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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 20,
1937.
Cheered To Victory
In
Championship-Deciding Badminton Match
Our staff photographer yesterday obtained these shots while walking round the tennis courts at the Cricket Club. Top left Frank Kwok drives loft S. W. Liang at the finish of a backhand shot. Next to him is Ware making a backhand drive.
on the forehand. Top right C. P. Ip makes a backhand valley. Bottom
CRICKET TOURISTS
Warwickshire amateur, scored 03. Siris 43. Voer 24 not out
Colony Tennis Championships
KWOK GIVEN FRIGHT
IP BEAT HIMSELF
BY INDISCREET TACTICS
GAME DESCRIBED
(By "Veritas")
Frank Kwok, diminutive left- hand Chinese Recreation Club player, who caused a surprise by beating Badiker in the first round of the Colony tennis champion- ship, wasn't so far off from defeat himself yesterday afternoon when he met C. P. Ip in a second round match.
Ip, after winning the first set and losing the second, had a great chance of leading 5-3 in the final stanza, but threw it away on his service as a result of some fearful indiscretions in raiding the net.
should have been suflleint worn-
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LITTLE WEEK-END SPORT
PROGRAMME VERY RESTRICTED
1.R.C. OVERTURES TO THE CLUB
RECREIO CALLANT LOSERS TO A FINE TEAM
CORRESPONDENCE
Red Jacks For Lawn Bowls
To the Sports Edlior,
Hongkong Telegraph.
•
Sir. How would lawn bowlers feel If one morning they read that the Hongkong Lawn Bowls Association lustreided that in all league games during the forthcoming season, it will be obligatory to use a red jack?
Stupid? Of course. But as the Association is at present run, such fint is not outskle the bounds of pos- şibility.
as well as in nome.
Match Decided In Seventh Game
(By "Veritas")
WITH every point cheered by a large gathering of
spectators, University "A" and Recreio "A" last evening played a thrilling league badminton match at the Eu Tong-sen gymnasium which resulted in the Varsity winning by six games to three, thereby making them- selves certain of the championship.
Carvalho
BUL
Dut
Recrelo made a lighting effort to Then the Varsity por gradually nvert what was practically an in- eought them up until it was 14-all. evilable result. They started off They actually took the lead from this Membership of the Association is grandly by winning the first game point and when they had reached 20 broadly speaking, confined to Bowls after it had been "retted", and this appeared to be safe for a win. Clubs. Each Club sends a represent-was sufficient indication of the keenly the visitors come strongly and squar- alive to the General Committee, contested ties which were to followed
matters at 20-all. Services This body is sometimes called the University, however, slowly but sure- changed hands at this point, both
and And Council. I wish were so in fact by gained the ascendancy and led 2-1. Silva
performing 3- and 4-1 before the visitors check-nobly to get both University "hands Once a year the Association holdsed their progress through Oliveira out" without any addition to their total. After that they went to their un annual general meeting at which and Remedlos,
own points in a spectacular Anish. all bowlers in the Colony are invited: After that T. C. Lee and K. L. Yong set about L. A. Carvalho and one on to attend. Apparently every
M. A. Silva witning in handsome present has power to vote.
style 21-8 and so settled the issue Reerein won another game after this, but in the end the Varsity had a three games lenda margin which I forecast in these columns yesterday. UNDENIABLE SUPERIORITY That the University played the very They
Both cricket and football are prac-sary. The Combined XI had made 10 förtain the baseline rattics until whatically at a standstill. There are no the loss of three wickets when slumps time he had a proper opening for an
advance to the net.
WHITE JACK.
University did not take long to get on level terms. Alves and Barros could not compete against the speed and accuracy on the Tan-Hut com bination, Hul was brilliant overlicad and Tan nglle and effective from the net.
THE TURNING POINT
he
One can rendily see that no malter how weightily the General Committee (By "Veritas")
may have considered some question Though local sportemen will during the year, the democratic and rugged individualist with a coterle of
Then followed the game which continue to play games during the pais can easily upset its decision at
really proved the turning point. Lea week-end, they will be of a dif-the annual general meeting.
and Yong ran up against Oliveira Also it has not been unknown for superior badminton only a
and Remedios. It was a fascinating Apparently Ip's highly successful ferent nature to football, ericiset,
to voice an were fult value for the two points encounter, with the visitors leading forecourt attack in the first set lured tennis and hockey. The major representative of a Club on the blasted person woukt deny.
General Committee him into believing that he had only
the lengue.
But the result was always in doubt to advance to the net to win points ity of our young men who indulge opinion of his own at a Committee just as they are worthy champions of and then robbed of their advantage,
in receipt of
While it is true that in last night's until the very lust stroke. Remedios, whenever he liked. But the second in these recreations during week-meeting and not be
specille Instructions from his Club.
Net Jacks abi
s aside, I suggest that this game the advantages were with them, who played very soundly in the it is well to recall that my prest early stages of the game was of the Association
uncertain when ing to him. By that time Kwok had ends are this time engaged in settled down and was
driving
with War "Games", with the result General Committee
be established in fact as a Council.viously this season defented tecreio Inclined to become unce grent consistency and fine accuracy that there is very little organised to be composed of club representa- on the latter's court at King's Park, the vital points were at stake. Lee's
Ip went up on the on both
which silliest of shols
invariably sport on tap either to-day or to- tives delegated to convey to it the when conditions tended to favour the smashing was remarkable and he scored outright aces down the mid- Portuguese. wishes of each Club. If this were
dle of the court almost every time meant a point to Kwok. Ip's persist-morrow.
Last night the Recreio had to con- done further annual general meetings tend with a difficult court, while it went for an overhead shot. Yong's ance in such tacties became all the
of the Association would be unneces-must be recorded that Carvalho was angled drop shots often paved the more stronger because he did show
by no means recovered from his
way for these coups, and generally at rare intervals that he could sus-
recent illness and found it impossible speaking the University pair played to do justice to himself. The intro with
opponents. duction of H. A. Barros to the team than more resource and intilallve in Mace of E. de Sousa was not so The University went steadily ahead successful as the Portuguese had after this. Carvalho and Silva lost it would turn out to be, to Tan and Hul, but it was obvious If anything lp defeated himself be-
The ladies have it all on their own Sir,Would your racing corres
responsible for of his previous hard game and was cause he lacked the good sense to
It is possible It is
well below form. University built work out u fool-proof method of at- so far as hockey is concerned, the pondent Captain Foster please ex- that Barros was tack. He displayed fine control over Caer Clark Cup and Brawn Cup complain his statement that there were Recreio's defeat.
a win on Rose though, that, with their greater ex- upa-solid--lead-and-eventually.
beller cam
clinched the issue in the seventh This match will be played at Wel- his heavily chopped and cut strokes petitions being brought to a conclu-1.894 tinkets for
Queen in the All Out Stakes, when perience and
game. The winning point was wildly lington, instead of the match versus from the base of the court and Kwok sion with the customary Champions
according dainst the could-never come in
v. Rest games..
the Hongkong Jockey Souse and Alves would have, snatch- Wellington, from March 24 to 27.
Club's records there were only 75 ed a second game. However, this cheered, for it meant that University had regained a title last won by the The other matches will be played with any great confidence.
At the Indian Recreation Club, the
detract from the Univer- team then playing as Ellot Hall in The tourists were dismissed for at Canterbury and Auckland as pre-clearly showed that if I cared to
his time he could win his points 1.R.C. first and second teams are play-tickets for a win on Rose Queen, out is chiefly conjecture and cannot, in
1034-35 ing a friendly match, chielly to keep of a total of 1.884 win tickets. In-nny way, de 217 runs, of which RES. Wyatt, the viously scheduled.-Reuter,
on well established forecourt sorties.
The rest of the match was in the hot favourite as 'Captain Foster The success of their two leading But he was too anxious to get to the the seniors in trim for the approach-stead of Rose Queen being a raging sily's skilful display of badminton. net with the result that Kwok passed ing play-off tie for the sunlor cham-states, she was actually the outsider pairs-P. E. Tan and P. K. Hui and nature of an anti-climax,
T. C. Lee and K. L. Yong-was de-
University "A" now lead the rest plonship. time
of the division by four points, having and a again.
cisive.
Both won all three games. Kwek's steadiness off the ground
and Hul were extended only in Th
won all twelve games played, though ofter a shaky first-set was pleasure
one, while Lee and Yong had hard this record includes one or two fights to overcome Oliveira and matches in which opponents have walk-overs, St. An- Remedios at 21-19 and Alves and conceded
drew's "A" have given a walk-over Barros at 21-17.
to the Varsity and this is included in the revised league table published
M.C.C. Team Commence were drawn for the day, Reuter,
New Zealand Matches
Christchurch, N.Z., Mar. 19. The M.C.C. tourists commenced their first match in New Zealand to- day, when they batted first in their three-day game against a combined Canterbury Otago elde.
TEST MATCH ARRANGED
Landon, Mar. 19.
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'DEFEATED HIMSELF
league cricket encounters in ellfiel" "the Arst afternoon is completely blank so far as football is concerned,
or second divisions, and this "Captain Foster" And
Rose Queen
1.R.C. SUGGESTIONS
to watch. He played carefully and Incidentally at the time of welting) very deliberately but these were the actual date and venue for that sensible tactics and brought about important event is unsettled.
their
own reward. All the same he
must have silently offered
up songs
their
* Dig it would be unfair to suggest that Carvalho was feeling the effects
to
of the race,
BUSTY
BRADDOCK
Indians have suggested playing it
of thankfulness that Ip preferred to off on Saturday next. They desire CONFIDENT
play so rashly, for when the loser did this date for varying reasons, chief show himself prepared to lengthen the of which is to get the game played railies, Kwok had nothing in hand, as soon as possible. and very often lost out.
The match improved
The Indians, I hear, are fully pre- as it pro- gressed and at times the tennis was pored to play the H.K.CC. on the extremely Interesting. Ip was attace Club ground, while additionally they tive because of his perpetual attempts have suggested the match start car- to force matters, while Kwok com-ller than usual-say 1.30-and finish manded respect for his cool responses later, probably 0.30, thus ensuring as to these attacks.
far as possible an outright résult
luring the afternoon.
GOOD SERVICE, BUT
T
WILL BEAT JOE LOUIS
Chicago.
Jimmy Braddock's low woice cut through the blue fog from a The Indians await the Cricket cigar: It Warr's ground strokes had been Club's reply to these suggestions. as good as his service he would have given S. W. Llang a very close game.
A
cricket friendly
match
lo
"Sure, I'll beat Joe Louls. Maybe}
The heavyweight champion was draped over a six foot lounge in his Loop Hotel.
But Worr, who is a prominent Army scheduled at the K.C.C. this after-knock him out." player,
could not support an excellent noon, when the home club's second service delivery with any consistent eleven meet Central British School In driving, and Liang had only to keep the return game. Last time they met the schoolboys they all but pulled off the bull in play to make certain of victory and gave the second diy the best puncher in the heavyweight
points.
д
"Make no mistake about Joe. He's
class. He's a mean hitter with either
Liang's cross-court backhand driv-slon champions. a very hot game. ing was a pleasure to watch, and he This time, as in compliment to the hand. Maybe that left hook is his was undeniably the better-equipped
boys, the K.C.C. will turn out a team Sunday, punch but that right is good, two or three firstBut so is mine. I think in a few player. Yet Wars showed signs of which includes promise and there is no reason why division players.
rounds I can feint him into a spot he should not improve his play con-
Ernest Fincher and A. W. Ramsey where he thinks he's got me det siderably if he pays more attention have greed to play, and it is possi. for a left hook. He's got to drop his to
accuracy and obtains better control bie Robin Lee will turn out. This guard to hook. over his shots.
"Then the fight is mine, A straight The replay between S. S. Hussain means the K.C.C. will be fielding a
right
him down hill. Starts very powerful side and one which and Wel Chung ended precisely as bound to give the youngsters a thor- goes back for enough, I can knock
(Continued on Page 13.)
oughly good and, it is to be hoped, him out." beneficial testing.
HELEN WILLS-MOODY
Has Offer To Join The Perry-Vines Tour
L
from
TO-MORROW'S FOOTBALL
There is a restricted soccer pro- gramme to-morrow, the only match of note being that between South China and Eastern at Caroline
Hill.
Victory here for, South China will put them on level terms with the Ulster Rifles for the leadership, pnd they will probably assume first place on superior goal average,
San Francisco; March 19... It is understood that Mrs. Helen It is hard to imagine South China Wills-Moody la considering offers dropping points to Eastern on their the promoters of the Perry own pitch, though they mustn't take Vines professional tennis four, things too lightly. Eastern are a cap
Her husband confirmed that if Mrs. able team, to say the least, and they Willa-Moody signs a proposed con- need to be treated seriously,japa tract with the. Fox and Twentieth Century
Studios for a series of short,But if South China play a normal tennis fimus it would necessitate her game the points are theire. Ono retirement from amateur ranks might go so far as to say that if Lee
Walstong plays, they will win
If he
Braddock's plan at least the one he talks about-virtually was the same
Max Schmeling used to smash myth of Louls, the super fighter. Will Joe have a new defence for the sucker punch?
the
"Louis is a good feinter himself," Braddock admitted. "But i's also true he is easy to feint.
"I watched him in ave fights. Always I see places where he con be hit."
-IN EXCELLENT CONDITION Braddock appeared to be in ex- cellent condition. His weight was within six pounds of the figure he carried against Max Baer in their title fight two years ago.
"I don't think I'll have as much trouble getting lato ring form as I did after my last layoff,” he said. "Six weeks in the woods and I'll be ready for ringwork."
works,
a
FIRST RATE APERITIF The opening encounter was
the feast aperitif for first-rate which was to follow. Carvalho and Silva quickly went into the lead against Liow and Soon and held it until they had scored 14 points.
below.
On Monday next University meet Chinese Y.M.C.A., and when they have won this the championship is definitely theirs,
(Continued on Page 13.)
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