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July 1

Brewers Have Splendid Week-end

Beat South China And Engineers With Ease

40 Runs Scored From 31

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Hits In Two Matches

(By "Ball Fan")

blues with

Rolling out the boor-barrel tremendous run-scoring momontum, H.B.'s "gulp gulping" Brewers crashed through with succes- sive overwhelming wins in their steady dash to the top, taking the hapless South China red and bluo men 22-0, and coming back on Sunday to sizzle in with an 18-2 triumph over the Royal Engincors.

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Al Behind the steady twirling of iron "spectacles" Lau, Chung Hwa's fighting Maroons took their second successive extra inning victory of the sea- son, pushing through to an 8-7 "see-saw, up and down" win over the Hongkong Baseball Club.

THE season's opening typhoon ***

roar played havoc with the Mindanao vs. H.K.B.C. tilt, as umpire Welfie Welford called the game at the end of the 4th frame after the terrific M had garnered a 7-2 lead behind Ski Powlawski's flerball hurling.

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PUSHING across twelve tallics

In a punch-scoring 1st, inn- ing, the beer belching Brewers had C. B. Wong's South China crew clinging tightly "behind the eight ball" sign,

Rookle pitcher Gerry Gosuno, in - his frat stort of the season, showed with his plenty of ble line class

ball speelal, in limiting the speed Caroline Hi!! ball chasers to one hit in four stanzas. The young beer hurler developed a Bore muscle in that powerful right arm, and Dave took over the mound for Leonard the last three inninga.

The pennant-labelled Browniegt huricis Ernie pounded Chinese aloy and P. I. Lau for seventeen solid safeties to cross the platter In overy inning, Doubles were clouted by big Joe Bowen and the "pressure kid" Baby Abbas, while Dave Leonard's smashing circuit: drive to deep left in the 6th, fea- tured the heavy Brewer slugging attack.

Week-end Stars

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Ma Nai-kong, the South China short-stop, was one of Gerry Gosano's victims in the match in which the Hongkong Brewers won by 22-0 on Saturday. O. el Arculli is the H.B. catcher-Ming Yuen.

Death Of Well-known

Well-known "CASEY AT

Golfers At Home

LONDON. Two famous figures have passed away re cently and both had their sporting activities run on parallel lines. Major Cecil K, Hutchison and Mr W. Herbert Fowler were first-class golfers, excellent cricketers and yet will best be remembered, perhaps, for their skill as golf course archi- tects.

Baby Abbas and Gerry Gosano, H. . Beer-The 'pressure kid" himself, clouted five solid bingles for a perfect day with the slug- ting wand, tore neross the platter with three tallies and drove in four runs; latter displayed a fast ball in his first mound effort of the season and added four runs to the big Brewer 1otal.

Lau. Grandpa Leung and

Maroons Former Ilwa drove in the winning run with a stling single in the 9th inning and sparked the Chinese Maroons

Hutchison passed away, after a to a brilliant victory: latter hurled: steady ball to take his second extra short illness, in a London nurs ing home at the age of 64. Mr session tilt of the season.

Dave Leonard and Jindo Hus-Fowler died, after a lengthy illness, sain, II. B. Beer-Former led the also in London, at the age of 84. Brewer attack against the Sappers! The former played for Scotland with three bingles, dashed past the against England at golf from 1934 to 1912 while, though twenty years plate with four runs and drove in two more for good measure; latter older, Mr Fowler was assisting Eng- played terpsichorean ball at first land ni about the same time. baxe and came home with two con- ndent tallfes.

Prisoner Last War

********* M^ AJOR Hutchison, who reached

the amateur

championship

proved basketball" style, and re-anal in 1909, was a prisoner in the placed red-headed Bernie Johnson last war when he was in the Cold- on the mound,

stream Guards.

cricketer.

The Chinese Maroons again tted; He was best known to the present up the ball game in the last of the generation as a golf course architect South China's lane bingle of the 7th with two victory-tagged tallies; but in former days was a brilliant fray came in the 3rd canto with one Bill Chung crossing the plate with the golfer and out, when outfielder Dave "Dopey" Orst one, on Morocco Chan's single Lo drove one of Gerry Gosuno's fast to left. The "Morocco boy" stole balls to short.centre

cican 1

on single. The "Doper" took second

for

took third on a close, argu- tested

play, and made a per- a wild heave, but faded out on the fect steal to the platter before twir- keystoning bag as Ernle Moy whit-ler Den could finish off with fed and Cecil Winglee grounded to

wind-up on the this mech aliorialop for the third out.

hillock.

their

像

GRANDPA Leung's pinch-

In pulling through with

ап everlasting

Britain), will be

It was at the request of the late memorial to him. Sir Cosmo Bunsor, a relative, that he designed the course 30 years ago, and the fome thereby gained saw him designing many other famous

THE BAT”

Baseball's Immortal Poem

"CASEY AT THE BAT" is the immortal poem of baseball. It has been reclled by every generation of baseball fan since it was penned by Ernest Thayer, a Harvard stu dent. It first appeared in the San Francisco Examiner in 1880,

DeWolf Hopper reelted the poem thousands of times on the stage. It was, and still is, after these many years, a. favourite with all America,

But, with the passing of time, and as others took to reciting the ex- ploits of the mighty Casey, the word- ing of the poem

took сп many

courses both in Europe and America. changes. Manges are minor in nature

Bill Smith Breaks 5th World Mark

HONOLULU, May 10-For the fifth time in little more than a week, In fact it is said that he once Bill Smith, Jr., Hawaif's 16-year-old! hit a century and, on the same day, swimming find, turned up to-day went on to Woking golf course to with a world record-battering per- win a competition. Such a performance. formance explodca the idea that Smith bested Otto Jaretz, from Chicago's Tower Club, by six yards two such games cannot be mixed,

The event

These

-the story remains the some.

A version distributed in the in- icrests of the Baseball Centennial, commemorating the one hundredth birthday of the national pastime is reprinted for those who core to rO- call the treasured incal

It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville nine that day;

The score stood two to four, with but an inning left to play;

So when Cooney dled at second; and Burrows did the same,

A pallor wrathed the features of the patrons of the game.

A straggling few got up to go, leaving there the rest,

With that hope which springs eternal į within the human breast,

For they thought: "If only Casey could get a whack at that."

They'd put up even money now with

But Finn preceded Casey, and ke- wise so did Blake,

And the former was a puddin', and So on that stricken multitude death-ilke silence sat.

in a 220-yard freestyle race, splash-Casey at the bat. Any overseas golfer who has visit-

distance In ing the

2:07.7-two tenths of a second less than the second straight drawn out win, theed Gleneagles will have played on

must remain course which

as an world standard set by Jack Medica Chung Hwa gang again showed example of Maj. Hutchison's skill. of

April 12, 1935. Perhaps he would best like to be

Seattle Ditmaxed the fourth the latter was a fake; real weakness will the willowed bludgeon, garnering three measly remembered for the course which he night of the fifth annual Duke hiis-in-an-insignificant batting planned in Switzerland, while a pri Kahanamoku_swimming_meet. Paul soner, and which proved such a boon Herron of Honolulu Onished third,

similar to his own.

Athlete Club, fourth. and Tom Haynie, of the Detroit

Ex-International

*show.

clutch single in the 9th frame brought Morocco Chan, who had walked, Anghing across the pan with the "tell-tale" tally, to give the fighting Chinese Maroons their second THE punch-slugging beermen win of the season, an 8-7 victory from Brewerville made it a H.K.B.C.'s marauding double display of might, with an

over

to other British coldlers in a plight

teams in 1903,

Record Discus Throw By Archie Harris

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For there scued but little chonce

of Casey getting to the bat.

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It rumbled in the mountain tops, it w

rated in the dell,

It struck upon the hillaide and re- bounded on the fat,

For Casey, mighty Casey, wor vancing to the bat.

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There was ease in Casey's manner There was pride in Casey's bearing as he stepped into his place, and a smile on Casey's face:

And when; responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat,

Mohawks,

18-2 "leisure" win over the MR 1 Fowler, though 20 years older, For the second straight tune, Royal Engineers.

was also playing International this grand old man from the north! Taking a four run "starting lend" golf nearly' forty years ago and ap- has broken up an extra stanza balt in the 2nd Inning, the red-hot peared in England

MINNEAPOLIS,Archie Harris, game "a is Jimmy Ripple," and his Brewers went to town with five moro 1005.

big Indiana Negro, tossed the discus timely clutch-clubbing since fo start of the season las been the tallies in the next frame to clear all

In addition he won many scratch 174ft 1in, recently to better the only shining spark on the weak before them, in their big-scoring win awards at some of the best known event's American and all-time West- Chung Hwa batting

Sapper moundsmen Mickey Sarclubs, and also played cricket for the ern Conference record in the Big attack.

Geld and Artle Shaw were given a M.C.C. and Somerset.

Ten outdoor track and field cham- The

carried a 3-1 lead Leungmen

when

rough riding as the Beer Barrel P. F. Choy, into the 3rd frame,

It was a golf course architect that pionships preliminary programme at Belchers connected for fourteen hc will be chiefly remembered, how Minnesota's Memorial Stadium. Forrest Loong and Morocco Chan

run-making bingles. Outfielder ever, and Walton Heath (Surrey) Harris great toss fell only an inch Lore across the platter with three pre-

Lonnie Cork took a bad spill in the which has seen su many famous and one-half short of the world clous tallies in the initial inning, but the Five Nation

3rd slanta when he landed in the matches, notably the International mark, held by Will Schroeder and squared

far off drain after a desperate try fourballer. Bobby Locke and S. set in Germany in 1935. The former he wiped them on his shirt: for Obear Arculli's long foul hoist. Brews (5. Africa) versus Henry American mar is 173 feet, set by The game little outfielder was Cotton and Reg. Whitcombe (Grent Ken Carpenter of Southern Call-ground the ball into his hip. taken to the hospital in a dazed! condition.

the count on was driving

double, a walk,

a wild throw and

Dernio Johnson's singlo.

The Maroons again crept through

with a two run lead in the 5th,

fornia.

:

No stranger in the crowd could doubt 'twas Casey at the bat

Ten thousand eyes were on him as

he rubbed his hands with dirt.

Ten thousand hands applauded us

Then, when the writhing pitcher

Defiance gleamed in Casey'a eye, o sneer curled Casey's lip.

The Engineers fooled the "shutout blows off straight ball tosser Madeen Eastern Footballers And now the leather-covered, sphere

but the Iroquois Indians came back to craal past with a four run yelpers" in the 8th canto with a two splurge which seemed Just about, run, Inst effort cutburst when Artle enough to take the old ball game. Show dashed across the pan on Jim However Mohawk manager Chuck Foley's slashing single, and Pete Fox or chalked up another marker on Beer- Waggoner pulled a fast one, maybe just a plain boner, on the men George Souzn's error, gashouse mob, when he yanked re- Hamlin's Soppers played listless gulare Pinky Higgins, Doc Molthen bail in taking this big loss and could and Dan Fittinghoff. In the ap- only gush through with five scattered

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The Beer Brewers rounded off ai Have Field Day

two game werkend triumph in sen- sational fashion, tallying a total

of forty runs in the double win.

SYDNEY, June 30 (Router)-The and crashing out a combined, grand touring Eastern footballers had a slam thirty-one hils, to head up-fleld day of Wagga to-day, beating wards in the league race as deal the local team by 13 goals to nil,

The second test match will be on favourites.

played on July 5 at Sydney. The Chinese won the first test by 6-4.

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And Casey stood a-watchin' It in mighty grandeur there;

the Close by the sturdy batsman ball, unheeded, sped,

That ain't my style," anid Casey. strike one," the umpire said.

From the benches, black with peo- ple, there went up a muffled roar

Like the beating of storm waves on the stern and distant shore,

"Kill him1 KIIL the umplrer" shouted someone in the stand

And it's likely they'd have killed him had not Casey raised his hand.

With a smile of Christian charity great Casey's visage shone:

He stilled the rising tumult, he bade the game go an

lle signalled to the pitcher, and once more the spherold flow.

But Casey still ignored it, and the umpire sald, "Sirike two."-

"Fraud!" cried the maddened thou- sands, and the echo answered, "Frnud!" But ane acornful look from Casey and the audience was awed;

They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles 'strain.

And they knew that Casey wouldn't [let the ball go by again.

The sneer is gone from Caney's lips, his teeth nto clenched in hate:

He pounds with cruel vengeance his bat upon the plate;

And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he tots it go,

And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow.

Oh, somewhere in this favoured land

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And somewhere men are laughing. and somewhere children shout,

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