THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 14, 1937.
Junior Make A Brave
Shute Senior And Junior
Exit From Colony Tennis Championship
WIN FIRST SET FROM A CARELESS OPPOSITION
Hung And Fincher
Never Touched
Best Form
(By "Veritas")
E. C. Fincher and W. C. Hung beat E. L. I. Shute and K. Shule 6-8. 6-0, 0-1,
FOR one set in this men's doubles championship on the quarter-final match
stand court yesterday, the Shute combination played with such commendable steadiness and enterprise that they had the oventual winners in rare dif- ficultion. They deservedly won the set at 8-6 before 'Fincher and Hang started to play any. thing like the game expected of them.
thnes found gaps down the middle of the court for a well placed volley. this stroke brought about more errors then points.
HONOURS TO KENNETH
Chief honours appropriately go to Kenneth Shute who played his finest game to date in Hongkong. Had his father poached a little less might have been closer result. Kenneth was in fine driving form and lobbed magnificently sending the opposition back to three-quarter court every ilme. His service was a pleasure to watch, the first delivery good fast one at that usually being good.
Father Shule was at his best in the Best sol, when he forced errors from the opposition either, with his Once started, however, they brook-ipeedy top-spin drives which dipped
Ten further Interference. ed no
With in succession fell to their itames rackets, und It was only a valiant solo effort by young Kenneth Shute on service which enabled the losers 10 avold a second love-set defest.
There was a sort of smugness About the early play of Fincher and particular-which Hung-Hung In
met its just reward. Indifference in atroke making and movement about the court wll seldom contribute to wards success, especially when it is attempted at the expense of two very keen players. The winners had to pull themselves together after that Arst set. Then they played more like the Fincher and Hung we have come to know.
HUNG'S SLOW START Perhaps is that Hung Is Invari ably a slow starter, but in this match he certainly took a long time to settle down. If he had to make more than two successive strokes It was odds on that he would commit a blunder of the third. The Shute partner- ship soon discovered how to exploit this. They concentrated their best length loby on Hung. alternating these with dipping drives which landed at his feel, and the immediate result was a drop of points.
Neither was.Fincher too happy in these coriler phases of the game, though of the two he was immeasur ably superior. As the game develop- Fincher Improved. In the cd second and final sets his overhead functioned to perfection, and no mat- fer how high the Shutes tossed the ball, Fincher mude his smashes to the corners.
after
Hung gathered confidence the first set, bui at no time did he display form sumcient to mark him as a possible Colony champion. His smashes apart from a few made on top of the net, were comparulively easy to pick up and though he some-
sharply and at an angle, or admirably judged lobs. The point which gave him and his son the first act was just about na ideal a lob seen In Hongkong, the bull complete- ly bafing Fincher and falling on the baseline.
Later Shute senler deteriorated and made less confident shots against a pair who were forcing matters. Also he displayed faulty judgment times in going across the court to take shots which should have been loft to Shutė junior.
at
Though Fincher and Hung, playing better as the games were reeled off. won ten in a row, they had to play hard for the points and several of the games went to deuce. In the Afth game of the final get, Kenneth Shule made a supreme effort to stem ine tide and with a series of excel lent service deliveries, followed by volleys and smashes, succeeded in his quest. It was a dazzling effort for a player of such tender, years,
But there success stopped. Fin- cher and Hung sailed gaily to their points in the next two games and entered the semi-final.
Diamonds For Tennis!
New Lawn Tennis Association colours for Davis and Wightman Cup matches,
V.
Diamonds for woment They will be presented with a jewelled arrow brooch, with the "faltinis #GB. U.B.A." In diamonds.
New awards to Davis Cup players include a blazer and te. C. E. Hare and F. IL D. Wilde have received recognition-a Belush blazer and badge, and an England badge,
L.T.A. have made a £300 grant to the Publle Schools Association for coaching this season:
also
2150 to the Cambridgeshire As- sociation to instituto a coaching scheme at Cambridge college clubs.
.
THE U.S.
HAVE BIG
DAVIS CUP
AMBITIONS
(By Henry Super)
United Press Staff Correspondent
New York. Holcombe Ward, new presi- dent of the United States Lawn Tennis Association, sat in the office of his woollen business and said:
KWOK IN SEMI-FINAL.
Frank Kwok toyed with Y. C. Lau to enter the semi-final of the singles championship. He won 6-3, 6-0, and was never extended. Kwok meets either II. D. Rumjaha or Leong Ping- chul in the next round. I think he ou is bound to lose to Rumjahn, but it Leong is his opponent, he will have a reasonable chance of winning.
2. It is not alarming that the pro- fessional promoters are success. fully raiding the amateur ranks.
way
IMERLIN ON WIMBLEDON PROSPECTS
ONLY TWO WITH ANY CHANCE OF WINNING
(By A Lawn Tennis Correspondent)
It is refreshing occasionally to get an outside view on the merits and demerits of the principal players of the day. Commenting on an article of mine on "The Coronation Wimble- don." In The Observer a fortnight ago, Andre Merlin, the young French player who made such a gallant effort to save the Davis Cup for his country when Grent Britain won it four years ngo, has a very definite point of view of his own, which he embodies in a long and interesting letter.
In my article I had written that I considered the forthcoming champion- ship singles at Wimbledon, both men's and women's, to be far more "open" than they had been for many years past. The disappearance of Perry from the Geld has done away alto- gether with that feeling, almost of hopelessness, that must have been ex- perienced by most even of the best
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JUNIOR CRICKET CHAMPIONS. Here is the Kowloon Cricket Club second' eloven which won the junior cricket league this year. Standing (left_to_right), R. P. Phillips (scorer), F. Zimmern, R. Baldwin, K. M. Baxter, G. A. V. Hall, C. B. R. Sargent, R. T. Broadbridge and T. Carr. Sitting: S. A. Gray, W. C. Hung, A. A. Dand (Captain), W. Mulcahy (Sub-Captain), W. L. McKenzie and T. A „Madar. (Photo: Mee Cheung).
players during the last year or two; Colony Tennis Championships
and
with an entry comprising. D.
Budge, S. B. Wood, B., M. Grant, and
perhaps F. Parker from the U.S.A., RUMJAHN MUST HUSTLE
J. II. Crawford, A. K Quist, V. B. McGrath, and J. Bromwich from Australia, N. Farquharson (one of South Perry's conquerors) Africa; J. Yamagishi from Japan, our own Austin, and a crowd of Cen-
from
catal players, comprising G. von
and H. Henkel of Germany, Cramm and B. Destremau, and perhaps the great-
R Borotra himself from France, Menzel, perhaps, K. Schroeder, and others, it seemed to me that to pick the ultimate winner from so strong. varied, and even a fleld would be quite impossible.
and it.
LEONG PING-CHIU
TO WIN TO-DAY
Youth Versus Experience
Doubles Match
(By "Veritas")
.
AN EPIC BOAT
RACE
London Beat Thames
in Record Time
...
(By C. Venables)
The Grand crews of London Row- ing Club and Thames Rowing Club had one of the finest raees ever seen on the tideway when, In place of the Annual Head of the River champion- ship, they raced from, Mortlake to Putney. London won by length, and made a new record of 10min. 12sec. for the course on the ebb tide. The old one of 18min. 279. was made in 1887 by Harcourt Gold's
Merlin, however, is far more selec- 1. Winning the Davis Cup is not tive. He is surprised that the future Important to development of champions were not pointed out with tennis,
more precision, and writes "My. opinion is that there are but two ten-
H. D. Rumjahn, who is ex-ments on the likely outcome of the Oxford crew. Conditions were nearly nls men having a chance of success.
Gosano and Remedios are deal, von Cramm and D. Budge, un even then Budge seems to have a pocted to reach the final of the match.
London chose the Surrey station, 3. The competition for the Davis much better chance; he beat Perry Colony singles tennis champion- said to be playing better now than
ship, will have an opportunity ever before, but it has been notice and both struck 38 in the arst minute Cup this year should be a three-twice last year, and the nice German
able that they are apt to fell below and Thames, with the bend slightly battle among the United is pursued by hard luck since several this afternoon of revealing pre-form in the crucial tests. Most cer in their favour, went all out to gain
years. Any other result than Budge's
cisely what is his current formtainly they cannot afford to concede the lead before Barnes Bridge. In victory States, Australfa and Germany. or perhaps von Cramm's
anything in this match. Ng and Hon the second minute Thames were when he meets Leong Ping will most likely attack their overhead. doing 30 and London 35, and at Ward, who played on the first would certainly be the consequence of American Davis Cup team in 1000, illness, or inf
injury. I agree with the chui, conqueror of Lee Wai-Goang can be very weak in his Barnes Bridge Thames were 3 feet has two ambitions in his new job.names of Quist and Austin as prob- tong, on the stand court.”
sniashing as he was for a set and a ahead. For years he refused to head the able semi-finalists, though they can be
half against Liang and Kwok. Re- tennis association, le felt that be-threatened by Menzel, Borotra (If, as This is a quarter-Anal engagement medios is the more capable of the On the long bend to Hammersmith cause of his business interests he is hoped here, he plays
lays in could not do justice to the task. for the fourteenth in the sales and considerable interest is vested in two, and it will not pay the opposition London should have gained apprecl
Grant
to feed his volley,
ably, but their coxswain allowed Now, that he finally is president, he. Bromwich, and perhaps the most
Thames to push him close to the has two major ambitions.
dangerous, my twenty-year-old fel- Leong has oft, proved himself to
The full programme for this ofter-1 Surrey bank and lose some of the low, B. Destremau. But none of be one of the finest defensive players noon follows:
ilde, so that at the Stork London were "The first," he said, "is to develop them has in my view, the slightest in the Colony, the real strength of
a bare half a fength up. Thames A. M. Rodrigues and L. A. Silva
tennis throughout the county to chance against Budge and von his defence laying in the fact that
then found it necessary to concede a walk-interest smaller clubs in Joining the Cramm."
spurted and crept up inch by when
arlacs opportunity
he can also ovér
and Lul US.LTA. We to Wong Fuk-nam
attack and score outright
inch, so that at Harrods they were are devoting con- Kwal-fun in the third round of the siderable time and thought to this
Tight points.
dead level again, both crews rowing But with all his qualities men's doubles. Rodrigues injured i
32. his hand recently in a hocitey match because we feel if the smaller clubs Andre Merlin must carry weight; but baseline player and as one mature subtic tactics of the and yesterday discovered the ball get into the organisation it will help at the same time it may be pointed in the more was out of place and that ht could to spread the sport. The second is out that Budge has already been game, I do not think he will prevent to develop younger players. We beaten twice this year. by Grant, at Rumjahn from winning in straight want to bring out a lot of boys who Miami and Tampa, and that Grant sets. Leong is only thoroughly consider tennis a real amateur sport has been beaten this year by Parker, dangerous wien he is given plenty and play it because they Uke. It." at New Orleans. Von Cramm has of time in which to make his shots. played file at present this year, but While he can be deliberate in his JUNIOR DAVIS CUP SQUAD on his late summer form last year he placements he is a threat to the best is evidently not invincible. I still, in of ployees. But if Rumjahn hustles Ward's organisation is inaugurat-fact, consider this men's champion-him, is undoubtedly he will try to Ing this season the Idea of a junior ship to be an extremely open event. ido, then I imagine we shall Davis cup squad. This spring, in a
II. Leong's resistance break down very dozen big cities, squads of players;
With regard to the women's singles, much more quickdy. from 16 to 20 years of age will be- Merlin would be "awfully surprised if gin training under competent Frau Sperling does not win the title, Tennis craft. will play an import- coaches. With the lure of the Davis in spite of Miss A. Marble, Miss H. ont part in this match which should cup urging them on, the youngsters Jacobs, Miss Round, Mme. Mathieu, be highly interesting.
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will take more than a passing in terest in the game.
The opinion of so fino a player as
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"The cup," Ward said. "is not im- Sperling, magnificent player as she doubles instead of singles, a match For those who prefer to watch
the
is being put into the No. 0 court
Itainment.
OPEN SINGLES
II.D. Rumjahn v. Leong Ping-chin (Stand Court)
OPEN DOUBLES A.V. Gosana and A. V. Remedios v. Ng Sze-kwong and Hon Luen-tung
.
CLUB SINGLES
J. Thomson v. ́A. L. Sullivan G. W. Bowell v. W. M. Barton
CLUB HANDICAP SINGLES
M. Pagh v. G. Smallh
Owen-Hughes
kenzie
Thames tackled the head wind at this point rather better than London, and at the Mile Post they were a canvas ahead, and in another hundred yards they had increased their ad- vantage to about half a length. Then came London's second spurt to 36, and at the lower end of the football ground they were level, with ittle more than half a a mile to the finish. Thames answered at 35, but opposite v. A. K. Mac- the Boat Houses London were a canvas up. In the last minute Thames made a huge effort, rowing. 40 strokes, but London at 38 were still gaining slowly, and they reached Putney Bridge about three-quarters of a length ahead. Crews:
Wong Mee-shun
portant as a trophy, But 1 is als, has always failed when
13, grand incentive.. I don't agree with
test supreme camo Wirabledon: it
at
means a decline in a nation's tennis luck counts, psychologically, for a fort tunes. If one holds the cup too great deal more than most people Ng Sze-kwong, one time Czar of
younger players become dis- allow. couraged because they feel they
theorists who hold that loss of a cup is not one of her lucky grounds, and which promises to provide rich enter- Suspended For M. Bristow, B. 5. Bensley
long.
all the tennis players in Hongkong Nine Months
partnered by another famous "old- have'nt a chance to make the teum. M. Merlin does not take Mrs. Wills Umer" Hon Luen-fung. Is matched I'd prefer to see a country keep the Moody or Senorita Lizona into ac- against A. V. Gosano and A. V. Re- cup two years, and then lose it. This count at all. But neither a woman medlos, leading Club de would serve to liven up competition who has won seven times nor one of players. in that country."
Discussing professionalism, Ward
Baick
*In one way, it has a beneficial effect. The game suffers when two or three players remain at the top year after year. Many promising youngsters become discouraged. With the champions secking: profes- sional felds, however, now faces break into the amateur picture and the result in a healthy, one."
About the 1937 Davis Cup: :
the Chilean's class, who is desperate-
Following the Football Emergency Recreio Committee Meeting last night, Wong Mec-shun, of South Chinn, WOE suspended till December 31.
This is a test of Youth v. Experl- keen to win for the first time, can, I think, safely be left out of the lence and I certainly don't feel in- Other reckoning..
clined to make catergorical
Davis Cup Matches To Be Played At Forest Hills
auspensions were-Kwok state- | Ying-sang, (S, China) W. Maher (Recreio) until the end of the season, and P. Castro (St.-Joseph's) until December 1, 1937.
HOCKEY TOURNAMENT
New York. The team from "down under con- Fusiliers Defeat Team
From Tamar
"Having loat Fred Perry, England The first Davis Cup matches in five sisting of Jack Crawford, Adrian probably will part company with the years will be played on Forest Hills/Quist, Vivian McGrath and John cup. It looks like a tossup among historie courts this spring when the Bromwich, meet Mexico in a first this country, Australia, and Ger- North American zone finals, expect- round tie at Mexico City, April 30, many. We should have a better ed to be Australia versus United May. 1-2, while the U.S. squind meets
In a United Hockey Tournament team than we had last year as the States are held at West Side Tennis Japan. The two winners then clash result of additional experience. Like Club May 20-30-31,
At Forest Hilla and neither. Mexico match at the Navy Ground, King's nor Japan is likely to muster up a Park, yesterday afternoon. England, however, we must find ...
capable No. 2 singles player. Don In announcing the site, Chairman team capable of giving, Australia or from the Royal Welch Fusillers, beat Budge shapes up as our big hope. Walter L. Pate of the committee on the United States much of a night. H.MS. Tamar by three goals to onc Personnel of the American team Play was scrappy and uninteresting. After that it's hard to discriminate management, said the selection bad
Gene Mako, Bobby Riggs, been made at the request of the Ausstill is in doubt with only Donald Fus, Conner (2); and L/Cpl. Bruton among Joe Hunt, Frank Parker and Bryan trallan team departing from Sydney Budge, Number 1 player of the na-scored for the soldiers; and Sgm.
March 18.
tion, sure of a place.United Press. Grant."
Tozer for the Tamar.
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London R.C.-O. L. R. Hills (bow), D. R. Jurdine, J. Pinches, A. - D. Phelps, P. D.
(stroke), H. D. Winkworth (cox).
Thames R.C.-R. R. Bradley (bow), H. M. Young. R. T. Cowper, J. A Maclean, A. 3. Hutton-Squire, A. P. Brown, J. Burrough, H. E. G. Watts (stroke), J. G. Dearlove (cox).
PONY CLASSIFICATIONS
The following alterations In the classification of race ponies has been made by the Hongkong Jockey Club; China Ponier-Bright View to class, Morning Tip to D class.
Thin on top?
Danderine
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