THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 2, 1938.
Page 21.
U.S. Wightman Cup Triumph
KAY STAMMERS FULLY EXTENDS HELEN WILLS-MOODY Mrs. Fabyan Improves To Beat Miss M. Lumb
(By AIR MAIL)
LONDON, JUNE 12. MERICA DEFENDED THE WIGHTMAN CUP SUCCESSFUL- LY YESTERDAY, AND WHEN MRS. WILLS MOODY BEAT MISS K. STAMMERS 6–2, 3–6, 6–3, WON FOR THE EIGHTH YEAR IN SUCCESSION, AND BY FOUR MATCHES TO ONE.
The United States seemed so certain to win the Wightman Cup for an eighth successive year that the spirit of the British challenge on the Centre Court at Wimbledon has been the more admirable. America, with a 2-1 lead on Friday, needed only one more victory when Mrs. S. P. Fabyan beat Miss M. E. Lumb in the opening match yesterday by 5-7, 6-2, 6-3,
Here we had a grand tussle between a complete player- how prettily Mrs. Fabyan makes her strokes. and a fighter with definite limita- tions. Probably no player has been given: her colours with. less experience of the 'big-oc-- casion than Miss Lumb, and she clearly proved her ad- vance by winning a set where she could win none in the corresponding match against Mrs. Fabyan at Forest Hills last year.
The fact was that Miss Lumb's back-
fleying duel, was Mrs. Moody's.
The
Duchess of Kent, who was to present the cup to the winning team, arrived just at its conclusion.
"SKIP'S" FORECAST FOR TO-DAY
Police R. C.
Kowloon B. G. C.
Club de Recreio
*Indian R. C.
"Civil Service C. C
Club de Recreio
Taikoo R. C.
Football Club “B”
Kowloon Football Club +Kowloon Cricket Club
Craigengower C. C.
R. H. K. Yacht Club
FIRST DIVISION
(67) ▼ · Craigengower C. C.
(60) ▼ Kowloon Cricket C.
(82) ▼ Kowloon Docks
(--) v Civil Service C. C.
SECOND DIVISION"
(—) v †Football Club “A”
(-)▼ Craigengower C. C.
(40). v Kowloon B. G. C.
(49) * Police R. C.
THIRD DIVISION
(43) Y Club de Recreio
()Kowloon Tong
(57)
(49)
(62)
(53)
(58)
(~)
(60) V Football Club “C”
(63) ▼
(56)
H. K. Electric R. C.
(53)
*-Denotes promoted team.
Denotes relegated team.
Figures in brackets denote scores in corresponding match last year.
Miss Stammers was not slow in mak-mers went over the base-line for the for her. Miss Stammers, however, ing use of the power of her forceful first set to go to America at 6--2. forehand drive, and her whole` game
could do no better than extend the next So far as Miss Stammers was con-game to 30. Mrs. Moody clinched it, was full of controlled power as she cerned the attempt to find any flaw in and the British lead was reduced to collected the second game for one-all. Mrs. Moody's game was like playing 5-3. The next game settled matters. Mrs. Moody, did not start with the against a brick wall. She had used On her first set point a well-timed and " bombardment of lightning shots as she the drop shot in the first get with well-judged backhand drop left Mrs. had against Miss Scriven on Friday, some effect, but the pace of Mrs. Moody standing. The set went to Miss but her placing on the drive was ac- Moody's shots was such to make it Stammers at 6-3 for one set all. curate. Miss Stammers, however, was almost impossible to play them. holding her, but the next two games, long and hard fought, went to Mrs. Moody for a 3-1 lead.
HAD LITTLE EFFECT
SLIPPERY-COURT
with
of
AT HER BEST
A drizzle during the interval caused At the start of the second set Miss the covers to be put over the court and Stammers put all she knew into a the resumption was delayed. strong net attack centred round her Play was resumed after a delay of forehand driving. Together with one twenty minutes on a court which the hand could not withstand an attack as mers's efforts had little effect on Mrs. hand that caught, Mrs. Moody by sur- had time to gain a quick 2-0 lead, It was apparent that all Miss Stam or two crosscourt shots on the back-rain had made slippery. Mrs. Moody quietly skilful as Mrs. Fabyan make it.
One saw for most of the that little extra steadiness, and in the the lead by the odd game up to 3-2. This lasted fifteen minutes, and the in- time that it was Mrs. Fabyan, cool, next two games the British girl over-
can Moody. It was the American who had prise it gave her the first game and when more rain caused another delay.
with neat, compact, strokes, was using drove more than she could afford. Both broke through Mrs. Moody's service for Mrs. Moody against a slow starter like In the next game Miss Stammers torruption was, of course, favourable to the court, driving long and short and went to Mrs. Moody, and America led the first time and increased her lead to Miss Stammers, who came on making real openings for the volleys, 1 The controlled speed and low 4-2 She drew the American out of socks over her shoes. The lack whereas Miss Lumb, full of fire, did the trajectory of Mrs. Moody's drives for-position with short balls to her fore- touch of the left-hander was evident in running, often hitting & sterling winced her to attempt more than she could hand and followed them with a deep her shots, while Mrs. Moody, on the ner off her vigorous forehand, but none the less being forced on the defensive manage, and a love game made the shot to the backhand corner. The drop other hand, found the rhythmic speed
"SPLENDID MATCH
score to 5-2,
A shot got Mrs. Moody, on the run up and power of her shots at once. Mrs. A surprisingly large and eager gal-Miss Stammers's backhand which made and, playing like a champion,
There was a lack of length about the court as well as from side to side, Moody forced the pace, and took the lery, ready to cheer every point, warm-it easy for Mrs. Moody to take up the Stammers forced the pace to lead 52 victory
Miss final set 6-8 to give America another ed to a splendid match. To begin with attack. A net cord gave Miss Stam- That she had Mrs. Moody unsettled Mrs. Fabyan (U.S.A.) beat Miss Miss Lumb could not get the ball over mers a point for the game, but Mrs. at last was evident by the driving er Lumb (G.B.), 5–7, 6–2, 6–9. on the backhand, and Mrs. Fabyan led Moody fought buck, and when she was rors the American made, and she net Mrs. Moody (U.S.A.) beat Miss K. 2-0. But Mrs. Fabyan, a trim, white- at the net a lob from Miss Stam ted some easy volleys, too, a rare error Stammers (G.B.), 6–2, 3– -capped figure; could make her mis- takes, too. Soon Miss Lumb was level and forging ahead to 5-8-
Two perfectly played games from Mrs. Fabyan, her designs centred, in Miss Lumb's backhand, made it all square, but Miss Lumb was playing with confidence now, her sliced back- hand at least had the virtue of steadi- ness, and she won the first set in spite of putting a volley straight on Mrs. Fabyan's racket at her first set ball.
This indeed was a pleasant surprise; but. Mrs. Fabyan has not played in the Wightman Cup so often for nothing. She used all the atrokes in the gamo in going to 4-0 and 5-1 in the sec ond set, and there was hardly a mis-" take. She took the ball earlier on the forehand than Miss Lumb, and her drive across the court was a delight..
PERFECTLY PLAYED GAMËS BA Miss Lumb opened the third set on her service with two fighting volleys, but a wild forehand drive and that weakness on the backhand lost her the first game. Mrs. Fabyan had been the tactician of the match,, though she could still make her strokes loosely, as was seen when she went to 0-40 in the second game, and lost it to 30.1 Whenever Miss Lumb really swung in- to her forehand drive it was an im- pressive, though a rather mechanical, stroke. It was Mrs. Fabyan who set all the puzzles, and after a stiff tussle for the fourth game she went to 5-1 and 15-40, with Miss Lumb serving.
Ming Lumb was at her bravest then She went out for volleys that might, have won the match had she used them oftener. Two long deuce games' were won, and Miss Lumb was certainly fighting. But it really was a matter of strokes; Mrs. Fabyan, after all, had too many of them, and when Miss Lumb ran wide out of court for the last volley there was no returning the answering drop-shot.
MRS. MOODY v. MISS STAMMERS
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