1941-06-24 — Page 6

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 24, 1941

Problematic Powers Of Baseball Captain

Field Change Orders Golf Snips

Come From Coach

Diamond "Conversations”?

(By "Ball Fan")

Hot-stoving around the local baseball gab- fost strongholds, we hit into a red-hot conference by a group of rabid ball fans, who are out there avery weekend at the ball park, on the relative importance, and actual duties 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 a field

captain is paid five hundred dollars over his regular salary, for work that could really bei called extra, to his actual play- ing time. He is not appoluted | merely to hand a slip of paper{ to the umpire" before each game,

JUST about the most important thing a field General is invested with, is the right to- protest a decision that strikes Jim as being unfair.

In other words he has the right lo squawk and though his team mates may bellow on Indefinitely In unofficial rage, the chances aro at the offending umpire will at least accord the captain portion of his car.

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ELEMENTARY

SCORING AT BASEBALL

KEEP A SCOREBOOK и you really trobit to know what's happening and especially what has happened--in a ball game. List the players according to their appearance in the botting order,

There's o long row of squares opposite each mon's name one for each inning, and one or two thrown in for good measure at the end in ease the game goes overtime,

After you learn a simple formula, and adopt your own methods along with 1, 's no trouble.

The captain holds the right to batt

You must number the fielding a game whenever he seems it neces-l sary. Back here at our Chatham cam-mentally-nccording to posl- Bond ball stadium we've noticed our: tion, in this way: umps, taking ns omelal, the words calcher 2, first baseman 3, second 4, "Ume-out," when bellowed by vari- third 5, short-stop 6, left fielder 7, ous players on a single team at vari- centre-Nelder 8, right seider 8. ous times. A time-out is generally called by the Captain during a par- ticularly rocky session on the mound.

From Home

Courses

"Sandy" Herd Recovers From Operation

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LONDON, June 9. When it became known that Alex

·overy» Hord "Sandy" to 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 the youngsters.

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It is only when such tournaments demand 36 holes in a day that any weakness-ataminu-s revealed Herd who readily admits that one round is enough for him nowadays. His heart' in still game for compell- tion, but the body does not get any stronger.

All will be gind that be came through the operation successfully and lie 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 others, like Herd, who will make a craceful retire- ment when the war is over; tho war itself may claim vietinis while Anno Domint is always calling a Iult in the life of men who have left their name in sport.

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Pitcher is 1. taking his golf very seriously IED DRAKE, the Arsenal forward, these days and has a round on Harry Vardon's old course at Totteridge whenever he can snatch the oppor- Lunity,

How It Works

KTOW, If the first batter in the game NOW

Alles out to centre field, you put in his square ten to first, tould out, say shortstop to be 8-3.

We've seen it done quite often out there under the big tent, in both the National and American leagues, with the pitcher and cap

Remember these aigns: "F" means tain falling into a big huddle, and flied out, "HP" means hit by pitcher. xical. ugu have often wondered just what the mean walk "S"

is, in this eirikeout (for some strange reason), tople of conversation 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 "in law requiring the use of any of them. on the know."

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

Although your guess is on good as ly clear,

ours in this "Captain vs. pitcher" In the spacc provided, you'll want social meeting on the diamond, we to follow the batsman around the heard from a well-known big league bases, 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 dles on base, is to allow the pitcher some much On the extreme right of the score) desired me.

computing sheet Is the place for times at bat, hits, and other figures you'll find in the box score.

However, on a well organised ball team' a captain plays no definito part) whatsoever in the actual manipula- tlon of the team on the field,

orders from the bench or the coach--

For instance he has nothing er's box. whatsoever to do with the removal-As-a-rule, experienced pitchers

of a pilcher from the mound un- will sometimes change

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

the post-

Is ambition is to get his handicap down to scratch: at present it is 6.

BRITISH 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.

Ile escaped from Blarritz when the Germans overran the Cote d'Azur, and has cabled his well-being to his daughter in Scotland.

WATER-POLO TOURNAMENT FIXTURES

Water-Polo Tournament matches to-day are:

UFS

RHYTHM IN SWAT-Aside from fact that Cuban lightweight Rubon Aldama is out cold on ropes, in San Juan, P. R., bout, interest in this picture lies in "murderous but rhythmic sweep of Puerto Rican fightor Pablo Quininos' 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 see a war-time boom in the game.

Apart from the exhibitions by Wimbledon players that are

public

Hockey And being arranged both for the

Basketball

On Skates

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- HOCKEY and basketball on hibitions." Stanley Rous said. "My skales has taken quitò a hold, on idea in taking this job was to do all local residents, even to the extent I could to keep sports alive during of organised competition. Miltary the war and to get the youth of the

particularly Spurismen are

-country as fit as possibic. learned that a competition

terested in the hockey, and it is pt the Kowloon Skating Rink will be form- ed in the near future.

Army Pool Y.M.C.A. v. R. Scots "A" (7.19)***.

p.m.),

Navy "B" v. Signals (7.45 p.m.).

Basketball Cup

Navy "C" v. Small, Units (8.15 The Kowloon Residents' Union have become holders of the Kim p.m.)...

"Y" Pool

[Shing Cup för Basketban ng a result Navy "A" v. M'sex "A" (7.15 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

score was 35-23.1. 8th R.A. v. 5th A.A. Regt (8.15***** m). «

tlons of the men behind him with-: out receiving specific orders from his manager.. But then this move p.m.). Is highly logical, for,' as OND of the New York Yankees all-time out- standing southpaws, the burler with the submarine ball, pointed out the fact that no one, with the possible exception of the catcher, knows what the next plich wiit be.

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Nor, strange as it may seem, does the cutain, in organised ball, exer- cise the slightest authority over the inen on the field. Contrary to the Consequently the pitcher is the belief that the captain is 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, if hit by the bats has, in reality nothing to do with this man, and so he must try to place his angle of play, other than to follow felders accordingly:

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Axis Sports Events To

Be Cancelled

TOKYO, June 23 (Domel),- All international sports events scheduled to take place in the Axis countries, including the Italian- fourn- German-Japanese tennli

ament in Berlin, are expected to be cancelled owing to the Soviel- German war, Or

Goro Fujikura and Jiro Kumamaru, of Kelo, University, who left Koba on

June 21 for Berlin' to take part in the

tournament will return to Japan after

and

a tour of Monchurian citie

The Invitation to Japan, this autumn of German boxers, swimmers hockey players and Italiari tennis play- ers, as well as the dispatch of Japanese skliers to Germany for winter sports, are to be cancelled.

Dick Turpin Destroyed

- DICK TURPIN, 1937 Australian subscription griffin, owned by Mr A. IL Potts and well-known do local punters, was destroyed on Thursday last

The pony broke a leg while en route to Macao for the Race Meeting, and: It was hoped that after being brought back to Hongkong ! would respond to treatment at Fanting.

Dick Turpin, was A prominent steeplechaser at Fanling, and together with. Its successes at Happy Valley collected $2,075 in stake moñoy..

Cruiserweight Bout

For Area Championship

LONDON, June 23

(Reuter).----

Jack Hyams (Stepney) beat: Ernio Woodman (Baltorson) on points in the final of the eliminating.contest

for the Southern Area Cruiserweight Championship at High Wycombe 16-| night.

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

"Exhibitions last reason brought in £850, as against more than £2,000 raised in half-crown-subscriptions. paid by players to enter their own

for which club tournaments, committee put up small cups."

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The Board for Two Players

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 tho' character of the game In any way. Neither player sees more than: his own hand while bidding and only his own hand and Dummy 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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