THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 17, 1937.
RECREIO PAIR STAGE FINE RALLY
A. Alves, above, gave a plucky display on the left-wing for Recreio in their soccer match against the Royal Navy at Cause- way Bay yesterday.
DOUBLES BADMINTON MATCHES
CARVALHO ON SICK LIST
F. H. KWOK & S. W LIANG DEFEATED
A.V. GOSANO'S FINE WORK
OVERHEAD
SINGLES STANDARD VERY LOW
(By "ADREM")
AT the Hong Kong C.C. yesterday afternoon, in Α
the Colony Doubles Championship, F. H. Kwok and S. W. Liang were within an ace of winning in straight sets against A. V. Gosano and A. V. Remedios, when the latter levelled the scores after a grand rally during which they saved several match points, and eventually won the encounter in a final set which barely lasted ten minutes.
IN THE FIRST SET THE CHINESE PAIR WERE SLIGHT- LY THE MORE RELIABLE AND WITH GOSANO AND REME- DIOS FALLING DOWN ON EASY "KILLS” RAN OUT WIN- NERS AFTER 14 GAMES.
Kwok, at this period, was the best player on the court, his fore- hand drive finding the gaps in the opposition with great regularity. He played faultlessly, severity being the keynote of a brilliant dis-
play, which left his opponents standing, time and again. ·
ترکی
Gosano and Remedios, were un- were fairly sound, but lacked power accountably erratic and completely and it was only his persistent net
FAVOURITES FOR lacked understanding. Both were vol-attack that won him the match.
TITLE
(By “ADREM”)
leving crisply and driving well, but showed a lack of finish which cost them the set...
TACTICS WIN
At King's College to-night, three matches will be played off cond stanza.
Chan Kam-hung, the Kowloon Tong player, beat Li Kwan-hung in a game of pat ball. Neither play- er showed any desire to take the initiative and were content to keep the ball in play and wait for op- position mistakes.
A. V. Remedios, above, partnered by A. V. Gosano, yesterday staged a remarkable rally, to beat S. W: Liang and F. H. Kwok in the Colony Open Doubles Lawn Tennis Championship
J.F.LEYS MAY
DEFEAT LEE
WAI TONG
UPSET IS NOT
UNLIKELY
S. A. RUMJAHN ON VIEW TO-DAY
pro-
(By "ADREM”) It was tactics which won the se-
This afternoon's tennis Realising the futil
gramme at the Hong Kong C.C. in the Quarter-Finals of the ity of playing on the devastating
In the Mixed Doubles, J. F. L promises some interesting en- Men's Doubles Badminton Cham-Kwok, the Portuguese pair concen- pionship of the Colony. Unfor-trated on Liang, whose game is not Smalley and his sister won from counters, notably the Lee Wai- atong J. F. Leys match, in the tunately, L. A. Carvalho is suf- ideally suited to doubles play, and Mr. and Mrs. Wodehouse after fering from an attack of malaria completely exposed his weakness great struggle and in the only Open Singles event. I have not and as a result, the finest tie of on the volley. Forced on the de other Club match, G. Polglase and seen the former in action this the evening will not be played. fensive, he was compelled to lob and C. C. Stark were forced by bad season and do not know how he as he was invariably short, lost light to adjourn with the score at is shaping but Leys is playing ex- cellently and although general P. H. Wong and C. E. Chng innumerable points. The winners two sets all. Folglase won won three games against Recreio were now very accurate overhead, first set easily, but lost the second opinion will be against him win- ning against such a fine player "A" when the Chinese "Y visit Gosano, in particular "killing" at 97.
as China's soccer idol, I am of from all parts of the court.
the opinion that an upset is quite likely.
at
ed King's Park, but they had a rare struggle against Carvalho Kwok and Liang, hung on grim-
however, and and Silva. It would have been fly,
led interesting to have seen how the 7-6 but after deuce had been call- latter would have fared in an is-ed several times, they lost the game sue to be decided over three sets. amid great excitement. After this, there was only one pair in it and Gosano and Remedios won the next two games for the set and only con- ceded the first game in the third set to finish off the match in quick time
LOW STANDARD.
I sincerely hope that Carvalho will have recovered sufficiently by next week, to enable this match to eventuate.
I cannot see anything particular- ly interesting in the remainder of this evening's programme and I shall be very surprised if any of the games go the full distance
BRILLIANT PAIR.
Frank Kwok and S. W. Liang will meet the favourites for the title, P. K. Hui and T. C. Lee, the bril- liant University combination, and are almost certain to find the hard- hitting, speedy tactics of their op ponents too much for them. A bet ter game should be witnessed be
YESTERDAY S RESULTS
Open Singles
the
S. A. Rumjahn, one of the
F. V. Harrison beat Ma Nai-kwong strongest contenders for the 64, 16, 63
title, will meet Frank Grose, of the K.C.C. Rumjahn, I under stand, has lost a great deal of his touch, due principally to an over- indulgence in badminton
Ng Kam-chuen received a w/o from H. Owen Hughes
Chan Kam-hung beat Li Kwan-huug
64, 53
Open Doubles beat F. H. Kwok and S. W. Liang 6-8, A. V. Gosano, and A. V. Remedios
97, 61
UNRELIABLE SERVICE His service, in particular, has shown itself to be unreliable. He should, however, not have a great Smalley deal of difficulty in advancing to
Mrs the next round, although Grose,
fine stylist, might extend him
Wong Fuk-nam will meet Bertie Ho and a close game seems to indicated In addition to the usu Club events, two more mixed don- bles games are down for decision.
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
* Club Mixed Doubles In the two singles games that FLSmalley and Miss were played, a surprisingly low beat RLD standard prevailed. F. V. Harrison was taken the whole distance by
G. Polglase and C. Stark Ma Nai-kwong, and never looked ed. Polglase won the first set
His strokes and lost second 9-11 really impressive.
Wodehou
Club-Handiez
Notts Big Deficit
fish- 6-2
London, February 19. ¡making a total deficiency of £3,792. Nottinghamshire C.C.C. showed This, with commitments for the tween K. S. Liew and K. L. Yong, a loss of £2,568 on last season, current year, means that the club
and E da Sousa and H. A. Alves,
will have to face a total deficit of
who are much of the same standard. by T. J. Ong and F. Koh, of the £6,000. Sousa, however, will probably find Chinese "Y" the pace too much for him and as
PROGRAMME
Mr. D. McCraith, chairman of the committee, was elected presid
a result the University T pair F. H. Kwok and S. W. Liang v. Pent in succession to the Earl of
K. Hui and T. C. Lee
should win.
Lincoln at yesterday's am
neet
M. A. Oliveira and J. J. Remedios, K. S. Liew and K. L. Yong v H Aing. He stated that during the last until recently ranked as the finest
Alves and E. da Sousa. combination in the Colony, are not IJ Ong and F. Koh M Awhich amount £3.443-
likely to be very seriously extended
Oliveira and J. J. Remedios.
five years the club lost £5,918.
lentertainment tak
Wang Fuk-man v H
A. Rumjahn v. F. Grose
Club Handicap Singles GS. Chambers (3.6) 3. C. Pool (+26).----
WM Barton (+16) ▼ J. B. Collis
(+15).
F. A. Joseph (+26) ▼ N. K. Little john-f
Club Handicap Doublem
J. E. Richardson and E. M-Wood (+36) W. Stoker and D. L. Prop (13.5):)
Club Mixed
A L. Sullivan (zni birz
ROK Valentine and
C Monoghan Mr. and Mrs. AK