1941-07-05 — Page 6

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 5, 1941.

Brewerymen Boosted For Another Win

Basketball In

Local Cage Squads Show Promising Efficiency

Speed And Combination

Hongkong In To-day's Nightcap Sappers And Mohawks

HIGHLY SYNCHRONIZED in its present day streamlined form, with ever-changing methods of attack and defence, basketball, the greatest of American indoor athletic pastimes is the game that can boast of over 18,000,000 active players throughout the world.

This fast-motion sport found its way into the world in 1891, when Dr James Naismith, its brilliant inventor set up two pench baskets and used a soccer ball and thirteen rules at the Springfield Y.M.C.A. in Massa- chusetts to start eighteen young students off on a game that was to take the world by storm.

In its infancy. basketball was merely a passing fancy, but down

"ohitung of

through Ita rapid changing history, the game has developed Into th Relentine sport of athletic master- minals, where fundamentals such as dribbiln

fcinting.

feet, hands and body-screening, shooting. cutting and stopping, must be master- ed to meet the changing situations.

Probably emphasised to a greater degree than baseball,

In

the other great American game played in the Colony, is the fact that complete co-ordination and team co-operation is an essential factor to the success of any cage squad.

FOR

In "defending that basket."

Trojans Tackle

Indian Police To-morrow

CONTINUING their practice the sessions in preparation for opening whistle which will start fourteen care squads off on the title hunt and possession of the beautiful Wu Teli-chen Cup, De. functo Silva's Trojan basketbali quintet is slated to tackle the rangy Indian Police hoopsters in an ex- hibition tilt to-morrow, at the Kow- loon Chinese Y.AL.C.A. on Water loo Road, at 4 p.m. Manager Silva has signed on

lineup who have shown noshes

in brilliance

tuncup sessions and should give the Indians

lough

Charlie tussle. Ace Figuereide, former Recreio star will play forward with C. Silva, flanking Defuncto Silva al centre.

veteran

of

Ready For League

a

OR the past few years leading teams in our contested Colony have been using and striving to E Portuguese squad has already improve upon that breath-taking played Gussie Noronha's V.R.C. style of defensive play-the man to quintet in a few practice ults the inn defence. Requiring real stamina, past two months, and are just about It is rapidly becoming the popular ready to start in with the league method of most Chinese teams here, opener.

Captain Baboo Singh's Indlans, The fundamental principle to who have a big height advantage remember in this singling out over most of the other entrants, are one man" method of guarding, is eager to chalk up another pre-season to stay between the opponent win and expect to

gush through you're guarding and the defending with a big victory in to-morrow's basket,

fray.-B. Woo. Teams more advanced employ an interchanging or "momentarily swit- ching" type of mat to man defence to meet the Increasing menace of the screening attacks. The switching method requires quick collaboration which can only be derived from LL set to start out in quest constant team practice.

of the beautiful Wu Teh-chen The zone system of defending a basket,

still populat

with many of Cup, emblematic of summer the younger

tennis

In the local basketball supremacy in Hong- Teagues, has its effective points In a "revolving are guarding sense and kong, leading teams are eagerly defending team that fast awaiting the opening toss-up, break-away momentum.

which has been set for the mid-

Hives n

getting that it means, too, that a more dincult phase of the game must be mastered by them themselves,

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The fast break is highly effective. dle of this month. but tends to loosen up the finer points

Hongkong F.A. Annual Meeting

Altorations To Rules

Baseball Club-Mindanao Postponed Tie To-morrow

(By "Ball Fan")

GLIDING SLOWLY onward towards baseball's crossroads-those opposite paths, the one, known as the VIE ANNUAL GENERAL glamour route which leads directly upwards to the dizzy 1 DIEETING of the Hongkong Football Association will be held at heights and through to the palace of champions; the the Association Office, Bank of other, known as the second division, the direction to Canton Building, on Wednesday. oblivion, dread of all ball teams, leading to the fade-out July 9, at 5.30 p.m. Included in

in the usual agenda for a spot at the bottom of the loop-ball fans will be pretty annual meeting are two items, first, definite, after the week-end tilts, in their hot-stoving confabs, concerning the classification of our major loop teams on either side of the dividing line.

to elect a representative of the Civi

ilan Clubs playing only in the Second and Third Divisions of the Lengue, and second, to consider und, If thought it, pass certain alterailons to the Rules of the Association

Tours

H,B.'s barrel-rolling bolchers from Browerville hit into a soft spot as they open up the two-day card, this afternoon at 2.15 p.m., against the Chung Hwa Maroons. Chuck Waggoner's tamed Mohawks of former marauding fame. An important change is one deat-clash in the "aujourd'hui" nightcap with those hard-going ing with tours. It reads:

(a) Any Club proposing to make Sappers known as the Royal Engineers.

a tour or lours out of the Colony

shall obtain the sanction of the "And the seventh day is to be p******* Asunciation. All Clubs must sub-n day of rest", so states an an- mit n financial statement of such cient and much abused law; but

tour within 14 dall Invite the it certainly will not apply to

(b) No Club

on

players of other Clubs to take part South China's red and blue men in any four, without the permission who are due to put in with a of the Clubs concerned, and Clubs long ball-shagging session concerned shall notify the Associa-

the diamond once again to- tion. Such permission shall not be necessary during the close season. morrow morning in their fracas with Tony Governule's Ashe- ville Aces.

Team Strength Another important proposal is the following:

"Each Club shall play is fullOPENING up this afternoon at strength in all matches under the 2.15 p.m., the "extra inning” Jurisdiction of this Association un-Chinese Maroons are definitely Icas some satisfactory reason Is set to finish in seven stanzas given. In the event of the ex-behind the big red sign when planation not being satisfactory the offending Club will be dealt with they take on under Rule 53. Any Club proved Brewers.

to have been responsible for a late start ju a match without sufficient | reason shall be liable to be deall with under Rule 53,

Referees' Fees

ENERAL Increase in Referees

GENERAL area's fees are pro

the powerful

Tony Grovernale, Muddy Ruel and Robert Strahl are booked to handle this one.

The beersquetching Brewers have been simmering in red-hot confiagration since that bad break In the season's opener, and broke all records last week with a dual display

of "platter - crossing" posed for Shield and Cup matches, The Increases which will provide a

might, reminding us of an whelming basketball score. referee with $10 and a tinesman with: In the big Beer Bubblers' run at- $5 per match are only applicable to tack, the pressure

kld, Baby Abbak, the Shield competition in the semi-thons Bke a brilliant | anal and final stages.

Accounts

THE Statement

of

Accounts shows a net profit of $4,$34.50) for the year. This is brought about|

A few foreign teams have already. of resulting in high- scoring wide-open games in rend-sent in their entries to assure the Ing in the zone system, the centre Cake of an international atmosphere. Macao. pivot is all-important, around whom.

the other four cogs must revolve in smooth working unison.

*

OFFENSIVELY, screening plays.

with Maeno. At

over-

star in the clear sky. This good-natured centre- fielder, a real threat at the plate in every Brewer game since the start of the season, is just about the most Tective "low ball, right field" hitter at the Chatham Road ball park.

only by the Shield, and Cup with the gashouse gang and is class- The pressure kid is a favourite matelies, for the League accounted among the top-light fly hawks in reveals a loss of $784.61.

$103.91 was made on the the seven team loop.

"Leonard's delight." not a choco- Interport match

Jate bar nor soda fountain special, but a phrase used to show Captain Dave Leonard's happy frame of mind, pui in its appear- ance all over the bambino's fea- tures last week each ilme rookie Gerry Gosano hurled

one

of those fast slingers across the pan. The burly third sacker has visions the ice stabman on the II.B. mound of youthful Gerry branching out as

staff, and was all u-flutter at the showing of this young reballer in his first

first appearance on the hillock, Chung Hwa

Muroon fans are pinning their hopes on moundsman Al Lou's iron elad right arm, that wity old baseball lender grandpa

of the Governor's Cup match-

the

From this angle it looks like at Charity matches brought a grand two-way fight between Soulh China | total of over $20,000. The Sunday and Sing Tao, with the Kuo Mụn | Herald Charity Fund received $3,000 University stars coming in as the for distribution among twenty-two "dark horse" threat.

local charities, the Poppy Day Match This youthful Canton quintet plays realised $1,002.40, and various other and the five men continuity that spectacular dashing type of Charity games brought in $9,030.07. system are the most up to date forms rame, relying on speed and fighting

agreement between the Assocla- of attack. However, the blocking spirit throughout the forty minutes lon and the Federation, the proceeds

By system is still in its infancy here injof play, China and

The two red-hot favourites, South $5.075.08 was divided between the tried in its continuity has yet to be

its synchronizing form. China and Sing Tao, put particular Bomber Fund and In Hongkong, very few, if any, stress on the finer points of cage Bomber Fund.

cage quintets have mastered playing, making certain of each pass, s style of "screen film out" ame defending in systematic unison and to any preliminary degree

each break at that "spilt efficiency. South China

A.A. Tecond" as it presents itself.

Sing Tao have a veteran com- bination who have played together for years and use their height and the long years of experience greatest advantage.

Jocal

thly s

taking.. of

cagers occasionally flash through with a

Chinese

Baseball Schedule Leung, who is known as the grand

Chatham "Road

a perfect screening play, but na a rule, most local teams are not yet advanced to the point where screening Is the big offensive. Thorough drilling in the fundamen added to the South China lineup and 2.15 p.m. H. D.

weapon.

Outstanding rookies have been

the Caroline Hillmen are rapidly

tal methods of basketball, foot work, rounding into shape for the opening feinting, confidence in handling that whistic.

will prove to lie about the most important phase

ball,

Beer

The spacious "Y" court on Water- 4.00 p.m. Royal

Engineers

the development loo Road, 95 ft by 45 it in area, with of a strong basketball squad.

its new floodlighting system, should

TO-DAY

v, Chung

Morcons.

V. H.K.B.C. TO-MORNow

Some of the teams here in the prove a boom to basketball on the 10 a.m. U.S.S. South put too much stress on the idea mainland, and will probably attract Asheville that a system of complicated plays outstanding crowds

during the 2.30 p.m. U.S.S. works to a greater advantage, for- breezy summer nights,-Bill. Woo.

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THE Royal Engineers v. Iro

quois Mohawk nightcap at 4.00 p.m., brings together two teams with an entirely different [background, in a practical base-

ball sense.

The Suppers are a hard fighting team of diamond tossers who started. playing the game only a few years back-u ball playing nine who have not been through the steady stages

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Weekly Wind-up

Last Saturday's near brawl in the dłohawk v. Chung Hwa Maroon game starts the old "huila, balico" arguments off once again with a big bang-It was a pretty sight, while it lasted yeah, pretty lousy It's about time the wise ones woke up and did something constructive about the system of geiting referçes for the games.

The local loop is about the only organized baseball league in the world

can

we've ever heard of, where admission is charged, (50 big cents) and where referees work gratis,

Fifty cents is a lot of money for these ball games-Fifty cents get a person into any big

Icaruc ball park to see the New York Yan- kees murder that ball-It's enough cash to see Bucky Walters dazzle them over, on the mound at Cin- clamat or to watch Leo "Lipps” Durocher's daffy Dodgers play real ball over in Brooklyn, with a soild bleacher seal thrown in.

Why not form a refercés associa- Lion, similar to our local basket ball referees association.

Chinese Maroon Burler At Lau seems to have pulled a real fast one. on his erilles, with two stellar "iron man" mound performances so far this year.

Dizzy Dean, remember the old "dizzler" now with the Chicago Cubs-He was recently appointed Cub coach at double his active playing salaryNext in line for the draft: Benny McCoy, Connie Mack's U.S. $45,000.00 beauty.

Gerry Gosine has the goods that produces starry pitchers-Wiili those Stanley Mehawks on the move inland, the Iroquols Tribe seems to have lost a lot of that old sting and zip-Fact is, there doesn't seem to be any of that marauding spirit which characterized thelr performance during the past

Very

our

winter.

The New York Yankees. favourites since the days we started our A.B.C.'s when Miller Huggins, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Tony Lazzeri, et al., were in their hey- day, appear headed for the well- known pennant trail once again— Joe McCarthy's faith in that sensa tional rookie keystoning dus, Phil Rizzutto and Gerry Friddy, is al- ready beginning

bear fruit.

A smart keystone combination 14 an important

tant cog on any ball team The Sousa-Alves duo just about takes the top spot in the local class ZZ. 8am

sandlot league-Roy Maxwell and Alex Azedo, mainstays V.R.C.'s championship softball nine, are also sparking the Aquacaders basketball squad-Both Irave taken to the cage game like a Bostonian takes to clam chowder.

complete buscbali education; a To-day's Lawn

team who haven't acquired that

extra

baseball "oomph" which can

only be instilled

This youth into a player during i

sandlot days.

All-round, baseball sense grows with a kid from the very day be

Įstarts handling a bat and glove on

Bowls League Schedule

on

on

The lawn bowls league schedule

the corner lot or on the side street for to-day 15:

damond

Chuck Waggoner's Mohawks

have had the opportunity to

Knack

FIRST DIVISION

v. C.S.C.C.

v. Indian R.C. v. K.B.G.C. "B" v. K. Ducks

acquire that baseball "knick Craigengower V. Recreio "A"

from knee-high days, and | Kowloon C.C. should know the ins and' outs of Poilee the game from most angles. How-| Recreio "3" over from our perch in the stands, | K.B.G.C. “A” they seem to rely only on the experience derived from former lack the youthful fight

days. They

SECOND DIVISION ·

and that necessary something" Hongkong C.C. v. Recrel which is required in any compell- Prison O.C.

tive sport to produce a winner.

K. Ton

v. Kowloon C.C

v. Craigengower

Red Johnson is slated to start on Hongkong F.C. v. Kowloon F.C.

the mound for the Five Nation Red-

THIRD DIVISION

skins and if the burly Texan can control those wild tosses, the En-c.D.G.C.

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v. Cralgengower

v. Police R.C.

v. Hongkong C.C.

gineers will find plenty of trouble Kowloon F.C. v. Hongkong F.C. with his speedy delivery.

Indian R.C.

The Crary-Schaberg duo on the Recrelo Icft side of the infield have played

consitent ball · since

pretty

Blart, but

Aile

manager Waggoner's ans and South China's definite troubles start with a big "yelp" all-season cellar dwellers, at second base.

Hat Winglee, Stan Leonard and Nip Lum have been called to take and on this one.

SUNDAY morning's fracas

Doe Molthen, Chuck Waggoner

· Tony · · Muscavage have been listed to referee.

The dramailo Caroline Hillmen aro still fuming and fisting ficavüy from the ferocious front office squabble, reminiscent of the famous together Ashevillo's Tennessee- TURN to Pago 7, Column Four

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