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SOFTBALL CHATTER

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1949.

DODGER OUT AT PLATE

FIRST FULL PROGRAMME OF LEAGUE GAMES THIS WEEK-END

By "STARDUST"

The 1949-50 Softball Season opened last Sunday when only one Senior League game was played in which the American Çonsul-General, Mr Karl L. Rankin, pitched the first ball. The game was between the HK. Pandas and the US Navy (represented by USS Gardiners' Bay) and resulted in a win for the latter by 6 runs to 4.

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full programme of

This afternoon and tomorrow' will see the start of a League matches in the Senior and Junior Men's Divisions and also the Ladies'. Today and tomorrow are the days that thousands of softball fans have been wall. ing for.

In the post-war years This season promises to be a most interesting one. Portuguese teams have been successful in annexing the trophies. This year, with retain theso so many Chinese players available, they will have to fight hard to honours.

CORNELIUS RYAN PREDICTS

Aussies Should Win

Cup The Davis

Next Year

New York. The recent USA Lawn Tennis Singles Championships indicated that a good long-range bel would be Australia over the USA in the 1959 Davis Cup competition.

Dick Gonzales, who wan the men's title, has turned professional with Jack Kramer's troupe, starting his pro tour in October at New York for a guaranteed $50,000 for the tour.

Ted Schroeder.

Gonzales, has

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internatiount

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run-up Inte decided to stav

Silver

Handy back in

FIAM,

Janfor will be

In Davis Cup play, in champion, has cam la

Jove is fume, although he which he never has been beaten

1950 for

next

two or three years.

But his peor quite possibly as film his early promise in will be matched

year. Australia's Frank Sedrian the most promising amateur by He almost beat the world now.

B of the Younger Ameri- Larsen, blond and

Cs Arl franny San

Left-

Schroeder at Wimbledon this hander, De enrried Gnomes to year, having the American for five reta in the semi-final and at match point before coing has great competitive spirit. down to defeat, nnd carried Ted) to five min in the semi-final at Forest HA.

Schroeder will be 30 years old in 1900, and on the way down. Sedgman will be 22. and - proved over 1049.

Bill Sidwell, the other Aussic singles player in the 1949 Davis Cup, gave Schroeder a dyn-pet battle, and he tuo is developing rapidly.

NONE AS CAPABLE

good hnd America

Inany players at Forest Hills, but nane seems capable of domteating as did Kramer and Gonzales. Tu Jim Brink, a left-hander with great power on his service and forehand, lacks steadiness. Earl

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Speculation is, of course, rife

as to the composition of various teams

articipate in the

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which ore League

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that "the sirength of the

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and "plans for the at-

gauged

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FORECASTING IS A PROBLEM

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Hecreto Football Ground and Association To Centra British

Ground will be the venues

for

hese League games, and as the

un the plate as he attempts to Gene ntrakšal, 1919 zanger un datubig at score from third base on Mary Rackley's bouncer to Yanks' second baseman Gerry Coleman in the fourth inning of the second World Series game In Yankee Stadium. Catcher Charlie Silvera makes the tag with Umpire Beans Reardon calling the play. No. 14 is Brooklyn's (il Hodges. The Dodgers won the game 1 to 0.- AP Wirephoto.

Brength of all the teams in the WEEK-END FOOTBALL

hree divisiona 13 very even. forecasting results is some what!

problem.

In the Men's Senior Division, however, St Joseph's appear fo

the strongest although they will fee their most severe test, when they vie for superiority with the Pak Sports' Club who ITC considered the next best- if not the best-in a few weeks

LEITAR

The gune likely to produce most thri is this afternoon the Ladies' Division. Wahoos v. 19entes at the Recreio Football Ground. There is always keen rivalry between-lhese two teams and today's game will be no exception

start

Army Week's

Kitchee v.

Is The

By "UNOMI”

Tomorrow Big Game

League Football enters its third week of the season today. Kitchee are the only team who have collected maximum points to date. The other teams, especially Army, started off in grand form but have been dropping valuable pointa which make the League a bigger gap between themselves and the all-conquering Kitchee in table.

The only teams that appear to be able to challenge Kitchee's supremacy are Army, St Joseph's and Kowloon Motor Bus. The standard of football has been very good when any of the above teams have been playing but I'm afraid some clubs are definitely very weak and wholesale changes are required if they hope to land any- where near the top of the table.

New Heavyweight Hope Is So Bashful!

SAYS FRANK BUTLER

Usually at a time when the British boxing fan Is enjoying a healthy grouse about the shortage of good | heavyweights, a new fistic character arrives on the scene, and before you can say Joo Louls, the fight bhoys are a-gossipin' and a-speculatin".

But for avory" Louis, Tunney, or Dempsey wo have to put up with a large bunch of stumblebums who strip like a team of Tarzans but develop glass chins, balloons for tummies, housemaid's knees, flat feet, or some other freak of the anatomy.

M

very

We are about due for a new.) While all this was going on the discovery, so that we can.uzk; M.C. solemnly, indicated that. Is-this-the, eighth wonder of Earl's manager would challenge the heavyweight world or is this anything on two legs for £500, Just another sucker?"

and I am given to understand We are not flappointed, be- from that slient sure Harry couse the latest member of the Levene that Woodcock and Beef Trust to bend himself into Savold are not barred. "Harry the shape of a human question the Hoarse cald if nit mark is one Earl Walls. Earl is a

is a qu'ekly in 8.900 words.

But even Walls have cars, and 23-year-old Canadiah of Chern kee Indian extraction. He stands unless Earl wan's them pinned 07. 2las and scales 13st, Gib. back in a hurry I suggest a much- Walls has won his two fights better match would be against in England. He stopped the Scot,ither Jack Gardner

or Johnny Ken Shaw, and at Manchester Williams-if pur 1wa

two young flattened Plet Wilde, the heavyweights are interested.

15st.

in Belgian champion,

Walis is a novice. His victory 8750C9.

We should add that over Wilde was bis 12th profes doesn't take a Joe Louis to a-sional fight. He lost three Bhts complish this.

before he came to England, but But the tall, thin lad from claims to have won his last nine Windsor, Ontario, can punch. The bouts inalde the distance.

question not yet answered i< "Can he take a punch?" could be another Larry Gains or he could be another false olar.

Manuel Ortiz, the world ban- Hotamweight champion, who didn't quite come oft against Rennio

Clayton, has now hired Clayton

at the moment he is box-office. to help him get At to tackle

LIKE JOE

Jackie Palerson at Hampden Patic, Glasgow, on October 21.

He bears some resemblance to Louis when the Brown Bomber was up and coming. I restrict any comparison with Louis to a facial encss.

And the odd fact about Wails is that he is apparently a little bashful about showing his face.

Against Wilde came in the ring with a white towel com- pletely obscuring his head. Hel danerd round the ring warming up with his head still lidden, and tus tave remained "anonymous"

when the referee called him to the centre of the ring to meet Wilde and take instructions.

There Who A 6,000-strong

Ieri

chuckle when the official sudden ly stretched upwards and re- moved the towel with the cau tion of Mister Mayor unveiling a monument-just to see to whom Harold Winglee's Areen

he was talking. shirted Wahoos

uff

The RAF team has been One last point,

Wails, having unloaded a The JKFA Soccer fans have plenty to favourites but the Pirates muy

causing their selectors many chould insist on

representative hook and two right crosses which spring

surprise. In the Men's choose from this week-end

Although they

rocked the big Belgian out of Overseas

trams Gelding as near as pos- Senior

Today the biggest crowd with headaches. Division,

Action for ten seconds, then be ei Boundary have been playing well enough

as advertised hurried back to his corner, hid- Chinese should have little d-probably

don't seem ible the teams Arulty In necounting for the Street. Kowloon, where Police individually, they

Thousands In the press. as a team knit fogether

ofing his Bight under the towel However, he is a small mon.

Jaguars at CDA Ground. In the who beld a strong Army team to

Tommy hey meet Easternmectators

diraspolated again, and began dancing round Des feat sight inches tall nod Men's Juntor Division, Acca on 1-1 draw on Tuesday tast

and I'm sure at the reratch Combled the ring ike a rubber man. have cross-bats with Spartans and will appose the youthful South at Sɖokunpoo

which turned 145 pounds, and doesn't

The honours should be with a life re-arranging and Chinen eleven the power of the big men like | Rexes meets De wares. Good China.

the inclusion of some new out at Caroline Hit on Mon- Gonzales, Schroeder clean games should be witness-fairly even in this gaine,

should Kramer,

Club may wel into winninplayers a victory .Sedrman or even Drobny, who ed.

ven when CAA pay a visit to assured.

In their nast Happy Valley, two ramen CAA have talled to last the unce and have been de thecisively beaten.

ia short but stocky.

Schroeder's singles partner in

Amoni

MOST INTERESTING

Tomorrow the Kame RTCLE Host 'erest is at Hecreio Football Ground where Bill St Joseph's play Braves in the

Men's Senior Division.

next year's Davis Cup probably

be chosen from will

1.༧༢e1 30-year-old Gardnar Mullay and 31-year-old Talbert.

The

and TEKST younger aggressive Ausales would be # ty

good bet to win against uch lineup.--United Press,

Cochell,

now apparently JULIA RUNS WITH won't blossom into the star he

MOTHER

was expected to be.

Jaroslav Drobny whipped Cochell with Kreat case in the recent USA nationals, and mode it apparent Cochell will never

Changing The Cloth

Because

is to

Fred Davi meet his brother doe in a dis- mrich tinctly "nerd!e" snook:

World 20 in the on March snooker championship -he bas made a request that Joe shall not be allowed to play on the Leicester Hall table for a for!- The print night beforchanıd. being, of course, that the materi wil!

hola, at that be played which is

in Joe's

home

ground. The management have pro- mised this much; that for this gane they will provide a new cloth, and that as nobody wil cloth, play on this be orthand the table will be neutral.

Incidentally, Peter Mans, Di South Africa has travelled 6000 and George Chenier, of Canada, 3000 miles for this champion

Now they met in the ship.

round Arst

nt Scunthorpe, Lincs. Few will see them, and eliminated after one must be

So €110 game.

unnecessary when they could have been "rcoded" in opposite halves of the draw.

-Londen 'Exprone Service;

bo her and daughter mink- Ing Tooling trek-style are atra Poppy Germain, 28, --One of the English" ciría' team who foured Italy this year, and Jul, 5, who rats to Upper Tooling High Bebool.

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day.

Division A

Second

Fame mention this week- worthy of and is the game to be played Street tomorrow. at Boundary

mason's Cast Naye at hdwren

CAA

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As match.

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exciting

St Joseph'a meri Causeway Bay in the remaining League Champlons?, and Army,

will be a fast This First Division game today Joseph's will fart の all-star

thero bul favourites in this cn-

chlos In my many Naval means mere players the Navy tent can choose from and them hut I may spring a surorise, doubt it. And clenn

master-

St Joseph'a with its infield should win counter, although that mind mentor, Chale redo, wil de his tricks in caus- ing an upset.

Figusi

Pak Spurts' Club will batile against Chung liwD CBA ground and should annexe the honours. The other

פניד

CHINESE V. REST

Double

Tenth Charity | Game lived up to exp.clations provided tame exciting and frotball to the large crowd who were present. The Rest ram played as ndvertised but the Combined Chloess field the scratch eleven which at first

resented spectators Kitche

de should be witnessed.

BATTLE OF THE GIANTS

Tomorrow 』 6 Merle of the minis"

maining games will be touch- and-go bailles,

SOME LINE-UPS

will have their hardest cameradusity

cheered them on lo this sersan when they need the victory after they had fourthr polished Am" team. A three-nl deficit and then The following are chosen to will no doubt strive hard to hook the fend. represent their teams:-

the first team to deten! 1hr

St

Hussain present Learue leaders, Joseph's-A, 3. (Manager), D. J. Leonard, G.

A. Souza, San Leonard, Fan- Lown

Benny zorio, Ramon Castro.

that they al

think

Army

to

many

WORN-

If a team comprising mest- repre- newcon* Kilchec, playing before their ventative football cound સૌ-

will feat home supporters,

the Colony's strongest think kie Gonzalves, Capone Rum- probably decide to show Army Rest

team. ha'e to Bucks, Jahn, Sherry

Arur how football shoud be played what

happened might have Omar, and

"stars" that it was had all the Chinese and, rememberlag for this reason

been playing.

мого There El Cumbanchero-Blas Despa most dropped a point thin spn-

sun already, I (Manonger), Bunty NV, and a good chance of a vienetes in the Rest team. Fair-

Mathesonary tomorrow.

should have Rubble Rocha, Jock

brother. In geal,

at least three of the Didong labida, Bastian Babida,

However,

the

Kitcheroved Frod Diesta, George Tong, Terry

tonls which went past h Je touch anything forwards

were in- Guzman and Pedro Aranos..

The wing-holves the form they dioplayed dur

the second Buxing

baf of inalined to lie too for upheld "une" [Manner), M. Yusuf, B. Said, Tresday's game against CAA this left Tennucci alone to look Ko Po-kenni S. Kadir, M. N. Adai, K. Dallah, the Army defence is in for a juf'er the elusive

who proved himself too hot o A. N. Kader, O. K. Daliah, N. very busy afternoon's work. M. Bux. G. A. Ebrahim,

The Army rear division isn't bandful for the lanky centre- Rumjahn, A. Mohammed and C. quite playing up to expecta. half.

Qrifūns — R.

A. Hussain.

A.

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the and this

may be tions

Ко in this game.one deciding faclor which will be well worth Tre

four goals, each

scored

of opportunism. a gem Rest forward line storied

Rexes--Sabu Samy (Mana ger), A. K. Ismail A. M. Wahab watching. I forecast a win for off well but faded out of the Jr., S. A, G. Rayman, S. Samy. Kitchee, who carry too many leture., There will have to be A. Ditta. A. G. Ismail, Y. Tipo, heavy M. Ebrahim and S. A. Bux. team to cope with.

in this team uns for the Armydraslic changes

when next they meet Bus should Chisect repentative

Ет а Title difficulty

fak Sports' Club-A R. Kowloon Motor Razack (Manager). Abid Ebra-have

him, Sabu Samy Coffee Baker, counting for Kwong Wah st The Busmen S. K. Khan, S. H. Khan, Ozzie Boundary Street.

one garne this Olly have only lost Rumjahn, B. A. Abbas, Omar, E. Yusut, A. M. Kadir,cason and are a veil balanced and Nugget de capably led by Tang Yeo- A. H. Kadir,

Jcit. Ebrahim.

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worry a

novice.

thing is to

Day 2015 #od nut scatter the bails tou widely. I

CYAYCAN

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Foot it will

be enough

BLACK

RED RED

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right-haile

A tricky stroke of this type un diagram att demands

ited alde and top on the cue-ball Ab:n cut nahie to Tail it too much atraka i fald on freeing black

the bot: Cus Concentrate OD sharply the colour.

while, will double cro table to

DI LES Precine contact on black sanayin aing rod in Umpossibis Only for Azerago cuemen to judge very hard turn wilt, inil to offer

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