THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, MAY 18, 1936,
MOVE
LEAGUE TENNIS
K. C. C. TEAMS CHOSEN
Clark In "A"
Division
MORE TRIALS!
(By "Veritas")
Although only half of the nominated players turned out yesterday afternoon for the final trials, Kowloon Cricket Club decided on the composition of all but one of their leaguo tennis teams."
G. Clark performed sufficiently well to secure his place in the "A" teum, And he will partner G, Bodiker in the Lengte.
A. W. Ramsey, the other candidate for this position will play in the "P" Leam, partneride G, Barnett, with whom he competed in the Colony doubles championship this year..
No final deelsion has yet been reached concerning the composition of the "C" (1) term, at the re- mininder of the teams will be as
published in these columns on Friday
last.
GUEST AND GROSE IN FORM
The most impressive mon's pair an view yesterday were A. E. P. Gued and . Girose, who did not drop n single set winning two from Clark
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AFTER 44 YEARS
ASTON VILLA RELEGATED
Their Remarkable
League Records
A reader sends the following in- teresting ligar pablished in the Birmingham Sports, Argus revealing the league records of Aston Villa during their 44 years of enmpuigning which culminated recently being relegated for the first time in the club's history.
In their
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The nearest the Villa and previously tromp to relegation WW in 1899.90) when they finished 15th in a division campeling 18 teams. In 1924-5 they also ended 1th but the strength of
the first division and by then increns.
il to 22. They occupied 13th position at the end of both the 1933-31 unel 1931-35 sea¶U719,
This season they finished 21st, with Blackburn
and Bodiker as well na beating E. Cheing, relegated Fincher and Clark.
will Whe
Rovers, another club which has never Mrs McGaw,
ply before suffered this indignity,...,It Is with Clark in the mixed doubles also of interest to note but for the secand team Kave
promis ing account of herself, though first time an Aston Villa defence con- the couple were no match for Bodiker and Miss Mackenzie, who are settling down into a very sound combination.
Miss Griffitha also played well with fiuest yesterday, and from this dis- Lance the club's big strength appears to be in its mixed doubles first team. The four teams definitely chosen for the league which starts to-day week are:-
"A" DIVISION
led are than 100 gsala during
lengur senson.
The complete records of the club rend as follows.
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JUNIOR TEAMS'
QUEST
Want More Say In Affairs
(By "Verita")
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If sufficient support is. forthcoming, an attempt may be made at the annual meeting of the Hongkong Football Association amend the rules in order to achieve bigger second division representation on the F..A. Council. Advocates for this move are now testing the feelings of the support in clubs, but unless fairly assured it is unlikely that the motion will be put forward.
At the present time the arcend division is only one direct repre
Council. Latest sentative on the iden is to amend the rule to permit of each club in the divison being
Behind this move represented. the desire for bigger civilian presentation, but even if the iden were in be adopted, it is doubtful whether these entlas would be achiev ed as the milltary would also gain a proportionate increase of represen tation.
membership will make the Counel an unwieldy body is likely to be the chief com plaint. Under the existing canstitu flon the Council numbers thirteen, plus the President, nl past Presidmits, the vice-Presidents, a Chairman and the Hon. Secretary. That brings le total strength up to about 20.
That this increase in
If the second division is given in-
1,1), for skal l'i 3 creased representation on the lines nt present advocated, namely that ench club should possess an elected mem-: her, the Council will become well over 30 strong.
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E. C. and E. F. Fincher. A. E. P. Guest and F. Grose, G. Bediker and 6-7 (10)
G. Clark.
"B" DIVISION
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S. A. Gray and A. Crawford, G. G. - Burnett and A. W. Ramsey, N. A. E. Mackay and 1 Juck.
"C" DIVISION (2)
W. Gitting and A. L. Pisher, J. E. Kirby and N. J. Bebbington, W: Orr and Freeman,
"D" DIVISION
P. Goodwin and W. Hirst, U. Broch
and G. Blum, W. Pengelly and A. E. Pony.
MIXED DOUBLES (1)
E. G. Fincher and Miss O. Dalziel, E. F. Fincher und Miss M. Griffiths,
G. Hiodiker and Miss A. Mackenzie.
MIXED DOUBLES (7)
A. E. P. Guest and Mrs. Horford, C. Clark and Mrs. McCaw, C. E. Watun and Mrs. Stoke.
E. C. Fincher will be in charge of the "A" Division and Mixed Doubles (1) teams, A. W. Ramsey will look „after the "PP2* Division team, R. S.
Capell the "C" Division (1), A. I. | Fisher the "C" Division (2), W. W. Hirst the "D" Division and C. E. Watson the Mixed Doubles (2).
There will be further practicu matches · next Sunday afternoon, especially for the mixed doubles anf the "A" Division sides.
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ANOTHER SNAG
Another snag about the idea is that it would find several clubs would be pussessing two members on the Coun cil as ready Recreio, ILK.F.C., Fusl- liers, Ulster Rifles, East Lancashires, S.C.A.A., Kowloon F.C., and Chinese Athletic have firat division team re- presentativer.
Military strength on the Council! 7would be increased by representatives for the R.A.S.C. and R.A.M.C., and the loyal Engineers, while the addi tional Civilian clubs to benefit would be Eastern, University and Radio Sports Club.
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Fine action study of Tuckey (hitting the ball) and Hughes, English Davis Cup pair, who were beaten in France yesterday.
British
Davis Cup Have
Players
Bad Time
TUCKEY AND HUGHES LOSE:
AUSTIN TWICE. BEATEN
SATURDAY
Four Nations Reach Davis Cup 3rd Round
LATEST RESULTS
London, May 13. Several second round ties in the Davis Cup Competition were decided on the continent to-day.
METRIC VS.
ENGLISH
SYSTEM
CONTROVERSY IN ATHLETIC WORLD
Not so long ago the United States deserted the other English-speaking nations when they forsook our stan- dard track distances and adopted the metrie aystem at their championships and major meetings, writes J. Armour Milne in Sporting Life.
When the A.A.U. adopted the Olym- ple distances the Inter-Collegiate A.A.A.A. followed suit for their events. Apparently the change did not meet with general approval, for the LC.A.A.A.A. have deelded to revert
to the Bigliah ayatem,
Although less determined than the. Americans in their advocacy of the metrie system there have been in.. fluential athlete people in this coun try who had hoped eventually to sep the championships run in metres,
NO LONGER IN ISOLATION :
Latest move on the metric front in U.S.A. will please the dichards in this country. If the American A.A.U. de- eide to revert to yards and smiles, then we shall no longer stand in splendid isolation.
Which meats that for another gen- eration at least we shall be able to Talk about the "two-twenty," "the quarter" and "the half."
I doubt if the metric system will ever prove to be a workable substitute At for our present truck distances. lenst; not until the system is brought into general use.
Where is the sense in racing over inetric distances when jumps and throws are given in feel and inches?
INDICATION OF OLYMPIC STRENGTH
Only passible value in racing over the metric distances is that it gives a true indication of Olympic strength, It also necustoms the athletes to the distances at which they will be called upon to race at the Games.
Actually there is very little differ- ence between 200 metres and 220 yards, 400 metres and 440-yards, 'and 300 metres and the half-mile.
But 100 yards is nearly ten yaris short of 100 metres, and the mile is approximately 120 yards longer than 1,600 metres.
To my mind the sprinters are most affected by racing over 100 metres when they have been training for 100 yards, for only an exceptionally strong sprinter can stay through beyond 100 yards when he has trained with a special eye on that distance.
POINT TO BEAR IN MIND
I think that our leading sprinters might bear this fact lu mind when ar- ranging their track work for this sca son.
It is going to take a lion-hearted finisher to stay alongside men Ruch As the Americans, Peacock, Owens, Germany qualifted for the next and Metcalfe, Haenn!, the Swiss cham round by beating Hungary by three pion, and the Japanese, Yoshioka, C. Boussus (France) beat F. J.mulches to nil Switzerland beat Denmark at Montreux by the same Perry G-4, 6-8, 6-2
Auteuil, May 17. nard and Jean Borotra in straight) English tennis prestige suf-sets.
The results as cabled by Reuter fered a severe set-back during to date are as follows. the week-end when in the annual international match be tween England and France at the Stade Roland Garros, the second visitors finished the day's play trailing acven rub- bers to twelve.
It was a week-end of ustonishing There may be a lot to be said in fa.
of bigger second division repre- results: On Saturday HW Austin- sentation on the Council, but the bet-not only lost in Bernard Destremeau,
ter way to secure this would be to propose that three delegates, possibly 10 from civilian clubs, should be nomin- Hated from the second and third divi- sion clubs not already represented on: the Council. This would give the Junior divisions two additional repre- sentatives without making the com- position of the Council too unwieldy.
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No more entertaining start to the
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"Bunny" Austin. being used out by eight runs to seven in a seven innings encounter.
and third innings only
to
famous
B. Destremeau (France) beat W. Austin 8-6. 8-2
C. Merlin' (France) beat G. Hughes 5-7, 6-2, 6-3
"SUNDAY
margin, Belgium eliminated Norway 5,500 OF WORLD'S F. at Oslo by three matches to two, and Ireland qualified against Sweden at P.Dublin by three matches to one.--
Reuter.
F. J. Perry (England) beat Des- tremeau 6-3, 6-3
C. Betssus (France) beat I. 1. Austin 7-5, 7-5
J. Borotra 4174 31. Bernard (France) beat G. P. Hughes and C. H. D. Tickey G-4, 9-7.
THEY ARE
OUT TOO MUCH
TENNIS STARS & SOCIAL LIFE
Do lawn tennis stars. visiting foreign countries, go out too mucte in the evenings? Henri Cochet, former French champion, links they do-and that this is the fore- most cause of so many failures by players representing their country abroad. ile says, according to a Renter message.
GREATEST ATHLETES
EXPECTED IN BERLIN.
Berlin, May 9.
-THE-FULL- RESULTS
London, May 10. In the Davis Cup tie between Germany and Hungary at Dusseldorf G. von Cramm and 3. Lund defeated Emil Gatory and Emil Ferenvzy by presenting 53 nations, will take part 4-3, 7-5, 6-0 and thus crabled Ger- in many to enter the third round.
No fewer than 6,500 athletes, re-
the 11th Olympiad, opening in Berlin on August 1938, it has been of announced by Olympic officials here..
The following are results matches played between Ireland' and Sweden in Dublin:
McVeagh defeated Schroeder 2-6, 7-5, 0-3, 6-3.
G.
The "Olympic Village" specially built near the Dochertz drill-ground will shelter 4,000 visiting sportsmen, while the rest will stay in various hotels.
Lyttelton Rogers defeated
The opening of the Olympiad will Destburg 6-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-3.
be marked by a display in the course George Mataxa and Count
of which 10,000 German children and Bnwarowskl (Austria) defeated
youths will execule Beethoven's Hebda Kastmierz and ign charal symphony, while all floga will Tarkowski (Poland) 6-1, 6-2, 6-4, at be lowered and torches lit around Vienna.-United Press.
the Stadiunt,
ENGLAND'S WIGHTMAN
CUP CHANCES
U.S. Win If Mrs. Moody Plays
(By STANLEY N. DOUST)
"There are too many invitations for It was a spectacular game with the the new French "Hope," but Fred
dinners, dances, and receptions to Chinese piling on a substantial lend Perry bowed to Christian Boussus.
second
To-day Perry managed to avenge which the younger players, who do not over the
The United States selection of Miss fident of beating that potite and to have it wiped out in the seventh Austin's defeat by overcoming Des- know how to refuse, fall victims."
There la no doubt that this oyll has inning for the Japanese to take the tremeau in straight sets, but Austin lead. In the final visit the was again beaten, this time by Bous-existed, and steps are already being Helen Jacoba, Mrs. Sarah Palfrey beautiful player Birs. Pailrey Fabyan
sus, who accomplished it in two talien to remedy it by the Lawn Tennis Fabyan, Mrs. J. Van Ryn, and than aflss Stammers would be.
Miss C. Babcock to play Great Britain If Miss M. Scriven is our third diamond, the 'Chinese obtained a sus
in the Wightman Cup lawn tennis string, she should account for her couple of runs on a single hit to win sels. Even more disappointing from Association."
England's viewpoint was the failure the match.
Managers of tents are now recely-match at Wimbledon on June 12 and singles against her opposite num- Japanese scored first when they of C. R. D. Tuckey and G. P. Hughes
the team does not includo Mr. Miss Babcock, of the strong service nade a single run in the first inning, In one of the doubles, the
accepting invitations.
well in the and volley. Two years ago she did but Chinese replied with two and four Davis Cup pair losing to Marcel Ber-tructions that they must be 13 has caused some surprise because ber, who in all probability will no
H. W. Austin the British tennis Andrus, who played
doubles against Britain at Forent well. In the doubles, but I doubt if she runs in the second and third innings Mikuni
star, said:
can beat Miss Scriven or Misa Lyle, World tours are different from a Hills, New York, last year."
It is however, a team of great should the latter be chosen.
to forecast team going to Paris for the French championship or playing in the Davis Possibilities and even without Mrs. It is yet too early
Willa Moody has a distinct chance Britain's two doubles pairs, but pre- sumably Miss Fredu James and Kiss of winning. Culin the lattor we train vory strictly Should Mrs. Wills Moody make up Stammers, who fiold the women's and never think of going out if by her mind to piny (she la still doubt doubles at Wimbledon, will be one. doing so we are likely to spoll our ful whether she is coming to Wim- Assuming also that either Miss N. 1 chance of winning.
bledon this year) it will be harder Lyle and Miss Dearman, or Miss "In a world tour, such as to Aus-than ever to be optimistic about "Billy" Yorke and Miss J. Ingram tralia, New Zealand, And South Britain breaking up the sequence of are the other, pair, Britain will bo
strongly represented. o Africs, the mayors of every town American, victories.
while Japanese were being blanked.
1 1 0 3.0 1 P Chincie werp blanked in the fourth,
27 7 0 18 8 6 while Arth and sixth, - innings,
Chinesc
4 0 Japanese scored a run in the fifth
B. S. Ching 2b Innings.
1b E. Chang The Japanese made their big effort M. Chung just too late, but it provided a thrill- A. Fong ing climax to a match full of interest Chan and excitement. The box scores read. W. Ching
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visited give receptions, dances aro Presuming that Bliss Dorothy Round Miss Jacobs and Mr. Fabyan aro
excellent combination,
but my arranged for us, and nearly every and Miss K. Stammers are Britain's an
Aest strings and that they are inreading is that Britain will win ons 2night there is an official dinner.
"This goes on throughout a tour their best form, I think at the end of the two doubles.........
If Mrs. Moody plays, however, a of three montas or more.
of the singles honours should be in "We cannot refuse because it seeme favour of England by 8-2. Miss different story will be told, and tho 0 rude, and to play good tonnls in the Helen Jacobs in more likely to beat United States will keep the cup. 28 circumstances is very difficult and Miss Round than Miss Stammers, The American team leave New York
while Miss Hound can be more con- on May 21. 1-Gvery tiring."