THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 18, 1938.
London Tennis Titles
K.C.C. TAKE TEC BOTH POINTS FROM US.R.C.
Complete "A" Div. Fixtures
The Kowloon Cricket Club_com-| pleted their “A”. Division League tennis fixtures yesterday, when they visited the U.S.R.C. at King's Park and came away with both points, winning by 7 sets to 2.
The Fincher brothers and Guest and
game.
Heavy Defeat Of Fru Sperling
Austin Avenges Defeat At Bournemouth
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London, June 24.
It is so long since anybody but an American won the men's Gray were in very ine fettle despite singles championship of London at Queen's Club that, since J. D. the terrible surface of the courts, which Budge preferred not to defend his title, it was a pleasing novelty were enough to put anybody off their to find a final, sufficiently international in character, between an L. Goldman and G. E. R. Divett Englishman, H. W. Austin, and a Chinese, Kho Sin Kie, as the chief
item on yesterday's programme.
This meeting had the additional spice of being a return match for the Hard Court Championship final at Bournemouth, when Blum 6-2 China had been triumphant, surviving gusts of wind and clouds of and D. C. dust better than Austin.
(U.S.R.C.):
lost to E. C. and E. F. Fincher 2-6 lost to A. E. P. Guest and S. A..
Gray
beat A. Crawford and E.
Major L. A. Newnham
Misra (U.S.R.C.):
lost to Finchers
lost to Guest and Gray
beat Crawford and Blum
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Before this interesting problem 1-6
could be settled, however, the 6-4 women's singles was down for de-
J. F. L. Smalley and. L. C. Beadnell cision. Probably most people had
(U.S.R.C.):
lost to Finchers-
lost to Guest and Gray lost to Crawford and Blum
hoped to see Mrs. Wills-Moody 3-6 as one of the finalists, but she 8-6 had gone down before the pat- ience and pertinacity of Fru-
RECREIO WIN BY ODD SET
?
Sperling on Friday. Whether this
..
patience could be hit through by the thumping drives of Mlle. Jedrzejowska was the question Two Newcomers
yesterday had to solve. The Although without J. Gonsalves Polish girl started with the ad- and H. Barros, Club de Recreio vantage of having won the cup managed to win their last match of for the last two years, and her the season against the Hong Kong sturdy personality is not one to Cricket Club yesterday by the odd be troubled by "cup-fever."
set.
"ELEVEN GAMES IN A ROW The match was played at King's the often-misused term "amazing" is, These two had a match to which
Park, and the home side introduced for once, applicable. Fru : Sperling. two "B" Division players into the started so well, retrieving Mlle Jødr- side J. J. Remedios- and M. A.zefowska's fastest and fiercest pun- Oliveira.
The detailed scores were: A. V. Remedios and A. V. Gosano (Recreio).
lost to H. Owen-Hughes; and G.
W. Sewell
2-6
6-2 6-1
beat T. A. Pearce and A. San-
der.
'beat Dow and H. Bidwell
F. J. Remedios and J. J. -(Recreio).
beat Owen-Hughes and Sewell lost to Pearce and Sander ........ beat Dow and Bidwell
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ches, that she was soon 3 up. This persistent return of her best shots break her heart." But caused, some to 'say: "Sperling will the Polish
champion's heart is not so easily broken. Marvellous as it may seem, she won the next eleven games right off for the match!
success was
The secret of her Remedios threefold: length, strength, and the delicacy of the drop shot. Fru Sperl- 62 ing only scored off one of these latter: she got to them, truly, but nearly al 61ways hit the ball into the net. And (Re- with the punches, which grew barder and fiercer as the match went on, she became more and more helpless.
“CLEAN BOWLED!".
M. A. Oliveira and J. Barretto creio).
lost to Owen-Hughes and Sewell 4-6 lost to Pearce and Sander beat Dow and Bidwell
OPEN PAIRS SEMI-FINALS FOR C.S.C.C.
To-day's Feature
6-4
The very last shot of the match clean bowled her, middle stump, at such a pace was it going, Steadiness was of no avail. Fru, Sperling was literally hit off the court: and`anyone who has ever played her knows that that takes a great deal of doing. Sel- dom, if ever, before has she lost ele- ven games in succession,
A
Austin, from the start, was out to win. He was aided at the beginning by a lack of control on Kho Sin Kie's The -two semi-final round part, and ran off the first three matches in the Colony Open Pairs games quickly, attacking freely all the time. Then Kho Sin Kie pulled Lawn Bowls Championship will be himself together, won the next two held this afternoon on the. Civil games, and was 40-love in the sixth. Service Club green, commencing at A careless shot cost him the game- 4.30 p.m. sharp, in order to ensure point; and he never recovered- that the matches conclude in day- very curious turn of the game. light.
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME PAIRS SEMI-FINALS AT C.S.C.C.--(4.30 P:M;) J. Howell and R. G. Craig v. G. Mit- chell and JC. Brown. Umpire, J. F. McGowan.
C. M. Silva and F. X. Soares v. A. Baker and A.. K. Minu.. Umpire, J. Russell.
DON BUDGE LOSES TO
STEADY RETURN OF SERVICE
Austin "now regained the confidence which seemed to have deserted : him while the Chinese was scoring .:: 80 freely; and himself piled on the games till he was out at 6-2, a great feas ture of his game being the certainty with which he returned Kho Sin Kie powerful service.
This set safely in his pocket, there was no holding Austin" in the second set. Just as Mlle. Jedrzejowska had done, he reeled off game- after game and won a love set. Kho Sin Kie became completely disorganised,” and though he won a few pointå by: drop- shots was so wild on his forehand that his drives were pitching a yard or more over the base line nearly alt the time. Up to 4-love Austin was always in command, but in the fifth Donald Budge, the Wimbledon | ame he missed six chances" for a champion, was surprisingly defeat- 60 lead, and only scored it at last ed ~ by Kukuljevic of echi slovakia,
exhibition match vice ace.
KUKULJEVIC
here yesterd
Belgrade, To-day
very nice volley and a ser
NEARLY AT BEST-⠀i. hen it was soon all over; the who match only took forty minutes, but
it showed Austin at very nearly" his best. better, certainly, than he has been in any earlier tournament this year.
His only fault was a tendency to mis-hit his drives on the run; in every other department he was, very good- indeed, especially in the return of his service: Kho Sin Kie only won one of his service games out of seven, and usually his powerful service is one of his greatest assets.
Men's Singles (London Champion- ship).-Final: H. W. Austin beat Kho" Sin Kie (China), 6-2, 6-0. -
Women's Singles (London Cham- pionship) Final: Mile. 3. Jedrzejo Sperling (Denmark), 6-3, 6-0. *** waka (Poland) (holder) beat Fru 8.
Men's Doubles Final G. P. Hug- hes and F. H. D. Wilde beat G. Mako and F. Kukuljevic, 6-8, 6-0, 6-2 Heine Miller and Miss. M. Morphew Women's Doubles. Final: Mrs. E. (South Africa) beat Miss J. Jedrze jowska and Miss M. A. Thomas,
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