THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1936.
S'HAI BADMINTON PLAYERS EXPECTED IN HONGKONG
Clubhouse Chatter
By "Voritas' MEISE
Wong Wing Is Highly CERTAIN
Praised By
London Sports Critics
RAY
BUT THEY PLAYED
DUCKS AND
DRAKES WITH THE CHINESE
NAMES: TENNIS ENDS
silence ladies and mind to the task of trying to win the those benefits do exist and are taken Thorogood, sports writer of the young players, and have improved London
News-Chronicle!
grade ?
thels gaine necordingly. The effect is Home Soccer On Down- Hett Hongkong's tennis talent, instend has something to say about of bring confined to one club. Is dis- Chinese and football. It makes tributed over the Colony, One would to see the same rathusiasm
ime of
the seater feague
Bike
instructive reading, such as the among following culled from his report teams, of the match between Islington Corinthians and the Chinese General Results Good Olympic team.
"...The move-
possIBLY because of its sheer
TO COME
Spagnoletti Probable
COUNTRY CLUB'S
TENNIS VISIT
Teams Announced: Due October 8
1
(By "Veritas")
A. Spagnoletti Shanghai's champion badminton player, and A. G. Meise, ex-champion, are expected to pay a visit to Hongkong with the Country Club tennis team which is | coming here next month to meet Colony clubs, and prob- ably an unofficial Colony repre- sentative team.
several
IS SHOWMANSHIP
English football is now in full awing. Each match day during the season the managers of the League Clubs will awake with a single thought, "Can wẹ win two points to-day?"
Points! Points! They dominate the game, and I fear the result may be | Injurious. Indeed those who trust their memory of 20“years ago declare thai the public of to-day have a false conception of what football might be as a rhythmleal, scientific exhibition of ball play.
The football spectator of 1930 has been brought up to place speed first, to look for the thrills as they are created on a cinema screen and In applaud the goals
An matter how they may be ob- talned.
Every ollicial trint to be optimist Actually
.an at the start of the season.
he
beset with a terri-' fying fear think the
plans he has made in safeguard Jels club
Ill salisfy
the publie may collapse and bring unending trouby,
The publie 10-
day are the deta tors, and they largely govern the activities of the clubs. They want new players to appeal Their
understatement, the article wri- en by Frank M. Carruthers of the Paily Mall which appears la these pports pages to-day, ha a greater in- dictment of present-day methodo of
Spagnoletti and Melse are the two inent was so amazingly elever in
one considers the general results heatedly expressed and vitriolie con- Melse having been Shanghai gham- gonducting Big Football, than any test buninton players in China, its combination that one Hoon of the league this summer there terenation which might be pennest pion for began to realise why China hadis small room for complaint. There The article is
years, wille an appreciation of Spagnoletti, erstwhille run England so close in Berlin." | has been some
prominent good, entertaining showmanship with football, provid-English tournament player, captured And later on
tennis. The standard of play lus noting it has is limits, "Taese dapper | Improved among the senior payers, is that this showmaster fees;
b point that title from him this year. fellows (the Chinese) know now probably because they have reached in terms of outrageous
expressed
It is expected that the Hongkong
to do shoot, and they understand that ranks. But among the youngsters
sters in the
the wild scramble for the best Badminton Associationi will make maghation there has been a noticeable advance-players, the amazing financial rami- efforts to induce the two players to also the art of finding their men
#d ment. There are promising players teations of first grade of professional give exhibitions while they are here. hard to resist.
thele deman is with neat butterfly touches." in clubs like
Recreio,
South China, suc
soccer, and the consequent everlastung And we shall all appreciate this C.R.C., Craigengower, KITC, and quest for points at any cost, is con-
Other prominent Shanghai sci-
If another Alex one'about Wong Wing. "Chinn's Kov
Kowloon Tong In the main they tributing to a lower standard of foot-intonites who are members of the
Jumes could be benefited from the tall. On the face of malkeeper was a reserve player, experience of league tennis.
discovered find Country Club tennis team are Mrs. It, one
grounds They dificulty
be mort- this Burton, who if you please; but he had the cannot help but derive some valuable should be sa
why
plays for the
would Cercle inmediately aska
One
Sportif Femcais, and J. G. Furbes,
Page to get him. skill and alacrity to grace the knowledge of tactles, and to apply "Why should the game suffer inercly
Evrn managers best of our English teams, and players. Perhaps the beneficial
this knowledge meens
improved because there nee important fea-chil
The Country Club have
and directors are officially the Corinthians, though shooting cults of league tennis are not so ap-happily, is obvious,
re-considerations?"
influenced by pub- The reply,
informed the Hongkong LT.A, that lle opinion in the The monetary
they will be sending down a team of badly at various periods gave parent as one would desire, but that (Continued on Page 9.)
eight or nine players (four ladies and him lots of chances." Thank
of a four or five men). They arrive here you Mr. Thorogood!
It's a
8, and will remain here a week or pleasure to get your opinion!"
What's In A Name ?
PUT what those English newspaper It's
The chi those Chinese narues! The footballers, must have got a big chuckle out of it, The News- Chronicle finished up by describing Wing Ki-ling as Ke-leang Fung! Chua Boun-hay (the best Chinese back on view sayr Frank, Thorogood)
termed JX
Beon-lay Chua. Mori:
JK
umazing is the mess they made of poor Leung Wing-chui. He went in- To print sur 1,700,000 Limes as Wang-Chui-Leng There is also a anart little Chinese right-winger known as Young Shui-yick. But you wouldn't think so if you saw his name in the
the English press. They inore or less agreed on calling him Shup Yich Young, and that's about the nearest they got! And I wonder what Tam Kong-pak said (or even thought) when
пе
he observed that his
nume was Keong-Pecks As will be quickly observed, the chief error was
The
placing.of the
Birname after the christened names. Curiously enough I don't think the English scribes were entirely to blame i for this. According to the
to the feial note-head of the Chinese Olympic football squad, which set out all the nunes of the players, their surnames i were given last, instead of first as is the correct procedure. And as we att know, when it comes to phonetically Arauzeribint Chinese hantes
into Engile anything may happen. I must get the offies, boy, to remind me when Mr. Wong Ka-tsim comes back to ask him why they made that mis- fatce on the notcheats!
Colony League Tennis HONGKONG'S League tennis session
over.
What has it taught us? | Very little that is new. I fear. We And the Chinese have once again fairly dominated the competitions, i and this dominance has become a more less accepted order of things. In the course of one's perambulailors about the club courts one runs across ; players who stoutly assert that "if only we had had a bit of fuck" we should have besten the Chinese. One might be inclined to believe this it one wasn't quite satisfied that the reason for these defeats is something by traced
entirely different. I can
back to an attitude towards the game. These Chinese like to take their tennis seriously. That is, seriously enough
appear to have
AFTER THE BOWLS IS OVER: The Shanghai and Hongkong Interport lawn bowls teams gather round the festive board. This informal photograph takes during Hongkong's recent visit to Shanghai includes A. Hyde-Lay (extreme left), F. W. Turnbuil (President 5.L.B.A.), C. M. Bain (Shanghai's oldest player). A. E. Coates, de Campos (President Club Lusitano) and Mr. Flatcher (President Shanghai Bowls Club),
LEAGUE TENNIS IN
THE MOONLIGHT
·
Bad Light Spoils Finish To Mixed Doubles Match
(Ity "Veritas")
Un-
A pale moun struggled through caught up and overtaken at 5-4 and
the clouds as K.C.C. and C.R.C. |finally beaten 7-5.
with two sets still undecided. Seying sortles. Mrs. Litton. Mrs.
Hurting FOOTBALL?
By. ARBITER
(Frank M. Carruthers)
class by craftsmen able to display the game in Es finest spectacular form.
He realised that, while he must have a winning team to succeed, it was essential that the match points should be gained by the best possible football.
Unhapplly. In following his lead, other clubs to some extent, througli force of circumstances, have concen- -trated on the results rather than on
the play.
Dummy players on a miniature field are used by Charlton Athletic in planning tactice for their football matches. Charlton are in the first division.
This has been responsible not only for clinging the character of the game and low- ering the standard of play but for in- troducing a phyal- eal abandon which Is most undeyir- able.
Foul play s rare
too but. Inany Injuries can be traced 113 2 recklessness
-
spired by the needs of the clubs and the conditions under which the mun have to play. can see noth- harmful in showmanship pro- vided it does not meun the creation of sensationalism.
ng
Even the intro- duction of little stunts to exelte curiosity may be forgiven as long 0. they do not affect the play. ought to be realised, however, that the game can-
It
selection of the teams. The dropping the upkeep and development of the not flourish in the same atmosphere
by the Empress of Japa: on October ut popular slar, even If he is out game.
SO
THE PLAYERS
The players are:
LADIES
Mrs. B. Krenor (French (Club). Mrs. Dvorjetz (Russian Ladles Chuis).
thrilis of the screen aTO not
form, is reflected at the turnstiles. The scarcity of talent persists, EN-a gane, and any club which tried to the
League football is no longer simply that ergated for the film and that perienced players are almost beyond conduct its affairs on the same lines possible on the fleld. arice. Even the Arsenal, with
as even those of ten years ago would reserve fund of about £20,000 for become derelict. transfers, have been made unable to spend any part of it, and whereas hitherto, they favoured the ready made player, they have,' with the other clubs, been compelled to adopt the Fursery system
The League, in fact, is now a huge. corporation into which uil, the arts of showmanship mud enter.
•
Many of the ills from which the Jame is suffering may be attributed When the late Herbert Chapman to the alteration of the off-side ruic came to London to join the Arsenal, Its imagination was fired by the us Leleven years ago. The change was Under the auspices of the Football limited possibilities of the club as he inmediately responsible for the intro- Astoriation boys from roine 400 ele saw it then. mentary schools were couched by old "I give the players last season, and the scheme is want,
duction of new methots, all makelit public what they lie said to me. "the ground for a loose and haphazard style of La be considerably extended. The will not be big enough to hold them." play. state of the game indeed provides a He
pursued his policy boldly, and lit J. G. Forbes (Shanghal Cricket golden opportunity for the youth en- it was who fit the torch of show-
dowed with natural talents.. In three ship in football. or four years he may earn year.
Mrs. Burton (Country Club). 31189 P. Massey (Country Club).
Club).
MEN
J. II. du Par de Massouiles
(French Club).
A. G. Mele (French Club).
£500
WHAT THE PUBLIC WANT Football finance runs into stagger
T. G. Fizels (Country Club), and probably 4. Spagnoletting figures.
(French Club).
Mrs. Krenov will be remembered by many Hongkong tennis players as the former Miss Billy Firth, who played in the Interport here in 1929 and again in Shangaal in 1931. She is an ex-Shanghai singles champion.
According to tentative pro- gromne drawn up by the L.T.A. the Shanghai players, who are making a purely unofficial visit, will meet four local clubs tenis, and probably wind up the series with a match against an unofficial representative Colony side. But the petal details of the pro- gramme have yet to be determined.
LEADING RACKET
WIELDERS
MIXED DOUBLES
DIVISION
Below will be found the most suc
last night decided to call "fluis” to The lady players generally put up their mixed doubles tennis matcha good display, and it was encourak-cessful pairs to date in the mixed to note how they entered into doubles Division of the tennis league. they halved these sets one in which E. F.
The results are up to and including Fincher and Miss Chiu and Miss Mückenzie were Griffiths led W. C. flung and Mrs. especially prominent in this depart-
yesterday's matches. Litton 6-3, and the other in which ment. Iu Tak-cheuk and Mrs, Chiu Chun-
Miss Dalziel drove very well ex- chiu led G. Bodiker and Miss Maccept on return of service when she kenzle 3-1-and K.C.C. won the appeared to go across too far and Taut Yun-pul and match by 51⁄2 sels to 314.
found her stroke cramped. But in
drives,
W. C. Hunz and Mr." Litton
Responsible officials now reallse' The Arsenal to-day stands us a magnificent' monument to Mr. Chap- that a disastrous inistake was minde, man's unparalleled achievements. Ne and, though there is as yet no movė une had ever visualised the scope of to revert to the old conditions, I he the game as he did, but unfortunately
A million people watch League bis ains games in England and Scotland every stood." Saturday, and, without counting their In dressing the Highbury window taking place in the play will force a personal expenses, they contribute with stars his ambition was to pro- change to be brought about. in a season more than £3,000,000 to vide an entertainment of the highest
were not property under- lieve that the decline which is surely.
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Our Daily Golf
Hint
SHANGHAI WINS
An excess of caution is CRICKET
not a good thing. It leads to steering and to quitting in the stroke.
--Robby Jones.
SE
Lady Golfers Reveal Their Prowess
AUTUMN MEETING AT D. W. BAY
INTERPORT
MILITARY ROWING
Royal Welch Fusiliers Hold Regatta
The Anat rnces of the annual row- ing regatta of the Royal Welch Fusiliers took place at Shamshuipo yesterday.
AGAINST HANKOW The heats fur this competition
were rowed off on September 17 · when the following qualified for the finals;
Hankow, Sept. 21, Shanghai won the Interport. 1,000 Yards."C" beat ""B" Coy, cricket match against Hankow, by four lengths. Time: 5 mins.
"D" beat "A" Coy. by half a which was concluded to-day, by length, Time: 5 mins. d secs. 106 runs. Requiring 342 runs!
see.
2,000 Yards."" beat "A" Coy. for victory, Hankow, who by five lengths. Time: 10 mins. 20 opened their second innings on sues. "D" heat "C" Coy, by two the resumption of play this lengths, Time: 9 mins. 68 secs.
Final placings of yesterday's morning, made a gallant bid, events were as follows:
but were dismissed for 235.
1,000 Yards "D" beat "C" Coy. With their victory this year, Shung, by one length, Time: 3 mins. 35 The Autumn meeting of the Royal Bui has caught up with Hankow, both secs. Hongkong Golf
clubs now having seven wins each. Club (Women's Section) held
The scores In the present yesterday over
the were: Deepwater Bay course was an out- standing success, entries being good and the competition extremely keen. Mrs. Withington and Miss Sleven-
secs.
2,000 Yards."D" beat "B" Coy. match by six lengths. Time: 8 mins. 49
Shanghai, Ist innings. 232 Shanghai, 2nd fanings, 207 Hankow, 1st innings, 158 Bankow, 2nd Innings, 235
In their second innings to-day the
The absence of Lieut. L. II. Ynter rowing officer, who is in hospital, was capably filled by Licut. N. R. G. Bosanquet.
Quite a large crowd assembled at the bamboo pler to witness the finish
son led for the One Club competi-home team were alded by unexpec- tion, both returning a net score of tedly poor fielding on the part of the of the races, which were keenly con- 68, but as Miss Stevenson had pre-visitors. D. F. Landole was the only tested. sented the prize, it was received by Shanghai player who impressed, glv-
MIXED DOUBLES
P. W. LD. Mi Perry (C.R.C.)
************ 18 13 G. Bodiker and Mler A. Mackensle
(K.C.C.) 21.13 R.C.C. 1.......................................... 21 13
1
1
1 2
7
30 11
1
1
1 11 4 3
Mrs. Withington.
2 0
W. C. Hung
A. L Ballivan and Mrs. Dowling
(U.S.R.C.) Cant. Mine And Men. Aalton
(U.N.TC.)
P
B
0
7 2
11
4
1
E. F. Fincher and Mas Grimihe
(K.C.C.L)
A late start and two long sets were the rallies she was often finding her to find it worth while to put in plenty the reasons why the last stages of the opponent's feet with nice length r. c. Fincher, and Mina O. Dalziel
Berni❤ of team practice both before and mutch were entered upon in
This darkness. At 6.45 Fincher and Hung during the league season,
This result ruined the champions' should
riul be
confused with pot-and their partners were still trying
to complete the set, but by itten it 100 per cent, record for the season, hunting. The Chinese attitude 10
tennis is both fair and was pitch daris, and the players were and I enabled KC.C. to finish an laudable.
English simply making jabs at the ball by vet points with U.S.R.C. for second place. But the United Services enjoy idea of "playing the game for the instinct. They could see nothing.
This was a pity as it spoilt what a slightly better, sets average.
The results game's sake" may be all very well,
were: but in these days of severe compet would have been a splendid finish to tion it can be respectable. A team an enjoyable match. K.C.C. would and Mrs.
The old-time
1. Goldman and Mr. Wilson
(U.B.ILC.)
Tau Wai-oul and Mine. Chtu
Chanchal (CRC)
1
1
C. Liiton beat Miss Q. of players which has taken the trouble probably have won as they had four Dalziel and E. C. Fincher 6-4; lost to concentrate on the giune may find and half sets in the bag when the to Miss A. Mackenzie and G. Bodiker A. P. Guest and Mr. Kew
(K.C.G. *) good reasons for suspecting the good last two scls were in progress. They5-7; drew with Miss M. Grihs and clark and Mr. McCa(0.0.8) 12.
needed but half a point to win the E. F. Fincher 6-6.
AL. Sullivan d Mr. 1.C. lu -sportsmanship of a team which finds encounter:
und Mrs.
Mr. C. Chiu lost to Times (U.B.RO.LINKE Miss O. Dalziel and E. C. Fincher A. V, Remedio and Misa A. Rosa 2-0: drew with My A. Mackenzies. A. Gray and Mrs. McCaw,
(Rerely)... 20 10 and G. Bodiker 0-0; drew with Miss M. Grimths and E. F. Fincher B-6. Gaiman and Mrs. Kayli Y. Congo and Ms Botelho
it too much effort to put in a spot of
serious practice before it takes the court. There is a definite suspicion of anobbishness in this "maskec, It's
LADIES PLAY WELL
5. W. Linng and Miss R. Perry (C.R.C.) lost to Miss O. Dalziel and
(U.5.1.C.)
A.
M. W. I and Br, ton
(CRC)
score
at
the
UNIVERSITY, SPORTS
ing an excellent performance behind | the wickets. The The winner of the scratch score over nine holes was Mrs. K. F. luncheon interval was 120 runs for Robertson who had a
four wickels (A. J. W. Evans 60, A. ched of 38, V. T. Dean 43). whlie the following, ed. for the
Dean lost his wicket soon after the hidden prize: Mrs. Rossey, Mrs. Macadam, Mrs. Wolf and Mrs.esumption of play, without adding Carrie, Mrs. Woir finally wori tre te luis account, but Evans carried his
to 73 before being dismissed. prize for the best score over the lost Beoredord of the visitors' field.tember 30 at 2.30 p.in, in the same
The
nino holes.
The driving competition was
ing improved during the afternoon,
wort
The fourth University Inter-Hos- tet aquatic sports will be held on October 3 at 2 p.m. at the European- Y.M.C.A.
The heats will be decided on Sep-
bath
Apart from the University cham and Hankow were finally all out for pionship and handicap events, there by Mrs. Nora Wilson, who cleared 235 W. S. E. Jomes with 34 was will be a 50 yards handicap race for 170 yards 1 ft, with Miss Goodrich third top-scorer. J. D. 11. Leckie was graduates (post entries)
177 once more the most successful of the open Colony events, the 100 yards and two Shanghal bowlers, taking Ave wickets free style and the. 200 yards Open for 48 runs. In Hankow's first in- Relay (four men each). Entries for nlngs his analysis was Ave for 43.
The detailed scores for the first to the Hon. Secretary of the Uni
the last two events should be sent, two day's play follow,
scconit. She had a
soyards.
30
drive of
4 The Chinese fielded a somewhat only a game frame of mind. One weak team. Neither Tsui Wai-pul. consoling feature, however, of the Tsui Yun-pul nor M. W. Lo were on now closing league season is that view. Iu Tak-lam came into the team E. C. Fincher 2-0;, lost to Miss A. c. Durrello And Ma G330
Mrs. Rossey and Mrs. Maltiand oler teams besides the Chinese Re-again and played faultless tennis. Mackenzie and G. Bodiker 3-6; beat Remedion (Rechain) poker 12 5 8 tied in the approach and putting creation Club have found it worth Liang Sal-wah was also introduced Miss M. Griffiths and E. F. Fincher W. 0.1fung And Miss It. Perry
event, both taking nine strokes, while to concentrate on the game; and did well to assist Miss Rose
(C.R.G.),..
At the end of a very enjoyable furthermore their reward has been Perry in taking a 7-3 set from E. F. the distipation of winning one of the Fincher and Miss Grimths, -
day, Mra, A. K. Mackenzie, captain Tongues
of the club, distributed the prizes. or falshing a very good Willle Hung exploited his sturdy second. One thinks of the K.I.T.C. volleying to telling effect against E.
Mrs. R. W. Shewan presented the prize for the best scratch score, Miss Stevenson for the Ono Club com- petition, while the remainder of the prizes were given by the Women's Section.
a. C. Burnett and Miss Othe
(K.0.0.1.)
lu Tak-obeuk and Miss It. Perry
(C.ILC.)
3'z 1 0
#21 0
7-5,
LEAGUE TABLE
Sels
P. W. L. D. F. A. Pts,
11′′
A. V. Gonzo and Mis-C, M. ******* 1Úbeiro" (Boersio) Jam
Doder and Mr. McCaw ∙11 (1.0.C..)
3
12
Wition
and the Club de Recreio in the "CC. Fincher and Miss Olive Dalziel, C.R.C. 8 7 1 0 57% 14% 14 Division and of Craigengower in the but Hung and Mrs. Lillon were taken U.S.R.C.-80-2 1 434 25 "D" Division. It is not the fact that completely by surprise in their first K.C.C. (1) 8 5 2 1 45 they have woh a cup or a shield that not when, after leading Bodiker und Raerelo
27 matters, but that by putting their Miss Mackenzie thres-love, they were K.C.C. (2) 0.71 1785.
0 16 1 141⁄2 54% 3. With beton and Kr
1 2 72
SHANGHAI-IST INNINGS:
versity Swimming Club before
G. Chatterton, c. James, b Dean 25 D. F. Landale, at. James, b. Evans E. C. Baker, c. and b, Deen..... 20P. F. Burford, c. James, b. Evans L. R. D. Secreton, c. James, b. J. D. Sayle, e. Kirkbride, b
Evans
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K. Foot, c. and b. Eynna .... 21C. J. H. Spraggelt, b. Evans 18 (Continued on Page D.)
J. B. H. Leckie, hit wicket, b.
Evans G.-M.. Mills, Lb.w., b. Dean
Sherwin