1958-11-21 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1958.

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ON THE SOFTBALL SCENE Whats Best In Kowloon!

Let Us Stop This Abuse Umpires And Behave

On

Like True Sportsmen

By TIME OUT"

What price glory? Are you one of those who defend the deplorable "win-at-all-costs" attitude and say sportsmanship be damned? If you are, you are merely wasting your time reading what I am about to say in defence of, of all persons, softball umpires!

I do not profess to have a great admiration for the men in brown but I must put pen to paper on their behalf when the

occasion warrants it.

VPERIORS

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Last week Fred Diesta Sr. to my plot of vi w umpires

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and was subjseted to a hot of abuse from softballers and spectators sense must be tolerated from like when sume of his decisions playve, managers, coaches, eveli at Arst base and later thre

quet alors

raftball has been tay behin the plate, futled i And favour with certain people, shqyes with a lack of sukabre jure

For acts

TWO EXCELLENT RUGBY GAMES LAST NIGHT

Navy Score Deserving 3-0

Win Over The Rest

By PAK LO

In a fast and thrilling encounter under floodlight on the Club ground yesterday evening the Navy deservedly beat the Rest of the Colony by three points (one try) to nil, while in the first game of the even- ing the Whitfield Wanderers playing a storming game managed to hold a Club selection to a nine points (two penalty goals, one try) to nine points (one penalty goal, two tries) draw.

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All in all it was a very nice Enme to watch, and after this

got plentiful supply to play.

Whitfield Wanderers the Wanderers should

had Both game turned out, each Lochrie was steady nt full-gathered by Wright who in is own way to be excellent back, and in the loose both somehow temporarily replaced The Juniors tʊnunate the | lay- | rugby.

packs of forwards kept well up Tancock His pass out was poor, with the play.

but Valentine scooped it off the zilurmond on Saturday with AL 2.00 p.m. the

ground and the boil moved out two matches. Stardusts and Cardinals will talte

to Cheong who whipped through 4/ the led This should be un

last few to send Browne tho yards. Browne went on round interesting game as the Stardusts fust becoming the term to

to score under the posis, Valen- Though the

fine, somehow forgetting what oul for.

he was doing, dropped conversion and The extra points were of course disallow ed. 0-0.

It la popularte sereptest fallacy, unites and and sara time as watch

an upset must not be ruled out as the Stardusts ure capable of holding their own! against any Junior teune

its local ofthell circles thusst all, kten new ones are Handed to Cards are favoured to take the umpran are either ignorant the thankless job we will simply | Lossle she rides un partly bind.

have to accept with good grace I sent that Diesta belongs to a les the true spårt of sports. decisions integers He has un-m mailp. Jumping

entrent crop of selfishmaly served the cause of mah by the

for countless years oficials, particularly when such the Kite

iledzior & come from experienced And, to my books anywny, te has more bez ved up to the men like Dare Couper. Bebi

of Aldong, Balt anal falr standard offerating judgment I expected | Benda Sr. of hip

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Regrettable

very

Silva

Happier Note

Fred

Yet To Impress Immediately following. the jee-leading Cheyennes tangic with the unpredictable Englen. Fadder manager J. F. Yee has Dequired the signature of n-hitter M. L. Laŭ and if Lau should strike form the Cheyennes might not find things too much in

favour

for As

the their

474 a happier note oftenidom

thegrion

1 is a pat in the back for quick

question of walk- Cheyetines, they have yet to grettable to see that wh a thigation on thi

It was withi impress were not going top smoothly for in dute

Lea anunt of satisfaction At 11.00 .m on Sunday the some people players mainly-- they hart to did some excuse to that I rate the decision of the tastes from Pokfulam keep in weak with appointment with deal sternly

the ven then disappointment by

Do I de Overneos. The Undergrads are Jauhelung an unjustified verbal offending teams Bow

far superior la batting and field- attuck on every umpiring des teet at long last a gradual change in the Association's ellitude to

Ing and should trample all over cirion Diesta bail to make

Press Comments

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the opposition, #y touchy subject? Congratulations, 200 Council members!

Hoots of derision, catcalls, childish remarks, asperstong on his failing eyesight these were but part of the general plan of assault on him and while I have publicly said in this column that 1 did not persofially agree with

decisions, ane of his fairness to him I must admit he wan within his rights--and with- He wisely ignored The Tubes

made and tr only serves as an would-be umpires

all the remarks nonchalaner

example Lo that one must guns

in

all

stick to one's

HKSA

As for the week-end games, the ladies lilt between the de- fending champions Hurricaties

China tokes and South

top with The Rui-shirts, thing MV I. Francis da Silva tossing the strikes, will be all out to win the ever-so-importura game bu with little Peanut Yira back in Suth Chint's line-up I can- see a Hurricane not possibly win. The game is scheduled for Sunday at 9.30 am.

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v. Club Selection

In the first, the Whittleld Wanderers, playing with tons of could be spirit, showed what done by a determined side of keety rugby players, of whom all were goud, and yet few it any, were outstanding.

Without doubt their greatest #trength lay In Evans their

work was teker whose

very ice to look at, and who wan always there in the loose,

Sanderam in the centre alc played extremely well and the threew threw the ball around all the time.

the the the

The Club dominated scrums and lineouts bu! ball was coming back to trees very slowly and WENT all too tany fumbled pastes,

there

Horrible Blunder

of invitations

The Wanderers kicked off and The Club were penalised about Dirty-five yards from their own bne and in the Arst minute Evans converted. 3-0.

The

Retaliated

with a

Club retaliated strong foot rush and the Wan- derers were penalised for U- side, agalu about thirty Ave yards from the line and Lochrie equolised for the Club In the fourth minute.

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In the final minutes the Clubs

for offside were penalized their own 25 and again Evune converted the

scores

Navy v. Rest

were

A minute inter the Wanderers were another three points ahead when Sanderson eut through the defence and passed out to

The Navy won and deserved- Hellings who scored in the

ly for though they had a much smaller share of the ball than corner. No conversion. 0-3.

The

the Colony, they the Rest of Wanderers, now in the

made much more use of it, and lead kept up a continual pres-

ent their threes moving. cure on the Club ine, but then

heeling The Colony a Club rally took play back to

start, and the Wanderers 25.

from the A fast heel steadily Old pals lock horns when the

sent the all out to Cheong via

patting it back from the lineouts lads from Caroline Hill meet the

Valentine, and Cheong winked and this against Rothwell ond Bennet as a ou mighty Pandas al 1.45 pm

his way through the Wanderers Trice was falal.

result took 10 score half way out. No con-

a hammerink, South China, after their brilliant

Cheong was the best of the

version, and the half time score O'Kelly was also getting victory over the Joeys last work.

threes and his

and truly caught. swerving runs

was 6-6. will enter the Held with con-

In the second half the Club Adence

lake the through the opposition certain- and should

the Men' much ty had the Wanderers wander- looked

dangerous του without maich

Ing. Valentine played very with Leonard and Hutt ham- resistance from the Pandas,

Laking some pering the Wanderers half with Te round up the day's outings, smoothly indeed

at times from | their fust breaking, but the the Draves meet the happy-go-orrible passes lucky Nuvy squad, once again Tancock, though at the end he Club's passing was poor at this représented by the U.S.S made one horrible blunder that point.

of a certain

From a loose maul Pickaway. A runaway victory robbed the Club

win.

Wanderers for the Tribe is predicted.

STEP RIGHTIN, PLEASE. FOR INTERVIEW AND

TEST

BRICK BRADFORD

WHAT DO YOU {MIAN, PAW JUST DISAPPEARED

THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED, IF YOU'LL USTEN, I'LL TELL

YOU, BRICK!

THIS HAD BETTER BE GOOD) IF ANYTHING HAS HAPPENED TO PAM, I'LL BREAK

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DO YOU WANT TO HEAR WHAT I HAVE TO BAY, OR DON'T

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Incidentally it was amazing how niany spectators did not know the oftside Law and were continually complaining to the referee who of course paid them no attention, that Rothwell was offside. It is obvious that next week Joe Bloogs and his cousin Joe Song will have to appear on the scene, to give fans a little help with these problems. Must Be Blamed

The Club pack must be blamed largely for losing the Kame for they heeled so terribly slowly that by the time the ball reached the halves the Navy were on top of them. This was also noticeable with the Rest of the Colony threes who were Lekled ninast as soon as they handled the ball,

McTavish did his best but towards the end he was literally running his head into a wall. Leppard disappointed at full back and his catching was in- different

but

Miller of the RAF played a

wing good game on the seldom got a chance, while Mar Un oddly enough seemed out

of his class last night.

The Navy threes were much better, though Watson seemed slow and Delany handled badly at Umes.

Beutel on the wing was de Anitely the danger while Mel- huish was made to look even better than he was by the al- most effortless work of Rodd.

Grand Game

Rudd played a beautiful leading his threes, and giving his forwards the kind of cover- ing they needed. Defensively the Navy were good but very often it was Rodd who was

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