AT least four players in various | Vij parts of the United States
· reached · the coveted: senisky with
will automatically be, assigned to the corps, he said.
Of British Origin
GROUP of prominent British sportsmen originated the idea Jacobs announced. They wrote to Nat Fleischer of New York, editor of "The Ring" magazine, asking him
to contact Promoter Jacobs regarding possibilities of staging the bouts. Jacobs was delighted with the proposal,
his
The British team would include Tommy Farr, who gave Louisa hard 16-round fght back in 1937, and
five current British champions: Jock heavyweight; Len Harvey,
Ernie MCAVOY
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In addition to the match, another heavyweight counter would pair Harvey and either Lou Nova or Maxie Baer, McAvoy could tangle with either of
our
Overdleweight champions, Kent
engage
and Tony Zale, Roderick could champ, Frlizie Zivic: Boon pgainst the lightweight king, Low Jenkins, and the world fyweight title dispute could be finally settled by Patterson of Scotland meeting Lille
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