THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1935.
"VERITAS" DESCRIBES DEFEAT OF G. VON CRAMM
WIMBLEDON TENNIS
FINAL
Perry Proves Himself The World's Best
BY "VERITAS"
The Centre Court, Wimbledon, July 5. I have just seen Fred Perry of England. gloriously beat Gottfried Von Cramm, the Ger- man tennis ace, retain the Wimbledon title, prove once and for all that he is one
greatest artistes the world of tennis hiện ở
ever
known. Perry won like a champion by 6-2, 6-4, 6-4, and not a single competent critic is prepared to deny that the Ealing player gave one of the most magnificent displays of his colourful career. -Tho tour which greeted the final
point of a pulsating match could have
been heard mile away, the vast OLYMPIC GAMES concourse of spectators Toaping to:
their feet to acclaim the champion
of champions and to pay a fitting.
"tribule to A brilliant loser,
When one witnesses the men's kinglos final of the world's greatest
nis tournament one naturally ex- pacts to be ontertained by some exelt- ing and high-class Lounis! but it in highly
whether speculative
any provi
* final produced an exchange such classic stroken as
day's match on the Contre
of in to-
Court.
Perry, the embodiment of cool-
eas and enterprise,
news, resourcefulness
triusiphed over a player
the
the whole of
who
needed
FILM
TO BE PRODUCED
BY NAZIS
A GREAT EPIC
Berlin, July 4. Herr Hitler has asked Fraulein
Arnt not in which Leni Riefenstahl, the Naxi film to recover from "nerves" and who then met about an impossible task actress and producer, to produce with the skill and gallantry of an ambitious composite film of Cochet at his fighting best.
the Olympic Games in Berlin next year.
PERRY UNBEATABLE Perry on his form in this match is unbeatable in the world to-day. For the boat pact of thrones Von Cramm played a brand of tonnia which
would have wilted any other competi- tor at Wimbledon.
Fraulein Riofenstahl was recent- ly awarded the annual Roich film prize for her work as producer of "The Triumph of Will," the film of the Nazi party congress at Nurem
berg.
:
Perry's response toʻrasping It is hoped that the film of tho drives which clipped the tram- Olympic Games, which will be lines and kicked up the white-shown in cinemas all over the world wash on the baselines was a s a great epic of modern sport, succession of amazing passing will persuade many foreign critica shots which left the German to think more kindly of the Third
Reich. paralysed a few feet from the net.
Fraulein Riefenstahl has already begun work on the new fim, the first shots being of German sol. dlers building the Olympic village at Dooberitz, in which the compet ing athletes are to be housed.
True, Von Cranim did not always time his advances to the forecourt with the accuracy ons expected from such a fine tactician; but then he knew that if he did not secure the net position Porry would, and the English: Fraulein Riofonstahl's camera men In the match had revealed will also travel to Grecce to shoot man early how superb ho could be on the volley. the beginning of the torch race
But the majority of Von Cramm's net excursions were perfectly legitt from Olympia to Berlin.
ground strokes which had driven
mate, for they followed up powerful The torch, which, according to stry wide of the court. Nevertheless the International Olympic rules, it was from auch positions that Perry must burn over the Stadium while pulled out his finest ahotsa machine. the games are in progress, will be gan bullet forehand cross-court drive kindled by the flame carried all the and a perfectly placed sliced
ced backhand way from Greece. wide of the Incoming German.
What mistakes Perry did make (and they were wonderfully fow)
from
woro
to simple, shots, chiefly due carolosanoes, Ho WILE service-need zeveral times for Von Gramm has one
the fastest first-service deliveries
GOODWOOD STAKES
in the world, but on the whole Perry's Hoplite Wins In Field
return of sorvice was ons of the outstanding features of the match.
GERMAN'S PUZZLING SERVICE
The Englishman was occasionally puzzled by his opponent's second ser- vion which kicked high and went away sharply to the backhand, but Perry showed here that he had learnt valuable lessons from his encounters with Roderick Mensel, whose service performs similar disconcerting tricks.
Despite the fact that Von Cramm was more effective on service than in any other department of the game, (Continued on Page 9.)
Of Seventeen
London, July 31.
The following was the result of the Goodwood Stakes run at Goodwood to-day:
Hoplite, 100 to 0 Claren, to 1 Mallin, 20 to 1 Fourteen ran.
1
The race was won by four lengths, with a head between second and third. -Reuter.
Sporting loser, Baron Gottfried von Cramm, smiled as he con- gratulated victorious Fred Parry after their court batile for the
tennis championship at Wimbledon.
GIANTS Lawn Bowls Tie
SUFFER Unavoidably DEFEAT Called Off
PHILLIES WIN NARROWLY
TIGERS OUT-HIT:
BROWNS
New York, July 31.
that their reverse has had littla
GROUND FIT BUT PLAYERS ABSENT
(By "Jagax")
i
THE TEST GAMES
ENGLISH CRICKET. OF TO-DAY
A SEARCHING ANALYSIS
It may be futile to cry over spilt milk, but an inquiry into the cause of the spilling can some times prevent a second mishap, writes "Watchman" in the
Observer.
American
Yacht Wins
SCOTLAND'S NEW COLF Again CHAMPION
YANKEE FIRST AT PLYMOUTH
THREE RIVALS,
GIVE UP
HECTOR THOMSON WINS TITLE
J. MCLEAN. LOSES IN FINAL
London, July 6.
London, July 8. Glorious weather favoured tha Scotland has a new champion regatta of the Royal Western in Hector Thomson, boy cham Yacht Club of England at Ply pion in 1931, who now has a right mouth yesterday, when there was to claim to be Great Britain's The manner of England's defunt at fine sailing breeze from about best amateur. On Saturday he Lord's humiliating in its complete north by west. It gave the defeated Jack McLean, the bold- ness, han produced a good deal of lamentation, and given rise to many yachts a reach on the starboard or by two and one, in the 36 theories and explanations. Although tack to the eastern mark, then holes final of the Scottish Amat- the views even of those engaged in a turn to windward to the west-eur Championship at St. Andrews. Last year, with McLean not the game differ upon the exact state ern mark, and a close reach home
defending a title he had won for
of the wicket at various periods, the on the port tack.
pitch cannot be made a scapegoat this The wind held true all the day, two years, Thomson annexed the time; but, as usual, the failure of but in the English Channel in the Irish Open amateur championship. our cricket has been attributed to
morning there was a little top in and in the inaugural Western lales sins of the Selection Committee.the sca.
championship.recently he won the There are many people who
It was a day of spectacular sail-amateur honours after a replay. emphatically that the wrong player ing, and there was another conclu- Four thousand people saw the were chossover 14 is easy to say isive victory by the transatlantic finish of Saturday's match, which
But who the right players?
She was sailed was in doubt almost to the last
Possibly.
Are
that this man would have done better visitor, Yankee.
than that man, but where Is the magnificently by her owner, Mr. pult. Thomson held an early ad- The claims of youth have Gerald Lambert, and from the first vantage, but McLean fought back Badly advocated, but the
team
with new players/ed the fleet, which numbered six. I and led by a hole at the end of the
WAS never
beets experimenta
Her competitors were the King's round. He lost that as soon as the this season were not successful.
youngest of the yacht, Britannia, the ex-challenger afternoon round opened, Thomson Mitchell-Innes, the
only Mr. T. 0. M: Sopwith's Endeavour, never allowed the champion to go Nottingham, was the only batsman on
on the side who did not reach Mr. W. L. Stephenson's Valsheda ahead again. There double figures, and E. R. T. Holmes, Mr. C. R. Fairey's Shamrock and more than two holes between the was a melan-Mr. Hugh F. Paul's Astra. They men, and only 14 ho.es in the 86 choly failure at
were act a course of 36 miles, on changed hands, McLean won six That many Test matches have been which Shamrock was allowed 2 min. and Thomson eight, the champion fours for the being seven over lost in the armchairs of the selection 63 sec., Britannia 4 min. 12 sec.,
Thomson was match, while
five is an historical fact, and and Astra 5 min. 17 sec. committee there was much that looked wrong Astra, Shamrock and Britannia about the side beaten by South Africa. in turn elected to give up, and this
a very popular cho'S..
over.
The omission of R. W. V. Robins er left the race to three certain prize- BOSTON BRAVES'
only
a bowler
When the race started there was
robbed the team of who in generally at his best at Lord's, winners. but also of a magnificent all-round fieldsman, whi
whilst the introduction of a whole sail breeze and the start Farrimand kept another batsman or was perhaps the finest of the sta-
HOW THEY STARTED
Astra sought out the lee end of
bowler out, and did not improve the 800, wicket-keeping. But it must be re- membered that some of these who ac- complished big deeds at Trent Bridge were unsuccessful at Lord's-Nichola and Leyland, for example. Until the atorting line, but Yankee elect- selection committees can see into the ed the weather berth, although future, thoro will always be men Velaheda and Endeavour made chosen who are subsequently discover every effort to deprive her of the ed to be unfit for the job. Selection position. Eventually Yankee cross- committees cannot create players or ed to windward, with Velsheda produce strategic captains out of
for several years of indifferont quality. WILD EXCUSES.
has come
DISPUTE
PRESIDENT GIVES UP POST
JUDGE FUCHS REPLACED
The successor to Judge Fuchs will be Charles F. Adams and it is stated that the resignation of Fuchs is due to his inability to make cer tain payments to Adams.
Adams takes over Fuchs's entire
New York, July 31. hat, and it is surely time that we under her leo. Then came Endeav our, Britannia, and Shamrock. appreciated the billor fact that
Mr. Ford Frick, the President English cricket is now and has been Astra held a course of her own. of the National Baseball League, When the eastern end of Ply-has announced that Judge Mil mouth Break-water was reached, Fuchs is relinquishing the pre- the five were in a cluster almost sidency of the Boston Braves as To criticise our batsmen or bowlers beam and beam, except Astra, but from to-morrow.
Yankee was in a favoured position. as un- to be regarded Yesterday's weather rather be-patriotic. Excuses of the wildest have Britannia was doing well.
been made for defeat. When A. E. R. Once outside the Breakwater, lied the playing conditions of the Gilligan's team returned from Aus- Shamrock, Endeavour, and Britan Kowloon Bowling Green Club's tralia after losing four of the five nia in turn luffed for the leader's sa if weather. At the first mark, Yan- the New York Giants, the present misunderstanding twa of
Another defeat was suffered by green yesterday and owing to a Test matches they were greeted
the they had conquered the universe. West Indies
Endeavour. Thon, camo Britannia, takes complete control of the Club. leaders of the National Baseball players who were to have been When the side under R. F. S. Wyatt 50-led-by-158, from Velaheda and stock in the Boston Braves-and their nearest rivals is so great pionship failed to put in an aphot, and the wickets very Jumpy lead from Velaheda, who was hetly trouble. It will be remembered League, but their advantage over engaged in the semi-final match falled dismally in the
in the Lawn Bowls Pairs Cham- they were exonerated from blame on with Shamrock and Astra bringing Renter.
This is the second time this year the ground that the climate was very up the rear.
Yankee soon worked qut a good that the Braves have had domestic material. affect on the league pearance.
Back-patting has been rampant the
by Endeavour, They that Babe Ruth, the former New standings.
The green was in a fit condition land. Players of the younger genera- pursued The Glants were playing the for play although on the heavy side in have been made to bellove that changed places, while Britannia York Yankees star asked
and bowl in a they bat
scientifle was still lying fourth, with Astra placed on the retired list because he Philllos, whose victory was due and one rink was laid out in pro-ma
manner that their fathers never in no small measure to Joe Moore, paration for the match, which how dreamt of, and while they have been and Shamrock having a ding-dong was not allowed by the manager to
struggle. who scored two home runs. Dolph ever, did not eventunte.
have a day off to attend the arrival, basking smugly in the lattery, they Camill, their home-run star, also
They completed the first round in America, of the Normandie on have gone on losing matches to the hit for the
M. J. Medina and J. Cavanagh, little people who were once our pupils. 495.; Endeavour, 12h. 20m. 368.; circuit during the
follows: Yankee, 12h. 18m. her maiden voyage recently. match.
the Craigengower C. C. pair put in When men of over forty began to The Detroit Tigers, top team an appearance shortly before 4.46 make more runs and to take cheaper Velsheda, 12h. 20m, 658.; Britan- in the American League, had a p.m. and waited until 5.30 p.m. for wickets than they did ten years pre- nia, 12h. 22m. 18.; Astra, 12h, 25m. 1h. 40m, 168.; Velsheda, th. 45m. good win over tho St.
11s.; Britannia, 1h. 48m. 29a. Louis their opponents, S. Eccleshall and virusly it should have been obvious 498.; Shamrock, 12h. 26m. 138, Browns and, with the match J. Shepherd, but neither turned up
Yankees and
There was a between the
It appears that Shepherd, earlier the in the day, had communicated with ing supplied by younger men. But Turning to windward for the see-stern struggle between the trio, Athletics being postponed,
the obvious was ignored, facts were Tigers increase their lead slightly. Cavanagh, the intimated that he reversed, and it was said that the old ond time there was a great deal of but Yankoe was unassailable. The Results of matches.played to would be at the club at 4.45 p.m.men were becoming better and better movement in the sea, and when the finish was timed: 1, Yankee, 2h. day follow:
an the green was pronounced fit every season because they were learn-yachts started to reach home, Yan- 68m. 30s.; 2, Endeavour, 3h. 0.m. for play provided there was no furing more and more from experience, kos was 2m. In front of Endeavour, 88.; 3, Velaheda, 3h. 6m. 20s.
an absurd contention to be made in while Volsheda had dropped a lot Kismet (Mr. J. Colin Nowman) connection with a game which demands of ground."
enally won the handicap class for so much quickness of eye, and wrist The second round times were. vessels over 25 tons. Captain and foot.
Yankee, th. 37m. 55.; Endeavour, Boltiho's Morwenna was second. (Continued on Page 9.)
National League
the
R. H. E.
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ther rain.
However, a slight drizzle round Brooklyn Boston
about 4 p.m. put an entirely differ 3 0 1 (Bergor scored a home run for neither Shepherd nor Eccleshall ent complexion on the situation and the Braves and Lealle for the was present,
Dodgers).
Brooklyn
Boston
to bo
the standard of the batting and bowl Velsheds was not to be shaken off. tired from the race. that the cause was a falling off in Endeavour closed a trifle, while With Britannia, the others re
"C" DIVISION
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Re-Arranged Singles
permitting. Matches To-day
The Chinese are only fourth in the league but the club has not yet suf- fored Three matches in the Lawn matches played. The Kowloon C, C. 'a delent, having won all three Bowls Singles Championships, played seven and lost but one which were postponed from laat: The Chicago
Thursday on account of the rail, follow programme for today is as (Harder scored two home runs are to be played off to-day,
Kowloon Indians. Recreio for the Indians).
Included in the list for this after Chinese R.C. v. Kowloon C.C.
V. Army T.O. noon is the match between B. W. CBA. Bradbury, of the Craigongower University ... Indian R.C.
Craigengewer T. South China C.C., and C. G. Silva, of the Club
St. Louis
88 2 Detroit
918 0. (Greenborg scored a home run for the Tigers). Boston
Washington
de Recrelo. The match is to be clubs are as follow:
The present positions of the various
played on the Talkoo R. C. green. On the Club de Rocroio green B. 0.15 2
Duncan of the Kowloon-B.G.Cosicos, 0.0,
Club de Rarela. 4 12 0
plays. A. Macfarlane, of the Hong-Ay 10. The match between the New kong Football Club, while W. K. Chinese
Bouth. China Tork Yankees and the Philadel- Way, of the Craigongower C.C., Gra phl Athletics was postponed on meets J. C. Brown, of the Kowloon Lowloon Indian
University taki account of rain.
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