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THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JULY 29,
1936.
PERRY SMOTHERS CRAWFORD TO WIN DAVIS CUP Quist's Gallant Effort Proves To Be Of No Avail
CUP RETAINED
WITH STRAIGHT
SETS
VICTORY
FOR FOURTH YEAR IN
Great
SUCCESSION
Britain. beat victory. He seered a break-through to herome 3-5, but Perry held bi
Australia by three matches | next service for the match and the to two at
Wimbledon yesterday and so retained the Davis Cup for the fourth successive
Davis Cup.
Kain
BASELINE CONTEST
delayed the start of the Quist v. Austin match for 90 taltutes, year. nad when the players got to grips they 1731 Simlar A battle engaged in
on fonc
In the final and deciding styles, both concentrating match of the series, Fredbuseline rallies, anys Reuter.. Perry overcame Crawford in three straight sets of 6-2, 6-3, 6-3.
But what a gallant fight Australia made for it! Two rubbers down on Saturday they looked certain for a 6-love or 4-1 defort.
Bui Quist and Crawford respond- ed whole-heartedly on Monday by winning the doubles and yesterday Quist made a stupendous effort in
Austin in defestlag II w. second singles.
1s
".
And so the result depended entire- ly on the Inst match-Perry Crawford-and if the Australian had been meeting anybody else It would have been easy to obtain odds on Australia winning.
But with the irrepressible Perry it was quite a different story, and, in accordance with expectations, he mothered Crawford in three sets and so kept the Cup in England for another twelve months.
It is not without inferest to nute that only once before since the coin- petition started in 1900 has the Davis Cup remained in England for four successive years.
They sent sweeping drives to the corners, waiting for the other man to
unke errors.
Austin drove letter than Quist on teath hands, but was weak overhead, whereas the Austra llan smashed brilliantly and served exceedingly well; apart from three double-faults in the second set, which appeared to upset him.
Austin actually led 5.3 in the
Complete Davis Cup Results
The complete results in the Davis Cup Challenge Round Just ended were as follows.
SINGLES
H. W. Austin (Great Britain) bent J. 1. Crawford (Australia) -1-6, 6-3, 6-1, 6-1; lost in A. Quisi 4-6, 6-3, 5-7, 3-6.
F. J. Perry (Great Britain) beat ust 6-1, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2;.bent Cenwford 6-2, 6-3, 6-3,
DOUBLES
Crawford and Quist (Austra lia) beat G. P. Gughes and C. R. D. Tucker 6-1, 2-6, 7-5, 10-8.
he lost
his
Fred Perry and Jack Crawford, who yesterday met in the deciding match of the Davis Cup Challenge Round, snapped after one of their many historic matches. The Englishman emphasised hi
superiority by once again winning in three sets.
How Miss Jacobs Reached Final
RESOURCEFUL AND CLEVER
Mrs. Sperling Unimpressive
(BH. S. Serivaner}
don't
ARSENAL'S £36,000 PROFIT
GREATEST EVER MADE
BY BRITISH.CLUB
London, July 12. Arsenal Football Club last year made a working profit of £30,000. This is the greatest profit ever made by any British club, says the Sunday Dispatch.
HIERINGINGSN HERRS SANSE
Our Daily Golf Hint
The theorist in golf invari-
LEAGUE TENNIS
PLAYERS SAY NO-
ably slips up because he has THEN YES
overlooked one little some- thing that wrecks the whole.
-Harry Fulford.
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LEADING RACKET WIELDERS
IN "A" DIVISION
Seta P. W. L. D.
EC and F. F. Forher (K.U.C.)9000 A. V. Hemellem und J. Gomanives
K. F. Li and K.
18 C.A.A
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A. L. Sullivan and L.
(U.S.I.C.)
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1. A. P'ERIT and D. McDougall
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H. D. kumjahn and A. H. Madar
(LR.C.)
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Ja Tak-cheuk and W. C. Hung
N. Wong and
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T. K. Leura and F. N. Weng
(8XA.A.)
M. O. Toomers wnd F. D. Pereira
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SO MATCH WASN'T PLAYED
CURIOUS DECISION AT THE K.C.C..
With the players assembled and knocking-up preparatory to starting the match, a heavy shower of rain fell at the K.C.C. yesterday afternoon sending the C.R.C. and K.CC. "A" Divi- sion league teams scampering back to the pavilion where it was generally agreed that play would be impossible.
However the two explains inspected the courts as soon as the run had occased and pronounced them to be
unfit.
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on the courts indulging in practice.
So, for the third time this season,
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"JEWS MAY FLY GERMAN FLAG"
An Olympic Games Manoeuvre
thir
mitch was postponed, though, in view of the players' apparent willing news to continue on courts not greatly affected by the rain, it was dificult to understand w
why exactly the encounter
was
put
anked one captain and he said the players didn't want to play.. I asked the players and they said the captains had decided. It was ali very confusing.
Petanpa the best way to settle this match is for the players to get into a neutral clubhouse and "nhake" for
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ELEMENTS BRAVED
The elements were braved, how- ever, at two other clubs. Down at Causeway Bay, which is notorious for the manner in which the courts re- main wet, Chinese Recreation Club second string entertained U.S.R.C., and were beaten 0-3, while al the Hongkong Cricket Club, South Dr. Goebbels, the Minister for Pro-China somewhat unexpectedly finish-
Berlin, July 2.
The balance-sheet, issued yesterday,paganda, has issued an appeal to the ed at the losing end of the score, to greet the thousands of the Cricket Club satching the odd this stage of the proceedings had shows that this is an increase of nation London, July 3.
The deciding set was that between It was almost inevitable that elected to reduce her pace (that em- roughly £1,000 on the previous year. foreigners expected for the Olympic set.
barrassing brink of success again,
Gate receipt the largest source of Games with an "especially Great Britain, third set, mainly on Quist's ervors,
Bathurst and Leys ond. Wong and Miss Jacobs revenue to the club inat over £81. example of German hospitality ant the semi-finals of the women's
think?). you
third pairs. "I am sure," he states, "that every Leung, the respective subsequently then entered as the British Isles won but
singles at Wimbledon yester wisely followed suit, and, reverting on but this takes no account of the length and accuracy, netting back-
received from away German will make it a point of honour The Cricket Club combination won it from 1003 to 1000 inclusive,
day should suffer by compari- to her famous twiddly ones, chipped percentages
to be obliging to every foreigner fall with ease, and with the other two A couple of United States still holds the record handers and missing easy smashes,
son, both from a speculative her way to 6-4.
of whom are under the protection of pairs each obtaining of retaining the trophy for
and a spectacular point of view,
the German Reich), and when they years, while Francé held it for six
with the two in the men's event, and Australasia for four trom 1908
require help to render it with advice sets, two useful points were earned.
to 1911 inelusive.
PERRY DICTATES
Seven
Although Quist's unexpected vic- tory over. Austin yesterday had paved the way for a spectacular finish to the serles, the concluding match hardly provided the climax expected.
Perry was in such perfect form that he monopalised the court, dic- tating the terms throughout and winning with comparative ease.
TRICK GOLFER which gave rise to such won-
CHALLENGES PADGHAM
And Is
Taken
derful and exciting tennis en Wednesday.
overcome
the
THE LAST CHANCE
matches,
A plea put forward last year by the Sunday Dispatch for a simpler and more open balance-sheet has had
effect.
a
and deeds."
laws
LEAGUE TABLE
Sety P. W. L. F. A. Pts.
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Jewish shopkeepers have received £10,000 IMPROVEMENTS
an official notice informing them that! they may fly the German flag during items on the expenditure side are the period of the Games. Among the Recreio
last Nuremberg passed at till 100 cumbersome to arrive at an
5.3 su accurate net proft, though the, nance September was one forbidding Jews CC:3321322442 8
on revenue account is a mere £850. го By the German Bag. Its temporary 1.R.C.
This is after paying £10,000 for
5.C.A.A. being taken to persuade the credulous ground improvements and £5,000 for suspension is but one of the measures
U.S.R.C. income tax.
treated as harshly as reported.
"K.C.C."
H.K.C.C.
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5 14 10 22 5 14.15
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revenue, balance foreign visitor that the Jews are not C.R.C. (2)... 5 0..5 7 28
Mile. Jedrzejowiska's last chance of holding on more or less Vanished when she lost the first two gunes of the second set after being within a In the first place close students of wint of 11. She won two-game the book were expecting to see Mrs. on her own service, and then, serving
azain, with the score at 5-2 11. Sperling beat Mme. R. Mathieu saved a match point before succumb and Miss H. H. Jacobs Mlle. J. Jedrzejowska. And this is ing
Miss Jacobs has achieved many what actually happened. In
Actually, the second hardly anything conducive to "engineering" triumphs, and this was thrills or excitement of any kind one of the best of them. She has occurred in either match. Both, to already figured unsuccessfully in four should be £10,850, which shows that put it quite frankly, were one-sided, Wimbledon finals, and they are, the club is in n very healthy state and in neither had the winner ever perhaps, worth setting out as follows: Harelally, since the total capital in
v. Miss Helen Wills (as she was then) only £5,789. Golfers everywhere are so much any real cause for anxiety.
Reserves total £1,000, or aimpressed by imperturbable Alfred But I think it may fairly be said in 1929; v. Mrx, Moody in 1932; V.
Moody in 1935. Mrs. Sperling renel-capital! Padgham and all his victories that that Miss Jacobs proved herself the Miss D. E. Round In 1934; and v. Mrs, than fourteen times the subscribed so far as they are concerned he can cleverest and most resourceful player the Anal when she was Fri.
NEW BUILDINGS· rest peacefully on lus pinnacle.
Mrs. the four, and that Sperling
Erection of new stands and provi- With one exception. Joe Ezar, the gave further evidence of the fact that Krahwinkel, in 1931, against Fr. Aussern, and was in the semi-Anat pace and length judiolously and American, having viewed Mr. Padg- she is not the mere stonewaller Put just year when she lost to Miss Jacobssion of better accommodation has cost)
ham and read the fulsome praise she is thought to be by so many showered upon his modest head, re- people. She gave us a good illustra mains unconvinced.
tion yesterday of the way in which she can speed up her game when it is fairly safe to do so.
Crawford gave an improved die- play on that of last Saturday, but ho was clearly the servant of tenais magician and scrambled for the few games he collected.
A Reuter telegram says that Perry hit his best form. 1e varied his
smashed with unerring accuracy.
Crawford played as well as Perry would let him. The Australian oc-
Ezar has so mastered the intrica- casionally scored with a sharply angled
volley, but Perry's keen cles of golf that he has become one acticipation eunbled him to return of the greatest trick-shot players in the world. He u make a golf ball almost everything.
to almost anything except talk.
This belog so. Ezar figures he must have more than an outside chance of surprising the master-and he has challenged Padgham to a match for
40.
of
TWICE DEFEATED
She beat Mme. Mathieu recently in Paris on the hard stuff," to which Mme. Malileu is better accustomed. in the French championships, by 6-3, 3-4. Yesterday the beat her by 6-3, 6-2, in a match which lasted only a minute or two inore than an hour, although it contained a good wearisome and many long and railier £40
rallies.
Perry led 3-1, then 3-2 in the first set, but afterwards gailed along com- fortably to take the next four games, In the second set the Englishman maintained his leads, going ahead at 3- nad again for 5-3, while in the
What Padgham thinks about it is third set he was Gel ahead.
were many splendid lang best expressed by the fact that he has There rallies in the last set, when Crawford,covered the American's playing a hopeless uphill game, went agreed to play him on the Selsdon all out to prevent a straight sets Park course.
Surrey Invite Hobbs And Hitch To Return For County Cricket Match
HITCH'S "NO"
нежь
INTERPORT BOWLS
PLAYERS WHO ARE AVAILABLE
12 Names Submitted
more
the club £23,320, according to the: balance-sheet, but netual expenditure. is probably twice this figure.
Arsenal's freehold grounds and stands are valued at £137,549 in the balance-sheet, but this is after £10,- 900 has been taken from profits to write down the value of the buildings, This consitutes yet another hidden reserve.
Despite the large undistributed re- sources of the club, the dividend on the shares is limited to 7 per cent, which is the maximum allowed by the rules of the F.A.
ARSENAL ENCLOSURE
HOLE
IN
ONE
*
Mr. A. K. Mackenzie, shot a hole In one at Deep Water Bay on Mon- day when playing from the eighth tee.
Death Of A Great
Tennis Personality
"THE LACOSTE OF CHINA"
(By "Veritas")
24
WALK
one
TWO MATCHES DECIDED Only two matches were played in the "A" Division of the Lawn Tennis The Lengue yesterday afternoon. Chinese R.C. "B" entertained the (Continued on Page 8.)
KHOO HOOI-HYE
Through the muddle and omnibus items one gets the impression of a At a meeting of the Hongkong strong financial position and large In the Arst set the Frenchwoman, Lawn Bowls Association in the hidden reserves. without acluntly, getting the better ofs. C. M. Post Boardroom yesterday the deal, was keeping her end up well the personnel of the Interport Com-
News of the death of Khuo Hool- and won the fourth gume, for 22mittee was decided and the names of
hye comes as a great shock to the from 10; but two games later she players avaliable for the trip to Arsenal's scheme to form a club en-
whole tennis fraternity of Hong- could not clinch a vantage point and Shanghai were given.
kong. closure is making headway, though 42. Bow~|
Khoo, whe Mrs. Sperling made it
of the Mr. C. J. Tacchi was in the chair old-time supporters of the game mny ever, Mmie, Mathieu retaliated in the
ever produced by next game, and then had na in- and others present were:-Messrs. C. look askance at the venture There finest players
well-known figurz opportune fail which compelled her B. Hosking (Secretary), A. O. Madar will be 100 members at ten guineashes Player
(Lt.C.), J. Lunny (H.K. Electric), cach-the dearest season ticket is five in Hongkong courts, often play- to let Mrs Sperling reach 10-30 and P, E. Knight (C.S.G.G.), J. S.. Rid-1 guineas and these gilded aristocrats ing here during
various take that game as well as the next delt. (Police), H. Overy (K.C.C.), F. of Soccer will have the exclusive right trips between Mainya and Shanghai. to 15 for the set.
X. M. Silva (Roercio), G. Sherriff to the directors' box in the West In this connection he will probably London. asking It the Welsh county would The second set was a quicker affair.. B. G.
bar. They
disping against Franciaco Huang in 1924, Gordon Lam and Paul release Hitch.
Mrs. Sperling got an early winning foon Docks), E. el Areuils (CCC) Foots, and American army be chielly remembered for his magni- W. Lock Wei, Paul Kong and C. K. Surrey, who were weakened
lead, and was soon driving harder
and J. Russell (H.K.F.C.).
ought to view the football through Aragon, the then Philippines cham Kong in 1928 and Lum, Kho Sintic. by the calls of the Gentlemen
On a motion of the Chairman it rase-unted spectacles.. Guests can be pion, on the Hongkong Cricket Club and Guy Cheng in 1938) he certainty. and volleying occasionally in a man- ner that carried her to 4-0 and out was decided that the selected team introduced at half a guinea each.
courts in 1930.
appeared in more than one of the Far vs. Players match at Lord's upon
Hitch himself stated that he had at 6-2. In the last game Mine. should soil for Shanghal by the Em- The enclosure is being reccndition- Khoo, who could rightly be de-Eastern Gantes aneetings, and regular- the services of E. R. T. Holmes, not played in first-class cricket since Mathieu saved two match points but press of Asia on September 4, as ed with upholstered rubber-cushioned scribed as the Lacoste of Chinese ly competed in China's national cham
ปี very pionships. had to yield at vantage against her previous correspondence hnd in-seats, and glass screens will protect tennis, was without doubt F. R. Brown, Fishlock, and 1025.
He also played for Shanghai against Gover, a week or so ago, made a "and I do not feel that I could do "I am in my fiftieth year," he said,
dicated that the end of September the inmates from the gaze of the talented baseline player. From here
vulgar proletarians.
he sent over withering driven on Hongkong in the 1931 Interport up whs too late for the matches: rather startling move in their myself justice in a three-day match. POLISH GIRL DISAPPOINTS
both hands, and more than once he North, when Shanghai won all Ava It was announced that the follow-
drove Hongkong champions off the matchen. It was in this series that efforts to get together a team to Asked for an explanation of this
In the other match Mile. Jedrze ing players were, available if select-
powerful E. C. Fincher dramatically sustained unusual step, Mr. A. F. Davey, secre-
a bye-law as to whether he could ob- court by means of these.
strokes, meet Warwickshire in the game tary of Surrey, said: "Mr. Holmes Jawska played disappointingly, but I ed.-F. Y. V. Ribeiro and F. X. M.
an attack of cramp whilst playing at the Oval on the same day.
apparently thought, from what he had am inclined to attribute this to the da Silva (Recrelo), A: Ilyde Lay tain a substitute for N. J. Bebbing
the pain being so severo that They invited Jack Hobbs, who heard, that "Bill" lich could bowl clever manner in which Miss Jacobs K.C.C.). II. H. Rose (K.B.G.C.), C. ton, a member of his entry in the has not taken part in county cricket pretty fast for a short time. We have tackled her, varying her tactles in S. Rossclet, J. S. Landolt, D. Rum-Open Rink competition, who was in Malaya, he subsequently conquered
accordance with the needs of the Jahn and W. Ward (C.C.C.), P. E. hospital with appendicitis. After re other fields when he visited Shanghal the
Possessing a modest and unprete since 1934, and "Bill" Hitch, the not received a reply from litm."
World situation. At the outset the Polish Knight and J. F. McGowan, (C.S. ference to the rules the Committee and carried off the singles title on Questioned by a News of former bowler, who is now! roach to the Glamorgan club, to representa live, Mr. Davey said that girl was playing her valiant, hard-CC) and L. Glendenning and W. agreed that a substitute, who would more than one occasion. His duels tious personality both on and off the
play until the end of the compet with Gordon Lum used to be
high-spots of the Shanghai tennis court, Khoo became a popular figuro wherever he wont. He took victory turn out for them.
the Surrey committee thought it a hitting game, which has carried her Dali (Police).
The Interport Committee elected tion, was allowable,
The postponement of the semi-con
and defeat aliko and was a model of Hobbs declined the invitation, pre- good idea to re-introduce some of the so for up to now, with success.
old favourites. "Hobbs and Hitch,"
courteous behaviour. Miss Jacobs was hilting hard, too, comprised Messrs. C. B. Hosking
PLAYED INTERPORT
His death loaves a vital gap in the terring not to seappear in first-class he said, "are among the most popular and I think she was right. At any (Secretary), J. Russell, J. V. Ramsay, final match between FX, M. da
Honson and 8. A. Bright - was Although it is incorrect to say that ranks be tennis players whose quail- eet, and Hitch is not likely to severs, the county has ever had, and rato, after leading by 3-2 and being G. H. Sherriff, E. el Arculi and S. Silva and J. E. Noronha and J. E.
would have delighted thousands of led by 4-3 she won the Jedrzejowska Deacon. M. 3. Turnbull, the
Glamorgan their admirers once more to see them service for 4-4, and was still pretty-The Secretary reported that. A sanctioned by the Committee. The Khoo played for China in the Davis des as sportsmen putlive their re-
Cap (her Topresentativos-have-boon-putation-as-brilliant performers. secretary-captain, received a letter in action.
happy. However, the Polish girl at Hyde Lay had asked for a ruling on new date fixed was August 37
cept
on the third.
For years undisputed champion of player had to concode
tha
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