INFANTILE PARALYSIS STRIKES
FORMER BASEBALL
BASEBALL STAR
New York, To-day.-Lou Gehrig, one of the greatest baseball figures of all time, is a victim of chronic infantile paralysis and
LEAGUE TENNIS
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 22, 1939.
South China Should Win"C"Division Title
may never play the game again, according to Ed Barrow, president SOUTH
of the New York Yankees.
Gehrig, who is aged 36, played 2130 consecutive games before voluntarily dropping out of the game early in the season after a bad showing.
ter.
It is understood that the disease is not likely to worsen.—Reu-
BRITAIN'S RIDING SUCCESS
London, To-day.
In the international horse show, Great Britain retained the Edward Prince of Wales gold challenge cup for teams of three two rounds of eight jumps each.
Britain, who had 16 faults, was represented by Major W. F. Butler, riding Big Sweep, who was the only rider without faults, Major C. H. M. Brunker, riding Cark
Clever Vixen, and Major N. H. Kindersley, riding Maguire.
France was second with 20 faults and Italy third with 27 faults. Reuter.
...
TODAY'S TENNIS
To-day's League tennis programme is singularly devoid of interest.
Favoured teams, Kowloon Tong, C.R.C. and South China should all win comfortably.
and
Following is the programme some of the teams:-
"D" Division (1) K.T.G.C.A. V. Y.M.C.A. I.R.C. (B) v. K.D.R.C. K.C.C.
v. K.I.T.C. "D" Division (2)
C.R.C.
C.S.C.C. S.C.A.A.
V. R.P.S.C.
V.
C.D.R.
v., I.R.C. (A)
NOUTH China are making a bold bid for the "B” and “C” Division League tennis titles, and, from what they have accomplished already, can now be considered firm favourites.
In both these divisions they have secured victories
over the holders, Chinese Recreation Club. Yesterday, after a great strug- gle, they emerged successful by the odd set.
Chiefly responsible for this re- sult was the fine form of S. O. Khoo and Y. F. Lui, who played a dashing. brand of tennis to win all their
sets, while the other two pairings | S.C.A.A. did well in winning a set apiece.
E. Li and Pang Oi-lam were the best C.R.C. pairing.
Kowloon Tong, who are another team that will have to be consider- ed for the championship, advanced still further in their quest for the title when they overcame I.R.C. at Sookunpoo by 6 sets to 3.
H. Lin and E. Lee played very well for the winners and did not drop a set. All the 1.R.C. combinations won a set each.
Other two matches resulted in overwhelming victories for Radio and Postal Sports Club and creio.
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Re-
LEAGUE TABLE
},
Sets Sets
P. W. D. L. For Agst. Pts.
4 3 1 21 15 7
K.T.G.C.A. 3 3
Recreio C.R.C. R.P.S.C. C.C.C. L.R.C. C.B.A.
18
9
4 2
1 1 21
15
5
3 2
1 20
7 4
2 1
1 10/2
71%
2
2
2 4
14
0
3.8
19
3
3 5 21
0
LAWN TENNIS
THE DRAW FOR WIMBLEDON
K.T.G.C.A.—K, M. Lee and L. S. Churn; Edward Lee and M. S. Lee; Percy Chen and P. Fletcher. I.R.C. (A)—T. Ali and I. Kitchell; S. M. Rumjahn and F. A. Wahab; Y. A. Barma and M. Hassan, I.R.C. (B)—M. P. Madar and M. I. Ra-
zack; T. Nazarin and J. R. Mar-team and will probably surprise men's singles first round, re- ques, K. M. Rumjahn and F. A. some of the more powerful teams Curreen.
before the conclusion of the season.
K.I.T.C.-G. M. Khan and Y. H. Es-
mail; Ahmed Khan and S. R. Sal- leh; A. R. Azan ad Mit_Singh. C.R.C.-Wei Chung and Lo Tung San; Chiu Po Hang and Li Ping San; Cho Chung Yan and K. S. Cheung.
The former are a very useful
CHINESE DERBY
London, To-day. The Wimbledon draw of the
veals that Ho meets Drobny (Bohemia and Moravia) in the first quarter, while Austin or Playing at home, South China A.A. Choy meets Egan, Irish Davis Cup beat the Chinese R.C. by 5 sets to 4.
In the second quarter S.. O. Khoo and F. Liu (S.C.A.A.) player. beat G. Li and O. L. Pang......7-5 Maneill, winner of the French beat S. L. Ma and F. K. Lau ...6-1 championship, meets Henkel, Ger- beat T. L. Iu and C. N. Tsang 64man Davis Cup player, and Kho Leung Sin-kie meets Gunn (Great Britain). .2--6 In the men's doubles first round, .6-4 Kho Sin-kie and Lyttleton Rogers, 0-6 Irish Davis Cup player, meet Maneill (9.C.A.A.). and Smith (Great Britain). Ho and 36 Bayley (Great Britain) meet Edwards 4-6 and Morton (Great Britain). 6-4
H. T. Bee and T. к. (S.C.A.A.).
lost to Li and Pang
beat Ma and Lau
lost to Iu and Tsang
1
H. S. Lee and C. L. Lau lost to Li and Pang lost to Ma and Lau beat Iu and Tsang
RADIO'S EASY WIN At King's Park, Central British As- sociation lost to Radio and Postal R. C. by 8 sets to 1.
G. H. Fowler and N. Whitley
(C.B.A.).
lost to D. Leonard and Au Kam
Moon
.1-6
lost to G. Singh and W. J. Chan-
son
0-6 lost to M. Sheriff and C. M. Lee ..3—6 J. Sloan and D. T. Smith (C.B.A.). lost to Leonard and Au lost to Singh and Chanson beat Sheriff and Loe
M. Yatskin and Karpusheff lost to Leonard and Au lost to Singh and Chanson lost to Sheriff and Lee
C.C.C. TROUNCED
The little Chinese player, Gem Hoà-' hing, has a difficult task as in the first round of the women's singles she meets Mrs. Sperling (Denmark), a former finalist. Miss Alice Marble appears in the same quarter.
SEEDED PLAYERS
The following are the seeded play- ers in
the championships beginning... on Monday:-
Men's singles-Bunny Austin (Great Britain), Riggs, Maneill (United ...3-6 States), Puncec (Yugo-Slavia), Henkel 2-6 (Germany), Cook (United States), 64 Menzel (Germany) and Ticcynski (Po- (C.B.A.). land).
0-6 Women's singles.-Miss Alice Mar- .3-6 ble, Miss Helen Jacobs (United States), 3-6 Mrs. Sperling (Denmark), Madame Mathieu (France), Mlle. Jedrzejowska Playing at Craigengower Cricket (Poland), Miss Katherine Stammers, Club, Club de Recreio defented the Miss Mary Hardwick (Great Britain) home team by eight sets to one.
and Mrs. Fabyan (United States).-
S. L.. Leonard and E. S. Howard Reuter. (C.C.C.).
lost to G. Noronha and H. H. No-
ronha
28
lost to A. M. Remedios and L.
Carvalho
1-8
lost to J. C. Fonseca and M. A.
Guterres
H. King and P. C. Yu (C.C.C.). lost to Noronha and Noronha .4~6 lost to Remedios and Carvalho .36 lost to Fonseca and M. A. Gu
terres
N. L. Leonard and Lee Whua Kek
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lost to Remedios and Carvalho lost to Fonseca and Guterres
INDIANS LOSE Playing on their own courts at Soo- kunpoo, Indian R.C. were beaten by 6 sats to 8 by Kowloon Tong.
A. R. Kitchell and A. M. Rumfahn (LR.C:).
lost to Henry Lin and Edward
Lee
26 beat Lam Kwan and H. Y. Heu 6-1 lost to: W. H: Wei and Lee Kam-
ming
D. M. A. Razack and A.
(I.R.C.).
Razack
lost to Lin and Lee
beat Lam and Hau lost to Wei and Lee
MIXED DOUBLES
In the mixed doubles, Kho Sin-kie (China) and Miss Wood (Great Bri- tain) have drawn a bye into the se- cond round where they meet Davis and Mrs. Knight (Great Britain).
Hughan, Holland, and Miss Gem Hoa-hing have drawn a bye and meet Cliff and Miss. Jean Nicoll (Great Bri- tain) in the second round.-Reuter.
"BUNNY" AUSTIN BEATEN
London, To-day. In the third round of the lawn tennis champion- ships at Queen's Club, Kukuljevic of Yugo-Slavia beat H, W. “Bunny". Austin, of Great Britain, 6 -Reuter,
PROSPECTS DISCUSSED 26
-Transocean adds that some astonish⭑ 2gment has been expressed in sporting circles over the fact that the Polish player Tloczynski was placed on the seeded list rather than Kho Sin-kie, (Continued on Page 25)
B. A, R. Bux and H. Kitchell
(IRA
Shell House, Hong Kong: Branch Manager: E. J. R. MITCHELL, Tel. 20601 lost to Lin and Lee
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lost to Lam and Hsu beat Wel and· Leo