THE (CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 21, 1939
GIRLS' SOFTBALL THRILLS
POLICE RUGBY CHANGES
(By "SCRUM-HALF")
Police will meet Royal Navy for the first time this season when the two fifteens clash in a friendly game on the Boundary Street ground to-mor- row at 4.15 p.m.
No information is available yet re-
opportunity of experimenting with Taylor at, full-back and Wall at centre threequarter, while Fay and Leslie have changed places. Morrison is still an absentee, due to injury.
The Police team is as follows:--
TERRY NORONHA PITCHES
WAHOOS TO
SEASON'S
FIRST SHUT-OUT
(By “GRANDSTAND”)
OUTHITTING Pirates 8 to
7 in the opener at King's Park in the League on Sun- garding Navy's side, but it will have day, the Ramblerettes came to be as good if not better than their out on the long end of a 10 best "A" team. Police are taking the to 4 count, making five less miscues than the Bucs' 10. in the two Buccaneers tallied first and sixth cantos, markers coming in each in- ning, but the Portuguese first femmes led from the frame with a tally of three, jumping to another four in a rally in the third. The following will represent Navy-
It was
a heartbreaker for flinger errorless "A" against Police to-morrow:-Lt.
Maudie Read, who played Mills, (Bideford); Surg.-Lt. Corcoran, ball, whiffing six Ramblerettes, walk-
(Lowestoft), (Tamar), Mr. Pascoe. Sub-Lt. Kennedy, (M.T.B.'s.), A. Bing only one, and only giving away
three earned markers.
Tayler: Reynolds, Fas, Wall and Wilson: Searle,
Wheeler, Luscombe; Leslie and Innis: Cullinan, Jenner: Riddell, Dempsey and Davitt.
Reserves: Jackson and Lewis.
Navy Team Selected
tre.
All the Buc miscues were con-
fined to the infield.
V
SCORES AT -A GLANCE:
GIRLS' 10 Pirates
Cubs
Recreio Wildcats 30 Wahoos
16 12 Cardinals
4
8
Ballgirls
0
Panthers
11
MEN'S
Trojana Ball Club
6 Liga Portuguesa 2 12 C.B.A. FRIENDLY
1
Recreio
3 U.S.S. Asheville 2
ARMY SPORTLIGHT
(By “SQUADDY")
IT would not be right or fair to allow to finish the Swimming season
without a few remarks on the sterling performances put up
Corps
of
Signals
by the Royal at water-polo
throughout the summer.
They have completed the entire season without being defeated, and their goal average is most impressive, being 80 goals for and
against.
Every
competition
only seven
they
entered and
they won, including, the Small Large Units Knock-outs, The Kay Lee Cup, and the Senior League, in which the Signals represented Small Units. remained unchanged Their team for almost all the games. The play- goalkeeper, of ers were Sign. Bennet,
and Sign. Morgan, Thelma L/C. Bedford Collace was nicked for 11 safeties, the long-backs, Cpl. Ashford, centre-half, and est being Therese Noronha's round tripper L/Cpls. McCann, Dignan and Pitcher,
and bases, in the fifth with
forwards with Dignan carrying Yvonne Yolle's double in the fourth, when she drove in Paula (Tarzan) Chan, whose the captain's duties. speed on the base paths caused favourable comment among her cohorts.
number
Ballgirls also committed that bungles to give the game away.
no
one
on
-
out
one of the Signals' team has lost Water-polo as his
Starting with a tally of four in the first CPL. Ashford has been
mainstays of the frame, on only one measly hit and five boats and a walk, the green-shirted Owls counted for several years past and In each inning, denting the pan seven times
none of his brilliance. Their a rousing rally. the fourth in
seems to run in his family
Aldershot Command theme song apparently played havoc with the Ball Club's morale and the exuberant brother is an Wahoos were bewildered when they found player at Home, wallop.
the Ballgirls tongue-tied, no less.
She homered rightfielder Bowden, (Thracian): Sto. Gallacher, in the first, chasing in (Scout), Sub-Ll. Plugge, (Durban); Dot Moss with a hefty clout to cen- Ldg. Sig. Inglis, (Tumar), Lt. (E.) Brown, (M.T.B.'s.), L. S. A, Palmer, (Thracian); Ldg. Wtr. Ferris, (Tam- ar), L. S. A. Yandell, (Lowestoft); Lt. Bayley, (Cicala), C. P. O. King, (Tam- Re- ar), A. B. Foster, (Bideford). serves: Lt. Bax, (Scout), Tel. Hall, (M.T.B.'s.), Cpl. Marron, (Tamar), Ldg. Sea. Spirit, (M.T.B.'s.).
Thomson's Debut
is
. It will be noted that Thomson
Club "LA" playing scrum-half for against Middlesex to-morrow. Playing his first game here, Jimmie Thomson learned his Rugger at Dollar Academy, Scotland, and is reputed to be just as good at stand-off as he is at scrum- half. His display will be watched -with interest.
Shanghai Comment
in
Recreio first sacker Irene Pereira's double to leftfield in the fourth frame was the longest Portuguese
Thelma Collaco did a grand job on the Ramblerette errors were also confined chucker Ann
hill for the Ballgiris, only three runs being to the infield, but
more support cerned off her, but those errors just about Noronha had much
finished her off. She whiffed six and passed one, while Terry Noronha walked one. The from her girls-she herself handled
only bright spot in the Ballgirls defence four chances without bungling, while Marguerite Oliviera again distinguish-was the unassisted double play dished up by six second sacker Thelma Motta in the sixth, ed herself at windy alley with
Bnishing Victoria Castilho and Doreen To in a boot. Both
a brilliant bit of fielding. chances with nary
and five teams left four stranded, Ramblerettes reached first on errors, to the Bucs' four.
The Portuguese gals lowered their in last batting average in this tussle after swatting a magnificent .409 Sunday's engagement with the Ball- for- girls, but they're tied with the midable Wildcats in first place with two straight.
Cards Nose Out Panthers
--
Bedford and Morgan have proved themselves an 'exceedingly sound pair of backs, and they have been lucky to have a goalkeeper of the capabilities of Bennet behind them. McCann and on the wings consistently well in all Pitcher have carried out their duties centre-for- and Dignan, the games, ward, besides being one of the fastest- Army swimmers in the Colony, has also the brains for a centre forward the finding the knack of and has empty spaces in the bath.
Taken all round, Signals must un- honour of doubtedly be given the being called Army champions for the season as no other side came within Well done striking distance of them.
Trailing 6 to 2 for five innings, Doc Mol- then's Cardinals proved their mettle in the next' when a sparkling rally netted them 10 markers to decision the Panther Kittens 12 the girls' to 11 in the most exciting of battles.
striking The Panthers came up within distance in that eventful sixth when Terry Marques led off with a single. Lella Xavier sacrificed her in. Two boots by shortstop | Signals.! Nell Manson and centerfelder Linda Fer- nandez gave Celeste Marques a life. Trene Melvy Campos
circuit Tavares bunted her in. bingled and Sarah Kwong's cir-
chased in her two mates. Glady's Coates
ex-
The following is an extract from a
Wildcats Wallop Cubs letter to "The North China Daily News" by an enthusiast who deplores
Bombarding two Bruin hurlers for the supremacy of the U.S. Marines at -the British
After game.
paying 18 safeties, two of them being
cuit clouts by sisters Mary and Doris tribute to their fitness, he writes.
"I would earnestly request the Bri-Mar, Wildcats staged tish Forces here to consider forming a against Cubs, 30 to 8, in the curtain team which would be called the Bri- raiser at Prince Edward Road. tish Garrison XV or some other such
Papa Bear Bill Smith was in the name. They have plenty of experien- doldrums, suffering the jittery ced players to call on such as Lieut.perience of watching his First Division Wallis,
former Irish international;
Cubs of last season go into a slump Hamlin, former Hampshire county
fanned nine player; Rayney, former county player; behind the masterful pitching of Lily Lieut. Kerrich, Signalman Evans, Cpl. (Sunshine) Mar, who Mackenzie, Pte. Grainger, Lieut. Ham- but gave up six free tickets, while her mond-Chambers and many others.mates collected a neat This would, of course, seriously weak- average. en the Seaforths and the Area Details but I think that the price paid would three merry-go-rounds in the first, be worth it for I do not think that second and fourth frames before Lily defeat would come to such a side."
Mar gave second string hurler Pam Yung a chance on the mound. Lily had held the Bruins scoreless and hitless when she toed the rubber, and it was only after Pam went on the hill that the Cubs started tallying, collect- ing their eight blows off the floaters of Yung.
JOE LOUIS' NEXT FOE ARRIVES IN U.S.
Arturo Godoy
New York, Nov. 14.
of Chile
arrived
knock out Joe when they
on
The Untamed
**
*
on
performance' THE Middlesex
they drew with clout Saturday, when
the best by an Army team this season. 'Diehards' South China "A", must be regarded as
According to form the should have gone down heavily to the Chinese as the Royal Scots had lost 5-1 to them, and in turn the Scots had beaten the Middlesex 4-1.
muff of Elegenia Babida's throw found Ter- a track meet ry Botelho safe on first, but the rally died There Rosie Leung grounded to Babida. when Myra Noronha popped to Coates and were no scores in the last inning.
were Babida's Highlights of the tussle homer in the sixth, when fans watched Doc risc to danger
But there was no doubt about it, Molthen's blood pressure
their draw was well deserved, and in to increase their meagre lead saw Doc a point, and that last-inning effort of the Cards
the soldiers played between first and second for the first put-out. the second half
magnificent football. wid man when Gladys Coates was nailed
A pleasing feature of the game was The Kittens miscued 11 times to the Cards'
In his first Was he sore! .383 batting six, and Melvy Campos took batting honours
the return of Pearson. with a perfect 1.000, four in four, followed
season here Pearson was one of the Felines rallied in by Elegenia Babida's .750.
best forwards in the Colony, being able to play in almost every position with equal skill. An injury, however, Five scattered hits gave the Trojans their
and he was not able to recapture his first victory of the season when they sub-prevented him playing for some time dued Liga Portuguesa 8 to 2. The Trojans erred five times to Liga's seven, and the old form, but, judging from the game latter could only nick hurler D'Almeida for he played on Saturday he is well on four blows, one being the longest hit of the the way to doing so now. fray, Vancy Macques' double in the first inning..
Trojans Down Liga
*
1
*
Trojans opened the session with two tal-Q. 8th R.A. have a strong cricket side this season judging by their lies on no hits, but an error and two passes.
SD easily. R.A.S.C. Another three in the third and one in the form at Sookunpoo on Sunday when next gave them a lead throughout the tussle. they defeated
Liga's scoring came in the first with one
depended on to Joe Figuereido. The other came in the Lomax can all be marker when Marques' two-bagger drove in Lieut. Skipwith, Lt. Hook and Lieut. score runs and Skipworth is a useful sixth when Joe Remedios fly was booted
Harry bowler as well. Lieut. Hook, how-
available* by left fielder Souza to bring Campos. con-
Liga's mentor Daddy Souza started on the lever, will not always be both
mound and was yanked in the fifth, replaced owing to his hockey activities. by Americo Lopes. Only strike out of the
Sixteen miscues were chalked up aboard the liner Uruguay on Monday by the Bruins, while Wildcats were only guilty of two. Every Cub made at least one bobble, and only Vivienne Churn and catcher Myra Hutchinson could make any kind of a showing with the hickory. Doris Mar nected for three in five, and Ella Chinn and Pam Yung were each Maisie Rels started on the mound good for three in six trips.
and said he would Louis with a left hook fight for the heavyweight champion ship in Madison Square Garden
Godoy, former South February 9. American titleholder, came here with his pretty dark-haired wife after an 18-day voyage from Buenos Aires. He appeared in excellent physical shape. He said he would take off six of his
200 pounds to get in trim for Louis,
-United Press.
- Dewar Cup Results In the Semi-Final of the Dewar at Kowloon "Cup golf competition "Golf Club, W.. Kershaw (14) beat A¡ A. E. J. Dennis (6) 4 and 1, and Davies (6), after being five down at the 18th, beat. A. A. Lopes (8) at the 20th,
in
game was the one by D'Almeida, who also walked three to Soura's two.
for Cubs, but was derricked in the Ball Club's Fifth Straight
fourth for
Vivienne Churn. Reis allowed 12 hits, and Churn, 6, while there were 11 runs earned off Maisie and four ofť Vivienne.,
Baflgiris Calcimined
Allowing only three singles, Terry Noronha pitched her Wahdos to the first shut-out in blanked 15 to 0. the girls' campaign, when the Ballgirls were
Sixteen seems to have been an unlucky number on Sunday because Dave Leonard's
Ball Club won their fifth straight victory of the season when they topped C.B.A. 18 to 1 in the curtain closer at C.B.A. Rusty of Fedoseyeff was found for nine blows, which Dave Leonard's homer and brother Stan's double were the longest Belts of the game.
C.B.A. spoiled the Ballmen's shut out in were two away. the fourth when there
Fedoseen singled to right and Dave Leon-
was nicked for the same number of blows. one safety. Alvaro Coelho allowed only Rusty franked eight Leonardmen to first and was also guilty of one wild pitch,,while his mates erred on six occasions to the Ball Club's one..
No box scores were kept of the Recreio- U.S.S. Asheville tilt. The Rambling Recs nosed out the bluejackets 3 to 2 in a nine- Inning, game; but, it is probable that the Ramblers would have tallled more times if their first-string boys had been out there. Proudest -man in the Rambler organisation was Spotty Poreira, because he dumped. two of the most perfect bunts in his young life.
ard's wild toas on Marcus Manning's liner So he said! We weren't there to witness much a sight, but it must have been good if saved a C.B.A. shellacking.
Lefty Abbas pitched for four frames, and” he said sol
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