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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH 1

August 16, 1941.

"Ball Fan's" Baseball Notes

A Knotty Problem

Runner on firet base. Batter attempts to sacrifice with a. bunt. Catcher picks up bunt and throws to second. Second baseman -in his hurry to complete a double play, fails to touch second base with the runner reach- ing second safely and the batter beating the throw to first base. Scorer gave the latter a time al bat and charged an error to the accond baseman. Was this correct?

(Ansiver In Tuesday's edition).

Colony Aquatic Championships

New Events And Dates

DATES for the Colony Aquatic. Championships have been decided. These will be September 25 at 8.07 p.m., September 27 at 9.07 P.. October 2 at

8.07 p.m. and October 4 at 9.07 p.m.

These were arranged at a meeting on Thursday evening.

Seven new events are included in the programme. Five of these were mentioned in these columns Thursday, and in all they are:

MEN

220 yards back-stroke.

220 yards breast-stroke.

150 yards individual méilley,

WOMEN

220 yards free-style.

50 yards breast-stroke.

10 yards back-stroke.

15 yards individual medley.

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Diving will be judged from three fancy dives, the degree est dicity to count.

Programme

Other than these new events, there of last your remain unchanged ond will be as follows:

MEN

Free-style-50 yards, 100 yards, 220 yurds, 440 yards and BB0 yards.

100 yards breast-stroke, 100 yards Imrk-stroke.

Relays-150 yards medley and 200 yards free-style.

Women

Free-style-50_yards, 100 yards,

440 yards.

100

100 yards breast-stroke and yards back-stroke.

Relays. 150 yurds medley and 200 yards free-style.

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Recreio "A"-Bowling Green "B" League bowls match in progress Jast Saturday at King's Park.. J. A. Luz (Recreio) delivering a wood on the rink nearest the

camera. Ming Yuen.

Problems For Infielders

Lessons Learned From

Big League

Stars

Static or Mobile Defence

THROUGH the progressive stages of baseball, since the day when Abne Doubleday, that civil war hero, set up the first playing rules at Coopers- town N.Y., the advantages and disadvantages of an infielder's problem of shifting continually or remaining still when playing the batter, has always been a question.

A well-trained infield is a flexible bulwark of the defence. It retreats and advances, opens up for double plays, closes in for bunts; and, generally speaking, ad- justs itself to the defensive requirements of the moment.

Most baseball masterminds

are of the opinion that in order

Schedule

Chatham Road

To-day

Season Fast Draws To Its Close

Charity Game To-day

SENDING OUT the initial clarion call to the affect that the Colony's baseball season is fast drawing to a close, the first of the post season charity games has been tagged for this after- noon at the Chatham Road ball yard.

Starting at 2.30 p.m. the powerful American Navy nine will tackle Hongkong's Áli- Stark.

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Doc Molthen, Welfie Welford and Bob Foley nro booked to handle this tit.

Uncle Sam's rea-going ball players will probably be an exact replica of the champion Mindanao Hineup. The Ski Powławski-Tony Muscavage battery have clicked into high gear once again after a temporary lapse a few weeks back and are rarin' to get Jut êm.

The

high-shooting "Skter". master moundaman de luxe and as cool and calculated as you'll And them anywhere in the Colony, shouldn't find too much trouble in wuldu!ng the All-Stars with his "wislzz-flring" ball.

Wally Ching is cloted to start on 'he All-Star mound with the reliable Ylp Lum behind the platter.

2.30 p.m. U.S. Navy v. Hongkong Mercers Chen has been chosen to

All-Stars.

4 p.m.-Royal Enginerra v.

Ching Hwa Maroons,

slay first base with Bill Chang on rend, George Sousa ot the windy Įlley and Tony Alves at third base. A not showing trio aus been selected with the youthful Gerry 11 am. Mindanao v. South China, ano at left. Mac Wong playing

centre and Hank All right fleld.

To-morrow

Boxing Revival Anticipated

After War Ends

LONDON, (UP)—Bexing—as a sport and not merely as a spec tacle-many well be in for a real revival in Britatu as a result of the war.

LOSING out their league season in the nightcap starting at 4 p.m. the Chung Hwa Martens should make an tasy win over Welde Welford's Royal Engineers with Ski Powlawski, Nip Lum and Charlie Waggoner in the refereeing role,

MINDANAO'S terrific "M" play M out their last loop filt against the weak-willowed South China nine- Sunday morning starting at 11

Tom Darrington, the famous old British heavyweight, has been giving.

hand in the instruction of army

band

are of classed as highly-trained, Weekly Wind-up boxess by showing strappuse em off their successful season with it

an inner defence must move to meet the shifting stages of the game. Each player plays not as a unit, but as a cog in a perfect- ly adapted and readily adaptable mechanism.

The range of an infelder dependa un his ground covering ability and his throwing arm.

If he has a great arm and plays to the left of the Infleld, he can lay back deeper for the batter and still get him at first base. Ability to go right as well as left increases

his "ground"galilig ̈emetertially i

Experienced

infielders overcome slowness of foot by getting the jump on the ball, and making a quiel: start. Dave "beauty" Bancroft,. former New York Giant shortstoj was a shining example of this. He ted to step in the direction where. he felt the ball would be hil, before. the hatter met it. In this way he geln flying start.

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THERE have been infielders

.

who have trodden upon the threshold of greatness, who shifted vory Btle for batters. Rogers Hornsby, the treat "rajah", one of the most bril- liant, ball players the game has ever seen, belonged to this cate-

gory.

He had his own method of playing second base very deep. Unless lie was called upon to approach nearer second base for a possible double play, he took his stand and played all batters alike.

Many infielders would call this system indefensible, but Hornsby was a great second baseman. The great "rajah" always claimed that he play- ed the position

lon that he thought would. give him the best results. He never advocated this system for others.

Hughle Critz, great lite koy- stoner a few years back. with the Cincinnati Reds and the New York in Glants, had a system that was

contrast to the Hornaby thod

Criiz often shifted his position at least fifteen feet. almost never played two battera in the same position.

Said Critz, “Shifting for batters.19 one of the fundamental things thut a second bascinan need to do. You've got to do it' h order to play the percentages,

IT in generally acknowledged that a slow inflelder can make a good fellow infielder look bad. On the other hand a great n felder can improve the work of hin other infielders.

Plc, Traynor, the best third bune- man ever developed by the Pittsburg) Pirates, once stated that all infletderr played in br mit at if'fferent stages of the game and as a rule also shifted from right to left for different batters.

did not

Although a third hortstop, Ple

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shift as much as the Travnar le known to have moved much as thirty fest in exigeren menany When extreme shifts are required, well-trained infielders work in unl-

to prevent big gaps in the

Difference of opinion la import- “unt”hi” baseball ̋ku-wall ̈¬AN÷«I««!

He

young The champions are out to nich

bang, and in the clear sailing will

high-scoring win,

in the gym. One of the best baseball schools

promising material in the ranks of Beach, Florida, under the direction the army to-day

in America Is the one at West Palm of that there is any amount rcbably rush through with another

of Cecil Downs-Il's called the "Although, I suppose, some of the Referees appointed are:-Doc Mo!- Baseball College of America lads will not keep up their boxing then, Charlie Wagoner and. Bill Muddy Ruel, former starry Wash-when they return to civil life, a lot Chang Ington Senator catcher, is head of of them are sure to carry on, either! the coaching staff-Rogers Horns- as amateurs or professionals, now

by, the old "rajah" himself, runs a that we have them really Interested baseball school at Hot Springs, in the sport," Darrington said,

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Latest dope on the softball horl- zen-A new team "the Furiosa," meaning fürious, will make its appearance in the loop this season-

Under the experienced guidance of Harry "rapid" Campos, the mainstays will include Vince Mar- ques, Lefty Cochlo and Sandy

Sandberg.

Jindoo Hussain, siugging out- fielder with the pennant winnier St Joseph's nine last season, is certainty to start with the Cyclones this year A. M. Oniar's big moan- song at the present time is

ins

"It is a very healthy outlook for the future of boxing."

lon in Britain when the war is over. The "old brigade" will be gone, but there sbork be no great dfficulty in filling their places in There are bound to be drastie the post-war ring with so many changes in the heavyweight situa-youngsters belug taught boxing.

As Great A Feat As

A 4-minute Mile

entitled, "ly kingdom for a starry Varsity Coach Thinks Al Diebolt

The Cyclones expect to

RFC a team in cach division this

year.

Doc Molthen showed plenty of stuff

on the hillock in his rellel role last week against the Maroons The Mohawks probably would have fared better if the Doo had started the

the game on the mound. Ty Cobb's life time batting mark ot .367, up in the majors will be pretty hard

to beatle, batted

Capable of 45-sec Quarter

HAMILTON, N. Y. (U.P.).—A young man who once was

so badly crushed in an automobile accident that it was feared he might never walk again may be the first athlete ever to run

a 45-second quarter mile.

At least, Jack Rourke, track planship in 46.2. barely nosing our coach at Colgate University, be Eastman at the tape. over 300 for 23 consecutive years lieves that if anyone turns the To Race Another Season and led the league hitters for nine trick Al Diebolt, Jr., will be the DIEBOLT is the first quarter miler

straight seasons-Sure is a great record for a great ball player.

To-day's League Bowls Programme

The following is the League Lawn Bowls

programme io-day:

FIRST DIVISION

Indian R.C. K.N.O.C. "***** X.B.G.C. "A" Recreio "" K. Docks

V. Recreio "A" V. c.C.C.

v. Kowloon C.C.

V

Police

V. C.8.C.C.

SECOND DIVISION

goon F.C.

c.c.c.

Talkoo

KFC.

V. Recreio

v. I.K.CC.

V. K. Tong

v. Prizen O.C.

THIRD DIVISION

Polico II.K.C.C. Flectric Recreio

VIC.C.C.

V. K.D.G.C.

V. Kowloo" F.C.'

v.. Indian R.C.

for

boy to do it.

And It's no Idle boast. Young Diebolt, whose father was a running star in his own right at Colgate be fore the World War, turned in a 40.0 quarter mile at New York City re ently and appears capable of better Ing this time with another year of experience.

Rourke, veteran of 20 years of coaching at Colgate and prior, to |that Instructor of Howard Drew, frst record-breaking Negro sprinter, hus is reasons why Diebolt might be he Brat 45-second quarter miller in bistery.

Physical Equipment Ideal

L is a big, powerful, fast athlete

threaten the records of East- man and Carr in the past decade.

His coach belleves he hasn't yet reached his peak. Al is only 20 years old and has another year of competition at Colgate, where he is captuin-elect of the track squad.

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Rourke went on to explain that Diebolt could be made a 6.6 sprint- er in the 100-yard dash and that he can run the 220 yards in under 21 seconds, although he has never the shorter raots concentrated 'on "He, bus natural speed," the conch ald. "Once I clocked him for 350 zards in 30 seconds flat-which may faster than that disfanew has ever

where. In no siruple and ohylauren run. That's why I say he mighti a device as cliffling from elde edo a 40

3 seconds quarter, which would side to accommodate left-handed to as great a fent as running a mite britera

or right-handed batterr114 minutes flat." there appears to be no univeeally Blazing Ben Eastman,

former acopter rula, oven rænder the bla Stanford sfor, holds the recognised tent. To shift or not to shift de world's record of 464 for the quar pends therefore not only poon the ter mile, and his greatest competitor belter at the plafe, but so non | !:f the early '30s, Bill Carr, Univer the partionlar gvatam employed by sity of Pittsburgh immortal, the opposing Infielder, ~~

won the Olympic-400-metre- cham-

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