1939-01-09 — Page 23

THE CHI

L, JANUARY 9, 1939,

MEN'S SOFTBALL TUSSLES A TREAT

G.H. Fowler Has Maple Leafs Guessing: Herbie Quon's Battery On Mark

PIRATES WALK FIVE IN SEVENTH: DOT BOTTOMLEY ON FORM

(By GRANDSTAND)

YESTERDAY'S SOFTBALL SCORES AT A GLANCE:

MEN'S LEAGUE

C.B.A. 7 Canadian Chinese 3. Midgets 6 C. Baseball Club 1. Filipino Club 9 No. 3 (M.G.)

Coy 8.

WOMEN'S LEAGUE Cardinals 25 Wildcats 18. Panthers 14 Pirates 18. Recreio 10 C.B.A. 3.

AFTER two weeks lay off, hostilities were resumed yesterday in▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪▪

the Men's Softball League. All three games were played on the CBA ground. King's Park. ed Canadian Chinese 7-3, while in

In the morning game, CBA down-point in the League standing by drop- the second game, Midgets ping a tussle at the hands of Recreio handed the Chinese Baseball Club a 5 to 1 trouncing. In the most on the mound for the

Ladies. Dot Bottomley did her ut- Gunners lost a tight 9 inning tussle to the maids", allowing only 8 hits, but her

nightcap, Machine Filipinos.

Three games were on tap in the, ring Gosuico. All played well with the Women's League. The CBA

exception of Gosuico, who erred twice Canadian Chinese game provided at the initial sack. The game was tied nothing spectacular,

till the ninth inning, when Dave Leo-1 but again hard squeezed in on Cruz's hit. showed the vast improvement the CBA Huskies have made since they took up the game.

way.

WOMEN'S LEAGUE

Lily

"Muir-

team-mates as a whole, did not help much afield. Their batting and base garet White And "Dot" Moss played running was also weak. Mrs. Mar- well for C.B.A. Mrs. White pulled a double-play.

Mary Lachlan did not pitch as well as she did last week against Canadian Chinese, but her work on the mound was good enough to hold C.B.A. to 6. hits. Margaret Oliveira, was just as safe and alert at short-stop, as she was last week. Irene Pereira did well at the initial sack.

Finish Reflects Stroke

Cardinals are now in the lead in the George Fowler pitched his second Women's League by taking in tow the victory for C.B.A. He had the "Maple Wildcats to the tuns of 25-16. Leafs" guessing and was only touched | for 3 short bingles. Marcus Manning had a good day out at left-field, getting under every fly that came his Frank "Slim" Angus played a good game at third-base. His throws first-base were

than more accurate usual. Stan McNider, at center-field, was not so safe, but bagged a two- bagger, which was the longest hit of the fracas.

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For the losers, G. G. Lee pitched good enough ball, but the six field- ing

his team-mates made

errors

proved fatal to his efforts. George Chow's spectacular running catch at center-field was a feat hard to beat. George practically caught that ball off his shoe-strings to retire the in- ning.

Midgets are now tied with Chinese Baseballers at the top of the League heap by virtue of a 5 to 1 victory over last year's champions, the Chinese Baseball Club.

Herbie Quon commanded the mound for the Midgets, allowing the Chinese Sluggers no hits and having 12 strike- out to his credit. The whole Midgets team played heads-up baseball. Tom- my Chan pitched a very erratic game throughout. He walked 8 batters and two costly errors chalked up against his team lost the game. Nip Lum did his usual good work behind the plate for C.B.C., while his team-mates Earl Wong and Wally Ching played tremely well at third-base and short- stop, respectively. Veteran hard-ball player Chan Kee playing softball for the first time, held the first-sacker's job very well for the losers, Honours must go to Roy Lau for scoring C.B.C.'s lone run when he went in as pinch hitter for Chinn. Good work for an old man, Roy!

EMMA GEES IN ACTION

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By BEST BALL.

Bobby Jones' two positions (right) aptly illustrate the type of stroke which has preceded each position. For example the finish with the wooden club reflects the wide .sweeping blow of the tee shot, Here the clubhead is brought down in such

a manner that it travels ' close to the ground and straight along the line of flight. This al- lows. a wider margin for any er- rors, for the clubhead may contact the ball anywhere within this flat arc range and still be well hit. In adopting the stance for such D shot the feet are slightly wider apart than for a shot of lesser distance or for a more abrupt downswing.

Jones' stance is not wide for a low centre of gravity makes it possible for him to stand with his feet comparatively close together and to put a large amount of pow er into the blow with no danger of losing his balance. Such a posi- tion also facilitates a smoother, more relaxed stroke and a wider backswing. In the iron shot the feet are closer together and the blow is more abruptly downward to raise the ball or to add a mea- sure of backspin. In other words the downswing for the iron more upright as a perusal of the two figures above will show.

(Copyright 1938, The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Wednesday--Diegel's Putting Stroke

is

Lily's.

The Filipino-No. 3 (M.G) Coy tuss- le turned out to be the most exciting Mar started on the mound for Wild- francas of the day. The game went cats, but was releived by Ella Chinn. two extra innings. In the absence of in the third frame. Ella's twirling. their star-catcher, Harold Winglee, and although more accurate than five other regular players, who were

proved to be easy meat for the Cardin- playing cricket at the time, Sgt. Ernie als, who were on a hitting spree. Adi Zimmern, captain of the Defence Men, Greiner pitched an excellent ball for had to field a depleted nine to meet a the Reds and clouted a homer with strong contingent from the Filipino well at third-base, while Eileen Bliss bases loaded. Jessie Wong played Club.

was very safe at left-field. For Wild- cats, Doris Mar was her usual self out of four times at bat. Rainbow behind the plate and got off three hits Szeto, a newcomer

to the Wildcats, accounted well at short-stop and later at left-field.

Ernie even had to use his C.S.M. and a recruit to complete the team. Any way, a scrub team of Emma Gees gave the boys from the South a good game,

if not a scare.

ANNE CLOUTS HOMER

Donald Anderson mastered the mound for the Machine Gunners and although he was touched for 11 hits, he kept the bingles short and well scat- tered. Donald's stick work was out- standing, clouting a homer to bring The Panthers-Pirates encounter was three ahead of him. He was unlucky a tight game, going an extra inning to be put out before crossing the home Maudie Reed was pitching great balls, plate after hitting the longest drive of for the Pirates till the 8th frame, but the encounter.

was erratic in the 7th, when she walk- Porter, at second-base, played an ed five runs to tie the score 12-12. errorless game for a change.

In the eighth inning, the winning run Pte. Willie Rapley should be ro-was scored by Irene Tavarca, on Inga commended for at least one stripe for Madsen's hit. Isabel Wong, playing his good performance at left-field. He accond-base for the Panthers, pulled caught on the run four difficult long-two beautiful double-plays. Myra flies which would have been fatal if Noronha, Panthers' catcher, took hon- missed. The Filipinos flelded their fours, in stealing bases. Miss Fowlor, strongest team with the services of of the Pirates, knocked the only homer such stars players as Paulino, D. Leo- of the game. nard, Bautista, Luis Eramela and Ped- | C.B.A. Ladies delivered

another

GRAPHIC GOLE

JONES' FOLLOW THROUGH ON

WOODEN CLUB

IRON SHOT

COMPACT SWING OF LATTER

REVEALED IN FINISH

5-3

AMERICAN TENNIS

RANKINGS

Wills

(By AIR MAIL) Neither Mrs. Helen Moody, Wimbledon champion, nor Miss Helen Jacobs, Wimbledon finalist, is ranked in the annual list issued by the United States Lawn Tennis Association. "In- sufficient data" is the reason giv- en for their omission. The same

reason is advanced for the omission of F. X. Shields from the men's list. Shields left film act- ing post to play in the championships at Forest Hills where.

American he succeeded in making a brilliant "come-back". He was unfortunate brilliant Australian player, and only enough to meet J. E. Bromwich, the lost after five sets, comprising 68

games.

In the men's singles, the rise of Gene Mako is featured, and he is given third place to his doubles part- ner, Donald Budge, now a profession- al. Miss Alice Marble, winner in the women's singles at Forest Hills is ranked number one.

No lists were issued for the wo- men's doubles or the mixed doubles.

The following are the leading play- ers in the lists:-

MEN'S SINGLES

1. Donald Budge. 2. R. L. Riggs.

3. G. Mako.

4. S. B. Wood.

5. J. Hunt.

6. B. M. Grant.

WOMEN'S SINGLES

1. Miss Alice Marble.

2. Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan,

3. Miss Dorothy Bundy.

4. Miss Barbara Winslow.

5. Miss C. Wheeler.

6.

Miss Dorothy Workman. MEN'S DOUBLES

1. D. Budge. and G. Mako.

2. W. Allison and J. Van Ryn.

3. J. Hunt and S. B. Wood.

FRENCH GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

DATES

Paris.-Dates for French Golf cham- pionships this year are:-

June 3, 4, 5, 6-Open Amateur Championship, at St. Germain.

June 24 and 25-Open Champion- ship, at Le Touquet,

July 9, 10, and 11-Ladies' Open Championship, at Le Touquet.— Press Association.

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