Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
September 17, 1941.
Around The Courses
Peculiarities Of Players And Clubs
Brother Batteries In Baseball
BROTHER BATTERIES in the major leagues are something of a rarity, but is begins to look as though the Cooper boys, Mort anul Walker, are destined to give the BT, Louis Cardinals such a combination for some time
to
the catcher,
come.
Camo up
Walker,
from
Columbus to join his older brother and is rated one of the freshman Ands of the current campaign,
Uncle
workt
The Cooper boys first teamed up In Atherton, Ma., but did not together as a battery in pro- fessional baseball until late in 1938 nt Houston, Te
Техов.
Mort scored a 6-0 shut-out at the expense of Tulen on that occasion, and history repeated itself when the pair was reunited on the closing day of Just season as members of the Cardinals.
That
day, Mort beat the Chicago Cubs by the same score-0-0.
The father of the boys, Robert Cooper, was a fine semi-pro pitcher In his youth and might have won big league fame fud he not decided to settle down to a Job
ng rural
mail carrier and be content withi raising a family,
Encouraged At School
one
WALKER can thank one of his school teachers in Atherton, Frances Montgomery, for the decision that made him a catcher.
Mias Montgomery, who helped conduct athletes in the Atherton Junior high school In addition to her tenching duties, took one look at the husky Walker and handed
him catcher's pads and glove.
a
Mort was the stor pitcher on the team and Walker Jumped at the Chance to work with his brother.
and
The catcher of the Cooper family, bly fellow, stands 6-foot-3 weighs close to 200 pounds. He caught 130 games in the American Association last season and batted
several games for his season.
brother
this
ARMS AND THE MAN-Bob Foller's mighty pitching arm sooms fit enough to tote a Garand rifle, judging from report by Dr. Michaol Geraci, loft, who examined the ace hurlor. He'll probably bo deferred until basobail season is over.
International Rivalry At Marbles!
Whippy Shafts In The Hands Of Hitters
Chinese Caddie Eulog
(By "Birdie").
THE HIGH WIND of the week-end and the past few days has made golf interesting to say the least. But it is a great teacher, for nothing accentuates the slightest slice or hook as much as hitting into the wind. The ball careens round in most graceful parabolas, and if the shot is hard enough it will end by running almost at right- angles to the proper direction.
It is a grent test, too, of Judgment, for this is an im- portant part in the make-up of a good player. The estimation of distances, however, is best | Improved by playing on as many.
different courses as possible.
J302, 1s big bat has helped win LONDON, Sept.-Although International sport has suffered severely in these War days, the presence in Great: Britain of sportsmen from various parts of the world has in other cases added to the friendly rivalry.
Mort likes to work with his brother behind the plate. Last season he won 11 games for the Cardinals. He Is 27, one year older than Walker.
With the flying start he has made this season, it would not be at all: surprising to see him crash the magie circle of 20-game winnera,
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The Inter-Allied services foot-the title went to a team of busmen ball Cup event was highly success- from nearby Crawley. ful and there is now news that It is surprising how "deadly" members of the Canadian and shot. is a real marbles exponent. Newfoundland forces will give a Killing flies on a wall at a
to touch of International rivalry
Tange of several yards with the expert flick" of the marble is no the Marbles championship.
rarity. not Marbles may
be one of the The YM.C.A. Hockey Club willpremler sports, but its championship hold their first hockey practice match traditions go back 300 years at the on the "y" ground, King's Park, on Greyhound Inn, Tinsley Green, Sus
"Y" Hockey Practice
Saturday, September 20 at 4 p.m. sex.
Players are requested to take along both Club and White shirts.
MOTORISTS
Tinsley Green have been cham- plons many times, but when last held,
At Kowloon, for instance, the hills and generally confined space makes it a far simpler job to judge the length to the hole than it is at the Country Club, Sheungshui, any, where the ground is flatter and more open.
the
It was only a little while ago I was playing with a Kowloon member at the Country Club, and on second hole, which is long and flat- Ish, he was stamped when it came to making his second shot. It was really a No. 7 shot, but he was toy. ing with the idea of using his No. Gl And he wasn't a weak hitter.
To-day's Sports
The following are to-day's sporting fixtures:
Basketball
4
National U. v. Trojans, 7.30 at Kowloon Chinese "y",
South China v. Yu Leang, 8.30 at Kowloon Chinese "y","
Lawn Bowls
Open Pairs Quarter-final
S. R. Solina and K. M. Omar v. II. A. Alves and F. V. V. Ribeiro (Kowloon Bowling Green Club), 5.15 p.m.
Swimming
On a flat course, distances are in-
Hongkong Area Championships clined to be exaggerated in perspec-(Army Pool).
tive.
in his caddies. Such Intelligence and interest in one's game is something I have never come across,
"But" talking of slices, one of the) — most touching sights is that of an out-and-oul bliter using vory whippy clubs. He smites from the Lop with such terrific force that the clubhead never has a chance of catching up with the hands, and the ball shoots off in the direction of mid-
d-off with a glorious silce that ends up around cover-point, For him, unless he re-models his
swing(), must always be the stiff-
shafted clubs.
Golf is a two-handed game, and the right plays its part, but it is delayed action, coming into use only after the club has been brought down by the left into the hitting position which is about a foot or so behind the ball.
I've even had blokes who have thought that their only job was to carry the clubs around"maskee" the ball, that's the player's plógin.
L'E
I've oven scen caddies lose a ball even though they have waich- -ed, it drop within 50 yards of them.
But perhaps I have been peculiarly unfortunate in my caddies.
On the average, however, I must say that the local caddle is satisfac- tory, but I have yet to come across the superior qualities that are men- tloned in that article.
From there the might of the right makes itself apparent in providing
A "United Press" message from the acceleration of the clubhead
Golf Eton's Playing Fields
through the moment of hitting the Rome states that The Italian
Federation have announced that the The idea of baseball being played ball.
Your smiler has Invariably the word "golf" is not English, and os a on the playing fields of Et palm grip. That is, it is clutched result, Italians can use it without cause some turning in the graves of old Elonians but Canadian soldiers against the palms of the hands. The being considered Anglophile.
"SuperActul
observers were most produced this state of affairs when, other extreme is the player who re- following a a Bren gun carrier demon-lles solely on swing, and who en-surprised to see the word golf still stration, they remained to play a few ploys the finget grip, the fingers be- being used despite the campaign
less rigid and more elastic. Innings.
against English words," the Federa- he majority of the better players ton stated, "This is not surprising The shock of baseball on the
(because golf is not an English word famous playing fields was not so take to the happy medium.
-from-the--ancient- surprise as were the cries of Jimny Thomson, the longest hil-but-is-derived much "Well played sir," "Attaboy" which ter in the
ame.
slashes Into |Flemish word, Kolf, meaning stick.” | to-day soon issued from the mouths of top- the ball with his right hand like nobody's business, but be times it hatted Elonians who were not long
all. in picking up the rules of the game.
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Brooklyn Beaten By Cincinnati
NEW YORK, Sept. 15 (UP)— Brooklyn Dodgers succumbed 3-4
to Cincinnati Reds in an 11-innings' struggle in the National Baseball League to¬day, but have still a
He is not consistently scou. rate, however, for which reason, the American professionals, fi a recent selection of an all-American team, chose Ben Hogan, even over Sam Snead, as best with the driver.
Prodigious distance from the tee, while nice to have, is not an essen- tial, for one of the axioms of golf is that it is second, and possibly third, shots that count; and there Is no denying its truth.
The golfer who is straight and consistent with even moderate dis- tances is the one who must enter calculations in a match.
three-game lead over St Louis THE caddie "trouble
Cardinals in the battle
pennant,
for
the
at the Kowloon Golf Club a little while ago, which, incidentally, has been completely settled,, brings to mind an article I read recently in the "Christian Battery-Kimball, Hamlin, Ilgbe; Owen, Science Monitor" on the "In-
Scores were:
Cincinnati
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telligence" of the caddie in the: Begge, Starr: Far East..
Brooklyn
Franks.
Battery-E.
Riddle.
Lombardi.
Eleven Innings were played.
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Zorion
Battery,Javery: Meat.
Chicago
BatteryPasseau, Gornicki,
Hafensberger; Schelling.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Discussing the "look-see" caddie, whom, the writer said, was in in- suitution
the peculiar to Chino, 121 article eulogised the inherent intelli- Quinn,gence that the caddie applica to his Job. "He studies the player for the . Arst two or three holes" and there- McKain, after stations himself where he knows the pecullarities of the player Battery-Besse,
so, Bradley, C. Harris, will send the ball.
All I can say is that the writer must have been peculiarly fortunate
Battery ----Nigeting.
Trotier: Ferrell.
Philadelphia: ..........
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Kramer,
Shirley, Towier: Wagner.
Twelve innings were played,
5 i Battery-Rowe, Newsom; Tebbetta Washington N
ཆ་"-- a Battery Chase, Carrasquel; Evans,
other games were played on
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