THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 24, 1940
NEW LAWN TENNIS STAR IN ARMY SPORTLIGHT
UNITED STATES FIRMAMENT Van Horn Tipped For Honours
Football
By "SQUADDY”
WITH not much over than six STILL predominate in the Army
weeks to go before the com- Tennis pairings are the Sap-. mencement of the local football pers, who have particularly good season, it is understood that Royal records in both sections. In “A”. Artillery are entering a Combined Division we find Grose and Wil- R.A. team in the Football First kinson; Mitchell and Elsley; and Division this season. Megson and Denyer placed to- Football This will be good gether. All have played 12 games, business for the the former pair winning 11 and Arca Sports Board, who will reap the two latter pairs both winning the beneft of extra home games 10 sets each. Their record in "B" at Sookunpoo. Amongst pro-
Division is, if any- thing, better, Two Engineer pairs top the list, Rivett and Quinnell; and Spen-
GRAPHIC GOLF SUCCESS OF DISCOVERER ble bare noget the p
RIGHT
THUMB
MORE.
DIRECTLY
DOWN
SHAFT
THAN MOST GOLFERS
JIMMY DEMARET'S OVERLAPPING GRIP
GRIP FIRMEST
HERE
COCKED WRISTS AT TOP
$
Gripping The Club
BY BEST BALL
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One may grip a golf club like Jimmy Demaret, even swing like the Texan and yet fail to score like him, for Demaret has a concentiation particularly fitted for golf. However one can't go far wrong by emulating the me- chanics of so successful a player and the first considera- tion should be the grip. De- maret's grasp of the club strikes one as being natural, there is no apparent strain.
His left hand may not be as far on top of the shaft as many consider orthodox but De- "maret does somewhat better than all right with it. His right thumb is more directly down the shaft than other players, who have this digit diagonally across . the shaft. As a result the V's point a trifle straighter upwards than they do toward the right shoulder, a checking point of most pros. Demaret's firmest grip rests in the two small-
OF ALICE MARBLE
AND BOBBY RIGGS
bable players will be Minshull, Tennis who made a name for himself in
the Colony last year as a goal-Pairings keeper of no mean ability.
Beaton and Hill, both of 21 sor and Shaw both pairs being Battery, are the most likely can- unbeaten in 15 games. Three didates for the wing-half positions different pairs have played as and as a pivot man they may well third string for the Sappers sec- have Guy, of 30th Bty, and Inter-ond team. Freeman and Bird, who port fame. The 13th Heavy Regt. won all 6 sets in which they play- may be represented in the fored, and Bird and Martin who lost It only one set out of six. The re-
ELEANOR TENNANT might just as well be ward line by Topper' Brown.
will not be surprising, to find maining pair was Col. Lamb and known as Eleanor Tennis, writes Jerry Brondfield Altkins and Owens (20th Bty) Bird who won all three sets in which they participated together. from New York. Few people have done as much for amongst those in the attack.
The R.A.S.C., runners up to 24th The best two individual pairs in the game.
Bty, in the 3rd Division last sea-"A" Division are Col. Smith and Even now, while touring with Alice Marble, her son have applied for a raise in Major Harrison (R.A.M.C.) and status. The reason being the few Emberson and Duffield (R.A.O.C.) greatest pupil, she continues to do the work that clubs left in the Third Division both of whom have been gives her the most enjoyment-giving free clinics for and the soldiers are looking for beaten in 12 sets. kids.
plently of games.
tennis player of all time.
With Game
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of a boy or girl, slender, dynamic constantly crowded into line for Makes Personality Blend THERE has been plenty of ten-
If anyone can bring talent out,ed up wherever she went
Miss Tennant is the one.
instruction. She liked his. en-
She picks the champion-to-be thusiasm, saw his aptitude, realis- out of a crowd of green hands. ed the boy was a champion in the She did it with Miss Marble,making. She took him in hand. the women's champion.
She did it again with Robert
Riggs, the men's champion.
It was her timely advice to Welby Van Horn last season which
His name was Bobby Riggs. Marble 100 Per Cent Wrong In Her Shots Miss Marble was 17
nis activity recently at Soo- kunpoo. One of the biggest sur- prises was the defeat of the Pay
their op-
Pacific coast women's champion Corps by 5th A.A. by 9 sets. In at 18, Eleanor Tennant tired of only one set did the Pay "Blokes" working for an oil Company in put up anything like a fight and San Francisco, and went to Los that was in the set that Chalcraft and Pendergast took Angeles where she played with Maurice E. McLoughlin and Billy Tennis Kennedy and Savage when DeMille.
to 7-5. The most con- sent the Los Angeles lad on his "Teach," as the queen of the She sacrificed her amateur vincing R.A. pair was Whittacker way to fame.
courts calls her sponsor, first saw standing to take advantage of her and Coughlin, who won their three "Welby Van Horn can't miss be- the world's most spectacular play-first opportunity to teach.
at sets 6-2; 6-2; and 6-0. Reed and ing the national champion," says er. Miss Tennant recalls how young the Beverly Hills Hotel Rein Ingelby (R.A.P.C.) were playing Miss Tennis-er Tennant, the Miss Marble was using a fright-stated as an amateur, she battled very tired tennis and offered no teacher, strategist and psycholo- ful racquet and was 100 per cent Molla Mallory. was ranked serious opposition to gist.
wrong in her shots.
third nationally. She married. ponents. Giving clinics in southern Cali-
Last week in commenting on turned pro- Miss Marble comes from a fami-was divorced.. forniù, Miss Tennant notice that]
the tennis match between 24th a black-haired little shaver show-ly of very modest means. She was fessional again.
Miss, Tennant went to LaJolla, Bty. 'R.A. and R.A.S.C. I referred making her home with Miss Ten- nant before she crashed-the-head-Calif., to give lessons for three to Glen's partner as 'Charlie' Wal- and wound up ton, it should-have-been-Tich lines. Miss Tennant paid for the days at a hotel, first lessons Alice received from staying 10 years as coach at the Walton, my apologies. Howard Kinsey, but Miss Marble fashionable Bishop School for girls left Kinsey and returned for per- there.
She was Marion Davies' private] sonal instruction under Miss Ten-i nant.
teacher. . is the favourite coach NO swimming of The story of how Eleanor Ten-of movie stars.
Marble from But Eleanor Tennant prefers to rant raised Alice and fore-
seventh to third ranking national-teach and guide youngsters. She Swimming were scheduled to play Water Polo' hospitalised for 13 handles them with a mixture of ly, saw her months, and
and humour there on Monday evening. Besides. convinced her she directness, patience had the strength and spirit to beat that is a treat to watch. She there being no nets available yet,. and play was. her affliction is tiue saga of studies her subject's personality the lights fused
in the. sport.
and makes it blend with his game, impossible, as the defect Alice Marble got out of a sick Miss Tennant in reality is Miss lighting could not be remedied in bed to become the greatest. woman Tennis.
est Angers of the left hand. At the top of the stroke his wrists are fully cocked, the grip firm but by no means tied up. In fact one gets a better idea of Demaret's fast clubhead speed by noticing the trigger" ac- tion of the thumb finger of the right hand at this point.
Next Article.-Long Driver.
ISLAND BEAT MAINLAND
AT TABLE TENNIS
By "Sportshawk"
A BRILLIANT EFFORT in the last set by Y. S. Wong gave victory to Hong Kong over Kowloon in the series of table tennis matches played at St. An- drew's Hall last night before a large crowd.
It was officially announced after issue was decided by Y. S. Wong, the contest that the number of who won that odd set in the final supporters gathered last evening game to secure the narrow victory. had broken the Colony record; as In the only game in
which far as table tennis games are con- Europeans were engaged-an ex- cerned. The entire proceeds, ap-hibition contest-H. C. James met proximately $100, are to be don-Vic Merrett during an interval in ated to the Chinese Refugee Fund the main series. The former and "South China Morning Post" player won by 2 sets to 1. War Fund.
The hard hitting ex-Macao left| The Island representatives de-hander C. H. Tang maintained his feated the Mainland combination two years'. unbeaten record last by the odd set in 19 ahd the final night and proved too good for his
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opponent, C. C. Lee, of Hong Kong, winning in two straight sets, the scores being 21-15 and 21-14. He was the only left hander on view during the even- ing and was the outstanding play- er for the Mainland.
Playing for the Island team, C. K. Chow staged a magnificentį, all-round performance and de- feated his Mainland opponent, C. F: Leung by two straight sets.
RESULTS.
the
Following are the detailed re- [sults, given in order of their
play with the exception of exhibition game between James and Merrett, which was played at the interval following the C. K. Chow-C, F. Leung match)..
H. L. Young (H.K.) lost to C. K. Chiu (Kin.) by 2 sets to 1,
S. N. Slu (H.K.) lost to S. H. Lai (Kin.) by 2 sets to 1.
C. C.Lce (H.K.) lost to C. H, Tang (Kin.) by 2 straight sets.
C. K. Chow (H.K.) beat C. F Leung (Kln.) by 2 straight sets.
K. C. Lau (HK) bent C. T.
Li (Kln.) by 2 sets to 1.
T. H. Lee (HK.)` brat. ·S. S. Wong (Kln.) by 2 sets to 1.
.
Y. S. Wong (H.K.) beat K. W:| Yuen (Kln.) by 2 sets to 1.
H. C. James beat Vic Merrett by 2 selá to 1,
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