Teams Limbering-Up For
Tulsa Trample Chung Hwa Youngsters Underfoot: R. Engineers Trounced
(By "Ball Fan")
Continuing their spring training, limbering - up sessions, local baseball teams dished up two more pre- acason exhibition games over the week-end in heat- perspiring weather at the sun baked sand dunes of the Caroline Hill ball park, as ball fans throughout the Colony continue to dope out the chances of each team this season in real hot stove fashion.
Grandpa Leung's Chung Hwn} Maroons went down to their second straight southern train- ing defeat us, Tulsa's mighty T rode roughshod home on a 12-4 "heh heh" win. The local Chin- ese "Connie Mack" had a gang of youngsters out there just up from the sandlots, who were taking in their first game under the big tent, and they showed a clear degree of back yard ball and inexperience in their pep- pery efforts to retain a spot on the Chinese major league team this year.
TAKING a force shattering, lend in frames. Uncle
the first two
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Sam's hard-hitting sailors found Toop-hole in the offerings of Chinese hürler Al Lau to connect for thirteen solid safeties with successive crasİ- ing homeruns by slugger Maxwell and shortstop Al Simmons, featuring a 5th Inning two run scoring altack,
Playing In lorrīd tropical heat which had the ball players andi
farts sweating to the core, the brand of ball dished up by both teams had a "weary-labelled" tag marked all over it, with a few of the diamond artisis stripping (o the wals or relief from the Inteuse humidity. Tulsa's
starting moundson, "Mac" MacLanahan opened up highly confident style, but weaken- ed terribly in the 3rd canto to walk- six Chinese Maroons who only gar- nered two runs in this generous free pass melee, Relief urler Strickland tossed a stendy game the next four! frames to hold the Chinese to one solitary blow.
In
Weekend Stars
Al Simmons and Maxwell. Tulsa -Former led terrific Tulsa power clouting altack with a pro- digious honter," double and slogie to drive in six tallies with a spec- tacular hickory-wielding perfor. ance; latter also Agured in the devastating attack with circuit clout and single besides plifering three bags and coming hoine with three runs.
Dave Leonard and Baby Abbas, į H.D. Heer-The old bam surprised his Inost ardent supporters by hurling a steady game to set the Engineers down with five measly bingles and a tone tally, striking gut six Suppers in the rout; Istler'si run in the second frame started the heavy clouting their run scoring splurge.
League
MASS HORSE RACING
10,000 Prepared For Russian Competitions MOSCOW, April 30 (Tass). The spring season has com- menced, at hippodromes in the southern districts of the U.S.S.R. Hundreds on thoroughbreds have been assembled for the Moscow, Lvov, Tashkent, Pyatigorsk and other hippodromes, and 10,000 collective farm trotters and race- horses have been assigned for this year's competitions. The All-Union trotting championship will be held at the Odessa hippodrome.
The The
Ail-Union derby for race- horse and traiters and traditional contests for the All-Union summer
Bill Chang (Chung Hwa catcher) dropped the ball and Tulsa prizes for 4-year racehorses and
scored one as seen in the picture-Ming Yuen.
Cricket In America Firmly Established
Figures For 1940 Season
3-year-old trotters will be for the Best time held in Moscow as well as
USSR. prize of ruce-horse-on 6,400 metres distance and saddle horses on 4,000 metres. 235 draught horses will participate in the racling contests,
PEAKNESS STAKES WINNER TAKES KENTUCKY DERBY
NEW YORK, May 12 (Reu-
Warren ter)-Mr Whirlaway, winner of the Ken- Wright's
end, won the valuable Penkness
SAN FRANCISCO.-Cricket in the United States has Brewers on gone along in such an unobtrusive manner since its intro-tucky Derby the previous week-
duction in 1751 that it is not generally known that it is played each summer from Boston to San Diego and from San Francisco to Philadelphia.
U.S. National Breast-stroke
Record Broken
here.
According to the Illinois Crie- ket Annual, there are nearly 100 clubs competing for various As- sociation or League honours each
season.
New York State leads with 32)
Don Bradman Recommended For
clubs (cilvided into four competitive Discharge From Army
BUFFALO, N.Y., May 2 (Reuter) groups): California is next with 20 —Little Patly Aspinali, known as (10 in the Northern California "The Minnow with the Flying Cricket Association and 10 in the Fish Style," smashed the National Southern California Grifith Park Women's 220-yard breast strokeA.). Then comes the Massachusetts record at the age of 14 at the State C. L. with 11, Illinois C. A. 10, Women's Senior Amateur Athletle New Jersey C. L. 7. Philadelphis Union Swimming Championships C. A. 5, Rhode Island and Central
Massachusetts C. L. 4, Missouri C. A.) She covered the distance in 3:07.83, and Flint C. L. 3. P. F. Choy and Forrest Loong, minutes, slicing 1.2 seconds from the Chung Hwa's steady outfield, duo record set in 1940 by Fujiko Katsu- Cosmopolitan Composition and veteran stars of last year's tan of Honolulu. heated season, camo- through with Patty swam the whole way using THE personal composition of the brilliant dr-shagging displays out the difficult "fying fish stroke, in clubs in the Middle West and there in the sand pastures, to nin which the arms are brought out of the Eastern States is unknown, but In the well-known bud, many the water in f double overhand out in the San Francisco Bay region Tulsa scoring threats. The two fashion, instead veterans appear to be rounding underwater breast stroke. out rapidly into mid-season form and coach "Connie Mack" Leung is banking heavily on these two outfield gems to be standout stars
this year.
Second string tosser Bill Chang, coming up to the slab in the oth canto was greeted with a shower of baschits Including a sizzling double by Pete Petersen. Four Tulsa tallics dented the old platter in, this frame as the mighty T rode home with their straight spring training
1hr triumph.
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DHUN Ruttonjec's H.B. Brew- ers sparked off their sen- son's campaign with a big-10-1- opening exhibition victory over the Royal Engineers.
classy ball in
of the orthodox the cosmopolitan side of the game is Illustrated by the make-up of some of the teams
'Spurs Player Killed In Flying Accident
CARBERRY, Mon., April 7 (UP). -Leading Aircraftman David M. Wesley, 27, fatally injured in flying accident 'near the Royal Air
The captain of the cricket team of the Olympic Club (Ray Ockernal) is
Stakes at the Pimlico Course, Baltimore, by beating King
Cole by Ave lengths, with Our Boots, two lengths behind, third,
Whirlaway is the son of Blenheim, the English Derby. winner of 1830. Ridden by Eddle Arraro, Whirlaway .covered the Fimileo course of nine furlongs in one minute 6846 seconds.
Electric R.C. Bowls Rinks
SYDNEY, May 2.Lieut The following rinks have been Don Bradman, famous tric-Electric R.C. in a Lawn Bowls Lea
selected to represent the Hongkong keter, has been recommended gue match against the Police It.C. at Happy Valley on Saturday. 3.30 p.m.: for discharge from the armyw. E. Macfarlane, R. F. Gregory. for health reasons. Recently J. F. Barron and L. de nome. he has suffered from fibrositis Gardner and A. F. Paul
R. A. Owens, E. L. Groome, A. G.
in the back muscles.
A. P. Tarbuck, J. R. Way, C. E. Gahagan and J. K. Sloan.
Reserve, W. Stonehouse,
Anglo-American Boxing Bonts For War Funds
from Adelaide (Australia); J. M. Mike Jacobs Adopts British Proposal
Anderson was born in Honolulu: C.
E, and C. T. Carlen, P. J. Coleman,
S. R. Farley, W. S. Kennedy; and A
S. C. Hulton in England; F. W.
NEW YORK, (UP).---Promoter Mike Jacobs is
arrange
Seineke in South Africa; and Jerry trying to
and Maurice Wolohan. George Bones, six United States' cities between the best United States a series of six war bouts in Harry Hughes, D. J. MacDaniel, and
British
P. J. Peterson are American-born of and British professional fighters for the benefit of the
parentage. The president (and most consistent British Red Cross and Canteen Service, Force training school here, was a batman) of the Golden Gate club- prominent college athlete and be J. M. Kealy-is from Ireland: C. fore the war a member of the McMorine (secretary and leading
famous Tottenham Hotspurs soccer bowler) and W. Cutter from Eng Home Soccer
team.
He was fatally injured early
tinh.
Then there is a group of Cali-
Friday when he made a forced fornians-V, Welsh), W. and R. Mul- landing near No. 33 Service grew, K. Darking, and W. Stret-all
his first Training School, 100 miles west of of whom played baseball in high
Fixtures For
Cables were sent to London asking_if_six_suggested British-
pugilists could obtain fur-
loughs for a team trip to the United States. It is believed that the furloughs can be ob- tained because the proposal in England.
mound effort of the current year, Winnipes, after a routine night flight, school, and college and brought with The Week-end of the war matches originated
London Graduate
hours them to the Golden Gate team keen- ness, enthusiasm, and a highly com- petitive spirit.
slab artist Dave Leonard cashed in He died in hospital several with "ding ho" tossing perform later. ance to limit the Sappers with five monaly Bingles. "Ifot tamale" Dave's fireball had the Engineers in a guess- A graduate of London University. ing mood as he sent out six via the Wesley was prominent in rugger and whiff route.
as an amateur boxer during his: The beer kings opened up in the college years, lo was heavyweight 2nd stanza when Baby Abbas boxing champion at the university: singled to centre, stole second and seven years ago. Prior to the wari third, and crossed the platter with he taught languages in intermediate) the first tally on a wild throw to schools in London,
first by Sapper moundsman Bars- An aunt. Mrs S. Suir, lives at, field,
North Battleford.
The Lequardmen added three more runs in the next frame with A. K. Omar. Showboat Alf and Jindoo Hussain cruising home on a single, and two errors after Tarzan Ismail was tagged out at second.
Adamson Cup Golf
J. M. Thomson 77-9-68, and M. A The Royal Engineers checked in Cairns 86-18-08 led and qualified for with their lone tally in the 3rd on the May competion of the Adamson single by Vie Foley who stole second, Cup it Happy Valley Golf Course dur- took third on a passed ball and rush-Ing the week-end.
ed home on an overthrow.
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THE
Test Standard
baseball experience 11am proved to be especially valuable In the maiter of fielding and fis no exaggeration to say that one see fielding in some of the games of the Northern California. C. A. that would not be surpassed in a test match between England and Australia.
Con
High Scorers
were among the high scorers of COME of the American-born boys!
the U.S.A. for the 1840 scuson.
George Bones of The Olympic Club scored 100 retired against Sacra-)
following are the llome soccer fx-promote these bouts in
Jacobs sald he was cager to
LONDON, May 12 (Reuter)The tures for the coming Saturday:
LONDON CUP. Arsenal v. West Ham.
SOUTH REGIONAL League
New York, Los Angeles, Detroit, Boston, Philadelphia and Chiengo. He was confident they would draw big gates and make robust contributions to the British Red Cross and Canteen funds. Rival Organisation Cardiff City v. West Bromwich TACK Kearns, former manager of Fulham v. Millwall; Leicester v. Tot-announced that he has formed Albion; Crystal Palace v. Southend; tenham; Northampton v. Chelsea; organization
of Jack Dempsey, subsequently
Portsmouth v. Aldershot..
to promote boxing shows throughout the country for the benefit of the British-American Am- bulance Corps,
HAMPSHIRE CUP SEMI-FINAL
Reading v. Brentford.
Queens Park Rangers v. Watford;
ал
to
and
shows at strategic locations available In addition to staging his own to men in training comps and NORTH REGIONAL LEAGUE those active in defence projects, mento and Jerry Wolohan of name Balton
Blackpool v. Preston North End;
will cooperate with other team had a high score of 76 and City; Everton v. Sheffield United; Bghts. Ten percent of the gross gnte
Wanderers
in providing cards more markers in the 4th inning and K. Omar who tools first on an Infeld finished the season with an average Grimsby v. Barnsley.
v. Manchester finances for their ambulance corps finished off with a two run attack in error; showboat All's stinging dou-of 38,75 per Innings the highest In
will automatically be assigned to the the 6th when Charlie Manson open-ble to right drove in his two mates the Association. ed up with a single followed by A. to end a high-scoring brewery win.
corps, he said.
Leonard's beermen added three
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CUNTHORPE CUP
In their initial ball playing ap.
Another, Bill Wright of the Huddersfield Y. Bury; Tranmere Venice Club of Los Angeles, played Rovers v. Chester, pearance of the season at the train- ing. section of the Caroline NUI
an innings against Santa Barbara sard
that would have won him the dunes, ILB's beermen seen to have 撂
cheers of cricket fans the world pentant aspiring lineup that has real classy lifting power
oper. Out of a total of 72 runs he with plenty of experience and ball,
scored 60 of them in sizes. sense out there on the diamond, During the season he batted 20 and should start as one of the fa- times for a total of 050 runs; his voured nincs when the season rolls highest score was 94; and his average around in the near future.
22.41 per innings. V. Welsh's 71 was the highest score for the League- Gate Club
1
PRINGING a grand ball season to a Cup-winning Golden
highly successful climax, the
team). annual softball dinner dance held) It may seem strange to stress the over the week-end in the Rose Room fact that so many American-born of the Peninsula Hotel went off with boys are doing so well in cricket out a hitch as a gain crowd of soft and the only reason for doing so la ball players and gashouse fans made because many Americans on viewing merry to the aweet tunes of Art cricket match for the first time Cametro and his tic toe rhythm always remark that it is much. foo makers.
tame and slow for the youth of this
A
Addressing
essing the large gathering country. from a well-defined spot at the "mike". President Ddefonso gave brief but clear review of soft- ball doings during the past year, And thanked players, managers and all with the
gume for their
effort
In bringing soft-
Ball
to present pinnacle In the realm of local sport, that
Prizes were distributed by Mrs La Kwok-ying and Mrs Dhun Huttonjee,
Centuries
›
T feast four players in various parts of the United States reached the coveted century with
CHESHIRE COUNTY BOWL REGIONAL MATCHES Mansfield. v. Doncaster Rovers. Stoke City v. Chesterfield, COMBINED COUNTIES CUP FINAL. Middlesbrough v. Leeds United. LANCASHIRE CUP FINAL Manchester United v. Burnley. OTHER MATCHES Walsall v. Aston Villa. SCOTTISH CUP FINAL REPLAY (AT GLASGOW) Hearts v. Rangers.
CHARITY CUP FIRST ROUND Partick Thistle v. Clyde,
Of British Origin
asking
Jacobs
GROUP of prominent British sportsmen originated the idea Jacoba announced. They wrote to Nat Fleischer of New York, editor of "The Ring" magazine. him to contact Promoter regarding possibilities of his staging tho boute. Jacobs delighted with the proposal.
The British leam would include Tommy Farr, who gave Louls a hard 15-round fight back in 1037, and
five current British
champions:
WAS
Len Harvey, heavyweight; Jock McAvoy,
middleweight; Ernie Roderick, welterweight; Eric Boon, lightweight, and Jackle Patterson, flyweight.
In addition to the Louis-Farr match, another heavyweight, en- counter would pair Harvey and elther Lou Nova or Maxie Baer. McAvoy could tangle with either of middleweight champions, Ken Overlin and Tony Zale,
Roderick could engage Walter champ Fritzle Zivic; Boon square off . the highest
ngainat the lightweight king, Law (known) individual understand that he is a very valu-Jenkins, and the world flyweight title score for the season being that of able man to this team.
dispute could be finally settled 140 made by Stanley Jones Venice Club of Los Angeles,
of A Tindall of the Hyde Park team Patterson of Scotland meeting
the llo was at bat 25 times and scored George Bones (The Olymple Club)
In Chicago scored 114 not out Dado. Scot
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