THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 77
1934.
ANOTHER THREE STRAIGHT SETS WIN
SHEFFIELD LOSE AT HOME
MILLWALL CLIMB THE TABLE
HOME. FOOTBALL RESULTS
London, Sept. 10,
Shefeld United were given a shock to-day when, entertaining Bradford City, they lost by the odd goal in three.
Millwall advanced to the second position in the third division table with a two clear goals victory over Bournemouth at New Cross, and Cardiff regained some self-respect with a similar success against Southend,
The results were:
Hull
SECOND DIVISION.
1 Plymouth
Sheffield U. 1 Bradford C.
Brentford
Bolton
Burnley Hlackpool Filkam Port Vale Swansea
League Table.
Shefflold
Bradford
Barnsley
Plymouth
Norwich
Notts Forest
Manchester U.
Oldham
Goal
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020 7 22 7 13 Bradford C. 6 2 0 3 0 10 Notts County 51348 West Ham 4 1 0 3 7 12 Bury
4 1 0 3 3 11 Southampton 50 2 3 3 13 full. 4 0 1 3 6 10 Newcastle... 4 0 0 4 6 17
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THIRD DIVISION (SOUTI!).
Millwall Cardif -Reuter.
2 Bournemouth
0
2 Southend
1
League Table,
Goats
Winners Yesterday:--Sydney Wood and V. G. Kirby, both of whom scored victories in the US. tennis cham-
plonship yesterday.
Wickets Go Cheap At Scarborough
AUSTRALIANS COLLAPSE
London, Sept. 10.
Canters Through Quarter-Final
SENSATIONAL DEFEAT OF SHIELDS
KIRBY PLAYS CLASSICAL GAME
FOR BIG VICTORY
PARKER ELIMINATED BY S. B. WOOD.
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SEMI-FINALISTS IN U.S.
CHAMPIONSHIP
Forest Hills, Sept. 10. Vernon G, Kirby, the South African inter- national tonnis player, confounded the critics to-day by beating Frank Shields, America's! No. 1 ranking player in the quarter-final of the national singles championship, thereby joining] Fred Perry, Wilmer Allison and Sydney Wood in the semi-finals.
Perry cantered through his match with Clifford Sutter, three sets of 23 games being sufficient, and the decisive way in which he dealt with his young opponent, has sent the Englishman's stock still higher.
Wilmer Allison did not take long was the big surprise of the cham- to polish off Storfen in the single pionship. Shields quickly leapt
Hei necessary to decide the tie.into a lead of four-love in the first The Australians went to pieces to-day when they con-accuracy of Allison, and lost the back, that he had to struggle to Stoefen cracked before the severe act, yet was so effectively pulled tinued their first
innings against Leveson-Gower's XI at fifth seft at 6-2. Allison's brilli- clinch the issue at 6.4. Scarborough, losing their last five wickets for an additional 47 runs.
Their overnight score stood at 442 for 5, and they were all out for 489. Stanley MICabe hit up 124 and Chipperfield 63.
ant singles form has been one of
In the second set the American the big features of the year in again went ahead, leading three- frst class tennis.
herto be love,
but thereafter Kirby was famous for his world-henting dominated the court with his doubles partnership with Van beautifully produced service, Ryu, but he now stands as one of widely flung forehand drives and the leading singles players inscintillating placements. America.
PARKER'S BOLD DISPLAY.
By means of such tennia he took the second and third sets.
In the fourth Kirby altered his tactics with superb skill, draw- Ing Shields up to the net and out; of position with very clever drop shots. Shields was no bewlidereit by this display of versatility, that he went to plecen and monotonous- ly netted his returns.
Farnes, the Essex amateur fast bowler, bowled very well although his final figures were by no means
Frankie Parker put up a hold Battering. In the end his five display against such a seasoned wickets cost 132 runs, and he was player as Sydney Wood, and the most successful bowler. although losing in straight sets,
Leveson-Gower's
had the satisfaction of taking each team were to the advantage ganie, always in difficulties at the
Wood, who according to several wicket, and wore all out before critics is worthy of lending the atumps svere drawn for 228. national ranking list on current obtained on the gamo can be P. W. D. L. F. A. Pts. Nichols, the Essex batsman, alone | form, was made to play very hard gauged by the fact that in the faced the attack with any con- for his points. Parker maintain-ninth and deciding game of the
dence, and contributed an in- valuable 76.-Router,
ed the rallies, playing cleverly off fourth set he slammed out a love the ground, but Wood's sizzling game on service, acing Shields all backhand drives and superior the time. volleying made all the difference. Wood captured the first set at
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Coventry Millwall
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Brighton
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Chariton
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0 4 0 2 8 12
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Swindon
Southend
Aldershot
Queen's P. R.
Luton
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Northampton
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Torquay.... 5 1 0 4
Bristol R.
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Walford...
WELSH RUGBY STAR
INTERNATIONAL.
TURNS PROFESSIONAL
Swinton Rugby League Club signed Gomer Hughes, the Welsh Rugby Union and Penarth front or Recond row forward. He is 23 years old, stands 6ft. Iin, and walgha 14st, 8lb.
Last season
CUT Butter
Some Idea of the grip Kirby
HIS FINEST - DISPLAY. This ranks as Kirby's finest achievement in first class tennis. His many duels with the inte Jiro | Satoh
English in
provincial tournaments in 1933 are still fresh
Mr. C. W. Porter, shown above, the Shanghai skip in the first lawn bowls interport game against Hongkong, outplayed bis opponent, but the game was stopped before its anti- cipated conclusion by the heavy rain which flooded the greens under six inches of water. The postponement came with the score at 10 all at the tenth end. Mr. Porter and his op- posing skip Mr. U. M. Omar, vind for the final honours.
OPPOSITE:-U. M. Omar, skip of the Hongkong Lawn Bowls Interport tram, caught in the act while sending down & wood, in the friendly match which the Colony toam played against members of the Shanghai Lawn Bowl Association. The visitors won by 33 to 11 shots.
FOR PERRY
Against Sutter
DON BRADMAN'S PERFECT BATTING
AGAINST THE ARMY
PLAYS EDUCATIONAL INNINGS
IN ONE-DAY MATCH
SOLDIERS' FIELDING ATTAINS A
VERY HIGH STANDARD
SOME OUTSTANDING WICKETKEEPING
On the Officers' Club ground, Aldershot, the Australians won their one-day match against the Army, officially beating them by six wickets, though play went on after that. The Australians" final score was 194 for seven, against the 110 for which the Army had been-dismissed.----------
In the memory but in none of these did Kirby attain the same consistent brilliance as that which The ground looked delightful voluntary scoring stroke. Bryan featured his -match
against and it was a perfect day for hooked Fleetwood-Smith for 4, and Shields.
lifted him over the head of Dart- cricket. Crowds of excited Reproduction of such form,
ing, a long-on, for 6, but at 50 children and not only children- O'Reilly bowled him with a beauty either wholly or in part, against dashed hither and thither In the which pitched on the off-stump Perry in the semi-final, promises to provide one of the most spec- intervala, pursuing the Austra- and hit the leg, Bradman then tacular encounters of the current flans with autograph books and removed O'Reilly, and though hope, neither of which always the batsmen, he kept on beating Fleetwood-Smith kept on beating The full scores of the latest went away empty, and the manner the stumps and the wicket-keeper
69 cabled by Renter, in which they dealt with sergeant-ns well.
majors who tried to control them must hayo
сливес listening
Wilnier Allison
Following the meeting
Hughes played the tenth game and repeated this championship. Council of the Hongkong Hockey Ireland. Prior to joining Penarth Parker made a big effort to extend results,
of the against England, Scotland and
in the second. In the third Association at the St. Andrew's he played for two seasona Church Hall on Friday at 5.30 pm Neath.
with the match, taking his opponent to follow! there, will bo a hockey fixture meet- ing at 6.30 pm. All Club secretaries
defent. twelve games before admitting and captains are heartily invited to atlend the Intter meeting.
Swinton are also negotiating with one or two Welsh backs whomi they hope to secure.
No one will dream these are Last Summers Frocks"
WORN, PERHAPS— SHABBY, NEVER I WE DRYCLEAN
Perry's win was the most con- clusive of the whole four. Sutter did not see the way he went.. Atticking incessantly, with the minimum number of errors, Perry rocked the American's defences in the first set and sapped his resources in the aubsequont exchanges.
STRAIGHT SETS WINNER. Sutter had no adequate answer to the Englishman'a amazing fore-; court play, which saw him valley, ing winners from all angles and neatly putting anything away overhead. Perry's ground strokes too were admirabie, constantly paving the way, for his favourite position at the net.
6-8, 6-2.
V. G. Kirby (S. Africa) bent F. X. Shields (U.S.) 46, 6-4,
6-4, 6-3.
WHITCOMBE'S TITLE
Easterbrook Beaten By Two Strokes
A MODEL FOR ALL.
JASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.
GROUNDS FOR SCOTTISH INTERNATIONAL MATCHES. The Council of the Scottish Football Association lave selected venues for intern- tional matches as follows:
Scotland v. Wales, Novem. ber 21, Pittodrie Park, Aber- deen.
Scetland v England, April 6, Hampden Park, Glasgow.
Scotland. Ireland (am- ateur), April 24, throx Park,. -Glasgow
DEFEATED AGAIN
GIANTS LOST TO PIRATES
LATEST BASEBALL RESULTS
New York, Sopt. 10. Another defent awaited New York Glants when they engaged Pittsburgh Pirates to-day, avon home run hits by Mancuse, Critz and Ott Talling to avert the
Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals were also winners, while
QUARTER-FINALS.
At lunch Green and Stephenson were together, the score being F. J. Perry (Britain) beat C. privates to wonder.
Sutter (U.S.) 6-3, 6-0, 6-2.
for 5. The last 6 wickets fell for W. Allison
The cricket was always interest-41 afterwards. Stephenson, who (U.S.) beat Ling, and was played in the proper had used his feet better than most, Stoefen (U.S.) 8.6, 4-6, 11-9, spirit—not too serious yet not too was bowled round his legs by
country-house." S. B. Wood (U.S.) beat F. Parker batting lessons
There were Fleetwood-Smith, and Bromicy from Bradman accounted for Green, Foster and (U.S.) 6-4, 6-4, 7-5.
and Ponsford, one short one in Melsome, Hughes batted bravely, bowling from O'Reilly, and some till bowled by Kippax. splendid fielding and
good wicket- keeping by the Army, whose attack; was also very steady. A very)
reverse, Stephenson, fast right, and pleasant day, without sensations. Melsome, slow right leg-spinners, without eriscs, without exclusive began for the Army, to Ponsford announcements, and without "The and Darling, and did it very well, Truth" about anybody or anything. both batsmon having to go for the American League, Detroit
WHAT O'REILLY LIKES. their runs. At 15 Darling hit a Tigors bent Boston, the Athletic ·
ball from Stephenson hard into overcame the Indians and the Bradman captained the Austra-mid-off's hands and Bromley, who Senators defonted Chicago. Have, whose absenteca were Wood- followed, was caught in the gully Perry has so far gone through
full, McCabe, Grimmett, Chipper- at 32.
Results as cabled by Renter, Ponsford's batting, of
follow: the championship without losing
feld and Wall. Barnett "kept course, was a model to young and R. A. Whitcombe retained the wicket, Oldfield | a get, and hit four matches he has West of England professional golf accustomed positions at long leg kent him and Bradman within occupying un-old watchers alike, but the bowling
NATIONAL LEAGUE, only concoded 20 games, an championship when on the Burn- average of a shade over two games ham and Berrow course, he re-toss, and if the Navy had been was 46,
and mid-off, Hudson won the bounds till tea, when the score por set. He dropped eight games turned an aggregate of 143 to beat, the opponents would probably In the second round, eight in the by two strokes, Syd Easterbrook.
The bowling continued admir- third, fivo In the fourth and five:
have put them in to bat, for the ably steady afterwards and the At the end of the rat round in the fifth.
Whitcombo
shared the lend with marks made by Eboling, who open-fielding
al
brillant, whlic the bowling with Darling show- Perry now meets Kirby in the W. J. Branch, at 78, but whorens ed that despite all the efforts of neither Ponsford aor Bradman in- semi-firia). Kirby has
Whitcombe went round in 70 after- nover
sulted the spectators' intelligence beaten the Englishman in a chand wards, Branch needed 78, Whit Collins the old Kent professiond! by tying to hit over ball force Ipionship match, but it will be combo's 70, equalled by. D. J. Rees, pitch was at vet after recent fact strokes all round the wicket, la hend-groundsmaa-the Instead, they wont on playing por recalled that his countryman,
was the best score, for a single
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round during the day.
heavy rain. The sun was shining till, with the hundred just up, Farquharson,
A. R. Mund (Seladon Park) won brightly, and before long the Ponsford hit a long hop from Perry in the 1938 Wimbledon the "Golf Illustrated"
W wicket furned into the kind that meet. Perry
Challenge
Hamilton, who had replaced Detroit. Brialist on form, and firm favourite Cup, with a score of 152, at the 'tally would like to take about Melsome, straight to Hudson, at (Hank Greenborg hit two, homa
unnual for the title.
meeting of the Greenkeep with him wherever he goes,"
mid-wicket. ers Association, which was con Kirby gained an astonishing cluded on the course of the Sand- nothing but be steady, and when son with what would have been Hudson and Hamilton could do O'Reilly was bowlod by Stephen-: victory against Shloids.
Philadelphin Twice well Park club, West Bromwich. 11 had been scored in half-an-hour, a very good off-break to a right (Winegarner homered) THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO leads to love, but found they only last year's winner, died with F. G
the American, drew out into long. H. Smithers (Shirley Park) over fact of which Hamilton hander. Bradman hit Hamilton to
Cleveland Inspired Kirby to greater efforts. Evans (Hansworth) for second and mande Hamilton grope forward reached his 50 with a single, and (Cilt Bolton homeredy
took advantage-found his length leg for 4 to put Australia 'nhoad,"
Washington.. The South African was made to place at 155, concode the first not, but won the A Junior tournament ended in a
for the broak.
then really began to lash out, Chicago. next three by means of wonderful tie between C. E. Thomas (Pylo
though the ball hardly avor loft (Simmons homered) At 20, Nelson cut at and missed the ground. After he roached 79, tennis which left Shields gaping, and Kenfig) and E. Small (Good-a straight one. The next ball out of 121 scored when he was in The match between New York A description of the game by wood) at 170, Small winning the accounted for Packo, Stephenson one did go in the air and mid-on and St. Louis was postponed on Reuter, states that Kirby's win special scratch prize.
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