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THE HONGKONG
TELFGRAPH. THURSDAY,
AUGUST
5,
1937.
TENNIS TRIUMPH FOR
Win Three
OFFER OF $40,000 TO Sets From BUDGE TO TURN PRO: The C.R.C.
AND TOUR WORLD
New York, Aug. 4,
It was announced here to-day that Donald Budge, the Wimbledon and American tennis champlos, and the man chiefly responsible for the recovery of the Davis Cup by United States this year, will be offered $40,000 to undertake a world professional tour with Fred Perry and Ellsworth Vines this coming winter when he arrives to-morrow from England.---Reuter.
To Hongkong this report is signtheant, for it indicates that Perry and Vines at least are contemplating a four of the world as hinted by BB Tilden
ilden nearly a year age, and that, presumably, would include ä visit to the Far East.
Therefore, whether Budge necrpis the offer or not, there is good reason to believe that Vines and Perry will be heading for this part of the world during the coming winter. The local tennis authorities should bear the possibilities in mind and be ready to net accordingly should such a tour materialise.
Win! "I Will
Says Farr
99
SHOCK FOR “B” DIVISION LEADERS
Fine Match At K.C.C.
(By "Veritas")
THE HUSSAIN BROTHERS
WALTER HAGEN
The boys take their woll
too seriously
Chinese Recreation Club, re. garded as being invincible in the "B" Division of the tennis league yesterday went very close to de- feat when they received Kowloon Indian Tennis Club, last season's Women's Cricket "C" Division champions.
The C.R.C, scraped home by the ld set in nine, but the match was for the really a personal triumph Hussain brothers who accomplished what no other pair has succeeded previously in doing against C.R.C. this enson--win all three sets. What is more they won them well and with something to spare.
FIGHT WITH JOE LOUIS IN The match Indleated
AMERICA
one
thing: that C.R.C.. even when at tull strength, are vulnerable and beatable, and the result should greatly спи
Craigengawer, who
challenging the among those still Causeway Bay team for the cham-
courage
ENTERTAining tenNIS
plunship. London, July 18. Tommy Farr, British and Empire heavyweight boxing cham- pion, who is on his way to meet Joe Louis, coloured heavyweight champion of the world, laughed a loud Welsh laugh last night when I asked him in a Transatlantic message to the Berengaria, how he was reacting to the crossing, writes John MacAdam.
"What do I care about the cross- ing," he said, "It's just like Bghting Louis-Caay.
"Why, they told me this morning that the ship had passed through terrine hurricane the night before. I didn't know. I slept through it. You know what a nervous case I am!
"Company? Sure, I've got as mucia company as I want,
LIGHT TRAINING
"I've got Ted Broadribb and my two sparring partners, George Daly and Bob Scully.
"Then there's Jeft Dickson, Sol "Strauss
attorney), Jacobs' (Mike und Paul Damski, not to mention my trainer, Tom Evans.
"Yes, I'm doing a bit of light training in the ship's gym--and the public appearances are still going on. "Last night I did an exhibition before the ship's company, and re- fight between Daly and ferved Scully,
"A lot of the American Ryder Cup golfers are in the ship, too, but I'm not driving any golf balls into the
hem. That's ocean with business.
not my
"There has been a change in my training place plans.
"I'm going now to a place on the const at Long Branch near Astbury Park, New Jeracy,
"There
A MESSAGE
both
un
"Most of my training will be done In the last 14 days before the fight. Yes! "Message?
Tell all my friends at home that I will win. "I am absolutely confident that."
South China Win Moderate Game
Only moderate football was played by the South China Team when they were opposed to a Pekalongan Chinese XI on Tuesday though they emerged winners by the score of 6-3. Lai Shiu-wing and Fung King- cheung two each. Tso Kwai- shing and Lee Wai-tong scored for the tourists.
IMPORTANT H.K.F.C. MEETING
of
of
be
A meeting of some considerable importance to members of the long- outside kong Football Club will be held at gmynasiouns and an inside one so I the clubhouse on Friday when the
will Articles
Association shalt be independent of the weather.
"I shall look around New York amended to include two lawn bowls for a couple of days after I arrive, representatives on the general com- and then I shall go to my camp.
"A few days' light training, and then I shall get down to serious work.
miltee.
Afterwards there will be an in- formal discussion concerning football prospects for the approaching season.
WAIT FOR
THE NEW
FORD TEN
NEXT SHIPMENT
ARRIVING
AUGUST 14th
seen
win
are
sets
FINAL
TEST
DRAWN
Miss Snowball Run Out 99
American Ryder Cup Players Attack British Sportsmanship
COMPLAIN THAT SPECTATORS CHEERED THEIR MISTAKES,
IGNORED GOOD SHOTS
London, July 23.
Something of a sensation has been caused in golfing circles by the attacks made upon British spectators by the American golfers who came over for the Ryder Cup match and played in the British Open Championship.
According to reports, Ralph Guldahl, United States Open champion, said bluntly: "The British are bad sports. It is O. K. with me if I never go back to England."
Giving his reasons for his bitter feeling, Guldahl said, "They cheered Four mistakes and the good play of
The
British. When Manero played Cotton in the Ryder Cup they hardly Rave him room enough to play his chip shots."
Describing his match with Alfred Perry, Ed. Dudley alleged that on one accasion Perry's shot went over the green. "But," he added, "when wel got on to the green we found that someone had pushed Perry's ball within four feet of the cup."
SHUTE'S COMPLAINT
KHO LOSES
ΤΟ HENKEL
QUARTER-FINAL TENNIS TIE
Berlin, Aug. 4.
Tony Manero, United States Open champion in 1930, stated that ou at least two occasions during his Ryder Kho Sin-kie, Chiba's champion Cup play, Cotton pleaded with the tennis player, whose progress in the crowd for fair play for the Ameri-feld of international tennis during
the past twelve months has been! Densmore Shute, United States nated by all the leading critics, was match play champion, speaking of the eliminated to-day from the German game in which Cotton defeated him National Championship when, in the after the British Open championship quarter-final, he lost to Henkel, Ger said that while the huge
crowd which followed the duck at Walton many's No. 2 exponent, after a four
set match. ils missed Heath did not applaud
"resentful" Kho succeeded in winning a close shots, they appeared
Orst set by 8-6, but thereafter Henkel when he made a good one.
Describing the Ryder Cup match in ran into his best form and won the which he played against Rees and following three sets at 6-2, 6-3, 0-2.-- a Whitcombe. Shute usserted that at Reuter.
0: the Kowloon Cricket Club entertaining courts, some vastly
when 1.C.C. mel tennis was
(By Stanley Halsey) Club de Recreio. The home team full strength. were not quite at
At the Oval.-England women Wright turning up too late to play, his place being taken over by W. M. drew with Australian women.
The third decisive women's Gittins, who played well, but not
well enough to quite against such consistent performers as Test at the Oval resulted in
draw a big draw, too. Crowd one hole the British team's second shot was too strong and a spectator the Portuguese.
day has topped 5,000, and) However the K.C.C. players, finally per
"hatted it with a handbag on to the! green. relieved from any worries about the Oval applause has not been championship, gave a display vastly
since the halcyon improved on more recent perform- spontaneous
out-burst by remarking, "I think we ances, and had they shown a little Hobbs's days.
would have more steadiness, they reduced the margin of defeat consl-ai 308 for nine. And play worked derably.
out so fascinatingly that right up till All of the Recreto league teams tea time there lurked the thought are known as attacking players, and that events would turn dramatically it is therefore strange, and rather into an England win. interesting, to find in their "B" tram Australia were only 50 ahead with British Ryder Cup captain, heard no a couple who rely exclusively an ve wicket sstanding at the cup and complaints and said that while the
BO
Dudley concluded the Americans
towards Americans reached a England declared in the morning are all agreed that British antipathy
height
during our visit."
new
The British players are at a loss. to account for the outbursts. Perry denies the incident to which Dudley referred. Charles Whitcombe, the
JACK HYAMS IS DISAPPOINTED
middle- with
DENSMORE SHUTE
The British are bad sports
RYDER CUP MATCHES MAY BE DOOMED Duels Cause British P.G.A. Financial Worries
London, July 5.
To send a team to Amerien will
This year may see the last of the Ryder Cup matches. Although the Ryder Cup match is of sufficient im- Talks Of Retiring
poriance to attract the attention of the entire world, the P.G.A., are un- From The Ring
able to pay their men when they play for one of the most famous Disappointed by the intest post-aporting trophies.
defensive measures.
weight championship match What is more saucer stage. Quick wickets after crowd naturally wanted the British ponement of his British
players to win they were impartial Jack McAvoy of Rochdale, Jack cost about £3,000 and the chances these reap unbounded success. Yes tea might have done the triek. terday Oliveira and Cavartho worried
Shock of the morning was the in their appreciation of good shots. the entire K.C.C. team with their
Walter Hagen, the American non-Hyams, the Stepney holder of the lubbing tacties. It was only when shabby end to Miss Snowball's glow-
was playing captain, says the boys will Southern Aren title, is seriously con-of the P.G.A. being able to stump ing innings-99, when there
templating retiring
boxing, up the money is, at present, remote.
Ench British player they were almost forced by circum muddle and mishearing over the call all be back again at the first oppor writes Joe Bromrey.
this year stances to use a drive or to take the
run, and she was run out by tunity and the trouble is that they
Hyums has waited so long for the received his bare expenses, but the net that they did so. For nine-
chance which he has earned by vic-ullay of the P.G.A. ran to a large tenths of the match they remained Miss Flaherty's super throw-in from take their golf ton seriously."
tories in the
when ring, that
his amount, as the Americans were enter- match with McAvoy was fixed for tained on an appropriate lavish scale. Belle Vue, Manchester, on July 20, SMALL PROFIT IN MATCHES he gave up his job und went into serious training.
for
wide mid-on.
a yard behind the baselines and
THEIR WEAKNESS jobbed lobbed lobbed.
Dad luck. But the confusion over Most of the home players showed their willingness to
"kill" running is a essay
a teo prominent dow In CUP FINAL
but they found more often than not the women's gume.
the ball returned, so that they started
the Australian fielding was not
to drop the ball instead of smashing thing of fractional accuracy it usual- and forthwith admitted defeat.
y is a point in favour of 1938 TO BE
Miss Antonio
Full marks must be given the cun-Collins and Miss Archdale-an en- ning Recreio pair for their success, terprising pair. but I couldn't help feeling they were But the bowling of Miss McLatry rather flattered to win all three sets (37-20-20-3) and Afterwards I was told the cross-wind me things disconcerting for over- head smushing, especially in view of the generally good length the lob- bers maintained with their shots.
eventually cleared up the remaining England baiting.
Australia went in just before lunch and England started business right away, Mrs. Feden was caught by Miss Snowball off the first ball of the Innings. Bright hopes turned post- tively rosy when Pat Holmes, star But there was still slim, supple of the first innings, went.
BROADCAST
ARSENAL AND A STAR
London, July 23. There is very little fresh news You will on the football front.
THE BEST TENNIS Best tennis of the afternoon was seen on the No. 1 court where J. J. Remedios and L. A. Silva, visiting
certain first string won two sets and lost one. Hazel Pritchard on the stage. For be able to listen in to running This pair-Remedies with his neing an hour she hooked and drove in the commentaries first service and whipping forehand audacity of a Wellard in his smack control of the Football Associa
of a Woolley, and with the matches which come under the down the middle of the court, andem-round-the-world mood. She hit tion during the 1937-1938 foot- Silva with a brilliant volley on both hands and a lovely cross-court back-eleven 4's, then smirched all with hand drive,kept the tennis up to burlesque attempt to pull a ball to ball season.
The B.D.C. announce that, follow- something approaching senior divi- leg.
Missing discussions, the council of the sion standard.
Discreetly backing up was
broadcast the Their methods, which in short Antonio, who was well launched, on F.A. had agreed to amounted to attack, atinck and then probably her best show of the tour following events;
the Burnet-when she was lbw.
The final tle of the English Cup, more attack, suited Clarke combination to a "T", and
Still, with the Pritchard-Antonio on April 30, 1930;
Clarke's return of
a
The F. A. Charity Shield match in October, 1937.
many were the exciting volicying and the Antonio-Smith partnerships. The international match between rallies between the four, Burnell Australia saved the game. Kate England and Scotland on April 9, and Clarke emerged winners because Smith went for the ball like a buc- 1938; and they were more consistent in their cancer. An invaluable knock. ground strokes.
Ten minutes to go-123 behind service was good to watch: what England's bit of paltry halting (two) pity his volley remained so uncer- wickets for nil) didn't matter. tain! Burnett brought off some
AUSTRALIA splendid coups at the net, and the exchanges generally were very good. 10)."
The winners did well to recover from a 3-4 position with Recreio's service (o follow. They broke through, and then went on to win In the tenth game.
Earlier Silva and Remedios and well beaten Anderson and Grose, who could only win half a set over the match. Grose was culpable at attempting the net, insisting upon drop volleys from dangerous post- lons, which invariably resulted in
First Inhings.-207 for 9 dec (P. Holmes
SECOND INNINGS
r. Holmes b Whelan ....
M. Peden e Snowball Belton ....
1. Pritchard b Maclagon
P. Antonio Ibw Davis
W. George at Snowball b Davis
K. Smith Bbw Maclagen
A. Hudson run out
H. Mciarty Macingen.
A. Walsh e Whelan Delton
M. Flaherty not aut
A. Wegemund h Davis
15. Ib
.
Total
a loser. Anderson tried desperately ..150wling-Belton 15-3-26-2;
Whelan 18-8-33-1; Taylor 2-0-13-0;
ENGLAND
N. Maclagen e-b McLarly
1. Snowball run out
I. Davis Walsh
M. de Walsh
M. Greenwood b Antonic
B. Archdale b McLarty
M. Lowe b McLarty
to cover these errors and pulled out 25-5-30-1 same astonishing winners, but there 10-7-20-0 was absence of balance, and against 17,4-4-53-3. Buch consistent players as the Portu- guese, defeat could only be expected. Nevertheless the K.C.C. players should have beaten A. M. Silva and A. M. Rodrigues, whom they were leading 4-1, only to lapse and finally to snatch half a set rather luckily.
C.C.C, STILL WINNING Craigengower beat the Cricket Club as anticipated, although the visitors did very well to win three sets. South China were never in danger against Civil Service conceded but two and a half sets.
(Continued on Page 9.)
and
A. Collins run out B. Belton b Antonio M. J. Taylor not out
13, 15
224
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In addition, permission in principle is also granted for commentaries to on mid-week inter- be broadcast national matches and replayed hemi- final
Cup ties.
Commentaries on other replays of Cup des during the season will be broadenst with the consent of the
clubs
cerned!
ARSENAL AND A STAR Rumour was very busy at the beginning of the week with the news that Arsenal were to pay £12,000
for the tional forward,
of Bryn Jones, the
Welsh
Wolverhampton Wanderers.
of
The deal was said to be going to Macingen be completed within ten days. de Arsenal would like Jones and would Davis take him if the Wolves board would part-they want a player to take the placo of Alex James, who is retiring. Questioned ns to the Tumour, Major Frank Buckley, manager of the Wanderers, said: "The transfer of Jones is news to me. Arsenal and many other clubs have been aflor him, but you take it from me that no one has signed him yet, although £12,000 would be a nico,lot of money to us."
Total (0 wkts dea)
.300
37-20-20-3; Smith Bowung-McLarty
Finnerty 20-5-41-0; Antonia
15-4-47-03
37.4-9-50-2; Walth 13-0-86-2; Holmes Belton b Flaherty 8, A Collins not out 1.
Total (3 whis) 9. 10-17-0: Studson 6-0-42-0.
Becond innings.-M. J. Taylor run out
Bowling-Flaherty
O. K. Wholan e Smith b Flaherty 0, D. 1-0-5-0.
2-1-4-7; McLarty
from
Against that it is unlikely that the Then came the news that McAvoy profit on the Ryder Cup mulches would be unable to go through with will be more than a few hundred the fight because of injury, but stil pounds. Yet this match is almost Hyams continued his preparation, be their sole source of income for the cause he was under the impression Ryder Cup Fund. that he would have to meet sub- sultute.
Throughout its brief
career the
Later come another message from Cup has proved an embarrassment to that It is understood the North, telling him that his ser- the P.G.A.
who vices would not be required, and add there are several men
would ing that his meeting with McAvoy back on aunun match between the would be arranged when it was two nations but not so long as the known that the Rochdale man had Ryder Cup is up for competition, recovered from his disablement. The probability is, therefore, that Apart from several weeks of hard the Cup now won by Americh will work being lost, Hyams has also had remain in their possession and that turis down three lucrative offers new International competition t
of fights at shows in London,
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