Siamese Tennis Team
Due In Manila
Aug. 15
Manila, July 27, ranking player, Aida Ochoa and Liber-
THE CHINA MATT AUGUST 1, 1939.
SPORTS PARADE
The Siamese tennis team now by Solisa have been nominated by the APART from football, which com- realise that apart from the recren-
touring the Orient will arrive in Manila on August 15 instead of】 August 10, as previously an- nounced. P. I. Lawn Tennis As- sociation officials plan to have them play in a series of matches at the Rizal Memorial Tennis Stadium against local players.
The delegation is composed of mana- ger, three men players and one woman. In a recent communication to the PAAF the Siamese expressed their de- sire to play against local players in accordance with the Davis Cup system,
Leonardo Gavia, No. 3 ranking ace, and Juan Ladaw, Jr., No. 4 ranking, have been nominated by the PHILTA the tournament committee to play Siamese in singles. The Gavia brothers, Leonardo and Juanito, have been se- lected to play the doubles matches.
committee PHILTA Siamese.
to meet the
If the team decides to stay in the Philippines several weeks, arrange- ments will be made to have them play in Iloilo and Cebu against Visayan players.
THE DAVIS CUP TEAM
Meanwhile, Amado Sanchez and
mands a great deal of support]tional facilities which bowls un- from thousands of Chinese, as well as doubtedly provide, there is a great a great many others in all walks of potential source of revenue in a lawn life. I should place lawn bowls as the bowls green, and, where possible, al- most popular game in the Colony at lowances have been made for that pur-
pose when grounds are laid out. the moment.
ever-
This would have been a surprising' It may be that enthusiasm of His statement to make only a few years Excellency for the game has contribut ago, but such strides have been made ed as much as anything to its in the last few seasons that there will growing popularity, but, whilst al- be little argument against the fact Towing that this might have been a that lawn bowls has definitely estab- great contributory factor, it surely cisimo Ampon, No, 1 and No. 2 rank-lished itself as one of the Colony's does not account for the increasingly large number of young men who have leading sports. ing players of the islands, respectively, And, actually speaking, it is only tried the game and found it good!
However strongly its supporters may who met the powerful Australia net
It was only have argued. regarding along so tremendously. team in Davis Cup matches in Cali- in the last few years that it has come
its value as fornia early this month, have been or-
a short while ago that its supporters exercise, it has always been conceded dered to proceed to cities on the eastern coast of the. United States, and compete were only numbered among those old. that lawn bowls was more or less an
waistlines and exclusive preserve for the greybeards, whose
old stager. reached unfit Now, however, it has
the general debility rendered them for any other form of recreation.
younger man and is gradually in- Indeed, those few young players who sinuating itself into some of Hong showed sufficient interest to play with Kong's most exclusive sports a certain amount of regularity, were the subjects of a good deal of scoffing, not all good-natured too, I might say.
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in important tournaments. Their most important assignment will be competi- tion in the coming U.S. national cham- pionship matches to be held at Forest Hills, New York, next month.
Secretary Jorge B. Vargas, president Athletic of the Philippine Amateur
Resident The lone Siamese woman player will Federation, wired Assistant be asked to play exhibition matches Commissioner Camilo Osias to with leading local players. Estrella arrangements for the two boys while Alburo, national champion and No. 2 campaigning in the cast,
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Latest to fall has been Hong Kong Cricket Club, I am certain that the the Club of erstwhile stalwarts of half a century ago would turn in their graves if they could but see the use that is being put to that corner of the cricket ground now laid out as & bowling green.
And, strangely enough, it has not been the insistence of the older men' of the Club that has been, responsible for this encroachment on tradition.
A short while ago, Cricket Club play- ed their first inter-club match, and it was not by any manner of means an "old mens' team" that represented them. At least half of the players were men in the prime of life who were still active in other sporting realms.
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RICKET Club is not the only club
where lawn bowls has captivated the fancy of the younger element. Take Club de Recreio the most suc- cessful club in the Colony at the mo- ment as regards competitive bowls,
Most of their finest players `are un-
der 30 in age. This was strikingly illustrated recently when a member of Kowloon Football Club's Third Division team was being "twigged" about the huge defeat inflicted on his team by Recreio.
"It's all every well talking about this hiding". he said, "but you forget that the majority of the Recreio third team are former veteran members of Recreio seniors, who have gradually been displaced by the more youthful members of the Club and are now languishing-and not so much of the languishing part of it,-in the third team.
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FEW weeks ago "Lofty" Lloyd,
the K. C. C. bowler; who is also
a member of Hong Kong Cricket Club, was asked to make up a Cricket Club team. He accepted with alacrity much to the surprise of the person talking to him at the time." "There is nothing very astonishing about my playing bowls, "he said,” I used to belong to quite 8 decent lawn bowls side at Home!"
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Cricketers, still possibles for Colony Interport, honours, who are fairly pro- minent lawn bowlers, include E. C. Fincher, A. R. Minu, A. M. Rodrigues, R, E Lee, T. A. Fearce, N. D. Lloyd, F. Goodwin and E, Zimmern.
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