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SUMMER LEAGUE SOFTBALL

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1951.

Overseas Chinese Come Nearer To

SPORTING SAM,

By Rep. Wootton

Being Champions RANDOLPH TURPIN'S FISTS

By "GRANDSTAND”

Frank Poon's Overseas Chinese outfit practically cinched the Watson's Summer League trophy when they nosed out South China

game.

Harry Louie of the Overseas snapped out a two-bagger in the third frame and was nudged across the platter on a follow-up safe-hit.

but a

South China had the bases full in the sixth inning with two away, brilliant catch of a line-drive by short-stop Seldon Ma erased the threat.

MAY EARN HIM £100,000

IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS!

HOBY Says ALAN

Eighteen days agoMr Randolph Turpin_walked into the ring at Earl's Court. He came from "The Fighting Terpins,” The Caroliners had one more be broken up, but the scorer was decided that the Senior League and respected for years throughout the whole boxing fraternity. But not a family known

Divisions, at all widely known outside it.

Then, in a matter of an hour, by the skill of his fists, he made himself not

break in the final frame when P. I. Lee perched on third with only one away. P. F. Chan's long fly to the outfeld would Jave been a worthy sucrifice for the lifeing run, but a perfect per by gardener Ming found Louie waiting for Lee at the plate.

NEAR PERFECT GAME

The crowd of Summer Leaguo fans who trekked out to Kings Park

under a scorching Ban were well rewarded for their noubte

when South China's -Reds nod Rogg Mopps battled for ten thrill-packed innings without either side a single run,

game was remarkable also in the fact that neither side could register a safe hit and only a total of four errors were cominitted by both sides.

The

An indication at the lightness of the game may be gauged from the fact that only Ave players ever reached first buse, and none of them got withhi smelling distance of threatening third base.

The scoreless result could not have been foreseen as the game started off with leading batter C. M. Tsang making first base wild throw, but he was soan erased at the keystone sack

bullet

peg by Dicks

оп U Pereira.

And

the first League game is Septem- only a national hero but a world figure. The world is his to conquer, and all Bri-

8. Entries to the Leagues tain will watch him with pride while he does it. should be sent in to the Hon. Secretory, Mr A E. Ablong, c/o. Landis Brothers, French Bank Bldg., before Aug 20, and the following are the Fees payable:

right in that a safe bit can entries would be segregated only be recorded as such it the into "A"

and "B" batter teaches first, buse Lafely despite "perfect-felding."

the tentative date sot for Burros failed to score and the game went into the tenth with darkness

gathering in, Rogg Mopps failed to score in their half and South China came in for their last licks, with nothing to lose. Lefty P. H. Lee, bat- Ling In the clean-up slot, tapped out a weak grounder, but the PCR to first was wild and looked like a South China score, but the gods were determined to prevent that and the inning ended with Lee still at first buse. Both pitchers were well sup- ported in their joint triumph, Pedruce for the Moppers fanned two and walked two, while P.

C. Wong on the rubber for the Caroliners registered a similar performance.

were exe-

Two double-plays cuted by South China, both on an infleld fy that was frozen while an ambitious base-runner was caught off base,

GAMES RE-SCHEDULED Games previously rained out have been re-scheduled, and the following are dates for the re- plays: 30.7.51 Ragg Mopps V.

Pandas 31.7.51 2.8.51

Chandu Pedruco of the Rag- | 3.8.51 Kers also drew a pass in the 0.8.51 second inning but was unable 7.8.51

to

ay

make further headway

Billy Price flled out end the chapter,

to

Another walk was issued in the fourth by Red hurler P. C. Wong, but no damage was made as he struck out Vic Pedruco and forced Jock Brown and Gabby Pereira to ground and fly out in auecession.

GLIMMER OF HOPE,

The Afth saw

Overseas

Reds

Blues

V.

V.

V.

years.

The following morning the most young man

the slept late. Shy and the champion is still a of at bewildered. Ho cannot get ne-

ecstanics

little!

Senior Leagues $50 per team. Junior League $30 per team. Lattles' League $35 per team. Player Registration Forms will be provided as soon as the entrics are received, but it is essential that the names least 12 players shoud be sub-

bcustomed to the mitted at the time of registra-hero-worship. tion of the team in order that "He has had to barricade League classification may be the doors and windows of his. made by the General Council, little house in Hanworth Road,

Warwick, to keep the fan nut." his brother Dick told me and added:

Late Breakfast

Offer Made Him

A Champion

Fred Corcoran's

Young Ladies Step Into British Golf

+

By JAMES GOODFELLOW

Manager Fred Corcoran's Young Ladies have stepped into British golf-a section of the growing body of golf professionals earning big sums by following the golden trail in the United States. They have counterpart in Britain.

no

Income of "Babe" Zaharias, the team's outstanding personality, is something beyond the reach of any British man professional-perhaps with one exception-although it would be well behind that of outstanding United States players such as Ben Hogan and Sam Snead.

Last season "the Babe," 38, She Is president of the U.S. 10st. Bib., won about 15,000 Women's Professional Golfers' dollars (£9,357). This is only Association.

estimate that her

cham-

pari. endorsements, payments from Betsy Rawls, youngest team equipment manufacturers,

at 23, and a Texas exi member ❤x-

graduate, turned hibition matches, films, television University and anticles, brought in a further pro, this year. Her hobbles 80,000 dollars (£28,571), Says wilding model ships and collect- "the Babe." "I am

one of the ing classical records, lucky ones."

Tall, graceful Belty Jameson This highest paid woman in gives the polished golf betting

winner of the US. golf is a great performer, loves the twice crowds, and feels on her public Amateur and the Open

1:00, was. appearances that she is on the plonship. She,

Texas University. stage and must give of her best.

Peggy Kirk, in Inst FIRST AMERICAN

year's Curtis Cup teams, and three First

State American to win the times Ohio

champion, British Women's title in 1047, turned pro, a few months ago.

turned professional after-

Vigorous, wards arxi bigned a £75,000 Alm

falr-haired Belly. She shows little interest in her and married her contract. Now it is golf, golf! Bush began playing sports records as Mildred Didrik-does

she

athlete

about them.

in 1944 tutor, She not know of any other

Turpin has performed a fent which no other Briton has accomplished for 50 He is the first Englishman to win the Middleweight Championship of the World since the incomparable Bob Fitzsimmons held the title. Randolph Turpin is boxing's "Golden Boy" whose fists, in the next few years, can earn him £100,000.

Sunday mative days began to soak up! If Turpin's critics had seen tamous the ring lore which so con- the way Britain's

champion country founded Sugar Ray.

really trains in secret modest,

they had watched his work son, when she was No. 1 woman husband and wife who are both Among her PREJUDICE

in the United States, and golf professionals, with the weights and the way does not encourage one to talk honours was the Indiana Staic

14ib. medicine

championship last year. would have paused before being at his "lummy" they

-(London Express Service) made to eat their words,

Yet she Was In the 1932 80 for Her imp After he had

the Olymples. beaten

metres hurdles was 1.7sec. She fabulous Sugar Ray and his ballyhoo, Turpin

hurled told hla Middleton: threw George "Sugar can punch, but, honest-high-jumped ft. 634in. •

"The Babe's" husband, all-in he didn't hurt me," champion hasn't been brought intends to play

I belleve Randy. The world wrestler George Zaharias, in the British up to lie.

Amonteur next year. They run a in golf course of their own

From an early age, the new they hurl of

champion had to combat colour prejudice asked kid he had As a sepia-skinned kid he to know how to use his fists... It was not really surprising that when he was 15 Randolph

"Now, the Xrst thing he wants to do--when he has re- covered his breath-is to buy als mother a house-a little place of her own."

That wish is a long-stand-¦ ing entry on the Turpin pro- gramme. Tho entire family, Randolph's two brothers, Dick and Jackle, and his sisters Joan and Kathleen, adore their while mother.

COURAGE.

!

won the junior boxing chami pionship of Great Britain, He also won five national titles as an amateur and boxed against France

and America. Hereabouts Randy

took job as bricklayer's labourer. He worked for a local builder, Councillor W. L. Tarvet. Mr Tarver is a warm friend and Turpin owes him much.

As part of this training Tur pin was still working at odd intervals for Mr Tarver up to three months ago.

During the wer Randolph served as a cook in the Royal Navy.

manager,

Out of the ring Randolph

a javelin 143ft, 4 THE GAMBOLS

a baseball 2000, and

has deceptively simple tastes. Tampa, Florida.

Te likes to read detective fle- Mrs Zaharias loves to return tion and ride horses. He also home to her rose garden-a show dotes on boogle-woogle and the songs of Josh

music rose was named after her-and White, Ashing. the coloured ballad singer.

Like all anglers, she tells a story of the trout that

As he is a little deaf he has got away when she was cared had two radiagrams rigged up by a beaver. in his house.

When 'ho turns them on full volume the result is as stun- When he came out and turn-ing as one of his left hooks.

professional his purses

few

hap-

• were small-a here.

pounds

a few pounds there. Then "Randy" got married.

THE TRICK

FRECKLE-FACED

Last time I met this remark able woman

The USA with the worlc-

team has another solled hands and greying haired

notable money-camer-probably she was almost bind,

ground 27,000 a year --- In Another cloud on her

freckle-faced red-head Palty piness was acute deafness. Now

Many people are wondering Berg. Her first win was at 17; she has a hearing appliance. HC fell in love with a white how Turpin, at 23, found it so now, at 33, she travels thousands But all her life Randolph's girl, Mary Theresa Stack, of easy to counter every Robin- of miles a year holding cliniles.

displayed the feamington, and the

son trick and wedding

during characterises took

their fight. place Leamington Roman Catholic Church In January 1947. Hille

mother has courage which

her son in the ring.

When Randy was, a remember much about says the new champion.

Reds

Most Improved runner of the Blues your is 23-year-old W. Roy Rags Beckett,

of Hythe AC, whose Mopps.storming finish to win the three Pandan miles at the AAA Champlon- V. Reds ships was the biggest thrill....of Rogg Mopps v. Pandas.

the day. Yet his entry into athlelles was pure chance. COUNCIL MEETING The first meeting of the re- Stationed at Portland in 1047

of the cently elected Cotinell

he saw a request on orders for Hongkong Softball Association soldiers to train for athletics. took place at Shell House on Among advantages offered wem Thursday, at which Dr F. J. a later breakfast and release Molthen and Mr Kwok Chan, from a multitude of irksome

Vice-Pre- duties.. J.P.. President and sident

of the Association were

He says: "This looked like a present...

Various sub-committees were good scrounge, so I joined the gilmmer of appointed and several sugges~ ( cross-country team. At first boy his father died, "I don't

was hopelessly beaten and did tions towards an efficient or- ganisation of the forthcoming not like that, so got down to leagues were discussed at great putting more into 11. Only when Iran-against-Caplin Dick Chinese Press Relations Morris, then Army mlle cham- of.a

plon, and beat him did. I realise Oficer

was created,

I had possibilities." The following appoint

Fred ments were

Made: Mr Ewins.

Storekeeper at a Hythe wine Chairman, management Committee: Mr Chas. A. merchants, Beckett, apart from Figueiredo, Chairman, Senior a few tips from Wooderson, has Rese trained himself during lunch League Committee; Mir Sequeira. Chairman, Junior hour breaks, evenings and week- League Committee; Miss Alice ends. Mur, Chairman, Ladles League Committee; Mr E. D. Robbins. Umpire-in-chief; Mr H, W. Winglee, Scoror-in-chief, Mr Lee Che-hong, Chinese Press Relations Officer.

hope In the South China camp when P. L Wong

WAE

given a life on an infield-length: In addition, a new post fumble, but K.

K. F. Chan failed to apply the scoring punch,

The next few rounds passed iR gptning rapidity Its both

skles went down in one-two- three order, and the brilliant fielding was being commented on by fans who were all holding

their collective breaths wailing to see which side would crack up first.

In the ninth, Barros Bited a short fly just over second base, but with all the outfelders gathered in for the catch, none of them

held the ball and it went down in the book as an

caused error. This

quite a coinmotion among fans who were enger for the no-hitter to

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FAMILY AFFAIR

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Here's a family

pull their weight in sport the

Barber brothers,

all eight of them, who form the tug-of-war team of the Essex village of Great Totham.

Their career as a tug-of-war team started three years ago when they entered the lists for the first time at the village fete, They won, decided to seek more tities

and

followed BUCCESS.

Ages of the Barber brothers range from 17 to 41. Most of them are buliding workers,

Success

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SWIMMING PRINCE

D. Galitzine, Middlesex goal. keeper for the English County water pole championship is a Russian prince.

him,"

at

move

I will let them into the secret,

to

It's right for Jill

Randolph was 19,

When Turpin` got back Mary Theresa 20. Nineteen months his dressing-room at Earl's later the marriage lay in ashes, court after bringing about the Mrs Turpin brought an assault biggest fistic upset since Tun- "He was a merchant scoman

case against the boxer whichhey beat Dempsey, one of his and was badly gassed who came from British Gulana

first acts was to embrace the was dismissed. when Later she

Mel was granted

American Negro boxer a and serving as a rifleman

Brown, maintenance during separation the Great War.

order.

"I can never thank you "That's what eventually kill-Leamington and there is one

Mrs Turpin still lives in enough, Mel," sald Randy ed him."

Mel it was who, In secret After his father's death, alison-three-year-old Randolph, training sessions up in Aber- the family income was a pen- Mrs Turpin has legal, custody

gele, Wales, told Randy how 10 parry Robinson's most So that the little Turpins Randolph senior is extreme- menacing punches-his light- could eat their mother went ly fond of Randolph 'junior. ning three-times-in-succession out to work at six the At his civic reception in left hook, his right-handed bolo

he embraced floors Leamington morning. She scrubbed

punch to the stomach, and his; and steps, polished and clean-young

and was Randolph

deadly two-handed tattoo genuinely delighted to be with

the body. ed out offices.

him again."

sion of 275. a week.

in

When her chores were end- ed she would return home to feed and look after her chil- dren. Then she would leave them to do some more cleaning again at night.

of the child.

Randolph's grandfather on his mother's side was an old bare-knuckle fighter named Thomas Salmon Whitehouse.

You won't find the name in In this phase of his up any record book, but in hts bringing Randolph knew what youth he sometimes fought it meant to battle for exis-field and barns. For a tence.

ful of coin he would dispense black eyes and broken noses

and get a few himself!

and

There was the terrible time when the Turpins all lived in Que cramped, overcrowded room,

Later the family moved to the dingy squalor of a buso- alt- ment, one bedroom and ting-room.

Yes Turpin and his brothers and sisters grew up the hard way.

Often only the fighting blood which flows In their veins kept them going.

Handolph first went to school

In his third season Ds the Penguin goalkeeper, Galitzine seldom uses his title. He was brought out of Russia by his parents when he was four. Hein Leamington, then to the Old teha me that he can trage back his ancestry to King Harold,

--(London Express Service)

ÕH NO, SIR!

FATHER, HATES

FOOTBALL!

tra

hand-

How delighted

proud he would be today if he were

live to see his magnificently. muscled_grandson,

[NOTE: Turpin received about £10,000 for the Roblo son fight; will net at least £25,000 for the return contest In September).

- NOT HURT

Randolph Turpin is probably pound the finest-built boxer, for pound, in the world. School, Warwick, After the wor

legend Westgate which he left at 14.

sprang up that "young Randy He joined the Leamington couldn't

in Boys' Club, and in these for stomach."

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This was the Turpin plan which upset Robinson.

But none of it would have been of the slightest avail without Randolph's typically British band of pluck, his ley coolness and the all-out ... ng- gression which he first learn- ed as a kinky haired kid.

-{London Express Service.)

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