PERRY BEATS GERMAN
Champion's Speed Too Much For Von Cramm
F. J. Perry is still champion and the title which he regained for England last year remains at home, writes a correspondent.
In A match of super-speed, lasting 80 minutes and bristling With
gorgeous shots, the holder resisted the German challenge of Baron G Von Cramm without keing a set. His score was 6-2. BA; Brank
blood by winning the games.
first two
The champton was in completo
start and touch from the wrist-band which he wore not have meant a weak ako?-~50 manfully was he hitting all round the court.
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GERMAN'S CONFIDENCE
RETURNS
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1935.
MRS. LAING WINS
Malayan. Tennis Championships
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The match lasted 90
minutes.
hard and there were some long rallies.
U. S. BASEBALL
Close Call For The Giants
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GUNNERS AT
PLAY
Aquatic Sports
The results were:-
100 Yds. (Individual)
1st. Miller, 2nd, „Warman, 3rd.
Halliley,
Long Plunge. (Individual) 1st. Swatton, 2nd. Kelly, 3rd. Warman
New York, Aug." 3. Only three matches were sche-' The possibility that there will be Emmergency Committee: Capt. Kuala Lumpur, July 30. duled in pach of the two major a 6-aside football tournament run Hague, Messrs. J. McKelvie and Some interesting play was seen Baseball Leagues to-day and of by the Hong Kong Area "Sports Wong Ka Tsun.
The elimination trials for the in the ladies singles of the Mala- these one was abandoned during Board late in September next
Grounds Sub-Committee Messrs. Royal Artillery aquatic sports were yan Lawn Tennis Championship the sixth innings owing to ram month, was, revealed at the Counc, Gingham, S. Strange, 3. She-swum of yesterday at the YMCA. meeting which started to-day on
The New York Giants had sell meeting of the Hong Kong pherd, Wong Ka Tsun and LA, R. bath, when some good sport was the Selangor Club courts in splen-close call tin their maton against Football the
Association, yestreday G. M. Kelly. did weather. Three singles mat- the Brooklyn Dodgers, whom they when could
letter from the HK in dealing with the correspon- ches were played. Two entrants managed to beat by ave runs to Area Sports Board asking for dence, the Hon Secretary inform gave walk overs. The best match four. The Cardinals not the permission of the HKFAed the Council that a letter had was between Mrs. J. D: Laing and engaged but the Cubs dropped to run such a competition was Mrs. A. C. Bucknell.
back by their defeat by the Reds. read to the meeting. Only clubs
been received from the Hong Kong The New York Yankees were affiliated to the Football Associa-Area Sports Board, asking for per- "Both players set out by hitting playing against the Boston" Redtion will be permitted to compete mission from the HK Football
gox when their match had to be
a 6-aside Sanction was readily accorder Association to arrange abandoned in the second half of by the Council, which instructed
football competition, which would
the sixth innings owing
those teams to rain, the Hon. Secretary, Mr. M. L
be eligible only to The Yankees were then leading by Railton to write to the Sports affiliated to the HKFA the wide margin of ten runs to Board to this efect.
It is proposed, stated the letter, two.
The meeting was held at the that the competition be Results of to-day's matches fol- sports Club, and was presided over September 21 and 22. and the by Major C. M. Manners, who ex-President said that he though it tended а hearty Welcome to was intended that it be a "curtain Messrs. S. Strange and J. She-ralser" for the new grounds at pherd, of the Hong Kong and Po-Sookunpoo, " lice Football Clubs respectively, "When put to the feeling. It both of whom, he felt sure would was proposed that a letter be sent be a tower of strength to the from the Coune granting the to the Council.
necessary permission. It was also stated that it would be probable that the Council would hear more of the scheme at a later date.
Von Cramm won the third game, Wimbledon has yielded manyanding a target for his service closer and more fluctuating finals and coming up behind it. By now In the past. There have been
his confidence and aim were back, matches in which net play_has
and the crowd were treated to a taken a more conspicuous part
sequence of gilstening rallies, the But for the sustained pace of ball often raising chalk, each man the ground shots, for refined, ac- showing the boldest enterprise. curate driving, and for the thrust- ing power with which both men Tought Perry always little quicker about the court than his rival-I cannot remember any con- test quite like it.
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Tilden and Johnson in theft hey-day used to whip the ball with dazzling pace from the base- line, and the first would carry his pugnacity into the service,
The fifth game was a match in | miniture. Von Cramm was serving and looked to have his grasp on it several times. He did not come to the net. as one thought he might have done, but he was producing the finest and deepest drives on both wings-searching the court, in fact, for some weakness.
He found none. Perry was just too quick and too efficient for But they were neither as light-im. Shots that would have been footed nor as quick in extracting winners against any other player the ball from the losing position | became losers because the task of as the champion and his challen- creating them could not be con- eer. yesterday They had caught the spirit of the time, which is speed.
A GREAT FINAL Before I describe a contest which will certainly go down in i history as a great final-great because of the quality of the play and the attacking character of nearly every shot-one may pay a tribute of unstinted praise to the
tinuous
counter.
against Perry's superb
The first set, lasting 20, minutes, was Perry's at 62. He had con- ceded the German two of his own service games, serving himself with consistent fire and no suspicion of a double fanit.
Von Cramm opened the second set with his service-slow back like a golfer, the ball struck with perfect timing-earning points. It Perry is not only the hurst was his first clean-cut game, and "playing through" champion to Perry's reply to it was almost
winner
The match was won by Mrs. Laing..
The results are as follow: Mrs. J. D. Laing beat Mrs. A. C. Bucknell 6-4, 7-5,
Mrs. C. F. E. Mounsey beat Miss O. 'Moir 7-5, 6-4.
Mrs. E K. Allin beat Mrs. D. Hodgkinson (walk over).
Mrs. E. K. Allin beat Mrs. F. H Brunton 6-0, 6-0.
Mrs. M. C. Corbett heat Mrs. C. P. Thane (walk over)?
CRICKET IS SUCH
A MYSTERY
Our Pleasure In It Baffles Others
To the foreigner it is a com- plete mystery how we get any plea sure out of either playing cricket or wiching cricke That is a that the British Empire secret keeps to itself," "
Mr. P. Ashley Cooper, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company. spoke thus at a luncheon in Len- don to the Canadian Schools' cric-
ket team.
"If you want to get to know your fellow Britons all over the world
keep his title; he properly reserved arrogant-a net attack that quick-the best way to do it is to play eric- for the last round, when the oppo-ly levelled the score. sition was strongest, his soundést. and, most concentrated display.
What a remarkable and romantic career Ferry has had the first 'people's champion" we may call
him.
native. of Stockport, Lan cashire, he has just turned 26 two months alder than von Cramin. At Wallasey Grammar School and at Ealing County School he show- ed an aptitude for ball games, but it was not until the spent a family holiday at Eastbourne, and, as a boy of 16, watched the tournament in Devonshire Park. that his am- bition to become a champlon was
fired.
in the middle of a game.
NECK AND NECK RACE They raced neck-and-neck for the next four games, both mala- taining a fine length and speed, both recovering winners from the fringes of the court, Then the German's service lost some of its balance; he mistimed a couple of "relatively easy ground shots; Perry
had broken through.
Could the German get back this seemingly vital game? He did so by a sudden net attack-one of the few games in which he used the volley as a scoring shot.
But he did not maintain his high standard in the ninth game: Perry broke through his service from 15. He was just a second too quick for the incoming volleyer; the retort was too emphatic!
ket with them or, if you cannot do that, to talk cricket shop'" added Mr. Cooper. "Britons are boys with bats in their hands."
GOLF NEWS
Qualifying
Captain's Cup at Fanling, August 3 and 4," (August round) -
J. McL Brown Other scores:
91-18-73
Lt. Col, H. H. Blake 80-6 ±74 R. Collings
81-5-70
There were 24 entries
- ་ more audacious, thore consistent, never breaking down over the vital coup. I have never seen a quicker mover.
DOUBLES FINALS The doubles final will be between America and Australia-yet another encounter which, had the Davis
inter-zone match,
HIS FIRST VENTURE A year later he turned up at the Middlesex Junior champion- ship with a racket that had two Leading 54, you could see the strings missing, and reached, the gleam of battle in Ferry's eye. He final. Then he competed in the lost "the first two points in the Cup developed on its expected junior championship at Wimble-tenth game, but servèd too well lines. would have figured in the don, where his old racket; collapsed not to carry the next four.
By normal reckoning the third But, as his father said after-set should have seen the pace *wards, he came home like the reduced. But here were two super
proverbial dog with two talis, for athletes, well stocked with sta- he had hung up his clothes in the mina; they moved Just as rapidly, pavilion of the All-England Club struck just as hard. It was In the locker used by René Lacoste, auxious set for both men-for Von the reigning champion.
Cramm because its loss meant the Bow Perry went to Budapest end of his endeavour: for Perry and became the Arst "non-because he could see that ha Hungarian competitor to win the opponent had not yet been mas world's table-tennis championship; tered...
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was
Hughes and Tucky started auspiciously against Allison and Van Ryn. They won the first set to 4 and had a valuable lead in the second. Then in the ninth game Hughes served what proved to be & costly double fault, and the Americans got their break which governed the set.
never
:
The British pair were culte in the picture again. Van Ryn produced those withering ser- how he brought the quick-Aring The German's unyielding mood.
vice returns which Wimbledon has methods of the table-tennis table,
reflected in the first game seen and admired for several years, with the ball struck on the rise, He served three splendid aces. and Allison, once he got into his
Moving in with, surer came
judgment, - within a stroke of beating Austin he also took the third from, 040 stride, was the daring, punishing
volleyer.
to the tennis lawn, and
at Queen's Club; how, given the down. But his service returns Too often the Englishmen were opportunity to travel by his father lacked precision; he lapsed at this hitting the ball up for their oppo and the Lawn Tennis Association, stage over many. «he subsequently won every impor
The fourth and arth games werenents to hit down: they were too far back in the volleying ex- tant title open
competitors long and tortuous, but Perry's abroad, taking the crown at Wim-insistent defiance carried them changes. In the fourth set the "Americans won three love games
to'
bledon last year-that is only a both. He reached 4-2 with vic- hare outline of his upward flight. tory on the horizen. He could their service a sufficient proof
DISLIKES - PRACTICE
afford to sacrifice the seventh game, in which the Gézinan again His physical fitness is more a served well; for the eighth was the matter of instinct that rigorous Englishman's from 15. He ted training. He never touches alco-5-3.
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of the ascendancy that they had then achieved.
BUDGE AND MAKO„OUT Any prospect of another all- American final was destroyed when Crawford, and Quist, maintaining
hol, but is a moderáte pipe-smoker. In the ninth game von Cramm their good form, defeated Budge He does not like practice games; deserved his tumultuous applause.
and Mako, the champions of
he can never be quite serious at He had led 40-15 and then thrown California, in three sets. Only the them. Keenly competitive on the his chance away. Perry got to middle set wavered, a protracted court, he is the easiest fellow to vantage and match ball, Cool and get on with off it,
calculating, the German came
one of 24 games. Budge and Mako through this crisis. A brilliant, but Budge's service was service clinched the game.
stolen to readjust the balance, M
Had not Gnist dobbed Just out
Incidentally, he can make a very neat after-dinner speech and I've heard him tell an amus- ing story in more than one coun- try.
THREE INCHES OUT
of court in the 18th "game this But the end was only delayed bout would have ended earlier. It was a perfect day for a per- Valiantly von Cramm scored the It was finally won on Mako's fect final and the hunt for places first two points in the fateful service..
was as zestful as ever. Queues had tenth game. It was a tense mo-As in Paris where the same. formed outside the gates when I ment. The German advanced beteam won the French doubles was leaving the ground last night: hind two forcing shots to Ferry's championship, Crawford was the enthusiasts ficw over from the forehand; each time there was a great general. He showed the Continent even the roller was gorgeous pass and the score was value of the vital points, and went covered with humanity.
level. Another match ball came out for them with splendid fnzis-
Both men had been training The champion forced the pace tence. Off the great smashes of their eye on an outaide court von Cramm drove three inches out the American he made some wON→ before the match but the German of court The match was overderful recoveries on the outskirts. did not betray the fact. He open- had been won, as I have said: always appearing to have time to
only Lions by super-apped. Parry was faster select the most judicious re-ly rew early over the court than his opponent; (Continued on Page 11)
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn
R. H. E. 4 10 2. New York
5 11 1
Boston
1 3 1 Philadelphia
9 8 2 (Thompson scored a home ruzi for the Braves and Dolph Camilli for the Phillies).
Chicago
Cincinnati
8 1 2 9 0 AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago
R. I. E Z 7 3
Cleveland
4 9 ☐ " (Earl Ayerli scored a home run for the Indians).
Washington Philadelphia
New York
Boston
(The game
10
9 2
7
13
1
10 9 0
2 5 3 was called on ac- count of rain in the second half
the sixth innings.--
ELECTION OF OFFICERS Election of officers and commit, tees for the coming season was then proceeded with, and resulted BS follows:
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A letter was also read from the
50`Yds. (Individual) 1st Miller. and. Halilley, 3rd.
Warman.
DIVING (Individual) 1st. Halliley, 2nd. Kell. Ives.
3rd.
25 Yds. (Individual} 1st. Tyrrell, 2nd. Waddington. 3rd. Hall, 4th. Miller.
Medley (150 Yds. Individual) 1st. Hall, 2nd. Adams, Warmian, 4th Barlow.
*3rd.
there were already to many games.
Hon. Secretary: Mr. R. Raliton. Sports officer of the Royal Artillery to be played off during the sea+
Treasurers; Messrs. Percy, Smith,
Seth and Fleming.
League Management Committee: Capt. E. Hauge, Messrs: H K Lee, S. Strange. F. J. Woodward, and Lt. Chaplin.
Appeals Board: President and three Vice-presidents.
Referees' Committee: Messrs. J. Shepherd, J. MacKelvie, and H. K. Lee.
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Arundel Castle. Sussex
stating that the Artillery wished" this season to run two teams in the First Division of the League. This would be made up of an eleven from the R.A. stationed at
one statlored Lyeemun, and Stonecutters.
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son, without the addition of any more teams.
He received the support of Mr. J. Shepherd, and after some dis- cussion it was decided that Mr. dosano's suggestion, together with the application of the Royal Ar- tillery, be left over for the League Management Committee, which Mr. A. V. Gosano, stated that will meet at 5.30 p.m. on Monday, from the players · point of view || August 13,
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