1941-07-29 — Page 6

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 29, 1941.

'Ball Fan's" Baseball Notes

Chung Hwa Maroons' Improved Display

South China Downed

6-3

Steady Hurling

By Moundsman Al Lau

A roal bitter mixture of bad rainy weather. and front office upheaval, coupled with the ab- sence of the Ashoville-Tulsa combination from port was enough to limit the wook-end baseball card to one solitary game, às the former sovon toam loop continued to limp its way toward the season's end.

Chung Hwa's fighting Maroons clipped through with another win as they set the South China gang down 6-3. It was the second Maroon win in the "All Chinese classics."

GRANDPA Leung's Chung

Iwa nine rode confidently

Acting Onto the gates of victoryville in the Water-Polo

opening stanza, marking up

Misinformation four big tallies on the "Coca

Cola" scoreboard.

Received..................... Veteran Dick Chung, making a

wetened return to the

Maroon

lineup, slummed out a rousing triple;

Reasons For Wrong to start off this high-scoring tuning.

Baseball Schedule walked to fill the hogs, putting South

It is felt that an explana- tion should be forthcoming

Forrest Loung and B Chang bath China hurler Paul Lati in the well- known "tough spot" at the outset.

Morocco Chan's driving bingle to

SIGNALS HELD TO DRAW BY

MOMENT OF ACTION

AT THIRD

Dick Chung, Chung Hwa Maroons, sliding back to third base in their Baseball match at Kowloon park on Saturday. Texaco Ng ready to nab the throw from catcher.-Ming Yuen.

MIDDLESEX "A" Touring Chinese Lose

DESPITE having attained a lead of 4-1, Signals, unbeaten leaders of the Water-polo League, were held to a 4-all draw by Middlesex "A" in the Army pool yesterday. Middlesex opened the scoring bu

et drove in two run9 aid Bill in the early stages of the second half, from this colump to those Chang breezed BCTORS the platter poor marking had cost them four who read the baseball gossip with another tally on Hal Wigler's goals. They staged a rally, however, and two quick goals and then a long on Saturday in regard to the wild per Al Lau fled to centre-

shot from Ure from over the half- weekly baseball schedule Held for the first out in this eventful

way line saw them draw level at which did not coincide with 1st stanza, but another Maroon run

crossed the plate when Morocco 4.all. the one eventually and offi-Chan sped

on "spectacle" Willie cially set by the League Sham's bingle over second.

Woo hoisted to left and T. Y. Ho's Secretary,

infield out, ended the winners' high- scoring inning.

Deepest apologies are offered to those Mindanao players who appeared at the ball park on Sunday around 9.50 n.m. expect-! ing the game to start at 10 a.m., to the members of the Chung Hwa Maroon team who were erroneously scheduled to play two games over the week-end, to Dave "Dixie" Walker, popu- lar Cardinal couch and a real fellow, and to those ball fans who may have appeared at the Chatham Road park expecting the game to start at 10 a.m.

Information was definite as late as Friday by the League Secretary that the games, as printed, were to be played over the week-end.

But on with the story:-A league meeting was held on Friday for the schedule purpose of revising the after the black spot inserted into the local baseball annais the previous couple of weeks.

Unis

home

The Chung Hwamen finished off their scuring session for the day with two more runs in the 3rd frame, on tivo bils and a walk, with "By" La and Dick Chung whizzing by the pay-off pan on Atorocco Chan's timely line drive. In the 5th canto after Pat Weng, South China centrefielder had popped Maroon twirler Al Lau to short,

to momentarily Dopey Lo and Ernie Moy. Paul Lau walk

weakened

Saturday's Stars

Al Lau and Dirk Chung, Chung Ilwa Maroons-Former hurled an- other steady game to chalk up lils the South second victory over China nine. limiting the Caroline. illimen to three acaltered hits; latter made a welcomed return to

the Chung Hwa lineup, leading the winners' clouting attack with a --sizzling-triple-and-a single.-

Other Games

Navy."C" beat Middlesex "B" 3-1, scorers for the sailors being Hulsh 2 and Wilson. Holdford replied for Middlesex.

Win For R. Scots "A" Royal Scots "A" met their "B") team and emerged winners by the odd goal in five. Gray, Millar and Hunter registered for the "A", while Laws and Morris tallied for the "B",

Second Soccer "

Soccer "Test"

Leading 2-1 at Half-time; Beaten 4-2: Woo Injured

LOSS OF C. S. WOO, left-half, through 'injury, probably cost China the second Soccer Teat at the Sydney Cricket Ground on July 4.

·

China scored in the first three minutes, and led 2-1 at half-time.

Clever Forwards

man in the Australian

Australia won 4-2, but when Woo went off 25 minutes from the end, the scores were 2-all and it looked anyone's match.

Woo récelved a kick in the chest LAVERY and was badly bruised. He could team played his part. The for- not say how it happened.

wards, Crowhurst, Wilkinson, Quill, Hughes, and Wynn, kept the ball swinging purposefully from wing to wing,

A crowd of 24,337. who paid £2,139, had many thrills,

Basketball's "Big" Game Slated For To-morrow

South China v. Sing Tao

ON THE AGENDA as the basketball classic of the year, Hongkong's rabid cage fans are once again eagerly awaiting the opening whistle to set off the "game of games," when the smooth working Sing Tao basketeers tackle South China's ********* | classy cagers in a spotlighted tilt of a two game card, to-

morrow night at the Kowloon Chinese Y.M.C.A., Waterloo.

But what was run into at meeting called to revise the

guessed 1, ball fans hoisted an easy one for the second schedule? You

into u typhoon. Yes, sir. A typhoon of words regarding the H.B. out, but Cecil Winglee toolt first on Road, at 8.30 p.in.

n "tour bali special" to the bags. Mindanao affair, with the "gab gab Nelson Ma's sizzling single drove in gabbing" see-sawing from one side Dopey Lo with South China's first to another.

tally of the game. The excitement During the short Interim when he died down when Ernie Moy wax general committee were in private caught stealing home for the last confab, the Lengue Secretary was out. asked for the two-day baseball card

to be played over the week-end.

The Caroline Millmen added two more runs in the last of the 7th in-

He said that the Chung Hwalning, in a desperate bid to pull the Maroons were playing two games, | game out of the Are.

the first against South China on Saturday, and against Mindanao's terrifle Mou the Sabbaltı morn.

It was discovered on Saturday) after reading the morning paper that Welfie Welford's Royal Engineers were taking on the terrifle M at 11 a.m. on Sunday.

Games Played Yesterday

The thrustful methods of the half- backs, Bryant, Coolahan. and Os- borne, provided many rcoring chances.

The Chinese half-backs, N., Chang, Sung, and Woo, were clever, too.

Aut the visitors had no chance when Woo left,

All the clever scheming and dash of the Chinese centre-for- ward, Hyui, and his inside 'sup- ports, Fung and Lai, backed by the methodical distribution of centre- half Sung, was frustrated by the excellent defence of

Wallace, Evans and Morgan.

The Chinese goalkeeper, Y. Chang, made some of the finest "saves" ever seen in Sydney, Ic deall confidently with shots fred In from all angles by Wynn, Hughes, and Wilkinson in the first half.

The opening game at. 7.30 p.m. featuring the rangy Indiari

The Chinese were at their best in Police squad in a fracas against the Arst three minutes of play. Lai the strong National University made an opening for Hyul. This hoopmen, makes it a brilliant #teet-footed centre-forward evaded night of high-class basketball. Coolahan and swept the ball across Billed as the best two teams, by to Tsao, who beat Morgan with a ter-

rifte drive. Competition for the Wa Teh- far and wide. In Southern China, chen Cup in the summer basketball) and arch rivals Tor years for Wilkinson carved a perfect 'open- league began last night at the supremacy in the South, the Singing for Hughes to level the scores, Chinese. V.M.C.A., Kowloon, when Tão V. South China all-important two matclien were played. game will start both teams off in Next, Iyul lobbed the ball over General Wu's-Secretary, Mr Tong quest of Hongkong's Open Summer Morgan's head when the Australian Siu-huen. tossed the first ball. League Championship and possession keeper ran out to meet the oncom- Wah Kiu beat Bank Union 54-28, at the beautiful Wu Teh-chen Cup.

Ing Chinese, and gave China a 2-1 Lau who Imited the weak- The half-time scores were 27-14 In

lend a half-time. willowed South China gang to favour of Wah IJU. Outstanding) three measly blows. The specta-player was Ting Chan-hon (Wal' Klu) cled moundsman showed flashes of who played right wing and scored 24

goals, speed In "laying 'em over" and an- pears to be improving rapidly with each game.

In spite of the fact that regulars Wally Ching. P. F. Choy and Hark Clan 'were out of the line- up, the Maroons played confident ball behind the steady hurling of AL

Second Match

The second match was between Black Cats and Kowloon Residents Union, the

Youthful Sek Chen-tack and the roolle Ng Sin-chlu from Canton University are slated to tean off

on the defence and should add that fountain of youth" zip to the well- ulled Caroline Hill basketball ma- chine.

the better

China's Missed Chances Although a writer may be just one of the many, many plain "nobody's"

AUSTRALIA" looked in this peculiar-customed Colony, the

team in the early part of the second half, and after clever pass- League Secretary, in the interest

ing, Wilkinson made it 2-all from a local baseball, for those teams that

Pitted against Sing Tao's forward pass from Crowhurst.. make up the league and for boll fons in general, should have at least made

former winning 10-37. The half-time line of Lee Pul-chick, Chen Yu-

·Several times the Chinese for an effort to inform this column of

scores were 24-10 in favour of the ching and Lo Clien-hoon, South the change, coming as it did just tickets and were expecting to see a playing right wing, scored 19 goals. cheering for their sharp-shooting easier scoring, positions.

winners. Leung Wai-hung (Residents) China A.A.'s cage fans will be wards lost chances through recking real baseball season-yes sir! They Back Cols had two brilliant players favourites with Sek Chien-chee, Morgan brilliantly saved hot shots However, it is felt that ball fans, are the ones who have been taken in Li Pui-wing and Leung Kwok-ylu chung Ling, Cheung Yuk-kwan- and trom Hyuk and Lai, those who really make the game, for the toughest ride.

who between them scored 31 goals. Siew Kit-man expected to bear the

brunt of the scoring attack.

after being told otherwise.

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Speedy Quintet

Then China, weakened by the absence of Woo, was unable to cape with the Australian attacks.

Crowhurst dashed ahead and sent THIS year's edition of the South a perfect pass to Quill. The centre- THE

China quintet have speed in forward was too quick for goalle abundance, ball-handling ability in Chang, and Australia led 3-2.

its high class form, trained to the Then Hughes skilfully headed a limit and have a fighting spirit that will be hard to beat,

Sing Tao rely on a veteran team

high centre from Crowhurst into the rict, and the game was as good DS over.

that we

of experienced ball-handlers who Mr Peter Woo, co-manager of the have played together for many Chinese team, said: "The field was years. The nowspaper quintes too small for the Chinese style of plays a slow revolving' game cen-play. It was unfortunate fred around the pivot play of ace had to play with 10 men in the guard Leung Kok-dock,

second half. I think we will win The Caroline Hillmen have D next Saturday." sprinkling of veterans to augment

the starry youngatera and should

Ball

3. B. Evans, the Australian cap-

gush through with thrilling basket-tain: "It was a clean, hard-fought, in their first tough game of the game. The better team won, though until the Chinese lost Woo the play was even.".

season.

-AUSTRALIA. 4 (2. Itughes 2, Wilkin- son, quiii) beat CHINA 2 (Texo, Uyul), at Cricket Ground, Team:

The veteran Poon Yec-kwan, an- other old timer in the ranks of local, cage circles, will round out the Sing Too defensive duo, giving the strong cogers from

across the bay, a steady guarding unit.

Australia-Goal, W. Morgan; full-backs, 3. Wallace, F. Evans; half-backs, п. League omelata expect to handia 你 Bryant, W. Coolahan, J.- Osborne; for capacity crowd in this "all outwards, t. Crowhurst. Wilkinson, A. game with the admission price set Quill 7. Hughes, M.. Wynn.

at thirty cents. Season tickets, em- ChinaCoal, Y. Z. Chang: full-backs, bracing the entire schedule can be Y. 8. Hau, T. S. Lee: half-backs, B. 11. bought for $4.70 at the Kowloon Chang B. Sung. C. B. Woo; forwards. B. Yo Yeung, K. C. Fung. V. K, Ryul, B. YMCA—B||} Woo.

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