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MISS ROUND BEATEN BY MRS. KING
MARATHON MATCH AT BECKENHAM
LONGEST CLASH IN 51 YEARS
(BY A. WALLIS_MYERS)..
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A. R. Dallah, above, the Indian ›. Recreation- Club skip, was, in great form last Saturday.
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GOLFERS
IN WALES
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 6, 1987.
Hayes Loses His. Singles Record BRILLIANT PLAY
BY DUNCAN <
London, June 65.
The South African team of ama- teurs halved their golf match against the Royal Porthcawl club when they made their first visit to Wales yesterday,
BIGGEST YEAR AT WIMBLEDONS
£15,000 Returned
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London, June 11. “ London, June 10.
Bigger crowds than ever before There were big happenings at
are expectedwat:-Wimbledon-when--- Beckenham yesterday, and the an-
Otway Hayes, the youngest mem- the lawn tennis championships open- ber of the touring team, lost his un- on June 21, a week on Monday, ticipated match between. Miss
beaten singles record in club Thousands 1 of applications for Round and Miss Marble will not
matches when A. A. Duncan, former Centre Court réserved seats have take place. While the American
Oxford captain and Army, cham-been received from foreigners, and- pion, beat him by 5 and 3.
more than £15,000 hai had to bes champion survived —6—1, 3—6,
Duncan played brilliant golf with returned to applicants who were 64
after a perilously close ing ram, Mrs. King reached 4-2. the exception of one hole. On the unsuccessful in the ballot for seats. struggle with Miss Hardwick, Eng-
Miss Round squared with a outward half he had six 3's and, I understand that more than« sequence of low and piercing drives despite a 7 at the long eighth, where 170,000 people applied for tickets. land's No. 1 was beaten 9-7, 2-6, and some delightfully played drops, his second shot landed the ball in a Of these 10,000 have been allotted 12—10, after a great two-hour, duel When, Miss Round went to 9—8 bush, he had an outward half of 35. Centre Court
seats. There is by the lion hearted Surrey player, with a love game I thought her Hayes got back a hole at the 10th, standing-room there for about 5,000 Mrs. Maurice King,
lucky moment had come. Not a bit but Duncan was three up again at more, and another 10,000 can watch of it. Mrs. King replied with the 13th and won the short 14th, the play on No. 1 Court. I will deal with this neck-and-love game. So they went on, the where the South African missed the
NEW SEATING neck marathon first. Though play-crowd cheering, until Mrs. King's green, and 15th hole for the match. The authorities have been unable ed on a side court, its fluctuating stubborn defence and quite enviable LOCKE WINS FIRST THREE HOLES to add more than about a dozen phases, in which Mrs. King had tenacity triumphed in the 22nd
A. D. Locke, dual champion of seats to the accommodation round South Africa, beat Henry R. Howell, the Centre Court, but two improve- seven match balls before the eighth game.
the Welsh international captain, ments made elsewhere should add gave her victory, drew the largest|
by 4 and 3. Locke took the first materially to the comfort of. Wednesday crowd ever seen on the
three holes, but Howell won the visitors. The old free seats on No. cricket ground-
wo-long fifth - with an "eagle”·
1 Court, which have long been con- sidered unsatisfactory, have been
made of teak.
BATTLE ROYAL
TWO VITAL “LETS”....
There had been no longer men's match years, or one conducted with more holed a putt of three yards. disregard for the "rubs, of the won the sixth, but Locke was two After each player-had-won a set green." If Mrs. King had the up again at the short seventh, where Mrs. King the first in the 16th cruel luck of a critical line decision, Howell was bunkered. game and Miss Round the second, Miss Round's cause was influenced, driving beautifully all round the perhaps decisively, by two "lets" court-there was another hour's which the umpire imposed. Yet battle royal. Defending her weak-none of these incidents was allow er backhand with exemplary pluck, ed to affect the ardour of the two and using her forehand as a batter-competitors.
in Beckenham's 51 Here, after a brilliant iron removed and replaced by new ones
The other innovation is the roof- ing-in of the standing-room for queues waiting to secure seats. This has cost. the club £1,000£
With a birdie" three at the ninth. Locke turned 3 up, having done the first nine holes in 36. Taking two of the first three holes coming in, he the round in an approximate 75- became five up, and he finished the one stroke more than the scratch -- match at the 15th. Locke completed score.
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