THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 4, 1940.
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Hong Kong Baseball Club Surprise The Natives!
Remarkable Pitching By "Rookie" Bill Smith
THREE HOMERS OVER THE WEEK-END
By "Grandstand"
ON SATURDAY Hong Kong Baseball Club surprised the baseball world when they humbled Mindanao, 6-2, in a drawn out game which lasted two hours and 45 minutes.
The Molthenmen's victory was due mostly to the superb pitching of Bill Smith, who struck out no fewer than 13 Chaseman and walked only three. Bill had his control working almost perfectly and was getting the corners just as backstop Joe Higgins demanded.
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Despite two errors chalked up against him Tony Alves played a re-. markable game at short stop and that catch he made, in the last inning,
while still on the dead run, had the melee was Chung Hwa's 15-run rally crowd roaring.
in the second frame on eight hits.
R. H. E. H.K.B.C. 20 2 -0.02 x=6 6 5 Mindanao .0 2.0 0,000—26
Sunday's Games
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Bill Chang went the full route for Chung Hwa, whiffing one and walking three. Pau and Tang took turns on the mound for Nam Hwa. Pau struck out one and walked four, while Tang fanned one and issued three passes to first. Longest hits of the fray were doubles by Nip Lum and L. H. Chan.
R. H. E.
In the first game of a double-header, Hong Kong Brewery had an easy time swamping Royal Engineers 14-2.
H.B. gave all of their players a | Chung Hwa - 0 15 0 0 218 13. 3 chance to play in this game and the S. China 3 0 0 0 0 3 3 4
rookies got some needed experience. With "Horseface” Douglas, Poochie Madeen Arculli started on the slab for | Chase and "Highpocket" Wilson to H.B. but Dave Leonard took over the help them Hong Kong Brewery sub- assignment to save Arculli for their dued U.S.S. Ashville 10-4 to avenge game with Ashville. Best batting their defeat last week. performances for the match were four- Joe Harvey pitched a good game for ply hits for the second and third | Ashville, striking out 10 and passing Ruthian clouts this season by Welford four, but seven costly errors made by and Bux. Flash Radcliffe and Denyer his fielders caused his downfall, Slim were on the hillock for Royal Engin- | Arculli was not so deadly on the rub- eers but in H.B. sluggers showed them ber for H.B. but received better sup- port from his teammates, who mis- cued twice. Arculli struck out three and walked one.
no mercy.
R. H. E. 6 2 2 1 3 0 x=14 12 0 0 2 0 0.0 0 02.3 10 A triple by Douglas was the longest In the nightcap Chung Hwa gave hit of the encounter. Other long hits South China a good spanking to the were a double apiece by Harvey and sweet tune of 18-3. Only five innings | Grovarnale. were played as time was getting short
R. H. E. for the friendly game between H.B. et M.B. et al 3 0 3 001 3-10 8 2 al and Ashville. The feature of the Ashville 0 2.1 010 0 4 12 7
Papa Bear was really cutting in and Doc Molthen had to field a scrub there with his remarkable curves team, including himself at first,, Sam- which had the Miny boys swinging in my Izatt at second and Dutch at third. the air. Whiffing 13 out of 34 batters Ernie Hearther, Hanus Waggoner, Dan || H. B. who faced him is some accomplish- Fettinghoff and Jimmy Degan did not R. E. ment for a rookie pitcher, hey Bill!!? show up-on account of the threaten-
Hong Kong Baseball Club jumped ing weather perhaps! ahead at the start when in the first canto Fred Barros and Tony Alves :scored on a walk, two Mindanao errors and a sacrifice hit by Joe Higgins. Mindanao evened the count in the sec- .ond frame. Tony Muscavage rapped a double to right field and pilfered third a minute later. Padgett fanned for the first out. Douglas singled to right field to score Muscavage. Poochie Chase was given free pass to first but was nailed at the mid station in try- ing to steal. Wilson, who ran for 'Douglas, crossed the plate before the tag was made on Chase and the run -counted. Cook fanned the breeze to
retire, the inning.
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JUMP AHEAD
COATES BAULKS STRANGE AND MACGOWAN IN COLONY OPEN PAIRS
BOWLS TOURNEY POSTPONEMENTS
Owing to the number of games post- poned yesterday in the First Round of the Open: Pairs Lawn Bowls com- petition and the prospects of further postponements to-day the committee another week.
has decided to extend the First Round
ONLY TWO GAMES were played in the First round of the Open Pairs Lawn Bowls championship yesterday and one, that between J. McGowan and H. E. Strange, and W. J. Penny and A. E. Coates had to be abandoned after the 19thing days. Players may, however, more tallies. Tony Alves got on when head, with the Civil Service pair leading by 22 shots to 21.
Hongkongites jumped ahead once more in the third stanza with two
shortstop Badrick tossed a wild one to the initial sack. Dutch Lingenbrink struck out ingloriously for the first erasure. Doc Molthen popped to Poo- chie Chase for the second out. Joe
Higgins came through with a single to left field to score Tony Alves. Higgins scored later on a wild pitch and a passed ball and Sammy Izatt closed the chapter with a fly to left field.
From the third on the Molthen.. ⚫men, never looked back, but to make sure they pushed two more runs in the sixth to`salt the game
-away.
Charlie Figueiredo, first man up in the sixth, clouted the first homer of -the season. It was a line drive to left field and leftfielder Terry was not the ball. quick enough to retrieve Sammy Izatt second man up connect- ed for a two-bagger to right field and romped home on a hit by Tony Alves. Mindanao were blanked from the third inning till the end of the tilt. In the fourth inning they had a good chance to score with full bases and no-one out; they had Bill Smith on the spot, but Bill worked like a veteran hurler to get out of the hole.
On the Football Club green Mc- | present. No games were played in Gowan-and Strange generally had the Kowloon.. better of the Craigengower pair and Several of yesterday's postponed had by the fourth head established games will be played this afternoon, an eight-nil lead. Strange was play-weather permitting. ing well and was saving often..
Following are detailed scores:--
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At the 15th. head the Civil Service pair were leading 18-15, and a four in the next head almost assured them of game.
The light was failing badly, - how- ever, and the Craigengower pair man- aged to register five in the next three heads, mainly through Coates.
Postponed matches will be played on the same greens on the correspond-
mutually arrange for their matches to
be played off before but must make certain from the grounds conveners of the clubs -effected that the greens are available:
A WALK-OVER
R. C. Craig and J. S. Howell have given a walk-over to R. Williamson
H. E. Strange A. E. Coates | and C. S. M. Thom in the Colony Open
Pairs tourney..
J. McGowan W, J. Penny
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It was almost impossible to see the jack when the 19th head was played, when a curious incident occured. Mc- Gowan, not noticing that Coates had already rolled his wood and thinking
was out of his turn, 12 that Strange intercepted the wood before it 13. reached the head and returned it. The wood was declared dead,
and A. K..
At Civil Service, A.R. Minu had a easy time against J. Wat- son and J. H. Gelling, and won by 22 shots to 14, the losers scoring on only eight heads.
Watson played some good bowls but was unlucky on several occasions. Gel- ling also sent up some good woods.
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(With bases loaded. Bili struck · out Cook and Terry in one-two order and Todd popped to short-
The Indian Recreation pair took stop to retire the frame with no
an 9-3 lead at the sixth head and at damage done to the Hongkongiten.
the 10th had increased it to 14-4. It Muscavage, who toed the mound for was only in the closing stages of the Mindanao, was a bit erratic. He fan-game that the losers really got going ned five, walked three and allowed six and scored seven shots in five heads. hits, while his teammates touched Bill The game between K. M. Omar and Smith for five hits. Errors were A. M, Rumjahn and J. Landolt and 11 evenly divided; five for each team, R. Basa was not played as the latter
is sick. No notice was given to the 13 oponents and they were at the club ready to play,
REMARKAble achieVEMENT
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The remarkable achievement of J. Pau took it for granted that the Hong Kong Baseball Club in beating | green at the Football Club was, not † 18- Mindanao is made even more remark- open and did not turn up in time for 10 able by the fact that the Molthenmen | his game aganst W. L. Walker and J. 20 had four of their regular players away Deakin. His partner G. Ladd was,
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Eddie Rogers Back
Arriving in the Colony yesterday on
a visit during the long vacation · at the American university where he is now a student, Eddie Rogers will turn out for the next three months for Hong Kong Baseball Club,
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