HONGKONG 1
May 24, 1941.
Draws
Nearer
Local League Opening
H.K. Brewerymen Tackle Chung Hwa Maroons In Tune-up Game To-day
S. China v. Sappers To-morrow
("By BALL FAN")
WITH THE OPENING MARCH to the flag- pole set for Saturday June 7, local major league ball teams have already started pruning out their "below standard” rookies and veterans who have passed from the big time class, so as to bring their roster down to the maximum number of players allowed by the league constitution. ́
Picked to enter the pennant chase as one of the dead-set favourites, by the wise guys along the local "Broadway", H.K. Brewery's all-powerful beermen tackle
Chung Hwa Maroons in a training tune-up tilt this after Larry Montes
noon at the sunny Caroline Hill sand dunes, at 3 p.m.
The Sabbath morning encoun- ter slated for the same sun bak- cd grounds at 11 a.m. will find the South China nine in their second #workout" fracas when they take on "hot potato" Hamelin's Royal Engineers.
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E beer producers have been dangling around with various infeld combinationg since they open- ed camp at the Southland training grounds, but have already rounded out their infield problems for year, and will enter the league
ener next month quartet in Stan Leonard on first,
a veteran that fluid" Alves and
George Sousa clicking at the key- stone, and that "terridero of bam's" Dave Leonard on third.
In this In tossing Madeen Arcatli will be sent to the beer hillock to oppose Chung Hiwa hurler ΑΙ Lau. The Chinese Maroon Slabman, in his pre-season training Ressions On the rubber mound, has shown promising class, n sure bet to Improve as the and is league schedule gets underway,
Grandpa Leung's Marbons checked in with a snappy By- shagging game in thele fast prac- ilco fray with veterans Cloy
afternoon's fray, steady
J
ring-fun and Forrest Loong dial- ing up rare mid-season ball catcha- ing abulty,
The Chinese masterminds expect to break camp this year and head, north with 11 gang of scrappy rookies, who are booked to start at regular positions beside lust your's starry veterans.
Manager P. K. Lau and coach Mero Leung have
given the ball-playing aspirants plenty perspiring work In their limbering dellls, and
opening day
of
the
should find a Chung Hwa team in the pink, of condition and
"rarin" (a get into the pennant chose.
Hongkong Brewery ball fans are all "het up" over the brilliant wins which their favourites have already checked in with since the start of the spring exhibition tilts, and the beer faithful have visions of the pennant and Bagram Shield when the early autumn rolia
around in the far off horizon.
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AFTER their crushing defeat by Tulsa's mighty run- making machine Inst week, the Royal Engineers will be gunit ing to redeem themselves before their gashouse followers to-
Weekly Wind-up
Tulsa's screwball double play last week should carve a blg niche in local baseball's "believe it or not" hall of queer plays-Tho H.B. beer kings looked pretty hot out there in their affair with the Mighty. T-Seem to have every-
thing from terrific hitting power to
a snappy bat boy.
Holes-in-One
On P.l. Course
LARRY MONTES, leading Philippine golf professional scored
folc--one for the first time in his carcer and broke the course. record of the Davao Golf and
Country Club in Davao City by shooting a 33 to an exhibition maich, played on May 15.-
Monies remarkable feat was no-
hieved while playing in a foursome with Zacks and Pat Frank, Davao Which reminds us that a bal boy xolfers, and Dinde Gonzalez, Zacks plays a pretty important role with and Montes defeated Pat Frank and the Major teams under the biz tent Gonzalez in a thrilling match, 1 up. -Eddie Bennell, famous bat boy played before a big crowd despite with Joe McCarthy's New York the stormy weather. Yankees, who is a real middle-aged man, is an important cog in the Yankee pay-roll--Always receives share in the Club's World Serles out.
To-day's Lawn Bowls Programme
The following is the programme of Lawn Bowls League matches for 10-day:
FIRST DIVISION
Joe, "that sparkling firebrand Morris, Mahawks shifty catcher, is leaving this land by the sea in the very near future-Joe was a starry Ice hockeylst back around the pre- cincts of the Boston Gardens Flashed around centro ice a 10 Howie Morenz, the immortal Cana- alien, of "lying Frenchwen" fame -Dito Mack Sperry, lanky mar- auding Mohawk outfelder, whic was chosen on the mythical all-Recreio "B" Interscltolasito Ice hockey team Police R.C. back in his Boston College High Kowloon C.C. school days.
K.B.G.C. "A" That garden bowling tilt to-day K.B.G.C. "B" between the softball league and the Κσινίσση Fot
Football Club should be a "oorker," or do we mean a
whlex- banging humdinger" A. M. Omar Hongkong F.C. will probably be
skipper for Prison O.C.
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the
diamond masterminds in this Tuikoo
classic duck pin rolling fracas.
The local major baseball league's
entrance fee looks pretty high from
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17 Recreio ""A"
Craigengower
V.
Y.
K. Ducks
V.
C.S.C.C.
V. Indian R.C.
SECOND DIVISION
V.
Recreio
v. Hongkong C.C.
Kowloon C.C.
The Combined Chinese athletic team, who, though beaten, put up a great fight against the Army in the Athletic Meeting held at Caroline Hill on Sunday last-Ming Yuen.
American's Views On British Sports Character
(By Ben Robertson, "P.M." Staff Correspondent)
LONDON, April-They are having a public discussion to allow horseracing in the middle of war. Recently, the ban over here at the present time about whether it is morally right
against racing was partially lifted and a meet was held at Lincoln-the first regular meet that has been permitted in England in months and months.
It was a very subdued affair compared to the great race
gatherings of peace time, but West Leads East
nonetheless it was a
racing
occasion-the ponies did run and
some of the girls showed up in new Easter hats and some of the
In Japanese
boys drank a few pints of beer. Wrestling Bouts
Both sexes pinced number of modest bets and they used up a cer- tain amount of gasoline and lost about six hours from the office.
As all moral questions, this
on event has split the people into a group which holds it was sinful waste of time during a war, into a group which believes It was a sinful waste, yet one that somehow ought to merli a shameless forgiveness, and Into majority which argues:
"What the hell, a bloke must do something now and then to get his mind of the struggle,"
Oats Problem- Kowloon F.C. TH
THE argument which the strict moralists put forward is not only that racing should be banned, but that racehorses should be put to work or killed. They say horses are Hongkong F.C. robbing the barnyard fowl of Great
Britain of nats.
4.
Craigengower
V.
THIRD
DIVISION
V.
V
K.B.G.C.
.
Police
this angie--If gots the financially-Recreio Bound clubs, and the high-salaried | Indian R.C. yakels, of this community through Electric with the O.. sign easy enough-Hongkong C.c. But what about the youngsters, the back yard Sandlot
tot gang, the kids who form teams and want to play The under-paid, the little shota In this land, those who would find it practically Impossible to sell many, if any season tickets-Those | who haven't the pats who can afford to buy season tickets.
of
Craigengower
Bobby Jones III
TOKYO. May 23 (Domel). With Captain and Grand Champion Alinanegawa, 315-pound Goliath, dropping out of active participa- tion on the sixth day, the disheart- ened Eastern sumo wrestlers on Thursday trailed the Westerners captained by Grand Champlon Futabayana by. 171 matches to 189 to-day, as only one more day re- mains of the 15-day tournament.
Haguroyama, Futayama's protege and second ranking champion of the West, camp, held on to individual honours by defeating the massive Altinoumi, stretching his record to 13 victories with a lone defent, by the best in the tournament.
As the tournament goes into its final day, interest is at fever pitch with large crowds massed in front of newspaper offices watching the latest
results being posted on the score on electric signs.
I asked Robert Hudson, the Minis- boards, flushed
ter of Agriculture how much cats There is standing room only in the
did the racehorses of England eat news reet theatres featuring the
he and
said that if what they ate sumu matches. were fed to hens the population of this Island would have one quarter!
Ready For His of an egg more per year.
In America, baseball is symbolic Turnament Debut
national democracy in the realm
of sport-A sport for the under- privileged as well as for the privf-| leged!
serious thought to.
morrow morning, with a fight-fan's point of view, is something ing game against South Chinn's that all ball pokels will give a red and blue men. Since their 5-3 Canadians
many heat-perspiring weeks ago, the Sappers have been Laken successive big-scoring losses,
win
over
the
and Manager Hamelin is set on tatt-
int
a few more wins before the
L
league opener.
The Engineers have
keen
My personal observation on this America would understand if our
America and their argument is that: __maller_is_that_an_Englishman.
-people-were-told-how-much it means would rather have a a couple of bob
to England to be able to sneak out' on an occasional race than to have now and then and forget everything this quarter of an ekg under his on a racecourse. belt. Horseracing will the Eng- lish la sort of like baseball is with
us.
ATLANTA, April (AP) —FI{- teen-year-old Bobby Jones III, sen of the former grand-slam cham- plon of golf, will make his tourna- ment debut in the annual Southern the bluenoses is that horseracing was Another argument put forward by prep
and high school meet al banned through the last war so it Chattanooga, Tenn., a few weeks ought to be banned throughout this hence.
one. Weighing nearly 190 pounds and standing about six feet tall, young Bobby already is larger than famed father.
"The answer to that is that Britain banned ponles last time because of his their political aspects Britain's;
read that Swallows Son had won the alles might not understand if they
market. Tweedleduni handicap at New
Ils Ideas in marking out areas throughout the diamond should bear fruit in an all-round sense, Explained Bob Jones Jr., about his and ball ezars throughout the land son's game:
are sure to ponder over the "why's "He hits the ball a long way get- and why not's" of this latest in-ting to the green and he still hits it novation towards streamlined base-a long way after he gets there." brigade of ball tossers with
ball. cazer- ness marked in their every move,
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brother)
but due to a late start In fearning Frank Patrick and his the rudiments of the game, and in Lester, who is commonly known in grasping the fundamental "nick the two great North American coun
the Empire military nine tries ns "the Silver Fox," have really lack considerably,
the experience, helped in a herp big way towards the clams and the "knally knots" of bringing ice hockey to its present high status in the realm of world the other teams in the loop.
However the Sappers are outsport, and Frank's latest ideas to-
fighting continually, giving
wards the improvement of the their "dah,gand" best and having national summer pastime bears plenty the galouse mob behind them to of thought behind it.
there
the limil
ace
The two brothers are products of South China's snappy crow will that ice hockey hot bed, Montreal, send out their hurler Kenny but first gained standout fame in the Moy, whose brilliant start last week Far West where they organized the stamps him as a ball tosser a In Pacific coust hockey league, mode. The Chinese gang
appear to
be weak with the willow-wand, and as in other games, will pin their faith in tight, "closed tight" flelding to record their first win this year.
ali Hal Winglee is peppered to dangle with the big glove behind the platter and the Southern boys will show a scrappy Infield in Tommy Chan, Texaco Ng. Wally Ching and Nip Lum.
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Lester Patrick, the "silver fox" came cast again in the middio, twenties and organized the New York Rangers hockey team, owned and
the operated by
Madison Square Gardens. Ho is now vice president of this great sports palace situated in the heart of ManhallanL In the early thirties he invented the theory of streamlined hockey, expert- menting on his Ranger binde gang, IF Dave Ussher's Tulsa tars who that year played the famous remain in port over the "razzle dazzle" type of game to clinch weekend, they are slated to the the Stanley Cup, emblematic of world klo Ski Powlawski's strong Min- professional hockey supremacy.
Frunk Patrick returned to the danao nine in a Sunday after-Atlantic seaboard last year and dur noon tilt starting at 2.30 p.m. In the past winter was associated The Mighty T1ost a heart-with Les Canadiens, Montreal's co- breaking 3-2 gume to their sea-going tourful “dying Frenchmen," lee hoc- rivals last week, and a close scoring keylats de luxe, na business manager. game is expected it, the Tulsa íars are able to uppear on Sunday. TT sure is great to see old Frank Patrick's name in print out here on the far off shore of the Asiatic Pacific. His dens and innovations towards Tovo- Intionising baseball from player's as as well sa a ball
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According to the latest news, kis new baseball Inventions will prob ably be tried out La Frank “shag" Shaughnessy's International base- ball loop this year, and from this
ehd
of Tho earth we feel that his streamlined innovations for the ball diamond will appeal to old John Fan in the muna manner na ha has takon to Patrick's Ideas ou the
towny loc.
In his war, they continue, Eng- Iand doesn't need any ally except
14th VICTIM-Too groggy to get up, Gus Dorazio of Philadel. phia is about to fall flat on canvas, after Champion Joe Louis, right, knocked him out in the second round of title bout in Philadelphia. Ho's Joo's fourteenth victim.
they shouldn't hold an occasional Personally, again, I don't see why
race meeting in England.
and 40,000,000 men and women are These are grim times on this island living here like an army lives on o battledeid.
They get up at daylight and go to bed at dark and many of them work half the clock around six days the week.
After all, there comes a time even in war when you get fed up with reading Jane Austen in a public shelter.
RE
Dogs And Cats
ETURNING again to the subject of what is morally right in war, people here also are talking about what they ought to do England's cats and dogs, with this island's thousands of pets.
Officially, it
with
has been reported that English dogs eat as much in
a year as the people of Britain cat. In one week and that Brilish cats drink 18,000,000 gallons of milk in a year.
The British deplore this but they are devoted to their cats and dogs and they are beginning to make it clear that only in the case of direct emergency will
they
sacrifice these animals,
have seen Englishmen dig for Jours in the ruins of a bombed house searching for a dog.
There is something fundamental about British devotion to pets and something equally British about their love of racing.
For instance, it gave me a lift the other day after reading what Hitler intended to do to this island this spring, to read in the same newspaper that the Derby would be run this year on June 7.
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