PAGE 2-HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1939.
** In the World of Sports
LIM
THIAM-TET IS NEW TENNIS
Loser Played Fine Game SCOTTISH CUP But Lost To Better Man
TWO MAGNIFICENT SETS ON STAND COURT
(By "TAC")
EASILY THE FINEST MATCH OF THE TOURNA-. MENT AND ONE OF THE BEST EARLY-ROUND GAMES on the in the history of the competition was seen Stand Court of the Hongkong Cricket Club ground yesterday when, by beating E. C. Fincher, one of the Colony's steadiest" players and with a fine record go- ing back over 15 years, Lim Thiam-tet, Perak cham-' plon, established himself once and for all in the fore- front of the Colony's tennis stars.
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No higher compliment can be paid the winner than to say that Fincher played as good a game as he has done for some time past. The theory that Lim caught Fincher on an off-day would be most incorrect here. "Teddy" played well throughout, at magnificently: he lost to the better man.
Motherwell Enter
Final
LONDON, Mar 30 (Reater)—At
Ibrox Park yesterday Motherwell secal-dinal- won the Boottish Cup
replay against Aberdeen by three goals to one.
A crowd of 40,539 paid to see the game in rainy cold weather,"
Early play favoured Motherwell, who were slightly superior terri- torially, but were unable to take the advantage in outfeld. play." Aberdeen seemed unretted. Strauss made two good, runs,
At half-time, the score-sheet was blank.
The re-start saw a new Aberdeen, Warnock shot and then Strauss. The ball rebounded from a defen- der and Scott fastened on the ball to score from 15 yards.
STAR:
** TELESCORE” SPECIAL
13 HOMES DERBY EVERTON WOLVES FULHAM MANCHESTER 'C. CRYSTAL F NEWPORT
CELTIC
HEARTS
RANGERS CREWE SOUTÉPORT NOTTS COUNTY
3- DRAWS NEWCASTLE BARNSLEY.. BRIGHTON
3 AWAYS
WEST HAM YORK
ALBION
LADIES' HOCKEY
BEATS TEDDY"
"DAILY MAIL”
GOLF TOURNEY LONDON, MILF. 30 (Reuter)-At Bournemouth yesterday Henry Cot ton and Cecil Denny, each with,69, ed the first round of the "Daily Mall" Professional. Golf Tourma- ment A. J. Lacey and H. R. Man- ton, each with 70," follow glowely |
behind.
FINCHER
Sporting Fixtures
TO-DAY
BADMINTON. - "Colony Cham- pionships, Senior Singles semi- anais, K, L, Yong v. C. Au (Tai- koo), pra. Y. M. C. A. Bad- minton, in the West Lounge, 8.30
p.m.
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Last year's winner, Wilfred Perry BRIDGE-Y. M. C. A. Women's
Section Bridge Class, 10 am, and the Open Champion, Reginald Whitcombe, each hud 81 after ad-FOOTBALL--First Division, Mid-
ventures among trees and going other poor rounds despite the per- fect conditions.
dlesex v. Eastern (8ookuripoo), 5 p.m.
7. R. After the second round, which HOCKEY-Hongkong H. C.
Navy (King's Park), 5 p.m. will be played on Thursday, the leading 80 will enter Friday's 36- Brawn Cup, St. Andrew's v, Y.
M. C. A. (C.B.A.), 5.15 p.m. holes Anal.
SWIMMING-Mixed Swimming, in European, Y. M. C. A. Swimming Pool, 6 p.m. TENNIS-Open.
HOME RUGBY
LONDON, Mar. 29 (Reuter)--The following were the results of rugby matches played in the country yesterday:-
ENION MATCHIES Motherwell regained command but poor finishing nullified their
Northampton 11 Rugby efforts.
The "p" Ladies defeated St. An-Bridgend Then Mathie equalised
22 Newport
times
In this important Efth game I had seen Lim in action!
given before, but only in doubles.number of decisions were His form yesterday was a re-which were, to say the least, unfor-
20 minutes;
velation to me..I had heardtunate for Lim. He lost this, to/from a goalmouth scramble after drew's Ladies at King's Park in a United Hosp. 24 Dominion
lead only 3-2, instead of 4-1.
Lim held his service, though not
that he was good, but I had
With only three minutes from not known that he could put without a fight, in the sixth game, time, McCulloch scored for Mother bat Fincher, suddenly running into well and in the last minute Brem over passing shots on both hands that would leave Fin- sort of "second wind." and play-ner added the third goal. cher standing with
aning very well, secured the next two acknowledging shake of the to make it 4-4.
head.
Or that he could place lobs so deeply and so accurately that Teddy, up at the net, could only turn round and watch them fall neatly, sometimes an Inch, sometimes a couple of
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TERRIFIC STRUGGLE There was a terrific struggle for the all-important ninth game, Fincher reting it. after Innumerable deuces had been ealled.
THIS
Caer Clark Cup hockey match by six goals to two.
Miss Harker (4), Miss Caidley and Mrs. O. Burnett scored for the Y. and Mrs. A. Zimmern, for St. Andrew's.
WEEK'S WINNERS IN HOME FOOTBALL
Games then see-sawed, some- "Telescore" Selects Them For
inches, inside the baseline; mes soing with service, some-
one occasion right on the line. Or that he had a consistently powerful service that is as good as that of any man playing here to-day, with the excep- tions of the Taul Brothers. In one stroke alone was he weak, the chop, and here he amazed me by the way he persisted in trying to beat Flacher with this shot though time and again such an
times 'going against, till 8-8. Then final Lim made the vital and break-through, and, determinedly holding his own service in the eighteenth game, went out for set and match in a great encounter, magnificently fought and magni- ficently won.
attempt ended disastrously for RAZACK BEATS
him, or at least made things un- necessarily difficult. About the middle part of the game Fincher earned deserved applause by the manner in which he showed his younger opponent "how done."
it was
FINCHER DID PLAY WELL
On the other side of the net, Fincher got off to a good start. taking the first two games, but, thereafter, though occasionally leading. he was always up against; It and never at one period dictated terms. This is not to say that he was älédys on the defensive-there- were nlang periods during which
C. C. LUK
Good Strokes But Not Forceful.
BY TAC"
I saw enough of the match between LM.A. Razack and Luk Chun-cheang to
have my. opinion confirmed that the former is the possessor of good all-round strokes to which he does not impart enough force. He lost the first set at 2-6, but
he carried the war into the op-It was clear he had not yet struck
phdition's camp.
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form. He took the second at 6-3, and judging by the score, had something to spare.
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His backhand was, as usual working very well, but a number
Luk was not done for" yet, how- of cross-court drives from his racket found the outside of the ever, though showing signs side-Hine too regularly. His service bellows to mend.
was steady without being brilliant, sawed till 4-4 when Luk went ahead his chops have already been re-on service to lead 5-4. ferted to.
THE PLAY
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"Daily Press" Readers
The following are the Home football fixtures for the week-end with the probable winners given in capital type. Each Friday Telescore" picks the "winners for Hongkong followers of this great winter game, the forecast for to-morrow being as follows:-
FIRST DIVISION
ARSENAL Aston Villa BLACKPOOL Brentford DERBY CO. EVERTON
GRIMSEY T.
HUDDYSFIELD
PORTSMOUTH
Bünderland
WOLVES
T.
Middlesbro Preston N.E Liverpool Leicester C. Leeds U.
Stoke C Bolton W.
Manchester U.
Birminghamh Charlton A. Chelsea
SECOND DIVISIÓN
BLACKBURN R.
Bradford
Etury
CHESTERFIELD
FULHAM
MANCHESTER Ó. Millwall
SHETIELD W SWANSEA T.
W. Brom. A;
Coventry C.
Plymouth A.
Tottenh'm H
Norwich C
Notta P NEWCASTLE U.
Luton T.
S'thampton
Burriley
Aberfeld U.
THIRD DIVISION (NORTH)
Barrow
TRANMERE k
of
Games see-
West Harn U.
CARLISLE U. CREVE A
New Brighton ·
V
Darilngton DONCASTER R. Gateshead
Y
HALIFAX T.
Bradford C.
BARNSLEY
HARTLEPLA U.
ROTHERHAM U.
SOUTHPORT
WREXHAM
The IR.C.' player held his own service to level up, broke through the next, and again held his own for game, set and match.
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Lim pulled Fincher back from his 2-love lead to 2-2 and then it be- The scores were a good indica- eame 3-3. Here Lim broke through tion of the respective merits of the service and held his own in the players. eighth to lead 5-3.
Fighting hard. Flucher got the next two games, however, and was again an lévél termik
In the
TSUI WINS EASILY
On another court, Tsui Wal-qui,
eleventh game he once again broke the holder, playing well within through service and it looked even
himself, beat Wong 8hlu-wing, B chances on his getting the set.. rather against the run of play, it clubmate by scores of 6-3, 6-2. would have been...
Wong, probably realising that he had little to lose, played a free'Į There was another keen fight for the twelfth game, and Fincher game and on occasions managed to
threw away. a gorgeous chance when he misjudged a deep"shot of Lim's and took a ball that would
otherwise have definitely gone
outside.
A GREAT CHANCE MISSED
As" things turned out, if he had left thir, bæti Kïðne, he would have won the set! ́-Pro- fiting by this let-off Lim won the next three games to gain an inestimable advantage,
When Lim ran away to a 3-1 lead In the second set, with Teddy ap parently losing grip, things looked very bad for the K.C.C. player,
hold the champion to some ex- cellent rallies,
時
SCORES
- OPEN, SINGLES
Tsul Wal-pul (holder) beat Wong Bhiu-wing 8-3, 6-2,
Lám Thiam-tet beat E. ́ OF Fincher 8-6, 10-8.
LMA Razack beat Luk Chun-cheung-2-6, 6-3, 7-5,--
OPEN DOUBLES
F. C. Nottingham and R. B. Lecky recd. w.o from LA Newnham and F. T. Baines.
ROCHDALE
York C.
Oldham A.
Lincoln C.
Hull C. Chester
Accrington 8.
Stockport Co.
Exeter C.
Cardiff C.
THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH)
ALDERSHOT
BRISTOL C.
CLAPTON O... CRYSTAL PALACE
NEWPORT CO, Northampton T. NOTTS CO.
PORT VALE
Bwukion T.
Torquay U
WATFORD
Walsall my
Ipswich T. Mansfeld 1. Q P. R. Southend U. Bristol R. BRIGHTON Bournemouth. Reading
SCOTTISH LEAGUE FIRST DIVISION
ABERDEEN-
Albion R."
Ayr U.
CRMIO
HAMILTON A
HEARTS
BANGERS ST. JOHNSTONE
ST. MIRREN,
Tird Lanark
Queen of South
Kilmarnock
· FALKIRK
Arbroath
¿Clyde siem
Raith R Queen's Park
Hibernian
Motherwell
(Luarde Tables On Back Page)
8
14
Students 14
(at Richmond} RUGBY LEAGUE
15
6 Bunslet Bramley Bradford
Huddersfield York
4 St. Helen's Rec. 3
Singles. T.ม. Tomlinson v. W. J. Howard; J. W, Leonard v. H, D. "Rum- Jaha. Open Doubles, Taul Wal- pul and Tsui Yun-pui Ramjahn and S. A. Hussain 'v.
Bidwell and Miss J. E Lam mert v. T. A. Pearce and Miss D. Dodwell,
TO-MORROW CRICKET.-First Division: Hong- kong C.C. v, -0.0.0); Club de Recreto v. Royal Navy: Second Division:
o, a av. Hong- kòng C. C.; Indian R. C. V. Kowloon C.C; 0.3.0.0, V. Club de Recreio University v. Army,
FOOTBALL-Malays Chinese
South China"
(Caroline Hill), 4 p.n.
A.A.
ADVERTISEMENTS
THE MACAO JOCKEY CLUB.
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The April Race Meeting will
Paul Kong and B. Szeto Club be held at Areia Preta, Macao, Championship, H. J. Armstrong on Sunday, 2nd April, 1939,
V. Lt. J. S. Theobald. Handi- commencing at 2.15 p.m. cap Singles, E, E Story V. A
The first bell will be rung at
C. Beck. Handicap Doubles. Major F. C. Nottingham and 1.15 p.m. Capt. R. E. Lecky v B OM Deane and H Van Leeuwen. Handicap Mixed Doubles, W. Sander and Miss A Tylor v. J. J. and Mrs. Ferguson; H. D.
By order,
"S. W. CHENG,
Secretary. 261
The Shekorespondent
sleek individual who never has any trouble over
Beer because he mere on H.B, but ice must
buble over other