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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 8, 1940.

Record Crowd Sees Baseballers

Beat Recreio Aces THELMA

THELMA COLLACO Stormy Outbursts Of Protest PITCHES WILDCATS

Indians Have Revenge On The Cyclones

By "Grandstand”

A RECORD CROWD turned out on Sunday to see the Hong Kong Baseballers down the Recreio Aces by 6-3 and retain the softball leadership.

The game was featured by stormy outbursts of protest against the umpires, which, however, sub- sided after a few minutes.

Cy Jones, on the mound for the victors, spaced six hits and was helped by two Leight to Hearther double-plays in pitching his side to victory over the Aces, while Gerry Gosano, toiling on the hill for the losers, doled out six safeties. Both Jones and

· Gosano walked one apiece.

Indians

.600

TO FINE VICTORY

By "Grandstand”

LIMITING THE PANTHERS to only two meas

ley singles, Thelma Collaco pitched the. Wildcats to

07 a 11-2 triumph in the Ladies' Softball League on

429

12 Sunday in which eight costly errors, of which short- oco stop Regina Xavier was guilty of no less than three, Loc proved disastrous for the losers.

Slabstress Thelma Collaco pass-ha hurler Lily Silva fanned two 625 ed two and fanned two, while the and walked none. but had no .600 Panther twirler only accounted backing from an infield, in which .571 for one Wildcat via the strike-out every one but the battery com- .500 route.

LEAGUE TABLE TO DATE

SENIOR LEAQUE

Wont Lost Pc'g.

Молд Kong Baseballera 7

.778

St. Joseph's

7

?

.778

$

3

.687

Cyclones

В

4

Recreio Aces

*

3

Chinese Baseballors Filipinos

3

4

1

7

Canadian Chinese

0

9

JUNIOR LEAGUE

Chung chín

V.R.C.

7

B

0

.833

R.A.F.

5 2

.71.9

Racrale Bees

5

3

South China

2

Cosmos

3

3

3

4

.429

2

0

1

7

0

LADIES LEAGUE

Canadian Chinese

8

Wildcate

7

1

8

2

RCO

5

4

.556

4

5

Ramblarettes

7

Little Flowers Chun Hwa

1

A

↑

9

INTER.HONG LEAGUE

Hong Kong Bankers

3

3

1

2

1

.687

Texaco

2

667

Chartered Bankers Greenspute

I

1

0

3

0

.000 .000

Liga Portuguean Royal Scots 8th R.A. C.B.A.

Royal Engineers

Wahoos

Panthers Cardinals

The Mohawks had the jump on; up and was caught napping off Shell Oilers the Rees when lead-off batter Joe third. Figueiredo flied out to end] Lacas Reardon singled, pilfered second the rally. Two more Waggoner- and scored on Lou Leight's sacri- men crossed the pan in the sixth fee to centre. Failing to take ad-on a pair

of hits and two mis- Cables vantage of two fumbles in a row, cues. which put ducks in the pond for

The Rees still had a chance in the Aces. Spotty Pereira was the last, as Gerry nailed at the plate on Zinho Go- | Pereira

Gosano and both singled with one sano's bunt, whilst Eddie "Doctor" Gosano hit into a double-play to hit into the second Leight-Hear- away, but Tony "Peewee" Alves

ther double-killing of the day for the game to end.

retire the side

G. N. Gosano Triples

In the next stanza both sides went out in one, two, three order. Hurler Gerry Gosano tripled and dented the emunting station on Spotty Pereira's sacrifice ity to: Jeft, to the the score, int, a scratch single by Crews in the third help- ed by a muff and two wild heaves, piled up the Mohawk tallies

three.

to

Recreio twirler Gerry Gosano took batting honours by returning a clean 1.000 in the three, trips to the plate, which included a triple, the longest clout of the game.

Indians' Revenge

hurler Carlos "Kelly" Silva-Netto

Massaging the shoots of Cyclone;

for 10 safeties, the Indians had

In the fourth the Gosuto 12-7 lacing to the Cyclones. brothers, Zuho. Eddie and Bertie,

The Indians only chalked up

Hearther, Davis and Crews of the miscue, whilst the Cyclones re-

0

+

was

mitted three errors.

Mary Ng started on the slab for the Maple Leafs and whiffed three and walked two, whilst

second string hurler Alice Ma fanned four and also passed two.

20 Irene "Slugger" Pereira, Gloria 126 Mar and Thelma Collaco all con- .000 nected safely two in four times,

but the latter's double

the 10:0 only extra base-clout of the fray. .875 Wildcat keystoner Thelma (all

Only round-tripper of the game me Josephine) Motta hasn't quite

banged by second-sacker Ullan Khoo. Dot Louie and Allee 441 got over the shock of perfectly

handling all seven fielding chances Bunn, Chang and Mary Ng were Ma accounted for triples and

.11 that came her way, especially

was

000 when she came up with Theresita good for doubles.

Botelho's hoist to short centre,

1000 after being toppled by centre gar-

750 dener Virginia Chu, who

came

tearing in full steam ahead. 500 Irene Pereira Given Life

CHUNG HWA'S

SEVENTH WIN

IN A ROW

By "Grandstand”

their seventh consecutive Chung Hwa registered

the

Leading off in the Wildcat bat- Ung. liene Pereira was given 11 life on a wild, heave and breezed home on Mary Mar's single. The latter also scored on a bad throw to the plate. Both sides were re- tired in order in the next frame. The Pantherettes first run came ocross in the third on two succes- sive bubbles, but the. Untamed Felines shellacked them for four markers on three safeties in their turn at bat. In the fifth both sides chalked up one more tally, but the Wildcats sewed the game up in the next chapter on another splurge of four runs.

Ou

Fine Pitching

three

their revenge by handing out a softball win, by shutting latter triumphed over the Ram- In the Recreio-Wahoo.clash. the

out the Recreio Bees in a blerettes by 13-4 in a game high- were all logged at first, whilst one in the first on a pass and a 6-0 whitewashing,

lighted by Therese Noronha's two- hit pitching, whilst her team- innings. In the firth the Rees cut but, helped by a series of bungles almost errorless fielding sacker Yvonne Yolle's Baseballers fled out or a shutout plied with two on a pair of singles game being featured by mates combed Ramblerette slab- stress for eight, safeties, of which down the lead when third-sacker in the second frame. the Indians on the part of the victors. for four was the best performance Leight fumbled an easy bounder, garnered four tallies. to give Nick Beltrao a fe

the Bel-

Jay Liu, on

mound for with the stick. Aller the Cyclones had collected

Irene Castilho slashed the only tran burgled second and romped two runs in their turn with the Chung Hwa, taking advantage of home on a

good fielding, pitched 21

of wild pitch. but Joe stick on a pass and a muff:

four-two-bagger

the fracas and the "Dead-end" Morris did a Ty Cobb Indians went into scull

and hitter, passed none

fanned drove one in. Therese Noronha sessions

лone, whilst as he tore around the bags to score and derricked hurler Kassa Na-

five Busy Bee slabster fanned

and walked two, whilst hindsnatcher Charlie Fizarin in favour of right-gardener Georgie Guterres issued six free whilst Gerry Jorge passed one and gueiredo was hunting for Reardon Savage Hassan, who made his ini- tickets to first and only succeeded wh ffed none with the ball after Reardon had tial appearance on the slab, con Choy after working up a three, and

In the initial in fanning lead-off batter P. F slid home without touching the ceding three hits and three runs plate.

for the remaining 5-2/3 innings of

iwo count, the game.

Silva-Netto walked three and whilst Indian hurlers Nazarin and was guilty of two wild pitches, Husson passed two and one res- pectively.

or

scored one on a muff and a single, but Yvonne Yol'e pilfered home in the Owls turn at bat to tie the count, both sides being unable to score in the second.

frame the Recs

were

In the sixth chapter the Recs

A Wasted Bunt choked the sacks with none away on a single, a bunt and a fielder's

runs

In the first frame no hits choice, but Bertie Gosano's Ruth

but Chung Hwa broke the ice in

After producing three clusters were made by either side, of runs, totalling 12, in the next jan ambitions soon faded as he

three innings. reserves the second stanza on a walk. a'thrown into the fray. popped out to Fitch. Tony Alves, however, scored on Fitches' muff

fumble and Bill Chang's single. of Beltrao's

ily. Dup

Spotty Abbas Consistent In the Bees' turn with the hickory... Pereira, running for Zinho Go-

Dick Alves singled, but was run sanó, got bunt signals all crossed Abbas kept his leadership in the Toto Prata's wasted bunt. Hurler Indian second-sacker "Baby" down between second and third on

for 1

Besides fielding 10 chances without, a fumble, Yvonne Yalle atole ve bases.

Flowers Crushed

up-to-date batting averages by Jay Liu worked Guterres connecting safely two in three pass, but further attempts to score In the other tilt, the Canuckettes times, but Sherry Bux and Tarzan were snuffed by a smart double-battered the Little Flowers with Ismail returned the best average killing from third-sacker Jimmy 14 safeties to register a 27-1 vic- for the game by batting .750 in Remedios to keystoner Wilfred tory in a five-inning game. Florin- four trips. Two-baggers were Lawrence. In the next inning batted in by "Baby" Abbas, Tar-Kwok singled, and was squeezed zan Ismail, Kassa Nazarin and across on Richard Chung's sacri-ledge of the game seemed good, Silva-Netto. Recovering from the ice dump. In the fourth fram? have been much better. South their handling of the ball could shellacking of a week ago, the the Chung Hwa squad was erased China hurler Bill. Quon was con- Saints emerged victors in an 8-4 in one, two, three order and latent to toss them into the Scots, verdict over the Chinese Base- though the Bees put two on bases depending on his ballhawkts who ballers in the night-cap,

on a blow, and a fumble, Jimmy Den Crary, on the slab for the Remedios falled to come through clamped their hands on everything. Llumen, sent nine Collegians down in the clutch with a „hitic................

that came their way. swinging with his fast ones and With the base loaded in the the windy alley in place of George Souza, making his bow at fifth, the Chung Hea team didn' the plate to inaugurate the first score a run. Kwok who was frame, swung at three fading up- perched on third, being tagged for shoots which missed his bat by at running before Ah Liu's sawife TAKE HER BOWLING-east under the collar. Two more andren in the

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Hurry “Gabby" Chinn, plugging Nelson Ma, played a good game, covering every inch of his terri- tor South China scored in the early-stage of the game, to lay the foundanceful their victory. bethaitheswithin fifth-'aning including hind- "Sparks" Winglee's- triples by Charlig wah, Nbilie Ma and Bill:

a second time in the next chapter!. Chania's four bag will one when he tied himself into a knot seventh in addition-fr: BRWh

Even the fact that the moundsman, aboard in, the sixth put the gam Frankie Gonzales, had fanned on ita för Chung HM45/4- thrice in as many turns failed to console him.

Costly Errors

BillChang of Chung Hwaran Dick AMD oliths Bear: both rời nedted infody, tway dinṛthree times:

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Although sharing 14 hits.. with the Saints, six costly, errors spelled defeat, for a listless team of Llyr second trin

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in three, which included a double, China,

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