1939-02-07 — Page 25

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 7, 1939.

BRILLIANT TRIPLE PLAY

Sunday's Softball Full Of Incident

FILIPINO GIRLS LUCKY VICTORY: PIRATES PITCHER SHINES Sabhan's Brilliant Game For H.K. Electric

(By “GRAND STAND”)

Both Davie by 20-11 in their Softball League clash last

teams playing bone-head ball, Recreio Men downed the

Sunday. Errors galore featured the contest.

The Maple Leafs

miscued 11 to the Recs 9. Johnny Alvares, Recreio's star twirler, was very erratic and issued 11 free-tickets to first.

Lang Wong pitched a good game for the "Canucks", but 9 hits by the Portuguese Lads aided by 11 errors resulted in the Maple Leaf's downfall.

The fielding gem of the fracas was second baseman Young Lee's triple play un- assisted. He put Beltrao out on a fly, touched second to re- tire Prata then pegged a per- fect one to first to nab Figue- redio for the third out !

Lem Wong and..Johnny Delgado were the heavy hitters for Cana- dians. For Recs, Mike Mendonca and Charlie Figuereldo were the heavy-stickers with one two-bagger each.

Good Pilferers

SUNDAY'S SOFTBALL

RESULTS

MEN'S LEAGUE Recreio 20 Canadian Chinese 11. Filipinos 4 Trojans 1. C.B.A. 19 Machine Gunners 6. Forum 4 St. Joseph's 3.

WOMEN'S LEAGUE Filipinos 17 Cubs 16. Wahoos 12 Pirates 6.

INTER-HONG LEAGUE "Lacns". 10 H.K.S.B. 2. Kai Tak Civil 25 R.A.F. 5. Union Insurance 35 Amer. Express 5. D. F. Green Spots 18 Chartered

Bank 8.

Socony 26 Ewo 6.

Dorothy Round,. now Mrs, D. L. Little, of Dudley, and mother of

a bonny son, is returning to tennis this summer. She has already started training with a view to playing at Wimbledon in June, and is likely to be invited to lead the British team for the Wightman Cup matches In America. Photo shows — Dorothy Round (Mrs. Little) (right) going out for a practice game at Birmingham with Miss Betty Clements, senior and junior champion, of Warwickshire. (By¦“Air Mail").

have the necessary "umph" and, baseball knowledge to convert these hits into runs.

Harvey To

Maudie Reed, the Pirate hurler, Meet Three

H. K. Electric 8 China Under- pitched an excellent game and did

writers 6.

Al Roza's Misfortune

The fighting Trojans suffered their sixth setback in the current season when

they bowed to the strong Filipino clan, 4-1. Good pitching on both sides featured the

The Buccaneers were rather weak game. Twirler Loyola, for the P. I.

on the field, where they made 16 men, only allowed three hits and The nightcap between English errors to give the Wahoos 12 runs one walk. For the Trojans, heaver Forum and St. Joseph's was the on 8 hits. Silva-Netto allowed five hits and tightest game of the day.. Both Wahoos, on the other hand, play- one pass to first. Th Filipinos' pil-pitchers only allowed four hits ed tight ball making only a couple fering and good base-running gave each. Al Roza, doing mound duty them their four runs on five for the first time in his young life, bingles.

twirled very well for a beginner, Paulino, the diminutive Filipino but was unlucky to receive a nasty short-stop, shone for the victors in cut on the hand when he tried to fielding honours, making eight stop a batted ball. chances with only one error besides Besides hurling a good game Roza executing the only double-play of clouted a three-bagger, which was the longest hit of the tussle. Bill Alves and Gonzales divided hon-Quon pitched an excellent game, ours for the longest hit of the fray. but unfortunately marred his good They knocked a two-bagger each. work by erring twice afield. Richard

not deserve the loser's end. She '8 ́hita.

only allowed the Wahoos shit Americans

the encounter.

Worst Defeat

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Sabhan Brilliant

Meets Louis If He Beats Them All

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in February. Failing him, it is hoped te persuade Bob Pastor, the New York heavy-weight, who went the full distance with Louis, to come over.

(By AIR MAIL) of miscues. Ada Suffiad smacked Len Harvey, the British heavy- the only circuit clout of the game. weight champion, has accepted an Five One Sided Games offer made by a new London pro- Of the six games played in the motion syndicate to fight three Inter-Hong. League on Sunday, five leading American boxers at the of them were too one sided to be Earl's Court Exhibition Building. worth commenting on. The Hong It is understood that the Kong Electric-China Underwriters guaranteed is nearly £10,000. fracas was the only clash which looked like a ball game. As time

If Harvey wins all three fights marches on, fans should see a bet-match for him with Joe Louis for an effort will be made to obtain a ter brand of softball in the Inter- the world title, either in the Unit- Chung and Kitchell were outstand-Hong League, when the weaker ed States or in London next au- ing in the field for Forum.

teams get more practice and know tumn. The Emma Gees suffered their

A Lucky "Nose” more about the game. worst defeat this season at the

Á. cabled offer has been made to In a drawn-out game which last- As it now, is, most of the teams hands of CBA boys, The sharp-ed almost two hours, the Filipino are composed entirely of inexperi-James J. Braddock, former Work shooters were overwhelmed by the Girls were fortunate indeed in nos-enced players and when they meet Champion, now contemplating a Britishers 19-6. As usual the De-ing out the Cubs 17-16. E. Fadeira a strong aggregation, like in most "come-back," to be Harvey's first fence men were without the ser-started pitching for the Southern cases last Sunday, the result is a opponent late in January or vices of their regular players. Some gals, but was erratic. She was yank-no-contest affair. of them were playing cricket and ed out in the second frame when others were playing Softball for Fausta Dimanlig took over the as- their Inter-Hong teams.

The H. K. Electric-China Un- signment to the end. The game The khaki boys used three pitch-was a hitting contest with both derwriters game went one extra ers to face the CBA sluggers, but teams slugging the ball all over the stanza before the issue was decid- ed 8-6 in favour of the Electricans.

CLOSE ALLIANCE to no avail. Sammy Izatt started on Filipino Club ground. the mound for the Emma Gees, but

Both pitchers only allowed four A thrilling finish ended the

hits apiece. r":

Armand-Vincent, of Earl's Court; was yanked out in the third frame seventh inning game, when hurler after he

Sabhan, H. K. Electric's second is the man acting for the syndicate, allowed seven CBA Dimanlig won her own game by baseman played a brilliant game Harvey met him and agreed to huskies to romp home. Archie Zim-scoring the winning tally on Sun- both on the field and with the stick. terms. Mr. Vincent, who came mern tried his luck for the first tay's hit. Aida Wong, who went the He slugged two clean hits, scored England from New York last winter, time on the mound, but was not full route on the slab for the Cubs, three runs and stole four bases. has a close alliance with Mike Jacobs successful. In the fourth inning pitched a great game and clouted The Underwriters could have the American promoter, who will no Porter stepped into the breach, but the longest hit of the fray, bring scored more, but bad base-running doubt be only too willing to join in, he too bowed down to the CBA ing in two ahead of her. Betty robbed them of all the chances they if Harvey can be "built up" into a sluggers. The Machine Gunners Longbottom, doning the Cube uni- played miserable ball, erring nine, form for the first time, made some had to score. They left 10 runners drawing card for a world title fight times to CBA'S 4. CBA also played good catches at right-field.

in America. on bases.. very loose ball, maybe because of

By crushing Ewo's nine 26.6 Mr. Vincent explained that Har- their weak opposition.

Socony proved their mettle. With vey has to win his first fight to allow Harris, Brown and A. V. Gozano in the scheme to be completed, Negotia George Fowler took things very The Wahoos further strengthen-their line-up, Socony should be tions have been started with Jos calmly on the slab for CBA, allowed their standing in the Women's well on the top of the League heap Gould, manager of Braddock, ing 10 hits and 6 free tickets to League by spanking the Pirates to when the season ends. Other teams also manages Tommy Farr. first. E. Fowler smacked a "homer" the tune of 12-6. The Pirates play which should be strong contenders decides to accept the match for and Bill "Play First" Muir distin-ed a hitting game, touching the for the Championship arm. Dutch Braddock, Gould may be tempted to guished himself with a triple and Wahoo hurling ace Teresa Noranha Bank, APC Shell, Union Insurance, put in Tommy Farr for the second a double.

16 clear bingles, but they did not Greenspot and Hong Kong Electric:I fight,

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