THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1984.
ENGLISH TENNIS GIRLS CONTINUE TO WIN
ENTER 4TH ROUND
For National Title
MISS STAMMERS & MISS JAMES
GIVE FINE DISPLAYS
Forest Hills, Aug. 15. Miss Kathleen Stammers and Miss Freda James, the English Wightman Cup players, are
X Four competitors taking part in the U.S. Women's tennis championship at Forest illis. Miss Katherine Winthrop, who was beaten yesterday by Miu Stammors, in second from the right. The other players avo, roading from left to right:-Miss Norma Taubels. Mine Jane Sharp and Miss Floròncă LaBoutillier.
still going strong in the Ameri: ENGLAND WINS TENNIS
can women's national singles tennis championship.
To-day both survived third round engagements without being the slightest bit extended.
Miss Stammers met a doughty tournament player in Miss Katherine Winthrop, but the English girl, touching best form, romped nwny with the match, winning in atraight sets and conceding only three games, all in the first sel.
EXCELLENT ACHIEVEMENT. This was indeed an excellent achievement and hus considerably lifted Misa Staminers' atock. Misk Winthrop has played with signal Jucess this summer. She finished runner-up to Miss Jano Sharp in both the Mason and Dixon and the Hot Springs singles champion. ships, while at the former meeting she was also runner-up in the indies doubles and won this event
at Hot Springs.
Miss Freda James met Mias Hunt of Los Angeles and won very confortably without being extend od to the third set. The manner of her victory impressed very much.
On the other hand Miss Helen Jacobs, reigning champion, was sent the whole distance by Mrs. Harris, another prominent tour nament player, and actually lost
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CONTEST EASILY
JAPANESE PROVIDE OPPOSITION: KEEN DOUBLES MATCH
PERRY AND HUGHES IN CONTRARY MOOD AT EASTBOURNE
Britain beat Japan in an in- ternational tennis match · at Eastbourne last month by five matches to nil. The encounter wan run on Davis Cup lines, and on the first day Perry beat Fujikura and Austin outplayed Yamagishi.
The doubles between Perry and Hughes and Yamagishi and Nishi- mura was a five sets affair, from which the Englishmen were - a trifle fortunate to emerge success ful. Their play was not in the least bit impressive..
as follows
The game is described in the Morning Post S
Eastbourne, July 20.. Great Britain duly won the dou bles this afternoon, Perry and Hughes beating J. Yamagishi and H. Nishimura to make sure of the match, but the score, 1-6, 3-6, 6-4, 8-6, 7-5, was hardly encouraging from the point of view of the Davis the first bet.
challenge round. Cup
Actually the British pair had a Mrs. Harris was in excellent fettle during this early period and vory narrow escape indeed, The broke through to win at the machinery creaked badly in the twelfth game. But the effort opening play, Hughes losing his proved her undoing and she failed service Rame twice in the first sot, to withstand a withoring attack of and Perry often failing to come chop-strokes and volleys from the to the help of a partner who could holder, who went away with the not get going. Japan, on the next two sets with the less of five other hand, sometimes rose to great holghts, the scaling feat
.kamer.
MISS JACOBS WEARS
SPIKED SHOES.
According to a Router message, Miss Jacobs was permitted to wear spiked shoes for the first time in the history of the championships because of the very slippery state of the court.
She expressed fear of injuring her left ankle which was in band nges owing to neuritis.
The results as cabled by Reuter were:
Miss K. Stammers (Britain) beat Miss K. Winthrop (U.S.) 6-3, 6-0.
Misa F. James (Britain) beat Miss Hunt (U.S.) 6-2, 6-4.
Ming H. Jacobs (US) beat Mrs. Harris (U.S.) 6-7, 6-2, 6-3,
FLIES CARRY DISEASE!
FLIT
kills them
at the
YELLOW
occurring whenever Yamagishi
could avoid the commission of errors, for Nishimura's game com- bined brilliance with judgment to an unusual degree. His backhand stop volleying in the lefthand court played the dickens with the attempts by Perry and Hughes to storm the net, and he also had at his command a streaking straight forehand pass.
ARMY TENNIS
TITLE
Licut. Tuckey Wins
Fourth Time
BRADMAN BACK AGAIN
HIS FIRST GAME SINCE LEEDS
SMITES THE ARMY ATTACK
London, Aug. 16. ...Don Bradman returned to the cricket field to-day, his appear ance against the Army at Alder shot marking his first outing since his injury in the fourth Test match at Leeds.
He was in fine fettle and rattled up 74 in no time, en- abling the Australiens to beat the Army by six wickets in a one-day match.
The Australians batted on after. scoring the necessary runs to win, and falshed up with 194 runs on the board for the loss of seven wickets.
The Army, batting first, could make no headway against the com- bined onslaught of O'Reilly and Bromley. The former took 3 for 17 and his colleague for 21. The Army were all out for 110 Renter
ARMY ATHLETES
Records Equalled And Broken
The concluding portion of the Army Unit Team championships was decided on the Command Central ground.
The Army Sport Control Board challenge shield was won by the 1st Bn. Oxfordshire and Bucking- hamshire Light Infantry with a total of 129 points at Aldershot with the Training. Bn. Royal Engineers only seven points be- hind, while the 1st Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers, last year's winners, were third with 111 points.
The finish of the 220 yards at White City, in which the Cam- bridge University man, E. 1. 'Davis, was lucky to get tha vardiel from R. J. Kana (Cornell) for they seem to be brassting the tape together.
BONTHRON &
IN U. S.
DETROIT DEFEATED
END TO BIG RUN OF SUCCESS
YANKEES CAUSE AN UPSET
New York, Aug. 15. ́Detroit Tigers' phenomenal run of success in the American League came to an end to-day when they were beaten New York Yankees.
ten by the
Rain upset some more matches,: but Chicago and Philadelphia Athletics in the American League › played a
In double header which saw the Athletle win
win twice, while Brooklyn Dodgers and Cincinnati Reds shared honours in a
a double header in the National programme. Another defent was sustained by the Giants, who were nosed out by Pittsburgh Pirates in the second game of a double heador. Albeit the New York team won the first game.
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Scores, as cabled by Renter, follow:
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Brooklyn Cincinnati
LOVELOCK Brooklyn
IN RACE FIASCO
WORLD'S LEADING MILE RUNNERS
JUST JOG ROUND TRACK
CROWD BORED BY PERFORMANCE IN
INTER-VARSITIES MEET
That what should have been the greatest mile race on record ended by being a miserable farce is revealed by Guy M. Butler in his description in the Morning Post of the meeting between J. E. Lovelock and Bonthron, the American record smasher, in the annual Oxford and Cambridge v Princetown and Cornell Varsity athletic, meeting last month,
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Lt. C. R. D. Tuckey. (RE.) won the Army Singles for the fourth consecutive year, at Aldershot, ไป the first event Grenadier last month. He also retained the Guards high jump pair, L.-Cpl. Smith and L.-Cpl. Howlett, broke Inter-Regimental. Doubles Cham-
record the
with 6ft. 0 in., pionship for the Royal Engineers Smith's contribution being bit. in. when, In partnership with Captain Two other records were equalled, G. S. Hatton, he bent Lt. H. Hot by the Lancashire Fusillers with Mr. Butler, writes as follows, fairly briskly, but Bonthron, with and Lt. R. Kirwan, of the Royal Imin, 1 9-10 sec, in the half-mile concerning the race, which Love-Lovelock at his shoulders, follow- ed in a more leisurely manner, Artillery.
relay, and by the Training Bn. R. lock won in poor timo. Singles Championship.-L. C. Engineers with 8min. 9 3-5vec, in The second race on the pro- the first lap being covered by R. D. Tuckey (holder) beat Capt. the two miles relay. The quartet gramma was the mile, which has them both in 63 secs, and the Washington match to be post-
who won the half-mile for the aroused, I suppose, more Interest half-mile in 2min. 7sec. Lancashire Fusiliers turned out and debate than any athletic event
J. Clynion Reed, 6-4; 6-2, 6-3.
result was a win for Jack Love- Half-way round the third lap,
(Williams homered) Detroit Now York
(Crosetti homered)
St. Louis Boston
6 13 Rain caused the Clevoland
poned.
pionship. Capt. G. S. Hatton and
Inter-Regimental Doubles Cham-again and won the 440 yards relay., in England since the War The LOVELOCK FORCED INTO LEAD. Lt. C. R. D. Tuckey (RE.) (holders) bent Lt. H. Horne and Lt. R. Kirwan (R.A.), 6-4, 6-3, 12-10.
lock, but I am sorry to any that Bonthron slowed down to such an New World's
announced.
the fact of his success was the extent that Lovelock simply had only thing about it that pleased to go into the lead. A dangerous
me.
thing to de, this, I should have Record Twice
In One Week
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INTERPORT POLO
Trial Match Arranged
I had expected what I may call a thought, with such a runner as the Inter-Unit Singles Champion
For August 25 "virile race" Bonthron going out Dark Blue, who is notorious for ship (for W.0.8 and N.C.0.8). Sergt. Shardlow (R. Sigg) beat
with his second string from the his fast last lap. As it was. the lead and S.-Sgt. Warr (R.E.), 8-6, 6-2.
Instead of Friday, August 17, and gun, making the pace a hot one, Lovelook took Friday, August 24, which are the tronting every post as a winning never lost it, though Bonthron, "Other Ranke" Doubles.--Sergt.sual days, polo at Causeway Bay post. As it turned out, the speed having allowed him to get ton Shardlow and Q. M. S. Hobba beati be played on Saturday, August from the start, though not nearly yards ahead in the course of the S. M. Atkinson and Sorgt Knight, and Saturday, August 25, it is so. alow ny the ridiculous one in last 300 yds., Anished a couple of 7-5, 6-1, 6-0.
Information has just been received the A.A.A. Championships, was foot only behind him. I cannot in the Colony that an Interport trial obviously not going to be worthy agree with those who say that it match will be played on Saturday, of these two great runners. The was an inchos Anish. Lovelock's time was 4 min. 15 2-58cc, His two second strings went August 26.
laps were as follows: First 63.2300 second 63.6sec,, third 668CC., fourth 62,680c., with which may be compared his last year's figures at Princeton Stadium: First, G1.480c,, second 62.28cc. third 66.180c.. fourth 68.9soc.. giving in all 4min, 7.0sec.
"Plate" Singles.Lt. J. Iudson beat LL H. Walters, 6-1, 6-2.
AWAY
Had Nishimura not become.in CHANNEL SWIMMERS NOW MASSING
creasingly and obviously worried by his partner's erratic play and been lured into, the natural mistake of attempting too much at a crisis Japan would probably have won. a point for 3-1 in the They had third set, match points in the tenth and twelfth games fourth set, and a 3-love lend in the final set, with Nishimura's service to conie.
of the
Great Britain broke through the nine times to Japan's eight,
service
and the service game losers record
2.
HUGHES UNCERTAIN.
Bot
the
ASPIRANTS IN TRAINING FOR THE GOLD CUP
FOR ENGLAND-FRANCE SWIM
London, Aug. 14.
The hardy annual channel swimming season is here again. precaution that her swim shall be Any day now some brawny man, or muscular woman--for some officially attested. reason or other all channel swimmers are in the 209 pound class- splashes into the water and strikes out for the ather coast twenty miles away.
GOLD CUP AWARD.
It
OTHER COMPETITORS·
WHY THEY FAIL.
because of the flood tide at Cap Gris
Nez which flows in an easterly direc
POLISH WOMAN'S
PERFORMANCE
Brussels, Aug. 15, Mille.. Wajsowna, the Polish woman athlete, has broken' a world's record. for discus throwing twice within a week, To-day in the Women's Interna- tional Athletic meeting, shoes- throw tablished new figures by a
арргох of 44.195 metres, which Imately 144 feet 11 inches.
This surpasses, her brilliant world's record throw of 148 feet
So it was that this race, which inches at the World Games held might have gone down in in London Inst week.-Router. athletic history as one of the greatest over seen in this country fizzled out into another miserable waiting race. Even though, the final time was Amin. labec. odd, there is no getting away from it, that it was no real test of the abilities of these i two runners over a one mile race, and that is, what most of u wanted to see.
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As the recorda indicate it is canler is of interest. First set: Hughes 2, Nishimura 1: second
Aspirants to channel hononta Ho failed in his swim from Dover to swim from France to England than Hughes 1. Perry 2. Nishimura
assemble at Dover, the recognised Inst year, but, having gained more from England to Franco. This is third set: Nishimura swimming-cft point on this side of the knowledge of the currenta on the 1 fourth set: Hughes 1, Yamagishi water. They are like a lot of old French coast, he hopes to be success Perry 1. Nishimura 1; fifth set: friends remeeting on a summer vacпful after intensive training at Dover,
tlon for nearly eight hours. It brings. Yamagishi 1, Perry 1, Nishimura tion. All of them have tried! on more than one previous occasion, BOMO
the swimmer very nearly to the A matter of fact. I think successfully, yet every year they turn up, hoping to knock hours or Adrian Charles Kanaar, 23, a western end of the South Goodwin without doubt that Bonthron was minutes off their previous time. medical student at St. Bartholomew's Sands, Black water follows, and then very definitely off form, probably Hughes was very uncertain over must be a fascinating hobby this hospital, London, who two years back comes the cbb tido, which runs down stale after his tremendous running head until the last set and Nishi-channel swimming!
Just falled in his first attempt to Channel, but for a much shortor in the States. I hear from his mura and Yamagishi played main
swim from Cap Gris Nez to over, period, often less than three hours. coach that he has been out in com petition practically the whole year with Food
reaulte
giving up when 11⁄2 miles off Dover, and Miss Mercedes, Gleitz, who, in From the English side, it is this round, including the winte`on Always Good Dancing on to him
from Japan's point of view. Every Thero is Edward H. Temme, the 1927, swam from Franco to England, very flood tide with which the swim-Indoor tracks. Be that as it hay, now and thon the English pair
London Insurance clerk, who swam but who fallod twice last year in the stablished the net position ind
style,
from the French side in August, 1027, reverse direction, are also probablemer has to contend, usually, at the he made exactly the same mistake and when they did in 14 hours 20 minutes. He intends compotitors for the gold cup." end of the swim when he or she is in the Half-milo later on in the their barrier of volleys was good to make an attempt to get
afternoon, J. C. Stating the last beginning to tiro. Miss Jolly Prockter, 17-year-old
ho has been during enough to beat down the Japanese from the Engilah sido and win the
In 1876 when the lato Captain | two months, was allowed an aBBY driving namault, but when Yama- Dover Corporation, golf cup, to be Ramirgate girl, is to make her first rishi found a lobbing length their awarded to the swimmer who swimsa attempt from Cap Gris Nez. Her chief Bratthew Webb became the first man first lap of just insido a minute, methods of reconstructing the from Dover to the French coast in the object is to beat the record set up to swins the Channel from the Eng and then presented with a lead by the Amorlean girl, Miss Gertrudo
which Bonthron, try though he did Ederle In 1920, of 14 hours 81 linh aide, he battled for six or seven
most gallantly.
could
not al- Porry could have shortened the who has had two practiso swims in Prockter covered nearly nine miles in coast. Since then the Channel has American's obvious tactics
Dr. George B. Brewster, of London, minutes. In a recent trial swim, Miss hours with the tide off the French together make match considerably by imposing Dover Harbour this year, also intende four hours.
only twice been conquered from the
Mr. & Mrs. Y. Mori his volloying on the Japanese at- to make a bid for the cup,
B English alde by Thomas Burgess, in in, this race, as in the Mile, were tampt to cow Hughes. As things his next attempt, however, ho will Miss Sunny Lowry, the Manchester 1911, in 22 hours 36 minutes, and by to go right through from the
the tape at a steady hot Acupunctu, Moxockusis and Bene
A MASSAGE. tively oxtraneous circumstances dietance of 20 miles. The doctor has Channel: swimmer last year, but in 20 hours 60 minutes.
that his staleness took the form Hongkong Government Acences: Cares such as a replayed point, doubtful made ten succesul attempts to whose feat has not been recognised by the Channel Swimming Associa- line: decision, and Nishimura's swim the Channel.
tion because none of its officials were was set up last your Terme, Mil of not being able to "hold the Sprained Ankler and Wrist Become aforesaid exaggerated conselen-. Another London aspirant is Fre-aboard her boat, is at Gap Gris Nex. ton, Charlos Zimmy Zibelman, the Balt." In other words, he couldmanded for many years by Locat tiouanoas formed the bridge for Foscaping from the bog in which/derlek G. M. Milton, a traveller for a Sho intends at the first favourablo | legless American, Kansar, Captain | vprint at the Anish, but he could, Hospitals and; Doctor Fron
lager brewery, who is recognised. as opportunity again to swim from the George Morris and Bliss Giolize all not maintain a steady stride of WiWyndham Bhedet. (ins f66) they nearly, Bank.
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