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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1935.

FAMOUS HOME-RUN HITTER NOW A CATCHER

JIMMY FOXX SHIFTED

FROM FIRST BASE Athletics Hope To Benefit By Revolutionary Step

Fort Myers, Fla., Apr. 13; Why has Connie Mack made a catcher out of James Emory Foxx, greatest long-distance right-hand hitter of all time and one of the three foremost first basemen in baseball? Why did Foxx consent to the switch?

VISITING HOCKEY XI BEATEN

Lack Team Work: Colony Team Reveal

Very

tweak.

Good Form

into use and had bad luck not to [Continued from Pago 8).

WILLIAMS DISAPPOINTS find the net early on in the game. Williams, at right half, dis- Neelmeier and Stuhlmann proved a game was the brilliant displays on appointed and was very weak in strong left wing man goalkeeper, and Hollings the second half he showed up a his hard hitting and accurate pass- the part of Tiefenbacher, the Ger-the first period of the game.

combination, In Stuhlmann being prominent with worth, who was between the sticks little better but was still giving ing. for longkong. Both brought off Necimeler and Stuhlmann too much! splendid saves with first-time kick-rope, with the result that the Ger- and Wetzell, were seldom-in-the The visitors' right wing, Kuelps There is little question that. It will hitter. He is capable of playing any ing, seldom if ever, using their man left winger was able to sur-picture, most of their attacks be- shorten Foxx's brilliant major league position, and can pitel, too. career. The wear and tear is vastly Ruth and other remarkable pitchers taking no

Licks whan clearing and thereby prise Hollingsworth with shuting concentrated on the left flank. greater behind the plute than at first awitched to the outfeld, where their bacher was especially prominent

andue risks. Tiefen from almost impossible angles. base. There is much more danger of hitting could be brought into play in saving hot

With Hongkong the opposite was The strength of the Colony at the case, the Maryland farmer being injured every day, but you have to go back corner hits, with his view practic flank with. Garthwaite at faside Germans took up the attack, being.

shots taken from tack undoubtedly lay in the right Mack, 72 and launching his 52d to Roger Bresnahan to find a case

From the initial bully off the seanon, realizes all this.

anywhere near parallel to that of obscured by players in the right and Dlvett on The toll tactician's explanation Foxx. John McGraw transformed

the wing, repulsed by Rodrigues. Play way The pair combined well with Singh transferred to the other end and stresses the Importance of. catching Bresnahan from a fly chaser to a In defence work Hongkong was and proved too much for Slemssen after many concerted ruida Hong- and the scarcity of receivers. catcher quite early in the Duke of far better in intercepting. This to hold in check, Dirett was hard kong took the lead through Gur-

"With Foxx catching, the Athletics Tralee's career.

was noticeable in a comparison of working but a bit selfish. have a chance to win the American | Bresnahan pitched, caught, and per. the piny of Rodrigues and Metcalfe, League pennant," says Mack, shading formed in both infleld and outfeld, the Colony backs, and Melchers find in local hockey this season, was in spite of numerous corners could bachun Singh. In the second half Dawson, acclaimed the biggest the Colony attacked strongly and his pinte blue eyes from the Florida but if Jimmy Foxx fulfils the wily un. "We could do no better than run Mack's expectations, he will supplant

and Sommer, then fallure. Time fifth In 1934 inrgely because we did Roger as the greatest all-round ball.

Northern

and again he not increase their lead until ful bungled efforts and gave faulty Gurbachan Singh broke through to not have a catcher of real worth and player who ever lived, is the opinion

backa. Rodrigues passes to Senior, who was playing score with a neat rising shot. Tho one who could hit much more then of many whose memory extends over

was perhaps the on the left wing, a position foreign Germans made bold efforts to pull his weight

three decades.

pick of the four, to the Army centre-forward. the game out of the fire but they

"I couldn't buy, borrow, or beg a catcher who figured to hit more inn 200, but in Alex Hooke, purchased from Tulsa, i have a first baseman who should hit at least 275. Hooks,

TO TURN PRO?

with an average of 340, lost the at- More Rumours About

ting championship of the Texas League last season by only points."

FOXX FAVOURS SWITCH

twai

"The boss made

the decision. for me." smiled Foxx, the 360 hitter.

Rodrigues,

his accurate long What work he had to do. Senior failed to get the ball past Hollinge

passing to the did to the best of his ability.

a prominent fea-

right wing being

ture of his play. Nigel

Metcalfe

was not on form and only picked up towards the closing stages of the game.

Melchers did good work but was when clearing in the circle, thus inclined to get his feet to the ball giving the opponents Innumerable short corners.

Sommier cleared

SINGH'S EARLY FAILURES

Gurbachan

worth.

THE TEAMS The teams were as follows:- Singh did zot Shanghai German Hockey lead the attack at Club: H, Tiefenbacher; H. Mel- all well in the chers and W. Sominer; c. Rem early stages of mele, R. Berg and A. Siemssen; G. the game as he Kuelps, II. Wetzell (Capt), I. appeared not to Mueller, G. Neelmeter and R. look where he Stuhlmann, was swinging the Hongkong:-Pte. A. Hollings- ball. More often worth: Lieut. N. W. Metcalfe and than not it went Dr. A. M. Rodrigues; Lieut. J. P. straight to Williams, W. A. Reed and L. German defender, Oliveira; G. E. R. Divett, Lieut.. tor in the second half.

Je was much bet-C. C. Garthwaite (Capt), Gur-

bachan Singh, Lleut, E. M. Daw-... as the leader of the German al-

Mueller acquitted himself well son and W/O P. 1. Senior.. tack. He put his clever slickwork Capt. E. J. C. Rybol, R. A.

Umpires:-Mr. A. A. Dand and

Fred Perry MAY MAKE FILMS

Los Angeles, Apr, 13, Interviewed by Reuter tils after "After all, y being put out of thio, nember of the staff of the game for any length of time means K.O. Radio Pictures said that Fred more to him than it does to me, Perry, the British tennis ach, well.

"I simply had a chance to do some tugotinting with them for f pro- business. Mr. Mack nude it worth fessional contract.

Hongkong's intermediate while for me to catch, so here I nu."

Foxx reveals that he is to be given this afternoon, though it is more like pivot, and L. Oliveira, who proved

G. Singh, He stated that Perry might sign was best served by W. A. Reed, a bonus ench searon if the Thilly that he will do so, on Monday. adelphia club winds up in the first

a worthy deputy for Parker at left There are no definite arrangements half. Oliveira's stopping was good division.

yet-Reuter

but hits hitting was inclined to be

The Sudlersville slugger is su post- tive that he and his team-mates will attain this end that he alrendy is counting the extra cash

"I should collect between $65,000) and $75,000 on the new three-year}

with good workmanship, but we return them in our Sanitexcontract I signed at the conclusion of

Storage Bags, One Sanitex Mothproof Storage Bag and One Hanger will be given free with every Winter Suit, Costume,

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Extra Bags may be had on payment

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last season," he beams.

From that you ensily can recksu the approximate aniount of Foxx's flat salary annually.

Bebe Ruth, whose major league home run record of 60 Foxx hopes) to break, was paid $80,000 for thol season of 1030 by the New Yorki Yankees..

Ruth, bad vastly more colour and bucks flee appeal than Foxx, who awatted 58 home runs in 1932, but the difference their pay well illustrates

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A'S MIGHT WIN, SAYS JIMMY

"You will recall that a year agoj I predicted the Athletics would be on top again in four years," asserts Foxx, "and I wouldn't be at all aur prined if we won this season. We have the stuff. It only has to bo brought out. It is to be a wide-open race."

Mack considera Foxx the must Versatile top-ranking player in the, history of the game, as well as the foremost long-distance right-hand,

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