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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 10, 1941.

Colony Champions Out To Retain

League Pennant

Mindanao Moundsman's Masterful Hurling

SAPPERS SURPRISE S. CHINA

By Ball Fan

Marking up another milestone in the annals of local baseball opening day "gala affairs," the Hongkong seven team major ball loop inaugurat- ed their new Chatham Road ball park Saturday afternoon as Governor. Northcote throw out the first ball to start the season winging on its way, before a sell-out crowd of rabid ball fans.

In a perfect setting of real baseball, weather, Min- danao's terrific M, gunning for their second straight pen- nant, started on the upward road to Flagville with a sen- sational 7-6 "Merriwell" win over H.B.'s powerful beer. makers.

MANAGER Bill Woods' Ashe-

ville southerners opened up the two game Sabbath pro- gramme with their initial tri- umph of the season, setting the marauding Mohawks down with n'6-4 count. It was the Tennes- seemen's first victory since their appearance on a local ball din mond this year.

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Engineers started

campaign In bir time fashion. taking a 0-5 surpriso win from South China's weak-willowed red and blue men,"

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BEHIND the masterful hurling

of Ski Powlawski, and the terrific clouting of Tony Musca vage and the flect-footed Willle Wilson, the Colony champions looked every inch the ball team that will, once again, be in there at the final stretch bid,:

Weekend Stars

Major Baseball

NO AMERICAN LEAGUE GAMES ON SCHEDULE

NEW YORK, June 9 (UP).—No on American League games were schedule to-day. In the National circuit. Chicago Cubs ran rlat against Boston Braves and chalked up 13 runs to te Bees' nix. Scores were:

Tony Muscavaze and Ski Pow- lawski, Mindanao-Iind-snatching Tony eparked the champions In their bir opening day win with a peppery display behind the platter, and pounded out a prodigious homer in the 5th

canto;, latter chalked his first mound victory

up of the year, holding the Beermen to live scattered blaws and whif- fing six.

Dusty Rhoades and Sam Lang- ford

U.S.S. Asheville-Former Chicago drove out a stinging triple to drive in two runs in the big scoring 2nd Inning: latter led. the winner's willow attack with two hits and crossed the plate with lone run,

Flash Radelite and Sara Sara field, Royal Engineers-Former) made two safe blagles to drive in three Sapper runs; latter hurled a steady game and crossed the pan with three winning talles.

NATIONAL LEAQUE

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Battery: Early, Lamanna, Tobin, Sul-

Cincinnati

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Riddle, Lombardi.

E. Baltery: Thompson, Moore, Begga Brooklyn

12 1 Battery: Carey, Davis Swift.

Phelps, Pitsburgh

Battery: Wilkie, Lo

Lopes.

Philadelphia

Battery: Warren,

real heads-up baseball-s team of St Louis. worthy champions.

had an off-day out at the windy Silm, silent shortstop George Sousa alley, chalking up three expensive errors slinky opening stari,

Going into the Anul stanza on the short end of a 6-5 score, after six roaring innings which had the fans Aguring out that "one-up, one-down" Jig-saw, the defending champions broke out with a vengeance as whip pet Wille Wilson opened the inning with a fenn single to centrefeld, tearing into second on

His fourth steal of the day. George Sousa's bod error off Ski Powlawsic's infled bt WITH Gordon "Dusty" Rhodes put the tying and winning rung on

smashing out a triple to, the bags, giving manager Ival Good man's tors that "perfect setting" lead a dynamite four run scor- atmosphere. "Typhoon" Tony Musing attack in the 2nd frame, the

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piteling for the Brewern against the Mindanao Ming Yuen.

cayage brought in the tying run with a long sacrifice hoist to deep_centre,*, while left elder Robert Woodrow

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U.S.S. Asheville nine outclassed Chuck Waggoner's Marauding Mohawks 6-4 in an early morn- Ing Sabbath opening.

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League Tennis

W. Brown, Hartnett,

South China Beat University In "A" Division

SOUTH CHINA A.A. beat the University 6-3 in the only "A" Division tennis match played at Pokfulam yesterday. H. P. Org and George Choa were Uncle Sam's tars cashed in with

the most their winning run in the 5th canto

successful pair for the Varsity, winning two of thele three games. when Freezer "Honolulu" Lek

South Chinn's players were evenly checked in at the platter on key paired and each won two games. 1. sioner Johnny Schabere's wild Heu and A. Chap succeeded where heave. The Tenneses southerners their team-mates had failed against. chalked up anal "confidence" Ong and Chon, tally in the 6th as George Watkins rode home on high.

Waggoner's Tribe flashed in with four runs in the inillol three frames, but found plenty of trouble in solv-

og hurler Charlie Sawyer's speedy offerings, and were held scoreless in the latter Innings.

Weak link of the Undergraduutes' team were S, H. Ling and A. L. Tsai, losing all three games.

Scores were:

8. H. Ling and A. L. Tai lost to zd to mek and IL E. Llu 4-d; lost to N. and A. Chan 3-0. Wong and Lam Kwan 0-0; last to I, Hou

TT Lim and S. Wong lost to Bick The "four horsemen" and the bent su ant Chan $-2

and a 1-0 loat to Wong and Kwan 4-0; uk "Rock" himself, Lou Leight, P. Ong, and G, Chea beat Bick and Joe Morris, Frank Crews, facku 6-1; beat Wong and Kwan 6-4; lost Sperry and Pete Fitch) from Stan-1 and Chen 2-0.

in surprised

• Tony Mascavage batting for the Mindanao in the opening match of the Baseball season against the H.K. Brewery on Saturday. Obear Arculli catching with Gandpa' Leung um- piring.-Ming Yuen.

Golf

Masters' Champion Wins U.S. Open Title

Brilliant Play By Craig Wood

NEW YORK, June 9 (Reuter),-Craig Wood, winner of the recent Augusta Masters Tournament, to-day won the American Open golf championship at Fort Worth, Texas, with scores of 73, 71, 70 and 70-284, beating Densmore Shute, who was second with 287.

Johnny Bulla and Ben Hogan *** were third with 289.

Warmerdam Sets

Shute Anished early and was being hailed the winner but Wood, although he was wearing a protective belt for

Pole Vault Record his torn back muscle, played brilliant-

ly to win by a useful margin and CALIFORNIA, June 9 (Reuter), avenge his defeat by Shufe in the re- -Cornellus Warmerdam allained

a new world pole vault record played British open in 1933.

by

clearing the bar at 15 ft. 53% ins.) Since April, 1040, when he was the first man to clear 15 ft,! Warmerdam has several Limes exceeded that height,

Planning Next Year's Soccer At Home

Summer Singles

At Happy Valley

The second round of the Happy Valley Summer Singles golf con- test of the Royal Hongkong Golf Club resulted as follows:

H... Mundy (9) beat T. C. Barclay (18): J. J. Ven Muhlen (16) beat J. Lineker (12) 5/4; M. A. Cairns (18) beat A. H. Penn (12) 2/1; G. E. Willer. ion (12) beat G. W. Reeve (11) 2 up; A. V. Greaves (11) beat W. W. Ahern 19) 2/1; W. J. Buller (11) beat J. Young LONDON, June 0

(18) 3/2; A. L. Powell (10) beat E (Reuter) Green voood (18) 2 and 1 and H. The Football League's annual Smith (0) beat L. Jackson (11) 4/3. meeting WILS held to-day at Nottingham, and it was decided that next season the League should run two competitions, North and South, on a points basis, to finish on December 20, Several Clubs

were not in favour of this and put forward amendments which were defeated. ---

"The Captain's Cup

A. W. Bourne, Jr., (93-974) and

Bourne, Jr.. Annis (02-18-74) tled and quali- feld in the June qualifying round of the Captain's Cup competition of the Royal Hongkong Golf Club, played over the Fanting Old Course during the week-end." There were 18 entries.

For the second half of the season, there will be a Combined League Cup | proviso that the League Committee, competition, but with the important. and not the Clubs, make

out the fixtures.

and played starry ball in the Kowloon C. C. Team The line! Intention

original had been

workout of the

This quiniet year.

Scoring Basis

their own

Probable Starters For Substitute Derby

LONDON, June 8

(Reuter),

Probable, starters and jockeys for the Bubstitute Derby to be run at Nowmarket are:

had already put away

The following will represent Kow-fixtures, ihe old laon Cricket Club in their "B" Divi- cleats slice their departure from slon Tennis League match against America many mooTLS 150, and South China Athletic Association-at were not in ball-playing form out Kowloon Cricket Club to-day:

The Committee will decide on here on Sunday,

A. E. P. Guest and F. Grose: N. A. bases for the games, points, goal Doubles were belted out by oppos- E. Mackay and F. Kengelbarker: Faverage or percentage. After ten ing hurters

Frankle

Zimmern and D. Hazell. Crows and

games, the top 32 Clubs quality for Charlle Sawyer; the Afohawk

the Cup proper.

Mr Sawyer (Gomez), Royal Academy moundsman along with Johnny

Early games may delay County (Bartlam).

(Carey), Guerdley (Jones), Mazarin Schaberg led the loser's clouting at-

and local Cup competitions, and Selim Hassan (Beary), Sollum (Cum Devonian (Perryman), tack, both coming through with two)

ingles in three trips.

London Clubs are thinking that the Richards), Valdavian. (Herbert), Star- new arrangement may prevent their wort (Taylor), Firozedin (Lowrey), own Cup competition from being Annatom (A. Wragg), Morogoro (H. played.

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Handicaps For Macao Races On June 15

Wilson's climax bingle sent the hard-FALLING on South China) playing "Ski", silding across the pan slabman Ernie Moy for nine! with the old ball game in the well-

solid bingles, the rapidly improv- The Brewers made their fasting Engineers began their ball desperate bld for victory in the GhReason with a sparkling. 9-5 tri- Inning on a "do or dic attack umph over the Caroline Hill-ed for the Juno meeting of the after two Beermen were put away men. when pinch hitter Joe Bowen's sizzling double to right brought in Stan Leonard, and Obear Arcalli's clean blngle over second sending

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perom the platter. The terrife M dished in with rare mid-sceson form, with the rookies bearing down 1 In storry debut styld behind the steadying influence of last year's veterans.

Highlight of the seven run Min- danso

napätiack" was · Tony Mur- {{ cavage's busiling homer in the Sih 'stants' which carried

In Crooner. Ruel who had made fielder's choloc. The peppery Tony

first on

PERRY WINS ROUND ROBIN TOURNEY TO AID WAR RELIEF

FOREST. HILLS, June 9 (Rea ter)Fred Perry, winner of the recent American professional tennis championship, won round robin tournament to-day for British war relief, being unbeaten in the series. Perry and Budge were unbeaten in the doubles. W. T. Tilden also took párt.

Following are the handicaps al- lotted to some of the ponies enter Macao Jockey Club on June 18: The Canberra Handicap, Six Hamelin's Sappers played bang-up jongs, Australian-

fur Ponies-A Good ball behind the improved twirling of Time 133, National Victory 135, Angel Sars Sarsfield, who Imited Chinese to six scattered safeties.

the of Glory 187. Tobaccoship. 144, Anna- bella 138, Odin 142, Cocklerol 147, Taking, a ona run lead in the Ozark 142, Double Finesse 160, Winnie. 2nd frame when Sarsfield walked, 143, Joan 169.

The Hobari Handicap. Six furlongs, stole second and third to cross the Novices Jockeys, Australian "E" Class Dan on Hal Winglee's ervor, the-Beauford 130. Dlek Turpits 142, Blue British Engineers retained the lead down 139, High Hat 137, Tonahar Sir Gerald Compbell, the guest of throughout, dibing up alright upon star 149, Buckfastleigh 142, honour, thanked the American players

and only chalking two Subpoena 142. up errors, Chalking

The Lapps Handicap. Six furlongs, and clubs for their help, remarking The Sappers adde

China Ponies "C" Class--Blue Diamond that it was a pity there was now 'a lone tally in 140, Night Express: 140, Blue Pield 164, large crater in the middle of the centre and bounded upwards wilt Odeon 152, Galveston Day 147, Oscar be levelled and we would be able to In the next two innings with Zylch.

court at Wimbledon but it would soon whoopee," crashing seven runs Through 147, Lancashire Lass 145.

142 Jennifer 138, Smash turn our heads backwards without

the

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sizzling snappy Vic

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the plate and was the big bright ypark which set the pennant hold. em off in a slowing, opening vic-

and Raddy Radcliffe lejlings worthy, 159, Indiums Star 113, Budge was not in his best form, the the military willow attack with the Fireballer Ski Powlawskt let the

two Mac's Adventure 140, Sports Venture intense heat aggravating the nasal Howerful Brewers down

latter batting in three runs. with five scorching drives,

on two 180 m

trouble for which he recently under scattered Chile, sending alx back to

The Blewards Cup. Bix furlongs, went an operation. The the bench, via the whin route." His

by Mickey Heath, ton) Ble furlongs, China Ponles "E" looking and listening. The Lord work Class-Black Diamond 115, National Mayor of London also, telegraphed his

Success 152, Geordie 140, Piet Hein 180, thanks, aga t

plate

cos Ball tossers played China. Panies "D" Class-Boolat Bay

ball to chalk smoke th

was breaking across the bad miscues on the slippery terrain. Royal Highness 135, Golden Cow, 140, up nine 140, Portrush 140, Eve of Hunting 159, clock-like precision.

Hurter

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Moy's low connLers Runlight View 195, Gunners Time 112 wero esayś pickings for the Inex- Work Lake 149, Lovely Star 180,3 k is honded for his

'perienced Engineers who sent the The Ma Kok Ifandicap, (Second Bec

veteran to the showers in the dildorovice Jockeys, ¦ Special - dollar vö frame, Rellet twirler Wally Ching sweep-Kagte 117, New Bedford 159. Roparul Time 152,- The Mermaid 140,

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The leermen displayed plenty of

South China Win Again

IPOU June 9 South China beat

class out there, in this "all in-set the Sappers down, in rapid Walional Anthem 146, The Spirit of Hi the Malayan Combined Chinese 3-0. porting" it, but were, hilling up fashion, het was sent to the mound Louf 140, National Liberty 159, Vic La Wal-tong stored one goal and arinet a team that were playing too late 30svert this Initial losstory Life 130

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