1941-06-07 — Page 6

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 7, 1941,

Baseball Season Opens This Afternoon

Governor To Pitch First Ball

Mindanao-Brewery Clash Sets Ball Rolling

(By BALL FAN)

THEY'RE OFF! King Baseball is reigning onco moro.. Out at the Chatham Road ball park this afternoon, fans will stroam through the gates from far and noar, eagerly awaiting that hoarso shout "play ball". Professors, preachers, the white collar gang, butchers, rickshaw pullers, the fair ones and office boys, ball fans from each calling and mart, will be cramming the bleachors to see the old ball season start.

The rookies are straining to test their mettle while the veterans have trained off their fatigue. The howl of the gobbler and the peanut purveyor will be heard once again, and seven ball clubs are all set for the pennant chase.

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MINDANAO'S terrific “M”, de- ¡✦✦

fending champions and the surprise team of last year's tor- rid pennant race, open up the season this afternoon at 3 p.m. in an eagerly awaited clash against H.B. Brewers, the hot- test ball tossing nine in this year's pre-season training camp.

Sunday's two-game programme sizzles up with H.K.D.C's maraud- ing. Mohawke in a featured fray against the U.S.8. Axheville, while the afternoon afghtcap spotlights a "Chinese-English" classio with South China all set to open up with a win over the Royal En-

gineers.

WITH Governor Northcote tos-

sing out the first ball to open the official acason, Mindanao's defending champions renew their classic feud against the streng thened H.B, Beermen-an in- tense rivalry dating back to the early.part of last year.

The Ski Rowhuwski-Tony Mus- cavage duo, highlighted as the stand- out battery combination In the local major leag cireult, will be bearing a big burden this afternoon, as last year's pennant winners set out in their quest for a second successive with an opening vic- championship,

tory over the well-balanced beer mniters. Grandpa Leung, Chuck Waggoner and Bill Woo are booked to handle this "march to the dag- pole" ule.

The Mindanse tars do not

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Weekly Wind-up

Opening day chimes-Opening

League Bowls Matches For This Week-end

To-day

FIRST DIVISION

K.B.G.C. "D" Recreio "B" Indians

KBG.C. "A"

K. Docks

V. Recrelo "A" 4. Craigengower v. Kowloon F,C, v. Police

C.S.C.C.

V

SECOND DIVISION

Kowloon F.C.

H.K.C.C. II.K.FC.

Kowloon C.C.

v. Recreio

v. Talkoo

V. K. Tong

v. Cralgengower.

THIRD DIVISION

Craigengewer Recreto

Electrle

Police

V. H.K.C.C.

v. K.U.G.C.

v. Kowloon F.C.

v. Hongkong F.C.

To-morrow

FIRST DIVISION

Indian R.C. v. K, Docks

SECOND DIVISION

THIRD DIVISION

day! The fans are thick-As the Craigengower v. Hongkong FC. vendors bray-And the turnstiles! umpires bark-Thei click-The bleachers roar-The office boy's: grandma--Is dead once more.

The Canucks and Cannekelles had a perfect puting over the hills in distant Stanley last week-end- Twenty-five strong, the Mable Leafs invaded the precincts of the Maryknoll Houses They enjoyed to the ulmost, the kind and generous hospitality of Father Malone and lhoso standout members of the from the marauding Mohawks Stanley Mission.

The ちぢた

Little Luz alsters, 'Flower starleis last season, are booked

with Cesar to sign oti Xavier's Baby Fanthers this com- ing softball rear-Dillo Melvy Campos. Recreio's backstopping firebrand,

Recrclu

v. Craigengower

"BOOM" IN BRITISH BOXING

LONDON, May 15 (Reuter) -

Pete Elder (Hongkong B.C.) out at the home plate. Kenny Moy, South China's pitcher has done the tagging.

Ming Yuen.

Georges Carpentier Fights Against French Professionalism Ban

LONDON, May 15 (Reuter).-Georges Carpentier as much as, if not more than, any other sportsman of his country, put French sport 'on the map', and it is and to read of the fight he is forced to make to keep the professional side going in France.

There must be the hope that British boxing seems to be having he will succeed so that post-war "boom" Purses may be smaller France will be able to take its and gates, naturally, are not so place again in the sporting large but few weeks pasa without world. a firlit of note, and the tourna- ments held in aid of war charities add to the war-time interest in the noble art.

Pinch-hindatcher Jimmy Wil- non, veteran world's series hero

So far ns Sunday boxing for the with Cincinnati Reds last year, is trying a transformation experiment Seneral publie is concerned, how- once again-He is now managing ever, there appears to be no hope of the authorities allowing such the Chicago a surprise team

Cubs,

promotions. In this year's National League race

Oments, however, will not allow The peppery Wilson expects to this set-back to discourage them convert first sacker Thil Cavar

know.

Three Left Out

DOROTRA has appointed a com-

mittee of eleven to rule French boxing and there seems to be a Nazi dictatorial tone about his methods, France has had some great boxers, Carpentier, Marcel Thil and Eugene Criqul to mention but three,

The troubles arose when Jean Borotra, famous tennis amateur, was appolated the equivalent of Minister of Sport. For reasons Thit was world middleweight best known to himself Borotra's

Champion and Criqui held the first move was to ban profession→ world feather-weight honours, but alism from ali sports. except none of the three are on the "com- aycling.

Why he left that sport

mittee." alone

nobody, unless it is Borotra,

That

body includes the former world featherweight champion, Carpentier, however, has headed a andre Rou, now almost blind, and sweeping revolution and to quote his own words "they (professionals) in spire in the great masses of athletes It sugainst such that Carpentier an emulation which can only profit wages his fight, not only for boxing the amateurs....without that emula- but for all sports in which profes- tion....all sports, amateur as well sionalism plays an important, and

noble, part.

retta, erstwhlle Cub "boy wonder" front, promotions, whenever possible.|'deputation to try and stop such a soma lesser known men whose great-

into a star twirler.

D

Took

to have as strong an infield as last year, with the loss of Cecil "bi Douglas from the initial sack, and the gap left in the inner diamond will be pretty hard to all. How- ever, Manager Iv

Ival Goodman ex- pects the rookies to come through behind the steadying influence of last season's veterans Joey Moore, Jackey Powell, Bill Strahil and the other first year men will be under the critical eye of local gashousers in their debut appearance, up in the big tent, and should pass by. with the O.K. sign in this Initial confab.

Dhun' Ruttonjec's_Brewers have signed up keystoner Tony Alves and will start with most of last year's veterane back in the fold. The Beer- men pack balance, oodles of experi- ence, a steady hurler In Madeen Arcull and a powerful clouting array which has shown plenty of that big time class the

past two months.

Outfelders Baby Abbas, Hank All, Jindoo Hussain, Cyclone Baker and Tarzan Ismail have alt shown mid- season dash in the Brewery exhibi- tion spring tune-up tiits, and it will be pretty hard to choose a starting trlo from this quintet of outsanding fly-shaggers.

Sabbath"

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Ball fans from far and standing

member Wilson's achievement in pursuading Bucky

on other days.

diMculties

Open Air Tourneys UE extra daylight, given by the extension of Summer Time, will Wallers, formerly of the Montreal help considerably. Open air tourna- Royals, to give up third base for ments are expected to prosper macnias professional, will perish."

There has, in the past, always the mound

Philadelphia at Cavarrella aliould make the grade public for these but

for open air We've seen him out there at have arisen. Lighting

costly

business and am- Wrigley Field in Chicago, ripplug shows is a that old apple around the infield bitious programmes, which, could not very well start before 7.30 p.m. have with the speed of a bullet.

Which brings us to our Colony given three hours first class enter- tainment which has meant the pass- acò of shortsteps, the one and only Fete Fitch-We sure would like to ing of daylight before all is over, see him burning them over, from and spectators are "shown out."

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The extension of summer time,

the hillock, during this baseball however, moans daylight until about season-The ble Mohawk has as

a cross-diamond throw as p.m.. and does away, with the you'll see anywhere in this part of necessity of lighting one of

therefore, is eliminated, and open air Indianapolls and Kansas City set boxing should, and is expected to, be

the world.

a new American Association record very popular this summer.

for double plays in one game, re- cently-They executed seven twin- Killags in a nine innlog came, beating the old record by one- Certainly is fast slinging for this class A.A. league.

That old bam of bams, Babe himself, has accepted Ty Cobb's challenge for a British war relief, golf exhibition-Match will he held sometime this month in New York.

Ruth

Man o' War Celebrates

est fame is to have won French or European titles.

South China Tourists Beat

Singapore Civilians

DISPLAYING fine form, the South China footballers beat the Singapore Civilians by three goals to nil before a crowd of approximately 18,000 at Anson Road stadium on May 25 re- ports the "Singapore Free Press". Leo Wai-tong led the attack and it might have been his personality that inspired the visitors to play so well.

Despite the large number of Play awung over and Webber had Sikh policemen on duty around a nasty experience when dealing the stadium fencing and at the ball slipped out of his hands and was with a drop-shot from the left. The gates, it was most difficult to almost over the line when he re- covered it and cleared. He had was called upon to save a fine drive hardly time to settle down before lie

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A HA'PORTH OF TAR

"Steward, there's tur. on my dinner | won the Irish Sweep. All the other jacket."

gentlemen are confined to their busker, Sir. They say it was the lobster mayounaise...

“Yestir. Off the rigging, Sir. We told −yam it-waz wety Sir, but you wouldn'i- zake no notice. Up you went like a two-year-old."

"I see. And what did I do next?” "You tang some songs, Sir. Greatly appreciated they was. Some of the craw asked me if you'd be so good as to write aut the wordt.”

about it,

"I'll have to think Steward. So altogether it was a preity maley night?"

‚" There's been nothing like it on the South China Sea, Sir, since the Purter

foods

4,000

POOR PEOPLE DAILY at ite:

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While the game was in progress LEXINGTON, Ky-More than Malay, who had climbed an elec- 200 turf fans visited Man of War tric car support, was seen to fall "light" of "about 20 feet. It when America's greatest race horse from

he was seriously injured. celebrated his 24th birthday in his is belu TO-MORROW morning at 10

While visitors are to be con- South China scored, when a pretty SOCIAL WELFARE COUNCIL Three minutes before the interval HONG KONG REFUGEE AND when he made a quick getaway to

private slable on the Faraway

gratulased on scoring such decisive move saw the left wing, Lee Shek- q.m. with Grandpa Leung,

the showers after the

Farms. terrific

victory, It must be recorded that the you, beat Webber with Nick Beltrao and Bill Chang

slinging Mohawk scoring spree, but should

Samuci D. Riddie's almost legend-Civilians display was surprisingly angled shot. calling them, H.K.B.C.'s maraud- not find it too hard to subdue thenry son of Fair Play-Mahubah went disappointing. This applies, in

inexperienced Engineers.

through his usust quiet routine de particular, to the forwards who, with down when the second goal was The excllement had not yet died ing Mohawks tackle Uncle Sam'aj

The Sapper infield looks pretty spite the visitors. Big Red received the sole exception Asheville nine in an "opening wobbly through the centre, from this his usual ration of nine quarts of were right off form.

of Willoughby.scored. Left unmarked, Chou Man- fracas. Iroquois scouts angle, and improvement in a big oats, was taken for a mile workout. Quan Chong

Chi found the net with a lovely, low bagged in with a big kill when they degree must be lyen approach the spent the remainder

shown by the Hame and

the worst drive as the ball came across from a brisk rubdown. He offender, and he should have scored the right. signed un the power-clouting

Inmen

of the day on at least two occasions. Johnny Schaberg, former Shanghai upper berth class. Twirler Sarefield resting. flash, who has added that extra is a fixture to open up on the Sapper

Steady Defence punch to a

Man o' War, beaten only once lu Mohawk infleld. mound with Raddy Radcliffe ready Silent

will

spark the to warm-up in

his competitive career and then by the bull pen Five Nation threat at the windy South China have an experienced alley, and expects to make an early inficht with Hal Waglee behind start on the road to the climax the old platter. The big question balling championship. The Upper mark blocking the Caroline H New York State Tribe have a ball artists from being a srelous line-up of veterans ready to start pennant threat is their inability to the campaign, and

ardently clout that old apple; and a problem hoping for the appearance of that outfield of rookie newcomers. pressure trio, Pete Fitch, Mack Sperry and Frank Crews.

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Manager Wood's Asheville ball players took a bad defeat last week In their exhibition clash against the powerful Brewers, but are alated to show Hongkong ball fans that they are capable of dishing up zip-playing ball, and will be fighting to clinch that

Important initial triumph. Lefty Crumm has been chosen to start on the Asheville mound: his intricate change of pace had, the Beermakers guessing last week, but bonehead Belding spoiled a stellar mound performance.

RUSSIAN AQUATIC STARS

SET NEW RECORDS

ro-

The pace slackened in the second FOOD KITCHENS

half. The Civilians attacked and The local defence stood up to the

were awarded a free-kick a yard were outside the penalty area. Electing a horse named Upset, is challeng-visitors attacks (and they

admirably executed) Very well,

to kick, Tee

Tee Slang sent terrifle

a Ing his record as a racer by his

being outstanding. that for the mark, only to see the activities as a

sire. He is stii Abdul Rahman

goalkeeper save brilliantly. "sending them to the races" and He was given steady support by

South China did most of the Soon San, and in the half-lino Aziz the names of his offspring already

attacking ahone.

during the next ten read like a rolicali of turf grents---|

Webber had no chance of stopping minutes, but Abdul Rahman did names like War Admiral.

the shots that entered the net. He

work,

breaking up muay Harrie B. Scott, manager of the saved brilliantly

twice.

dangerous movements. farm, said: "He's looking fine and Lee Wal-tong was the centre of When the Civillans broke away feeling fine-not a thing wrong with attraction. Whenever he was In Swee Hock drew Kwan Kon out of him."

possession the crowd expected a goal. gool and passed the ball to Quan

Softball Schedule

TO-DAY

but, although the idol of all football Chong. The latter, unmarked,

in China is still a formidable player, achieved the difficult feat of sending he is now a long way off the form the ball over an untenanted goal he displayed when last in Singapore. from nivo

yards out.

At the other end Lee Wel-tong The PlayM SOUTH CHINA attacked off the had the better of a duel with Ran

man, but Webber saved rilcely. first whistle, but they were sent back Willoughby placed the ball in the before they became dangerous and goalmouth when the Civilians forced when Bingapore attacked in turn, corner, but Tee Slang's hender Willoughby provided the Arst-tħrili |

AT CHATHAM ROAD

of the game when he kicked in glanced off the crossbar. ball that glanced off the bar from 11. B. Beor a dimeult angle.

TO-MORROW 10 a.m. H.K.B.C. v. USS. Asheville

p.m. South China v. Royal

Engineers

MOSCOW, May 22 (Havas),One world cord, one European record and six Soviet records were

In the closing stages Lau Chung- broken here this evening in 3 p.m. Mindanao

sang banged in South China's third THE Sunday afternoon.game

the course of the Soviet

Singapore got busy in the next and inst goal with a powerful, ris- slated to start at 8 p.m. will

far shot that went in Just under awimming championships: "

minute, only to let the move fizzle

the bar. bring together South China's

out when a goal deemed imminent. Mechkoff of Leningrad cover-

Bonth China

South

· soon... got going

China: Tam Kwan-kon; weak-willowed hine and Hameed the 200 metres breast-stroke

aggio, and excitement ran high Tung Chung-wen, Teo Kam-hung; lin's fighting Royal Engineers, in the time of 2 minutes 23′1/10

when Len Wal-long received the Lau Hing-chol, Hau King-sing. Lee ball and scored. ife was, how Wal-kuen, Chung Yung-sum, Lang with Ski Powławski, Johnny seconds, breaking the world

||ever, "vory, rightly: ruled offside.. Chung Bin, Lee Wal-long, Chaus Man Schoborg and Chuck Waggoner record set by the Soviet swim-econds, breaking the European Singapore troved up again with the ch Lee Bhok-you,

record art by the Swede Borne. umpiring.

mer Bochenko by 8/10 of a The Soviet feminino swimming star a miraculous escape when Quan Abdul Rahman, Soon San; John

*Blugapore |treo ́kick," and the tourists" goblind

Civillane Webber: Chinese “hurler. Kemy Atoy second. -

Alekhina covered the 400 metres Chong, from three yards out lobbed Chye Aziz, Asiah; Awang debes, struck the well-known snak oni ni Ouchskoff covered, the 200 metres backstroke in 8-minutes 80 7/10, set a pass from Awang Gabos on to the Tee Blang, Swee Hock, Quan Chorts. Caroline Hill, over the week-end froo stylo in 3 minutes 11:2/18jting another Soviet record.

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