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SOFTBALL

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 30, 1940

RAMBLING RECS LUCKY TO BEAT BALL CLUB MEN Tragic Throw To Unguarded Base

GEORGE SOUZA TAKES FIELDING HONOURS: HAL WINGLEE ALSO SHINES

(By GRANDSTAND)

After trailing 3-0 for five innings, bungling six chances to the enemy's five bobbles and making one hit less, the Rambling Recs from Club de Recreio were mighty lucky to nose out, Hong Kong Ball Club, 4-3 in their charity soft- ball tilt at Kowloon Football Club on Sunday in aid of the British War Organisation Fund. The game was a thriller and a fitting conclusion to a lengthy season.

Poor strategy on the part of mentor Henrique Barros in start- ing batteryman Jackie Noronha and Mike Mendonca Instead of first string hurler Johnny Alvares

and veteran backstop

Charlie Fequeriedo almost cost Recreio the game.

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Jackie was nicked for four hits, walked two and allowed two earned

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runs in three stanzas before he was yanked in the fourth in favour Johnny Alvares. In four innings Johnny Alvares yielded only one single, two strike outs and one Annie Oakley.

Nick Beltrão sacrificed a bunt for the first out and to advance Bertie to third... Lino Gosano followed and was given free transportation to first and later: advanced to second. Al Alvares flied to All for the second putout and Mike Mendonca grounded to third base to end the canto.

In the second chapter Ball Club' broke the ice with two markers on

Recreio won the toss and Ball Club batted first, All was disposed off for the first out when he grounded to Tony Alves at short-stop. George Souza filed to centre-fielder Caco Marques for the second erasure. A. K. Omar made a hit to left field and reached second on a wild throw by left-fielder Bertie Gosano. Dave Leonard grounded to third-sacker Lino Gosano to retire the sain sky-rocketed the ball to Bertie

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three hits and two Recreio miscues. Stan Leonard, after fouling the ball three times, reached first safely when first-sacker Ai Alvares muffed a throw from short-stop Tony Alves. Jin Hus-

Gosano for the first down. Lefty Abbas - singles to advance Stan to third, and In their turn to bat Recreio had two Frankie Gonzales laid a perfect bunt. chances to score, but tight fielding by to fill the bases. Harold Winglee was the Leonardmen held them scoreless. safe at first on a fielder's choice, but Bertie Gosano worked Frankie Gon-Stan Leonard was forced at home for zales for a walk and reached second the second out. Ali was the hero of the on a wild-throw by Harold Winglee, frame

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when he rapped a stinging: single to chase in Lefty Abbas and Frankie Gonzales, Zinho Gosano" caught a foul fly off George Souza's» · bat to end the inning.

Score: Ballmen*2, Recreio 0.

BOTH SIDES BLANKED

In the third frame Recreio were: blanked in one-two-three order. Tony Alves grounded to first base for the- first out. Caco Marques dumped one and · was safe at first but in trying to pilfer second he was nailed at the keystone: hind. by George Souza, assisted by snatcher Harold Winglee, Zinho Gosano grounded to short-stop for third out. · Ball Club were also blinked in this canto, although they had two base- - runners in scoring positions.

In the fourth both teams were scoreless. In the fifth Ballmen pushed: another run when George Souza romp- · ed home on a wild throw by Bertie : Gosano and a wild heave by Nick Bel- trao to the hot corner.

The thrills and excitement came in the eventful sixth inning. Ball Club- were blanked in this stanza. With the ' score 3-0 in favour of Ballmen it look- ed as if the tilt was in the bag for the Leonardmen, but at this stage the Ball- men, cracked up and chucker Frank. Gonzales was more than rattled on. the mound. Bertie Gosano started off. in the sixth with a double, which turned out to be the only long-dis- tance blow of the fray, and came home on Winglee's wild throw, Nick Beltrao beat a bunt and came home on a wild heave by Frankie Gonzales off Lino · Gosano's bunt. "Spotty" Pereira reach- · ed first on a fielder's choice and-Lino* scored on the play.

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The score was now knotted 3-3. T. LEONARD CAUSES DEBACLE

Charlie. Figuereldò, flied foul Winglee for the first erasure "Spotty" should have been out on a double play if Jin Hussain had had his foot on the cushion after catching: Harold's throw. Tony Alves sacrificed a grounder to third base and advanced” "Spotty" to second. "Spotty" kept on: going when he saw that the hot corner was not guarded. For no good reason at all Terry Leonard, who was 'not in' the game, was cavorting around the third base bag waving his hand in ex-- citement and Jin Hussain, at first base: and seeing someone in Ball Club uni-- form waving frantically, let go ́a per-· fect throw to third and of course the ball went wild without anyone there"" to receive. It. "Spotty" thus: ambled [[home with the winning tally:

Fielding honours went to George Souza, who covered the windy alley like a million dollars, taking six chances without a bobble. George is a second baseman by rights, but he is also a qualifted short-stop. Although making two errors, one of which proved to be very costly, Hal Winglee- ||played a "good game behind the bat,- allowing none of the opposition to pil-~ fer second or third.

Scores were:

Recrolo

(Ball Ciuh,0 20

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