1938-01-17 — Page 19

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 17, 1938.

VETS SECURE

C.B.A.

DEFEAT EMMA GEES IN CELLAR CLASH

E. ZIMMERN'S GOOD CATCHING

TO-DAY'S MEETING

(By "SHORTSTOP”)

The Softball League is all over but the shouting! In their decid- Vets ing game yesterday, the

trounced the Filipino Club to cinch the pennant and the Mayo Trophy, and are now the cham- pions of Hong Kong.

SOFTBALL PENNANT

The first eleven of the Seaforth Highlandere, above, have made a very favourable impression in Colony They will continue their soccer activities soccer circles in the short period they have been seen in action. in the Shanghai League.

They took the lead from the first inning and had things just about their own way from then on. The Filipino boys had some new faces in their line-up, while the Vets were not taking any chances, and fielded their strong-Chinese Youth Medical Relief As- est nine. The "Wizard of sociation. Whiz," Chow Young, fanned nine men and allowed only five hits!

The detail box, scores:

FILIPINO CLUB

In their second game "of the Baptista If "double header," the Filipinos were Paulino p blanked by the Forum, who scored Eramels e six runs. Tuffy Chinn had some. Gosuico 1b

Loyola 3b very good support in this game, Cruz 2b and the Filipinos only managed Dumatol ss two hits.

Veroy of Francisco rf

GOOD GAME

One of the games between the C.B.A., and Machine Gunners in their "double-header" was post- poned, but spectators saw some good play in the other with the former, coming out on top with the score of 7 runs to 6. Ernie Zimmern was behind the bat for the Machine Gunners, in the absence of Harold Wing Lee, and did a good job of

Score by innings:

Runs: Hits:

AB R H PO A E 500 2 0 0

4 0 0

6

3

3 0 0

8

0

32 1

6

0

400 0

4 0 1 1-

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0

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4

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2

-35 3 5. 24

6

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1000 1001- 0-1 0 1 1 0 0 0 2=5

VETS

Jan ss Earl Wong 3b Young P Tommy Chan 1b Abe-Liu 2b Lum c Mar If

catching, while D. Hung and R. Roy Lau rf

to

the

Broadbridge, a newcomer ranks of Softball, made some splen- did catches in the outfield.

Bill Muir, captain of the C.B.A., made the most runs in this game, crossing the plate three times, while making three hits with three times up at bat.

MEETING TO-DAY

P. F. Choy c

Score by innings:

Wales' Triumph Over England

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with

a splendid tackle. Davey's 5 tackling was an inspiration to the Welshmen, who in addition to the wind had to face a blinding rain.

Another brilliant run by Sever caused considerable anxiety to the

AB R H PO A E

4 20 30

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120 530

5

4 1 2 10 20 2

41-1 O 00 Score by innings:

4 110.00

0 2 3 0. 0:

0

40 2. 0

41

120

the

Welsh defence, but it was foiled by Cliff Jones dropping back. PLAYER WARNED A forward battle, one of fiercest of the game, featured the closing stages, and one English player was warned by the Referee after an incident resulting in Wat- kins, a Welsh forward, leaving the field with a leg injury, but he re- turned quickly. Another fierce clash 'soon after saw H. F. Clement, one brilliant threequarters, of Wales' carried off and he did not return. The closing stages of the game 100 were fraught with excitement, 0 0 Bassett, of Wales, and Nicholson, 3 1

of England, both failing to score 5 as a result of thrilling last minute tackles, but three minutes from time, Sever's persistence was re- warded with a smart try, Freakes adding the goal points.

7 16 27 14

” ད ་ ་ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Runs: 1 0103001 1= 7 Hits: 2 2.1 2 3.1.0.3.2=16 MACHINE GUNNERS

AB R H PO A

4

40 10 12 27 8 7

Anderson sg E. Zimmern c

Runs: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

300 2004 1x=10 Hits: 30 130 1-3 1 x=12 Two baggers: Earl Wong (2), T. Chan,

Liu and Lum.

F. Zimmern 2b A. Zimmern 3b Rapley If

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Wales were the better balanced.

1 side, and their strength lay in the speed of their threequaurters where Idwal Rees and-Bassett were out- O standing.

5 10 1 3

5

1 2 6

5 0

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2

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5 1 2. 2 3 0

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R. Broadbridge ef.

4

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AB R H PO A E

Three baggers: Lau. Struck out by Young: 9; by Paulino: 7. Base on balls off Young: 1; off Paulino:

C. B. A.

1.

There will be a meeting of the Softball League to-day at 5.30 p.m., Muir 2b at the Cecil Hotel, when the pro- S. Fowler ss, c, 3b posed International Softball Series Gurevitch p, ss will be discusused, and final details MacNider c, p will be made in preparation for G. Fowler 3b, 2b

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3 3 3 3. 1 2 Score by innings:

OON

40 6 10 27 11

The following were the teams:- England-H. D. Freakes (Oxford

0 University); E. J. Unwin (The Army), 1P. Cranmer (Richmond), A. E. Nichol- son (Richmond), H. S. Sever (Sale); 2 P. L. Candler (St. Bart's Hospital) and B. C. Gadney (Leicester); R. J. Long- land (Northampton), H. B. Toft 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8.9

H. F. Wheatley (Coven- (Waterloo), 2 12 0 0 0 1.0.0 Runs:

2 2.3 1 0 0 2 0 0 10. Hits:

try); A Wheatley (Coventry), T. F. 1Two, baggers: S. Fowler, and MacNider. Huskisson (Old Merchant Taylors); W.

Three baggers: Muir.

H. Weston (Northampton), D. L. K. Millman (Bedford) and R. Bolton (Harlequins).

5 0

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3 0 1

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0 Struck out by Madar: 3, by NacNider

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Turkish

Bath Sheets

Base-on balls off Gurevitch: 1; off Mac-

Nider: 17 off Madar; 1.

LEAGUE STANDING

Vets Forum Canadian Chinese" Filipino Club HK B. C 3, M. G. Co. C. B. A

Wales-V G. I Jenkins (London Welsh); W. H. Clement (Llanelly), J Idwal Rees (Swansea), Claude Davey WL Pct (L. Welsh); A. Bassett (Aberavon) and 11 ̄ ̄|1.916 H. Tanner (Swansea); Cliff Jones 9 2 818 (Captain), W. J. Travers (Newport), 64-600 E. Morgan (Swansea), H. Rees (Car- 3—5 500 diff), E. Watkins (Cardiff), H. McCar--- 3.7 .300 ley (Newport). A. M. Rees (London 28 200 Welsh), H. Vickery (London Welsh) 19 100 and F. L. Morgan (Swansea).

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