1953-02-28 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1953.

500TH CENTURY BREAK

PANDAS MAY ELIMINATE SOUTH CHINA FROM THE PENNANT RACE TOMORROW

By "KEYSTONE”

2

Softball activities this week-end will be highlighted by the South Chinn-Pandas tilt tomorrow. Tailing the League-leading Braves by one narrow game, South China will face a stiff hurdle in the Pandas, and a loss will end all their pennant-hopes for this season.

Another Senior “A” game to watch will be the nightcap between the third- place Warriors and the US Navy. The fighting Warriors outfit dropped another step behind when they howed to South China last week, and another defeat will topple them from their comparatively lofty third-rung perch.

The moming opener features them the dazzling prospeel of Cheng's Pandas,

1 Buster Hollands' Merry Madeaus forcing a thier-way tle for las against the Chinese Athletics, plzze with the Jaguars and Frank Poon's CAA outfit has Navy teams. long enjoyed lone, undisputed reign aver the ether-nether land" at the rock-bottom of the Senior "A" Division.

fver the

A karprize win variable Madcaps will elevate the Athletics at least to within striking distance of the other Lall-enders and, perhaps, afford

SNOOKER

By Horace Lindrum (World Professional Snooker Champion)

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The position I left you with last week is similar to ons which faced me in Exhibition at a Club recent- ly. This is how 1 tackled the problem.

ONE DISTAFF TILT

The Ladies Senior tille having been definitely decided last week by the 'Wahoce' convincing win over the Squaws, ono soll- tary ult is on up in the distal circuit, with the Pandas girls taking on South China in the fest scheduled game of the Junior Championship Series.

Going into the final match aliond of their South China rivain by a one-game murgin, the Pandas need but to draw in order to force a play-off for the

Junior Championship, while victory would hand them the Trophy straight away.

Ella Chinn's South China insses will go all cut to upset Pandas plans, for a victory march Uris year, but the Num Wah outfit will be playing under a heavy psychological disad vantage from having dropped their first-round game to their rivals after leading comfortably

right up to the Onul lanings,

The Pandas are fevoured to carry off both the game and the Junior Utle In tomorrow's

beakfast-ression.

My first stroke was to put plenty of right-hand ride on the white ball for the potting of the easy red into the right-hand middle pocket. The white ball made contact with the top cushion and came back to kiss the cushioned red over the right-hand middle pec- ket and stop in position X1. nght between Bill Silva's young

Senior "B" Division activities

to two games › are restricted over the week-end, both king place during tomorrow's lunch- hour period.

grudge

The long-awaited

Delawares and the hard- swooping Blackhawks will be clefinitely a Rame to the outcome

watch as Onal may affect instandings in the top brackets of

this Division."

I then potted the pink lato the top left-hand corner pocket and with a little screw cue-ball came back a fraction to Anish

BLUE

•10

BLACK

PINK

with

Both ouinta have long abandoned falso hopes about the Division Champion- ship, and this game is more of a fight to avoid tumbling down Into the cold, dank cellar and the weaponless and ambitionless sharing a tandem perch

Warriors.

with

full force for tomorrow's fratri- Chinese fans will bo out in cidal battle between South China and the Pandas. In previous years the Pandas have always taken the measure of their South China cousins, but this season has scen 3 complete reversal of form with South China sweeping aside all other Chinese opposition in the Major League, including wint from the CAA

The first-round encounter be tween these two teams resulted in a late-Innings victory for the persistent Nam Wah bays, after the luckless Pandas had led comfortably all along with thre

runs.

LACK OF FIGHT

Lack of fight and stamina has cost the Pandas many a game this season, und Manager Jäckie Wel will have to instill some of the old pop and bustle of yester. reason into the Bearcats it, his

boys are to carry the day against their old rivals,

The Pandas will probably field their strongest side possible against South China, with the possible melusion of shortstop Wally Ma, long absent from the diamond,

Mound-duly will fall to play- Ing-manager Wei and stand-by Jimmy Herrick. Receiving chores will be adequately taken care of. by Raymond T510 and:CY, Lu. With old reliable Y.S. Llang at the hot corner, the South China boys will really have to belt the apple good and solid' to get an base.

Joe Davis achieved his ambition of scoring his 500th century break on February 18 with a run of 101 in his match against Jack Rea, the Irish Cham. plon. Picture shows Davis on his way to his 600th century break. — Express

Photo.

TODAY'S CRICKET

Race For Senior Division

League Championship Enters The

Final Lap

By "THE ZOMBIE"

The race for the Senior Division Cricket League Championship enters its anal

lap this afternoon, with the Optimists in the lead, but with the Scorpions on their way to finishing up as the likely winners and Army the runners-up.

The Scorpions will be away to Indian Recreation Club in the first of their three remaining matches and are almost assured of the first four of the remaining 12 possible paints which will give them the Championship. Their other two matches will be against University and Navy.

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Army, with four matches toj Army go and a possible aggregate one! RAF point short of that of the Scorp- KCC ions, will have University

CCC their opponents this afternnon Recreio and are expected

to continue University {0 maintain their

IRC challenge against the Scorpions

for the Navy tille. Their three remaining

Presently tel for second place

the Rexes, the Hawks still have a long chance, mathematically speaking, for The Senior "B" tiile ns the Americans still have a Onat game with the texes and an American loss would throw the roce

wide open again another three-way the for Arsting and siugging Tom! Wei matches will be against Recreio,

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9.

place.

CUE- BALL (

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position X2. The easy rod was polled into the middle right-hand. pocket with sufficient speed for the cus-ball to come off the side haulk cushion and leave une an angla pot on the green, X3.

I potted the

green into the bottom right-hand corner pocket; the angle on this colcur allowed my cut-ball to cannon on to the brown and kick it a little more into the open.

At the same time

I gained a good position, X4, on the last baulk cushion, red. The green ball was then on its own spot,

I played the last red into the bottom right-hand corner pocket without side to get position on the yellow, X5. Then, addressing the white ball very low, played a sharp slow screw shot to bot the yellow into the bottom left-hand corner pocket to come into line for the green, X0.

I played the green into the bottom le-hand corner pocket with top on the cue-ball to come off the bottom left-hand side cushion to finish in angle position X7, for the brown."

Addressing my cue ball slightly to the right, I potted the brown into the bottom left- hand corner pocket. In the meantime, the white ball came off the bottom cushion on to the bottom left-hand side cushion and finished in a perfect position for the blúc, X0.

The blue was now polled Into the top left-hand corner pocket and, with the aid of running-side my cut-bull came off the top cushion; miasing the black. ft made contact with the top right- hard alde cushion and I found myself in position X for the

with

The main weakness in the Pandas defence now lies in the outfeld, with the loss of Y.Y.

this season.

SPELLS DOOM

Tralling the League-lending Braves by one lone game, South However,

fourth defeat China have to take the Pandas spells doom for the Hawks, and game if they are to keep in the they will be Belding their best | running for this season's Pen- against the ever-dangerous nant. A slip at this stage of Delawares.

the

race will prove fatal, and the Nam Wah squad knows this only too well.

potted the pink ball into the top left-hand corner, pucket. Biriking the cuc-bull on top to

The Delaware, tribe, an the other hand, dropped by the wayside quite tamely after a roaring start when they led the League for the better part of the season, brushing aside such powerful teams as the Ameri- Cans, Rexes and Reil Sox,

Mentor P.K. Lau has no alter- native but to start slow-baller P.C. Wong against the powerul bata of the Pandas and trust to luck that hurler Wong will be able to nick the unreachable corners of the plate.

RAF and Navy.

RAF

14

A ง 3 -3 35

10

Q Q 7 3 31

13

0 0 7 2 31

15 0 0 0 3 30

11 5 0 0 6 20

2 11 10 11

14 2 0 0 12 0 0 1 3 11 3

Becond Division'

The Optimisis will have the Army strongest opposition today in Dockyard their concluding match against RC Craigengewer at Chater Road, KCC They will have to win this to IRC keep alive their slender-hopes-Police- of remaining in the race.

P. W. T. D. L. Pts. 13 11 1 1 0 47 16 11 0 2 3 40

2

2 42 14 8 0 1 5 33 16 7 0 0 9 28

Recrelo Navy

14 # 0

13 5 0

24

0 8 20 13 2 0 4 12

Navy v. DBS

TOMORROW Second Division Dockyard! v. KCC Palice v. Recreio KAF v. Army

10 2 0 3 1 11 15.2 0 2 11 10

No.......

217

TODAY'S MATCHES

Whatever the outcome. the KGV Optimists-CCC match will un- University doubtedly be the match of the DBS week, white sparkling cricket l order of the day. and a lot of runs will be

the

It ought to provide, a ting The Tribe has a long score

close-of-shc-senion match for a to settle with the Hawks, which

The mainstay of the South4lant Optimisis XI

whu, was carried over from the China defence lies in their outer though they may not win the feuding and nighting days of defence ring with galloping P.II. Championship, have contributed last year's Junior League, and Lee and reliable. L.C. Pacti perhaps Bill Silva's outfit intend to do blanketing the outfield

the greatest share to this seasor's quota of pastures something

bright lang-under this about

LI airtight defensive cricket, Let ԱՏ standing account tomorrow.

hope that cover. The only outstanding Craigengower will also respond I'l the other Senlor "B" player in the infield is rubber-to the occasion. encounter, the much-dampened

jointed C.M. Trang at the initial Wildfires tangle with Albert

station, the author of many, a spectacular catch

and narrow put-out.

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Play

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Although Craigengower had the advantage in their drawn first encounter, it is likely that Uptimists will hold the edge in this afternoon's match and break

WELL REALISED Čagy Coach Lau well realises through their chain of drawn the Idiosyncrasies of his infield.matches in the last three weeks. since the score-books have re-

Until Next Week vealed numerous infleld miscues

BLACKS

CVE- BALL

ORID

GREEN

Should they field first, the de- on fielding chances, while most eision should be, theirs quite balls hit to the outfeld have comfortably as Cralgengower's been handled with faultless attack will be further weakened fleiding.

First Division

Optimists v. CCC RAF v. KCC Recreio v. Navy IRC v. Scorpions University v. Army

Second Division

Army v. University IRC v. KGV

Next Change at the

EMPIRE- MAJESTIC

KING'S

in this mitch by the absence of Anna Magnani

Ragi.

South China will keep this point uppermost in their minds Another equally interesting in tomorrow's "must" game, and match, where winning or losing chucker P. C. Wong will be will be a secondary considera- playing for the outfield flies in ton and care-free cricket the order to bring his most power- ferture, will be that between ful defensive wenpons Into RAF ard KCC at Kai Tak. action,

HOW THEY STAND First Division

The Bearcats enjoys a

big

margin of weight with the bat

BLUE

O

and if their 'sulek-artists can

BROWN

An interesting diagram confronts us and affords a grand opportunity for clearing the board. What would you do? · ̈ (Next Horace Lindrum will demonstrate, what he * would do).

allow it to follow-through for week the potting of the black into the top right-hand

corner, pocket from X10.

lay a solid hickory on the plllOptimists

(The most impressive

actress,şinco GARBO-LIFE)

In

HER FIRST ALL ENGLISH DRAMA

P. W. T. D. L. Pls VOLCANO”,

17 10 0 5 2:45

and avoid lofting it to the out- Scorpions. 15 9 0 4 2 40 folders, South China

will

probably zeo their Dennant dreams finally and Irrevocably dashed tomorrow.

WEEK-END PROGRAMME

TODAY

p.m.:

Junior Division: 2,30 Gridins v. 35 Bantams; CAA v. Blackhawks.

TOMORROW

́Ladies' - Junior Beries: 9.30 am.: South China v. Pandas.

Senior

Division: 12.30 pm: Delawares.v, Blackhawks; Wildfires v. Pandas,

Benfor. "A" Division: 11.00. a.m.: CAA v. Madcaps; 2.00 pm.: Pandas v. South China; 3.80 p.m.; Warriors v. US Navy.

POP

IS IT THE. DOG |OR THE HORSE

THEY CALL THE

FRIEND OF MAN?

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