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final on the Kowloon Football Club
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 2, 1987:"
TSUI WAI PUIS EASY WIN LOT-OT YESTERDAY MIAS
RIVIERA SUCCESS FORCESENA LIZANA
TUDIO TA
MLLE JEDZREJOWSKA RETIRES IN FINAL
AN
REFEREE COLLAPSES
(By A. WALLIS MYERS)
Mentone, March 8.
HOLDER LEA
HONG KO
CRAWFORD BEATS G. E. CLARKE
(By “ADREM?)
I understand that Tsui Wai-puk, holder of: the singles tennis title.
N attack of cramp compelled Mlle. Jedzrejowska and joint, holder of the doubles to retire in the final of the women's singles title, is leaving the Colony next Sunday to take part in Davis Cup. here to-day, and thus Senorita Lizana won her first
At one period, at the Hong Kong- C. C. yesterday, against: RL With
best to lose, but his opponent; was
The playing of the Lai Wah Cup singles title on the Riviera. When the end camel, as the representative of China. the struggle had lasted two hours, and the players ington, he appeared to be trying his were level at one set all and one game all.
ground should appease the yearn ings of all Kowloonites of which select band I a
am one and I hope to see the stands filled to capacity, for a great deal depends upon this towards the holding of future im- portant matches on this field.
ex-
The Army are fielding an ceptionally strong side, and I think they will defeat the Civilian team. With the exception of Miller, the Army are turning out the same side which anet South China in the Kote- wall Cup game on Good Friday.
We cannot overlook the sterling that display of the Army side on occasion, especially when one re- members that for a greater part of the game the Army were without the services of Miller. On the strength of this, I concede the mili- tary
of team the best chances. carrying away with them the Lai Wah Cup.
FOCUS OF PLAY
The focus of play, as far as the Civilian side is concerned, will, un- doubtedly, be on A. V. Gesano. As
IT WAS A MATCH BETWEEN THE CHILEAN'S FLUENT so completely off form that he threw STROKES AND FOOTWORK AND THE POLE'S LABOURED away a golden opportunity, of wine AGGRESSION RAPIER AGAINST SWORD. MLLE. JEDZRE- ning the second set when leading. JOWSKA HAD WON THE FIRST SET IN THE 16TH GAME 41, and Tsui merely tightened up MAINLY BY EMPLOYING DROPSHOTS, TO WHICH SENORITA his game somewhat, to win five LIZANA GAVE A SOFT ANSWER, THUS OPENING THE games in a row for the match. COURT FOR HER OPPONENT'S HEAVY TOP-SPIN DRIVE. THE POLE'S SERVICE WAS ALSO SUPERIOR.
In the second-set Senorita Lizana's easier style and her reserve stamina got their reward. She led 5-2, only to lose the next three games by lack of concentration. But after taking the set at 86 the Chilean was obviously fresher for the final bout.
H.K.R.A. PRIZE MEETING
The Annual Prize Meeting of the Hong Kong Rifle Association will take place from next Monday, April 5, to the following Monday, on the Kowloon City Ranges. MAHLENTIRESTORMALL SOLAT ||||||||||||
this player may be seen in the for- TWO DOUBLES ward line, there might be a surprise ENCOUNTERS
FOR TO-DAY
win. It would not be so much of a
surprise, as we know that Gosano is just as deadly as Lee Wai-tong when in front of the goal. But there are too many loopholes in the team, too many weaknesses which will display themselves under the steady | pressure of the Military side. When this happens, the lads in khaki will secure the necessary goals to win the match.
Five League matches in the First Division are down for decision, and I favour the Club, Fusiliers, Sea- forths, and South China win..
"A" to
Tsui And Paul Kong Should Win
SHUTE BROTHERS
ON VIEW
(By "ADREM")
Two doubles matches comprise the programme in the Colony Lawn Tennis Championships, at the Hong Kong C.C. this afternoon.
Tsui Wai-pui, co-holder of the title with his brother, in partner- ship with Paul Kong, former Chin- SIR LIONEL HALSEY ese Davis Cup ace, should have no
difficulty in defeating the Univer
NEW N.S.C. CHAIRMAN sity combination, W. N. Cheung
$40,000 COMPANY FORMED
London, March 6. A new company, with a capital of £40,000 and Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey as chairman, has been form- ed to take over the National Sport ing Club. No drastic changes in the administration of the club are involved. Mr. John E. Harding is remaining as general manager and matchmaker, and the Advisory, Executive and Matchmaking con- mittees will continue as before.
Boxing
will continue to be run every Monday at Earl's Court but the formation of the new Company
and M. C. Hung, who are not likely to offer enough opposition to enable an estimate of the potentialities of Tsui and his partner as a pairing, to be gauged.
The Shutes and Hussains should be featured in a thrilling duel. fairly evenly matched, They are but I expect the steadiness of the former to carry the day.
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
Open Doubles Championship
E. LE Shute and K Shute v. 8. S. and S. A. Hussain
W. N. Cheung and M. C. Hung Tsui Wai pui and P. Kong,
...' Club Handicap Singles A. K. MacKenzie (+1.8) v. TB. Evans (+2.8);"
V. R L. H. Owen-Hughes (~15) Withington (3.6).
-3.6) v. G. E. R.
means that the N.SC. will in future. V. Harrison be in a position to compete with Divett (4-15).**** other promoters in securing "big
money" matches..
- Club Handicap: Doubles
L.. T. Ride and J. F. :Lops (--15-2):
The names of the directors so v. R. Hancocks and T. E.
far appointed are Sir Nöel Curtis-
Bennett, the Marquess of Queens-
(2.6).
As expected, Crawford had little difficulty in winning agahast this
club-mate G. E. Clarke; although he was led 4-1 in the first set: Graw- ford played a fine all-round game and was a deserving, winner.
VERY ERRATIC
In the third game of the third set Mlle. Jedzrejowska fell on Clarke's backhand yesterday, was the court. Vain efforts at re-usually reliable, but he failed, lams storation were made, by officials and members of the Polish team, but after a 10-minute interval she resigned the match.
SCHRODER WINS: Schroder won the men's title by a decisive victory in the final over Tarlowski. The Swedish champion won 86, 62, 640
entably on the forecourt, where he was hopelessly erratic.
In the remaining game, Leong - Ping-chiu had. little, difficulty in ad- vancing to the next round at the expense of J. D. Milne:
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
Open Singles Y-R
Mr. George Simond, who has been referesing Riviera tournaments for A. Crawford beat G. E. Clarke 6 over 30 years, and was officiating 6-200
Tsui Wai pui beat R. L. Withington at Mentone yesterday, is critically | 81, 6–4. ill, having collapsed in his bedroom Leong Ping-chiu beat J. D. Milie at Monte Carlo this morning when 6-1, 6———4. dressing: The King of Sweden and many other competitors have made sympathetic inquiries.
Club Singlos, Handicap. M. Pagh bent 1. A. Joseph. 6-3, 6-2.
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