THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 9, 1941.
PAWLOSKI'S 11 STRIKE-OUTS WIN SERIES
By "Grandstand”
HIGH-LIGHTED BY LOU PAWLOSKI'S MAS- TERFUL PITCHING IN THE WEEK-END DOU- BLE-HEADER, U. S. NAVY TRIUMPHED OVER HONG KONG ALL-STARS LAST SUNDAY IN A FIERY 5-4 NOSE-OUT AS A FITTING CLIMAX TO A TORRID SEASON. THEY THUS WON THE AN- NUAL FIVE-GAME CHARITY SERIES FOR THE SECOND TIME IN SUCCESSION, AFTER HAVING SHADED "ALL STARS" THE PREVIOUS DAY WITH A HARD-FOUGHT 11TH INNING VICTORY.
Mound maestro Lou Pawloski's down as McKenzie scored from filpper was in great form as he second on a play around the key- tossed his second victory of the stone which back-fired on the All- week-end, whiffing four and Stars. After this the game was walking only two, whilst Wally handed over to the sailors on a Ching, who toed the rubber for platter, as Pete Choy muffed Wi- the losers, struck-out two and son's weak pop fly which had passed two.
handles on it. It was definitely not Pete's day to be the hero of the hour, as he was just switched from the windy alley to the bot
All-Stars drew first blood in the ding-dong scuffle with a single marker in the initial canto, but the bluejackets came right back in the third, and grabbed the lead with a couple of unearned tallies. Hong Kong knotted the count in the fifth, but the sailors again:pro- duced the tie-breaker in their half of the chapter. In the sixth the All-Stars put on full steam in a -do-or-die attempt and netted two counters as Babe Chinn and Dick Chung dented the rubber stand- ing up, on Bowersox's wild heave to first base.
Ruel's Winning Hit
Two successive miscues and a walk found Earl, Wilson striding up to the platter with the bases crawled with sailors with none away in the sixth. Wilson popped -out whilst Lou Pawloski
stood
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