“THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 12, 1939
SOFTBALL NOTES
MINDANAO'S LATE RALLY WINS
GAME
(By "GRANDSTAND”)
OFTBALL fans had a dull day on Sunday owing to lack
SOFTB
of interesting games on the bill of fare. The Recreio "A"-Tulsa fracas and the Wahoos-Canadian Chinese en- counter at Prince Edward Road were the only interesting games dished out to fans.
As expected Canadian Chinese did not have any trouble in defeating Ligá Portuguesa, 9-2, the "Canucks" never at any time extending themselves to take the Portuguese boys to town.
Herbie Quon on the mound for C.C.C. did not have to work hard and depended mostly on his fielders. He fanned four, walked two and allowed only two hits. T. Pereira chucked a good game for Liga but his fielders let him down with nine miscues. He struck out one and walked none,
The "Maple Leafs" booted four and belted eight blows off Pereira. Liga's two runs crossed the plate in the seventh; A. Pereira scored on a hit and a walk and an error. T. Gill of Liga was in great form at the windy alley in eight fleld chances with nary an
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R. H. E. Chinese.. 015 0.3 0 0 9 8 4 0 0 0.0 0 0 2 2 2 9 In the Nightcap Mindanao had narrow escape from defeat when they snatched a 12-9 victory from the Tro- jans. A five-run rally in the sixth saved the day for the American blue- jackets. Heavy hitting on both sides was registered. Wilson, the Mindanao right-fielder, rapped two doubles and two singles in five times to bat and brought in four runs, while S. Cruz was credited with four hits and D. Alves three.
Trojans outplayed Mindanao erring four to the sailors' eight. Mindanao's 13 hits were helped by eight free passes issued by moundsmen G. Al- meida and D. Alves who took turns for Trojans. Sure fire for Trojans was S. Cruz at the hot corner and D. Alves at first base.
Cook who went in for Crooner Ruel in the third inning showed some fancy fielding freezing flies on the run out in the centre cabage patch. Todd homered for Mindanao in the sixth with one on board.
Mindanao Trojang
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BAILEY WEPT!
(By "GRANDSTAND"
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It almost broke "Snuffy" Bailey's heart when he let go that wild pitch to score the winning run in the eighth inning of a return game in which the Tulsa, mighty Tees, were nosed out by the Rambling Recs. "A" on the Recreio ground.
Recreio outhit Tulsa 12-7 but the bluejackets outplayed the Recs. in the field, Recreio making four errors, Tulsa
two.
In the seventh inning the score was tied 6-6. In the extra inning Tulsa were blanked. Recreio in their turn to bat scored when Spotty crossed the plate on a wildpitch. In this inning. Johnny Alvares was out on a foul fy for the first erasure. Charlie Figuere do was safe on first on Hoffman's wild throw; Spotty. Pereira followed with a hit but Charlle was out at second. Beltrao was safe on first on Miles' muff at centre-field and Spotty ad- vanced to third par
Chucker-Bailey let go a wild
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SCORES AT A GLANCE:
MEN
Canadian Chinese 9 Liga ... Mindanao
2
12 Trojana ♬ LADIES
Wahoos .....
6 Canadian Chinese 4 H.K. Ballgirls...12 Panthera .......11 Wildcats.. ....19 Recrelo ...............
FRIENDLY...
Recreio "A".... 7 U.9.8. Tulsa
SPORTS PARADE
AT the moment of writing it looks
very much as if there will be no League cricket this season. Reason is
the additional Volunteer camps.
It is really rather a comic situation when one stops to consider that only a few weeks ago there was heated discussion as to whether it would be matches in First Division by having possible to increase the number
of
home and away fixtures,
changed. A few months ago, while we The whole situation, however, has all thought it highly possible, many could not envisage our being at war. So far we have been affected little; our sport, along with the rest of our lives, has been affected hardly at all. Since it has been considered necessary to increase the efficiency of the Volun- teer Corps, and additional calls are being made on the time of its mem- bers, it must be expected that some little sacrifices will have to be made. So far as I can see, League cricket will be one of them.
There will be some schools of thought who, in view of the appeal addressed to the Colony at the outset of the war by the authorities that every effort should be made to carry on as usual, will advocate continuing the League as arranged, to the best of our ability, atzera
This would probably be possible if all teams were affected alike but there are some clubs whom the Volunteer camps will affect hardly at all and it is obviously these clubs which will come out on top. This would ele- minate to a very great extent the factor in cricket which makes it so fascinating-"Its glorious uncertainty." It is not as if all cricket will be abandoned. Friendlies can and will be arranged to suit the convenience of clubs.
If it decided at this forthcoming meeting that the League will carry on, there will of necessity be num- erous adjustments which will have to be made to fixture-lists. At this com- paratively late stage of the season it will be difficult to make them all in the time available.
Although therefore, I have always been one of the strongest supporters of League cricket, I really feel that there is nothing for it but to hold it in abeyance for this season. Possibly next season, when life in Hong Kong to wartime conditions, might be brought up again.
should have more or less settled down the question
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a programme
feel convinced similar to the hockey programme of Sunday, would be a great muccess. THE arrival of Henry Eardley, cur-
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rent Shanghai badminton cham- pion, was recently mentioned in these columns. It was overlooked, however, occupied in ladies' badminton in the that his sister, Miss Decima Eardley, North, quite as exalted a position as her brother.
tain that both these players will turn I understand that it is fairly cer- out for St. John's, for whom sister, Mrs. Nance Strange plays.
their already
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THERESE NORONHA'S FEAT
(By "GRANDSTAND”)
Connecting for 20 solid blows off flinger Anna Noronha, Wildcats over- whelmed a disorganised Ramblerette squad 19-4,
If Lily Mar stayed on the mound till the end I have no doubt that it would have been a shutout for the Recreio gala. Lily performed like a million dollars on the mound for Wild- cats fanning eight and walking one. She only yielded one hit in six innings and held the enemy to no runs.
In the last canto Pam Young took over the assignment and allowed the .Recs to score four runs on four hita.
The Mar sisters had a good day both on the field and with the bat.
Doris, bealdes clouting a homer, played a great game behind the plate. Her throwing to second was perfect and sister Gloria, taking the throw at the keystone bag, was equally brilliant.
to the pan. Mary Mar came through wand with five bingles in five trips Gloria was tops with the willow
with a double and two singles in five times to bat.
Hilda Soares, a roockie in the Re- creio line-up, showed her veteran team-mates a thing or two with the stick. Playing her first League game she hit two of the five hits credited to her team.
ed so badly and to say that they play The Ramblerettes have never play-
This opens up tremendous possibili- ties for the Cathedral team as regards championship prospects. They already have a fine team in Men's "B" Divi- sion and with a pair capable of win-like bushers is putting it very mildly. ning all three games against the best mixed players in the Colony, there is
Wildcats 9 3 4 00:0 3 19 20 3 no reason why they should not be
Recrolo .. 0 0 0 000 4 4 5 4 well up with the leaders in Mixed Division at the end of the season.
It will also be interesting to see, provided Eardley is still here, how P. K. Hui, who has made a clean sweep of all Colony titles for the last two seasons, will fare against the best in Shanghai.
BADMINTON
KOWLOON TONG TROUNCED
At Bonham Road last night King's Col lege beat Kowloon Tong by 8 games to 1 In the "B" Division of the Badminton League.
H. T. Woo and K. L. Lui (King's). beat N. A. E. Mackay and A. Chan 21- 8
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THERESE NORONHA AGAIN Limitting the opposition to one bin- gle Therese Noronha chalked up an- other victory for her team when the Wahoos subdued Canadian Chinese 8–4. This is the first time a one hitter was chucked by any female pitcher locally.
Mary Loule pitched a grand game for the losers whiffing eight and walk- ing three, but seven costly errors and poor stick work by her team-mates proved their downfall.
The "Canucks," who are reput- ed to be "hot stuff" this year, made a very poor showing Indeed. They looked bewildered and blew up, in the critical moments. Coach Bill Woo's attitude whenever 21-18 her girls booted may have had some- thing to do with their playing! Any- 21-7 way Bill did his best but his signals may have been mixed or something. 10-21 On the other hand the green-shirted 21-13 owls played a very consistent game (King's).
with four miscues and the same num- ber of hits.
beat R. E. Lee and F. S. Ko beat P. B. C. Fletcher and A. E. H.
Castro
K. H. Lo and T. Lam (King's). lost to Mackay and Chan beat Lee and Ko
beat Fletcher and Castro
8. P. Chan and W. C. Chung beat Lee and Mackay beat Lee and Ko
beat Fletcher and Castro
Yachting Results
23----21
21-15
21-14 The "Maple Leafs" started the scor- 21--14|ing with two tallies in the first canto, while the Wahoos were blanked in this inning. Wahoos scored one run in the second and another in the third scored two more in the fourth to take to knot the score. The green-shirts
the lead. In the sixth the Canadians scored two more on two muffs by centre-fielder Rozy, but two more tal- lies in the sixth cinched the game for Wahoos,
sweepstake race held by the Royal Hong The following were the results of 2 Kong Yacht Club yesterday:
La Linda
(Mrs. M. I. Johnstone). Red Shank
Jean
Isobel
Finnished Pos. .16.34.06 3
2
(Mrs. M. N. Luce). True Blue
.16.34,47
.16.36.29 3
(Mias H. Crawhall Wilson).
16.35.37
4
(Mrs. V. Gowlland),
(Capt. M. G. Neve).
(Miss L. G. Helberg).
FOOTBALL
.10.38,57
.16.40.49
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THE charity hockey programme ar- ranged for last Sunday can be considered a success in every way and its organisers are to be congratulated Guri
on their efforts.
more such games.
Which opens up a possibility of
The soccer fraternity have a num- ber of charity games on hand as it is and their season is pretty congested anyway. It seems to me, however, that there are several spheres of sport in which representative games-would-at- tract large gates.
JUNIOR SHIELD REPLAY
DEAD: TO-MORROW
The Preliminary Round replay be- tween Royal Scots and 8th Royal Artillery will be played to-morrow at Sookünpao at 2.15 p.m.
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A contemporary of mine suggested a few days ago that a charity soft- As Sookunpoo is being used for ball game might be arranged. This, I Rugby on Saturday the First Division think, is an excellent idea. Although game between Middlesex and Royal in its infancy the popularity of this Scots will be played to-morrow on game, illustrated by the huge crowd the same ground at 4 p.m. which saw the recent Recreio-Hong Kong Ball Club tilt, is undoubted.
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It is an exceedingly interesting game to watch, even to the Lyman H.K. Bail erd, provided the teams know their Girls
tre evenly matched, and 1| Panthers
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Wahoos
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Longest hit of the game was a triple by Rozy to bring in Jacky Anderson.
R. H. E. 2 02.0 6 4 0 0 2 0 BALL GIRLS LUCKY Hong Kong Ball Girls were lucky to nose out Baby Panthers 12-11. Both teams played loose ball and it was
Ball Girls booted seven, Panthers anybody's game till the last inning.
eight...
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Hong Kong Ball Girls took an early lead with three runs in the initial frame. Panthers rallied to chalk up six runs in the sixth to reverse the issue and it looked as if the game was in the bag for the Babes; their lead was short-lived. Ball girls came back strongly in the last inning to score three runs on two well placed bingles and a walk to nose out the opposition.
M. Campos homered for... and K. Bowen replied for. Be
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