THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1932.
FIELD FLOOD AND RING
Miss Joyce Wethered.
By Athole
Wheatcroft, 2-6, 6-1, 6-2; H. F. David and Miss B, Yorke bt, I. "I am afraid there is very little Aoki and Mira. P. Bouverie, 6-8, hape of my playing in the British 6-3. Final: Williams and Miss ladies', championship, at Saun-Harvey bt, David and Miss Yorke, ton. for the arrangements 16-2, 4-6, 6-4.
have made do not allow me to
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play there. 1 am sorry, because a Sabre Club Win Nalen Cup. number of people had been look-
ing forward to seeing me at Saun-
ence.
We are
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Bradman's 112 Average.
Won
new in
TENNIS PLAYERS
THE CHINA MAIL.
AND NERVES
Attack Supported by Noted Players.
DEPENDENT ON MATCHES
ATHLETES CROWD TO CARDINALS SUFFER
PALESTINE
Opening of Maccabiad
TEAMS FROM ALL NATIONS
Scenes unique in Jewish history Why are some young lawn tennis without a parallel since Pontius tournament players ride and Plate held the Roman games at mannered in their court demea. Caesarea 2,000 years ago, were
nour?
Famous players give striking opinions below in commenting
Turning up late for matches with- out apology-"as if they owned the the earth."
in the breeze.
of
brass
ANOTHER DEAFEAT Interesting Sketch Of Ellsworth
Terry and Klein Homer for Giants.
BOSTON ON TOP
New York, Yesterday.
Vines
First Visit To Europe
GREATEST ASSET IS HIS TACITURNITY,
MARRYING IN JUNE?
principle, he would seem to relax so that each new spring and new coup are invested with fresh men. always preparing for a phase still tality. In the fiercest fight he is fiercer. It is a great secret of domiannce.
A full programme of National League matches only was decided here to-day, Chicago, the leaders, witnessed at the opening of the defeating the Cardinals, who are first Jewish olympiad in Tel Aviv. now placed sixth in the League.
In their match with Philadel- on Palestine, on May 7,
Led by the mayor of Tel Aviv, tered a dozen runs,
phia, the New York Giants regis- the criticism levelled against the
the Phillies riding on horseback, and with the replying with eight. offenders by Mr. A. C. Griffiths, national flags
Billy Terry of the 30 dif- and Klein scored their tenth and Chairman of the council by the ferent national teams streaming ninth
Ellsworth Vines, the present home runs, Lawn Tennis Association:
respectively, a procession of
while Koeneche and Hurat also American champion, is a youth just 3,000 young Jewish athletes wound homered. The discourtesies enumerated by its way through the streets Mr. Griffiths included:
out of his teens. The Australian By defeating Brooklyn, Boston Davis Cup team may have their this very modern city to the have gained a lead on Chicago in first meeting on their way to the Glaring at officials to express dis-martial music of several approval of a decision in the middle
the table. of a game.
banda.
States, when they disembark to Twenty-five thousand wildly en American Service, are as follows:ed that Vines will also be an en-weighs about 10 stone 10 lb., and Results, as cabled by Router's play at Honolulu, where it is hop- Showing temper by hitting a ball thusiastic people acclaimed
Vines is almost six feet tall. He the into space.
athletes as they took up their posi
National League.
trant. But they tions in the stadium. Two months Boston
are sure to see is of a type that should improve as more of him in the near future, as his muscular strength increases. 4 Brooklyn ago the scene was a sandy waste; New York 12 Philadelphia
he will be one of the American team He is dark, thin-lipped, quiet and to-day, it presents most in- Leaving a tournament without apiring spectacle.
and if he can get away he will self-contained. His tennis is by no (Billy Terry, Klein, Koeneche
again cross Australia's paths at menna spectacular. It is, however, and Hurst homered.) on paying an entrance fee.
9 Cincinnat! 4 Wimbledon, and parhaps clae- tremendously sound, and splendid 3 St. Louis where in Europe.
co-ordination is always in evidence. ("Chick" Haffey homered:)
"American Lawn Tennis" has On both fore and back hands he this critical summary of him and hits his ground shots with a full TABLES TO DATE.
his strengtha:-.
round-arm and body pivot, And he "California has given yet an- hits them with uncanny direction. National League.
other champion to the United States Medium-paced drives, uniformly in Ellsworth Vines. He has prov- great depth, and Percent-
an unusually ed that his character, evon P. W. Lage
per large score of clean placements are haps more than his strokes, was features of his game. He volleys 84 22 12
643 deserving of championship honours, well, smashes in deadly style, and .86 23 13 .638 When Vines triumphed at Forest serves .39 21 18
with more than average .688 Hills (where he won the American speed and accuracy. .82 15 17
468 singles in 1981), it was no doubt
And quite the latest about 463 assumed that he was favoured by Vines is the announcement of his, home conditions. The reverse was engagement to Mins Verle Low, of probably the case. He was just Pasadena, and that the marriage as much a stranger to New York, will probably take place some time as was Perry (his English oppon- in June. Which means that Vines ent in the semi-final); both of them will probably play against the Aus- lived three thousand miles away. tralians, and then get married. It was only his second year on Will he take his honeymoon as a .629 turf (in California practically all tennis tour to England and Europe 562 the courts are hard-concrete, as for Wimbledon and the Davis Cup 641phalt, or earth); all his rivala had matches?
The Sabre Club gained their ton." In these words Miss Joyce third successive victory when the Wathered, the greatest womannual tournament for the Nairn golfer of all time,, announced her Challenge Cup was held at Ber- decision not to attempt a "come-trand's Academy, Handver-aquars back" to her place of pre-emin- The "event is open to teams from the Royal Marines, Army, Royal Miss Wethered, after her memor-Air Force, the Sabre Club, and the able match in the final of the Bri-Salle Bertrand F.C., and has yet to tish ladies' championship against be won by a Service team. Miss Glenna Collett, the American, The Sabre Club have Jn 1929, at St. Andrews, stated her
five .on
occasions intention of retiring from big com- addition to once sharing petitive golf. She adhered to her honours with Salle Bertrand, decision until this year.
who have
outright won seven occasions. The aggregate
Situated at the mouth of the Pittsburgh "It Needed Saving" |result was as follows:
Mr. H. Roper Barrett, non-play- the Mediterranean, the site was
river Yarkon, where it flows into Chicago Sabre Club, A defeats Don Bradman, with 112.14, head-against); Salle Bertrand F.C., team and one of the finest players months into an appropriate meet- (20 hits ing captain of last year's Davis Cup transformed in the space of two ved the first-grade cricket averages defeats (25 hita against); Army, of his day, said the Evening in Sydney. His aggregate was 7 defeats; Royal Marines, 9 de Standard:
ing place of Jewish youth in Its 785 runs for eight innings (oned feats; Royal Navy and Royal Air
endeavour to demonstrate the "I am afraid Mr. Griffithe is right, athletic spirit of their race to the not out) and his highest score Force, ouch 12 defenta.
and I am not going to disclaim any world. 246.
thing he has said. But has had it
Officially the meeting is known. Boston in mind to speak on this subject for not as
an olympiad, but as Chicago... some time--and it needed saying. Maccabiad, from the fact that the Cincinnati and a firm hand that some of these out the world are governed by the St. Louis
"It is only by time and example Jewish sports associations through-New York younger players will learn the true Maccabee organization. deportment of the game of lawn
.497 The moment the gamea were Philadelphia tennis.
.405 opened 120 carrier pigeons were Brooklyn....86 "I know they do these things of released. The number was design-
.388 which Mr. Griffiths has complained, ed
American League. to symbolise the 12 tribes and it looks so bad. Imagine some of Israel. Bearing news of
Percent- P. W. L. age .92 29 9
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W. J. O'Reilly. the slow lex-Athletes May Smoke break, bowler, who gained Test hongtragainst the South Afri- Can this fear. topped the bowl- ing averages with fifty-four wickets 7.88 each. The grade premikeship was won by the North Sydney Club.
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It is interesting to note that K. S. Duleepsinhji, the Sussex and England cricketer. played for Mr. T. Gilbert Scott's team against the
Indian side in the friently match
at Pelsham last month.
American athletes have taken the first step towards following the British example in regard to the question
of smoking in training. Hitherto they have been strictly forbidden to amoke during train- ing, whereas British athletes never appeared to suffer from an casional cigarette,
Now Dr. H. De Witt Lees, the new director of the health service at Pennsylvania University has lifted the ban.
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official matches of their best showing. It is better
the
Pittsburgh
of the players of the past, whose opening of the first Jewish Mac- New York names we still remember with pleacabiad in the world's history, the Washington sure, behaving as some of the pigeons flew to destinations In younger players of to-day have done! various parts of Palestine. Or imagine the Japanese players doing so why, they are unmoved
by whatever happens.
"Their court manners are won-
Detroit Chicago Grand Parade.
Philadelphia Their departure was greeted Cleveland with continuous applause which St. Louis
Was
Duleepsinhji said on his arrival "Our experimental evidence," in England he made the journey he says, "does not indicate that in the same boat as the tourists-athletes who were in the habit of that he would not play against his smoking and who stopped sudden-derful. Sometimes when I have renewed during the grand Boston countrymen.
He referred, of ly to participate in sports made been umpiring a match and I may which all the national teams
March past in' the stadium in course, to the the tour.
The Pelshum game, which was twelve-a-side, was a "friendly" arranged solely to give the vialtors an early opportunity of becoming .acquainted with English wickets, and it will not be included in the
record of the tour.
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..32 18 14 .84 13 21 ..34 18 18 .35 10 16 .97 18 19. ..58 € 27 Home Run Leaders. at- Jimmie Foxx (Philadelphia Aths.) have been left with just the shadow to allow them to continue or quit of a doubt about a ball. I have tired in uniforms of the Maccabee Collins (St. Louis) gradually."
paused for the fraction of a second colours of blue and, white fled by Billy Terry (New York. Giants)
the grand
stand bearing their Babe Ruth (New York Yankees) before giving a decision in order,
Klein (New York Giants) flags. perhaps, to get some sort of help
Cochrane (Philadelphia Aths.) Above them, round the rim of Averill (Cleveland Indians) Peers. Members of Parliament, from a player's face. But you can- the stadium, floated the standards Gehringer (Detroit Tigers) legislative officials, and members of at learn anything from the face of every nation and the scene at Byrd (New York Yankees) the Press Gallery played on the of a Japanese player.
that moment vied with anything Lou Gehrig (New York Yankees) Well-Behaved Majority.
ever staged in western Europe for
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Lady Astor Beaten at Golf.
New Course at Walton Heath last
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progress...
Lacoste And Borotra
longer intimacy. He was required .519 to, fight uphill battles in the last, Not so long ago it was announc 486 two rounds; nothing but reserves ed from Paris that Jean Borotra of character, a dour will power, would not be a member of the and enterprise at the magic mo- 1932 French Davis Cup team 12 ment could have saved his match because ram foo old to win my 10 against Perry: George Latt also matches" "A digy Inter it was an tested him through and through innounced that Rene Eacoste had re- 9 the final; and again he showed the solved to re-enter the lists this faculty to rally against a strong year, and that he was expected to lead. He is undoubtedly a man compete in Riviera tournaments in for the big play. Varnish he may April and Jater to play in the need and greater consistency, but French championships. His last he is young enough to be sure of playing appearance was in 1929, Jupp and Northants Secretaryship. month, when the Parliamentary "Of course, the panners of the its pageantry and vividness of
when he was beaten by Tilden, but' handicap tournament was begun. general body of players are very colour. The Union Jack, borne at
defeated Hennessey, both of V. W. C. Jupp, the famous all-At the end of the day the number good. There are thousands of the head of the British team, by
One of his greatest assets is his America. Last year he was non- rounder, stated that he had re- of entrants was reduced from 123, players of experience who don't the side of the blue and white flag
taciturnity. His silence on the playing captain-and ha probably signed the secretaryship of the to 37.
do this sort of thing, who if they of the Jewish nation, was eloquent
court (and off it) serves him as it had a great deal to do with France Northamptonshire County C.C., a One of the contests held over is make an error just laugh and go of the cordial friendship which The Opening Fixtures. served Larned, Norman Brookes fetaining the Cup in that position. position he has held since 1921. that in which his Royal Highness on with the game.
Britain has for the great race of
and Mrs. Moody, His opponents But this year his playing skill will The notice does not take effect the Prince of Wales is concerned." "After all, to be so expert as some Jews.
Appended will be found the gain no stimulant from his speech be even more needed than his ad- until September 30, but the gen- The Prince, who has a bandicap of of the younger players are, to be Though it is one of the most complete fixtures for the opening or gesture; neither uses up his vice, But it is very unlikely that eral committee have agreed to re- 11, has a bye Into the able to hit a ball at the right time important cities in modera Pales- day, Saturday, June 4, in the Hong physical energy. Between each Lacoste will again play for his, Icase Jupp if he wishes to leave be- second round, wherein he will and in the right place should not tine it is totally inadequate to Kong Lawn Teppis League. stroke, following the Japanese country, fore that date.
be opposed by C. Bray. Former make them think they are Prime the crowds of visitors which In the case of the Mixed winners who survived the first Ministers. They need not be so as have descended upon it for these Doubles, Wednesday, June 8, the play included Lord Balfour tonished when they put a ball out-games. Owing to lack of ac-home team being named first in of Burleigh (4), who won side or into the net; they are only commedation thousands of people each instance: two matches, Major C. F. Entwistle mortals.
are camping on vacant spaces
Jupp said in an interview that
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LOCAL TENNIS LEAGUE
"A" Division..
Chinese R.C. v. Hong Kong C.C. Indian R.C. v. South China A.A.
"B" Division. Craigengower C.C. v. Indian R.C. Army TC. v. University. South China A.A. v., Hong Kong
C.C.
his relations with the general com- mittee had been entirely cordial, but he complained strongly of the attitude adopted towards him by (6), the Right Hon. Sir A. Steel- "Yes: I am afraid some of them in and around the city. Many the special committee appointed to Maitland (7), Guy L'Estrange (4), are very young-they will grow out suffered from the bad weather, raise funds to clear off the club's and Sir M. Mackenzie-Wood (8), of it..
but they considered themselves debt. Asked whether he would although the last-named did not
More Depends Un Matches, amply rewarded when, for the open- play for Northamptonshire this sea-play his second-round game after son, Jupp said that this depended beating Lord Hawke.
Mrs. Lambert Chambers, Wim-ing ceremony, the sky, cleared and bledon champion for a sequence of the sun flashed a greeting on this entirely upon the circumstances. Lady Astor (20), the only woman
competitor, won
her first-round years, said that in her day a large modern festival of a most ancient match with ease against Sir W. proportion of play was more for K. F. David won the final of the Grave recond round by A. Hope scope enormously in the last few and. In addition to large teams in Ch Division
Greaves-Lord (18), but was beaten the love of the game.
"Lawn tennis bas widened its Great Britain has sent a team
years," she said." So much more and the United States have also appears to depend upon the win-sent athletes to amper v ning of a match or a tournament.
The Maccabiad embraces, all the I think that is why one hears these usual sports, which are associated complaints against some of the with the Olymple games and the younger lawn tennis players of first national champions of the
Maccabiad will be determined.
Sharpe Beaten by David.
men's singles at the North London Hard Court Club's tournament.at
Highbury last month, defeating N. Sharpe in the final. Sharpe is short of practice, but his backhand driving was very sound, and he and David played some excellent rallies in the early stages.
Miss E. H. Harvey won the wo men's singles, but she would not have been allowed to recover from Lan adverse lead of 5-8 in the second. set. Up to that point Miss V. H. Montgomery's well-produced forehand and backhand drives had extracted the full value from a fast court, but she then began to make
érrors. Results:
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Versatility of L. G. Crawley. ✦
L. G. Crawley is not one of those who believes that golf interferes with cricket or cricket with golf today." He hopes to play cricket fairly re- gularly for Essex at the beginning player, said:
Mr. Fred Perry, the Davis Cup of the season, until he has to begin don't think they are done dë- Cup matches in America later I liberately some of the things Mr. the Summer.
Grifiths has mentioned. Some- Crawley has played both games times a player is apt to make a slip consistently. He is the amateur in manners through overstrain in
contest golf champion, and upon his one appearance in first-class cricket; the same time, I do not think last season he made a very fine the criticisms should be applied 86. for Essaxlad only to the younger players sa
Mon's ́ ́Singles-Final: H. E. A versatile athlete, he is a triple Too Many Tournaments, David, bt, N, Sharpe," 6-4, 6-dha
Cambridge Blue, having gained Women's Bingles Final Miss his colours for cricket, golf, and E. H. Harvey B, Miss V. H. Mont rackete. He made the biggest gomery, 80, 86, 62DNING"
Men's Doubles Semi-final: core of his cricket career in 1928, when he hit up 228 against Glamor
A W. Vinall and E. C. Matcalf:þt, IH. Wheatcroft and R. C. Wackett B4, 7--5. Final: J. Culmins and abults bt Viallyand
Final
gang
OPEL
presented England on many occa Mr. Geraldine Beamish, who re stone against America and Canada,
this tendency
“Unfortuna
in
Come From Afar,
FANLING GOLF.
Dr. Mackie Wins
Bogey Pool
lowing were
Civil Service C.C. v. Club de Re-
*crafo.ekowites. Kowloon C.C. v. Chinese R.C.
· South, China 'A.A. v. Indian R.C. Army T.C. z. Hong Kong C.C." Club de Recrelo v Kowloon
LT.C.22 LR Ellipino Cluby Craigangower
Kowloon C.C. v. Radlo S.C. University 'v. "Chinese R.C. Folice RC VARY MELALA Civil Service: C.Civ.. Graduates'
Mixed Doubles.
The Mixed Doubles programme þfor Wednesday, June 8 lis—
Ladies' R.C. /. United Services
- v. Kowloon C.C.. *R.C. v: Club de Recreio. neated that club secre the venue, of the vari
Find Smake the macer-
His Taciturnity.
SYMPHONIC CONCERT
'At the
IN
THE GROUND FLOOR
LOUNGE
PENINSULA HOTEL
PART 1
PROGRAMME
1. OVERTURE
Mike William „Tell' ApiG., Romini
2. VALBE TRISTE ....J, Sibeline
3. THE BUTTERFLY-
Gusracteristióne J. Bendis 4. SONGS OF ECOTLAND
Selections
Interval
PART II. SU
J. Lambe
1. SYMPHONY IN B MINOR
2. A SONG OF INDIA
Opera-Baden
1. VALSE.From: ballet
Swan Pand
4. VENEZIA 》NAPOLI
A Piso Balo -..
Pe Interval: PART ILMANKIN
SECOND
BASSED BANDS
Direction of
MEŽI. FUTERA