1941-01-08 — Page 15

TIGER HOME RUN SPECIALIST Royal Scots In Army

IS LEAGUE'S MOST VALUABLE

Big Henry Greenberg, Detroit outfielder and home run specialist, is the American League's "most valuable player" for the second time in six years, writes a correspondent in the "Christian Science Monitor."

TO-DAY'S BADMINTON

CHUNG WAH SHOULD BEAT

KING'S COLLEGE

By "Adrem"

After seven years at first base for the Tigers, Greenberg moved to the outfield "for the good of

the team" and experienced one of his brightest seasons, leading the lengue in home runs and runs batted in. He received the award Arst in 1935.

AMENDED

SOCCER

PROGRAMME

Following is the amended soccer programme for the week-end. Further postponements

are Ex- pected. repre-

^ 24-man committee, senting the Baseball Writers' As- sociation of America, gave the 29-year-old Greenberg 292 points in the annual poll for the award. Bob Feller, Cleveland's young

trailed the Tiger pitcher.

star with 222 points. Each of the 24

preference in addition to others

There is only one match writers listed 10 men in order of

on to-day's programme of ned for honorable mention. A Junior Division Leaguerst place vote counted 14 points, second place mine points and so badminton matches that op down to me point for tenth is likely to be very inter-place esting and this should re- sult in a victory for

41 Homers

Greenberg.

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Club

Saturday

FIRST DIVISION

V Eastern (Club, 4.00 p.m.)

St. Joseph's V Middlesex (Caroline Hill, 4:00 p.m.)

SECOND DIVISION Kwong Wah V Middlesex 30th R.A.

(Chatham Road, 4.00 p.m.)

V Navy (Stanley, 4.00 p.m.)

Air Force

THIRD DIVISION

V 7th R.A. (St. Joseph's, 4.00 p.m.) 12th R.A.

V 24th R.A. (Stanley, 4.00 p.m.)

JUNIOR SHIELD (Preliminary Round)

V Club (Club, 2.30 p.m.)

Chung Wah over King's homers and drove in 150 runs, re: 30th R.A. College.

The latter team

almost

who knocked

cewed 15 first place votes out of a possible 24. seven fo second place and one for sixth, Feiler was identical with last year's and al-given six first place votes for his though they are capable of ex-brilliant record of 27 victories, and tending Chung Wah, the latter are Detroit's Buck Newsom

and and very well-balanced

should Cleveland's Lou Boudreau split win fairly comfortably providing the other two. conditions at the College do not worry them: too much.

Recreio should win easily against Jewish Recreation Club, and St. John's, for whom Eardley will be playing, should account for St. Andrew's although if the Saints, whose team I have been unable to secure, aure at full strength they should not let their hosts have matters all their own

way.

Kowloon Tong. even without Frank Kwok, should be too good for Police.

PROGRAMME AND

Sunday

V

FIRST DIVISION Sing Tao

South China (Club, 4.00 p.m.) Police

V Kwong Wab (Boundary Street, 4.00 p.m.)

SECON SECOND DIVISION

V Service Corps (Boundary Street, 2.30 p.m.) THIRD DIVISION

Police

Joe Di Maggio, New York star who led the circuit in batting for the second straight season, fell to third place in the voting after wimung the award in 1939. Di Maggio reived 151 points, fol-20th R.A. v A.S.A. lowed by Newsom with 120 and Boudreau with 119. Jimmy Foxx, Boston first baseman and catcher

(Chatham Road. 2.30 p.m.)

JUNIOR SHIELD (Preliminary Round)

ν Sing Tao (Club, 2.30 p.m.)

and three-time winner of the Kit Chee

'most valuable" designation, drew 110 points.

COTTAGE CLUB PAPER HUNT

League Final

ROYAL SCOTS QUALIFIED to meet Royal En- gineers in the Final of the Army Small Units Rugby |League when they defeated Middlesex yesterday by

9 points to 3 points.

SOUTH CHINA'S PART IN SPORT

Royal Scots were served by a strong three quarter line and in the second half were continually pressing and finished more strong- ly.

a

After 20 minutes play Marshall scored for Royal Scots' but early In the second half Thomson equal- ised. Marshall missed good An interesting talk on the chance in placing his side further growth of the South China Athlein the lead for after a good run tic Association and the part the tried to score in a favourable played in the sporting activities position but was tackled wall,

of the Colony among the Chinese was given by Mr. W. H. Chen, general Hon. Secretary of the As sociation at the monthly meeting of the Hong Kong Referees' Asso- ciation held at Hotel Cecil night.

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Bateman soon after scored an- other try for Royals and before the end Nealon broke through for a try which was not converted,

SCOTS-Stevenson; O'Brien, Hanson. Bateman. Marshall; Phillips, Grace: Nealon. McKenzie: Durie, pick in. Mr. Chen said the establishment Hunter, Loughlin, Sims, Livingstone of the Chinese Republic brought Radley. Cordery. Dickens: Man, Max- -Holford; Thomson. many changes, one of which was geridge: Wilson, Bailey. Heather. the springing up of a number of Klimke, Wookey, Berry, Goddard. sporting and athletic clubs all over the country.

MIDDLESEX

Pearce.

ENGINEERS BEAT GUNNERS Among the most important were Engineers defeated 5th Anti- South China in Hong Kong and Aircraft Battery a goal and four the Chin Woo Athletic Associa-tries (17) to two tries (6) tion in Shanghai.

The final of the small units The Far Eastern Olympic league matches will be played on Games, held in Shanghai, Manila January 21.

and Tokyo between 1915 and 1935 served to arouse great interest in sports among the younger Chinese, and the resulting inter- est in sport had brought about u great physical development in the health of young China. Wide Sporting Activities

HOME FOOTBALL

The following are the results of Home Football matches played yesterday:--

Dealing with sport taken up by South China, Mr. Chen said the

SCOTTISH LEAGUE most popular was football, and Dumbarton 2 Falkirk other games played at present | Morton were baseball. softball, tennis, Rangers basket-ball, volley-båll, badmin- ton, swimming, water-polo and ping-pong.

Referring to past activilles, Mr. Chen said the Club toured Aus- tralia with a football team in 1923 and since then had sent teams to many other parts of the world.

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One Rugby match was played. an Army XV defeating Middlesex by 16 points to 11.-Reuter,

Schoolboy Rowe of Detroit rat- ed seventh with 62 points, fol- lowed by his teammate, Rudy York, 61; Ray Radellff, St. Louis, 55: Luke Appling, Chicago, 54; Roy Weatherly, Cleveland, 34:1 Dick Bortell, Detroit, 26; Joe Hunt will Following is to-day's Badmin-Kuhel, Chicago, 18; Sid Hudson, next at 4 p.m., starting from Fan-ilion, occupying an area of over i senior football members had left ton League programme and some Washington, and Ted Williams, ling Village.

Mr. Chen said that although 1940 was too recent to call for The Caroline Hill site was allot- comment, they were still looking ted to them by Government in forward to winning the football The next Cottage Club Paper | 1927 and a hill on the site was championship

this year despite be held on Saturday transformed into an imposing pav-the

SOME TEAMS

of the teams:-

Recreio King's

V.

V.

J. R. C. Chung Wh

St. John's V.

V.

St. Andrew's P. R. C.

Kowloon Tong Recreio: E. A. R. Alves and C. C. Pereira; P. P. Botelho and P Yvanovich Jur.; A. E. Xavier and

A. E. Noronha

Boston, 16 each; Barney McCosky, Detroit, 11; Ernie Bonhom. New York, 8; and Wall Judnich, St. Louis, 6.

Johnny Babich, Philadelphia, got five votes: Mike Tresh, Chi- cago; Frank Hayes, Philadelphia, and Ray Mack, Cleveland, [our each; Joe Gordon, New York;

J.R.C.-M. Talan and A RCeal Poliak; J. Odell and B. Godkin - Dr. Ramler and L. Landau,

St. John's-H. Eardley and D. Kwok; P. Wilson and N. I.. Smith: R. Maynard and G. S. Ladd.

P.R.C.-V. Mackenzie and H Dingsdale; J. MacDonald and W. Gillies; L. Gordon and C. Y. Siu.

Kowloon Tong:-Peter Lo and Joe Tsang; Richard Lee and S. T. Chân; Lee Po and A. N. Other.

King's College:-K. L. Liu and H. T. Woo; S. P. Chan and W. C. Chung; T. Lam and K. H. La,

LOCAL CHESS

Results last night in the Junior Tournament of the Kowloon Chess Club were:—A, C. Poupard beat V. V. Kolatchoff, D. Drake beat S. Benjamin; and J. Grefalda beat Th. Laufer.

Five entries have been received so far for the, Colony Open Cham- pionship. Players entered are C. M. Sequeira, D. E. de Carvalho,

• K. Weisa, G, S. Coxhead- and. L. Karpovich.

C.C.C. CRICKET TEAMS

The following have been select- ed to represent · Craigengower Cricket Club in League matches on Saturday, 'at 2.00`p.m.;

*fst? XE (v »K.C,C%,/^\\Home):—E! Zimmern (Capt.), P. J. Billimoria, E. H. Esmail, H. G. Foreman, A. B. Hamson, A. J. Huise, A, K. 18-

Travis. Washington; Bob Kennedy, Chicago, and Charles Gehringer, Detroit, free cach; Rolle Hemsley, Cleveland and Ted Lyons. Chicago, two each

and

Lou Finney, Boston, and Eldon Auker, St. Louis, one each. The committee which made the selection was headed by Sid Mer- cer of New York, President of the Association.

BILLIARDS "SOCIAL"

AT Y.M.C.A.

Members of the Y.M.C.A. bil- liards team had a "social" billiards competition last night when two novelty matches were played.

In the first, F. Bowrey won, scoring the required 15 points without touching a plate.

The other game, "billiard bowls," was introduced for the first time by C. Terran. Sixteen entrics. were run off,in pairs, and C. Terran and J. Moulton won.

The Y.M.C.A. team will 'meet every Tuesday, from 7:30 to 11 p.m., until the end of April,

SUNDAY'S HOCKEY

Following are the Tournament

mail, E. J. Mitchell, W. Hong hockey matches to be played Sling G. Souza and J. L. Young Sunday:

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Reserve-T, H. Edgar,

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