THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 24, 1958.
COLONY HARDCOURT CHAMPIONSHIPS
DRAW FOR SINGLES AND DOUBLES
PLAY WILL COMMENCE
ON MONDAY
SOME INTERESTING MATCHES
NEW WORLD RECORD
Brussels, To-day.
HE draw for the Colony Hardcourt Singles and Doubles Tennis THE
Championships, which are being held under the auspices of the A new international record in United Services Recreation Club, were made yesterday, and play free style swimming was establish- will commence next Monday on the U.S.R.C. courts at King's Park. ed by the Belgian woman swimmer, First mentioned players or pairs in each match, will be respon-Fernando Careon, at. Ostend, yes- sible for appointing their own umpires except in the semi-final and terday. final rounds, when the Club will appoint officials.
Several interesting matches STROKESIDE preliminary stages, particularly REGAIN EWO Crawford-Lee Wai-tong clash WATER-POLO should produce a good match. CHAMPIONSHIP
should be witnessed during the
in the Single event, where the
The veteran Paul Kong will meet H. D. Rumjahn and the latter should win.
In the bottom half of the draw, Willie Hung meets the veteran Omar Rumjahn and should enter the next round, although his task will be no easy one. Last year Hung conceded a walk-over to George Choa in the Second Round.
· PLAYERS SEEDED
Brown Brothers In Limelight
Shanghai, August 18. The Shanghai Rowing Club Stroke- team defeated the Foreign side Y.M.C.A. Porpoises by two goals to one in the deciding water polo match of the season, thereby winning the Ewo their old Shield which they lost to rivals two years ago. The Oarsmen. had had the distinction of holding the
It will be noticed that the play-trophy since the inception of the com-
ers have been seeded.
the
In the Doubles event several new pairings will be making their debut, Lee Wai-tong and W. C. Hung, who have played together in C.R.C. Championships for several seasons,
make their first appearance, (Hung won the Hard- court Doubles title last year with Tsui Waf-pui) and will meet with stern opposition in their Second Round encounter from George Choa and Omar Rumjahn.
petition, and after losing the shield for the first time in 1936, their victory last night in regaining the trophy is all the more notable.
The water polo game saw the Y.M.C.A. turning out a team minus of the services of L. Oliveira. one their trio of fast forwards and this disjointed the attack considerably.
W. Ward was introduced into the side in his place and served as a back up into while S. Starkovský went the attack.
The Rowing Club team played well together, E. Smith and C. Smith be- ing particularly prominent in hold- ing Gavriloff and "Logan_without giv- E. Smith was ing them much scope.
Gavriloff, effective in holding on to despite
latter's speed, while Logan's long shots were smothered -by C. Smith. Of the forwards, J. B. Brown's shooting was very effective, his brother, C. N.. Brown, working number of hard and sending in a
Another good encounter, in the first round, will be that between E. C. Fincher and A. V. Remedios and Paul Kong and Tennie Kwok. The draw resulted as follows:- HARDCOURT. SINGLES Byes Into 2nd Round:- Tsui Wai-pui v. Pang-Oi-lam. K. K. Fung v. Lee Kam-ming. A. Crawford v. Lee Wai-tong. Paul Kong v. H. D. Rumjahn. H. Y. Ho v. S. L. Ma.
George Choa v. F/O. R. C. S. Allin. J. J. Ferguson v. A. R. Kitchell. B. Agafuroff to meet winner of Wong Fuk-nam v. Major Baines.
First Round:--
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Wong Fuk-nam V. Major F. Baines.
S. A. Gray v. Major L. A. Newnham. Byes Into 2nd Round:~.
J. R. Turner to meet winner of Gray
v. Major Newnham.
W. C. Hung v. O. Rumjahn. C. K. Chan v. Tsui Yun-pui. S. S. Leong v. Bick Szeto.. Ma Wai-kwong v. Tennie Kwok. Albert Chan v. A, E. P. Guest. J. F. L. Smalley v. Peter U. I. Agafuroff v. S. A. Rumjahn. HARDCOURT DOUBLES Byes Into 2nd Round:—
S. A. Rumjahn and H. D. Rumjahn v. Wong Fuk-nam and K. K. Fung.
E. E. Storey and J. J. Ferguson v. Albert Chan J, Hsu.
G. E. R. Divett and G. W. Sewell v. D. S. Sze and F. Grose. “
First Round:-
I. Agafuroff and J. Pengelly v. R. C. S. Allin and J. R. R. Jenkins.
Pang Oi-lam and Mok Fuk-in v. H. W. Lee and S. W. Liang. *
F. T. Baines and L. A. Newnham v. A. Crawford and R. T. Broadbridge.
E. C. Fincher and A. V. Remedios v. Paul Kong and Tennie Kwok. Byes Into 2nd. Round
the
long shots. H. Eardley in goal for the winners proved agam that he is the time again essence of safety and stopped the most difficult shots
ease.
with
For the losers, Logan and Gavriloff despite close marking were good and the latter's goal in the second half was well played. In the defence, hard Dudley and McAllister worked
Oarsmen's and their marking of the forwards was particularly close.
Strokeside:-H. Eardley, E. Smith, Brown, L. Shellam, C. Smith, J. B. C.N.Brown.
W. Ward
Porpoises: - Vernick, Dudley, D. McAllister, A. Logan, A. Gavriloff, A. Starkovsky. Referee: J. Huxley. J. B. Brown, and C. N. Brown netted for the winners, while Gavriloff replied for the losers. 'W. Ward taking the shot, but his opportunity was smo- thered and although the Rowing Club shot, but his opportunity was smother- Club ed and although the Rowing were one man short, their forwards. were able to break away and a pass from E. Smith to C. N. Brown saw the latter sending in a long shot that Vernick partially saved but failed to ball floated stop entirely, and the
Oarsmen over the line to give the their second goal.
were tho
FINAL MINUTES
Club Although the Rowing two goals ahead at this time, Y.M.C.A. fought back strongly, and a movement which the Oarsmen's C. back assisted in the attack. saw. Smith taking the ball up close to the shooting. The Y.M.C.A.. goal and goalie saved and was able to pass upfleld to Logan who was unmarked. The latter cleverly drew his man and made.no passed to Gavriloff who
and mistake with his parting shot scored a fine goal. The opportunity there to draw even closer was not given the losers as there was but little time left and their concluding efforts were 24 last brought short when the final whistle
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Lee Wai-tong and W. C. Hung v. Omar Rumjahn and George Choa.
Bick Szeto and C. K.. Chan v. 8. Gray" and 4. C. Burnetti men LI. Kwat-hung ände1⁄4" NIK Teul Wilonai and Tsui Yun
Entries for this year's tor are blightly larger than being a 86 entries in t againat 22. Innt-Shears Pa the doubles avant as year.
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Werner has been training on the Riviera for the past nine months.-, Trans-Ocean.
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