THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 80, 1988
Budge And Austin In
In Final
W. R. HAMMOND TO LEAD ENGLAND IN THIRD
TEST
London, To-day, Mr., W. R. Hammond, who led England against Australia in the. First and Second Test Matches, has been invited to captain Eng- land in the Third Test which takes place at Old Trafford, Manchester, on July 8-Reuter.
Lawn Bowls
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home four all played well, Medina and his skip being outstanding.
HAD NO LUCK
spare against Drake, who had no
"BUNNY" DISPOSES
OF HENNER HENKEL IN ONLY ONE HOUR
Ladies Doubles Holders
Enter Semi-Final
BOROTRA AND MRS. WILLS MOODY ELIMINATED!
London, To-day.
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
AT A GLANCE
The following were yesterday's results at the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships, as cabled by Reuter:
MEN'S SINGLES. Semi Finals --
(Holder) D. Budge (U.S.A.) beat F. Puncec (Yugoslavia) 6—2, 6-1, 6-4.
H. W.
beat Austin (Gt. B.) Henner Henkel (Germany) 6-2, 6-4, 6-0.
WOMEN'S DOUBLES
* Quarter Finals
Mme. Mathieu (France) and Miss A. M. Yorke (Gt. B.) (Hold- ere) beat Sen. A. Lizana (Chile) and Miss Margaret Scriven (Gt. B.) 7-5, 6-d
MEN'S DOUBLES:
Quarter Finals
G. P. Hughes and F. H. D. Wilde (Gt. B.) beat Cejnar (Yu- goslavia) and C. E. Malfroy (N.,
~~MIXED DOUBLES
Donald Budge (U.S.A.), the holder, and H. W. "Bunny" Austin (Gt. B.) will contest the final of the Marcus Souza had over a dozen to Men's Singles Championship, at Wimbledon, as a luck with some brilliant heavy shots. result of yesterday's play in the semi-final round, 2) 0–8, 6-2, 6-2, 7-5, Randall, as third man in the home when the former beat Puncec, of Yugoslavia, in valuable support to his skip. straight sets, and Austin eliminated Henner a dozen to Bill Way, achieved the Henkel, one of Europe's best singles player, in simi- best performance for the visitors. lar style.
rink, was in splendid form and lent
Tommy Armstrong in losing by half
After both sides had scored a nap, hand, Way securing his on the first Austin was very cool and confident against Henkel who head of the game. Armstrong had a played as well as he was allowed to. Austin, with machine- lead of a couple of shots with 8 ends like accuracy and beautiful passing shots never displayed any bril- to go, but Way effectively blanked him out to score 8 in that period and win liance and took only one hour to beat one of Europe's best singles by half-a-dozén.
players.
Henkel was constantly being forced into errors, particularly on the backhand, by Austin's uncanny placing and anticipation.
"GEM" WINS
Quarter Finals
D. Budge and Misa A. Marble (U.S.A.) (Holders) beat J. Boro- tra (France) and Mrs. H. Wills- Moody' (U.S.A,) 6-1, 6-4.
WOMEN'S ALL ENGLAND PLATE
Second Round Miss Gem Hoahing (China) beat Mrs. Harry Hopman (Australia) 8–6, 4–6, 64,
straight sets with the loss of only 5 games.
CLUB "DERBY" MATCH The Football Club's two teams met and although "B" made B better showing than when they last played,
A large crowd gathered at an the "A" combination more than uv- In the first set, 'Henkel ́secured after losing the first.
outside court to see little Miss Gem held their prestige, only Jan Tuck, of the junior team, recording a win. the first game, but Austin reeled
Hoshing, of China, defeat Mrs. Trailing Brooksbank by 6 shots at the next five off in a row to lead Although not unexpected, Jean Harry Hopman, the well-known the 16th head of a low-scoring game, 5-1, Henkel taking the seventh Borotra and Helen Wills-Moody Australian player, in a three sets the "B" player scored on the re-following which, Austin secured were expected to put up a better match in the second round of the maining ends to win by a singleton. the first set.
Jack Rodger piled on the agony
fight against Donald Budge, and Women's All England Plate which against Jake Selby. being 21 to the
led his Miss Alice Marble, in their quarter- is confined to players eliminated in good at the finish, Jock Russell prov- British opponent 2-1, 3-2, 4-8 final Mixed Doubles Championship the first and second rounds of the ing a tower of strength to his skip and was hitting harder and serving tie, which the latter pair won in Championship.-Reuter. whilst Walter Gill, in the happy posi- particularly well, but Austin was tion of having the same rink each week, was a dozen or so to the good unperturbed and took the next against Haynes, and was well worth three games in a row for the set the win.
and, in the last stanza, played beautiful tennis to secure the set at love and the match.
In the second Henkel
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COULD MAKE NO IMPRESSION
Although B. Basto required. a two on the last head to win his match,
WOMEN'S DOUBLES . the Civil Servants could make no im-
In pression on the Recreio, who far too
the Quarter-Finals of the good for them on the other two rinks, Women's Doubles Championships, and had a margin of 30 shots. F. X the holders Mme. Mathieu (France) Soares, although only two up when and Miss A. M. "Billy" Yorke (Gt. two thirds of the heads had been play B.) entered the semi-final round as ed, ran up a big total subsequently and had well over a dozen to spare, a result of beating the strong. as did J. J. Basto, in his match Anita Lizana-Peggy Scriven com- against Cullip.
bination in straight sets..
SNATCHED VICTORY
Britain stand an excellent chance another
In the match between Kowloon Tong of being represented in and the Kowloon Football Club, on which I have already .commented final, the Men's Doubles Champion- briefly, Bob Hall snatched (there is no ship, if G. P. Hughes and F. H. D. other word for it) both the points Wilde maintain their form. Yes- from the sub-urbanites, with his se-terday they entered the Semi-final cond last wood.
The home team were three to the round of the event when they beat good and lying the first shot, when Cejnar (Yugoslavia) and C. E. Hall came through as narrow a port Malfroy (N. Zealand) in four sets -as-any wood ever went through, and
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forced the shot out to count no less than six, then changing his hand he
drew another, and Tony Basto, pro- GOLF STARTING
bably due to the tenseness of the occasion, was not able to save. A great finish! Hall had matters all his own way after the ninth head: Four down at that stage, he pulled up to win by 16. Fergusson was beaten by Spary, but Joe Gibson was able to get the better of Harry Git- tins by just a fow shots.
AN UPSET.
severely
TIMES
Holiday Pairings For Fanling
The following are the Royal Hong The Electricians were expected to Kong Golf Club starting times for beat the Football Club, even at the Fanling during the holidays. Valley, but the home team just had
the better of their opponents, Walk-
To-morrow. (Old Course).
12
C. A. King, L. R. Cramer.
9.32
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'E. T. McMullen, J. B. Leckie,
er's five-shot win boing the biggest 9.12 a.m. S. J. H. Fox, L. H. Geare. one of the games. The Yacht Club 9.16 were no match for Recreio, at King's Park, and went down by a big 'minor- ity, only Murdoch making a good fight In losing to Yvanovich by *couple.
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Saturday, (Old Course)
9.12 a.m. R. H. Gregory. R. Young, -0.16 8. S. Church, I. H. Gearo.
Sunday, (Old Course) 0.12 a.m. D. J. Gilmore, K. B. Mor-
rison. 9.16
Craigengower played a similar tune to the Kowloon Cricket Club, whom they overcame by over 80: Lillicrap ́had a big win against Brown, In the
latter's debut match as skip, whilst 0.20 Zimmern was always ahead of Carr.| 9.24 The remaining match, between Alves and Nish was touch and go until the 9.28 last head, when the homester secured 0.82 a two to win by four points,
10.00
G. C. Wortall, G. M. Park. J. B. H. Leckie, I. H. Geare A. E. Lissaman, I. W. She- wan.
• C. A. King, W; C. Kent. F. Groves, R. oung. H. Harrison, Col.
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