EAST MIDLANDS IN RUGBY COUNTY SEMI-FINAL
Warwickshire Lack Scoring Power
ENGLAND FORWARD BREAKS ANKLE
(By HOWARD MARSHALL)
London, January 29.
The East Midlands beat Warwickshire by a goal" and three tries (14 points) to nil at Northampton yesterday, and so qualified to meet Lancashire in the semi-final of the County championship. The game was played to the drumming of frozen feet in the stand, for never did a more cruelly bitter wind flay and torment players and spectators alike. The cold, indeed, was arctic and almost beyond endurance, but the game did not suffer as much from dropped passes and unwill- ing tackling as we might have expected.
There were casualties, to be sure, and.. rather unfortunate ones, for Milman, the England
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 23, 1937.
NEW DRAW SYSTEM IN GALLIA
Hideo -Nishimura, left, and Jiro Famagishi, centre, two of Japan's Davis Cup players to meet the United States on April 30, are seen above with Jiro Fujikura, another prominent Japanese tennis player, when they visited the Colony early last year, en route to Japan from the All Comers Tournament held in Manila.
JAPAN'S DAVIS CUP PLAYERS
SELECTED
TEAM OF THREE TO MEET
UNITED STATES
TOURNEY
Big Test For Tennis Stars
SEEDED PLAYERS IN 3RD ROUND
(By A. WALLIS MYERS)
...
Cannes, London, January 27. The method of an eliminating draw has been adopted in the Gal- lia tournament, which was begun to-day. The new system, coming from Paris, has the double advan- tage of allowing second-class play- ers to qualify in the preliminary rounds while imposing testing matches on the better-class compe- titors.
Thus Brugnon, Kho Sin Kie, Karston, of Holland, Vodicka, of Czechoslovakia, four seeded play- ers, will not compete until the third Tokyo, February, 11. Nishimura, 25, is regarded as Ja-round, which is the gateway to back-row forward, broke an Jiro Yamagishi, Hideo Nishimu-pan's steadiest player. Captain of the semi-final. The arrangement ankle, and W. Jones, the Warra and Fumiteru Nakano were se- the Keio University tennis team, he also allows practice in the difficult wickshire centre, tore a knee lected to-day to represent Japan in won all major Japanese champion- Riviera light for newcomers. muscle and had to leave the field. the 1937 Davis Cup tennis competi-ships in 1933.
Both these accidents occurred in the second half, but they did not greatly affect the run of play. The
tion.
East Midlands were clearly the JAPAN AND
better side, with far more scoring
power.
The Warwickshire forwards, it
THEIR DAVIS
is true, had their great moments in CUP CHANCES
the loose when they stormed the
Midlands line, and Giles was as clever as two men, but attack has to be driven home, and there War- wickshire failed.
BEHIND THE BACK Behind the scrimmage the East Midlands held the whip hand from the start. Cooke at scrum-half was first-rate, Rogers in the centre showed real promise, Lyttle on the left wing was uncommonly quick and nimble, and always there was Butler with his menacing pace.
Challenge Made In
U.S. Zone
MORE EXPERIENCE
SOUGHT
Tokyo, January 29-Japan, fol- lowing the lead of Australia, will challenge in the American instead of the European zone in this year's The forwards kept at it with rare Davis Cup. This announcement has vigour, and Harold Wheatley, with been made by Fikichi Shoda, chair- his toru jersey, played like a hero man of the Japanese L. T. A., who for Warwickshire. In the Mid-said that the choice of zone lands pack there was Dicks in tre- mendous form--he might well take the unhappy Milman's place in the England pack on this showing and Cook and Westow were always fruitfully busy.
DERBY FAVOURITE SCRATCHED
Latest Call-Overs
London, Yesterday.
was
dictated in connection with the Japanese "Five Year" plan for bringing the Cup to Japan.
For the last eight years Japan have challenged in the European Zone, and it is considered here that the change of venue will enable the Japanese players to obtain better Davis Cup experience, as in Ameri- ca they will be certain to meet the Americans or the Australians, whose play is regarded highly here.
While in America the members Lord Astor's unbeaten Early of the Davis Cup team will be en- School, the favourite during the couraged to take part in as many winter for the Derby, has been first-class American tournaments scratched from the Two Thousand as possible. The Davis Cup team, Guineas, but the trainer is very it is expected, will consist of Jiro hopeful of the horse's chances for Yamagishi, Keigo Yamade. Hideo the Derby.
Nishimura, and Fumiteru Nakan
Yamagishi, Japan's No. 1 player, Davy Jones, who came second in last
has won the Japanese title for three year's Grand National Steeplechase successive years. He and Nishi- classic, has been scratched from this mura, ranked No. 2 are Davis Cup year's event
"National Call-over The following is the latest call-over for the Grand National:
Royal Mail 100 to 12 t and o.
players, while Yamade and Nakano
contest.
De la Chance, 100 to 70, 100 to 6 tare newcomers to the international Don Bradman, 22 to 1 o. 25 to 1 t. Puckabelle. 25 to 10, 28 to 1 tay Ready Cash 25 to 1o. 33 to 1 t. The Lincolnshire
The latest callover for the Lincoln shire Handicap is as follows:
Laureat 100 to 8 0. Voltus, 100 to 6 o, 20 to 1 t. Nipaway, 18 to 1. t and o.
Monte Sano. 20 to 1 o, 22 to 1 ti Fricket, 25 to 1 o,
Beuter.
Last year Nishimura, owing ill-health and pressing school, duties,
tennis red from competitive
and Japan's Davis Cup chances, such as they were, suf fered. This year he will certainly partner Yamagishi in the doubles.
Yamagishi, 24, is Japan's first ranking player. He studied at the University of Illinois for two years and is an artist at trick service.
The Japanese are to meet the United States team in the North American zone of Davis Cup com petition.
The survival of four sheltered players is not necessarily certain, Karston is due to meet Wiliam Robertson, the young Californian, who beat him at Nice last year.
In the women's singles the draw is normal, and Madame Mathieu should win the event without un- idue strain.
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