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Team Racing To Be Retained
EIGHT-EVENT PROGRAMME
Tennis Players Who China Mail
Fiddle Around!
(Continued from Page 3)
Instead of going into court and said that it is merely hit and hitting about aimlessly, why not giggle" unworthy of comparison pay attention to some of the | with the cricket club next door as At the meeting of the Swim-fundamentals and develop a esta parsait fit for menkort ming Committee of the Hong ditable game? You will find it Now for the young player who Kong Volunteer Defence Corps much more interesting and enhas higher tennis aspirations |last night it was decided to hold joyable. -
than small club play. First of the annual Swimming sports of There is always something to all, I think it is essential to join the Corps in the VRC bath on work for if a club and its members a good club. If you are still a Saturday, July 27. The only are keen. No matter how weak even weakling "you"
** Car -always changes in the programme is the best players are, a match graduate through one of the that all the invitation races are programme is s great stimulus. | smaller``variety; but make up to be made handicap events. Competitive play is the salt of your mind to get eventually into
As last year's scheme of team the game..
the leading club of your district racing proved more successful Then why not aj "ladder
How To Practice than individual contests. it was competition, in which each man How about your practice? Do decided that team racing should on the ladder is allowed to chal-not everlastingly be playing sets. he continued this year.
Jenge the man immediately They practise your strong but above him if he wins they neglect your weak strokes. It is change places.
The following will be the pro-
gramme:
300 Yards Team Face (Teams of six.
each to swim 50 yards).
30 easy in minor tennis to “rom round" à faulty backhand. Stiffen that backhand instead by hard the drill
The keenness which results is extraordinary. Everyone wants 50 Tarda Ladies Invitation Handicap to get to the top, and so
Race
High Diving Teams" of three)... Pillow Fight
100 Yards Medley Relay Race (Teams
of Four, Faux Stylen)
50 Yards HKJDĊ Nurses Race Inter-Unit Water Polo
Entrance fee will be $10 a team
ladies free. Entries close on Fri- day. July 19. · · ·
Sports Diary
TO-DAY
Bowls Open Pairs
F. J. Jones and A. W. Gämmitä "v
I. E. Henson and S. "A. Bright
(Hong Kong Electric) GOG. Silra and Fox Moda Sika L. Glendinning and W. Glendin- - (Dalloo RC)
VOLUNTEER
MACHINE GUN
COMPETITION
Champions Retain Trophy
MOTOR MACHINE GUNNERS COLLAPSE
substantial
1. E. Noronha and: B. Basto- TA
Armstrong and C. Strange
After gaining (Kowloon Dock) lead in the first stage of the A. Macfarlane, and J. Russell Annual Machine Gun Competi-
J. Medina, and J. Cavanagh
(Civil Servite Cation of the Hong Kong Volun B. Goodman and R. Lapsley R. F. teer Defence Corps, the Motor
Luz and R. Beer
Machine Gun A Team-col- (Kowloon B.G.C.) lapsed in the final stage R. Duncan, and L. A. R. Duncan- v
Tennis "B" Divisions
H. H. Rose and 3. M. PurvÀN Firing) to come third The (HEFC) No 1 (Machine Gun Company)
Company, last year's cham- pions, were again successful They carried off the first, second and fourth places.
Indian RC Hong Kong C.C University v Civil Service GG Kowloon CC. v Club de Recreio. South China AA¡ v Chinese RC.
HELEN WILLS DRAWN BY FEVER OF WIMBLEDON
{Continued from "Page 4):
"There will be no trips to the
The Auic. Company, which secured first place in 1953 and second place in 1934, has been dissolved and so did not take part in the competition.
The first stage of the competi- 100 Yards Men's Invitation Handicap standard of play automatically If you have a friend who is
tion, the stoppages, was decided Race
improves.
equally eager to improve, then go
last month and the Motor Machine Aroid “Hit And Giggle" Stuff: Jout, and practice your heads off
Gun Section came off the field Most clubs of standing run if necessary. Get the founda-Continent. As soon as Wimble with fring colours, and the final their
own domestic champion- tions right, and the rest will foldon is over, win or Jose, I shall stage. the firing, was decided fast ships and matches with other low with practice.
go back. Even the Wightman Sunday morning- clubs. If yours does not, then agitate in
A coach can be helpful, but Cup matches, which are being that direction. Such much may be done without him played this year at Forest Hills,
The following were the final competitive play costs no Go to one of the leading tourma-New York, may not prevent me, standings and more than "fooling around,” and ments-there are scores of these supposing I am asked to play for teams= your lawn tennis begins to mean all over the country or take a America, from going straight The following were elected as something. No longer will it be trip to Wimbledon on the first back to California. It all de the committee for the current
two or three days, as then you pends. I really have no decisive rear:
Chave plenty of opportunity to see plans beyond Wimbledon."
good play on many courts, and Mrs. Moody, then told me the the watch carefully how the players story of her dramatic departare.
About 10 days ago," she said, having had eight weeks” practice
Howard Kinsey and No
Year's Committee
L/Cpl B. Gosano and Pte Major E J.R- Mitchell (Pre-Owen- 'sident), Lt. F. W.-T, Ross (Chair-}| While the following are |man). CMS- G. T. Padgett (Hon-stewards:
Secretary and Treasurer), Sgt C CSM M. Baptista, CSM B S. Coom. Sgt. E F. Selk. Sg W. Rogers. Sgt A. Webb, CSM A [Stoker. C. Q. M. S. R. Edwards. Urquhart.
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make their shots.
Get It Right
Position of
scores of the
texms for Final Ist 2nd Pts.
Stage
No. 1. M. G. Coy
Tea
No. 1. M. G. Cog
"D" Team
Motor M. G. Coy..
"A" Team 1
M. G. Coy "A" Team
By watching the outside courts against you can go close enough to see other men, I was pondering G. Troop the production of the shots. The chances if I returned to ten Scottish Company 7 rest is "up to you"
nis after so long an absence. The No. 1 M. G. Cor
had been
matter
Get your swing right first with lure of Wimbledon outting a ball Then ask your growing on me it really is friend to hit the ball to you, and thrill to play there, no you will gain some idea of the how long one has been in the stroke When you possess that game.
idea then you can try to hit the Left At Six Hours Notice
ball on the run
Personally, I am a great ad- "Suddenly at two o'clock in vocate of club play, and still re-the afternoon I decided to go. I present my club whenever pos-told my husband, packed hastily, and caught the eight o'clock train
Team .**. Motor G. Coy.
**B* Texm
5
1 60
DANGEROUS
BOWLERS
REMOVED
(Continued from Pase 4)
he Lawn Tennis Association that night for New York. And has been doing great work of late here I am. in encouraging county coaching "I have only one racket, which
Both Gunn and Harris were schemes for
clubs. Arrange I snatched up hurriedly as I left caught in trying to protect them- ments have been made for pro- the house, but about 15 others selves from deliveries which rose fessionals to visit various clabs are on the way. The Wimbledon head-bigh Walker narrowly es and coach players particularly fever had gripped me. I could caped a blow in the face, and youngsters in the finer points not resist.
Hardstaff was hit on the chest of stroke production.
I am not sent officially by the twice in an over by Wellard. · · American LT A—there was no
What Coaching Can Do
The game was suspended, E. A bis
I do not believe that a coach time to consult anyone, anyway Ingle left the field, and on can turn a "rabbit" into a Til and there is no official team from return the Somerset captain
America this year. I den in ten lessons, but he can
am here mediately withdrew the fast bow- at least put him on the road alone even my husband, who sclers and substituted White and to his own maximura develop-trips, has stayed at home to look
companied me on my last two Hazell
ment
Each club-no matter how small-should be affiliated to its
county association and come thus automatically under the wing of
after his business.
Absolutely Fit
"Fit?. I am absolutely fit
the Lawn Tennis Association do not fear any recurrence of the
Do not let your club commit injury which caused me to leave tee go to sleep. If you have the game.
When Notts declared Somerset went in wanting 254 to win, Heane followed Ingle's exam- ple and dispensed with his fast bowlers.
that attracts me this time; it is
- young players: who need coach-{ "Whether I am hitting as hard the strong desire to be in the ing, urge the committee to get a ball; whether I am the force middle of everything that lawn into touch with the county asso-of former years; whether I shall tennis means at Wimbledon again. ciation, whose business it is to beat Miss Dorothy Round or Miss Unless you have played there you provide it.
Helen Jacobs and the other can never know what it means.”
Mrs Moody looked just as The clubs in other countries young, players who have come can take their tennis seriously along in my absence those active 23 she was two years ago, and derive a lot of fun out of it things I am wondering as hard She told me that she had kept fit at the same time as the rest of the world We by swimming, and that her weight
Here in England one
would shall know all about it in a was just the same a pound un- like to see our tennis so keen and month's time. Nor can I say der 10 store
As ever, she looked pale paler well-organised that the what will happen if I'am beaten in fact because she wore a black" "Aming At Biggest Star" costume and a black hat. But she
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smallest and most obscure of our
clubs migh be the first rung in
Am I amning at the biggest looked and spoke like a young the ladder to the Davis Cup team, star in the sky? Undoubtedly woman on a gay adventure with
Beach the top of your first Why not? It is not star, anyway. out a care in the world
club, but don't stay there.
Move on to a stronger one
where you will get beaten up."
"Divine discontent" is a first Bowls Pairs Holders In
class asset for a rising lawn tennis player.
GOLF CHAMPIONSS "AIR SHOT"
(Continued from Page 1)
It is 10 years since I had
Action This Afternoon
The holders of the Colony, What should be the clos Bowls Pairs title, E. J. Janes and game cu the card is the one AW-Grimmitt will be seen in
action this afternoon on the Dec atric green against...
similar experience, and then was and S. A Bright and sho
boy said Little
the match, and is now
last night
pionship A sur defeat
he won find it difficnit to ente
ryers in the cham ver
aused by the
capal
reen, R. Lapsley, of Docks, and HBeer and Luz
The following is to
W. Grimmitt and s P. Henson and S.
AG," Sira end.
ndizining and
Hones
faced by the