LEAGUE TABLES & FORM GUIDE
COVERING the eaglish and Scottish Football Leagues indicates
OVERING the last five League matches, this guide to current
venue, opponent and result, with the most recent result on the extreme right column, i.e. (a18) indicates that the team played away to Team No. 18.
1
2
Arsenal
Aston Villa 3 Birmingham 4. Blackpool
5. Bolton
6 Brentford 7 Charlton
8: Chelsea
10
9 Derby
Everton
11 Grimsby
12
Huddersfield
13 Leeds 14. Leicester 15 Liverpool 16 Manchester U. 17 Middlesbro' 18 Portsmouth
19 - Preston
20
21
Stoke
Sunderland
22 Wolves
1 Blackburn
2 Bradford
3
Barnley
4 Bury
5 Chesterfield
FIRST DIVISION
(a19) 1-2 (h b) 3–1 (a13) 2—4 (h15) 2-0 (a14) 2-0 (a14) 1-1 (h 3) 5-1 (a16) 1–1 (h20) 3—1′ (a 8) 1—2 (h11) 1–1 (a 2) 1-5 (h22) 3-2 (a10) 2-4 (h12) 1—1 (h19) 2-1 (a 7) 1-3 (á 8) 1-1 (h 5) 0-0 (a13) 0-1 (h12) 3-2 (a 1) 13 (h 0) 1–1 ổn 4) Q0 th ) 21 (a 8) 3-1 (h`7) 1~0 (a 5) 1-1 (h13) 0-1 (a15) 0-1 (h18), 3-3 (a 6) 0-1 (h 4) 3–1 (a 9) 1–3 (h11) 3—1 (016) 1-1 (h 8) 0–1 (a19) 1-4 (h 7) 3-1 (a 5) 1–2
(a 9) 1-0 (h11) 5-1 (h 4) 1-1 (a21) 2-3 (h 2) 21 (a13) 2—1 (h14) 4–0 (a17) 4—4 (h 3) 4–2 (16) 2-0 (n 3) 1-1 (h20) 2–1 (a 8) 1–5 (h19) 1–1 (a 71 (h10) 12 (18) 0-2 (h 1) 4–2 (a 6) 1–0 (4) 1-0 (h14) 1-1 (h18) 4—4 (a12) 1–1 (a 1) 02 ( 6) 1-0 (h 9) 1–1 (a21). 2—5 (h 2) 1–1 (a22) 0-3 (h10) 02
(a b) 2-3 (a14) 1-0 (h15) 1–1 (h17) 0–1 (a 3) 1-1
(a15) 1-1 (a10) 0-4 (h12) 0–1 (a18) 1–0 (h ́1) 0-2
(h21) 3-0 (n22) 1-6 (h10).4-4 (812) 1-0 (h18) 82
COLONY TENNIS,
LONG
DRAWN OUT TUSSLE UNDER TRYING CONDITIONS
(By "ADREM”)
.
were
Two men dazed with exhaustion staggering around the court playing their strokes by instinct, was the scene on the Stand Court yesterday at 6 o'clock, when Lim Thian-tet, former singles cham- pion of Perak, maintained his promise of earlier rounds and outlasted Teddy Fincher to win a mara- thon match by 8-6, 10-8.
Conditions yesterday (h13) 2-0 (a15) 4—4 (a21) 2—6-(h14) 0–1 (a17) 2-8 (h 1) 2–1 (a 0) 1—2 (h 9) 4—1 (all) 1—1 (21) 21 hardly ideal for tennis. In the (h 4) 1-1 (all) 1-2 (h21) 3–1 (a 2) 1—3 (h22) 5-3 (h16) 5-2 (a20) 1—2 (h18) 0–2 (h 8) 3–2 (a19) 1—2 long drawn out duel that this (a15) 2—0 (h17) 6—1, (a 3) 2—3 (h16) 3–0 (a20) 3—5 match proved to be, the must have been killing. The rface SECOND DIVISION
of the court looked perfect it (n18) 3-4 (a 6) 1—0 (h 8) 2—0 (h13) 3-2 (a11) 2-2 had rolled out beautifully after (a14) 1-4 (hil) 0-1,(a 3) 0~0_(h18) 0-0 (a16) 2-3) (h10) 2-0 (a 4) 0–1 (h 2) 0–0 (a17) 0—4 (h 5) 1-2 the rain-but it was very greasy. found difficulty in (813) 1-1 (h 3) 1–0 (a21) 0-0 (h12),2—3 (a 8) 1-2 Both players (16) 3-0 (814) 0-0 (h15) 1-0 (20) 2-2 (a 3) 2-1 recovering, the ball skidded off (h20) 1-0 (a 5) 0-3 (h 1) 0-1 (a10) 0-0 (h 9) in a disconcerting manner and a (a16) 1-2 (h14) 1-2 (a13).1—1 (h11) 1–1 (a21) 0–3
(b17) 6-3 (h19) 3—~0 (u 1) 0–2 (a22) 1-0 (h 4) 2-1 slice was most difficult to pick up.
Lasts Better
Manchester C. (h21) 3-3 (a18) 3-2 (a10) 1-3 (h16) 2–1 (a 6) 1–0
6
Coventry
7. Fulham
8. Luton
9
10
Millwall
11
Newcastle
12
Norwich
13
Notts F.
14
Plymouth
15 Sheffield U.
10 Southampton..
17
Swansea
18
Tottenham
19 Tranmere
20 Wednesday
21
West Brom.
22 West Ham
Bristol C.
Aldershot
2
Bournemouth.
3
Brighton
4
5 Bristol R.
.6 Cardiff
7 Clapton
8
Crystal P.
9: Exeter
10 'Ipswich
11
Mansfield
12 Newport
13 Northampton.
14- Notts C
15 Port Vale
16 Queen's P.R.
17 Reading
Southend
18
19
Swindon
-20 Torquay 21 Walsall 22 Watford
1 Accrington
2 Barnsley
3 Barrow
4
Bradford C.
5 Carlisle
6. Chester
7 Crewe
8 Darlington
9 Doncaster
-10. Gateshead
11 Halifax
12 Hartlepools
13 Hull
14 Lincoln
-18 New Brighto
16: Oldham
17
Rochdale
18. Rotherham
19 Southport
-20 Stockport
-21 Wrexham
22 York
Aberdeen 2Albion
Arbroath 4 Ayr
"Celtic Clyde 157 Falkirk
8 Hamilton
9: Hearts
10 Hibernian
-11' Kilmarnock 12 Motherwell ∙18 ́Partick'
14 Queen O'S.
· 15 - Queen's Pa
167 Raith.
17 Rangers
(a16) 1-1 (h 9) 3-1 (h 6) 0-0 (a13) 0-3 (h22) 0-2
Strangely enough, it was Fincher, (a 2) 1-0 (h20) 2−−1 (a12) 1–1 (a 7) 1-1 (h 1) 2-2 (a10) 0-6 (h22) 2-6 (h11) 1–1 (a 4) 3-2 (h20) 2-2 despite the weight he had to carry, who (h 4) 11 (a17) 0-1 (h 7) 1–1 (a 1). 2—3 (h10) 3-0 appeared the fitter at the end of the
He utterly refused to (h 2) 4-1 (a 7) 2—1 (h 5) 0–0 (a19) 0–2 (h22) 0-0 match.
ro-
(h 9) 1-0 (a20) 0—1 (h17) 1-2 (a 5) 0-1 (h19) 2-0 cognise the advance of years. He went (h 7) 2-1 (a19) 1–1 (h10) 1–1 (a 9) 1-2 (h 2) 3–2 chasing up after drop-shots, dashing (a 8) 36 (h13) 1-0 (a15) 2-1 (h 3) 4-0 (18) 0-3] across to cut off drives and storming (a11) 1-0 (a22) 2—0 (h 9) 2–3 (a2) 0–0 (h17) 3—the net with all the dash of his heyday. (a21) 0-2 (h1G) 1–1 (a 8) 0-3 (h14) 2-0 (a15) 0—2) Realising that he would never beat (h15) 1-0 (all) 1—2 (h21) 2-1 (h 5) 0~0 (a12) 2-2 Fincher if he allowed him to stay at (h19) 2-0 (a 9) 3—8 (h 4) 0-0 (a20) 1—2 (h 7) 3—0o the net, and it soon became evident (h18), 0–2 (a12) 6—2.(h 8) 0–1 (a14) 0–0 (a10) 2-0 that his ground strokes were not pow- erful enough to produce passing shots, with sufficient regularity, Lim concen-
THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH)
and Fincher was beaten time again with some absolutely perfect Jobs which the state of the court made impossible to recover.
RESULTS AT A GLANCE
Open Singles
Lim Thiam-tet beat E. C. Fin- cher 8-6, 10-8 (Second Round).
I, M. A. Razack beat Luk Chun- cheong 2-6, 6-3, 7–5 (Third Round).
Tsui Wai-pui beat Wong Shui- wing 6-3, 6-2 (Third Round)..
Open Doubles
Major F. C. Nottingham and Capt. R. B. Lecky received a w/o from Lieut.-Col. L. A. Newnham and Major F. T. Baines (Second. Round).
"Club Handicap Singles
H. J. Armstrong (-15) bat R. M. M. King (+Ï.6), 6—–—0, 6–3 (First Round).
L. M. S. Lloyd (-1.6) beat N. L. Evans (scr.) 6–3, 6–2 (First Round).
Club Handicap Doubles
E. Laidlaw and A. C. Beck (scr.) beat T. E. and J. L. C. Pearce (+3,0) 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 (First Round).
Club Mixed Doubles T. J. Gould and Mrs. Whyte- Smith (26) beat Mr. and Mrs. E. J. R. Mitchell (-2,6) 6-2, 6-3.
attack with which he
succeeded
in
(a17) 0-5 (h21) 3—3 (all) 0-1 (h16) 2~0 (a18) 1-2trated on a campaign of lobbing which for a time, broke up his opponent's (h13) 3-1 (h15) 1-1 (a12) 2-2 (h 7) 0–0 (h 5) 5-2; (h 8) 0-0 (013) 4—1 (h12) 0–0 (a 7) 0~2 (120) 2—0 game. (a.5) 1-1 (h11) 2-0 (a16) 1-3 (h18) 1-0 (a 9) 1--1 (a12) 0-2 (h_7)11~0 (a20) 2-2 (h19) 5–0 (a 2) 2-5 (h13) 2-0 (a19) 1~4 (h15) 2—4 (a22) 0–1 (h 8): 0-1 (a18) 0-1 (h17) 1-2 (a 5) 0—1 (h 3) 2-0 (a 2) 0–0
The result was, he was caught in two (a 3) 0-0 (h16) 0-1 (a18) 1-3 (h 9) 3–2 (a 6) 1–0 minds. On several occasions, I noticed (12) 3-1 (a15) 2-3 (h22) 1-3 (a 8), 2–3 (h 4) 1-him move in for a net attack, only to (h14) 0-2 (a20) 1—1 (h19) 3–1 (a15) 0-0 (h22) 5-1 change his mind at the last moment (a 4) 0-2 (h20) 4–0 (h 1) 1—0 (14) 1-1 (h13) 1-1 and be caught in "No Man's Land." (a 9) 1-3 (h 5) 2-0 (a 3) 0–0 (h 2) 2–2 (a21) 1—1 There he was at the mercy of the stemming the tide. (a10) 2-0 (h-2) 0–1 (a21) 3—3 (h11) 1-1 (a16) 1-0 fine-length drives that Lim produced with the score at 3-1 in favour of (h 9) 3-2 (a 6) 4—2 (a 2) 1—1 (h10) 0 0 (a17) 1-2 at will and was forced into defensive (h20) 1—1 (a 8) 1—0 (h 4) 3—1 (a 1) 0–2 (h14) 0–1 (h 1) 5-0 (a 7) 2-1 (h20) 3—5 (a19) 2-4 (h15) 2——–1 (h 7) 1-0 (c22) 0–3 (h 8) 3–1 (a 4) 0-1 (h 1) 2-1 (all) 1-1 (h 6) 4—1 (a10) 1-3 (ħ17), 4–2 (a 5) 0—5 (h10) 11 (all) 0-4 (17) 5—3 (h 5) 2-2 (a 3) 0-2 (h15) 40 (a 1) 3-3 (h14) 3-3 (a13) 1-4 (h12) 1-1 (a 2) 1-1 (h18) 3-0 (a 9) 3-1 (h 6) 1-0 (a10) 1-5
THIRD DIVISION (NORTH)
(a 6) 0-2 (h 3) 1—4. (a 2) 1-3 (h21) 4-1 (all) 1-)
half-volleys when not beaten outright.
Lim, while being easily one of the most promising newcomers to. the local tournament for Luany years, is not likely, on his showing of yesterday, to get any further than the semi-final.
2
I
Lim, a dour struggle took place with Fincher, emerging successful after long series of dences were called but. Lim won the next game for 4-2, match-winning lead at that period thought everybody.
2
Fine Recovery. He has all the strokes, and, as Fincher then played some of the fin- remarked earlier, a splendid knowledge est tennis of the match. Hitherto of the game. His service is one of the beaten consistently by his opponent's finest weapons of attack I have seen drop-shot, he started to match drop with drop with a great deal more ac- for a long time.
curacy than Lim.
Not Enough
(h'7) 2-1 (a 5) 4-6 (h 8), 8-0 (a12) 1-2 (h10) 1- (h19) 3-1 (a 7) 0-0 (h5) 3–0 (a 8) 1–0 (h12) 2—0 (a21) 0-3 (h22) 2-0 (a17) 2–2 (a 9) 1-1 (h19) 4-0 (a21) 1-1 (h 9) 2-1 (a17) 1-1 (h 7) 4-1 (h18) 5-2
At about the same time, Lim's ser- (16) 1-6 (h 1) 6-4 (a 2) 0-3 (h16) 2—0 (a11) 1–5]~
He undoubtedly has a very dour vice, with which he had been scoring (h 5) 6-1 (a22) 2–2 (h17) 0-0 (818) 0-2 (h 9) 0-4
up considerably (h 2) 0-0 (a16) 0-3 (h11) 2-2 (a 4) 1–4 (15) 2-1 fighting spirit but I am afraid he will consistently, slowed (a14) 0-3 (h20) 4-3 (a 1) 0-6 (h 2) 0-1 (a16) 0-2 want more than that against either the and Fincher was standing right up to them and playing them almost on the (h11) 0-0 (a15) 6-3 (a 4) 1-2 (h 3) 1-1 (a 6) 4–0 Tsuis or the Rumfahns.
(a 4).1--1 (h13) 2-2 (a14) 0–1 (h20) 4–1 (a 1) 1-1, It was a game of fluctuating for half-volley for winners,
The scores were levelled at 4-all, The (h18) 1-1 (a 9) 0-0 (h19) 1-1 (a 7) 2–2 (h 6) 5-1 tunes. There was little brilliance in (a18) 1-4 (h14) 2–1 (a20) 0–5 (h 1) 2–1 (a 2) 0-2) the first set. Fincher won the first lead alternated until Lim levelled at (a10) 2-2 (h18) 0-2 (h21) 1-1 (a22) 0-1 (h17) 3-3 two games but when Lim settled down, 8-all after saving numerous set-points At and, with Fincher now utterly exhaust, (h 8) 3-1 (a18)-0-0 (h10) 1–0 (421) 0-1 (h22) 3—8 there was never very much in it. (h17) 8-1 (all) 0-0 (h 9) 3—6 (819) 1-1 (h 7) I-216—–—5 in his favour, Fincher had a set ed and unable to move for anything after not on his racket, the young Chinese (b.9) 0-0 (a19) 0-0 (h 7). 3—0. (a 5) 0—2 (h.8) 2—0point but was pulled back and (a15) 1-3 (h3) 2-2 (a 6) 0–0 (h ̊4) 1~~1′ (a18) 3-3 more grim battling, Lim's consistency emerged a deserving winner. (all) 1-1 (h15) 0-0 (813) 2-0 (h 6) 2-0 (a 4) 2-5 m all departments finally carried him Lim was pulled up, quite rightly. I thought, by Capt. Whitmarsh, a base- (a 2) 1-3 (h16) 0–0 (all) 1-1 (h15) 1-1 (a 3) 0-4 through.
(h 5) 3-0 (a 8) 3—4 (h12) 5–0 (a10) 1—4 (h21) 2–11 It appeared at the outset of the sec-line Judge. He is very apt to drag his (a 6) 2-4 (h.4) 1-1 (a13) 1-1 (h14) 1~0 (a20) 1—2 ond set that Fincher had shot his bolt, (h15) 2~0 (a-3) 0—2 (h⋅6) 2—2 (h13) 1-0 (a14) 3-3 He dropped the first two games with
out winning a point. SCOTTISH LEAGUE (FIRST DIVISION)
18:- St. Johnstone-
19 St. Mirram 20 Third LaHEN
(a18) 0-1 (h·9) 4—3 (a ́6) 1—1 (à 8) 0—1 (h15) 2-1 (a15) 2-1 (h⋅8) 5—0 (a17) 0—5, (a14) 3–3 (a 9) 0—2 (h12) 2-0 (h:7) 1—2 (a20) 0-3 (a10) 1-1 (h19) (10) 3-2 a13) 8—2 (h 5) 1-4 (h12) 6–1 (a18) 1- (h.8) 8-1 (h18) 3-1 (a20) 2—0 (a:.4) 4-1 (h·7) (814) 2-3 (h·1) 1-1 (h16) 2-3 (à16) 2-0. (17) (18) 1-1 (a 8) 2–1 (h10) 1–1 (a÷5):2-1 (b20) 4- (a14) 0-3 (h16) 1-3: (a 2) 0-5 (h 1) 1-0 (hi1) (1) 8-4 (h15) 8—3 (h14) 1-2 (a17) 1—1 (h 2) (h 4) 2-3 (hi8) 1—2 (a, 7) 1—1 (h 3) 1–1 (a18) (a18) &4 (á17) 2-2 (h14) 1—–1 (a16) 8—2 (x 8) (19) 472-1a 3) 0–2 (619) 2-1 (h18) 4–8 (24) (a 5)-1-8=(h 4) 2–8 (a12) 3-4 (a19) 4–1 (h10) 4– (h.8) 80 (b 6) 3-2 (a11) 1—1 (a) 9) 2–1 (h) (82) 1–42 (= 9) 3-8 (a 6) 8-2 (a 1) 1-2 (h16) (*.8) 8—1 th17) 022 (h11) 2—3 (1 6)-0~2(a1)
(a) 114(10) 2-1 (h19) 6-2 (812)-1-2 (K18) 2–5 (118)
In the third game, he launched
net
right foot over the line before striking the ball. He would do well to watch this fault as he was obviously upset by these decisions."
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