THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 25, 1937
WORLD'S TENNIS RANKING LISTS
Donald Budge, above, Wimbledon and American Singles, champion, much coveted Davis Cup trophy,
who helped American regain the has been ranked No. 1 amateur in the world by A. Wallis Myers, the
well known London "Daily Tele graph" tennis critic and editor of Ayres Lawn Tennis Almanack.
SECOND DIVISION PROSPECTS
EXPERIMENTAL ELEVENS THIS AFTERNOON
DONALD BUDGE
AND ANITA LIZANA BOTH PLACED FIRST
HENKEL OUSTS AUSTIN
FOR THIRD PLACE
KAY STAMMERS OMITTED
London, To-day.
THE annual ranking list of the world's best ten-
nis players, has just been issued by the veter-
Miss Kay Stammers, who was Great Britain's first ranking woman tennis player with Miss Dorothy Round (Mrs. Little) last season, has failed to secure one of the 10 positions in Mr. A. Wallis Myer's
women players.
an tennis expert, Mr. A. Wallis Myers, Editor of rankings for the world's 10 best Ayres Lawn Tennis Almanack, and Lawn Tennis Correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph”.
LOCAL SOCCER STARTS TO-DAY
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AS EXPECTED, WALLIS MYERS HAS ASSIGNED THE FIRST PLACE IN THE MEN'S LIST TO THE YOUNG AMERI- CAN, DONALD BUDGE, WHO WON THE ALL ENGLAND CHAMPIONSHIP AT WIMBLEDON AS WELL AS THE AMERI-ing ability will solve their centre- CAN CHAMPIONSHIP AT FOREST HILLS, PRACTICALLY RE-forward weakness, while at the COVERING THE DAVIS CUP FOR THE UNITED STATES SIN-same time it must be remembered GLEHANDED.
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The second place is assigned to the German tennis ace, Baron Gottfried Von Cramm, who was defeated by Budge in
K.C.C. MIXED DOUBLES
that he is the only Club forward who can head a ball decently!
The Middlesex will probably field their best team available now Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Burnett that they have had sufficient prac- 15.3) entered the semi-final tice, and I will be most surprised the finals at Wimbledon and round of the Kowloon Cricket if they do not repeat their victory Forrest Hills as well as in
Club's Mixed Doubles Handicap over the Club (they won a friendly thrilling five set match which setennis event yesterday, when they game a fortnight ago by 7 goals to cured an American victory in beat Mr. and Mrs. G. A. White 1.) Germany the American-Ger-
CIVILIANS MUCH man, Davis Cup ties.
STRONGER
an
HENKEL THIRD
The world's third best player, ac- cording to the results of the 1937 Though the local football sea-tennis season, in Wallis Myers son is starting no sooner that in view, is Henner Henkel, of Ger previous years, most of the Jun-many. The other six players who ior teams will commence their are considered worthy of a place in
with experi-the first 10 are: programme to-day mental sides, due to lack of
4, H. W. Austin (G. Britain); 5, opportunity for practice games, Bobby Riggs (United States); 6, and the sorting out of material Bryan M. Grant (United States); 7, at their disposal.
Jack Crawford (Australia); 8, The fact that the playing Roderich Menzel (Czechoslovakia); fields at the Valley and Sooku-9. Frankie Parker (United States) poo were not open for play till
and 10, Charles E. Hare (G. Bri- the middle of September, left
[tain).... little time for most of the Army teams to secure any practice, and in consequence, last season's players have for the most part been given preference to new-
comers.
The championship for the Second Division promises to be very keenly contested this season, as unlike in past years, when a few teams stood head and shoulders above the rest, this season's 12 teams appear to be very evenly matched.
SAPPERS SHOW UP WELL The Engineers, in spite of having lost most of last year's players, are still able to field a strong side, and, of the newcomers, Tudor, Box and White have shown up well in the last practice game.
The list of the world's 10 best women players on the basis of per- formances in 1937, are as follows: 1. Senorita Anita Lizana (Chile). 2. Mrs. Little (nee. Dorothy
Round) (6 Britain).
3. Mlle. Jedrzejowska (Poland). 4. Mrs. Sperling (Denmark). 5. Mme. Mathien (France).
6. Miss Helen Hull Jacobs (U.S.) 7. Miss Alice Marble (US)
8. Miss Maria Luise Horn (Ger-
many).
9. Miss Mary Hardwick (G. Bri-
tain)
10. Miss Dorothy Bundy (US.).
senior teams, is the expressed opinion of many who have seen them in action Kong Hing is 2 very The Seaforths have promoted three of their Second Division useful forward and his understand- ing with Chan Chíu is good. In the players in Spiers, Fraser Sampson, to the senior side, and defence Chau Wai-lo, in goal, and though this may weaken them, their Fan Kwok-chi, their pivot, are very reserves are well up too Second sound players.
Division standard.
and
As the result of several new- comers in the First Division, Kow- MOST COMMENDABLE Kwong Wah, whose sportsman-loon, is able to field a strong junior ship in entering a higher division (team which will include. Jeffreys is most commendable, are also field-White and W. Knox, all of whom ing a strong side and with the as-figured in the senior team last Newcomers include Bulpin, of Henry Young, Yeung season.
mpung and Lee Kwok-ki, all of fat inside-right, and Thompson, at whom have played in a higher divi-centre-forward.
(1/6). by 6-4, 6-3. They wil To-morrow, the Police will meet now meet A. W. Ramsey and Miss South China “B”, who are expect V. Bradbury (+ 1/6) for right of led to secure their first brace of
points. entry into the Final.
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division.
CHINESE POLICE STRONG
their team in Olsen, Keown and
Taylor, but a general change round
That the Chinese Police team in the positions of the other players could hold its own with many has greatly strengthened the side.
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