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"BASEBALL.

SOUTH CHINA'S - TACTICS.

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AN EXPLANATION.

Many of those who were on the grand- "stand watching the baseball game on Sunday afternoon between South China and the Hongkong Baseball Club appear. ed to fail to understand why South China should, apparently without reason, allow their last two men to strike them- selves out in order to hasten the end of "An official of the South China team, when zoon, explained that no discourtesy They are lond in its praise.whatever was intended towards the op- It ought to be much better because, during the last fifteen years, it has absorbed, a very large proportion of the revenue of the Royal Hongkong Golf

The experts who take golf very serious. ly say that the old course at Fanling is far better than any of the other locali

courses.

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the play:

posing team or the spectators who had world do their best, winning or losing. every right to expect that all players The time was getting late-the game did not end until about 7.13 p.m.-and the Tradition says that the Hon. Mrumpire might have exercised bia right Halifax was mainly responsible for the to call off the game-on-account-of-dark.... creation of the Fanling golf courses. It ness. Should he have done this South was probably, while he was carrying China would have lost the day's game. out administrative work in the New At the beginning of the 7th innings the Territories that the idea fixed itself in

score was 12 to 11 in favour of the his mind. There were difficulties about Hongkong Baseball Club. Had the game land, etc., but the course came into being.ended then, South China would have

·F has brought pleasure to many hun lost. Even before the end of the last dreds-probably thousands of players innings in which South China had scored since those days.

nine runs, the umpire might still have During the winter it is crowded on called the game off and on the score of Saturday afternoons and on Sundays. the previous innings played the Hong- Indeed there are so many who wish to kong Baseball Club would have been ad- play during the week-end on that courau judged winners. Moreover, lengthening that the Committee have been compelled, no doubt reluctantly, to exclude ladies during that period.

LOST BALLS.

the 7th innings by scoring more runs would have left South China under the lisadvantage of fielding in the dark. It was thought better, therefore, to stop scoring when they had a lead of "eight points-an advantage which it was con- sidered "the Hongkong Baseball Club could not overtake.

Those who have played over the course will agree that it is one that tires beginner. Unless the player keeps his ball fairly straight, he gets into trouble.

VISITORS FROM MANILA... On each side of the well-kept fairway there is rough ground. langish grass,

An All Filipino Baseball team is ex- trees and even ditches. It is hard work pected at Hongkong from Manila about hacking a ball out of the rough, and the middle of August and three games is depressing to lose balls. It is not will probably be played here. very pleasant to have to search for balls with the knowledge that eager players are following and discussing the ad. visability of limiting the asc of the course to those who can play properly.

The week-end is a happy time on the

A match has been arranged with South China for August 16th; with the U.S.E. Helena for the 17th; and with a picked Hongkong team for the 18th. The Hong. kong team has not yet been selected, and each club in the League is being asked to name two or three "candidates.

2.

main, or old, course for experts at the

The Filipino Club is naming V, Zafra, game. They play for stakes that vary

M. de la Cruz, and T. Leonard and from a ball a bole to

drinks on the game." They compete for pools and South China put forward S. L. Lec, prizes. Some of the lusty fellows, hit Richard Shim, and K. F. June, the ball with such skill, and brawn that A veteran player in Hongkong, when it travels incredible distances. In the asked to select a Hongkong nine, pro- men's club "house" at the nineteenth posed the following:-Pitcher, Cockey hole-they talk of these things all the for S. Hachiuma-lat, Leonard (Filipino); 2nd, Ransom (H.K.); 3rd, Gosano -time, except when they are-dicing-for- drinks. "Jones drove the eighth in one."

(Recreio); s.s., S. L. Leo (S.C.); catcher, says Robinson. Really," says "Sandy, H. Hachiuma (Japanese); li., Zaira as he lifts his eyebrows a good hit, (Filipino); C. F. Rosano (Japanese); but was the wind behind him and did

and r.1., Shim (S.C.)..

he drive from the back tee?" And then

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CAME IN THE HANDS OF VETERANS.

THE TASK OF THE YOUNGER „GENERATION...

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Should Test matches be played out?; Should the present time limit of three days be increased to four? Or should the rules be altered in such a way as

Robinson goes on to give every detail of INTER-DEPARTMENTAL BOWLS. to make it compulsory that runs should the great episode.

THE LADIES' CLUB-HOUSE.

Over in the ladies' club-house they are tolling similar stories about the games

BAIN CAUSES. POSTPONEMENT OF

COMPETITION.

Rain has again interfered with the in-

on the new course. It is really a much ter-departmental lawn bowls competition pleasanter club-house than that for men for the O'Sullivan-Goscombe Challenge only. When the improvements are car- Cup. ried out it will be very nice indeed.

If you would really enjoy Fanting to the uttermost, take a holiday for a walk in January. Make up a party of four and stay from Sunday to Sunday in the Fiadies' club-house.

You have the courses clear almost at any time, except on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons and Sundays and you can, even on those days, escape the crowd who come out by train. You can play in the early morning and in the evening. You can see the others rushing off to entch a train while Belinda and you 'menader round at leisure.

In the evenings you can play bridge or sit around the fire and yarn. You are too healthily tired to stay up late, If you are energetic you can play golf or get some shooting before breakfast. Unfortunately, the mosquitos prevent such pienics in the summer

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These are questions that many people. asking in England to-day at Lord's.

Cricketers generally are against. any! change in the rules.

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A strong point of view is that batemen should go in with the idea of either getting runs or getting out.

Yesterday it had been arranged that the P.W.D. would meet the Prisons Yet, there is nothing new in the fact Department, in order that the programme of a Test match drawn because the wicket might be adhered to without re-arrange was too good and the bowling too mode- ment of dates. Owing to the rain, how-rate for a game to be finished in three ever, this game had to be cancelled. It days. will now be played at the earliest op- portunity.

The Sanitary Department will meet the Revenue Department in the top half semi- final; while the winners of the P.W.D.- Prison match will play the Education Department in the other semi-final. The final game has been provisionally fixed for Sunday, August zard.

In 189 only one of the five Test many runs were made by each side for matches was finished, largely because too definite results to be possible. Yet the rules were not altered and quite a finished inside three days since then. namber of Test matches have been.

com.

NO GREAT BOWLERS.

The fact is that at the present time both England and Australia are Of the Shek O and Kowloon courses paratively poor in bowling strength, says we must write on some other occasion. the Daily Mail. And no change in the The former is for inipans only:

The Portuguese have a course at Fan-rules can restore the balance when the ling and the Japanese one at Shatin, batting ia better than the bowling There is or was a tiny course at Cheung they remember that time is short, and Should batsmen' -score faster]: Should Chau, but one hears nothing of it Dow-a-days.

keep their eyes on the clock That is What is urgently needed is a public another question. All the evidence of course, where any Tom, Dick or Harry the Lord's Test match was that the bats- could pay green fee and get a game men-on both sides played exactly the There are many such courses in Britain. same game in a three-days match as they Stanley or some other suitable plase ontinued for a month.

The Government might create one at would play if the match could be con-

There are other golf courses besides the two at Fanling Happy Valley is the tile island. It would be a boon to many. Quicker scoring, not changed rules, oldest is that why it is so unreliable Goff is a game that keeps one healthy alone can produce definite results in the

in the tropica. Let us ask Dr. Koch to time limited to cricket. now-a-days? Is it senile decay that take up this matter on behalf of the The game has got into the bands of cauace the all-too frequent collapses of community.

the reteruna. It was a sign' of' old age the course i

The ladies say that golf gives them a when Hobbs took fifty minutes to score figure that is "slim and genteel." It 10 runs after he had scored his century, Deep Water Bay is the picnic" in, at any rate, the fashionable figure of at a time when England were perfectly Couran It is also crowded now-a-daya to-day. It makes the mamas look only safe from defeat.

a year or two older than their daughters. The salvation of Test match cricket If only it could be extended 1. It suffer- Activity of the body keeps the ladies must come from the younger generation.

ed during the recent storm, and it is youthful. It saves the men from ac They must be made to realise that the probable that eight holes only will bequiring the pear-shaped figure that used ball is manufactured to be bit, not to be so common in the Far East, merely patted, and that to score at an available for some time.

Perhaps that is why golf is now-a-days averago pace of 60 runs an hour is not. Iso populari

the way to win in three days

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