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Wally Ching Pitches ALEC PEARCE SHOULD China To Sensational BE ABLE TO GET FINE Win Over United States ARMY SIDE TOGETHER

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By "Grandstand!"-

INSPIRED. BY- A... REGORD- CROWD OF SUPPORTERS, WHO JAMMED. EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY OF A CREAKING GRAND- STAND, GRANDPA LEUNG'S ALL-CHINESE BASEBALL NINE OVER POWERED THE UNITED STATES CONTINGENT 11 TO 3 TO BECOME THE NEW INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONS, BEHIND THE MASTER FUL PITCHING OF WALLY "DIMPLES" CHING, WHO HAD THE OP. POSING BATTERS EATING OUT OF HIS HANDS WITH A VARIETY OF TEASERS DURING HIS SIX-INNING MOUND TENURE.

In the Hong Kong All-Stars v U. S. Navy series, the blue-jackets recovered from their shellacking of a week ago and managed to pull the series out of the fire with a 7, to 3 triumph after the count had been dead-locked 3-all for six eventful frames.

Mc-

Mound maestro Pawloski fanned six and walked none, whilst passed one to first.

slabster Al Lau whiffed two and

Hong Kong Baseballers high-stepper rifled a bullet peg

South

right down to first-sacker China the Kenzie to nab Al Lau a mile off League finale, resulted the bag, for the outstanding field- in Mohawks over-running

ing gem of the season. Caroliners 18 to 6 before a handful of

spectators, whilst the Bees shaded the Aces 4 to 2 in an exhibi- tion tilt staged by the pupils of Grandpa Leung's Baseball School.

All-Stars Score

Inaugurating the initial canto, Nip Lum slashed out a single on the first pitch, and sped all the as hind-snatcher way to third Mascavage hebved one All Lau, who started on

out into the centre feld.

Tony "Peewee" hill for the Chinese, was derrick-Alves' sacrifice dump saw Lum ed in favour of Wally Ching after cross the pan standing up for All he had conceded three safeties. Stars to draw first blood. In their For the rest of the game Ching half of the session the sailors re- fanned three and walked and was robbed of a no-hit no- counters on a double and a triple one, gained the lead with a couple of run performance by allowing Lou assisted with a brace of miscues. Pawloski to nick him for double. Tony Mascavage, work- ing on the slub for the Josers, yielded seven blows, struck-out one and walked three.

Short-lived Lead

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REFEREE'S ASSOCIATION MEETING

Hong Kong, Football Re. 'forces Association are. hold- ing their first monthly.meet Ing of the reason this cyon- ing at Hotel Cecilat, & p.m. The speaker will be Lieut. G Crossby, M.MIR.A chairman of Army Re- ferees' Association.

Among. the. itoms on the agenda is the dates for the annual soccer game between Referees and Press

(By "Incog")

BOARD, HAS DECIDED TO ENTER TWO TEAMS THE ANNOUNCEMENT. THAT ARMY SPORTS

IN THE CRICKET LEAGUE THIS SEASON HAS GIVEN SATISFACTION ALL ROUND, AND IS SURE TO ADD TO THE INTEREST OF THE COM- PETITIONS AS ARMY ARE CAPABLE OF FIELD- ING TWO VERY STRONG SIDES ANY SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

Licut. T. A. Pearce, Colony and Hong Kong Cricket Club 'all-rounder, will be in charge of the First team, and it is

C.B.A. WIN

felt that with one of his calibre OVER ARMY

AT TENNIS

at the helm the season's. prospects. for Army are indeed bright.

Though no names are available.Just. yet, it is understood thai In addition to most of last. season's stalwarts, Pearce will also have, the services of a couple of new arrivals, who have played, in At King's. Park yesterday, Gen- good class cricket at Home and whetral, British Association beat Army are expected to be able to turn out Tennis Club by 61⁄2 sets to 2% in

regularly.

In addition to Alec Pearce, two Hong League, scores being:-

Fourth Division of the. Tennis Kong Cricket Club players, in J. L. C. Pearce and R. M. M. King are avaliable,

B. 1. Bickford, and. T Gaubert also C.B.A.).

Majór- Swyer, who has captained. beat, Ford and, Quismil RAM.C. with so much, success for a drew, with Mitchell and Alsey uumber of years, will be leading the best Senter, and A, N. Other. Second Division team, and will have 5. A1 Fowler and N. some promising talent from which to(C.B.A,). make his selection,

The

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beat Ford and Quismil ..

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lost to Mitchell and Alsey beat Spencer and A. N. Other

G. Gurevitch and B. (C.B.A.).

through ting day, the former coming.

with. three-in-three whilst the latter included a three-

one great drawback for the bagger in his. two safeties. Other | Army is, the lack of facilities for nets beat Ford and Quismil

lost to Mitchell and Alşey Gosano's mighty triple that clear-ranks" are concerned-and in this cor- extra-base clouts ficlude Gerry, practice-at least insofar

beat Spencer and A. N. Other ed the right field fence, and two-while of the Sports Board to consider now left with one more game → nection it would perhaps be worth the

Central British Association

goner's Mohawks shellacked three South baggers by Wilson and Moore.

returfing part of the ground at Sookun-against Post Office Club (2)--and In Sunday's night-cup. Chuck Wog- poo for this purpose.

Owing to the fact that the different for next Monday.

this has been provisionally fixed China slobsters for a total of, 10, blows units are scattered all over the Colony, In the second semester Gerry to overwhelm the Caroliners 10 to 6. organised practice is almost an impos- Gosano dented the pay-off-slation "Doc" Molthen, who started on the sibility for the Army, and knock-ups on to knot the count, but the blue-hill for the victors, fanned three and cement pitches, in barrack compounds, walked four for six frames, whilst have served for practices in the past- Jackets forged ahead again when Ernie Hearther whifed two and walked and will probably continue to do so for Greasy Moore romped home with in the remaining chapter.

many years to come. the tie-breaker after catcher Bob Foley let a pitch get past him.

The untiring Nip Lum came through with another hit in the third chapter, pilfered stcond and drew a wild heave

Mascavage from spike the rubber for the tle- Ing marker. Both sides were unable to produce a run for the next three framce.

Perfect Batting

to

In the sixth canto a barrage of four blows and two miscues en - abled the sailors to produce a splurge of four runs to salt the game away.

and

Both Nip Lum

Henry two-run "Crooner" Ruel had a perfect bat-

Three Chinese batters paraded to The plate alld back again in the first inning for scoreless frame, whilst the Ameri- cans talled three times on three blows to jump into a short-lived lead. In the second frame Moroccu Chan singled and pilfered second. whilst Hank Chan was given a life on third-sacker Bowersox's fumble. A Lau trotted down the line to load the sacks, after work- ing moundsinan Mascavʻage for a walk on four pitched balls.

Coming up into the batter's box with runners dancing on

the base-trails, Pete Choy socked the apple on the nose for a double. Dick Chung's "Japanese tiner" to right chased two more mates over the plate for the Chinese to draw ahead, and be. fore the disastrous Inning WB6 over Hank All dumped * neat bunt along first to score Chung.

In the next semester the Chin- ese started off by loading the sacks on a bingle, a miscue and a walk to produce another cluster of five counters, after they had batted right around. In the fourth and the fifth they were horse-collared, but in the sixth the Chinese stowed the game away with an- other marker on a walk and a sacrifice.

Belated Rally After being blanked for five chapters, the Americans staged a belated uprising in the last stanza, but the threat was smothered; as Earl Wilson popped out to first- sacker Hank Chan,

Only

one double was completed in the scuffle, -when--elabster-Tony--Masr covage froze on to Patp Choy's liner and tossed AI Lau out at second.

erasure

MRS. COOKE'S

BID FOR

U.S. TITLE

For close to a dozen years, Mrs. has been Sarah Palfrey Cooke battling America's best women players on the tennis courts, and yet to-day the little veteran is faced with hor best opportunity of winning the American singles crown, a championship which has cluded her.

the amateur ranks leaves the women's:

The retirement of Alice Marble from

fleld wide open. And Mrs. Cooke, with her experience and vastly improved. game this season, stands an even chance of reaching-her-goal,-Back-in- 1935 and 36, she was · runner-up to Helen Jacobs, but that was as closa as she ever got to the crown.

Mrs. Cooke's forte has been in dou- she

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Table To Date

S.C.A.A. C.C.C. C.R.C.

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Nam Hwa regular chucker Paul Lau. have always been able to provide the In spile of all this, however, Army who worked on the rubber for

F.C. frames, struck-out

and

Colony with a number of really good two

passed

A.T.C. all-round cricketers, and it would ap1.R.C. eight and was relieved by Ernie Moy with the sacks loaded in the sixth pear that 1941-42 will be no exception. P.O.R.C. (1)

Army have

openly C.B.A. Moy couldn't find the plate and received his walking papers after letting in four stated they are ready for the season, counters by handing out four free rides League will rise from its prolonged K.I.T.C.

It is to be hoped that the Cricket J.R.C. to the initial-satchel. As a last resort. Summer slumber and set the wheels manager Hal Winglee put brother. Cecilin motion for another enjoyable season.. on the mound, who fanned George Daniels

to on four pitches flasco.

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well-known Chinese fourth among the their crickes- stalwarts. 10, call on this player, is seeded

States in the United coming season, while there is, the posal foreign entries billly that. R. G. K. Thompson, who has national tennis championship now played good class cricket at Home, progress at Forest Hills. will be persuaded, to turn out for them al as well.

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The three-base-hit record for single season stands at 36 and was or 0. 1. E. de Souza, who was

Castilo, Mexican flyweight established by J. Owen Wilson of of University's leading hockey players champton, knocked out Filipino battler Pittsburgh in 1912.

That same in his undergraduate days, returned to Little Pancho in the second round of year Joe Jackson hit 26 for Cleve- the Colony yesterday from London after their scheduled 10-round batllo at "

Mexico City on August 24,

Lou Pawloski returned a two-bles play. On eight occasions in-three performance with the shared, the American crown, the last! hickory, whilst both Nip Lum four years with Allco. Marble as her [{ and Morocco Chan clouted safely partner. She has been fairly success- twice in four batting attempts. fut in the mixed doubles, too, having Both Pete Choy and Dick Chung Ferry, Enrique Maler, and Don Budge. wönt "the "Utle three times-with Fred chased in three mates with time-The one factor that has stood in her Jy hitting:

path to the American singles crown in the past has been her Jackal stamina. Pawloski Again Her game has always been, alòng thá style which men, play-so unlike the Featured by Lou Pawloski's soft game, many of the girls play. return to form on the hillock, the Unfortunately, she stands only 5-foota, U.S. Navy nine chalked up their and weighs around 110 pounds..

Mrs. Cooke's" game has always been first win in the five-game series well rounded. She has the strokes and: against Hong Kong All-Stars with knows how to use them. This spring. a 7 to 3 verdict, climaxed by asha, rolurned, to action with her fore brilliant twin-killing 'when hand improved by a changed grip. In gardener Earl Wilson snared Bob addition, she has come up with a vary Foley's towering hit after a handy drop shot, something sho lacked breathless chase that deserved the past. car-fare and lunch money back but one thing, is certain-she is giving Mrs. Cooke may, fall in her, quest, to his post. Not only that, but the it a good whirl this year

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an absence of over five years.

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