THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1937.
FINCHER AND HUNG CRASH INTO TENNIS FINAL
SWEEP WONG AND LUI
OFF THE COURT
WIN TWELVE GAMES IN
A ROW: LOSE TWO- IN THREE SETS
(By "Veritas")
E. C. Fincher and W. C. Hung]
All four indulged in fireworks,
best Wong Fuk-nam and Lu the ball being hit hard whether off
Kwai-fun, 6-0, 6-0, 6-2.
the ground, on the volley or over- head. Thus the railles, short though
SELDOM, if ever before, has they were, were also fascinating and
such a debacle been seen in
a Colony tennis championship
.on
exciting.
11. D. RumJahn played brilliant semi-final than in this match | tennis-much more like his old self. the Stand Court of the His return of service was the best seen yet in the tournament and when Hongkong_Cricket Club yes-
a winning shot was needed it was terday. Forty minutes were usually II. D. who supplied it. required for the three sets, and the losers did not win a game until they had conceded the first two sets to love.
But wenk though the opposition was, it is still to the credit of Fincher and Hung that they played tennis good enough to win them the cham- pionship.
Hung, apparently deter- elface memory of his mined to
quarter-finals, performance
dazzling tennis,
with and Fincher inspired by such a lead, the pair swept all before them. I doubt even if the Rumjahn cousins would have withstood such a withering at- tack.
the
Any lob short of a length was put away with the utmost confidence, while both In ground strokes and on the volley Hung and Fincher were Infinitely better than the losers,
HUNG'S IMPROVEMENT Hung'a improved forchand drive must have gladdened the hearts of his friends, but much more apres- sive was his overhead. He employed al- his strokes determinedly, and
though he hit for outright winners, his errors were remarkably few.
Fincher
also touched top form, much und one noted how very steadier was his forehand driving. well times the shot was Several
outright, enough placed to score
these though Lul contributed to points by following up his badly.
service
glorious Fincher made some
Le volleys when he appeared to well beaten by the ball, und try- ing to pass either player was as futile na attempting to pass a dud banknote on a moneychanger. - Wong and Lui were thrown back on the defensive from the opening Gervice. But their defence was not strong enough to withstand the con- Or. sistent offensivé.of the winners. casionally they both made clever and courageous returns from shots which looked to be winners, and when Lul to smash he usually chance 10 m the point. Bu
But both were had the ablity to turn positions to advantage. Their services were too mediocre to cause the alightest worry and usually the returns were swift enough to force un error as the server followed in for the volley.
hind
U
more
Gosano provided some high spots, but he was not steady enough. Re- medios, though
restrained, performed the most vital work. Gosano excelled in forehand driving it was inconsistent from the net.
S. A. Rumjahn went through his customary spasms, now playing like genius, now like a second rater. But his brilliance outweighed his shortcomings, and as a combination, the Rumjans looked as good as they have been for the last three years.
RUMJAHN SHOULD
WIN TODAY
Kwok's Big Weakness
(By "Veritas")
Everything points to H. D. Rumjahn to-day reaching the final of the Colony singles tennis championship for the second time in his career.
I CAN'T FIGHT
-Doyle
"My Leg Hurts"
London, April 1.
"I'm terribly sorry, but really . It's Impossible for me to fight-my Jeg hurts," said Jack Doyle last night
Ireland's handsome heavyweight hod returned disconsolate to Wind- sor from a London medical consulta- tion which had resulted in bis con- test with King Levinsky, the United States ex-fishmonger, at Wembley. being declared "off."
"It seems all bad luck for me these days." Doyle complained. "First the trouble with my wife, Judith, and now this leg Injury just when I was feeling fine.
"It was skipping in the gym that did it. I noticed a twinge in my leg at first; then it began to pain me when put my fout to the ground. They tell me the calf muscles are damaged.
"Too bad. I was looking forward to the fight and had been working hard, But I shall meet Levinsky later the show is only postponed."
18,500 BOOKINGS
Doyle was examined by Mr. B. II. Burns, consulting orthopaedic sur- geon to St. George's Hospital, and by Mr. Wilfred Smith, manipulative surgeon. Their verdict was "rup- tured Abres of the calt muscles in the left leg."
The leg is to be put into plaster for three days, and It will be some time before Doyle
resume training.
CAD
His mishap is a bad blow for Wembley Stadium. Only on Tuesday it was announced that Jock McAvoy, the middle-weight champion, had withdrawn from his match with Eddie Phillips owing to influenza,
• and now the main event has broken down.
He meets Frank H. Kwok, the Chinese Recreation Club left-hander in the semi-final, the match being n Stand Court attraction.
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After Rumjabin's impressive show
against Leong Ping-chut and Kwok's two very narrow escapes in previous rounds, one finds it dif- ficult to contemplate anything but
maus decisive volleys" and neither defeut "for the "Chinese-player----
I feel
Kwok, like so many of his .com. patriots, is first and foremost a de- fensive type of player, and as such he requires time to make his strokes If they are to be effective. that hastened as he is bound to be by Rumjahn's pacy shots, Kwok will not be anything like so dangerous as against an opponent who had. not such a fust attack.
The entire tournament has had to be postponed. The provisional now date is April 27, but this will depend entirely on Doyle's progress.
Wembley had sold £8,500 worth All these will be, avall- of tickets. able for the fresh date, but pur- chasers desiring a refund will be met on application to the Wembley box ofice.
YACHT RACING
Sweepstake Event
Yesterday
A sweepstake race over 7.3 miles was contested by the Royal Hong- kong Yacht Club yesterday. Results: "A" Class. Started 14.45
Finished Cortd.
Such a bad start clearly dispirited them, and they did rather well to win three games in the third set. At no time did they raise their game above that of average league tennis standard, and against such a work- manlike combination as Fincher and Hung, this proved quite Inadequate, I think we can look forward to a first-rate final, and it Fincher and ..: Hung
form, they will win the champion-ingly dangerous and any player has
to be wary about 'raiding the net Joss ship.
when he can make a return on this hand.
Rumjan is pretty certain to con- centrate on putting the ball to Kwok's right hand corner, for the left-hander is weak on this wing as Lobo young Kenneth Shute revealed.
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PORTUGUESE GOOD LOSERS
A far better spectacle was to ba seen on the No. 0 court where the Rumjan cousins battled with A. V.
Gosano and A V. Remedios for en- try into the semi-final.
The Portuguese, though. beaten in straight sets, wore splendid losers, and the cousins had to. pull out their best shots to win.
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Kwok's chief chance of success would appear to lay in his ability to
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E. C. Fincher makes a winning smash in yesterday's tennis championship semi-final. W. C. Hung, his partner, is standing nearest the camera. (Picture by staff photographer).
SEAFORTHS' CHALLENGE FOR RUNNERS-UP POSITION
Three First Division Teams Complete
Their Season's Football Fixtures
M.C.C.'s £42,000
From Tour
M.C.C. have 'received £42,000 as their share of the proceeds of the recent tour in Australia.
Of is £34,428 was from Test matches as follows: Trisbane, 23,002; Sydney, £4,500; Mel-
£12,710 bourne,
Adelaide, £5,707; Melbourne, £7,000.
The other nineteen matches produced only £7,500.
As showing the special interest of Victoria in Test matches, games at Melbourne in the past 12 years have, produced gates of £134,759 out of A total at £300.770.
TOPWEIGHT WINS
City And Suburban To William Of Valence
London, Apr. 217 The City and Suburban, run at Epsom to-day over a mile and a quarter, was won by the topweight, William of Valence. Result;
William of Valence (Packham} . Rippon Tor (Lowrey) Edgehill (E. Smith) Betting: 1-4 William of Valence, 100-7 Rippon Tor, 20 Edgehill.
Won by three lengths; a head.
Starters:
were
Yesterday's three matches in the first division of the football league
significant. Two of the results intensified the race for runners-up position, with Scaforth Highlanders still offer- ing a powerful challenge to South China "A" and "B" team. The games were also noteworthy by the fact that they saw Kow- loon and Eastern complete their season's fixtures, these together with Navy being the first teams in the division to do so.
The Highlanders were opposed to a weakened Recreio team at Spokun- poo, but they did not have 100 much to spare in winning 3-1.
Highlanders were quicker to settle down and by half time had given themselves a comfortable lead of free goals. But in the second half they were constantly on the defen- sive and a little more accurate shoot ing by the Recreio forwards would have produced more than one goal.
"Should Not Have Been Sent Off"
The F.A. Commission appointed to consider the circumstances of the ordering-off of Thayne, the Northampton Town centre hall, In the Third Division match be- tween Luton Town and North- amplon met at Northampton,
The commission-Messra. T. II. Kirkup, H. J. Huband, and
announced Thorne omolally their findings as being:
"That the offence reported by the referee as being committed by Thayne did not warrant his dismissal from the field."
hand, yet rarely being called up to use it. Eastern, apparently weary of football after the recent hectic fort- night they have passed through endeavouring to complete league fix- Lures before sailing for Manila, gave only occasional glimpses of worthy of a first division side,
forzn
Webster at full buck, Williamson at right half, Ayres, McGuigan and Dick In the attack played excellent football for the Seaforthis, Recreio were best served by B. Gosano at in the first half, the first coming from South China plied on three goals contr centre-half, Souza in gool, and Mar- Lee Shek-yau, the second from Cheuk ques and Ribeiro at full back. Gomes
Shek-ham and the third from Chan and Alves were clever on the left
Tak-fni. wing, but the Portuguese forwards generally showed little idea of how to shoot.
Ayres, McGuigan and Dick netted for the Highlanders during the first half and Gomes replied for the
Recreio.
William of Valence (Packhum) Pampas Grass (Perryman), His KOWLOON FINISH STRONGLY Grace (Gordon Richards). Esquemel- ing (Bezant). The Blue Boy (Car- Kowloon followed up their success
Rosa slake, Lovely
(Weston), of last Saturday by beating St. Hypothesis (D. Smith), Rippon Joseph's 2-1 yesterday. This
Gynertum (Lowrey).
(W. Kowloon's last league match and they Rickaby), Edgehill (E. Smith), Re-finish with the following record ward (Levett), Pigskin (Clifford
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long for Rumjahn to commit takes. By such tactics he has a good Aeriel hope of winning one set, but I feel (Mr. C. Ross) that either Rumjahn will have to be Allsa In shockingly bad form, or Kwok to
the Heron play tennis-extraordinary, for Indian to lose.
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GOLF'S 14-CLUB PROPOSAL
DIES QUIET DEATH
(By Geoffrey Simpson)
was
Goals
L.
F.
A.
Pts.
50
24
12 32 Eastern, having played and lost to the Navy 3-1 on Monday, and lost again to South China "B" yesterday 5-1, concluded their season with the following figures.
P.
20
W
Goals
D.
I.
F.
Ptr.
8, 4 14 45 02 20
Navy played their last game against Eastern on Tuesday and they moved up to fifth position in the table as a result, their record being
Goals
W. D. ..L. F. A. Pts. 20 12. 4 10 55 47 28
It was as well for Kowloon that Blake gave them a two-goal lead in yesterday's game against St. Joseph's. After the interval they were sorely pressed to
to keep
the Saints from
Inis from stor- ing several times. But Kowloon boasted a brilliant defence in which The way is prepared for was found that only 563 regularly Honnibali, Bliss and O'Conner were outstanding as half backs. Bowen's golf's 14-club proposal to die carry more than 14 clubs.
This gives a percentage of do- | skill at full back also made an im- a quiet and unlamented death.
cimal seven. Cicarly the need for portant contribution to the result. After all the drum beating. all
legislation restricting the number Up forward Kowloon were not the wild talk of the supposed evil of clubs was greatly exaggerated half so impressive, although Blake influence of the multiple-club man, The Secretaries Association implies deserved mention for his first half cold Agures are now produced to as much in the official journal, opportunism. show that the subject need no longer though it hesitates to criticise the B St. Josep's bother us.
and A.'s proposti. The
Golf Club Secretaries' Asso-
What it does say is this: "When lethargie football and did not get into elation has presented an Easter egg any important alteration of rules is their stride until the second half was to the Royal and Ancient which in contemplation by the ruling body of attacks which tested the oppost- advancing. Then they set up a series should save that august body a lot it- would" surely be wise, for the of trouble.
R. and A. to consult the Golf Unions tion to the hilt, Hagen reduced the Having completed a census of 210 and the Professional Golfers' Aload, but there the Saints' successes golf clubs the Secretories Associn- | sociation?: tion hus told the R. and A. that less "We say unhesitatingly that the
EASTERN'S VAIN RALLY than one player in a hundred carries | opinions of these bodies on any poist more than 14 clubs.
concerning the government of the Eastern went through a discourag- And if that has not killed the pro-game is worth having, and we hope | ing experience on the eve of their
stopped.
played
somewhat
Home Football
FIGHTING AGAINST RELEGATION
LEEDS, UNITED, WEDNESDAY
LUTON STILL IN PROMOTION RACE
London, Apr. 21.
The usual end of the season struggle to avoid relegation. is going on in the first division of the English Football League. :
Shefeld Wednesday to-day made a big effort to lift themselves from the foot of the table by going to West Bromwich Albion and winning 3-2.
On the other hand Leeds falled at home to Wolves, while Manchester United, another threatened team, visited Sunderland and drew one- cach.
At the present the three bottom places are occupied by Manchester United with 32 points from 41 games, Leeds with 30 points from 40 games and Wednesday with 30 points from
games,
40
In the third division, Luton con- tinued their challenge to Nolls County for the championship and by winning against Swindon 6-1, brought their tally of points to 54 for 40 games as compared with the County's 56 from the same number of matches. Notts need three points from their remaining two encounters to make promotion a certainty.
To-day's results were as follows.
ENGLISH LEAGUE
FIRST DIVISION
0 Wolves
Leeds Sunderland
W. Bromwich
Notts F.
1 Manchester U.
2 Wednesday
SECOND DIVISION
3 Tottenham
THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH)
Bournemouth 3 Northampton Luton
6 Swindon THIRD DIVISION (NORTH) Chester
& Gateshead
York
Partick
2 N. Brighton
SCOTTISH LEAGUE
3 Ilbernian AMATEUR INTERNATIONAL
3 Ireland
Scotland
Reuter,
12,000 Miles To Be Knocked Out
1
3
1
ride on the speedway, Steve Lang- After travelling 12,000 miles to ton, a Junior rider from Brisbane, was knocked unconscious and re- ceived leg injuries in his first race in this country at Hackney Wick inst of the month.
The first fifteen minutes second period saw a fine revival by
Langton was not originally includ- Eastern, who attacked in fine style ed in the programme, but owing to and scored three goals in rapid suc- crashes and machine troubles there cession. Clin Chung-yin obtained were not enough riders left to com- the first, Soong Ling-sing the second pete in the third heat of the scratch and Fong Chul-sheung the equaliser. race. Langton then volunteered.
On the first bend he hit an op- From that point South China "Bponent's back wheel, charged side- again took charge and Chan Tak-fai ways across the track at 40 miles an netted twice to win the match. hour, and hit the safety fence.
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posal to limit the number of clubs that in future, they with at least be departure for the Philippines, losing CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co., Ltd.
per person to 14, It has certainly consulied before any proposal la put 9-3 to South China "D" et Caroline made it looks sick.
forward which will have the effect Hill yesterday.
The playing membership of the of altering materially the playing of It was a poor game with the win- clubs circularised was 80,809. ›› It the game.
Iners always holding something in.