THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY,
ENGLAND ENJOYS
ENJOYS TWO DAYS
MRS. MOODY'S SUCCESSOR
MISS ROUND'S CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT
WINS WIMBLEDON IN FACE OF AMERICAN OPPOSITION
CAREER OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER FROM DUDLEY
Playing a brand of tennis far above anything else she had displayed in the earlier matches. Miss Dorothy Edith Round, the Sunday School teacher from Dudley, won the Wimbledon women's singles championship on Saturday, when she beat Miss Helen Jacobs, world's rank- ing No. 1 player in three sets.
Miss Jacobs' speedy chopped forehand drives held no terrors for the English girl, who res. ponded with drives so accurate. ly placed, that the chalk from the side lines was continually being raised.
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Miss Round employed a wider range of strokes than her ponent, and employed them more effectively. In the final set she mixed volleys, halt volleys, kills, drives and drop shota masterly style.
LOST COURAGE.
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Had her courage not temporarily forsaken her, Miss Round would. have probably won in straight seta, She literally walked away with the first, but was trailing 3-5 in the second, when, as a result of a series of brilliant shots, she drew lovel.
She had then gained an enorm- ous moral ascendancy, but refused to make the most of it, and reject- ing tacties which would have nl- most bound to bring their reward, attempted to play for safety; this] allowed Miss Jacobs to level up.
1934 CHAMPIONSHIP HONOURS ROLL.
MEN'S SINGLES.
Winner: FJ. Perry (Bri
toin)
Runner-up: J.H. Crawford (Australia)
WOMEN'S SINGLES.
Winner:--Miss 15. E. Itound
(Britain)
Runner-up:---Miss
cubs (U.S.A.)
MEN'S DOUBLES.
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Winners:-G.M. Lett & L
Stoefen (U.S.A.)
Runners-Up:
Borotra &
J. Brugnon (France)
WOMEN'S DOUBLES, Winners:-Mdme. Mathieu
& Miss Ryan.
Runners-up:-Mrs, Andrus
& Mlle. Henrotin.
· MIXED DOUBLES. Winners:-K. Miki & Miss D. Round.
Runners-Up:--H.W. Austin
& Mrs. Shepherd-Barron.
MISS DOROTHY ROUND, WIMBLEDON'S NEW LADY CHAMPION.
Road Race Track for England
SCHEME FOR CIRCUIT IN MIDLANDS
pro
flowe's
BANTAMWEIGHT TITLE CHANGES HANDS
Escobar's Victory Over Casanova
Montreal, June 27. Sixto Escobar (Porto Rico), yos- terday
srom the world bantam
his Full scale motor-car road racing weight crown knocking out is at last to be introduced in Eng-opponent the Mexican boxer, land. The scheme to build a road Rodolfo Casanova, defending the circuit at Gopaall Park. near title in the Sth round of a 15 round Leicester, has been carried a stage further
by a meeting held there bout, held last night at Montreal. between promoters of the scheme,
Though Camundra (weight 117% But in the third set there was
rominent motor manufacturers only one player in it. Miss
and other Interested, and it now lbs.) was generally considered to Jacobs faced a withering on-
seems probable that the necessary have better chances than his slaught of attacking stroken to
court championship in 1932, when financial support for the building Porto-Rican adversary (1164 lbs.) which she could not adequately she lost to fulame Mathieu, of the circult will be secured. the betting odds being 85 in his respond. During this period Miss Round played the tennis of Like Fred Perry, she attained her!
Copsali Park was originally favour, Escobar church himself a estate serious opponent from the first that greatest run of successes in 1933. Earl
family her life, exceeding even splendid form whe showed She then carried off the women's though it is not now owned by him round. against Mea. Helen Wills-Moody singles and doubles hardcourt the Advisory Racing Committee fought, the Mexican began show and Earl Howe is Chairman of After the first few rounds were in the final last year.
championships of Britain, beating on
appointed
for arranging the racing signs of grogginess, vainly try ---England thus won the two major Madame Mathieu in the semi-final fig elreuit. Other members-ofing to check the battering attacks Wimbledon titles for the first time and Miss Helen Jacobs in the this committee are Mr. Woolf since 1999. It was also the first final.
Barnato, Sir Malcolm Campbell, of his opponent. English success -lu the women's
the Hon. Brian Lewis, Mr. S. C. H. At the sound of the gong an- championship since 1926.
In the same year she reached Davis, and Flight Lieutenant C. Snouncing the ninth round of the battle, Escobar still seemed fresh the final at Wimbledon, and had Staniland.
and completely out-fought thu the distinction of being the first They have recommended that Mexican by a series of flushing a set off Mrs. there should be two international rights and lefts, which he ended player to take Helen Will-Moody, Miss Round ear race meetings yourly.
up by connecting a K.O. blow, was within two points of heating lnternational motorcycle meeting, sending his opponent down for the Mrx. Moody, and gave the and six meetings organised by count and winning the world ban
recognised motor-car and motor-tamweight title. American the greatest game of cycle clubs.. her life.
MISS ROUND'S CAREER.
Miss Round's achievement puts the hall mark on a brilliant careur. By Interesting, coincidence Bliss! Round was born only a few days after Miss D. Boothby had won the
RESULTS OF ALL THE FINALS.
The following were the scores, as cabled by Reuter, in the five Wimbledon finals.
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MEN'S SINGLES. ·
F.J. Perry béat J. Crawford 6-3, 6-0, 7-5.
WOMEN'S SINGLES. Miss D. E. Round bent Miss
II. Jacoby 6-2, 5-7, 6-3.
MEN'S DOUBLES
G. M. Lott and L. Staefen bent J. Borotra and J. Brugnon, G-2, 6-3, 6-4.
WOMEN'S DOUBLES. Madame Mathieu and Miss Ryan beat Mr. Andrus and Mlle. Henrotin 6-3, 6-3.
MIXED DOUBLES.
R. Miki and Mins D. Round bent H. W. Austin and Mrs. Shepherd.Barron 3-6, 6-4, 6-0.
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JULY 9, 1934.
OF SPORTS TRIUMPHS
"B" DIVISION GAME. POSTPONED.
WET, CONDITIONS PREVENT
PLAY AT CR.C.
Just before going to press it was learned that the "B" Division match between the Chinese Recreation Club and Kowloon Cricket Club and ngain been postponed Ол account of the wet conditions..
It was also revealed this morning that the K.C.C., would have been without the services of R. B. Lewis, who is suffer- ing from a chill.
"It is expected that the match will be played next Tuesday week.
TO-DAY'S LEAGUE
TENNIS
INTERESTING GAMES IN “C” DIVISION
(By “Varitas”).
OLD TRAFFORD GOES DRY! DRY!
AND ENGLAND COMPILES A RECORD SCORE
TWENTY NINE YEAR-OLD FIGURES GO BY THE BOARD
HOME COUNTRY CANNOT LOSE: TO-DAY'S DUEL
THE
HE only interesting AND any who have felt that issue in the third Test not all that it was made out to be. England's batting strength us match now is whether Aus- can regard the fact that seven out of tralia can stave off defeat. eleven batsmen scored 620 runs between them, and then,ponder some more.
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ENGLISHMEN can sit
back in their Berke-ENGLAND took ten hours to com- ley's and with a self-satis- pile 627 runs, an average of a run a minute for the whole period. fied air watch Australia Good going that especially when struggle to avoid defeat. one recalls that distressing period on Friday afternoon betwen timin and tea.
FOR all practical purposes Eng- land cannot be beaten, An If the rain keeps off and unusual position for the close of, allows of play, there should be the second day of a Test match. some especially tennis in the "C" Division of
interesting
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THE Australian bowling averages”.
offer some absorbing contraste, They reveal that at no stage did Wall's expresses hold any terrors. but that both Grimmett
and N Saturday the Old Trafford O'Reilly commanded the league this afternoon. 10N
certain wicket behaved like a The amended programme pro-trained schoolboy at his first Clarrie actually had 20 "maldens" well amount of respect. The inimitable vides for the meeting between
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Recreio and Chinese Recreation Party It refused to take all the in 67 complete overs. O'Reilly, Club at Causeway Bay, and the Grimmett and O'Reilly, so that all nine of them without having a run tempting things put down by bowling two more overs, sent down V of the Contral Association, now occupying third left for the hosts.
the "goodies" of the party were acored.
Britlah
position in the table, to Craigen-) gower, who have yet to taste the bitterness of defent.
cause
.
game a dead certainty.
YET taking into consideration
O'Reilly's astonishing spell
on Friday, when he took three wickets in four balls, hia finel figures of 7 for 189 are not terri. fically Impressive. It
mengs that his other three wickets cost over 180 runs,
AT
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T various times and in various places we have heard a lot about the six-ball and eight-ball over. England has stuck to the former: Australin has adopted the latter. But G. O. Allen must have established's new record in arat class cricket in his first over on Saturday. It contained thirteen deliveries, three of which were wides and two no-balls.
AND unless Manchester has shed South China, who will
its customary tears over the chief anxiety to the C.R.C. in their week-end, the wicket promises to quest for the title, are at Civil remain just as flawless for to-day, Service and the result Is a Tore- which indicates a useful reply by gone conclusion.
Australia and the saving
of the Craigentower will not have to take things lightly against the Central British, who have now two
OTS of things really good pairs, and the third of happened at average atrength, Last season the Old Trafford on the wooden-spoon: now they are get rid of a few C.BA. were struggling to avold Saturday. Lat'
challenge to confidently issuing
Agures first. Eng
of the leaders. The personnel of the land's score team la but slightly changed, so 627 for 9 declared that if an argument is needed to was the highest prove the value of experience and ever made on this
it is ready hard practice, here
Kround by any made.
team in any Test, I recollect a similar experience As a matter
hurt down thirteen successive. by the Y.M.CA. during the Inst fact it was the BoaЯon they competed in the
deliveries at one strebeh is somo- second highest league, and Cralgengower can aggregate compiled by England thing worth putting in the Blue juvenation. Last year it was the the series, and the biggest ever point to a somewhat identical re-against Australia in the whole of Book. Kowloon Indian Tennis Club. The on English soll.
cables make no comment on happiest feature of league tennis
-it but it suggests-n-frightful-
Brown,
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FOR a fast bowler voluntarily to
THE
is the encouraging progress made.
ed the total in England, was trying to follow the example by teams who enter as "babes and AUSTRALIA have twice exceed-attack of nerves. Unless atten Sucklings" and develop into cham- Their 1930 record at Lord's of 720 of Larwood and Tate, and make pionship challengers.
for 6 declared still stands unassail-his first over the fastest. ed, and behind this is their 1930
"E" DIVISION came. The C.R.C. are scheduled to
stage two home games to-day. The "B" Division outfit have arranged. to play off their postponed tle with the K.C.C.
In the team which did service against the Graduates last Thurs- day, the Kowloon Cricket Club
addition to the side. Anyhow the
The aim of the promoters of the Later in the year she went scheme is to provide in England the Le Mans 24 hours' race; and have probably found their strong- acros to America and took part motor-car racing of the kind that, to encourage the sport of.motor est six.. Fred Zimmern is a useful
at present, it is possible to ace only racing. in Wightman Cup matches and,the abread, or in Ulster or the Isle of American championship. In the Man; to establish a testing circuit The circuit would be between former she suffered defeat at the for manufacturers and also for four and five miles in length, and hands of Miss Helen Jacobs, but those who are taking part in im- would provide a straight of about beat Miss Sarah Palfrey. She portant foreign contests, such as a mile," renched the semi-final of the ladles) singles championship, being beaten
by. Miss Jacobs, the ultimate win-
ner.
GREAT DAY'S WORK.
Defents by Miss Helen Jacobs and Miss Sarah Palfrey
in the Wightman Cup, somewhat lowered Miss Round's stock just before) Wimbledon. She previously re- tained the hardcourt title, but only after an indifferent display in the course of which Misa Scriven her final opponent led 6-2 in the third set, and had six match points.
Wimbledon “Aces" And. "Volleys"
MISS ROUND. SOBS AFTER · MAKING
THE WINNING SHOT,
NGLAND'S resistance to foreign THEIR Majesties the King and
invaaton this year at Wimble don was the most successful since 1926, when two of the titles were won by English players,
Throughout Wimbledon, how- over, she showed that she was playing well within herself, and Ts year although Miss Jacobs was favour-
Queen were keenly interested spectators on Saturday, and before the end received Miss Round and Fred Perry the new champions in the Royal box.
English exponents won the two singles titles, D Ite for the title in view of a series and three English players were
DOROTHY Round's father, who watched her beat Miss Jacobs, of dashing wins, Ming Hound's concerned in the mixed doubles afterwards averred that he would
this marking the last occasion for prising. 26 years of English victories in both the men's Aingles.
and
women's
WAA
too nerve-racking", he
plained.
their
aggregate at the Oval of 695. BUT the chief point of interest
in that interval of play between
-
BUT Old Trafford has never tea and the close was the fact that. before conceived it possib- the England attack was just na le to go beyond the 100 mark completely collared as had been for a single innings. England's the Australian only just pre- 446 in 1905 when they won bylviously. an innings was the previous best total, followed by Austra-NEITHER Clark, Allen, Hopwood, lia's 412 In 1896, when the Verity, Wyatt, Leyland nor Aussies won.
Hammond could im- make any
That
A
team remains unchanged for to-TT is not because the Old Trafford pression. day, and it should be capable of wicket is devold of runs or be- is if they were all giving the Chinese a good run for cause previous batting sides have tried, and it la to
points.
been weak that aggregatea hereto be presumed they The visitors will line up as fel- fore have been comparatively were, ns Walters lows: G. C. Burnett und R. B. small. Ratu had always been the was criticised in Lowis, 3. A. Gray and L. Oppen-bugbear. It has been the cause of the first Test for heim, C. I. Stapleton and F. Zim- no lean than eight drawn Test over-working his
matches out of a total of 13.
fast bowlers, and
It is
mern.
The complete programme for this afternoon is:
"C" DIVISION. A.T.C. v K.C.C. II.K.U.T.C. v D.K. CRC. v Recreio
I.R.C. v K.D.R.C. P.R.C. v K.B.G.C.
·C.C.C. v €.B.A. 6.5.C.C. v S.C.A.A.
・FLOURISHING
London.
►
fairly
that
IT is a little difficult to compre certain
hend that out of all the Tests Wyatt did not err played at Manchester since 1884, in the same way. Lonly five have had definite results;
England having woo Australia two.
three
McCabe.
Brown and TE hatting of and McCabe was tip top.
Both scored at a reasonable rate without
THEY say that the "glorious un-taking the slightest risks, and certainties make nothing a despite the fact that Ponaford, had einch in cricket, but one can easily left at 34, following Hendren's name two certainties for the re-brilliant catch, maining Test encounters. They
not the GREYHOUND BREEDING endren. No two players hive
are Maurice Leyland and Patay AND to-day, whether or
match, restarts with a drawn ever more definitely batted them-result inevitable (and this conten- selves into
tion one naturally refuses to Test fear 4.
admit), there will be plenty to Interest and maybe to thrill in the Wimbledon aingles for England, success was not altogether surnal, with an English representa-not go through the same experi
LEYLAND, with
duel between the English attack tive finally during as winner. ence for a thousand pounds. "It The greyhound breeding in-i a glorious in-
and the Australian batsmen. of
158, ex-dustry is Row estimated to. bu nings The English pinyer rounded off a
worth close an £500,000 a
year. practically with
SWIMMING RECORD. great day's work by capturing the FOUR titles again
Figures for January-April 1934, out blemish, and Miss Round obtained her caunty They easily beat II. W. Austin and women's doubles. Inst year three time, and certainly, the greatest creased buying of dogs for track going all in Aur mixed doubles title with R. Miki and Miss E. Ryan retaining tMISS Elizabeth Ryan, one of the supplied by the National Grey started at a time
Jack Medica Sets New greatest women players of all bound Racing Club, show an in- when things were coloura in 1927. and she
Mark For A Mile. frst Mrs. D. G. Shepherd-Barron, the new title holders were proclaimed. doubles exponent among played in international matches in latter being the weakest player on In 1931 every title changed hands.
tralia's this
favour
Chicago, July 7, the racing in period 1,011 new roglatered Kentler sex, made her 28th app 1929, when she represented Eng-the court.
During
Jack. Medica, of Washington Univer- sity, who has been smashing anco in a Wimbledon Ann! land against Scotland. She has
Mias Round thus completely. EARS of relief and joy sprang she
In nuw greyhoundo for racing upon
rest century since played for England to the
alwmming record after another dur- doubles. Thoir
Hendron
ing the past year, broke the world's Wightman Cup, and international emulated the example set by Mra, to Miss Dorothy Round's eyes the Partnered Madamo Matkice owners were registered and 2,604 second success
tracks licensed by the Club. Last While auccess
record for the one mile free styla by matches against Germany and Godfree in 1936, when that great after winning the point which against the French pair, Mr. year, for the same period, the rubbed it into the
player won both the vomen's save her the match against Miss Andrus and Mile. Henrotin also heures were:-Now owners, 667: Grimmett O'Reilly-Wall-Darling-registering 20 mlan, 57 4/5 Bocs. It singles and mixed doubles titles. Jacobs, and she left the court signalled Mias Ryan's thirteenth new greyhounds, 2,216.
Chipperfield trundling brigade the National Amateur Champion Her first big achievement in Miss Itound's victory in the mixed with a comforting arm around her victory In a Wimbledon champion The duty of 40 per cent, placed with his third century against the The new mark boats Arna · Borg'i championship play was to reach doubles is the first no English opponent, but at the same time ship an achlovoment which ou greyhounds coming from Iro-Australians since their landing in record of 21 mins. 8 4/6 sees, made at the final of the Bournemouth hard-jwoman has figured In since 1926. trying to stifle her own sobs. stands on its own.
land has helped breeders at home. England Inst May.
Sydney in 1929-Renter.
France.
changed lands, only Madame Mathieu
country.
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