1941-01-30 — Page 31

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 30, 1941.

V.R.C. Beat Chung Hwa In Needle Junior Match Now At Head Of The Table

Maxwell's Fine Fielding

By "Grandstand"

CHUNG HWA SUFFERED their first League Softball defeat of the season on Sunday when they were downed by the V.R.C. 6-3 in a close game, fea- tured by sparkling fielding on both sides.

By virtue of their win, the Victorians are now on an equal footing with the League-leading Chung Hwas, and it appears to this corner that a play-off for the Limjap trophy is indicated in the near fut-

ure.

Son "Jork" Brown, hurled a steady game for the victors, An only walked one, whilst Jay La for the losers, started off by ta ning three Vies in the first Twe frames He soon weakened, hov ever, and allowed five blows for of which were bunched up in the Arth to count for as many runs,

After waiting out a three-ane two count. VR lead-off 0121 Bimby Ahlong stood stilf groover for the first erasurt whilst Ernie Ribeira went The same way by taking three healthy cuts at the atmosphere Roy Ma: well grounded out to grace th scoreboned with a "dark" Taking advantage of a pass and thres bobbles, Chung Hwas dentest the counting station for the Brst run of the fracas,

In the next two frames, both sides were blanked, but the V torians produced the tieng run in the fourth, when Roy Maxwell; worked hurler Lau for a pass. a0e1 scampered home on lett-gardener Richard Chung. wild heave catcher Fung

V.R.C. Take Lead

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In the fifth Lionel Roza-Perel - and Manuel Roza both singled. but the latter was forced out by Bimby Ablong's weak grounde. although both Roza-Pereira art Ablogg scored on Ernie Ribeure base-cleaning triple to give V.RC the lead.

Roy Maxwell's dump, which had twirler Lu handcuffed, INCRE two on the bases, Alec Azedo's timely single driving in both tau- lies.

Helped by two V.R.C. miscues. Bill Chang and Richard Chul, both got on base, both scoring on a single and a sacrifice, to slim the lead to 5-3.

One more marker in the last stanza cinched the game for the Victorians, as the Choymen were shutout in the last two sessions.

Alec Azedo was the big gun f the day, connecting safely twice in three times to the plate, whilst Ernie Ribeiro poled out the longest hit of the tilt with a two-run triple.

Roy Maxwell, V.R.C. guardian of the windy alley. gave the most sparkling fielding display, snaring several line-drives, each one of them а fielding gem.} whilst Chung Hwa slabster Jay Liu brilliantly shoe-atringed five Infield pops.

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Playing inspired ball, V.R.C. garnered their second victory the day when they calcimined the Liga Portuguesa 8-0.

"Jock" Brown starting for the winners, fanned one and walked two, while relief hurler "Pitsy" Barradas fanned none and passed nane. Both hurlers allowed three safeties. Fork-handed chucker Cesar, Coelho for the losers went the route, and passed three.

-Batting-honours were taken by Jock Brown, for his two-in-three hitting, while Maxwell, Ablong and "Bubbles" Remedios pleted the only twin-killing of the day, by retiring Botelho and Coel- ho in the seventh.

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· Two Walk-Overs

The Central Britishers gave a to the Cosmopolitans, walkover whilst the Royal Scots also for- feited their points to Chung Hwa. The South China-Royal ́ Engineers tilt has been postponed.

** Review of other softball games has been held over until to-morrow.

ST. PATRICK'S FAREWELLS

HOCKEY UMPIRES' MEETING

A Hockey Umpires' Association meeting will be held at St. An- drew's Church Hall at 5.30 p.m. row. All interested are invited to attend.

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YESTERDAY'S YACHTING

A most pleasant evening was spent last night at St. Patrick's Club when friends gathered lo give an impromptu farewell to G.

The sweepstake race sailed by Warburton and H. H. Buck, who the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club are leaving the Colony shortly. over 5 15 miles yesterday resulted

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