Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
September 17, 1941.
Around The
Peculiarities Of
Brother Batteries In Baseball
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BROTHER BATTERIES in the major leagues are something of a rarily, but it begins to look thought the Cooper boys, Mori and Walker, are destined to give the 81. Louis
Cardinals such a combination Walker. for some time to come. the catcher,
.from Columbus to join his older brother and is rated one of the freslunan finds of the current campaign,
came
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The Cooper boys first teamed up back in Atherton, Mo., but did not work together as a battery in pro- fessional baseball until late in 1038 at Houston, Texas
Mort scored a 6-0 shut-out at the expense of Tulsa on that occasion, and history repeated itself when the pair was reunited on the closing day of last reason as members of the Cardinals.
That-day, Mort beat the Chicago Cubs by the same score-6-0.
The father of the boys, Robert Cooper, was a fine semi-pro pitclter in his youth and might have won big league fame had he not decided to nettle down to a job до rural mail carrier and be content with raising a family.
Encouraged At School
WALKER enn thank one of lis school teachers in Atherton, one Frances Montgomery, for the decision. that made him a catcher.
Miss Montannery, who helped conduct athletics in the Atherton Junior high school in addition to her teaching duties, took one took at the husky Walker and handed him 11 catcher's thel
Blove. the star
pitcher on
the
and Waller jumped at the chance to work with his brother,
win this
The catcher of the Cooper family, a big fellow, stands 6-foot-3 and weighs close to 200 pounds. Hic caught. 130 games in the American Association Inst season and batted 302. Ils bl bat has helped brother several fumes for his scason,
Mort likes to work with his brother behind the plate. Last season lic Won 11 games for the Cardinals, He is 27, one year older than Walker,
With the Nying start he has made this season, it would not be at all
. surprising to see him crash the magio circle of 20-game winners,
"Y" Hockey Practice
The YMCA. Hockey Club will hold their first hockey practice, match on the "Y" ground, King's Park, on Saturday, September 20 at 4 p.m.
Players are requested to take along both Club and Wiflte shirts.
MOTORISTS.
Courses
Players And Clubs
ARMS AND THE MAN-Bob Fellor's mighty pitching arm seems fit onough to toto a Garand rifle, judging from report by Dr. Michael Geraci, left, who examined the dee hurlor. Ho'll probably ba doforred until baseball season is over.
International Rivalry
At Marbles!
Whippy Shafts In The Hands Of Hitters
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.
a
Chinese Caddie Eulogised
(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
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is hard enough it will end by running almost at right- angles to the proper direction.
It is a great test, 100, of Judgment, for this is an Im- portant part in of
a good player. The estimation To-day's Sports
of distances, however, is best improved by playing on as many different courses as possible.
It
At Kowloon, for instance, the ls and generally confined space makes it a far simpler job to judge the length to the hole than it is at the Country Club, Sheungshul, sny, where the ground is flatter and more open.
little while ago I was only
Kowloon menaber was playing with
on the at the Country Club, and second hole, which is long and fat- Ish, he was stumped 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. 5! And he wasn't a week hitter.
The
following. ΑΓΟ to-day's sporting Axtures:
Basketball
National U. v. Trojans, 7.30 Kowloon Chinese "
South Chinn v. Yu Leong, 8.30 at Kowloon Chinese
Lawn Bowls
· Open Fairs Quarter-final
S. I. Solina and K. M. Omar v. H. A. Alves and F. V. V. Ribeiro (Kowloon Bowling Green 5.15 p.m.
Hongkong
Swimming
On a flat course, distances are In- clined to be exaggerated in perspec-(Army Pool).
live,
Bat talking of slees, one of the most touching sights is that of an out-and-out bitter. using very whippy clubs, He smiles from the top with such terrific force that the clubbead never has a chance of catching up with the hands, and the ball shoots off in the direction of mid-oft with a glorious slice that ends up around cover-poins. For him, unless he re-mudels his swing (), must always be the stiff- shafted clubs.
Golf is two-handed game, and
delayed action, coming into use only after the club has been brought down by the left into the hitting position
Club),
Area Championships
in la caddies. Such intelligence und Interest in one's game is something
have never come across,
I've oven had blokes who have thought that their only job was to carry the clubs around-naskee" the ball, that's the player's pidgin.
I've even seen caddies lose a ball even though they have watch- ed it drop within 50 yards of them.
But perhaps I have been peculiarly unfortunate in my caddies.
The Inter-Allied services foot the title went to a team of busmen the right plays its part, but it is a half Cup event was highly success from nearby Crawley.
"deadly" It is surprising how ful and there is now news that] menibers of the Canadian and shot. Is a real marbles exponent, Newfoundland forces w!! give a Killing Ales O touch of International rivalry range of several yards with the the ball. the Marbles championship.
"expert "flick" of the marble is no
rarity..
On the average, however, 1 musi say that the local caddie is satisfué- tory, but I have yet to come across a wall at a/which is about a foot or so behind the superior qualities that are men-
tioned in that article.
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From there the night of the right makes itself apparent in providing
A. "United Press" message from the acceleration of the clubhend Marbles may not be one of the
Etan's Playing Fields through the moment of hitting the Rome states that The Italian Golf Federation have announced that the premier spurts, but its champlonsblo
The idea of baseball being played ball. traditions go back 300 years at the
Your miter has invariably the word "golf" is not English, and as a it without Greyhound Inn, Tinsley Green, Sus-on the playing fields of Eton may
cause some turning in the graves of palm grip. That is, it is clutched result, italiens can use Tinsley Green have been cham-old Elaning but Canadian soldiers against the pans of the hands, The being considered Anglophile,
"Superficial observers were most pions many times, but when lost held, produced this state of affairs when, other extreme is the player who re-
following a Bren gun carrier demon-lies solely on swing, and who cm-surprised to see the word golf still stration, they remained to play a
few ploys the finger grip, the fingers bo- being used despite the campaign Tunings.
ing less rigid and more clastle, against English words," the Federa
The majority of Die better players tion stuted, "This is not surprising The shock of baseball
because golf is not an English word famous playing fields was not so lake to the happy mediunt,
but is derived from the ancient much
a surprise as were the cries of
Flemish word, Koif, meaning stlek.” "Well played alr." "Attaboy" which. Koon Issued from the mouths of top- hatted Etonians who were not long 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-inning" struggle in the National Baseball League to-day, but have slik a
Jimmy Thomson, the longest hit ter in the game to-day, slashes into the ball with his right hand like- nobody's business, but he times it all. He is not consistently preu. rate, however, for which reason, the American professionals, in a recral selection of an all-American team, chose Ben Hogan, even over Sam Snead, as best with ~ tha driver.
Prodigious distance from the te 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 по 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 at the
Cardinals in the battle for the {
pennant.
Kowloon Golf Club a little while ago, which, incidentally, has been completely settled, brings to mind an article I read recently în the
"Christian
Battery-Kimball. Hamlin, Tigbe; Owen, Science Monitor" on the "in-
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telligence" of the caddie in the "Starr: Far East.
Stores were:
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn
I. H. E.
3
1
Franks.
Cincinnati
Lombardi.
Eleven innings were played,
Boston
D
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Battery-Javery: Mas
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Battery-Passeau, Gornicki,
Hallensberger; Scheffing.
Battery-E. Xuddie, Degen
Chicago
AMERICAN LEAGUE
St Louis.*******
Dattery Nigeling.
Trotter: Ferret.
Philadelphia
Quinn,
Discussing the "look-see" chddie, whom, the writer sald, was, in in- stitution peculiar to China, the article eulogised the inherent Intelli- gence that the cuddle applies to his Job. "He studies the player for the 1 first two or three holes" and there- McKain, after
where stations himself knows the peculiarities of the player will send the ball.
10
Kramer,
Lattery Dease. Bradley, E., Harris, Shirley, Fowler; Wagner.
Twelve innings were played. Delrott
4
1
Q
Battery-Rowe, Newsom; Tebbutts. Washington
20 Battery Chase, Carraquel; Evans. All other gamer wero played on former dates.
Athletics
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All I can say is that the writer must have been peculiarly fortunate
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