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It's softball with a difference

in Singapore

By OLLY VAS

I had the pleasure of watching a game of softball last week and what a game it was! It was truly softball with a difference and I went away from the ground afterwards feeling that we in Hongkong, ac- customed as we are to abiding by the rules and regulations of the game, might derive greater enjoyment from it if we were to occa- sionally allow informality to creep into our softball affairs-both on and off the field,

The venue for the Senior Knockout game Was the spacious sports ground of the University of Malaya in Singapore and the two feams wore the Stanvac Gassers and the Coronets, the former a side composed of Americans resident in Singapore and the latter mostly local boys.

Won

(and I say this without mean- ing any disrespect to them) before the leagues can be run smoothly and before the game

They player

rubber | Asvelation, their officials and sneakers and the Gusars

the players themselves and re- .-2. The score is only incidentul member that they clearly do not for it was apparent that both possess an easy familiarity with sites thoroughly enjoyed fibe "Date" anzi "DuoTS" of soft-con progress. playlag softball whaleb 1. The storklund of play which comparatively Dew sport

witnessed matches that in our

Interport?

As a parting thought perhaps

Singapore, bearing in taled that ¦ Juanne derision but what the we in Hongkong have had this leams I saw in action may have Kore of thir spurts calendar lacked in polish they certabity the Shgapore Softball Associa

since 1938,

The first base umpire was barefooted a obviously de. lighting in the feel of the green grass underfoot. There was no back-fence foc the foul balls that are part of every softball match-instrud a member of the team at bal

deputised as human back- skáp ten yards or sa Behind the catcher and to top it all only the roughest of score

made up for by sheer enthu-

sjusto.

'T'he recently concluded leagues boast of eigh! tenis cuch in the Senior and Junior division and four each in the "C" and "D" sections, the latter being mostly team.

beginners'

The Gassers have won in the "A" division since the docia

on became affiliated with the sheets was used to keep track | parem body in the USA The

of the runs scored.

No strangers

i

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1961.

CHAMPAGNE FOR THE CHAMPIONS

| Gion might persuade sume ex- players to cover their weekend gamies and toile reports with the Preas in order to gaini sonte ; much-needed publicity. purdly contributory busis, so yo to get readers interested in suft- bull. The spectator interest Is there alright but it needs to be, spread to the community } farge for with such beautiful rounds available it dies seem

The day when

Singapore

Jubilant Hampshire cricketers celebrating their first ever County Cricket

title after defeating Derbyshire by 140 runs recently.

U.S. FOOTBALL

RESULT

New York, Sept. 10.

The Denver Broncos defented

pity that the start has to be the Bunalu Zills 22-10 today in conficed to only the ority the American Football League. rent of the Lepis Trying through lack of publicity.

итр hard to

their stan improve siard of ploy but when one con- The oflein Indy-scorer insiders that the Singaporeans ure formed me that for the Knock- | handicapped by not having

they had suitable coach or men who out Series anyway derider) To Dispense with the pass on umpiring or scoring usual symbols whith our young, know-how' it Is indeed cum-

cur

The double-play combination

Frank can meet Hongkong in an In- of

Tripucka-to-Gene ternational match is very far Mingo-10-Lion Taylor twice off but I augurs' well for the accounted for Deaver #

scores, future of the game there that while Tripucku's 22-yard piter to Al Frizler gave the Broncos the players I saw showed A rare determination to get their other score. about the business of playing i

Elbert Dubenion's softball" will a' gusto that has↑ been missing in Hongkong for print on a wide

Buffalo's lone

seaters are so used to jotting i mendalale that their leagues down. If it was intensied to save | have managed to survive for the umeressary labour it cl the past four years.

trick though the thought occurs. that in a really tight gate the inning by Inning tally might well be dispetable.

day We

hove

the

65-yard reverse wax with Beure,

Secretary Bill Tan is HOW

as long as I care to remember. Denver adding two points on a trying to get the fairer sex in- I can only conclude with the safely in the closing minutes of terested in the game. Is ap-hope that

in the game. parent that there is no lack of Hongkong The Gassers soon showed that interest in what is, to Singapore pleasure of playing hosts to 1 Scores were: they were no strangers to the anyway, a new spurt but the Singapore representative team Denver zane mst only in their playing | Arseelution there will have to for an exchange of Ideus may Buffalo ability but in the matter of learn nsten from their mistakes prove to be mutually beneficial. complicating the issue by regis- |

tering a verbal protest with the plate umpire when

base umpire

made a call the

the

busis for which, very frankly to! this day, still puzzles me The Gassers called "Time Out" and ofter a brief argument with the two nebiters the sum of M$1000, changed hands, this being protest fee. The issue involved either a bulk or 0903 blch' The only trouble was that The -based empire could mut clarify the situation with the Gussera Just then.

As play progressed and the Gassers were leading 4-1 the opposition apparently decided to nicet fire with Are and play was held up for a while as both sides argited over whether or not the Garsers' plicher was tossing the ball illegally because hils

tance on the rubber.

What struck me as being 2 sensible ideo was the ruling that no base-runner is allowed to steal a base. He has to advance on meelt-that is, on a hill or on an overthrow but in the latter case, at his own risk. So the game went along its turbulent path and the highlight was when the lusing side's shortstop, a school teacher by the name of Chin, run the proverbiol ole 10 snare a By-bat which Was dropping slowly over the accord baseman's head.

both

The spectators Despite playing "with only eight men, the second base- nan alternating #1 short right-feld, the experienced Casters proved too strong for the locals and no chiangrabir was the atitude of the few spectators on the field that I was odd to hear the chrerbig Justily for leaths, depending on what the Teore was at that time. After having 20 few words with some of the local boys I left the feld with mixed feelings fur I was told that earlier in the playing season a game had to be, replayed after the umpire involved reversed hts decision during the protest hearing. That protest had been fled AFTER the game and not during the course of it.

Before any of our knowledge- able softball fans and ociala afari muttering "What atrange goings-on!" let பசு be fair the Singapore Softball

to

Sports Diary

TODAY

TENNIS

Colony Ladlée' fhrd Court cham- plocchine et PNC. 830 pm,

TOMORROW

TENNIS

Colony Ladies Hard Court cham- planships at Inc, 1.30 pm,

Blonday Ahield, competitions Mongkong Fentbal) club, 4 pm.

at

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