THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1951.
SENIOR LEAGUE PLAYOFFS ROUND THE BEND INTO THE HOME STRETCH
By "Grandstand”
The Senior Softball League playoffs round the bend into the the select quartet of home stretch with return encounters among finalists in which Jaguars tangle with the Saints tomorrow at 2.30 p.m. while Braves mect Canucks at 4 p.m.
Eight games are scheduled in the Inter-Hong Series which is progressing at a fast and furious pace in an effort to reach completion before the end of the current month, thus necessitating several double-headers.
The remaining outstanding fixture in the Ludics' League will be played off to- morrow at 11.30 a.m. when the Canuckettes take on the Squaws who are now Junior Champions.
Although the Braves have the inside track as they roar down the final stretch to Pennantville, the current series is by no means a pushover for them, and not until the last game has been played can they lay undisputed claim to the tide.
and the run of the game will depend on the support of others who make the lineup.
NO SQUEEZE STRATEGY
A feature of last week's game which probably
escaped the netice of fans on account of the Their initial victory when
tenseness of the tussle was that they blanked the Canucks 2-0 the Braves
scomet to have a lucky break in dropped their was through
squeeze strategy the first frame when one infteld fumble was directly responsible entirely, for not once did they
is able to explode any minute. If averages are taken into con- sideration, they should be duc.. for soma hits.
Softball is over an uncertain game and while genuine merit generally Ands its level in the long run, it frequently happens. that the underdogs may play i well over their heads and upset the applecart. The Canucks are quite capable of pulling off t win against sf op-
surprise
for both run it an otherwise attempt bunt tactics for which positions and although the mids
scoreless game, but with con- Adence now on the upsurge after nosing out the Saints last week, the Tribe intends to stay ahead of the pack all the way.
they are well known.
a
This marks a turning point in the story of the Braves if it will ever be written, for with Carlos Yvanovich, Tony Osmund and Junior Remedios leading tho Starting battery for The baiting parade, this outfit has Warriors will be Chappy Re-lessomed
overnight info medios and Reti Pereim again, slugging squad. this couple making a inte season comeback which has pald dividends, while their opposite numbers will be Kassa Nazarin and Junior Marker. Both com- Limations are even in strength
ere against them doing so this week, one can never tell.
The Canuck heavy artillery, having been silent during the late season classies in which y
they have only managed to chalk up a single run in three starts,
LUCKY BREAK -
on a
game
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RACING TREN
ACADEMY PRAATHENS
TOP-WEIGHTS PAY BEST
IN SPRINTS
Take-your-seats,-puptis,-for-tha-R$36. session of Racing Academy. Your tutor is THE SCOUT, Britain's No. 1 racing writer, and today he initiates you into the mysteries of weights.
By THE SCOUT
Fitness, distance, weight, pedigrees, jockeyship, the state of the ground-these are just some of the factors which in- fluence the result of every horse-race.
You might not think that & few pounds one way or the other would make much difference to horses.
But it is extraordinary how truly they run to form.
The weight which a horse is 1 set to carry is given, in all publications, after his age.
Arbar And The ‘Arab Look'
Thus "Masked Light, 4, 8 13"
ALL modem racehorses stem ed in 1700, was a great success implice that Masked Light is aA from three Eastern stal- at_stud, four-year-old and is set to carryllons imported into England
ast, 131b,
There is no racebarse in Eng- and now who does not havo If his jockey and saddle com- somo 250 years ago.
hlo blood in The way in which they have Darley Arabian bined weigh only Bst., then
characteristics veins. For instance Big Dip 131b. will have to be carried passed on their
per, leading two-year-old last is remarkable. in a weight-cloth under the
year. traces directly to him ou saddle.
the male side-al 21 removes, not
The two other, Eastern sial. Ilons brought to England were the Byerley Turk (1689) and the Godolphin Arabian (1724).
Not unlike the Braves the Jaguars also eashed in lucky break in their first to garner a ninth inning nose- out over the Saints, but having fallen before the Braves a for- night ago, they are now with their collective backs to the wall. Brown will probably That is why sprinters with asy heavy take on the pitching chorge
welghts unlly beat when they face the Saints again more lightly weighted rivals.
In long races, the official handicap allowance is lib. for
Suppose A and B race to- stone, gether, both carrying 9 |and A wins by two lengths.
In handicaps published after this result, A would be set to give 2lb. to B.
Even how you can often spot in their remote descendants thai "Arab look," especially
Obviously
weight does સ
make so much difference over a short course as it does at 1about the head, miles and further,
tomorrow, and if coach Barros is superstitious at all, he will probably feld his previous length.
the old adage of never changing |a winning combination.
Peter Wilson's BOXING ACADEMY Porous team in keeping with
IT'S AS MUCH A
BUSINESS AS IT IS A SPORT
Boxing is as much a business as a sport, and there are a number of people, besides the boxers, who con- tribute to the smooth running of the business.
Most important in the promoter. He is the man who puts up the purses, pairs the boxers with or without the aid of a match-maker-hires the hall, and is finally, responsible for the whole show.
Ability to spol a "crowd pleaser" in his carly days is in- valuable. A boxer will natural 13 favour the promoter who gave him his first break.
I've spen
Sul licking the wounds of their two hard-luck setbacks coupled with uncomplimentary remarks concerning the gods of luck, Art Ozorio's Saints still have fight left in them to be a formidable obstacle to pennant
Souza's willow wield- ing was missed last week when he was unable to turn out, but the unorthodox hitter will be roaming the right garden again this week,
IL is understood, however, the Dave Leonard may be oc- cupled in the line of duty and to make the may not be able
inaup tomorrow, and if this should prove to be the case, the Saints will find difficulty in
M. Marcel Boussac's ARBAR (pictured above), winner of the 1948 Ascot Gold Cup, is one of many notable examples.
WOR
Between them this trto founded Bellish and French bloodstock.
The most important single In far-off days the horse, for event in shaping the modern peace or war, was "man's 'beat thoroughbred
the
por-friend." chase in Aleppo of an Arabian, So I was always obviously stallion by Mr Darley, a York. good policy to see that wo shire merchant,
raised the best, soundest, The Darley Arabian, import- Itoughest breed in the world.
this allowance THE BREEDING AND PEDIGREES
In intermediate maces of a mile or so, would be doubled. In sprints
(races over Ave or six fur- OF FAMOUS BRITISH HORSES fongs) B would have at least alb less to carry than A.
The handicapper's ambition is to stage every, horse appears to an equal chance.
races
in
which have
He compiles his weights from the top, c. best horses, first.
He brackets the worst horses together on the lowest mark usually 6st. 71b. for flat rac- Ing.
HANDICAPPING
"The Rocking Horse" Finally Produced A Winner In Abernant
By NIGEL GEE
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
NOTICE TO MEMBERS FOURTH RACE MEETING
--Saturday -7th-&- Saturday, 14th - April, --1951........
Some handicappers are 30 A. successful promoter has to] and bruises, an expert masseur, replacing Dave's powerful blud- that professional backers avold clever at framing their weights be ! variety of things. He and, more than that, à first-class goon.
knowing
betting on such races. which needn't necessarily know a lot psychologist,
The world's population of racehorses descends from The usual crowd of playoff about the technical side of boxing, boxers need to be conxed or
They reserve their attention but he will make matches which bullled into training properly for the final stages of the Senior
fans is expected to be present for
three sires, Eclipse, Matchem and Herod. For most of non-handicap races. and which
The percentage of ones have to be re-League
winning this century the male line of Herod has been moribund, ensure that the maximum num- and
drama, and en-favourites in a normal year is
but at the end of the first decade it flared up brilliantly, ber of spectators will pay the strained from doing too much. thusiasts are requested to be largest possible amount of
--for handicaps, 35 per cent.; Then
In 1909 Mr Eric Kennedy, to satisfy a personal whim a good second, by money.
for this discre- The reason Judicious advice or sicilful, if
for the revival of this line, bought a modest French is that, in many non- rudimentary, surgery pull an Fans who have been watch-pancy
some horses horse, Roi Herode. The horse went wrong the following apparently lost fight out of the ing the playoffs regularly would handicap races,
chance no passible have noticed the same officials have
of spring, so he was retired to stud and immediately mated fire.
FIRST AID
be ignored with one of Mr Kennedy's mares, Vahren. in brown taking charge of these winding, and can
by the backer. Important games, week
racehorse a successful The offspring was something | Bank, Remember, then, follow top- Look at this list of what he week, with untiring energy. For weights for sprints, watch out of a freak both in appearance wh
was exported to New should be prepared to use:--- the first time xed sets of
Through Tickets at $40.00 each may be obtained at the colt,Zealand in 1940. performance. White petroleum jelly; sterile arbi
stayers' and have been appointed for lightweights arbiters
oficially named The Tetrarch, Tetratema, another son of The Compradore Office of the Treasurers, 1st floor, Telephone House, cottonwool; sterile. promoter will not have to pay sogical spirit (NOT methylated); proved to be a sound step, but
gauze, sur- for a whole series, and this has races,
the Inst hand
spotted with Tetrarch, won the 2,000 Guineas. also tickets at $2.00 each for the Special Cash Sweep 'grey cont rule, be the fighter he has much 10
Jinks, who race of the Meeting as well as the Special Cash Sweep on the white which earned him the alias At stud he got Mr dental-stick brought along from the start orange, cherry, or des
the success could not have been careful of bucking favourites in of The Rocking Horse." In per- won the same race, and Royal "Hong Kong Derby" scheduled to be rum on Saturday, 12th May. swabs, solution of adrenaline achieved without the fullest co-handicaps.
Eclipse formance he was so brilliantly Minstrel, winner of 1-1,000: thromboplas-operation of the umpires selected. chloride
Staice, Other offspring in solution; blunt-ended surgi-|
fast that Steve Donoghue main- Stakes, tained that he could have won Tetratema were Myrobella, dam
Goodwood Stewards' Cup,
Cup, a of Big
dam of Game, Una, handicap for older
under Palestine, two colts who won the horses, topweight as a two-year-old. 2,000 Guineas and who were de
Rival
promoters thus have a
tougher job in weaning a num- one attraction away from the man with foresight, and the
ber
after
The successful "big-time" pro- moter must-also know his way about the Ministry, of Labour, so cal (bandage) scissors; ice-big; In a crucial game, umpires (3) to
Elastoplast obtain permission for 1-inch
roll; soft need full concentration to follow bandage. foreign boxers to appear here.
the split-second plays, and the He must not use iron chloride gentlemen of the jury who rate solution; monsol; ammoniated a big hand are: 1st game-
Buster liniments for massage prolimi- Messrs. F. A. Ewins, nary to contest; alcohol (cold Hollands, Bob Low; 2nd game tea-sweetened, is just as good); Messrs. Y. C. Mel, Wally Mar. and seconds should not be too and Raymond Tsao. liberal with smelling salts after ja knock down
Не must, also persuade the Treasury officials to free enough currency to pay the foreign stars, well as be ambassador, diplomat, and financier.
45
THE MANAGER
Next in the hierarchy of pugi- lism hns
comes the manager, who probably and often, I'm afraid, rightly-come in for more criticism than any other boxing type.
ype
TIMEREEPER
INTER-HONG CASUALTIES
During the two weeks of Inter- Hong diamond tussles, casualties in have proved to be higher than boxing's big wheel is the time expected. Charley horses and keeper. who keeps check on sprained digits orc common the length of the round and the occurrences
among the
Another essential cog
refereo,
inex-
in
And, as a general
WH
10
Why in-
the
Q AND A WHAT causes horseS
run below form? do so many favourites explicably fail? What effect does the state of the going have on a horac's running?
These questions will be answered in the next issue of the Racing Academy.
U.S. Challenge In English Amateur Open Golf Tourney
·
The
of the
The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m. and the first race wil be run at 2.00 p.m. each day.
There are ten races each day (20 in all).
Through Tickets reserved for this Meeting but not paid for of by 10.00 am on Friday, 4th April, will be sold and the reservation,
cancelled for future meelpes.
1,000
of
It is in fact one of the greatest ficient in stamina, and Four
of rercing how such a Course mysteries of wonder-horse
emerge from Guiness, such modest ancestry, the
more of Rol so in view
Herode'a subsequent mediocrity at stud.
A
sent to
.
WGS
To avoid congestion at the Club's Offices at Telephone House, nen-members are requested to purchase their sweep dekets ai the Club's Branch Offices at
5. D'Aguilar Street, Hong Kong OT
382, Nathan Road, Kowloon, MEMBERS' BADGES AND ENCLOSURE MEMBERS ARE INFORMED THE 1951 SETS OF MEMBERS
who won the
The female descendants The Tetrarch were more distin- guished at stud than their male The Tetrarch was unbeaten as counterparts. Tetrabbazia two-year-old, but could not the dam of Singapore, who like AND LADIES' BADGES NOW SUPERSEDE THE PREVIOUS
won the SL ISSUE. be trained for his classic en- his son Chumligh
Members, and guests are reminded that they and their Indies gagements. He was therefore Leger, Both these horses were
South MUST wear their badges prominently displayed throughout the subsequently retired to stud at a fee of 500
Meeting. America. and was at first spec- guineas,
DEVASTATING SPEED
NO ONE WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED TO tacularly successful, being cham-
Mumtaz Mahal was similiar to THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE. pion sine in his second season.
and per- I've known managers who interval and, working from an-perienced, but some of the more
Badges admitting ladies not in posession of Brooches or He was, however, regrettably her are in physique were fine characters. But I'm other stopwatch, has to take up serious injuries are mainly due Visit of a Walker cup team
and reluctant in formance. She had devastating Season tickets and gentlemen, non-members of the Club, to the afraid they've been outnumber-the count the moment a boxer is to carelessness,
from America always means a cold-blooded ed by the "licensed pickpocket" off his feet and transmit it to the
mile. wind-snatcher Roy lange US. entry for the Eng- his new capacity and in his spood, but she could not stay Members Enclosure and Club Rooms at 310.00 per day including
Her sons were Stanvac's
nottex, for Ladies or gentlemen are obtainable through the Secretary life got only 130 foals, of whom la species.
Silva-Netto
Championship. suffered a shiner lish Amateur
zeed on the written or personal introduction of a member, such member 80 were winners of £180,000. remarkable; Miran II produced event in May at
SPEED OR STAMINAT # a few winners and Badruddin to be responsible for all visitor's introduced by him, and for pay- against the NTS last week when This year's
Royal Porthcawl, dine
days
got Perfume, dam of My Babu ment of all chits etc. satis- His offspring gavo no will be rin
the Guineas and factory answer to the question: and
Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will NOT be on suuÓ ber of fighters, almost as though the names they normally use in
be two former / Would The Tetrarch's stamina Chire winners respec at the RACE COURSE. they were selling causages by
tively.
The Treasurers' Compradore Omeo will close at 11.00 a.m. event, Willie have equalled his speed? Some the pound.
Her daughters, however, and the Secretary's Onloe at 11,45 am. each day. Both offices at were brilliantly fast, others in- of the bout and the weights ankle as a result of tripping on winners of the
Frank
tabilshod new and valuable One of the most important clearly, as well as relaying the his own cleated footwear instead Thurmesa, the capinin,
and cluding three St Leger winners
linos.
Mah Mahal was the dam 1st floor, Telephone House. "behind-the-scenes" characters
Stranahan, of taking the slide, on the hip.
Caligula, Polemarch and Salmon
A Emited number of tiffins "will be obtainable at the Club in the fight game is the trainer,
Trout, stayed well,
of the Derby winner Mahmoud, It is the duty of umpires ater-up Dick Chapman,
This alone would make the who usually acts as one of the
When you consider the number
outstanding, But Caligula Left little mark on of Mah Irm, dam of the Aga House provided they are ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy chief seconds in a boxer's corner. of "stage hands" responsible for these games, when inexperienced challenge
Som the breed: Polenmarch was ex-Khan's best home-boed middie (Tel. 27818),
distanco horse since the war, NO CHILDREN WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CLUB'S а successful tournament you players tale part, to see that the main interest will be in
Pak Migodi,
and of Pherozshah, a PREMISES DURING THE MEETING. Although he's usually grossly realise why booting has been decanations laid down by the Urzetta, present U.S. Amateur porsed and Salmon Trout got
sire sent to New underpaid in Britain, he should scribed as: "Show businces with Association are tirered to, and Champion and Charles Coe, the the Eellpan Stakes winner King
we hope the officials nominated 1940 Champion, who are paying Salmon, sire of the St Leger zu
winner. Herringbone, who in to handle such games will bear their first visits to England.
the dam of Dog the most
Rustom Mahal is the dam of turn was this in mindh; - -
brilliant DOSİ-WIK sprinter in Britain, Abernant, and Mumtaz Begun is the dam or Nasrullah, of whom I have said more elsewhere.
These managers are no better Finally there is the M.C., than variety booking agents pre-whose job it is to ensure that the foul tip caught himusider after the match, pared to deliver a certain nume two boxers are announced under has been sidelined for the rest exception
while Shell's regular outfielder
There will the ring and to give the details of the sensen owing to an injured
bo a man of many paris-an anatomist, something of a doctor, able to attend to strains, cuta,
POP
GİRAJ WILL
offelal decision at the end,
blood?"
-(London Express Service)
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Apart from Mr Jinka, The Tetrarch's malo line in Britain
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is upheld by the aged Satrap, who was re-imported from
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
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SERVANTS' PASSES"
America. He is not widely Sorvants' passes will be issued to private box holders only. - prironised,
but has produced who are requested to distribute them with discrimination and to one good horse, Aurada, winner endorse their names on the passes. Holders of such pessoa arp of the Ascot Gold Varo, Don-hot permitted in the Members Enclosure except for passing
caster Cup and Goodwood through on their duties and must remain in their employers
Stakes.
The Tetrarch himself sprang Owing to the present congestion in the Members Botting from a source from which-bril-Hall, Box-bolders and Members are requested, to ensure that. Axioo could Hardly have been their servants make use only of the Fabile Betting HAD. Military less expooted. It may them, bu Police will be posted at various entrances to the Members' Hall to that in this eleventh four in the prame that shia regulation de nähered 607 22. BREEZ
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