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All That Remains Is For

The Braves To Register A Clean Sweep Of The Series

Says "GRANDSTAND"

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1951.

Although the Senior Softball Championship has been won by the Braves last week, and the shouting almost over, ball fans will still flock out to King's Park to- morrow at 11,30 n.m. to witness the Braves in their Inst game of the regular season when they meet the Saints in an endeavour to register a clean sweep of the series.

The Canucks and Jaguars tilt in the afternoon at 4.00 p.m. will provide the finale to the Senior League flag chase, and having snapped out of their losing streak last week, the Maple Leafers are out to topple the favoured Jolting Jags.

Eight scheduled inter-long supremacy on the diamond can in every game and on several be considered supreme occasions nearly upset the dope Aussies are down for ceiston as only the teams suttle down in the when the renowned Saints are bucket. home-stretch with pennant hopes beaten to the dust. now riding on every victory.

BATTING TITLE

The Senior batting ille will also be decided this week with Jeder Tony Osmund battling to hold his ground against Raymond Teo, who is close on his heels.

Rumour's

are flying around that Osmumul may absent himself from the game and thus win the

outright, award

for he has uelent games and numbers of times

at bat to his credit to qualify, but we can dispel ali doubls for we know Osmund to be the type of lighter who will want to win it the hard way.

Osmund is now only a few percentage points above Teno, is just one and all he needs colitary hit in tomorrow's game

to cinch the title.

The Big Three who are still possible winners pre:

AB 1 BA

Tony Osmund

42 16 .381

R. Tsao

C. Yvanovich

30 11 367 42 15,367

Charlie Figueiredo has signi fed his intention of Nelling his strongest Braves side

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On the other', hand, the S Jaxph's out are still griping the misfortune of their previous eighth inning noscout, and feel that they have been

of the flag, and robbed

are, therefore, determined to show

up the Tribe,

Con

Against this setting, one expect an allout game, even if is only honour at stake, and the bleachers seats are expected to be fully occupied long before game time,

on the

Last week's triumph over the Saints was the result of a de- termination to win, even after dust had already settled on the ponnant scuffle. Tomorrow the Maple Leafers will be out again to avenge their former defeat by the Jaguars.

Versatile Vie Pedruco of the Jaguars, who will probably start for mentor Barros tomorrow, is in the opinion of several critics, the best local hurler ever seen on these shores.

His

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STOP-WATCH JOCKEYS

Eight Australian jockeys are riding in England this year. The contrast in style can be noted by comparing these action pictures of A. Breasley (left) with Gordon Richards.

The Australian crouch is more pronounced. The hold on the reins is shorter, the general effect more streamlined.

This style suits free-running horses, but I lesa sullable for "driving" home a horse who is coming to the end of his tether.

from Some famous Jockeys have come

Australia, motably Frank Bullock, Brownie, Caraiake, and Rae Johnstone.

Their strong point has always been their judgment of pace. As boys they are taught to estimate exactly, in seconds, the speed of their exercise-gallops. (Trainers out there pay more attention to the stop-watch than do England's,

This sense of fiming helps them to decide whether to not the pace or whether to walt behind a decision which can make the difference between winning and losing.

Elliott 'Lifted' Nimbus

Over

Chapple Remedios, slab for the Braves, was a doubt-

the performance over ful quantity when the playoffs

against the Braves commenced but has by now wookend

by holding would have gone down in the proved his worth down all oppœuition with well books is an achievement but

erdira, now the golden boy of directed starts, while Red for the fact that one of the two which he allowed the the Champions, has delivered

Braves to connect was a round- in the clutch,

This battery combination will be pittxt against Sherry Bucks md Modest Khan of the Saints in the lust art of a thrilling drama,

THE BEST ALWAYS Although Canuck hopes for the were given up long ago, championship, they have given off their best

the veteran Salats for, champion-flag ship

TK

¦

عشاق

tripper which cost him a game.

Winning-line

There is no more arduous, nerve-racking career than that of the professional jockey. Thousands of pounds every day depend on the exactitude of his split-second Prior to his effort, Pedruco timing.

ad

pitched #11 inter-hong

double-header for a total of 21 In his 82-month season hef

probably travels about 20,000 innings in two days.

miles. He works a seven-day week, for there are gallops to mornings and awters ad triners lo contact on Sunday afternoons,

Second-guessers are mill undecided whether it was a wise ride on Sunday againal

policy on the part of the Jaguar management to keep on chang- ing their lineup for every game, From the playoff exhibitions there is nothing to support this for the defence was as good as could have been hoped for. with

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a passible weakness around the

keystone,

Perhaps had a psychological effect on the team, and it is on ricord that the reputable slug- gers were not slugging.

INTER-HONG

The Inter-Hong games present an interesting league in that all icams are of even strength. Teams that have been beaten have found satisfaction in the knowledge that their victors have been in turn humiliated by outflis which they have managed

to subdue.

On Wednesday, Jardines woke lip from

their lethargy and shoot Gibbs will a 0-0 lead for the greater part of the game, but a strong come-back by Gibbs found the game thed at -all when darkness set in. This game will be re-scheduled.

SUMMER LEAGUE TROPHY

News has been received from the organisers of the Summer League that a trophy Sas been

Messis, presented by

A. S. Watson for the tournament.

may

All the time he has to watch his weight. A good meal or a night's festivity

involve hours of exhaustive sweating in a Turkish bath or a four-mile run in macintosh clothing.

He is, on occasion, forced not only to starve but also to to thirsty. I have known Casca where a long drink of waiter caused a jockey's weight to go up by 2lb.

INDENTURES

All Jockeys first stand their carcen as apprentices at the age of 15. The dots of in- dentures are usually for five years. The trainer contracts to hougs, clothe, and feed the boy.

HIS

first job wit monial one of sweeping out the yard, cleaning tack, and making himself generally useful.

be the

After a few days he will be allowed to ride an old hack or pony kept for the purpose, Latur NO "will be given two horses to "do"-groom, feed, and ride out at exercise.

Month elapse before he gets chance to have a ride in pubile

He normally starts in races

confined to apprentices. These

noes are, unaally frst on the

card, so that the boys will not endure suspence.

The next step is to take on the fully fledged Jockeys. To offact their inexperience and weakness, apprentices' mounts allowances in most are given

The popularity of the league can be gauged from the fact that South China will be sending races. in two entries while several other outfits are contemplating participating,

ALLOWANCES

25 ratcs. Thereafter

the

a scholastic league during the have been attained, when they

The scale varles; 7b. can be It is also learned from re-claimed until they have won six liable sources that South China, 53b, until they have won Athletic Association may sponsor allowance is 3lb. until 40 wins coming orrid months as part have to ride on equal terms.

their programme to en-

Apprentices usually excel in courage sports. Such a step if deckled on will have the blessing two-year-old handicaps. Their lack of strength and "punch" of the Association.

of

REVISED SCHEDULE

This

schedule

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woek's revised by the Management Committee is as follows:

TODAY

Inter-Hong League

2.30 pm. Union Insurance v. Gibbs; NHB v. Jardines;

4.00 a.m. Rediffusion v. Caltex; China Light v. Shell.

distance room.

This gives his mount a valuable advantage especially in two-year-old races, where the issue is often decided in the first furlong.

Q. & A.

Is it beat to follow a stable, a jockey, or a horse?

The Scout will discuss these points in the next issue al Racing Academy.

UNFAIR ON

KOVALESKI & DORFMAN

The check on the roving carcers of the three Ameri- can tennis stara, Dorothy Hend, Kovaleski and Dorf- man, banned, until further notice from any more tournaments with expenses, has rekindled the general dislike of the eight weeks" rule which works so unfair- ly. It needs adjustment.

Players may take expenses from

eight tournaments in a year, but there is no limit to the in which they can number have their expenses paid when they are officially nominated.

Those who get the most no- minations-and

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little regard for the equal dia- tribution of this privilege get tan unfair advantage.

ABSURD SITUATION

Tournament organisers want the best players. So they Invite them. The you have the absurd situation in which the Invited players,

collecting no exponses unless they count" the event in their eight weeks' quoda, autclass nominated play- CTS whose board and fares are all laid on.

It is obvious that

some of the top players got round the rule when they circle the globe playing tennis from one year's end to the next.

One of the usual

dodges is

for a tournament to meet the |expenars of a player coming from abroad enough to cover, say, a three weeks stay.

NOT INTERESTED

in

The player then appears three tournaments in the area, takes no expenses from the other two and has to chalk up only one on the list for the year.

In other words, the organisers are not very interested in the 40-odd clauses in the LTA rules affecting amateurism and expenses so long as they get the best players.

-(London Express Service)

THE BREEDING AND PEDIGREES OF BRITISH RACE HORSES

The Last

Link

With Matchem

By NIGEL GEE

Earlier in this series I mentioned that the racehorses of the world descend from three sires, Eclipse, Herod and Maichem. We have-already-seen by what slender threads nangs the male line of Herod in Britain through The Tetrarch. Now we come to the only remaining male line of Matichem in Britain, precariously maintained by the descendants of Hurry On,-

Hurry On traces back to West Australian, who in 1858 was the first horse to win the Triple Crown in England. His son Solon got the unbeaten Barcaldine, who in turn was the sire of Marco, winner of the Cam- bridgeshire. Marco's son Marcovil won the same race, and at stud got Hurry On. It is strange that winners of the Cambridgeshire, which is a nine-furlong handicap, should be the originators of two great families, for Polymelus, sire of Phalaris, also won this event.

classics

Hurry On was bought as a year-old, winning the Italian yearling for 500 guineas by the Derby and the Gran Premio di lately-retired trainer Fred Milano. He had a brief stud Darling and ran in the colours career in Italy, in which he get winning Allies, of Mr James Buchanan, who two Wodlavington. He ran six races subsequently became Lord Trevisana and Astelina.

Niccolo dell'Arca now slands including the St Leger, and was in Great Britain, beside four never beaten. He was a power has been seen

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tells against them in long-who won the Derby in 2 mins. rated his breeder.

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Coronach went to New Zealand The degree of skill involved in Hurry On, clipped one fifth of in 1040.

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second off it in 1927. Captain Call Boy by Hurry On won Jockeyship preciated by the layman.

Scuttle, Cuttle

was Derby In 1928, but who won the the got One of the finest examples we have 1,000 Guineas for King George almust sterile at stud where he

sold to died in 1939. sean in recent years was Charllcy in 1928. He was

Toboggan, breeders for

a daughter of Eliott's handling of Nimbus in Italian the 1949 Darby.

Hurry On, won the Oaks in 1920. and died, in year

In 195260,000 Coronach by Hurry-On

She produced Bobsleigh, a sire 20th APRIL

in Britain, and The way be inspired and con- the Derby very easily, and the of winners trolled this tiring horse, finally St Leger in the record time of lydroplane by Hyperion-dom Į "lifting" him over the winning-5 mins. 1.6

of which was BCS,

the world's highest prize- the American horse no Arist by a head, was jockey-equalled by Windsor Lad but has winner. ship at its beat

Citation. hover. been surpassed. His that victories, which also included the Hurry On to continue his line

The

only British-bred son of Every Tacogoer hopes Gordon Richards's career will be Eclipse Stakes, enriched Lord

Precipitation. He does not rewarded to the santo race before Woolavington by over £40,000.

appear in the classics roll of he retires. He has won everyY | NEARCO'S HALF-BROTHER honour, for before the St Leger other fr

Important long-distanca At stud Coronach got the of 109

of 1996 which he must have event, so the theory that he is

who won-ho was afflicted by heel- "only good in sprints" is patent- brillant mare. Corrida

Later that season to 15% reduction on 4.m. NHB v. Caldox; ly absurd.

won over £47,000, mdaily on the bug. Lowe Bingham y. Socony;

He is, however, particularly continent, and Niccolo dell'Arca, provod his superiority by boal- The ing the St Leger winner Boswell brilliant short races. He can who was bred in Italy. 1.00 p.m. China Light v. NTS; beat in two oes the start latter, whoso dam was Nogars, over the Bame distance. The all Sports goods.

to Nearco, following year bo 2.30 p.m. Shell v. Gibbs.

Ascot Gold Cup.

TOMORROW -Benior League Playoffs

11.30 am. Saints v. Braves; 4.00 pan. Jaguaris v. Canadians.

Inter-Hour Learuo

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| the Darby at 50-1, and later the

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