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THE HONGKONG 4. TELEGRAPH.
ANOTHER TENNIS CLUB
FOR SHANGHAI
AMBITIOUS OBJECTS IN VIEW
KHOO HOOI-HYE TAKES OVER SECRETARSHIP
RAOUL CARNAVARRO APPOINTED
AS-INSTRUCTOR
As further evidence of the increasing popularity of tennis in Shanghai, and in response to a demand for more and better play ing facilities, still another club has been newly organised, known as the Shanghai Tennis Club, this following hard upon the inauguration of the Cathay Tennis Club. The newest club takes over the tennis grounds formerly occupied by the Chinese
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1934.
HOW SARAZEN
OVERCOMES
SAND BUNKER
A finish over which 30,00 turf fans cheered themselves hoarse is recorded here as Mrs. Dodge Sloane's High Quest barely nosed out Cavalcade, the Kentucky Derby winner, to win the historie Prakness at Baltimore, Md. Running strong in third place is Alfred Gwynne Van
derbilt's Discovery. In fourth place comes Agaarian.
National Amateur Athletic Federation, at the Pioneer Field, SOVIET'S NEW-FOUND located at the corner of Rue Chapsal and Rue Conty.
The Shanghai Tennis Club has It is not the intention to make bean formed by a group of enthu-the club an exclusive organisation, sinate whose object is purely the but merely to promote laterest in
LOVE OF GAMES
promotion of sport and sportsman-game by providing high-class Cricket, Rugby, Rowing
and
ship, and it is their hope to promote lockers. modern sanitation, international goodwill through this facilities. The membership medium. For that reason, the iterally open to all and the fees membership has been made open are reasonable, while the courts
to both Chinese and Foreigners. will be available all day and all; Aiming at the encouragement of through the year, healthy competition, the club, will!
work in close co-operation with the
AN AMBITIOUS PROGRAMME.
WELL-KNOWN OFFICIALS,
All Encouraged
London, June 20. Cricket is to be introduced into) Soviet Russia this year. Hitherto the game has been played only by Englishmen and a few of their Russian friends. Other British
National Amateur Athletic Federa- To ensure that adequate condi- ilon, the Shanghai Lawn Tennis tions are provided, the club has sports that are being encouraged Association, and other tennis invited the popular local tennis buclude Rugby football, which was eclubs, so that Shanghal may see champlon, Mr. Khoo Hoei-hye, to introduced for the first time last
ever better tennio.
be its executive secretary, while, year. Several teams nre now in the interest of beginners, ar playing the game. Rugby is pre- rangements are being made to ferred to American football,! In order to stimulate interest in sccure the professional assistance which is considered too rough and the game, the club will hold inter- Prominent local lenders, including youth.
of Mr. R. Canavarro as instructor. does not appeal to the Soviet club, inter-collegiate, inter-hong Dr. H. II. Kung, Mr. T. V. Soung, matches, invitation tournaments, Mayor Wu Te-chen, and Dr. C. T. Water-polo and rowing pre very | 535. and other competitions. It willWang, have been asked to be popular and ench elty has its also invite leading players patrons of the Club, while all the clubs as many women as men tak.
Chinese ranking from other parts of the world to
and foreigning part in the rowing players, as well as others keenlyAmerican baseball is also played. play exhibition matches here. By interested in tennis, have been in- way of improving the grounds.vited to become honorary mem-
NEW DEVELOPMENT. the club to arranging to lay out bers. six more courta, in addition to the
INTERPORT TRIALS.
events.
It is significant of the interest ton now available of which four are The following players have been city devoted entirely
taken in games that a miniature hard courts and six grass. A invited to participate in Interport being built on the
to sport is outskirts of pavilion combining comfort with tennis trials to be held on the Moscow. When finished, it will utility also will shortly be built on Sportif Francais: W. A. H. Duff, football field, a running track, S.L.T.A. court ut the Cercle consist of a stádium containing a the grounds, equipped with baths, Khoo Bool-hye, Machida, L. D. tennis courts, a swimming pool, other necessities for con-Carson, M. Benavitch, V. T. Wang, gymnasiums, library, restaurants venience of members and guests. Guy Cheng, and T. K. (Billy) Yu.and buildings to house the athletes.
the
Men who called her a pest... now fought for her favors!
Yesterday a prím, shy
teacher! Today an
beauty, free and
as the animal
she wore!
overnight that made
gentlemen
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untamed
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whose skins Transformed by the jungle ladies and
male and female!
CECIL B. De MILLE'S
FOUR
FRIGHTENED PEOPLE
A Paramount Picture
F.A.'S £1,363 CUP-TIES PROFITS
SEMI-FINALS COST £14 14s.
£149,535 ASSETS
Tottenham Hotspur's New Stand
£40,000 SCHEME IN OPERATION
London.
BLIND GOLFERS IN A MATCH
CHAUFFEUR AS
*
:
ONCE TERRIFYING
NOW HIS PET -SHOT
New York, June 19. When he's "hot," there isn't a club in the bag that Gene Sarazen doesn't take out con- fidently and play with accurate results.
The national professional chamn- plon long has been noted among fellow craftsmen as one of the fin- est long iron players in the game. Never a consistently great putter Gene helped avoid too many head- aches on the greens by the artful- ness with which he executed mashie niblick shots from the 50- to-100-yard range. His wood shots Two men Who were blinded (also are an outstanding feature during the war are to play in a of hle game. golf match-Mr. W. H. J. Oxen- Hia pet shot, however, la a semi- ham and Captain Gerald Lowry, explosion from a sand trap. Long paths in the West End of London, was commercially perfected, under both of whom practise as osteo- before the flat-faced "eand wedge"
GUIDE
A start has been made Tottenham's Hotspur'a £40,000 scheme to make their ground one the College of Osteopathy
of the most up-to-date and com- modious football grounds in the years ago. country.
.
They were fellow-students at specifications approved by the soma United States Goff association, Sa- The Football Association this
razen replaced the outlawed con- year spent £14 143 on running
Mr. Oxenham, who plays golf cave-faced niblick with a heavy the two semi-final Cup-ties. By the time next season opens regularly at West Hove, has bladed, straight-faced club of his
The matches brought in on the last Saturday in August handicap of 22.
Jown manufacture. £1,377!
there will be accommodation for The match, according to present
He worked on it for hours in The balance-sheet of the asso-75,000 spectators, of whom about arrangements, will be a foursome, the shop, meanwhile experimenting clation reveals these profits, and 60,000 will be under cover. (each of the sighticas men having daily in the sand, and finally pro- shows that the association. finlah-i Improvements are to be made ja professional as partner.
duced a weapon that gave constat. ed the last year of its working to the present stand; but the chiaf Mr. Oxenham told a reporter: jently remarkable results. He de- with accumulated nasets of £149,- work will be the erection of a new "My partner will. I expect, be veloped astounding accuracy to a doubledecker stand on the cast MacDonald Smith and Capt. point where spectators generally Amateur Cup-ties added £841 to side of the pitch, providing addi-Lowry will have a well-known hesitated to wager even money
tional accommodation the income.
for over London professional,
that Gene would not get the ball "My chauffeur, who used to act close enough to the hole, from any The final, played on the West 18,000 onlookers. Ham United ground, produced
Many years ago Tottenham as my eaddle, teed-up for me, designed banker, to get down with £533-and all the F. A. had to purchased a row of houses adjoin- gave me the direction of the hole, a single put!
Trap shots that used to give meet on the expenditure side of ing the east side of their ground, and handed me the correct club. the Amateur Cup was £18 18s, and let them at low rents.
He left my service recently, but me a fit became easy and I at- The association's share of the This generosity operated against bis auccessor in coming along very tribute a number of my tourna £20,000 gate at the F. A. Cup Final, them when they endeavoured to nicely." between Manchester City and secure possession, as alternative Portsmouth was £6.081, but the accommodation had to be provided amount spent is not disclosed.
for tenants at rents not in excesa ly, for the reason that a full ex-failure to get out of two bunkera of those they had been paying.plosion shot is more difficult to
17,831 FROM CUP ROUNDS.
ment victories to the fact I fre- quently was able to recover from the sand without losing a stroke," says Sarazen. "It is true that
The directors were faced with a gauge and control. On most shots cost me the 1983 British open title big difficulty when they decided to out of a bunker, I am not merely but that was no fault of the club was received.
From all the Cup rounds £7,831 obtain possession, but recently the attempting to get the ball out or my ability to use it. I simply International matches brought of demolition is being vigorously
last tenant went out, and the work but as close to the pin as possible. happened to get unplayable" Hes · in £20,790-the game between carried out,
"All this, of course, refers to the twice. England and Scotiand at Wembley.
play.out_of_traps bordering the "But the year before I came. To enable them to accounting for £13,384.
obtain green. If I am bunkered else out of a bunker on the home holo being demolished, the club pur-the extent of the hazard to clear putt which I got down to clinch possession of the houses which are where, the position of the ball and at Fresh Meadow with only a short chased a number of houses to determine the club I decide to use. the open championship of the, tenants displaced, an operation for clearance, I do not hesitate to "The extra weight in the sand provide accommodation for the "If it's a low trap, with room United States. which may mean a serious annual use a long iron er, on occasions, wedge helps to give better con- tenants anxious to purchase lose to the club. In other cases even a spoon. If the risk is great, trol, I play the shot off the right house were given the necessary part of valour to play primarily to slightly behind the ball. I do not however, it is always the better foot, shorten the swing and hit deposit money.
ket out of the trap."
attempt to dig into the sand heavi
shares.
Of the nominal capital of 2,000 16. shares 501 have been issued. but the balance-sheet shows that | nothing has been paid.up on those Administration coat. £16,960, with expenses attached to the running of the council accounting for the greatest sum-£3,521. Salarica, wages, and auditors, fees amounted to £2,764,
On the international match account, the game at Wembley cost the F. A. £524-less than half the total amount apent on the tour ini Italy and Switzerland.
Even that, though it cost £1,210, resulted in a net gain of £3,710.
Among the Bssets the value of the offices at Lancaster-gate, W., is written down from £15,472 to £14,698 and, after an allowance of £1,084 for office furniture, the great bulk of the remaining balance is invested in Government securities or loans. to clubs. The lattor item accounts for £14,562.
The F. A believes in having cash in big sunis at call. The cur- rent account at the bank is £14,926,
EXCHANGE RATES
Paris.
Geneva. Berlin
June 19,
June 20.
76.13/32 -76.11/32
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