BASEBALL NOTES
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 10, 1989.
RECREIO OUTHIT
BUT LOSE 4-8
U.B.
Both Teams Require "Polish And Elbow Grease"
EARL WONG HAS GOOD DAY FOR
CHINESE B.O.
(By "GRAND STAND")
With Old Sol beating down brightly and the mercury soaring to 85 degrees, U. B. Beermen and Recreio pryed the lid off the Baseball season on Saturday afternoon at the Navy Ground Caroline Hill, before a capacity crowd.
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ROYAL SCOTS, H. Q. BAND and 9th BTY., R.A.,
met in the Army
The game was under the patronage of Sir Shouson Chow and Consul General of the United Tennis League on Monday. States, Mr. Addison E. Southard, who pitched the first ball to formally open the season.
The Union Brewers came
out
victorious 8-4 although they were out-hit by the rumbling Recs 10 to 7. Both teams played very shakily and it will take a lot more polish and elbow grease before they reach mid-season form.
Recreio lost the toss and batted first with "Spotty" Pereira leading off to strike out. The Portuguese lads drew
first blood in this canto.
Johnny Alvares singled to left field and was driven in by Mike Mendonca's double to right field. Mike crossed the plate a minute later on A. M. Prata's safety to rightfield, Al Alvares fanned for the third out.
The Beermen equalised in their turn to bat in the first frame when A. R. Abbas and Terry Leonard crossed the plate on a muff by First Sacker Henry Barros, a walk, a sacrifice hit by Dave Leonard and a two bagger by hurler. Madeen Arculli, who, incidentally, won his own game with the willow wand, hammering a double and two singles to bring in three runs and score two him- self.
In the second stanza, Recreio pushed Alves another tally when J. across
reached safely to first on a muffed fly by S. Bux and later on romped home on "Spotty". Pereira's double, deep into centerfield.
In the third inning, the Recs were blanked. In this frame Dave Leonard and M. Arculli both tallied on bobbles by Prata, and Stanley Leonard two bagger, to put the Beerman in the lead which they maintained till the session
ended.
Recreio scored their fourth run in the fourth inning through Al Alvares who clouted a three bagger and was brought in on a sacrifice hit by Carlos Marques.
Terry Leonard, Dave Leonard and Madeen Arculli scored one run each in the fifth to put the game on ice for Chester Bennett's brewers.
Weak Infield
With A. V. Gosano, Eddie Gosano and Nick Beltrao out of their line-up the Recs' infield was very much weak- ened although Rooke J. Alves made a good showing in the windy alley, A.
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M. Prata was bit too slow to cover the hot corner.
Carlos Marques, another newcomer to the Recs camp, was very impressive and showed great promise in the out- field. For U. B., besides M. Arculli, Harold "Baby Face" Winglee behind the plate, Dave Leonard at Shortstop and A. R. Abbas at centre field were the best performers.
To the surprise of all, including stealing, second he forgot to pull up himself, Winglee made a hit but in
his anchors and was put out almost midway on his way to the keystone sack. Tough luck!
In the only game played on Sunday, U.S.S. Mindanao aggregation, led by Oldtimer Charlie Horton, "lowered the boom" on the Chinese Baseball Club nine to the sweet tune of 6-4.
The Chinese were the first to score when Wally Ching crossed the plate in the first inning on a walk and Earl Wong's single brought him in,
ARMY TENNIS
R.A.S.C. BEAT
30 BTY., R.A.
Battery, Royal Artillery, by 8--1, in Royal Army Pay Corps beat 30th
match, at Sookunpoo, yesterday. their Second Division League tennis
L/Sgt. Elliott and Gnr. Casey (R,A.). lost to S/S Pittham and S/M
Taylor
lost to Sgt. Bardshaw and Sgt.
Adlam lost to S/S James and Sgt. Mc-
Clafferty
0-6
16.
1-6 Gnr. Ward and Lt. Skipworth (R.A.). lost to Pittham and Taylor lost to Bardshaw and Adlam beat James and Sgt. McClafferty 8–6 Major Priswell and Gnr. Roche (R.A.).
lost to Pittham and Taylor The American Sailors went into pro-lost to Bardshaw and Adlam duction in the second frame and ran lost to James and McClafferty three tallies off the assembly lines to take the lead till the fracas was over. Earl Wong, the slab, striking out nine Mindanao sluggers and issuing only two free tickets to first.
Besides pitching a great game, Earl batted 1.000 percent with one single, a double and a three bagger to bring in two runs and crossing the plate once himself.
After such a good performance any pitcher could have won a game if he was given any kind of support at all. With the exception of Nip Lum who very dependable behind the plate and Wally Ching who was very flashy in the windy alley, the Chung Hwa boys. played terrible baseball and gave prac- tically no support to the good efforts of moundsman Earl Wong.
Expensive Error
First Sacker Tommy Chan's error in the second stanza was the most expen- sive of the lot. With bases loaded on Charlie Horton's hit and free trans- portation for Twirler Ruel and Wrig- ley, Terry knocked an easy roller which Tommy Chan allowed to go through his legs and by the time rightfielder, Raymond Chang, finished toying with the ball, three Mindanao runs already crossed the plate and Terry was com- fortably settled at third.
"Crooner" Ruel was not very dan- gerous on the mound for the Mindanao
clan but he played heady ball afield taking nine chances without a miscue. Oldtimer Charle Horton showed the youngsters that he can still wield the hickory. He took batting honours for his gang, belting two doubles and single in three times at bat, and bring ing in two tailles,
Denham Crary, at third base, and Raymond Chang, playing League base ball for the first time in their young lives, made a good showing for the Chinese and should develop into real good ball players as the season pro- gresses.
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CENTRAL BRITISH P.T. EXHIBITION
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The physical fitness of the students of the Central British School was de- monstrated yesterday on the School ground, in a physical drill display before Mr. W. L. Handyside, Inspector of Schools, and some 250 parents and quests.
The movements of the exercises,
which are part of the School curricu- lum, and under the instruction of Miss J. Greig (girls' instructor) and Mr. C. M. McEwen (boys' instructor), the pupils justified parental pride.
The girls of Forms 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 commenced the
programme with keep fit exercises and a Scottish coun- try dance. To a melody played on a piano, the athletic evolutions vied in precision with any seen in stage chorus,
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Forms 1 to 6 next gave a display of exercises, which was followed by Team Games by Form 1 and Remove (boys and girls).
vaulting exercises, and the climaxing Selected students showed agility in running somersault without the use of hands was greatly applauded.
The last item of the display was a graceful exhibition by girls of Forma 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of Aesthetic Dancing, the whole arrangement and execution of which reflected great credit on Miss Greig and her pupils.
Later the students assembled to sing the School evening hymn, "The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, Ia Ended," to conclude an excellent exhibition.
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