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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 8, 1941.
Record Crowd Sees Baseballers Beat Recreio Aces 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 Reoreio 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.
LEAGUE TABLE TO DATE
SENIOR LEAGUE
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Indiana
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TO FINE VICTORY
By Grandstand”
LIMITING THE PANTHERS to only two meas- ley singles, Thelma Collaco pitched the Wildcats to 671 a 11-2 triumph in the Ladies' Softball League on 125 Sunday in which eight costly errors, of which short- stop Regina Xavier was guilty of no less than three, 1,000 proved disastrous for the losers.
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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.
The Mohawks had the jump on the Rees when lead-off batter Joe Reardon singled, pilfered second and scored on Lou Leight's sacri- fice to centre. Failing to take ad- vantage of two fumbles in a row, which put ducks in the pond for the Aces. Spotty Pereira wns nailed at the plate on Zinho Go sano's bunt, whilst Eddie "Doctor" Gosano hit into a double-play to 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
The Recs strl had a chance in the last, us Gerry Goyano and Pereira both singled with away, but Tony "Peewee" hit into the second Leight-Hear- ther double-killing of the day for the game to end.
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.
Royal Engineers
LADIES Canadian Chinese Wildcats Wahoos
Panthers
Shell Oilers Lacan
Mary Ng started on the stab for the Maple Leafs and whiffed three second and walked two, whilst string hurler Alice Ma fanned four and also passed two.
Irene Slugger" Poreica, Gloria) 125 Mar and Thelma Collaco'ull con- .000 nected safely two in four times,
but the latter's double-
the 100 only extra base-clout of the fray.
875 Wildcat keystoner Thelma (all) .600 me Josephine) Motta hasn't quite was banged by second-sacker
was
Only round-tripper of the game
Dot Louie und Alice for triples and Bunn, Chang and Mary Ng were
are handling all seven fielding chances Ma accounted
,000 when she came up with Theresita good for doubles.
Botelho's holst to short centre,
1.000 after being toppled by centre gar-
who came
tearing in full steam ahead.
500 Irene Pereira Given Life
Indians' Revenge CHUNG HWA'S
Massaging the shoots of Cyclone hurler Carlos "Kelly" Silva-Netto for 10 safeties, the Indians had their revenge by handing out 12-7 lacing to the Cyclones. to
station on
a
dented the counting Spotty Pereira's sacrifice By left, to tie the score, but, a scratch The Indians only chalked up single by Crews in the third help-one in the first on a pass and a ed by a muff and two wild heaves,
miscue, whilst the Cyclones rp- plied with two on a pair of singles, but, helped by a series of bungles; in the second frame the Indians garnered four tallies.
piled up The Mohawk tallies to
three.
SEVENTH WIN
IN A ROW
By "Grandstand' Chung Hwa registered
No Adventure
a
So Exciting
Leading off in the Wildcat bat- tng. liene Pereira was given 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 across in the third on two succes- sive bobbles, 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.
Fine Pitching
latter triumphed over the Ram-
In the Recreio-Wahoo clash, the
in the fourth the Gosano brothers, Zinho, Eddie and Bertie, were all flagged at first,
Atter the Cyclones had collected their seventh consecutive whilst Hearther. Davis and Crews of the stick on a pass and a muff,
two runs in their turn with the softball win, by shutting Baseballers fed out for a shutout Indians went into scull innings. In the fifth the Recs cut
home on
the
and derricked hurler Kassa Na-6-0 whitewashing,
sessions out the Recreio Bees in a blerettes by 13-4 in a game high-
the
lighted by Therese Noronha's two- hit pitching, whilst her team-
stress for eight-safeties, of which
of the
down the lead when third-sucker zarin in favour of right-gardener Leight fumbled an easy bounder, Savage Hassan, who made his in-game being featured by mates combed Ramblerette slab- to give Nick Beltran a life. Bel-tial appearance on the slab,. con-almost errorless fielding first-sacker Yvonne Yolle's three trao burgled second and romped ceding three hits and three runs "Dead-end" Morris did a Ty Colab the game.
wild pitch, but Joe for the remaining 5-2/3 innings of on the part of the victors. for four was the best performance as he tore around the bags to score
Jay Liu, on the mound for with the stick. was guilty of two wild pitches, good fielding, pitched
Silva-Netto walked three and Chung Hwa, taking advantage of Irene Castilho slashed the only
four-two-bagger whilst Indian hurlers Nazarin and hitter, passed none
and Hussan passed two and one res-none.
and fanned drove, one in. Therese Noronha
Ave and whilst Busy Bee slabster fanned
two, pectively.
Georgie Guterres issued six free whilst Gerry Jorge passed one, and tickets to Arst and only succeeded wh'ffed none. in fanning lead-off batter P. F
frame the Recs Choy after working up a three and "Baby"wo count,
whilst hindsnatcher Charlie Fi- gueiredo was hunting for Reardon with the ball after Reardon had slid home without touching plate.
the
In the sixth chapter the Rees choked the sacks with none away
cues.
Abbas Consistent
a
n
fracas
walked
In the initial scored one on a muff and a single, but Yvonne Yol'e pilfered home in the Owls turn at bat to tle the count, both sides..being unable to score in the second.
Besides fielding 10 chances without a fumble, Yvonne Yolle stole five bases.
Flowers Crushed
on a single, a bunt, and a fielder's Indian second-sacker choice, but Bertic Gosano's Ruth-Abbas kept his leadership in the ian ambitions soon faded as he up-to-date batting averages by
A Wasted Bynt · popped out to Fitch., Tony Alves, connecting safely two in however, scored on Fitches' muff times, but Sherry Bux and Tarzan runs were made by either side, of runs, totalling 12, in the next
three In the first frame no hits or
After producing three clusters of Beltrao's рор ily. Spotty Ismail returned the best average but Chung Hwa broke the ice in three Pereira, running for Zinho Go- for the game by batting .750 in the second stanza on a walk, thrown into the fray.
innings, rescrves, were sano, got bunt signals ull crossed four trips. Two-baggers were fumble and Bill Charig's single. up and was caught napping off batted in by "Baby" Abbas, Tar- In the Bees' turniavith the hickory, third Figueiredo flied out to end zan Ismail, Kassa Nazarin the rally. Two more Waggoner-Silva-Netto. Recovering from the down between second and third on and Dick Alves singled, but was run inen crossed the pan in the sixth shellacking of a week ago, on a pair of hits and two mis-Saints emerged victors in an 8-4 Jay Liu worked Guterres for
the Toto Prata's wasted bunt, Hurler verdict over the Chinese Base- pass, but further attempts to score
In the other tilt, the Canuckettes. ballers in the night-cap..
were snuffed by a smart double-battered the Little Flowers with. Den Crary, on the slab for the killing from third-sacker Jimmy 14 safeties to register a 27-1 vic- Liumen, sent nine Collegians down | Remedios to keystoner swinging with his fast ones
Wilfred tory in a five-inning game. Florin- and Lawrence. In the George Souza, making his bow at Kwok singled, and was squeezed edge of the game seemed good.
next inning the plate to inaugurate the first, across on Richard Chung's sacci-their handling of the ball could frame, swung at three fading up-fice dump. shoots which missed his bat by at the Chung Hwa squad was erased China hurler Bill Quon was con
In the fourth frame have been much better. South least a mile to be the first victim. in one, two, three order and al- tent, to toss them in to the Scots, And was he red under the collar though the Bees put two on bages depending on his ballhawks who when he tied himself into a knot on a blow and a fumble, Jimmy clamped their hands on everything a second time in the next chapter! Remedios talled to come through that come their way. Even the fact that the moundsmen, in the clutch with a hit. *** Frankie Gonzales, had fanned With the bases loaded in the thrice in as many turns failed to console him.
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Your
HONG KONG BOWLING ALLEYS
Lockhart
Costly Errors Although sharing 14 hits with the Saints, six costly errors spelled: defeat for a listless team of Llu-, men.
score
a run, Kwok, who was perched on third, being tagged for running before. Al ausoccifis to deep left wa
Two
Harry Gabby" Chinn, plugging
fifth, the Chung Hwa, team didn't up the windy alley in place of Nelson Ma, played a good game, covering every inch of his terri- early stages of the game, to lay tory, South China scored in the
oundation for their victory. ønded un with, a Afth-inning. age: shitai; including hind-
Sparka" Winglee's: nd friples by Charlie Nellie Ma and Bill
seventh Changa
Collegian hot corner guardian, abp
on
B
Dave Leonard, batted safely two in three, which included a double, Dick
for the best stick-work.
NO FANLING HOUNDS
The meet of the Fanling bounds
necte
gixth, the Royal Scots chance to break into the scoring column when the bases were soused with one away, but they couldn't produce the needed hit,
RA.F. Just managed to take the points from the Cosmopolitang by taking a 18-18 decision, whilst the 8th A.A. had another game credit whilst on the other shanded to them on receiving a walk alihough Royal Scots know-l'over from the Sappers,
scheduled for Sheung Shui cros-the sroads at 2.45 p.m. to-day has ed been cancelled because of unfore-Ch seon circumstances...
On All The
Seven Seas!
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FLYNN
The Sea
Hawk
"Brenda MARSHALL Claude RAINS
Donald CRISP - Flors ROBSON Alan HALB
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