1941-09-17 — Page 22

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

September 17, 1941.

Around The Courses

Peculiarities Of Players And Clubs

Brother Batteries In Baseball

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BROTHER BATTERIES in major leagues are something of a Farity, but It begins to look as though the Cooper boys, Mort and Walker, are destined to give the St. Louis Cardinals such combinations for some time to come. Walker,

catchier,

up from 310 Columbus to join his older brother and is rated one of the fresluman finda of the current campaign.

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The Cooper boys first teamed up back in Atherton, Mo., but did not work together as a battery in pro- fessional baseball until late in 1930

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Mort scored 0-0 shut-out at the expense of Tulsa on that occasion, and history repented itself when the pair was reunited on the closing day of last season as members of the Cardinals.

That day, Mort beat the Chiengo Cubs by the saine score-6-0,

The father of the boys, Robert Cooper, was a fine semi-pro pitcher' In his youth and might have won big league fame had he not decided rural

to settle down to a job as mail carrier and be content with raising a family.

Encouraged At School

WALKER

thank one can

of his school teachers in Atherton, onc Frances Montgomery, for the decision

hat made in a catcher.

Miss

who helped

Montgomery, conduct athletics in the Atherion Junior high school in addition to her tenching duties, took one look at the husity Wailer and handed him A cutcher's pods and glove.

Mort was the star pitcher on the and Walker jumped at the chance to work with his brother.

The entcher of the Cooper family, a bit fellow, stands 6-foot-3 and weighs close to 200 pounds. Ile. caught 130 games in the American Assgelation last season and batted 302. His big bat has helped win several games for his brother, this

genson.

Mort likes to work with his brother behind the plate. Last season he won 11 games for the Cardinals. He is 27, e year older than Waiter.

With the flying start he has made this season. It would not be at all surprising to see him crash magic circle of 20-game winners,

"Y" Hockey Practice

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The Y.M.C.A. Hockey Club hold their first hockey practice match on the "Y" ground, King's Park, on Saturday, September 20 at p.m.

Players are requested to inke along both Club and White shirts,

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ARMS AND THE MAN-Bob Foller's mighty pitching arm seems fit enough to toto a Garand rifle, judging from report by Dr. Michael Goraci, loft, who examined the ace hurlar. He'll probably be deferred until baseball season is over.

International

Rivalry

At Marbles!

LONDON, Sept.-Although International

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sport has suffered severely in these War days, the presence in Great Britain of sportsmen from various parts of the world has in other bases added to the friendly rivalry.

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Tinsley Green have been cham pions many times, but when last held, the title went to a team. of businen from nearby Crawley.

Killing flies on a wall at range of several yards with the expert "nick" of the marble is no

rarity.

The shock of baseball on

Whippy Shafts In The Hands Of Hitters

Chinese Caddie Eulogised

(By "Birdio")

́ ́THE HIGH WIND of the week-end and the past few days has made golf interesting to say the least. But it is a great teacher, for nothing accentuates the slightest slice or hook as much as hitting into the wind. The ball careena round in.most graceful parabolas, and if the shot

is hard enough it will end by running almost at right- angles to the proper direction.

It is a great test, too, of] Judgment, for this in an im- portant in

A good player. The estimation To-day's Sports

of distances, however, is best improved by playing on as many different courses. as possible.

At Kowloon, for instance, the hills and stenerally conlined space makes in for simpler job to judge the length to the hole than it is at the Country Club, Sheungshui, any, where the ground is datter and more Гореп

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It was only a little while ago I was playing with a Kowloon manber the at the Country Club, and second hole, which is long and dat- ish, he was stumped when it came to making his second shot. It was really a No. 7 shot, but he was toy. ing with the idea of using his No. 51 And he wasn't a weak hitter.

The following are sporing Axtures:

Basketball

to-day's

National U. v. Trojans, 7.30 nt Kowloon Chinese "y"

South China v. Yu Leang, 8.30 at Kowloon Chinese "y"

Lawn Bowls.

Open Pairs Quarter-final

S R. Solina and K. M. Omar v H. A. Alves and F. V. V. Ribeiro (Kowloon Bowling Green Club), 5.15 p.m..

Swimming

On a flat caurse, distances are 'In- Hongkong Area Championships clined to be exaggerated in perspec-(Army Pool). tive.

But talking of silces, one of the most touching sights Is that of an in his caddies. Such Intelligence and out-and-out hllier usine very Interest In one's gine is something whippy clubs. He smiles from the 1 have never come across. top with such terrific force that the clublicad never has

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chance

I've even had blokes who have

of catching up with the hands, and thought that their only job was to 209 carry the clubs around"mnskee" the ball slants off in the direction the ball, that's the player's plugin. of mid-off with glorious slice that ends up around cover-point, For him, unless he re-models-his swing (!), must always be the stiff- shafted clubs.

Ive even seen caddles lose a ball even though they have watch ed it drap within 50 yards of theru.

But perhaps I have been peculiarly unfortunate in my caddies.

On the average, however, I must say that the local caddie is satisfac tory, but I have yet to come acrDES the superior qualities that are men- tioned in that article,

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A "United Press" message from Rome states that The Italian Golf Federation have announced that the word "golf" is not English, and as a result, Italians can use it without

The Inter-Alfled services foot- It is surprising how "deadly" a

Golf is a two-handed game, and ball Cup event was highly success-shot. is a real marbles exponent..

the right plays its part, but it is ful and there is now news that members of the Canadian and

delayed action, coming into use only after the club has been brought down Newfoundland forces will give a

by the left into the hitting position touch of Interuallona rivalry

which, is about a fout or so behind Die Marbles championslity.

Eton's Playing Fields

the ball. Marbles may not be one of the

From there the might of the right The Idea of baseball being played premier sports, but its championship! traditions go back 300 years at the on the playing fields of Elon may makes itself apparent in providing clubhead cause some turning in the graves of the acceleration of the Greyhound Inn, Tinsley Green, Sus-old Etenians but Canadian soldiers through the moment of hitting the

produced this slate of affairs when, ball.

Your alter has Invariably the following a Bren gun carrier demon- stration, they remained to play a few palm grip. That is, it is clutched being considered Anglophile.

against the palms of the hands. The innings.

"Superficial observers were most the other extreme is the player who re-surprised to see the word golf still famous playing fields was not sollles solely on swing, and who cm- much a surprise as were the cries of ploys the finger grip, the fingers he being used despite the campaign against English words," the Federn- "Well played sir," "Attaboy" which ing less rigid and more clasile.

tion stated, "This is not surprising soon issued from the mouths of top-| The majority of the better players because noir is not an English word hatted Etonlang who were not long take to the happy medium.

ancient In pleking up the rules of the game,

Jimmy Thomson, the longest hit but fa derived from the -ter in the game, to-day, slashes into Flemish word, Kolf, meaning stick."

the ball with his right hand like nobody's business, but he times It all. He is not consistently accu- rate, however, for which reason. the American professionals, In a recent selection of an all-American team, chose Ben Hogan, even over

beat as

with the Sam Snead, driver. Prodigious distance from the tee, while nice to have, is not an essen- tial, for one of the nxioms of golf is

War Taxation Rules For Depreciation & Banks

When the Legislative Council meets on Thursday next the Financial Secretary will move that Rules 1 and 2 made by the Board of War Taxation on August 11 be approved. These two rules provide a scale of depreciation in connection with property liable to war taxation and give the method of ascertaining and determining the profits on Hongkong branches of banks whose head office is outside the Colony,

List of Rates

Major Baschall

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Brooklyn Beaten By Cincinnati

NEW YORK, Sept. 15 (UP)—that it is second, and possibly third, Brooklyn Dodgers succumbed 3-4 shots that count and there is no

The golfer who is straight and consistent with even moderate dis- tances is the one who must enter calculations in a match.

to Cincinnati Reds in an 11-innings denying its truth. siruggle in the National Baseball League to-day, but have still three-game lead over St Louis Cardinals in the battle for pennant, Scores were:

The following scale of depre-kong Branch, the profits of the Hongkong branch shall, for the pur- ciation is prescribed:

poses of assessment, be computed on the basis of such accounts. Where General rate where no special rate is prescribed, 71% per cent. written no accounts are prepared which in the opinion of the Commissioner down value; air conditioning plant 15 disclose the true profits of the Hong- per cent; alreraft 30 per cent; barkong branch, the following provisions syphon apparatus 25 per cent; bley; shall apply to the determination of cles 20 per

Brewing P/M 7 such profits. per cent; bulidings on prime cast:

(a) the same proportion of the Brooklyn first class 2 per cent, less substan- tinl 5 per cent, wooden structures 10 total profits of the bank as the assets per cent; cinema and photographic of the Hongkong branch bear to the Franks.

total assets of the bank shall be Battery-E, processing

per cent;

treated us proûts made from transac-Lombardi, 12 22 per cent tions in this Colony and shall be Eleven Innings were played.

assessed accordingly;

copper stil, equipment in

plbe

concrete moulds 12% per cent; fixtures 10 per cent; foundry plant per cent; furniture 10 per cent; grill equipment 5 per c ent; iron safes

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

the

IL. HJ. 器

@ Battery-Kimball, Hamun, Higbe; Owen,

4 12 Riddle, Beggs, Start;

Cincinnati

Boston

Chicago

0 15 4 Battery-Javery: Masl

5 12 BatteryPaasenu, Gornick, Käffensberger; Schofag.

(b) when the sold total proats have been computed on a basis which liters materially from that prescrib per cent; linotype machinery 10 per ed in the Ordinance, the ratio of New York cent: lighters 10 per cent; meter pronts shall be adjusted so as to cornett Danning vehicles 25 per cent; motor

per cent; office equipment 12

15

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cent; oil-tanks 6 per cent; pumpy respond as nearly as possible to the Bt Louis

and

launches

ratio which would have been arrived. motors 10 per cent; pipe lines at If the total profts had been com- 10 per cent; refrigeraung plant puted in accordance with the provi- 12 per cent;

vessels sions of the Ordinance:

cost;

per

salling

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Battery-Warnere, Shoun; W. Cooper.

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THE caddie trouble at the Kowloon Golf Club a little while ago, which, incidentally, has been completely settled, brings to mind an article I read recently in the "Christian Science Monitor" on the "in- telligence" of the caddie in the Far East.

to

the

Quinn,

Discussing the "look-seo" caddie, 1 .0 whom, the writer sald, was in In- Battery-Schumacher, Carpenter; Hart-

stitution peculiar China, 72 article eulogised the inherent intelli- gence that the enddie applies to his Cailed in the fath insing owing to job. He studies the player for the first two or three holes" and there- AMERICAN LEAGUE

after stations himself where he McKain, knows the pecuilarities of the player

will send the ball.

All I can say is that the writer must

have been peculiarly fortunate

darkness,

At Lula

..... D 10 * BatteryNigeling. Kramer, Trotter; Ferrell. Philadelphia

Battery --Besso, Bradicy, C. Harris

Twelvo Innings were played. Shirley, Fowler Wagner,

Batterylowe, Newsom:. Tebbetts. Washington

"Battery--Chase," Carrasquei; Evans,

All other

ware played former dates,

cent. on prima

Where it appears expedient to the scales and gears 6 per cent; show Commissioner he may, in relation to instead of emes 7 per cent; ships 4 per cent any exchange transaction, on prime cost; sprinklers 5 per cent; acting under the provisions of sub- stein launches 10 per cent; steam paragraphs (a) and (b) of this para-Detroit winches 7 per cent; tank lorries graph, estimate the amount of the 25 cent; tractors 25 per cent; trailers profits from the transaction and B ser

per cent: tugu 4 per cent. on prime asacas such profits accordingly. cost; type casting

machinery 10 per

cent; type and biociu 25 per cent.

Except where depreciation is noted on prime cost all other figures given apply to written down value.

Rule II.

Notes on Rule 2 This rule opplies to non-resident banke operating in Hongkong,

Paragraph 2-It is expected that the Accounts of the Hongkong branches of banks will be sufficiently Method of ascertainment and deter-accurate for the computation of the mination of profits of Hongkong profits of the branch to be based upon branches of banks whose head office them. is outside this Colony,

Where, however, either no branch 1. In this rule unless the context accounts are prepared, or the Hong- otherwise pegady Boker" means kong branch accounts are so merged Carrying on the business with the accounts of other branches any. Pe "Bank” means any banks or to mako it difficult to compute thei whose head office is outalde this

this true profits provisión is made for the

profits to be ascertained by appor

of a

Athletics

To Celebrate: Emperor's Birth

on

SPORTS ADVT.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

Draft Programmes and Entry Forms for the Seventh Extra Raco TOKYO, Sept. 10 (Domel) The Meeting to bo hold (weather per Twelfth National Athletlo, Meet mitting), on Saturday, 27th Sep- dedicated to the Meijl Shrina will tember, 1941, may be obtained be held at the Shrine Stadium in from the Secretary's Office, Tokyo from October 81, lo Novem Exchange Building; the Club ber 3, the National, Festival of the birth of Emperor Melil House, Happy Valley; the Hong: In addition to usual athletic events. Kong Club; the Sports Club; and events doslened to train in the art of the Stables, Shan Kwong Rond. national Stiefence, while table teants, Entries close at 12 o'clock hockey, weight-lifting and ball-passing, will be abolished this years nesh NOON on THURSDAY, 18th LONDON, Sept. 18 (British Wire-The Ministry of Public Welfare had September, 1941) Septe Where any etishma hirspoed b) The Duke of Kent will bread-permitted The Central China Athletic -Associațian- to send its delegates to the

By Order,

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Colony;

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by any such

the meet will, bo Textured by new ch. In the ratio of the Hongkong assets

"Other 'branch

means the business cathingforę pax toʻtotul, assots, bank in any place outside Hongkong, Including that carried on 'at its prin- elpal place of businee aisle s

by, a bank for le own purposes de" cast in the six o'clock newal on freeurArrangements: for cine: organ)- close, in the opinion of the Commia- | Wednesday. His talk, will. Ua heard. "Ton of the Central (China Yeapware

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