THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1951.
RACE IS ON FOR THE LADIES' LEAGUE BATTING TITLE Senior Softball League Race
Resumes Tomorrow
By "GRANDSTAND"
After a respite as a result of a cessation of League
games in order to accommodate International and other Exhibition fixtures, the Senior Softball League race resumes this week with renewed vigour an the Canadians tangle with the Americans tomorrow at 11 a.m. and the Jaguars take on the Baseballers at 2 p.m.
SOCCER SCHOOL Brick Wall Can Help
To Make You Stars
WEEK-END ||U Wolves, two of the forwards who helped England to
ES MEDLEY, of 'Spurs, and Johnny Hancocks, of
SOFTBALL
Programme for the week-
and:-
1
SATURDAY
Junior League 2,00 p.m. St. Teresa v. Mus- tangs; Falcons v. Delawares.
Exhibition Game 3.30 p.m. Jaguars v. Shang-
The Shanghai Pandas, who have split two games so far in their barnstorm- ing tour, will conclude their tour this weekend with a trio of games, in which they ha! Pandas. will cross hats with the Jaguars this afternoon at 3.30 p.m., meet South Chinn at Caroline Hill tomorrow and wind up against the Hongkong Pandas at 3.30 p.m.
10
the
SUNDAY
draw with Yugoslavin at Highbury, combine in this Soccer School quiz on wing play presented by DESMOND HAC- KETT.
I
Take the Пloor, you tutors, are never at a loss no matter for lesson No. 5....
how the ball comes and you MEDLEY: They felt us, can always whip on to a split- Johnny,
hat we are beth lucky second chance of scoring.
HANCOCKS: Trite Latural in being
footballers,
enough. able to play either right от Apart from
my shooting left with equal success.
practise precision passing, par- HANCOCKS: There is foot-ticularly the Jong pass from 20 ability in almost everyone to 30 yards. If I am alone I
to the try pulling the ball
target at the varying ranges. Ost. May I say my hard practice but has earned
the fille of hard "Bisley Boy" at Wolverhamp-
as
V.
Banc-
ball
they so long
take trouble to develop 1.
Look at me. I weigh 5lb. and land 5ft. 3ins., I reckon I can shoot as ng the big fellows,
v.
V.
$1.
Senior Leagud 11.00 a.m, Canadian Americans.
2.00 p.m. Jaguars v. ballers.
Junior League 9.30 nm.
South China Griffins.
Ladies' League 0,30 R.M. Squawo
The Ladies' League having been settled, interest is now mainly centred in the race for the batting title with St Teresa's and the Squaws gunning for the honour currently held by Wahoo keystoner Gwen Dragon.
Junior League activity is con- for the championship they are theless, I would not hesitate to these two will fined
South China- still anxious to keep their second prophesy that
in vital Senior League whuch is being gure Grifins tilt in which a setback place rating
distant games in the not too for the latter will eliminate all threatened by the Canadians.
to the future. What they need now. In order to hang on further chances for the playoffs. In the
runners-up slot they must field more than anything else, is ex- Teresa's. Midget League the Dod-
strongest side in the perienced guidance for many a Kers, who are aa yet undefeated, their will incel the Delawares who curtain-raiser tomorrow at 9.30 pitcher has been
um. for it not impossible that spell of enthusiasm. are their closest rivals for the
Cup. Jack Shepherd
the
ercate Squaws
.** may The Terries are par- surprise. teularly weak in the right side of the diamond. and if the Squaws can keep their hits to that side, who can tell?
The Canadians and Americans, who have been alment from the diamond for over a month, will make a a reappearance
at 11.00
a.in. tomorrow.
The Yanks are already out of but the
picture, pennant vertheless intend to upset ag never many of
of the other contesting teams as possible in spite of their depleted squad.
Johnnie Brown, Steve van Nostrand and Bob McLane, who mainstays. were their infeld
left these shores, but in have their stead mentor Frank Card has signed on Paul Frilman and Fred Bondwell to all the gaps.
The Canucks. who are still very much in the flag chase, do not intend to let an upset at this
stage of
campaign jeopardise
Their
chances,
will Bell their
the
becasionally, 21
Tulted in a
Mklget League 12.30 p.m. Lions v. Jaguars; Delawares v. P. I. Dodgers.
Exhibition Game 10,00 m.
South China v. Shanghai Pandas (at Caroline Hill).
3.30 p.m. Shanghai Pandas v. H.K. Pandas.
LEAGUE STANDINGS
Lengue standings Wednesday's games:
Braves
including
SENIOR LEAGUE
Blucs
Won Lost Peta. I
.875 1
lon
me
on
about MEDLEY: That Becuracy
I made up my mind This shooting business years stuff is invaluable in corner-
ago.
I kept belting a ball, kickingt. We usually try three small or large, against a brick methods:
wall and punching it back with either foot.
When I could get out into the fields I would practise running at top speed with the ball
and crueleng
il at a target 20 yards
away. It took
a few years, bul now it seems fairly casy. I sup- pose. Like golf, it is n matier of timing.
MEDLEY: Funny thing
use
that
MEDLEY 'Ba two-footed."
old brick
0 1.000
"
,778
0 3
.007
3 .020
I
.444
.100
Dolgers
0
Golds
Jaguars South China
St. Joseph's
Madcap
Baseballara
St. Teresa's Panthers
200 .100
JUNIOR LEAGUE
Blues
LADIES' STATISTICS Batting statistics for the Ladies' for the first League, released time this season, show that the, femmes have not been punish- Ing the horsehide with as much. THE LAST WORD?
regularity as in previous seasons, have not The visiting Pandas are côn-
or perhaps scorers sidered at Shanghai, where Soft-been so lenient.
The fact remains that out of As in this ball is as popular Colony, as being the last word over 100 players participating in diamond skill, but having seen in the Ladies' Leagic, only eight, them in action on two occasions have managed to break into the we have come to the conclusion select 300 circle, which is just that our own brand of Softball slightly less than one safe hit
Canadians Defensively, is nothing to be ashamed of in three times at bal.
Очствая of the Pandan the Pontos
With aru
the exception excellent but their pitching, as basement
every team Americans Pirates, ours, is still
vessels who tinguished society, while the of the US much below that has a representative in this dis- Reds
extra-base "hit or miss" clouters visi
It ny sound strange, but be- are not even included in the and leve it or not, local teams do company.
much im-
The top position is held by strongest with not seem to attach
to
most Wahoo keystoner Gwen Dragon pitching, versatile Kassa Nazarin on the portance aand. The
possess managers being content to ac- with Squaw Joyce Guest a cluse lineup
who eat just second, but as Joyce is no longer several big guns, among when rept any hurler
the Colony, St Teresa's are A. H. Bakar, Bill Woo, Dousing a ball over the plate with in
rensmable accuracy.
With the Yvonne de Souza is next on the Blackhawks Robbins and Junior Markar.
challenge Gwen's Delawares 10 Despite
the exception of very few pitchers, list
Griffins Aces Jaguars will be Helding o tired speed seems to be of minor ir-
Yvonne will have a hard task St. Teresa's team against the Baseballers, portance. they should have no difficulty in The Junior all-star game fast ahead of her as she will have subduing Don Molthen's Base- Wednesday gave fans a chance to bat safely twice in tomorrow's ballers who have been playing of sering Joey Graca and Tony game against the Squaws to mediocre ball. The Jaguars nte Rey, two of the minor circuit's keep level with Gwen Dragon.
The only player to clout more and should in- top hurlers, opposing each other heavy hliters
Wildfres Was round-tripper onc their balling Agures at in a game in which they re-than
who has a total of 13 strikeouts rookie Sheila Colluco the expense of Baseballer hurler gistered a
Panday two
four Spartans to her credit, while Solly Saul who has taken over between them. the pitching job permanently While there may be critics sluggers tied for three-base hits Dodgers, for the Baseballers.
who may not agree that the bats with only one aplece, and they men who fuced them were of
Cecile Arnulphy, Vera
Johnson rever Brown, Patsy been nased out by the Wahoos Senior League calibre,
Peggy Barros, The two-bagger by White Fang record is held
with Dinne Xavier
Remedios, who
crease
that the fact
Although St Teresa's
*
have
ON THE RECORD The Longest Step
In
lost the
History
supremacy.
ате
doubles.
Bernic
Falonne
Muclangs
South China
Drogenk Пехся
with
.000 wall method even today. I find
it helps to keep my shooting and trapping at peak, .700 ! Alter a spell of this foot .636 | drill, I make break
મ cracking the ball to the right or left, or trying a quiels pass from the rebound off the wail. Backs tell me that quick-pass move with Bally does not give 750 them a chance to tackle.
I HANCOCKS: still think 317 that a well-rehearsed dribble can beat a defence, and leave a back behind.
.123
4
G07
*
7
+
.250
B
.111
100
Golds
LADIES' LEAGUE
and
Wahoos St. Tereen's Canadians Squaws
a trio of
Clovers
White Fongs Pirates
*
the
Jun
(1) The short pars to inside forward who has over to the corner flag.
(2) short of the near post, usually A low corner kick, just
clear of defenders, and to colleague who is waiting to make
goal ake a quick flick Into (3) The high centre, aimed to lard around the penalty spot at heading height and speed. A merc touch will shoot the ball intò goal at dangerous pace.
et
HANCOCKS: That inswer- ving kick chn be effective, but too often that type of corner becomes the goalkeeper's ball, MEDLEY: Any hints to pass on for beating the back?
ON WRONG FOOT HANCOCKS: I like to have the back ecming to me, iry to catch him on his wrong foot and then cut him off from his own goal.
the
turning
Speed off the mark is secret. In my training I prac- tise change of pace,
11- completely round while ning
and at speed,
making of sure I am complate moster the ball.
MEDLEY:
My Lavourite
back-beating plan is the move where Bally takes a short pass from me and I try to kid the defender I am going to make my usual run up-wing for the return.
My favourite training iden is
Instead Baily puts the the old battle trick: Range six bail to the outside of iny
fout 000 of them in a row, say a couple right
and I make 545, of paces
and weave straight across apart,
to ned
round them with the ball.
Start slowly if you are in the 100 icarück class and then In- creases the pace End your ruh with a a pass to a selected spot
take that good
11 Q
1.000
3300
2
778
4 4
Go
3 0
250
a 10 .107
AB # Ave
33 13 304 27.317
Averages of players who have hindsnatches and leads off for played in seven games or more 5: Teresa's is way ahead in the with at least 25 times at bat,
with 10 are as follows: held of stolen bases pilfered cushions, while Hilda Soares poled out three sacrifice Gwen Dragon (W)
Joyce Guest (S) Most managers place. Souza (ST) flies. player's value on the number of 8. Suva (ST) runs batted in, and this is where T, Coelho (01) Sheila Bornal-Silva scores with E. Babka (Ca)
7. Noronha (W) 12 tallles directly attributed to her timely hitting.
Cup can't refer to him as began to trum with a complete noon
•
31 10 323 316
31 35 11314
old
crack
at a goal target. My motto is: Have a go.
MEDLEY I keep in drib- bling trim by playing the ball round and round the girders under the club grandstand.
on
My advice to young foot- bailers Is to concentrate developing a body swerve.
HANCOCKS: What do you part rate the most important of a winger's job?
*MEDLEY: To be really sue- 32 10 13 cessful you must be a com-
10 30 11 .300
M. Arutphy (WF) 10 33 10 303 pletely two-footed player. You
John Macadam's Column
LEMON-TIME AND
ONION BAGS.
The Shanghai Pandas will be As exelted athletic statisticians featured in a triple-header over waited in Gothenburg, Helsinki, the weekend as they take on
this Jaguars
after- Ankara and Tokyo, the wires the
South at 3.30 pm, and
amid
Hongkong the
The game South China will take place at Caroline Hill. All after which the home team will
entertain the dinner party.
Per favour of
come
delight.
to
11:3
by
The minated
of the
tourists with a
could be heard all circuit.
to the
Rexes and
ensued......
#
HANCOCKS
· right -
the hand corner of the penalty area. Baily follows ready
for t
back pass.
My centre forward.
in-
I
side right and outside right, move into the penalty aree If cannot fired spaco make favourite shot
HANCOCKS and
these points:---
to
my
MEDLEY:
of
and
can
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Members of the Jockey Club attending the Show and who wish to make use of the Club Rooms and upper verandah must wear their Member's Badge, otherwise they will not be admitted thereto.
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Secretary.
Hong Kong, 5th February, 1951.
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"I crack is.... ---- sudden swing shot with my right fccll-I have at least three for- In Brazil they are still talk- his sixth and last try, accom-
wards near goal all set to jake ing of Adhemir Fereiro da Silva, plishing 52 feet 5 inches, thus
a pass, the greatest stopper of our age, equalling Tajima's record."
HANCOCKS: And another statistically so proved. He quite
defence-shaker I like to try. OC- makes
the fact that up for Brazil
move out to World Soccer
casionally is to to Uruguay.
the wing and then suddenly cinek the. ball right cross Adhemir, because that confuses record of all six hops, all six China
Beld to my opposite winger. It soccer steps and all six Jumps. Only Pandas tomorrow.
the him with the country's
gets the defence 'running idol and they can't call him da one of Tajima's leaps at Berlin against
wrong way, but you must be a Sliva. The country is full of the was over 52 feet.
bit of a power-shot to be suc- We, in da Silva family and a large pro- in Hongkong missed
cessful.
MEDLEY: portion of them can hop, step this as the American news agen-
Of course, all almost as Tar ascles don't carry much on the and jump
There it was, staring at us like a sore thumb in an these moves must be well athletes
"big" games which do-
team mates. Adheinir can. So they call him hop, etc., American
having always been notoriously
diamond activities oyster-opening competition, like a well-remembered face known to your A.F.
• Brazil, like Japan, Turkey also-runnish in this event.
even in- during the past few days, re-looming out of a strange crowd in a strange land, like a Thotics talks are tremendously of the Reuter takes und Australia, is one
logated
an important Junior 100-8 shot coming through on the rails-there it was, important. They have helped me to carry out my allotted incident into the back-that old familiar friend in the columns of a provincial team place as the wandering SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES SYSTEM ping out they have failed to inform us round-important, not because Saturday aveng sports edition: End-to-end play then winger. great hop-stop-jumping coun- terest even in English athletics. tries of the world. hold their National Champion- that both the English and Scot- ship there it is normal for two ish native records in this event made any difference da Silvas to clear some 51 feet were broken last year and that league standings, but because the
hitherto undefeated Blackhawks Then ensued. What a warm, nostalgic glow the good! We both want to emphasise and another three or four to even the Welsh meard has al-suffered their first humiliation
(1) Learn to be master at the hands of the old phrase brought to the cockles of the heart, and how finish up between 19 and 50 feet. most come a cropper.
Mr Harold of Season
theit brought back the rest of them we used to employ when the ball with both feet. Anything statistics have unpredictable Aces. Abrahams the
(2) Train for balance we were writing about football. But Adhomir's performance at
air mail, can happen in a ballgame, and
speed of the mark. the 22nd Sao Paolo Stale
The ground was never dilled hesitation in pointing to the (3) Never tire of practising twò runs to crOSS the plate, Championships puts into the They are the talk of Japanese when an outfeld error allowed athletic circles and the Turks;
precision shooting and passing. shade anything accomplished in
ere the com- Penalty kicks were quite over the clicked merrily
(4)9
Never allow your rival the line by any other da Silva, chow over them with coffee und Hawk fans let up a groan that before the start. The turnstiles dread spot.
mencement, and it could even something too. Very often one back any peace. If he has the any Turk, Japanese or Austra-
Although the Hawks, together be opined that the vast terrac- penalty king or another sus-ball, worry him. You may ne llan.
ing
contained its full comple-pended the spherold in the riz get passession but you Can Sarinip or Ruho improve with the Dragons, Adhomir is no long jumper by O'ymple Standards. Among the on it? they ask each other. They Delawares are assured of playoffment of avid spectatora in an- ging, or, better still, the onion force him into madrg a hur-
ticipation of a classic encounter, bag with the hapless custodian ried pass.. hop-stop-jumpers, however, he shake their beads.
could the cotback be
Abeli
These were the days. full stretch on his mud patch. (5) Never fall Into the In Tokyo they are astounded. Posthandwriting on the wall for Outside lefts and rights never
PARTHIAN SHOTS
habit of making in his last year's champions?
Cho same Talima hopped further
were merely good. They were
the Koop Goal-scoring centre forward, move.
opposition aliches) further are many people who think su touch-line artists or they scintil- too, always delivered, for some guessing; and "He had shown before that he record effort, all of 19 was in top trim by winning metres (2, teat
lated on the white line.
(6) Keep your eye on the long jump of 23 feet 7 inches than Adhemle. He jumped six and you can list yours truly
They dazzled and they show reason. Parthian shots which (2.20 metres), but that did how inches further than did Adhemir.ong them,
Without the services of the ed clean pairs of heels and oc did (or did not) leave somethbig ball-and keep in training nii
to be desired and, of course, the the time, Indicate what he was going to
What greatest of them all, it turns out, Guterres brothers who left the casionally they disported them-
centre forward was invariably achieve next day.
the is that he stopped 15 feet 1914 Colony a fortnight ago, much of selves disconsolately
out
the pearhead of the attack. the punch has been taken "It was not very hot for
outer greensward. There were
If he wasn't the spearhead of once feared
slugging times when they flattered but
the
visitors' attack, then he was only 80 degrees in the shade, nohe. Such a phenomenal step team. The Dragons have
deecive.
the when
spearhead of the homesters laken coloured jump has never been taken before. the
Over tho
CUSTODIANS powerhouse | cairn eem well headed 10- warmed up with a first triple
and seem
Goalkeepers were the darlings, attack and his major rival was
opposing never words Pennantville, but the Jump of 40 feet 0% inches (18.11 You try it
never but the opposlilan pivot who Rexes and Delawares are also goalkeepers, They were cus was, of course, a pillar of The American news agencieszensoned warriors and the title todians, and the subject of their
strength in a boild phalanx of the camo have curried the story and 16.00 m.) and then
will not be easily won
custody was never n'goni. with an astounding fourth at Helms Foundation's selection of
It was a citadel where they
no intervals in
Entries With the Ladies League decided
are Invited for tempt of 62 feet 2 inches South America's athlete
year in 1950. He is Oscar Furs and the other loops nearing the did practically no saving but a
great deal of pushing rasps well-earned respites, and games these days-only lemon-times or (15.02 motres).
the Colony Grass Gourt Basketball Championships for and Braves
aro still able to phenomenal of all time, was Argentina In
tive corriero. November last claim an unblemished
in penultimite and ultimate Championship to be played and indications acom to point Sometimes they were DOWA moletice.
tho during socuro their charge
Hong won that they will hold that distinc-less to
Siden never fought back after against the advancing. hordes a fraction of an bich. He was the World Basketball Champion-lon.
played in Buenos Ayres,
commencing of an inch over with the United States accord three-quarters
Out of 12 teams playing in the whom the Banks of Tuscany a goal against them. They were Cricket Club Annual Tennis
stung by this reverse, and most Tournament could scarce forbear to eheer); mes, when. It was pretty level. Fobruary, 19th, 1951. world record
of Naoto third, Brazil fourth, Eyat Asociation's organic leagues, but almost inevitably they were there ware malheld exchanges, of
cot at Japan
the Chrille
Entry forins are obtainable! the Senior Dodgers are the only cat-like in their movements. Olympic Games in 1015 but, of Ecuador eighth, Spain ninth and break into the win columns after Thus were whistlers or even fifth, France sixth, Peru seven ones who have not been able to
Referees were never referees both ends being visited in turn.
And there. It was again, as from all Clubs and Sports coure, the hump was vaik
Yugoslavia 10th, Me shows the almost unbelloy-one beat USA in bo na ten tries for that clusive victory, better, Knights of the White bold as brass, end-to-end play Shops. Entries will close at p.m. on February 11th, able qualities of Brazil's leading
while almost a dozen teams are and never, never did they award the crued. Ahh! Those were t
the days berdade pound009 19812 athlete that họ was able almost
“RECORDER"able just to keep their noben out a penalty dick. They nored all
the basement.
bladistamenta, .... and had no
is now the all-time kingpin. States a Brazilian account:
makes Adhemair the
Brazilian carly summer's day-lima only stepped 13 tect 114 of the
inches (4.84 metres) whereas
metres). In the next two tries he added another two feet (15.00
of the
There
now
to
excopt
they were
ол
M
haif
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NOTICE
HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB 1951 Colony Tennis Championships
"The series, alrendy the most long, who starred in the Worldplayoff stage, only the Wahoos ahots round the timber for abor= | were played, not in two halves | Singlos und Doubles Tennis]
topped by the two next jumps year.
his fifth da Silva was unlucky |
In
Argentina, by the way,
to overstep the take-off and by!...
the
04-00
to repont" this performance in
..
record
but
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