1941-05-27 — Page 14

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 27, 1941.

Tracing Origin Of Baseball

Persians Had A Word For It!

1000-Year-Old "Diamond"

Discovered In Arizona

(By "Ball Fan")

Major Baseball

Tigers Humble Cleveland Indians 5-3.

NEW YORK, May 26 (UP),-~ Detroit Tigers humbled Cleveland Indians 5-3 to-day in the only game scheduled in. the American Baseball League. In the National, Brooklyn Dodgers defeated Phila- delphia Phillies 6-4. Scores were:

Ever since that eventful day when Abner Doubleday, the Ballston Spa N.Y. Civil War hero, set up the first schemes for playing baseball at Cooperstown in 1839, malcontents as well as dis- gruntled archaeologists, who delight in techni- calities and anachronisms, have opened up with a series of "who discovered the game,” arguments, to the extreme merriment of modern baseball's Detroit fun-loving throngs who sure get a great kick out cleveland of hearing these “back to the ancient movement" scientists and others attempting to justify their minute-laden claims.

AMERICAN LEAGUE

I.

Bailery: Newsom. Thomas, Tebbells, Battery: Smith, Heving. Hemsley.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

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Philadelphin

Battery: Mantan, Hort. Worret.

Battery Flizsanmons. tighe,

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Crouch.

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Phelps.

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Brooklyn Owen.

Nattery:

We are informed that baseball was the national spot of the Persians a good sized con back. They didn't call it baseball but it was commonly known as Chahel-Chicago.... toop, (chahel means game, toop means ball). The Per Pasenu, George. sians' claims of priority were pressed by Prince Amir Hessan Sepehr Ghaffari who was called "Butch" by his schoolmates in America.

Came

"BUTCH" never saw a modern marked flour measuring one hundred baseball game until he and eighty-five feet hy sixty-nve landed in Uncle Sam's demo feet. Along each side was a sloping

embarkinent of earth about Afteen) cratic land of opportunity, but feet high.

to the conclusion, after A rubber ball was found in a Laking in his first tilt, that thei poilery Jar near the Santa Cruz River in Arizona. The pellet re- diamond game was similar in

sembled

small boulder, larger many phases, to his beloved!

than the modern baseball and very Chabel-toop-

fast. Its surface was black, hard. In the Persian pastime, the bases and misshapen from the thousand. are also ninety feet apart with nin! rear burla; but even after this players on ench side. The hall is

long interim, the interior rabber made of wool-thread wrapped tight-

WIS 50 good that the apparent ly rotti

"stone" robber centre

had a great deal of re- silience when squeezed, covered with a knitted fobrie. Thus!

was played is in- How the game was far the comparison appears to bel favourable to the Persian nobleman's ferred from early accounts of the Even the Chanel-toop Mayans in Southern Mexico where argument. bal, a short paddle-like contrivance, contests were pinged with a rubber can las compared to the bludgeons of ball on similar courts. There isn't early days. The ball is may doubt about the fact that these baseball's Ripped underhand in the manner of archaeologists have really discovered baseball's dawning era.

the vestiges of stone age athletic activities. But it is beyond all ball fans why anyone should try to pur sunde a credulous public that this is

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Olsen, Erickson, Presnell, St Loulsnake

Battery: Shoun, Warneke, M. Cooper. Cooper. Mancura.

The Pitsburgh-Cincinnati ixture in a night gator,

Whitsun Home Soccer Programme

WAR CUP FINAL REPLAY Preston . Arsenal.

LONDON CUP SEMI-FINALS

Reading & Crystal Palace; Totten-

ham v. Brentford,

TONY QUITS - Portly young man is Two-Ton Tony Galanto quitting fight with Buddy Baor in Washington. Ho claimed brokon left hand. Trainor Frain was suspended for removing glove without roforao's pormission.

Boxing Commission Probes

Baer's Claim to Title

Decision To Be Announced Later

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Lawson Little Accepted By

WASHINGTON, May (Router). The District of

Columbia Boxing Commission, American P.G.A.

after hearing Manager Hoff. man's complaint that Buddy Baer had been “robbed" of the title match with Joc Louis, have SOUTH REGIONAL

'announced that the Commis- Aldershot . Portsmouth: Millwall sion's decision will be delivered

Fulham, Cardil v Wolverhamp- at an early date.

Leicester 1 Northampton; Queen's Park Rangers v. West Ham; Walsall v. West Bromwich Albion.

SOUTH CHALLENGE MATCH

Brighton v. Watford,

tong

NORTH REGIONAL

Blackpool v. Chester: Bollon Liverpool v. Everlon.

The Chairman of the Commission, Mr Claude Owen, who said that Louis "very difinitely" hit Baer after the belt ending the sixth round, sald that Mike Jacobs had agreed to match Louis and Baer again for the title in Washington in September or October.

MIAMI BEACH.-Lawson Little, the open, golf cham- pion, may be madé a mem- ber of the Professional Golfers' Association by spe- cial dispensation in time to compete in the next P.G.A. championship.

The big fellow who swept the amateur field on both sides of the Atlantic in 1934-35 and then

However, the chief difference les with the Chahel loop hurler whose aim it is, to toss the ball high up Into the air with the batter swing- the origin of baseball. It could just

as well be the origin of badminton. Oldham, Bury . Manchester City: Bampion of the Commission Tom Walsh of the P. G. A. to be ing as the pellet descends. Cer- tainly is no resemblance there to ping pong. lawn bowls, Ur even Doubleday's fireball tosses, froid croquet. the slab. To top everything. Fer- sian Chahel-loop requires no um- pires.

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MANY people insist that the English sport called round- ARIZONA archaeologists insisters is the senior partner to they have discovered not baseball. They point out that

rounders has three bases-so

only baseballs but also playing has baseball they claim (gen-

Mr Owen expressed on behalf of embraced the money game, has the. D.B.A. that they would recognise appealed personally to President ruled that he won on a foul, but also permitted to join the organisa- GLASGOW CHARITY CUP FINAL. indiented that the Commission's tion without going through the hands were tied because of local

Rangers v. Partick.

Whitmonday

SOUTH REGIONAL

Southampton.

Fulham; Leicester

Portsmouth

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v,

regulations that specified that Ure stipulated five years of making clubs referee's decision was not reversable, and bawling out caddies.

Hockey Competition On Roller Skates

Walsh wants Little in the fold and so do all his fellow professionals with whom he has becoine genuinely popu- lar in the last two or three years. The only thing holding them up is that rule, and it can be stated that they are going to get around that by forming a special "examination com- nitten" to 4ake care of such excep- Tunal cases as the open champion's,

surfaces on various bits of

Aldershot V, erously ignoring home plate). Palace v. Reading: Queen's Park Brentford Crystal paraphernalia which were sup However, recalling the early Rangers posed to have been utilized by facts, the American fellows who Nottingham Forest; the aborigines for a game re first played baseball had no sembling baseball at least a bases at all-then only a single thousand years ago.

'base — gradually others These "ancient time" discoverers reveal that the first "stoneage" hail added. field they identified was situated! If baseball is a direct adaptation near_the_Gila Pueblo at Snaketown of rounders, why were there not on the Gila River Indian Reservation three bases at the beginning. Many Everton-Liverpool; Blackpool-Skating Rink will take place one has dropped that now and is. in Arizona, in, 1935. They found also state that the American national Preston North End.

SPORTS ADVT.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

The SIXTH EXTRA RACE MEET- ING will be held, weather permitting. on SATURDAY, 31st May, und MONDAY, 2nd June, 1911, commène- ing at 2.00 p.m. on Saturday and at 11.30 am, on Monday,

The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m. on the first day and at 11.00 a.m. on the second day.

The tiffin interval will be after the

fourth race on the second day. MEMBERS ENCLOSURE

were

summer pastime had its first open- ings via the cricket realm.

what

this

HAMPSHIRE CUP FINAL West Ham v. Millwall.

NORTHI REGIONAL

REGIONAL

Wrexham v. Stoke.

A

TRIANGULAR hockey competition on roller skates be tween the Middlesex Regiment, the Royal Scots and the Kowloon

Thursday at Mongkok.

There are possibilities in the future of there being a roller skates hockey league.

Manchoukuo Plans To Celebrate Anniversary

The British first encountered they considered then to be a progeny of their classle game of rounders "way back 1874. Occasion of the. Britishers' intro- duction to Baseball was a tour of England by eighteen players from America's embryo major ball len- gue. Baseball exhibitions were the only activities in the plans of the ball pros, but these failed stle much enthusiasm, and to tide things over they were glad to ac-

HSINKING, May 26 (Domei).-Invitations are being sent cept a chance to try their hand at cricket. The results of their by Manchoukuo Sports Authorities to Japan, China, Mongolia, games are now considered Inter Indo-China, Thailand, the Philippines, Hawaii, Malaya, Burma, national sports history of the past. India and other Asiatic countries to participate in an East Asia Spurning the advice of form and finesse expected of them in playing athletic meet being prepared this gentlemen's No One without a badge will be Americans. In

en's game, the slugging

their initial match here for next year in celebra- admitted to the Members' Enclosure. against the famous Marylebone

"All Such must be worn throughout the English" eleven, lunged at balls of a tion of the 10th anniversary of League Tennis duration of each Meeting in such a type which highly trained cricketeers the founding of the Empire. manner as to be readily Identified. would haughtily neglect, to crnsh The games will include athletic- Badges admitting Non-Members to their way through to a 107-105 sur-events, football, tennis, softball, base- the Members' Enclosure and Club prise victory over the "All English ball, eyeling, basketball, volleyball, Rooms at $5.00 per day for Gentle- combination. With the exception of table-tennis, gymnastics, and other men und $3.80 per day for Ladies a solitary draw the visitors clouted contests as well as swimming events.

ors of the

the athletic (both including tax) are obtainable their way to slugging cricket vic- Organisers through the SECRETARY upon the fories over all opposition encoun-

hope to open the way for Oriental personal or written application of at tered.

eliampionship contests.

The Manchoukuo Auletic Federa- film, and for payment of all chits, IN 1907, fourteen years after tion which will he the principal or- Abner Doubleday's death, a Yen 600,000 for pushing preparations The Secretary's Office, 1st floor, commission, specially appointed for the meet. Exchange Building, (Tel. 27794) will by the major leagues investi- Construction of "Olympic Villages" close at 11.45 am on Saturday, and gated all obtainable facts and

Is already under way and is expected Tins are obtainable at the Club unanimously declared that base to be completed by August, this year.

duties, Japanese sports authorities are offer- House provided they are ordered ball had its origin in the United ing full support and all possible co in advance from the No. 1 Boy (TelStates, and that the first scheme operation for the project, while plans 21920),

No children or amahs will be for playing it, according to the are being considered to send a big best evidence obtainable at the Japanese icam to the Hsingking meel, time, was devised by Abner]

Member, such Member to be respon- sible for all visitors introduced by

etc.

ht 9.45 s.m on Monday.

admitted to either Enclosure.

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.

The price

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ganisers has set aside a budget of

Water Police

of in Water Public En 18. $1.00 per day New York, in 1830.

Including

for all Persons, Including Ladies, and is payable at A survey of Abner Doubleday's in career and accomplishments outside

the Gate. Soldiers and Sailors Uniform are admitteçi Half Price,

By Order,

€, B. BROWN,

Secretary,

Hongkong, 26th May, 1941.

NEW FRENOH REMEDYA

THERAPION NË. ERAPION NI.

the baseball realm, shows us that he almed the first gun fred in defence of Fort. Sunter in 1881; that he was brevetted Major-General for his ser

Beat Recreio

Only One Game Played In "A" Division Indians Beat H.K.C.C.

INDIAN R. C. beat the Hong- kong G.C. Gặp SOI KHO only "A" Division tennis match yesterday. The Kowloon-Recreio Kame

WAN postponed owing to Volunteer and the South China- Chinese R.C, maleh was put off duo to the state of the ground.

Qualifications

Little put in two years as resident pro up at Bretton Woods, N. H., but

devoting himself to travelling around giving exhibitions and lectures for a sporting goods house and playing in the money tournaments. That doesn't count toward the P. G. A decree.

"I don't want to get in just to play in the P. G. A. championship." Lawson says. "I think it is a fine organization, doing good for the game, and I would like to do my part."

President Walsh and the other professionals nurse unpleasant memories of the chiding they re- ceived because Little, fresh from his eligible for open triumph, was not They explained at the time that it last P. G. A. Litte event at Hershey, wasn't their fault.

Зус "Please explain that Lawson in," Walsh said.

want "There

has been no bad feeling because he didn't alt down at some club and spend his five years there.

"As a matter of fact, Little has been extremely honest about it. If The had wanted to he undoubtedly could have found some small club that would have felt honoured

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The Rumjahn counsins, S.A. and H.D., were the outstanding partner- ship, winning all three scls, while for the H.K.C.C. м. Pagh and Shields-Goodman

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