Week-end Softball
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1953.
TRIUMPH-AND TRAGEDY
JAGUARS PULL OFF THE UPSET OF THE SEASON IN SHELLACKING BRAVES 8-1
By "KEYSTONE”
Red Pereira's Jolting Jaguars covered themselves with glory by pulling off the upset of the season, shellacking the League-leading Braves to the tune of 8-1 in the Senior League match yesterday.
In the morning game, the Panda girls inched past Ella Chinn's South China squad in the final straight stretch to clinch the Ladies' Junior Championship.
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Tn their last time at bat, the Another stunning upset was
Firstsacker Frank Barros laid credited to Frank Poon's cellar-{Pandau started off shakily with down another trickier towards spot Chinese Athletics, who used two batters going down in all their three pitchers to topple the third place Warriors by 9-7.
the
which hurler Chapple row, Coming back to the top Remedios mishandled, landing of their
Amy runners on third and second batting urder, Cheng wheedled a wallt from with none away. An attempt pitcher Connie Lai, and prompt-to cut off the runner resulted in South China barely managed a
ly stole down to the keystone an overthrow at third, allowing decision against St Joseph's, slation.
both runners to cross home Atation standing up. eking out a close 6-4 win over a The depleted squad of Saints.
Shortstop Bonnie Chan camel The Jaguars thumped League-lending Braves stift re-through with a timely single to ball for another three solid hits muin one game ahead of the advance Amy lo scoring position in the fourth to extend their flock, but with only three games on third, while she moved lead by Ave back-breaking outstanding they cannot afford to down to second without draw-runa Nelson Souza drew falter again with South China Inga
on balls. play.
Red Pereira Then catcher base
dumped a sacrifice breathing hotly down their necks Angelene Kwok dished up an Chapple Remedios
buni, but frem close behind.
other masterly clutch hit by pill again in his haste.
Juggled the slashing a hot grounder through
A bunt hit filled the bases, third to chase
with no outs, for the top end winning run.
of the Jaguars' batting order | Losing pitcher Connie Lai ran up on. outperformed her Pandas rival
Senior "B" Division games were partly curtelfed due to Inclement weather on Saturday. But in yesterday's noon-hour games, the Rexes recolved a
Sox outill who held them down
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gume
a
Eriksen ungraciously fanned
3-3 te for nine full in-eeded seven hits to the Pandus, one runner pings before succubing 5-3, A
includin
two-bagkera
bad fright from Bghting Red by striking cut three and allow for the initial down, but Bar-
ing unly two walks,
She con-ros pulled one into left to score after the ratch. by With one more down to go and Vic Pedruco literally won his own ball game by blasting out a long fly which cleared the lettfelder for 11 three-run homer.
luss for the seront place Rexes Eugenia Kwok and Ingrid Wang. two runners on base, chucker would have automatically
as three soild hits by presented Pensant to the idle Americans. Angelene Kwok,
the
Division's
The Pandas "B" gampled sweel, Jong-instasted victory with a lopsided 12-3 win over the hapless Warriors at the far damond, although all the bits they could muster off baller Hay Cordeiro's pitches were two scratchy bingles,
DECIDING MATCH
and. stole
slow-
the
down
the next station on Big stick Fle Babida
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of
Pandus libstress Pearl Chan truck out two and walked one. but was touched for a tota! eight safe-hits, including two bingins cach by Helen Leong and Madeleine Gusling, and a fourth- inning homer by Rosie Luey.
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IT'S
In the moment of triumph, as the ball sails in from his foot to notch the winning goal, Blackpool's inside-left Brown (No. 10) crashes into the prostrate Arsenal goalkeeper, Kelsey, and is injured in the FA Cup tie at Highbury, London. Brown's legs were immediately strapped by first-aid men and he was carried off en a stretcher, Blackpool won the Cup tle 2-1-their first-ever win at Highbury. Arsenal players, in striped shirts, are left to right-left-back Smith, right-back Wade and centre-half Daniel.-Reuterphoto.
Out
South China Edge Busmen 2-1 To Maintain First Division Leadership
By "SPIV"
Aided by Army's feat of holding their nearest rivals, Kitchee, to a 2-2 draw on Saturday, South China yesterday edged out Kowloon Motor Bus by two goals to one to maintain their lead in the First Division League table.
With four matches to go, they are now ahead of Kitchee by two points. Kitchee have five remaining matches.
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Colony Badminton Championships Start Today
The 1952-1953 Colony Open Badminton Champion. ships commence this evening at Craigengower Cricket Club with a programme of seven matches in the Junior Singles, Junior Doubles and Junior Mixed Doubles events. The curtain-raiser will see two of the most promising boy shuttlers of the Colony, Lo Chung-hon and U Sel-lp, in action.
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Former SI. Stephen's top All the four ladies who will be ranking schoolboy ployer U seen in action tonight, will be Sel-lip has been one of the making their first appearance in most successful singles players the Championships and что
in the "C" League this year, expected to produce the most and was one of the main stal-exciting games of the evening. warts of the unbeaten Men's "Division, unbeaten cham- plon Tytam team.
TODAY'S MATCHES
Men's Junior Singles 7pm-to Chung-hos v U. Sei-lip.
Ki-bun. "
Though unseeded he is TC- garded as the dark horse in this year's Junior Champion- ships.
Fifteen-year-old
:4
Lo Chung-
hon, who has entered also in the Senior Singles event, will un→ doubtedly claim the honour, of being termed the most gallant player in this season's Champlon- ships.
A heavy favourite to win the Schoolboys' junio: title, he. already possesses a wide reper- toire of classical strokes and is a potential Colony Champion in the making.
Making their debut in the Singles
tonight will be two Malayan boys, Robert Linrey of Penang and F. T. Sak of Ipoh.
7.30 pan-Robert Linsey v Hu
Up.m--E. Roboiro v F. T. Sak.
Men's Junior Doubles 8.30 pm-Chan Sul-wan and Cheung Wing-ngal v C. Y. Bon and K. K. Hui.
0 pm-Leo Leong and C. C. Yew v Peppo Arculli and C. H. Wong.
Junior Mixed Doubles
9.30 pm. Tony Silva and Miss F. Heng v. A. J. Remedios and Miss Rita Marques.
10 p.m. S. Saul and Miss E. Skinner v. Frank Yeh Mrs E. Silva.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB ELEVENTH RACE MEETING 1952/53 Saturday, 21st March, 1953.
and
(Held under the Rules of The Hong Kong Jockey Club)
The programme will consist of races. The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m. and the First Race run at 2 p.m.
Through Tickets (9 Naces-$10,00) also tickets at $2 each for the Cash Sweep on the last race of the Meeting as well as the Special Cash Sweep on the "Hong Kong Derby" scheduled to be run on 2nd May, 1953, may be obtained at the Cash Sweep Ofco of the Club at Queen's Building, Ground Floor, Chater Road.
Through Tickets reserved for this meeting but not paid for by cancelled for future meetings. 10 am, on Friday, 20th March, will be sold and the reservation
or
382 Nathan Road, Kowloon
at Queen's
TOWERING BLAST
Hardly had the crowd settled back in their scots when the following batter Gerald Van With the winning of the Langenberg collected his second Junior Championship by the hit of the day with a towering Pandas yesterday, official Lengue blast to the scoreboard which
across to take the ball in his Elis Chinn's South China play in the Ladies' League is was relayed in just a shinde too
The Caroline Hill Club also be the deciding factor. In con- Jasses made an early scoring
brought to close. the Ladies | Inte to catch him at home-plate. bid when, after two outs in the Senior Division Championship The Jaguars then eased up and drew nearer to their ambition trast to their opponents' clever stride. With only the advancing
To avoid congestion at the Cash Sweep Office good combination goalkeeper in front of him, his elen having been previously won by settled back to protect their lead season when their Second Divi- and
garnering four titles this positioning, first inning, shortstop Helen
better control of their tsp shot got past his opponent, Building, sweep tickets may also be purchased at the Club's Leong slapped the ball through the all-conquering Wuhoes in a In the remaining innings.
but struck the side of the net.
Branch Ofees at:- play-off series with the Squnws. recond
The Tribe averted the crown.sion XI completed a double for passes, the KMB forwards were.
the same especially in the first half, a In the 12th minute South
5 D'Aguilar Street, Hong Kong mldway
CHEWED THEM UP
ing humiliation of a shutout only the week-end by by the narrowest of margins, margin of victory over the Bus-disconnected lot who were not China opened their scoring. bitch.
Kwok Ying-lok Division only unable to make the right header by then
Playing with gusto poled another to the same
and pepThey picked up their only tallyejubmates and consolidated their passes but had to look for their Mok Chun-wah enabled Mok to unseen for many a long month, through Helen Leong place, but
Red Pereira's rebounding Guterres who doubled to start position at the top of the Junior men when they wished to part square the ball towards the
with the ball, and when they
centre, just outside the box. nipped at the plate by a finc
Jaguars chewed up the Braves off the sixth stanza.
League
boll it 10-
was
Yue Cheuk-yin trapped It throw-in from centrefelder with one of the worst beatings
A capacity crowd saw both the did part with the
miskicked or and semi-labbed the ball under Ingrid Wang for the third out. they have ever received in their of the game by centrefelder between South China and Kow-/ misdirected to a
The only Jaguar fielding error First and Second Division tussels evitably either
defender.
the cross bat, Tam Woon-cheuk Bearents
years-long history in local soft- the ball.
They with The
leaped opened
to the ball, caught greater sucERES Eriksen allowed Guterres to loon Molar Bus yesterday as in the second half when the it, but missed his balance and coring with two runs in their
Tie Jelling Jaguars com-tumber down to third on the hit, hundreds of others were turned team was reshumed with Fung let go of the ball as he turn at bal, with Angelene and mitted chly one solitary heiding Shortstop Joe Guterres skimmed
were treated to 10 Kwan-sing gonig to right-back, failing backwards into the goal- Eugenia Kwok doing a. sister
the ball to secondsacker Tiger Ey
stirring by blasting ore hit each error in seven tuli muings 10 Hussain, who played for the out exhilarating bottle between the
and Lee Chun-fal to left-half, and mouth. Lee Kwong-wing fol- back up their ace hurler Vic
the forward line consisting of lowed up and tapped the ball Pandas went another run pedruce's blazing pltenes and at first while the runner cleated | two Senior teams.
Lee Slu-fol, Szeto Man. Tang in. ahead in the third, canto. Lead-led off sparkling double, the rubber for the only Braves'
Yee-kit, Lee Tai-fol and Szeto
The interval came with South China leading by 1-0. Had they started with this
SECOND HALF' KMB were the first to take the
act
The
Wus
off batter "Little Amy" Cheng tickled the ball into right to
killing
to souff the only serious
the third frame.
pinch-hitter
run of the day.
Spiky
table.
nad
minutes of
met
get on, but was crated for the scoring threat by the Braves in 1, Chapple hit safely in close | unsteadier and falling into two line-up, the
first out by a throw across the diamond. Bonnie Chan went down on gelene
Kwok singled.
stole
to nul.
Inning thirdsacker
A
with three runs in the top of the cropped to push Langenbet
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Tiger
on second
Busmen would
ball
up
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was
The defences of both teams again. stood out prominently. Remedios and Carlos with the Busmen slightly the
succession, but Junior Remedios Both sides were hell score- fled on foot and Southgaw costly lapses that gave their have probably given their oppo- offensive in the second half, and
nents an infieid out. An-less till the action-packed third, Buji Dhaber hopped one to nest opponents two valuable goals.
a much more anxious a good forward through pass by Goalkeeper Tam Woon-cheuk
but, Although the Jaguars were firsi
as it was, South Lee Chun-fal saw Tang Yee-kit second and was pushed - across j. put a runner on third, no reduce all the Braves' efforts was responsible for the first time
lapse when his handicap of China's superiority in this de-almost through only to be the rubber by Ingrid Wang's Gerald Van Lungenberg opened
the scoond
that brought down by Ko Po-keung. partment was so, marked height caused him to fumble
Irmedlately following This took all the fight out of being shot by Yue Cheuk-yin the score could have easily been
this, timely double,
with twisting the Tribesmen, and the last three which was a mixture of a lebe Cheuk-ut was easily the raid when Lee Tal-fal worked up preceedings
in their favour.
they staged another dangerous batlers went down in rapid order This stung the Nam Wah girls double to right,
Shortslop
Yuc und a drive. Claude Pugh on two lies and 'an infield out to into action and they exploded,
best forward on view in this the ball and sent Szeto Mao end the one-sided geme.
An error of judgment by nline-hugging bunt
centre-hall Ng Kel-cheong when
match, not only being respon- through in the open space, Szeto fourth to tie up the ballgame.
sible for most of the efferive Man's parting shot, however, Credited with the win, Jaguar Yue Cheuk-yin caught him half- Shortstop Helen Leong lashed down to the scoring perch, while
Pedruco had no way
with a forward half-lob moves it also providing a con- went to the side of the net. out a drive to centre to arrive he landed
South China increased their himself. pltcher Vie safely on first. The next batter With none down and potential, strike-outs, but issued one tree from the left midfield and the stant danger to the South. China
of left back Hung to take a shot and run through half after a full-blooded half- defence with his ever readiness lead in the 5th minute of the flied out to rightfeld,
runs on third and second, the base and allowed seven spaced slowness
out hits. His opposing number Hing-yuk in covering the pass
volley drive by Mok Chun-wab Then first baseman Madeleine Jags elected to hit away for some
unaccountable reason.
Chappie Remedios was tagged allowed Lee Yuk-tak to streak himself,
Both Kwok Ying-lok ut had gone over the goalmouth. Gosling drove the ball through
The goalkick went to Yue short, and Helen Leong scored
centre-forward and Lee Kwong- Hussain popped weakly will the loss in walking three through with the ball at his feet
and conceding the initial
inging and to drive it past the goal- nine ringing
wing were little off form, but Chouk-yin who, from just past short for all the way from first when the to
out.
hits, while striking out two. keeper with a neat grounder. Souza scratched
Mok Chun-wah at left-wing and midfield on the left, centred the centreffelder heaved wildly to Nilson
Ficct-footed outfielder Lionel
MORE SOLID
Lee Yuk-ink at inside-right gave pe Yuk-tak raced up, looks the over Ng Kel-cheong's head. words the
head over three called strikes plate.
South China's defence was excellent support to Yuc. and was thumbed back to the Sequeira surprised all present
more solid, with Ko Po-
ball in his stride. got past the Catcher Red Pereira by grabbing off a major share the bench.
THE PLAY
oncoming Hung Hing-yuk and chopped the pill feebly into the of the batting honours with a keung taking the main honours
perfect three - In-three per-centre-half,
not only
KMB kicked off against the neatly sent it past goalkeeper ground for the last out to leave perfect Ho was
neutralised closely completely
the Pollee Club end out thei: Initial Tom Woon-chejk, with a neat two runners futilely stranded formance.
followed by teammate Vic individual efforts by Lee Chun-attack was easily held by Tong grounder. Pedruco who belted a double fat and Tang Yee-kit with his Sheung and Mpk Chun-wah.
Four minutes later, KMB three-run homer, and fast tackles, but time and Mok worked up the ball on the succeeded in opening their Gerald Van Langenberg who again nipped the Busmen's left, but his centre was smartly scoring. A long forward centre Ggarnered a double and a triple, offensivo moves with his timely headed away by Fung Kwan to Tang Yee-kit opposite the
Interceptions.
"South China's decision to re. Yue Cheuk-yin took the left. upright of the goal saw Tang rebound and gave the crow fumble with the ball, but as place Soong Ling-sing with the their Arst thrill when his 30-yard it rebounded from his feet Szeto more youthful and speedler Lau dashing cross delve went just post Man came across and swung the Chi-ping a right-half paid off, the upright,
ball round with a hook shot and with Lau and right-bick A good header by Lee Tal-
past
the surprised Pau King- Chiu Char-wing rising to the fal to the goal kick set his for-
ying. occasion there was little if any words going, but a mispass by
"Despite galant efforts by the of that weakness In South right-wing LeeSlu-fai ended KMB forwards for the remaining China's right rear guard.
part of the game, South China wer* content to revert. to a defensive game and successfully held on to their slender margin of victory.
Nightfelder
Gosling moved down to third en the play and brought in au- other run when outfielder S. Koo hit an afleld grounder for the second out.
Nightfelder Rosic Luey then on base. almost made herself the heroine Ed Carvalho's Braves opened of the day by stepping into one the third thunderously through and n of Pandas pitcher Pearl Chan's Manuel Guterres double. Into
centrefield. slow balls and blasting it way over the leftfielder's head for a Rozario, filled out, but oldtimer score-ticing home run,
Tony Osmund rapped a sharp An infield error and two soild sing
single to left to advance hits Alled the bags to overflow- Guterres
to third while be ing again, but second sucker B. pr
princed Into
second standing Chan failed to come through up. with a clutch-hit, grounding to thortstop for a
force-out third to end the rally.
Both teams settled down tight fielding which carrie 3-3 tie into the last inning. The first two South China batters routine infleld grounded outs.
for
TEAL IS ILL
He
the move.
London, Mar. 8. Shortstop Joe Guterres Teal, who until yesterday at grounded to third, and the ball was a strong favourite for the made two rapid journeys across Grand National, has slight to the diamond from third to first digestive aliment but will have Pau King-ying in goal was The Busmen were soon back the to home for a neat twin-killing another race In public before actually left very little to do on the left and a fine individual
as Guterres attempted to score the Aintree meeting. on the play.
yesterday, but was seen in one effort by Szelo Man saw him The trainer sald tonight; brilliant save in the second half reaching the goalline and send Leftgelder Lionel Sequeira "WC have discovered when, with the score standing at ng acrcts the goalmouth a low brought the first run of the slight digestive ailment which 2-1, he stopped a low pile-centre. No Bus forward was at third batter, lined to game across the plate when he is being attended to,
of the The driver to the near corner of the band to avail himself right, but first baseman Dinne stole home in a shower of dirt horse will, it is hoped, have not from Szeto Man,
pass and Lau Yee cleared. Tong leaned over and speared after his bingle was followed one
before more race
the However,
South
KMB had the greater share of the apple for a one-handed by teammate Igmer Eriksen's National, possibly nt Notting-China's distinct superiority in the attack
during this
perica, catch to end the inning.
site bunt.
ham."—Reuter.
the forward line that proved to
but were constantly frittering opportunities away, through mia passes, and it was South China who missed the first real chance in the seventh minute of
The
THE GAMBOLS
WELL, I DON'T LIKE PANTOMIMES RITHER, OUT? THE CHILDREN WILL ENJOY IT.
Barry Appleby
was
Chun-
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stands. Stables, Shan Kwong Road, Szeto Man beat Chiu Chor-wing
to the ball on the left, but his Entries close at 12 o'clock parting shot went all the way NOON on Tuesday 10th across the goalmouth past the March, 1968. goalline.
Immediately after this," Soeto Man again got powession of the ball at midicid and his forward centre to the open space on the Jett saw Leo Chun-fat, running
.By. Order,
II... MISA,
Secretary.
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various points in the enclosure to ensure that this regulation is adhered to.
By Order,
H. MISA,
Secretar
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