1954-01-30 — Page 17

WEEK-END SOFTBALL

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY, - 30

IN

ALL-STAR EVENT

30, 1954.

SAINTS MEET USS ORCA IN TOMORROW'S TOP-OF-THE-BILL MATCH

By "SNOOPER”

If any ball team is capable of giving Jindoo Hussain's Saints & trouncing, it is Bill Williams' slugging Orca squad of softballers. The sailors will take advantage of a golden chance in a friendly game to- morrow in what appears to be their farewell performance at King's Park as they will be leaving the Colony early next month.

and the Braves

Supporters of, the Pandas, Chinese Athletic Association three teams still mathematically in the running for the Senior "A" Pennant - will flock to King's Park hoping to see the USS Orca spoil the Saints' excellent record of one loss to date.

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lying 384 while Cheng is The Saints-Orea tussle Is i I will add: The Saints cannot, A scheduled for 11 a.m., following hope to win on bundleg Strategy, eighth with a 318 slugging mark. In the third game of the which Jackle Wel's Pandas Husial's bedplayers can play

teams face a speedy Rexes team and ecosi roftball ya! they w have efternoon, two Chinese

the take the held with the second-placed Chinese to be a their best if they use to will

Athletic Association Athletic Association meet Chev

necount for the sailors tomorrow. Chinese To the Saints, I proffer a word of strongly favoured to beat the sol's Caroliners in the third

will be The CAA adeler. HI pusher Walkon, Caroliners. game of the afternoon.

tr grand opportunity what CTC

and hit the ball given a may, The Orca ballplayers

Bill bascinat third

win and good not shown up

Waliems nor flest bowman B there will be little dimcuity for the Saints, but to achieve

Stell bul to between step first-baseman C. M. Tsang, who first class performance much and recos. This will be the realy heads the list of batters with a will depend

455 marks, pitcher P. C. Wong on the battery of one good chance to upre pltcher Ray

and third sacker Seldon Ma in Willingham and Onga's solid defence. catcher Bob Hall. The pan to A word of prales

dealing with the slow deliveries

Lau. watch will be Saints mounds-manager Jindoo Hussain to his of Inexperienced Dick

One Senior "B' game will be have Thay

retred man Vic Pedruco who will bejelenguer.

week- decision this cox.fronted

of softball to a brigale July down for

Paking the Hongkong Softball end. Jimmy Herrick's Pandas, bolding down the slugging triesseciation to grant them their who have played heads-up bull of southpaw Bill Stell, Bill

to become one of the jeading Williams and Beb Hall,

request to meet the USS Orea tomorrow. The association, stier teams in the League, will enter I will be so bold

as to suy

further consideration, decided the field with confidence to beat that unicas the Saints' out-

that the Saints-Orea game stall Hongkong University. Belders Meme Xavier, Show- boat All and George Saunders be a friendly one, and the Com-undergraduates will be making to score thels missioner and the Counell think special efforts come up with a good display. n. sure of the managers of maiden win of the season, but the Saints will lose this game by

the Saints and the Orea is pre- an upset victory is most unlike- al least four runs.

I worthyr

ly. Pitcher Herrick himself is expected to produce a first rate hurting performance.

with the task

CAA

It will be recalled that in the game against the much weaker | UBS Cockrell in the first round Saints encounter. the Saints leiding Was awry and there was in. sufficient softball skill to give them a runaway victory. It was only the courageous pitching of Pedruco, backed up by yound infield, that subdued the Cockrell by 12-9 in a close and exciting Anish.

wway.

The Chinese All-Stars, who wore trotacaced 10-0, failed to up- met the che ha of the Orca infield with

bursting tactics and It seemed that the Chinese

were more effective in hilting Willing- ham's surve ball.

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LADIES' GAME The Wahoos "B" -

Pandae clash, which was called off last week-end, owing to the state of the ground, will be played off on Sunday, commencing at 9,30 a.m. In the first round gan the Pandas won in a decisive manner but the outcome of this return game can be different if OTHER GAMES

mnanger

Ribeiru Virgie Jackie Wer's slumping Paudas, emphasizes the importanen of who lost three games in a row, the outfield department. will have to show a little more The weakness of the Wahoos steadiness in fielding and more outfelders was fully exposed

in. the

ngainst the Colleens. The Pandas, on the strongest in other hand, are Delding and teamwork although they lack betting power.

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University'a Ng Chuan-wai is one of several out. standing long jumpers taking part in the Hongkong- Kowloon athletic match at Boundary Street on Sunday afternoon. The Long Jump will be the "star" event on the programme.

The University Champion won at 20 ft. 71⁄2 ins. from Chue Ming, the Novlees' Champion at 21 ft. 6 ins., at the first major meeting of the season at Boundary Street on December 10. All his three jumps were over 20 feet.

In the field on Sunday will be the Colony record. holder, To King-chau, just short of 22 feet by a half- inch last season, and also three other 20-footers in Chan Wal-lan, Shek Wai-man and George Thumb.— China Mall Photo.

ALEC BEDSER'S COLUMN

A Blind Man

A Test

Page

173

Will Aid

Bowler

Tony Lock, my 24-year-old Surrey colleague,, who played a prominent part in the defeat of the Australians with his left arm spinners has had an Important cricket date arranged for him."

Lon Hutton, captain of the MCC team now touring the West Indies, has told him to have a talk with Wilfred Rhodes whon Surrey are in-Yorkshire next cricket season. I think ho is likely to learn more in half an hour's chat with the great Yorkshire voteran than in days of discussion with lessor lights.

Len Hutton and I often have hand batting. I maintain that ity But Blg Jim was a natural talent is not friendly arguments about cricket is physically impossible for the hitter and such- and cricketers. But one point genuine pace bowler in a normal given to many.

I am Inclined to concede to him eleven to bat for any length of

is that Wilfred, now unhappily | perlod without his bowling Often Sanith rattled up thirty blind, was the greatest all-suffering. round player who ever lived,

EXTRAORDINARY CAREER

Wisden,

went to

or forty runs in a matter of a few overs and then was fresh

Jack Mercer, 0 well-known to open the attack. Since the figure in English cricket, who war, however, England has often

for played successfully

frat had to askt bowlers to get the Sussex and later Glamorgan batting out of a jam with a long A glance at

the and who now coaches Northants, and determined effort and I am sure the attack has suffered in cricketor's bible, gives an idea tells the story of his first job in

Consequence, of his extraordinary career. He his first county match, performed the double of scoring

When Tony Lock, whom St He was number 11 batsman Donald Bradman thinks of very 1,000 runs or more and taking 100 wickets

the crease with highly, has his chat ho will and. in English county and <ricket 16

moro instructions from his captain to Wilfred timos, twice

Rhodes although than George Hirst, his Yorkshire run out his partner--the team's

with blindness, colleague and

fast bowler who had been bat atleted nearest rival. Wilfred on three occasions took ting too long. Mercer returned mentally alert and knowledge- or more wickets and 20 to the pavilion with his missionable as ever he was, He can

completed. He was the sub- follow the play by the sounds. times passed the 100 mark.

Jest of praise from his skipperf He knows by the sound of bat on ball whether or · not a Jack bag

good and well-timed stroke was humour and when Glamorgan, made, the one-time Cinderella county, were having a particularly bad period he christened them "Gloomorganshire,"

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His batting was such that he started as a Number 1 for England and rose to share the record opening partnership for Test matches with Jack Höbbs,

This was only recently broken by Len Hutton and Cyrli Wash- brook at Ellis Park, Johannes- burg. In 1048.

Rhodes had the ideal com- bination for the all rounder slow left arm bowling and right

SPORTS ROUND-UP

Holidays For Hungary's Champion Footballers Are No Idle Rest Cure

to

WRONG STRATEGY

When manager Hussain and bis tormmates meet today to dis-strength in batting to overcome

Hungary's champion footballers have just completed a fortnight's holiday curs tactics to overthCIN the the speedy Rexes team.

with their familles at a resort on, the shores of Lake Balaton. But it was no idle Oren, they will no doubt draw a moral from the Orsa's display

The youthful Rexes can beat

rest cure for the men whose fitness and Technique astonished the world at Wembley.. against Chita in the charty" ex-

Ismail

There was a training sesalon every other day. The idea was to gradually orothers and hibition game a fortnight ago. It

their colleagues

In their gomes against Terry bring them into form after a strenuous year. A typical day's training began with should never be bunting s rategy show some imagination in their

Noronha's champion Owls and all the way.

last year,

a one mile run on the flat. Then came light exercise In ball technique, and four-a- when Dolly Norman's Colleens, play, Unuke

side football, they played very good ball to Pandas have given masterfu

the job, Champion, plans to complete 21 think win the Senior "B" Pennant, defensive displays

Afterwards there was skating experimenters and they

much less than years as a professional boxer." their eight games in the Senior have almost reached their best and sledging on the frozen lake, would take

As his first professional fight "A" circuit have so

Soon they will be off to Egypt. that. fur irked nelding form.

Then comes the match with

fook place 16 years ago, 35- CROWD TOOK A HÁND their ardent supporters as much While I see little wrong in the

with Eng- Stanley Matthews tumed up year-old Medina will have as anyone che,

pitching of Pearl Chan, who Austria, the return

the World at Norwich to play in a benefit keep going until he is 40. Pandas

bastman shows & clever change of pace in land, and in May,

game for trainer Harry Proctor. Woo Willie

and jeft

fielder her deliveries, I prefer May Wu Cup. Allen Cheng

But Blackpool manager Joe will go oli

out to whose fast balls have done much

SHOCKINGLY EXPENSIVE

Smith said "no" when Matthews Nazarin to con-dunage to the champion

Owls the and the Colleens. Should coach A Jet aeroplane engine will telephoned him for permission

be started up on the solidate their positions in

to play. So Stan took a lines- Championship Batting

Willic Wco start

tiny Pearl soon Woo. who is placed fifth in the Chan and if she is lil-supported county cricket ground at Derby

Then the crowd took a hand. and its hot air will be almed man's dag. current official Batting Cham- by the infielders, a win for

at the pitch to try and solve Referee W. Ling did most of the pionship standing, has plied up Wahooe will come as little sur- one of crickel's biggest prob- linesman's work, while Stan

lems the unplayable wet

spent most of his time signing the match autographs After .al

Matthews was smuggled out of Jim Peters, world's fastest the ground to escape being Marathon runner, is included in mobbed by the crowd.

the English cross-country team to compete in the international race at Hannut, Belgium, Feb. 7.

hurier 90 much instructions were givens to bunt hen, but manager Williams not only proved hura:olf a player but his generalship was such that he positioned his men Like a chews master.

hit pitcher

second

race.

Test Match Umpire Says.

He Was Threatened

By ALEX BANNISTER

Kingston, Jamaica,

Mr Perry Burke, 34, one of the coloured umpires in the first Test which ended here with a West Indies victory of 140 runs over England, has disclosed that he has been threatened with a knife and a pistol, and his family molested during the match.

He gave the Jamaican, J.K., Holt, out lbw.at 94six short of a century in his first Test innings. The decision was hotly resented by a disappointed crowd.

A

Mr Burke's wife, watching the match, was slapped on the face

by a man who

added: "Let's

take it out of his wife.”

She

received a bruised eye.

On Monday afternoon, Burke's eldest son was beaten

Mr

up by a gang of boys.

THE

WEEK-END

the

factory The Rolls-Royce Derby has been asked to lend an engine. But the idea comes from Lancashire, home of the notoriously damp' Old Trafford ground. Said

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Is it love for the sport which keeps him in the ring? No, something more mundane-cash, Medina's ring carnings have 110*6 £50,000, Now totulled

Beven penniless. "I've owned motor cars," he says "but now I travel by anderground."

on

prise.

For Yolanda Silva of the wicket. Wances "B" it will be a great chance to score at least a couple of hits. With nine hits credited 10 her batting record. Yolanda is currently topping the list of successful batters in the Ladies

Top golf tournament of the League Batting Championship Lace, and should raise her hopes Derbyshire, secretary Mr coming season will be staged in

Prizes will con Uruguay. T. Taylor, "It's more Terry venient uver her nearest rivals,

Other members of the side it is hoped to nient to have the experiment 200,000 and Noronha and Irene Starkey of venien

are Frank Sando, Don shall be attract the world's best players, and Ken Norris,

Walker "A" the Waho09

and Aldat

too. But we've yet Including the crack Americans, Interestedt and we Oliveira of the Colleens.

to and

out If the hot nir will Ben Hogan and Sam Snead. This will be Norris's Arst HOW THEY STAND

damage

the turf-and we shall Former British Open Champion international honour. He gained experiment on a specially pre- Mox Faulkner, und Del-Reus.

the who camo second to Hogan last his place through his brilliant pared pitch away from county wickets,

year, are included the British victory in the

meeting at Epsom. "Expensive? Shockingly," said entry.

Gordon Pirie is going with BY UNDERGROUND #1 Rolls-Royce omclal. "It would

the team and will compete in a 400

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Mr Burke's father, Mr Sam Burke, who umpired the first Test between the West Indies and England in 1948 at Kingston, has also been threatened by fellow-workers at a local wharf. They have told him: "We are going to push you overboard."!

Mr Parry Burke himself was at Duke Street Railway Station when a man came up to him and Baith "I am good mind to the this on you," and produced a knife, Mr Burke said he was also threatened at the station with a revolver.

Mr Tom Ewart, the other umpire, who La miso coloured, added that several people had approached him in the street after the first day's play, when Holt finiebat with: 78, and add shab H. Holt was not allowed to get his centag they would, “do

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Obviously it is a mistake for a

bowler to ignoro young pace the arts of batting, for one of these days ten or twenty rune might win a game for his side. Orten the dugged defence of tail-enders can save a game,

South Aricana are not likely forget the famous occasion at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, in 1947 when Jack Martin and Eric Hollies cheated them of

well- deserved victory with an tonishing last wicket stand.

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But the real pace bowler cans to be a conslitent not expect

run-getter. Not in my opinion

anyway.

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Jim Smith, who bowled fast

I think that Tony will be all the better as a left arm bowler for his talk with Wilfred, Ant I only wish the old master could see Lock in the fick taking those superb catches with effort less ease at backward short leg.

Wilfred Rhodes would indend approve of thoon...

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a liking to hit the ball out of NOON the Lord's ground-using only February. 1954. one hand. This was a feat which

he performed on several DC- By Order of the Stewards; casions before the unbelieving eyes of the delighted spectators.

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ANNUAL RACE MEETING Saturday, 23rd, Wednesday 27th & Saturday 30th

·January, 1954. -

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