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THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1935.
ENDURANCE MOTOR THE TACTICS OF LAWN TENNIS CARDINALS AGAIN
________RACE
Nuvolari And Sommer SUPPLEMENTING STROKES
Triumph.
WORLD RECORD. SMASHED
LE MANS, June 19. Nuvolari and Sommer yesterday won the 24 hours automobile - en- durance Grand Prix contest, cover- ing in their Alfa Romeo 3,143.6 kms. They were 100 metres ahead of Chiretti and Varent.
ranked Driscoll-Hughes were second, Lewis-Richards third and Berli-Dwos fourth.
WITH GENERALSHIP
WILLIAM TILDEN'S MOTTOES
(By Advantage Server.)
China Mail Sports Diary
TO-DAY Lawn Bowls Open Championship 5. Eccleshall.v. C. Labrum
(Polles "Lawa Chiese BC.
green, 5.20 p.:)
Division Indians
-A
C.C.
Army T.G. v. Police
Kowlo THE greatest satisfaction to be has been of good length, it cannot Radio Sparta fo
Club de Recreio v. Kowloon Docka“. derived from a game of tennis be returned hard to the side line: Hong Kong C.C. Indian R.C.
whereas a shot from the corner of Craigengewer v. Civil Service
ના to gain victory over an opponent the base-line: can be driven hard
Water Polo whose stroke production equals, or down the side-line with the full YM.C.A. “A” YMCA “B In the second endurance Grand even surpasses, your own. The length of the court to play into.
(T.M.C.A в Prix. the ranking by distance is racket is the weapon with which officially recorded as follows: 1st the ball is struck, and the art
6.30 place: Sommer-Nuvolari, 3.144
BULL FIGHTING'S LURE
The only return to this is a lob, and a good "lob is very hard to make from ́ ́ a hard drive to the middle of your". base-line.
Civil Servants v.
TO-MORROW Lawn Tennis Mixed Denblen Chinese R.C. v, Club de Recreio. Ladies "R.C. ^v, Indian E.C. U.S.BC. v. Kowloon R.C.
p.m.)
p.m.
Lawn Tennis-H. K. Area League Kowloon Section
20th Battery, Royal Engineers v. Head
guarter Wing, Lincolns
Hong Kong Section 12th Battery, Royal Artillery v. “A
Company, Borderers
Another opening is to draw him
FALTER
Foxx Leads Home Run Parade.
U. S. BASEBALL® RESULTS-
New York, To-day.
New York Giants- have" secured": a big advantage in the National: „Baseball League and the Senators:
are leading, the Yankees, 1982: world champions in the race for the American League pennant. ⠀⠀
Results as cabled by Reuter: Yesterday St. Louis Cardinals suffered a double defeat at the hands of the Boston Braves while the Glants shared the spoils with: Pittsburgh Piratea: Melvin - Ot÷ banged out his ninth homer in the latter game.web
king, hit his eighteenth homer of Jimmy Foxx, 1992 home run
the season to take the lead over Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, who' scored his seventeenth four-bagger"" yesterday.
National League.
Philadelphia
to the net with a drop shot-the Chicagu "aticker" is seldom a good vollever
Jurges hit a homer. and a hard shot to his backhand Philadelphia side line should gain the point and)
kms., which is a world record for muscles are the power behind the ordinary roads at 131 kms. p.h.,racket, but the brain is the decid the previous record being 125.7 ing factor.
A considerable amount of talk is kms. ph since 1931.
Nothing is more surprising than heard of players who "always" at- 2nd place: Chiretti Varent with the number of players who are tack" or "are always on the de- 3,143.6 kms, and the 3rd. Lewis- content merely to hit the ball over fensive. So vest, however, is the Richards with 3,043.4 kms.-the net, and never seem to think grading in tennis that the distine- It is essential at all times, to gainition is unreal. There are a hun- Havaa.
the greatest pleasure from the dred different ways of conducting game-which, after all, is more im-a match, and it is a great fallacy vantage of. A hard angular drive portant than the result that one is to go on and try to "hit your op to his backhand and the net posi- constantly thinking out some plan ponent off the court." Too many tion gained; once there, volley to Chicago of campaign. Given equal stroke young players insist on using this kill at once. production ability it is the better method upon every occasion. general who will gain the victory. Let us again take as a model
To appreciate the real beauty of Tilden, Attitude Of The New the game, for the spectator as much as for the player, it is necessary to see beyond the smooth, easy action. of a forehand drive or a well- The bull-fight season is now in executed smash; it is necessary to full swing, and with it is raised the realise the intellectual effort, the A much bigger proportion of his old question of whether the bull-'nervous tension, the strategy of matches he contented himself with fight is dying as a sport, says a thinking a stroke or two ahead that winning off his opponent's errors, adopt against this roung hard- Cincinnatti home newspaper of recent date. 'gains victory for the better general contenting himself with keeping bitter.,
Brooklyn The pessimists in Spanish bull-between two evenly matched stroke the ball in play. If the opponent The first plan is, of course, Wilson hit a homer. fight circies say that the sport is players.
was too steady. Tilden forced him steady returning of the ball, hit bound to die owing to the lack of The choice of tactics is a much into error by variations In pace ting as softly as possible. This Pittsburgh
¡will force him into error. Remem- good bull-fighters. The Republic. more involved thing than the and spin.
Suhr hit a bomer. they point out, le breaking up the execution of a stroke.
Every young player has in his ber fully 80 per cent. of points at large estates, and this will make
club a more experienced player tennis are lost by errors rather New York impossible the successful breeding
whom he cannot beat, and yet who, than gained by earned points. of bulls, which require large areas
The feels, is not as good a stroke Should your opponent, be having | of good pastures. The bull-ight is
producer as he is. This "ticker" one of his "on" days he is really Attack must be met a feudal sport which is stifled by a
returns everything, and although dangerous.. democratic atmosphere.
Spain.
But while it is possible decline has set in, the fact that the 1,300 bull-rings in Portugal, France, and
America continue to draw audiences regularly, and Marcial, Vicente, Domingo, cther first-class fighters can tinue to demand, and obtain, from
COD-
The beginner will soon grasp how any given stroke should be played, and with a little practice the playing of a shot will become mechanical
Tilden's Mottoes
At his best he possessed the hardest strokes`ever seen on a tennis court, but only in one match out of ten would he em- ploy "storm tactica"
a
is better than a lob, for your op Cincinnatti poient expects just that, and will probably get it back, for good lobs are few and far between.
Now we come to the tactics ́ ́ to
Many a championship has been lost through the use of a perfectly-executed stroke at
High hit a homer. Brooklyn
Outen hit a homer.
R. H. E. 9149 5 11.3
12
6
5 11
6 15
5. 12
I
O'Doul and Melvin
homers.
2.7 0 Ott hit
Pittsburgh
5
7.10
Critz and Mancuso hit homers.
Game went to 10 innings.
St. Louis Boston
3TM
g
4 10
Frankhouse pitebed.
American League.
New York
Babe Ruth hit a homer, Detroit
10 -13
79
$
Philadelphia
812
Jimmy Foxx hit a homer. Chicago
9' 13
Washington
15 15
Manush hit a homer.
One will go through the motions he seldom wins a point, invariably with attack. If he finds his most New York of playing a forehand or backhand gains victory by that a drive without conscious thought of margin.....
comfortable terrific drive coming back at
even faster pace, his nerve will be remains how the feet are placed or how the Let this youth who insists on shaken.
Spain, racket is gripped: these all become hitting every shat hard remember If you can follow your service to Latin 'automatic, and, no matter whn the that there is no attack without the net it will be easy to volley his large opponent may be, the movements defence. There is only one method hard return out of his reach, Whitney hit a homer.
that for the various shots will not be of beating the "stickar." You can-and that will completely undermine and altered.
not hit him off the couch because his confidence.
St. Louis your good drives will not be Many an important, match has
£300 to £400 for one appearance is very different; each match play power. Play him at his own game most perfect · stroke," "from
But the generalship; or a match enough to make up for your errors. Been won-through the use of the Boston"
(Strategy must be mixed with right stroke at the right time. The 25,000 Spectators led will have to be conducted in a The largest of these bull-rings is different way, The weakness of until you get an opening, and then technical viewpoint, is of no use if that of Mexico City, which seats your adversary will have to be dis-produce your drive. But don't try jused at the wrong time.
to keep the ball going too long. 25,000, the second that of Barcelona covered and played to, Tilden with 24,300, and the third the new gives two mottoes that should be that is just what he likes, and you will miss before he does, unless arena in Madrid, not yet inau- remembered by every tennis
you hit severely enough to forte gurated, but which is built to hold player:
him into error. › 24,000. There are fifty-five bull- (1) Never allow a player to rings in France, of which the larg- play the game he prefers if you can est that of Beziers, a former Ro- possibly force him to play any man arena, which can hold 18,000. other..
Obviously the Agrarian Re- form Bill will operate, against the breeding of bulls, but it may be expected that so long as bull-fighting is a profitable business room will be found to raise the needed animals. Mexico has carried out wide- spread agrarian reform, and still produces fighting bulls.
Have Patience **
the wrong time, and many title won by the use of a sloppy-looking push of the ball to the right part of the court at the critical stage of a match.
Each shot you receive will be cleverly placed, and although it will look soft and tempt you to kill (2) Never give a player a shot it outright, do not attempt to do
The unexpected often pays. Going out, for a certain winner, he likes to play. Piso unless you are in correct posi-a "hit-or-a-mise" shot where a
Both are sound elementary and tion and see an opening. self-evident points, but one has Patience is the quality that only to watch any club game in must here be developed, com progress to realise that these mot-- bined with decision and ability, toes are forgotten as soon as one to seize an opening once you
have made it gets on court. Watch two players, both of whom possess a powerfṇi
Cleveland
TABLES TO DATE.
National League.
safe return is expected, even though the point is, lost, may-gain |many · subsequent points. This,
however, really comes. under the New York heading of the psychology of the St. Louis **. game. In general, if your op Pittsburgh But what is an opening against ponent's shot is sufficiently difficult Boston forehand drive, and it is positively such a player? One is a hard to give you the choice of a probable Brooklyn In general, the Governments of amazing how often you will see drive to one side that puts him error in attempting aggression in Chicago the Republic have not legislated to long rallies to each others for well out of court, and a hard re-reply, or of putting a defensive Cincinnati suppress or hinder bull-fighting, hand until one of the players either turn to the other side should gain return foto play, it is better to Philadephia but have limited their activities to nets or overhits the ball. In the the point: but the position bas to choose the latter course. It is im- continuing the legislation protect-heat of the battle the weak back be worked for, it is perhaps the possible to over-estimate the Im ing the horses. It is estimated that hand is forgotten, or natural third or fourth shot in a rally portance of the advice, Put the Ball the lives of 12,000 horses have vanity makes one determined to before his length is short, and that Into Play. That should be the be been saved in his way.
outdrive on the stronger wing. must be taken immediate ad-ginner's primary tennis mazim. Toungsters Like Football The first point to be grasped ta President Alcala Zamora is 4 has a no-man's land. You must singles play is that a tennis court keen bull-fight enthusiast, but Pre- never be in the middle of the mier Azana is not a devotee. The court
three Socialist Ministers are oP There are only two places to posed to bull-fghting Spanish be, behind the base-line or up Socialists being traditionally criti-at the net.
SUZANNE'S
EPIC STRUGGLE
London, June 20.
cal of this sport. The party or- The part of the court that lies gan, "El Socialista," never refers to between the baseline and the ser bull-fighting except to report accl-vice-line is "forbidden ground." Mrs. Helen, Wills Moody at last has dents, which it invariably does un-Naturally you will upon occasion been invelgied into an expression der the title "the so-called be drawn into that part of the anionsbout a return match with national festa.” Another daily, "El court to make a stroke, but as soon
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HOME RUN PARADE TO DATE To this day it is still called "the Jimm on the side-line, and a ball from Me Babe Ruth (New York Yankees) 17′′
Foxx (Philadelphia Athai) 18 Tolley decision," for Cyril Tolley Lou Gehrig (New York Yankees) 17 Lengien into the double-lines, ovarix Wally Berger (Boston Braves) 18 inches out, he allowed to paar as good Chack Klein (Philadelphia Philsen) 18 APPEAR Even the partisan French crowd yelle again if a match
PIEKARSKO Charley Hartnett: (Chicago Cubi) 10. Even then, hitting wonderful drives with fee necessary that forced Mila Lenglen to do an
Suzanne Lenglen.
Mile.
Self likewise bars all mention of 'as. It is made your must retire again plan quite ready and willing ted vehement protesta Tonny Lazzeri (New York Yankees T
the sport from its columns
Obviously times are not what they were twenty years ago, when on one famous occasion the Bishop of „Madrid' allowed the Important and highly cere" monious Corpus Christi pro cession to be held in the mOTN-
ing instead of in the afternoon,
Lengler
behind the base-line or advance can be to attacking position at the net, asked to comment on report that side to side, Miss Wills levelled the Official", she declared, when enormous amount of galloping: froni | according to whether you see that Mile Lenglen had been practising with your return gives you the oppor
score at five-all, and then came another view: to staging a "comeback and tunity to attack or pot contemplated applying to the French Amazing Laux par Mile. Lenglen
Tennis Federation for, reinstatement a Miss Wills hit a scorching
retched match point.
Lenglen glanced at the falling hand drive across cpart, Mid ball, gave an bysterical-cry-long set, holding out her hand gun ins
to K`VARUUished, and
The "Centre Theory" An sin amateur,
The majority of singles are play- The match, however, will be slag. [ed from the base-line, and a plán od as the French champlon has asked
"when. It would have clashed (in the game little known to the Enan historic match at Canangalde her racket and rường të them
with a very attractive bull-fight.
to adopt, although one of the oldest for $10,000 or match at Cannes
1925, Mile Lenglez beat Miss Helen
It is equally obvious that the theory.", A. volibyer fa in better was the only time the two faced mark GERTY WE
average club player in the "centre will by 6-3, 6-0 That hectic anair
younger generation is showing a position to maintain command at other across the net inga singleband Rope, a competent tournament player
marked predilection for tball the net, and for other sports, but, unless chance of appearances are deceptive, it may piacos the be expected that bull-fighting will the continue to
Spanish apert for very man
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Uproar. Land Chisler
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