1941-06-24 — Page 14

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 24, 1941.

Problematic Powers Of Baseball Captain

Field Change Orders Come From Coach

Diamond "Conversations"

(By "Ball Fan")

Hot-stoving around the local baseball gab. fest strongholds, we hit into a red-hot conference by a group of rabid ball fans, who are out there every weekond at the ball park, on the relative importance, and actual dutios of a field captain.

The average fan appears pretty vague when giving his conception of the actual chores which fall upon the field General. Many have asked, "just what are and what are not," the duties of a ball playing captain. IN the big leagues

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captain is paid five hundred ! dollars over his regular salary, for work that could really be called extra, to his actual play- |

Golf Snips

From Home

Courses

"Sandy" Herd Recovers From Operation

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LONDON, June 9. When it became known that Alex Hord-"Sandy" to overy- body connected with golf had undergone an operation in hospital, sympathisers in their thousands were minded of a really Grand Old Man of golf. Seventy years of age Herd, but for the war, would, doubtedly, still have been play- ing his part in competitive golf. He could still match many of

ELEMENTARY the youngsters,

ing time. He is not appointed SCORING AT

merely to "hand a slip of paper to the umpire" before eneh, game.

JUST about the most important

thing a field General is invested with, is the right to protest, a decision that strikes him as being unfair.

BASEBALL

KEEP A

SCOREBOOK it you really want to know what's happening-and especially what has happened-in a ball game.

List the players necording to their appearance in the batting order.

There's a long row of squares to squawk and though his team opposic each man's nine-ne for mates may bellow on indefinitely each inning and one or two thrown in unofficial rage, the chances are in for good measure at the end in that the offending umpire wilt at case the game goes overtime. least accord the captain a slight portion of his

In other words he has the right;

The captain holds the right to halt;

After you learn a simple formula, and adopt your own methods along with it, it's no trouble.

You must number the

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Ja only when, such tournaments demand 30 holes in a day that any wellness-stuminn-is revealed Herd who readily admits that ond round is enough for him nowadays. His heart is still game for cumpetl- lon, but the boily does not get any stronger.

All will be glad that he came through the operation successfully and he has promised to carry on at his club until the war is over, when however, the members are not likely to let him leave without a struggle.

He has let it be known that he will not be seen in major events after the War. "That will be a job for the youngsters, there's plenty of them without we old men" he says.

There may be olliers, like Herd, who will make a graceful retire- ment when the war is over; the war itself may clatin vietinis while Anno Domini is always calling a halt in the life of men who have

left their name in sport. felding

a game whenever he seems it neces- sary. Back here at our Chintham cam-mentally--according to posi-

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is taking his golf very seriously there days and has a round on Harry Vardon's old course at Totteridge whenever, he can snatch the oppor- tunity.

Road ball stadium we've noticed our tion, in this way: Pitcher is 1ED DRAKE, the Arsenal forward, umps, taking as oficial, the words catcher 2, first baseman 3, second 4, "time-out," when bellowed by vari. thx! 6, short-stop 6, left fielder 7 ous players on a single team at vari- centre-fielder 8. right fielder 9. ous Umes. A time-out is generally called by the Captain during a par ticularly rocky session on mound,

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How It Works

NOW, If the first batter in the game flies out to centre field, you put We've seen it done quite often in his square "F-8." If he grounds out there under the big tent, in out, say shortstop to first, it would both the National and Americanbe 0-3.

leagues, with the pitcher and can- Remember these signs: "F", incans tain falling into a big huddle, and filed out, "" means hit by pitcher, have often wondered fust what the "W" means walle. "S" steal. "K" tople of conversation is, in this strikeout (for some strange reason), moment of animated suspense, and “FC" fielder's choice. when ball fans and players alike; There are others, but there's no are tense with eagerness to be "otaw requiring the use of any of them.j on the know."

You can use your own, just so they space and time and are perfect-

Rave

Although your guess is as good as by clear. ours in this "Captain va. pitcher"

social meeting on the diamond, we to follow the batsman around the In the space provided, you'll want: heard from a well-known big league basen, recording how he advances authority last year, that the main each time and how he scores or goes purpose of this two-man conference out or dien оп

base..

computing.

is to allow the pitcher some much On the extreme right of the score desired time.

sheet is the place for you'll find in the box score. times at: bat, hits, and other gurea

However, on a well organised ball team a captain plays no definite parti whatsoever in the actual manipula- tion of the team on the field,

For instance be has nothing whatsoever to do with the removal of a plicher from the mound un- less, of

of course, the said pitcher bas told him during the course of their "time-out" conversation, that he definitely through. This informna- tion is then delivered to the mana- ger who gives the 'signal for the start to the showers.

orders from the bench or the coach- cr's box.

-As-a-rule, experienced pitchers will sometimes change the post-

out receiving spectão orders from

His ambition is to get his handicap. down to scratch: at present it is 0.

RITISH golfers will be pleased to learn that Arnaud Massy, the only Frenchman ever to have won our Open Championship, is safe in San Sebastian, Spain.

Germans overran the Cote d'Azur,

He escaped from Biarritz when the,

and has cabled his well-being to his daughter in Scotland.

WATER-POLO TOURNAMENT FIXTURES

RHYTHM IN SWAT-Aside from fact that Cuban lightweight Ruben Aldama is out cold on ropos, in San Juan, P. R., bout, interest in this picture lies in murderous but rhythmic sweep of Puerto Rican fighter Pablo Quininex' arm.

Plans For War-time Tennis Tournaments

LAWN TENNIS plans now being crystallised by Stanley Rous's Red Cross committee indicate that this season will sco a war-time-boom in the game.

Apart from the exhibitions by Wimbledon players that are

Hockey And being arranged both for the

Basketball On Skates

HOCKEY And basketball on skates has taken quite a hold on local residents, even to the extent of organised competition. Milliary sportsmen Bre particularly In- Water-Polo Tournament matches learned that a competition

terested in the. hockey, and it is to-day are:

at the Kowloon Skating Rink will be form- Army Pool

ed in the near future. Y.M.C.A. v. R. Scots "A" (7.15

Navy "B" v. Signals (7.45 p.m.). Navy "Cv Small Units (8.15 |ˇp.m:z

"Y" Pool

p.m.).

Basketball Cup

The Kowloon Residents' Union have become holders of the Kim Shing Cup for basketball as a result

tions of the men behind him with Navy "A" y. M'sex "A" (7.10 p.m.) of a win over Kowloon Skating Rink M'sex "B" v. R. Scots "B" (7.45 in the final of the competition. The

8th RA. v. 5th A.A. Regi (8.10

his manager. But then this move pan.). is highly logical, for, as one of the New York Yankees all-time out- standing southpaws, the hurler P.m.). with the submarine ball, once pointed out the fact that no one, with the possible exception of the catcher, knows what the next pitch

the will bc.

Nor, strange as it may seem, does, the captain, in organised ball," "exer- else the slightest authority over the men on the field. Contrary to the

Consequently the pitcher is the belief that the captain le the one only man on the entire team who is responsible for shifting the players in a position to judge about where from left to right or vice-versa, he the ball will go it hit by the bate- has, in reality nothing to do with this man, and so he must try to place his angle of play; other than to follow flelders accordingly.

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TOKYO, June. 23 All international sports scheduled to take place in the Axis countries, Including the Italian- German-Japanese tennis tourn- ament in Berlin, are expected to be cancelled owing to the Soviet- German war,

Gero Fujikura and Jiro Kumamaru, June 21 for Berlin to take part in the of Kolo University, who left Kobe on

tour of Manchurian cities. tournament will return to Japan atter The invitation to Japan this autumn of German boxers, swimmers hockey players and Italian tennis play- ers, as well as the dispatch of Japanese skliers to Germany for winter sporte, are to be concelled.

Dick Turpin Destroyed

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DICK TURPIN, 1037 Australian subscription griffin,, owned by Mir A. II. Potts and well-known to local punters, was destroyed on Thursday fast,

The pony broke a leg while ch route to Macao for the lace Meeting, and it was hoped that after being respond to treatment at Fanling. brought back to Hongkong would

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO DATE:

---$2,253,098.34

REMITTED TO LONDON: £130,939.19.6d

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Dick Turpin was 11 prominent steeplechaser at Fanling, and together with its successes at Happy Valicy

Cruiserweight Bout For Area Championship

LONDON,June 23 (Router) Jack Byams (Stepney) beat Ernie Woodman (Battersea) on points in the final of the eliminating contest for the Bouthern Aren Cruiserweight Championship at High Wycombe to- |night/

score was 35-23.

public and for convalescing troops, close tournaments will be played in hundreds of clubs throughout the country.

"These close tournaments are more important to my mind than the ex- hibitions," Stanley Rous said. idea in taking this job was to do all "My could to keep sports alive during the war and to get the youth of the country as fit as possible.

"In doing this I feel that my committees, organising sport for the rabbits from a national head- quarters, are beneflling the country far more than by raising money for the Red Cross,

"Exhibitions last season brought in, 050, as against more than £2,000 raised in half-crown subscriptions paid by players to enter their own club tournaments, for which my committee put up small cups."

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Two Bridge, players can use the DUO-BRIDGE Board anywhere and at any time; there is no need to go out to the Club these nights.

You will enjoy It In any situation, because it is the very best Bridge game for two people yet invented.

Let us admit at once that there are certain technical difficulties which cannot be overcome. We are well aware of them but they do not affect the character of the game In any way. Neither player sees more than his own hand while bidding and only his own hand and Dummly during play.

It is obvious that peculiar bidding, psychics and wild Jump-overbids are no use in such a game, indeed 'the hands. have been very carefully selected.

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