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THE · HONGKONG· · · ·TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1937.
PROMISING START GIVEN TO BADMINTON SEASON
CRICKET NOTES
PLAYERS STILL
Speeding Up NEED PRACTICE
Game During
Last Summer
Movement Met By The Counties
(By "R. Abbit")
At the beginning of the 1937 cricket season in Eng- land, one of the most popular points of discussion was the necessity for speeding up cricket. It is of course a point which has now become a hardy perennial. There is little doubt that the average man in the street ex- pects far too much. In the old days spectators were, I think, far better versed in the niceties of the game. Any one could appreciate a hit for six, a crisp smack at the boundary, or a ball which sent one of the stumps flying! But in the pre-War days, I think the majority of spectators could appreciate a dour battle between the batsmen and the bowler.
I remember, an one occasion nt brighter cricket. It was largely met Lord's, I saw at least seven or eight by the Counties though at the begin. overa sent down consecutively from ning of the season, Lancashire who which not a rim was scored. After were very weak in bowling, could each over a litile ripple of applause not bring themselves to take thei went
round the ground. It was not handle. Their Committee be-
tous
the vociferous approval of a big hit came alarmed and towards the end but a quiet murmur of pleasure in of the season Lancashire batting was sceing a struggle between magnificent quite bright. The whole question is bowling and equally magnificent de really difficult. It is obvious
My very fence on a wicket that helped the that a county with good bowling can bowlers. It is possible that you afford to take many more chances | night find somelling like this at than those unfortunate elevens whose Lords to-day, but I very much doubt only attack consists of a couple of 程。
fair change. bowlers and a pocketful of small change. One cannot, how-) ever. get away from the fact that. however, unpalatable it may County arlekiel does depend very largely upon the gate.
As I have sald, there was a very strong Press movement in favour of
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NEXT YEAR'S TEST MATCHES
There was of course a tremendous. amount of discussion at home as to what would happen when the Aus tralians came over to England fu; 1938. It chiefly went round who should be England's fast bowlers, for
it's beginning to become a re-
THREE GOOD TIES OPEN "A" DIVISION LEAGUE PRACTICALLY unheralded badminton slipped into the roster of Hongkong's 1937-38 winter sports season last night, three matches in the senior division of the men's doubles league opening the programme.
In most instances it was noticeable that the players had to "feel their way" into the game, a slight suggestion of muscle boundness and a slowness in anticipation being apparent. It was a quiet start to the new season, but a promising one, especially interesting being the per- formance of King's College, last year's "B" Division champions, who made a good debut among the senior sides by beating University second string 6-3.
University "A," although being without P. E. Tan, C. H. Soon and K. S. Liew, three of last season's regular players, managed to turn out a formidable side against Recreio "B" and to win all nine games.
The results were as follows:
"A" DIVISION
University ""*
3 King's College § St. Andrew's "A" 0 Recreio "A" a Recreio "B"
University "A" 9
0
LEAGUE TABLE
Recrelo "A"
PW D
1
Gumes
FAPts
D D ย 0 10 09 0 2 10063 2
University "A" 1 King's College 1 Recreio "B".. University "B" 1 0 0 1 3 8.0 1081 0 0 0 St. Andrew's
"A"
160109 v Chinese "A" D 0000 0 Free Lances.. 0 0 0 0 0
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PRACTICE
BADLY NEEDED
St. Andrew's
Put Through Their Paces
0
D
(By "Veritas")
The match between St. An-
PROMISING DEBUT BY NEWCOMERS
King's College Success
(By "Abe")
BOBBY RIGGS—BAD BOY OF
TENNIS-DAVIS CUP HOPE
(By H. A. de Lacy for "The Globe")
WINNING the Davis Cup has been a hard job for the
United States. Keeping it will be harder. Everything rests with Donald Budge, than whom there is no other in the States at present. Yet there is forever that bait dangling before the great Budge. One snap and he's hooked for the professional game. What then?
The Americans answer: Bobby Riggs, the 19-year-old bad boy of American tennis.
Who is, where Is, and what is this cup. They have to cash-in on this Important young fellow? Certainly hero-worship stuff. he has sprung up over night, speak- log comparatively. Yet 1 would seem that the judges of the United Slates courts have decided-Frank Packer-ne bun, and Bryant M.
Grant-matesh.
Now they are talking Riggs, and a little more than season ago they were disciplining this young "up- stari." But that is a story in itself, More of the predicament of United States Juzzwigs Orst.
This business of holding the Davis Cup is indeed business-big business.
I means that the centre of world
But there are rivals with bulging purses. They are willing to pay for Badge's services an entertainer.
So the future of the now Californi- an Comet is problematicul.
ho Davis Cup, about No Budge, sums up the situation in Amerien. DONALD MUST HAVE SUPPORT But even with Budge at his top, with Gene Male sitting beside him as his doubles partner, the cup is not a close lie. It's open whacking for anybody's shillelagh, unless a good singles support for Badge is found.
Bobby Rigg The Und lad himself touch a championship put.
Cup wants. He has natural oggres-
ion.
NEWS FLASH. . . I United States press report:--"Bob- by Riggs, the swagerring kid. con- quistador of 10 years, sealed the main barrier to No. 2 perch in United States tennis ranking yesterday. He hus been adopted for the 1939 Davis Cup team.
And so by these diversions and by- tennis has transferred to Forest Hills ways we come back to Bobby Riggs, -apologies to Wimbledon. The na who, we are told, is being groomed tion that holds the Davis Cup speaks for the No. 2 singles in the defence Walter Hall, chairman of the with
the voice of the high court. af American tennis prestige.
Davis Cup committee of management, There is no further appeal, United Ningteen years, and another Call-pronounced Riggs the player we have States governs die
tennis world.fornian, Rings might have been in been looking for after seeing him That means increased prestige, and the lust Davis Cup series! He was crush-Frank Parker, 0-3, 7-5, 7-5, lots more shekels.
good enough, yet not quite good and succeed Don Budge was castern enough, yet not quite good enough in gress court champion here.
BUDGE, NATIONAL, HERO
in winning the Davis Cup a new another tense. Riggs spoke his part American idol-Donald Budge-basnt the wrong time. been raised. At the moment Budge has captured the publle imagination as Lindberg did, just as Jack Dempsey still does.
Did not this Californian win this Why should I play against young-
Just
During the fifth set of his classte duel with the German, von Cramm, Donald was tralling 1-4. As the players changed ends the freckled
"He has a game that will click in international competition. Hall said. When asked to play in the National He has on lustinet for it, strong ser- Junior titles by the Southern Califor-vice and plenty of reserve power to nlan Association he took his cue and turn on. I showed out there. That defiantly replied:-
is because he not only has keeg an- ticipation, but remarkable speed. *
ON WRONG SIDE OF SOCIAL FENCE
Rig went East without financial face broke into a cheery smile as backing from his association, re- he assured Pte with, "Don't worry, macking, with his tongue in his cheek:) skipper, I won't let the team down."|", "Yeh," ] know—"I was born in the
What is more important, he kept wrong side of the elly." his word.
So this self-willed youngster was
That King's College, last season's champlons in the "B" Division of the League, will be able to hold their own among the senior teams in the same Davis Cup almost off his own sters I can beat and have beaten? ar racket? Was it not this same red- I'm going anywhere 1 want a crack present campaign was made fairly headed, freckled, lanky tenals dynu-at the big shots." obvious last nicht when, in the Eu in that spoke to Davis Cup coptala, So they ruled him off the sqund, Tong-sen Gymnasium, they defeated
Pate, In that all-important tie with as they quaintly say. "over there." University "B
"B" by six games to three Germany,
words
that showed his But the kid was right. It is only by I do not mean that they fighting heart? By this, I
playing against one's superiors that i will be a potential danger to Club de
improvement can be gauged, Recreio "A" or University. "A"; they are not quite up to the standard of these two sides, at the moment, but against the others they should at least start on equal terms.
well-balanced Possessing three patrs, King's College won comfortably in spite of the fact that it was not until the last round was reached that
Was it not this same fellow that disciplined. What did he care. While they were able to clinch the issue.lified three titles from the very nose the Davis Cup squad was away in The undergraduates clearly lacked of the British at Wimbledon? Then foreign parts, he calmy collected nine practice, and throughout the whole when the invader threatened to, up major tournaments in ten outings. match only A. K. Phang and K. H. end the American succession, when To show the type of youngster this all other titles at the United States newcomer is, in the 1036 national Goh played with any degree of con-
So it may be, at the moment, but in John van without proper care fiderice. The
a graze may mediocre.
the hands of the Invaders, Budge Rynn, upset his calculations, and the quickly assume serious aspects. Why
and wrested their closing wiseneres shook their heads. What I am sure, however, that inst night's stood up
van Rynn could do there were a score take the risk when a litile touch of display did not do the undergraduates Angers from the singles Cup.
They are all at the moment Americans like that sort of play. or more better players ready to re- Sac-ko will set matters right?
for their December Budge is their national hero.
peat.
Spread lightly on the wound, after examinations and cannot spare the This is a big occasion för" "the" uma- But Rings went from tournament has been cleansed, the antiseptic cxum
tournament, seeking experience properties of She-ko prevent infec time for practice. Several members
shut the door on me this year, button, whilst the healing ingredients of of the team are new to the Colony,
they'll send for me soon enough." but certainly not new to the game as
this ideal ointment qülekly do their In the last two major tournaments work they have played in good-grade bad- minton in Malaya. With a little more
he has been beaten by Budge in one practice, they will be a force to be
instance, and by von Cramm In the Equally good for all forms of skin other, but it took the German five injuries and skin complaints, such as reckoned with
strenuous sets to oust him from that cuts, Nationul semi-final.
drew's "A" and Recreio “A” at hesitant and of the others was National Championship had passed to singles an old singer.
St. Andrew's Church Hall pro- duced typical "out of season"
leogised_thing_that_if_the_wicket is play, and_none_of_the___players K-
all arm two good fast bowlers could develop much beyond half. are needed. To be
quite frank t found the same old partisanship as speed, neither could any invest
in the past, and almost territorial. The one
thing
Church
Indmitica
is that G. O. Allen is a) certainty if he has the health and the Ume to play regularly, Copson brings off some fine performances but you will usually find that they counties with the weakest are against batting. Gover seems on the face of it to be the best choice but he is desperately unlucky and always gets calthes dropped, and he has never come off yet in any of the trinis he has had so far. Stephenson's mili- (Continued on Page 9.)
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Trying a shorter game?
VARSITY'S BEST PAIR University's bes
best pair were A. K. Phang and M. S. Lim, who won two of their games. They should have crack-up won all three in fact, but
Just at the vital moment allowed S.
leur moguls, They have to hold that
Light Blues Trounced
At Rugby
P. Chan and H. N. Chung to snatch!
London, Nov. 8. the game out of the fire. Phong and Lim led 18-9, but a series of aces The Cambridge University rugby from Chan stemmed the tide and the fteen received a trouncing to-tlay King's College pair went out of 21-18. when, playing, against Elinburgh The most impressive player on Aendemicals, they were defeated by view was S. P. Chan, whose all-round 25 points to nine-Reuter. play was the feature of the encounter.
He was by far the best-equipped man
on view, and forced heavily from the grassed, in their last game, Chan forecourt which he dominated. His und Chung had established an under- partrier, Chung, started shakily but standing which allowed them to improved greatly as the match pro- trounce I. II. Goh and O. C. Lcow
21-2...
K. L. Lul and H. T. Woo formed a formidable pair. The former from the rear court hit with great power. but there was no subtlety at all in his
their work with that touch of assurance which comes from closer and more constant associa-play; the latter however introduced a
tion with the court.
few deft touches which more often than not left his opponents standing. King's College's third pair, W. M. Cheung and K. H. Lo, were steatly without being brilliant.
A alippery floor did not add to the comfort of the players. The remedy, simple and non-injurious to the floor, is a spot of kerosene, It would make a world of difference, and would be On the whole the standard of bad- a tremendous aid, I am sure, to better minton was not high, but there were badminton at St. Andrew's,.
occasions when exchanges were fast Recreio played with sufficient con- and thrilling. It was an exhibition of Adence and skill to win all nine players who were capable of better
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