THE CHINA MAIL
DEVELOPING US. DAVIS CUP STARS
CAMBRIDGE AGAIN COME OUT ON TOP
INTER-VARSITY
SERIES
Cambridge University have again come off top dog in the series of inter-Varsity contests with the Dark Blues for 1936-37.
Cambridge have been unbeaten
YESTERDAY'S
TENNIS
KOWLOON TONG
WIN AGAIN
Three games were played yester
since 1929, although for the first day in the "C" Division of the time for several years Oxford Lawn Tennis League. One of the riflemen took all the Bisley leading contenders for the title, events
Kowloon Tong G. CA, advanced
Eton fives, 2--1; ice hockey, 51; ski-
FILL ALL
FOUR YOUNGSTERS READY TO FILL MAJOR POSITIONS
GUERNSAY PROVIDES
MAJOR SENSATION
(By "GEORGE E. TIMPSON”)
Seabright, New Jersey, July 28.
HE effect of the plan of the United States Lawn Tennis Association to bring on new candidates
Cambridge won Rugby, 6-5; ath- still further when they defeated among the younger players of the game to fill any letics, 92 freshmen's athletics, 65; the K. C. C. with the greatest of vacancies that might develop in the selection of boxing, 129, golf, 7-5; squash, 5-0; ease badminton, 87, Rugby fives, 332-203;
players for Davis Cup teams was never better illus- trated than here this week, under the very eye of as an officer of the associa- tion, and now as its president, was and is the lead- shooting, 785 777; ju-jitsu, 20 (5 binations. Gittins and Soltan were bouts drawn); motoring, & Zoo the only R. C. C. to make anything ing sponsor for the idea.
Oxford won:-Boat race, 3 lengths in like a showing. 22m 295, relay races, 5-2; hockey,
AT LEAST HALF OF THE SURVIVORS OF THE FIRST DAY 30; cricket, 7 wickets (Oxford 267 and 160 for 3 wkts.; Cambridge 253] South China and Army were fea-OF PLAY WERE DECIDEDLY OF THE YOUNGER GENERA- and 173); foil and sabre, 7-6; billiards,tured in a keen tussle, while the TION, AND IN MOST CASES HAD BEEN RECIPIENTS OF THE 30; royal termis, 2-1; polo, 12-1; Radio did well to beat the C. R. C. SKILLED PROFESSIONAL COACHING WHICH IS AN ESSEN- rackets, 30, motor reliability trials,
ing, 30 chess, 4 epee, 26-24;1 W. Wu and Ma Nai-kwong, were cross-country, 24-81, lawn. tennis, in excellent fettle and were much Holcombe Ward, who, as 11-10; swimming, 36-17; water polo too good for any of the losing com- 64; table tennis, 12-17 small bore.
936907; clay pigeon shooting, 98-94, junior outfit.
Bisley, snap shooting, 478 459; Chancellor's Cup,. 1,107—1,082; Hum- phrey Cup, 854 839
Drawn. Association, 1—1; lacrosse, ཏཾཡཡནཾ,
H.K.F.C. SUSTAINED
LOSS OF $2,064 LAST SEASON
More Lawn Bowls Members
The fiftieth annual general meet ing of the Hong Kong Football Club will be held at the club-house, Happy Valley, to-day at 5.45 pm, to receive the out-going Commit tee's report and statement of ac- counts for the year ended May 31, to elect officers and a general Com mittee for the year 1937-38, and to
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Scores:
Chinese Recreation Club lost to Ra dio Sports Club by 52 sets to 32.
Li Ping-fon and Tang Man-chiu (C.R.C.). lost to D. Leonard and J. C. de
Almeida
TIAL FEATURE OF THE PLAN. SEVERAL OF THEM, INCLUD- ING MOST OF THE SURPRISE WINNERS, HAD COME OUT OF AN OBSCURITY THAT MADE THE SPEEDY NATURE OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT EVEN MORE UNUSUAL
A year ago no one had heard of them outside the limited circle of their section, yet they showed a style of play that made thems distinct possibilities for speedy selection for prominent places on the ranking list. Such players as Elwood Cooke, of Portland, Ore.. Donald McNeill, Oklahoma City, Norman F. Bickel and Norbert drew with G. Singh and K. Singh 6-6 Burgess of Chicago, are all raw material of unreckoned value in lost to M. Sheriff and M. Hassan 1-5 the coming years....
Lo Tung-fan and Chan Hug-ninj- (CRC).
lost to Leonard and Almeida lost to Singh and Sĩngh beat Sheriff and Hassan
Tin Lap-fat and Kwok (C.R.C.).
lost to Leonard and Almeida beat Singh and Singh beat Sheriff and Hassan
DRAWN MATCH
46
Probably the most sensational 5-6 of all was Frank D. Guernsey Jr., 63 who was so utterly unknown that
Lam-pat even his home had to be sought 2 out before he could be identified. Yet he scored two startling vic- tories on Monday, over such play- ers as R. Norris Williams 2d,
a former Davis Cup captain, and s Mangin, fifth ranking player himself an ardent advocate of the United States, topped only by South China drew with Army Tennis the new training, and over Ar-the Davis Cup team and Eiggs, was Club.
J. Mok and Y. Kwan (South China),thur Hendrix, from beat 3. Bradshaw and A. H. 0 - beat A Warr and J. H. Fowles
Connor
his home eliminated by a member of the Ox- 4 State, Florida, who was rankedford Cambridge team, George T. M
No. 10 nationally last year, while
discuss any matters relating to the lost to W. Partridge and J. Cook Guernsay was placed only sixth Zarifi, who now stands out among
constitution, business or affairs of the Club:
6 2
in the southern list.
62
J. Hsu and K-Lai (South China). beat Warr and Fowles. Flost to Bradshaw and O'Connor
beat Partridge and Cook
CB. Wong and H. C. Kwok Ching)..
After meeting all maintenance and incidental expenses, and pro- viding for bad debts and deprecia-lost to Warr and Fowles. tion, the loss for the year amounts drew wi
to $2,064.11
Club House.
Extensions made to lost to
Bradshey
and
K. TONG BEAT KC.C
Kowloon Tong beat K.C.C. by 74
W. Wu and Ma Wai-kwong (Kow- loon Tong).:
the younger generation of British players, with his game closely re-
FORMER STARS HELP Another possible effect of the in-sembling that of Bunny Austin at
the same stage. coming tide of youngsters was to bring out of retirement any num ber of form stars, who stelt that
order to
oper ranks would be display their finest skill in the a- jor tournaments.
ore to SEVEN BROTHERS
WHO PULL
So Wilmer Allison, Sidney B. B. TOGETHER
Wood Jr., Frank Shields and Gilbert Hall showed their best play, to cope with the newcomers. John ar's winner, nOW
the club-house including more spa-1 cious dressing room accommoda-1 tion, were completed by the begin- ning of the season and added sets to 1%- greatly to the comfort of members.
This season has seen a remark-beat W. Gittins and G. A. White 63 McDiarmid, last able increase in the number of beat V. Freeman and B. Soltau 6-3 firmly established on the faculty of members playing lawn bowls, and beat A. Philippens and R. E. Lee 7-5 we now have three teams in the League.
Mok Fuk-in and Pang Oi-lam (Kow loon Tong). beat Gittins and White
Princeton, had to kert his full skill to cope with the careful play 62 Julius Heldman, national juniori Great interest was shown in the drew with Freeman and Soltau - 68 champion, and Wood trailed at Club Championship for "the Cas-beat Philippens and Lee
G. She and Lam Kwan (Kowloon
before he could handle the all- Tong
play Charles Carr of the Jost to Gitts
White
kieben Cup”, which was won
by
Mr. J. Rodger.
HAGEN SEVEN UP ON
London, July 19. thers named-Back- other-in-law pulled team for Cranleigh Clai
Corps and Royal
but lost to And 20,000
SCRATCH SCORE
LOUIS EARR
BOUT FOR
INEXT MONDAY