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"GRANDSTAND" On Softball-
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 3,1951.
THEY WERE A TERRIFIC TRIO
JUNIOR LEAGUE PLAYOFFS HOLD THE SPOTLIGHT
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THIS WEEK-END
The Junior League playoffs grab the softball spotlight again this week as the Blackhawks stage a last ditch stand to get back into the pennant picture with a win against the favourite Dragons, whom they meet at 2 p.m, this afternoon, while the surprising Delawares cross bats with the Rexes for the first time at 3.30 p.m.
The Senior League schedule runs Into the second last week of the elimination series with four tussles carded for tomorrow, and even though the outcome of these games will not affect the chances of the finalists, rivalry among these teams is so keen that interesting games are expected.
Overseas Chinese tangle with the Pandas at 2 p.m. to settle a feud while a seemingly revived Canadian outfit will be working on all cylinders to crack the Braves' undefeated streak of nine games...
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{ trim at the batting box. Louie's pitted against one another, the batting in the last two games, | result is a tight game. during which time he made four
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Rods and Dodgers settle their cellar [squabble at 11.00a.m. while St Joseph's, who are once more headed towards Pen-In seven, is well on his way to pennant-hungry Canuck outt pantville, warm up against the grabbing the junior batting útle, Baseballers before taking on but this achievement is of minor South China noxi week in a importance to the cagy master- showdown.
mind who is a team player all In the Ladies loop, St. Teresa's the way. wind their schedule against Every player has a weakness,
up the Squaws
curtain and In Louie's In the
case it is the raiser slated for 9.30 a.m.
proud possession of a bullet peg The Blackhawks, who are across the diamond to nip would- still maggering
the he base purloiners. under crushing blow drail to them by Last week,
week, against the Rexes, the Delawares last week when Louie's ego suffered a jolt when they were humilhatod 6-3 by the Rexes pilfered six
bases. the underdogs, will start against The defence is sold, but who the Dragons in their most crucial game of the tille series. Having lost to the Dragons once before, the Hawks cunnot afford to drop another decision, particul- arly to the Dragons who are as yet undefeated.
UNLUCKY BREAK
Coach Rennlo Sequeira, who has guided the lawks to the top in the Blue Section preliminary rounds, suffered an unlucky break by the departure of the Guterres brothers, two of his heaviest stickern.
The hard-working mentor is still confident, however, that his cuit can take the Dragons to lown, and comparing the teams player for player, we are n clined to agree with
him, provided the players play to win instead of marching up to the plate with one eye on the bat- ting averages.
knows that Rennie
Sequeira might in some way plerce that armour-plating. Perhaps a bunt may lead to wild throw, or the concentration of three hitlers in a row may produce a run.
In the Senior games, will test out the Braves whom they will have to meet eventually in the playoffs. The Warriors have not yet lost a decision, bui with Canadian pitcher Kassa Nazarin returning to form any thing may happen.
Braves' mentor Charlie Figueiredo has scouted additional strongth for the title games, but unfortunately the Association had ruted some time ago that fresh registrations will not be accepted at this stage of the season.
When the Pandas take on the Overseas Chinese tomorrow it is hoped they will not bring along their usual silver
Iver platter hand to
out the customary cluster of runs. It is hard to recall &
game in which jinxed outhi has
not had to overcome a terrife first inning handicap, but it must be sald
outfit that never|
RICK IN THE BRITCHES There no doubt that the youthful Delawares passed their baptism in playoff competition with flying colours when they confounded the sages by giving for the the Hawks' pennant
the
game hopes a for a moment did they ever klek in the britches last week.
Having tasted the sweet wine and it is not likely they bow give up fighting despite the odds, of victory and with pennant out of the flag chase without fever breasts, the Delawares will face Although the pending clash will raging in their young kicking up lot of dust. the Rexes this afternoon full of be on all-Chinese affair, a large confidence.
gathering is expected at King's Park for, no matter whatever the colour of the piping on a uniform, to a fan a ballgame's a ballgamet
Pint-sized hurler Terry Lucido will toe the rubber with Georgio Ribeiro hind-snatching while the opposing battery will be
A. K. Ismail and A. Rahka.
The Rexes are heavier with the willow but, judging from their mediocre performance on the held last week against the
NO DIFFICULTY
Jimmy Foxx, centre, newly-elected member of the Hall of Fame, is an gratulated in New York by Tris Speaker, left, and Ty Cobb, who made baseball's shrine in previous years. The trio played on the Philadelphia Athletics team of 1928.
Peter Wilson's BOXING ACADEMY:
Don't Let That Left-hand
Fetish Trap You
In the old, and often brutal, days of bare-knuckle fighting a pugilist could lose in only three, different ways-by being "knocked out of time" (ie, failing to recover in the half-minute interval allowed after a knock-down which alone ended a
willow-wielding of Dragons, the holes will need elimination for the last half of /round); by retiring, or by fouling his opponent.
always defence
tion
In professional boxing they consist of four, six, eight, ten, 12 or 15 rounds,
each round. three minutes to each round, with a minute's interval between
(In some of the smaller halls the pestilential two-minute rounds have been reintro- duced.)
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In the pitching department, Sequeira has Joey Graca and
St Joseph's who have come Rennie
Barretto, but in view of
right back into the pennant race the heavy
after hovering on the brink of the opposition, Sequeira will lot of patching up if they are to probably start fastballer Graca stop
Fights were always to a finish-unless broken up by the police or by ruffians the ambition-fired De-the season, should have no du- on the mound.
Inwares.
flculty in accounting for Doc whose favourite was getting beaten. Graca has registered some The Rexes have
Molthen's Baseballers as they
The rules are very different now. First of all the contests are of a definite brilliant performances, but at depended on alr-tight
conclude the fixtures;
duration. times he has broken out into a fli and it is perhaps better that they Dodgers and Reds, who have of wi
wild pitching that almost should have worked
both of their
been chasing after clusive reaches record #anding. The quota if errors last week against victories, will have the satisfac- Hawks' fale depends to a large tough foe than to succumb to
this week of playing on extent an how frequently Graca a
strength, comparatively weaker
and the result of chucks the
op- even the apple through the ponent,
the game should depend on strike zone.
The current minor loop play-
whichever side commits Icss Harry Loule's Dragons have off series is being watched with knuckle-head plays. been playing up to expectations interest and the reason for the
The
basement classte
is so far, and the catcher-manager attraction is
scheduled plain, for
for 11.00 himself
a.m. to when pocna be be in right four teams of even strength are
morrow and, judging from the fact that this playing period is usually reserved
ed for close games, the coming scuffle must have rated high in the estimation of What is this "target area"? the Management Commitee. It's the front or sides of the Look at it whichever way you head and the front or sides of wish, this game is of great im- the body "above the belt" (and portance to the two outfits who the belt an Imaginary line are malding one final desperate drawn across the body from the bid to get clear of the cellar, top of the hip bones)-
Victorians Play
Tomorrow For The League Championship
Play Gremlins
By "OBSERVER"
The drat postwar Ladies' Senior Hockey League
Nowadays the most common way of winning a contest is "on
points." That's to SRY, one
boxer has scored more clean, direct punches, with the knuckle part of the clenched glove on the "target area."
HAROLD MAYES Talking Sport
comes to a fitting climax tomorrow when Victorians clash MAC BAILEY IS IMPRESSED
with Gremlina “A” at the King George V School ground at
3 p.m. for the honour of being the first postwar champions.
Two other matches, those between the University WITH
and Gremlins "B" at Boundary Street and between Dutch and Recreio at Recreio conclude the League.
INDOOR ATHLETICS
The man who scares most of the fight, doing nothing, and clean punches B given a therefore unable to score any maximum of five points, or points; and he should then be marks, at the end of each round suitably penalised. and his opponent is given pro- If they've portionately less, cach done equally well both get the full five points.
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John Macadam's Column
AND LORD'S WILL 'LOSE' THE ASHES
Strolling, as is our morning wont, along Oxford- street, W., the other day, we turned off northwards, pro- ceeded along one of these offshoots of the main drag, and dropped into Lord Derby's old home.
The Lord Derby who lorded it over this magnificent London mansion in the days when life was a gracious, spacious affair, when men had good manners and women didn't clutter up bars, wasn't at home, for he has been called to his fathers, but you got the Edwardian impact as soon as you crossed the threshold. ·
The wide. marble floored the ambassadorial quality of Adam hallway must have been British footballers. an assembly place out of this The British Boxing Board of world as the "King and Queen Control and the lords and ladies crowd- cherished
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sending its most ed in from their carriages and most cherige, including the of them all, the made their rustling-of-slik-and- original Lonsdale Belt satin way up the magnificent The Royal and Ancient will staircase.
price open that
magalicent
BL There
La no Derby there Andrews safe to dig out the nowadays-only a few excou- Open Champlonstip trophy. tives of the publishing firm of Henity will be in, and the Hug Hutchinson's for Walter Hut-by Union, and, in fact, every chinson bought the place in major governing body of British 1940 for a mere £300,000 and athletic endeavour. converted it, under the name
IRREPLACEABLE
of
Hutchinson House into the It would be ridiculous to put Nacional Gallery of British a value on the stuff that will Sports and Pastimes relics be on show throughout the valued at up to £300,000. Festival to sports-minded people
FESTIVAL FEATURE
of this and any other country. Reason for telling you all ridiculous to talk in millions
Is that the magnificent
In Stratford will be one of the
this
house
- place, ven, for the pels are irreplace
most attrac-
Even the modest little piece of tive features of the coming porcelain the: containe the Festival of Britain.
Ashes will leave the Long Room
And it is difficult to imagine at Lord's. visitor from abroad who will The gee-gaws will be set not delight in not only the tem- against the present background porary British sporting treasures of the house against the best it will
house,
but the grand collection of sporting pictures magnificence of the house it in the world, the Stubbs', the
Constable, the Sickert, self.
the most-prized pots of Hogarth, the Munnings, Tissot's British sport will be there. The Henley, a great glowing horizon Football Association is stripping of canvases below a sky of
The
its wails now of trophies we Adams eelling you'd want to never even know it possessed, lle steadfastly on your back to beautiful pieces of aliver and savour. gold from every European Oddly...the exhibition will be country it has visited.
on at the time of the Cup Final. Silver statuettes from Central The Cup will be dashed to Europe, wood carvings from Wembley by ear on the day- Scandinavia, wrought gold from and dashed back. the Far East
all tributes to
-London Express ́Service)
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
NOTICE TO MEMBERS ANNUAL RACE MEETING
Saturday 24th, Wednesday 28th February and
Saturday 3rd March 1951
The First Ael will be rung at 11.30 a.m. and the Arst race will be run at 12.00 Noon, each day. The tifin Interval is after the fourth race (1.30 pm.).
There are eleven races each day (33 in all), The "Peares Memorial Cup" is scheduled to be run on the Second Day, Wed- nesday, 28th February, Race No. 6 at 3.30 pan,
Through Tickets at $60.00 each may be obtained at the Com- pradore Office of the Treasurērs, 1st floor, Telephone House, also tickets at $2.00 cech for the Special Cash Sweep on the "Pearce Memorial Cup", the sale of which will close at 5.00 p.m. on Tue day, 27th Februas reserved for this Meeting but not paid for br
Through Tickets 20.00 a.m. on Friday, 23rd February, will be sold and the revervation cancelled for future, meetings.
To avoid congestion at the Club'e Offices at Telephone House, non-members are requested to purchase their sweep kickets at the Club's Branch Offices at:-
3, D'Agullar Street, Hong Kong
or
382, Nathan Road, Kowloon, MEMBERS' BADGES AND ENCLOSURE
SETS OF MEMBERS' AND LADIES” BADGES WILL NOT BE ISSUED FOR THE 181 RACING SEASON UNTIL IST APRIL, 1931. 1950 SETS ARE VALID UNTIL THEN.
Members and guests are reminded that they and their ladies MUST wear their badges prominently displayed throughout the Meeting.
One of the least-known and Joast-used rules is the
which says: "If at the con- clusion of
of any round during Most referees SCOTC
in frac- contest one of the contestants lions of a point and in a normal should attain auch a lead on close round they would give points to render it an im boxer A 6 points and boxer possibility for his opponent to B 4. A
of 5 to 4% win, he must then score
be declared would mean that A had shown the winner."
NO ONE WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED TO a considerable superiority over
THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE. B. Five to 44 means that A
Badges admitting ladies not in possession of Brooches or has been all over his man and The basis of modern boxing Season tickets and gentlemen, non-members of the Club, to the has possibly floored him. Is that the two men are trying Members Enclosure and Club Rooms at $10.00 per day includiag
And
.ax, for Indies to outscore largest
one another on
personal introduction of member, such member difference I've ever come across points. The knock-out is almost on the written or gentlemen are obtainable through the Secretary -means that the boxer losing an that round has almost certainly) introduced to save a man from ment of all chital visitors introduced by him, and for pay-
accident and was certainly to be responsible etc.
6 to
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ТНАТ К, О.
been knocked down more than sustaining too much punish- ance and has, in fact, done ment nothing but manage to last out, the three minutes.
PAINT DRUSH'
Tha
NO CHILDREN WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CLUB'S PREMISES DURING THE MEETING.
for
Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the RACE COURSE.
Treasurers
Compradore Office and the Secretary's Office In other words, if he's not will close at 10.00 am, each day. Both offices at 1st Floor, capable of rising unassisted Telephone House.
sido ten seconds then its fell A limited number of tiffins will be obtainable at the Club that he's in no fit state to con- House provided they are ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy You may be one of the people tinue a contest.
(Tel. 27818). who think that a punch with the left hand counts more than aght of 15 rounds and one man Now say there's a British title one with the right. This, most is by far the superior boxer. is not so. But By the time the bout is three-
The price of admission to the Public Enclosure is $3.00 per certainly, underlies been made of the straight left quarters over he may be a clear day including inx for all persons including ladies, and is payable
left-5 points ahead. And the referee at the Gate,
this BOOKMAKERS, TIC TAC MEN ETC, WILL NOT KE PERMITTED TO OPERATE WITHIN THE PRECINCTS OF THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB DURING THE RACE MEETING.
MEALS AND REFRESHMENTS WILL BE OBTAINABLE IN THE RESTAURANT IN THE PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.
SERVANTS' PASSES
known 08 the
For
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE-
Just back from a tour that has taken in the With both teams evenly i
Antipodes and the United States, coloured sprinter Much will depend matched,
on whom McDonald Bailey is deeply impressed by the pulling tomorrow's final the Gremlins will nominate for should preride 50 minutes of the left-back position.
power of American Indoor athletics. thrilling hockey. In their pre- However, the Victorians play vious encounter the Gremlins a more cohesive brand of hoc-
He was telling me the other day that crowd excite Were the victors by two goals key and once they get going it ment is so intense that the runners can really "feel" the
difficult job for the atmosphere in a way that isn't possible out of doors, and sometimes In the last minute of play. Both Gremlins to stop them. goods
were scored by
he's sure that any promoter who could get hold of a soft-traditional weapon of Brities must stop the fight,
very good reason: boxinga Interparter Hilda Fowler, play-side will be from
Most of the danger for either wood track in Britain would be an a box-office winner.
A knock out (which, inciden- The straight left, correctly tally, is never mentioned in the the wing- at centre-forward. ing at Gremilus
positions, which will be taken
The only wore not at
thing that really
delivered, with the full weight rules) is only the equivalent of by four of the best wing forwards perturbed him was the busness full
strength in that
"How match, in ladled hockey in the Colony, of having to pull
for has professional of the body behind it, can be 5. clear points.
as dondnating as a conductor's being without
their centre-half, Valerie Slade and Noele Sim-
up quickly snooker slipped?” I was naked
Servants' passes will be/issued to private box holders (only, Marjorie McNeill, and for al- mons for Gremling
The man who delivers it is who are requested to distribute them with discrimination and to at the end of a run, with some- the other day. The questioner baton it's often known as "the and Beth
to one, the winning goal coming will be
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most three quarters of the play McNaughton and Susan Whithing nice and soft like a' brick | was a man with a close connecpaint brush" since it is with this | credited with, the maximum | endorse their names on the passes, Holders of such passes are not
their left-back, Anne
Dudley, worth for the Victorians.
Both teams have each a dash-
wall as assister-in-chief.
was unable to do any running after pulling a thigh muscle,
HOW THEY STAND
LA Ple
HAN
:
FARCICAL, BUT....
So, if the referon did not stop it's absurd to a bout when one man was 3 left as pointa abrad and that man were straight
out with the first
stands
BY ORDER
8. A. SLEAF,
Secretary
tion with the game. And the punch that an opponent's non number of points (5) for that permitted in the Members Enclosure except for passing through
is so often reddened.
round and a contestant falling on their duties and must remain in their employers' st But two hands are better to continue the contest at the By the time he had finished answer, from what I've seen of ing centre-forward in Joan telling me about the starting.it lately, is "Plenty.".
than one, and British boxers expiratlər" of ten seconds shall On the other hand, the Vie-Crighton and Hilda Fowler and gates with which he had to con-
have of
often been at a disadvan-not be awarded any marks for torians will be without the per- an outstanding
These days there seems to be vices of their right-half, Anne Peglyn Faber
centre-half in tend in Philadelphia, I began to so much grunting and groaning tage against Americans or Con-that round and the contest shall and Marjorie think that to
who correctly be a successful by certain players over missed linentals
use then terminate?" Sainsbury, tomorrow, whose McNeill.
will probably be filled by
indoor sprinter a man would shots that if one's head were both hands in attack and don't have to trin, until Buyers
Barbara
he was a turned the other way it might save their right solely for block- Philip
cross between a greyhound and sound like all-in wrestling. ing or parrying the other man's
punches. Although, the Gremlins must Victorians
an ke-hockey player.
Incidentally Everyone used to look to the win this match to gain the
But for all that, Mat is under professionals for complete con- regard
the Championstily, whereas the Vic Recreio
no illusions regarding "the_pull- | frol—of the cue-ball", and of "traditionally British, Anyone knocked torians will have only to draw, Dutch
ing power of the sport. Wem-themselves. It doem't always who saw the fight in which punch of the next round, the the odds are alightly in favour University
bley, Earls Court, Harringay, happen that way with all of Joey Maxim, from KOYA Gremiina "B"
please note.
USA took the
the world's
And it the man were 5% or Freddie Mills, of Bourne. more, points ahead he would
the straight
when:points, although
·of. puncher using a correct pro- polar bear's nose. !!
of the Gremlins.
THE
HULLO
Gremlins KOVA "A"
GAMBOLS
"SALAVING - PATLENG | PIEVAL
THAT
DOES IT LOOK AC
# 13 BLACKING,
"YOU: CAN'T 400) 2000 ITS CHEATING J.
WHEN IT LIES WITHIN VOLS POWER TO MAKE THINGS GO THE MAY THAT YOU WANT E THEM TO THEN IT'S JUST PLAN STUPID NOT TO SIZE THE OPPORTUNITY
them now.
Barry Appleby
"THERERA
MORAL THAT COMETIMERES
heavy weight
Cleveland, decision would have to be a
draw
the would have bave to be given the decision
outhe
portion of straight lefis-over
„ho had been knocked, colder than a
the rugged hooker and swinger. This may seem farcical but
But it was the American who it none the loss true and I employed the "traditional marks
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British" methods."
WIT'S UNTRUES
ono of.
the prime differences ....between @prize. fighting (which is of course And a number of people think another signal difference
(Negal) and boxing. that you got more for
continues to be
a punch to the head than you that the (physical) lot of the do for a body blow
modern
orn boxer, Again |untrue,"
"looked after. Thero is bothing laid down amendments to the rules
of the
Loui
now.
In the 'rules whereby even the wolght of a punch should in- allowed fly-weight to middle Quence the distribution of points and Barres on their hands, and to wear eft. of bandagus But, an exception must be made. ular and beavy-weights-up 1 100%, In, the carb of a kocske - 123M plown, for waren at man is on the fim nàng
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