THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, JULY 18, · 1938.
CHINESE BEAT INDIANS IN VITAL TENNIS MATCH
THRILLING PLAY
SEEN BETWEEN
RIVAL TEAMS Victory Assured Before The Conclusion Of The Second Round
(By "Abe")
Setting a pace from the start which was much too fast for their opponents to maintain, the Chinese R.C. won the "A" Division championship of the Hongkong Tennis League for the seventh con- secutive season yesterday by beating the Indiana at Causeway Bay by eight sets to one.
WON
The victory for the Chinese was as complete as it could have been; they had already secured the neces sary five sets before the end of the second round, and in the course the whole match they shared two sets, in both of which Lee Wai-tong and Luk Ding-cheung tigured,
It
rather damppointing match for the Indians who, though they themselves realised thuit their chances of a win were never bright, nevertheless expected 10 du much better. The biggest surprise was the failure of S. A. and O. Rumjalin të
a single set. They we
were run win almost to a standstill in their open- ing set against Lee Wal-tong Luk Ding-cheung, and they never fully recovered from their unexpect- ed reverse.
It was left to II. D Rumjahu and A. 1. Madre, and A. R. Minu and I. M. A. Razack to take half a set each.
FINE PLAY
and
ness in their ground strokes were the
Smiles greeted the camera when our Staff Photographer took this pleture of the victorious Chinest greatest Iults of Sirdar and Omar Kumfahn. Had their overhead play R.C, tennis team at Causeway Bay yesterday when the C.R.O. won the "A" Division championship for the functioned properly, they ecrtainly seventh consecutive year by beating the Indian R.O. easily by eight sets to one. would have won their opening set against Lee and Luk. They had their chances put the ball away,
tu
but though they had sufficient forces 1 See Sport
their snasties, they could no! angle them enough and oust have been chagrined to find their hardest mushten returned with alnost mono- tonous
as well as he has
Madar done lately though he rather marred an otherwise good display with errors at some critica? momenis, "1. D." was stendy without being particu- larly brilliant.
Features
By "Abe"
OPINION DIVIDED REGARDING SMALL-
BALL INTERPORT
Woolley May Coach
At Eton
Frank Woolley, the Kent and England batsman, is con- sidered a likely successor to Ceorge Hirst, England and Yorkshire, as the Eton cricket coach next year.
Hurst retired from his
Some People Feel Shanghai duties at Eton after the recent
Visit Should Not Be Made
the
announcement, season, would be capable of defeating
Minu and Raznek, who have al- ways been regarded as the Indians third pair though results have often belled this, were unfortunate not to win one set. After losing to Tsui and Hunk, they led Lee and Luk 5-2, but were unable to force home their advantage and hud to be con- In spite of the one-sidedness of tent finally to share the set, the result, there was some really ne
FEATURES OF MATCH the Arst two In tennis played.
of the match were the FOLLOWING rounds particularly a hot pace was good-length lobbing of Lee and Luk, made over the week-end that a the Cralgengower C.C in the League maintained; but after the Chinese the uncanny anticipation and net-small-bail soccer team from Hang-on Saturday. This possibilty was
d' made
ure of the encounter, the play of Tsul Wai-pui and Hung, and kong has been selected to go up to not overlooked, however, and the had standard couk somewhat, reaction the
understauding between the Shanghai for a series of churity fears of the Craigengower players younger Tsui and Kong.
matches in nid of the Chinese War proved well-rounded
when, at the having set in.
The Indians as a team were de- Relief Fund, opinion has suddenly themselves one shot in arrears.
cad of the encounter, they discovered When I advocated last week that
The H. D. Rumjalin should be teamed up initely outelnssed.
become sharply divided regarding thems the advis
advisability of
Chinese sending with A. R. Minu, I did not expect
most peculiar feature of the match S. A. and D. Rumjalin to do so badly
Tsui Wai-put na W. C. Hung layers to a clty at present occupied was that two rinks finished up on level were made in the IR.C.
(CRC) beat S. A. and O. Rumjahn by the Japanese; I seems that the terms and it was left to the one-stot inve victory of J. Hollidge over U. M.
though, that objections should have
of
Line-up: foresee the splendid exhibition of the Chinese, one would have realised that no changes the Indians could have made would have made any difference at all to the eventual result.
The greatest service rendered by Wal-long and Lak Ding-cheung
Lee
Scores:
Minu
their
games against Harrow,
JAPANESE NOW WANT 1944 GAMES
Tokyo, July 18. Japan will put in a bid for
the
to Japanese
GEOFFREY SIMPSON MAKES PLEA FOR FIVE-DAY TESTS
London, June 15.
That great wicket-keeper, Bort Oldfield, who was Australia's stumper for so many years, observed yesterday that it was a pity such a splendid struggle as the Test at Nottingham proved to be could not be played out.
I agree.
It was either team's match when stumps were pulled up, and to leave such a fight undecided, when thousands had paid to watch it and hundreds of thousands had followed its progress all over the world, seemed the limit of absurdily.
We can always have our county games, but these England-Australia Tests happen only once every two years, Why don't they play them to a finish?
We do not allow the Cup Final to remain drawn because the 90 min- utes are up, neither do we leave a tennis championship undecided be- cause it is "post time."
Test cricket, to my mind, should take precedence over all other crie- ket. That's the way the Australians look at it. They play all Tests to n Onish.
When the Australians travel 12,000 miles to play us, they have to put up with this sly four-days restriction I used to be three days until constant crilcism moved the authorities to grant another day.
EXTRA DAY WANTED
they were allotted five or six days, the arrangement would not inter- fere with the county programme any more than four-doya Tests do now,
Therefore what is to stop the allotment of an extra day for two days, if you like) apart from the hidebound conservatism of those who hold the reins?
It la not too late to extend the ce maining matches. If nothing is done, you can wager that at least ane and perhaps two more Tests wil end In stalemate, Manchester and Leeds have favourite's chances of „providing draws. They usually dn.
AMES' RECORD
So many different types of record were set up in the Test that every- one serma to have overlooked the one Ames got. Yes he comes into the list.
While he was batting he hit his 2,000th run in Test cricket. No other wicketkeeper has done that-- not even Oldfield, who had u habit when they were
runa
[of medert, or the brilliant II. B.
Another record,
most Cameron, of South Africa, whose The Australiars prefer playing the
sudden pasaing so shocked cricketers. kames to e anish--otherwise they would not do so in their own coun-
Yorkshire SU
try. And if a ballat were taken Verity.
say, was that their champion ኪሩ not asked to bowl throughout England I am sure thengainst Australian until their first result would be an overwhelming innings was nearing its end
vote for time-traitless Texts.
people
... but,
perhaps, I had better not go into
The concession is too much to hope that.
for,
I am afraid, but if the Bourd
of Control will not grant it, at least
they can extend the matches to ve days.
After the huge scores put up nt Nottingham, few will say that ve days are unnecessary. The records,
too, prove the case for an extension. When the Australians were Inst here two Tests were drown; in the 1930 series another two were drawn; in 1926 three were left undecided, in 1921 two were drawn-and right back through history.
so on,
Do you know that the last Test at
NOT TOO LATE
INDIAN RINK THROUGH TO SEMI-FINALS
Dallah's Four win Bowls Match
No change had one been able to 7-5; beat 11. D. Rumjahn and A. H, feeling of some local Chinese invetomar to decide the result of the Olympic Games of 1944, the Execu-
Madar 6-4; beat A. R.
and been outraged. It is rather pecular, co which has given the Clvl1 Set- tive M
Committee in charge of the Manchester which produced a Anish M. A. Razack 0-2.
Leading most of the way, the rink Tsui Yun-pui und Paul Kong come when all arrangements have you's two more points and sounded
the Games al was in 19957 Altogether 27 Testsstipped by A. R. Dallah and consist- (CRC) beat Humjahn and Rum- been made and when Shanghai has the death-knell of the Craigengower cancelled plans for
C.C. regarding
1940 decided yesterday have been drawn in England, and iting of D. M. Khan, M.-Y. Adal and
is about time the rot was stopped. Jahn 6-1; beat Rumjahn and Modur already been informed of the date of CC
championship Tokyo of
A. K. Minu, entered the semi-finals 7-5; beat Minu and Rozuck 6-3,
the visit, and not bufore. A pro-apes. The Club de Recreio won afternoon, according
of the Lawn Bowls rinks champion- Leo Wal-tong and Luk Ding-posed visit by
to their game with the Police and are Press reports. Hongkong team lo
ship on the Police R.C. green yester- cheung (C.R.C.) beat Rumjahn and Shoshal was announced in corny Shield. Unless they slip up badly now almost certain of retaining the
The Committee decided to submit
It used to be argued that an extra Xavier, M. A. Carvalho and L. A. day by beating F. A. Xavier, A. M. Colony to the CRC. was not that they beat Ruifahın 6-4; drew with Rumjahn all the newspapers of the
In their remaining three matches, the a request regarding the Games
day on a Test match messed up the Gutierrez by 24-18. counly cricket manner in which they performed the Itazock 6-0,
of the scheme, I have it on good authority,
tions the season with a few points in received
national Olympic Committee, while the contention no longer stands. objections 10
As a result of the Civil whatever. Now, when they haves # completed their plans,
bave victory, the race among the they
would be
be teams to avold
Mr. Ichitu Kobashi, the Mayor of relegation has become been told that the visi! infra dig in view of the fact that more interesting. At one time the Tokyo, told newspapermen that Shanghai is occupied by the Japan- Civil Servants were
regarded
Tokyo is as deeply interested as ever certain to down, but their
Co these objections will be affecting the Saluren
of
the Indians' No. 1 pair but in the and Mudar 6-8; drew with Minu and several weeks ago, and the sponso Portuguese players should wind up 1944 to a conference of the inter- that four days have become the rule, and at the end of the fifth, Gutierrez
feat.
Their excellent retrieving look
everything out of the two Rumjahns,
who spent themselves in vainly try-
ing to put the ball away for winners. V. R. C. TO PLAY
OTHERS TOO GOOD
As probably to be expecled, Tsui Wal-pui and W. C. Hung won
nil
R. ENGINEERS
Lat
ese.
*****
win on
will be held next June in London.
programme. Now
The Brst few heads were very even
was leading 7-5, but with a single Tests start on Friday, and Insting and two twos in succession, Dallah four days until Tuesday, as the Not- forged ahend to 10-3. Gutterrez lingham match did, it means that
again took the lead when he scored they alrendy cut into two county single and a four, and though he day und the fresh one starting on
in three, he was always in arrears Saturday.
until the end of the match. So if Tests were to begin on Thur-
The winners scored on 13 heads sday, or even Wednesday, whether against their opponents' eight.
I have not been told whether Saturday has given them' a fighting in the Olympic Games and Intended matches--the one that ends on Fred again on the 15th after scoring their three sets, but they were quite AT WATER-POLO piens of the selected team; but I hope counce; everything will depend on to "push efforts to hold
un-
the 1944
0
the sponsors of the scheme will not how they fare in their lust four Games here."-Reuter. close to defeat in the last round when
allow themselves to be swayed by inniches. At present they ure Είναι they were 4-0 down, against S. A. and O. Rumjahn. Tail Yun-put and
The following have been selected the opinion of a few persons. After three behind the Police
ter points behind Kowloon Docks and
and the Fincher 18-12 at the end of the 10th Paul Kong started off somewhat to represent the V.R.C. "B" team in a all, the object of the Interport against
Indians. Neither of the two
made against Shanghai is to collect money in aid shaklly and were 1-3 and 4-5 down friendly water-polo match against H. D. Rumajahn and A. II. the Royal Engineers in the Club's of the Chinese War Relief Fund; une selves out of the wood, while the characteristic recovery, scoring 3, 1,
named teams can yet consider then head, but Teddy's men Madar in the opening set, but they pool to-morrow at 6.15 p.m. (sharp) Ands It diMcult to see anything position of Kowloon Docks is
still 4, 2 and 3 in that order to win the E. M. L. Soares; R. G. L. Oliphant, patriotic at all in that. Furthermore
encounter by 25-10. A. R. Dallah W. Sprinkle; A. J. Hussain (capt.); the matches will be played in the]
was always up against it against J. A. A. Guterres, J. D. Remedios and French Concession.
Hyde, while A, K. Minu had bad S. Lee, Reserves:-A. J. Bosto and E. M. 'Marques.
Juck in being one shot down to E. Kern although he scored on no fewer than 12 of the heads. Fincher owed
mundo a good recovery to win out in the twelfth gore Thereafter they always had the upper hand against the other two 1.R.C. pairs.
Weakness overhead and unsteadi-
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The team is as follows:
precarious,
K.C.C. Doing Well
WITH the defeat of the Craigengo-
the players chosen to wer C.C, and their own victory it to W. Hyde and T. A. Madar that A MONG
make the trip are several who the Kowloon C.C. have gone up to He himself was off colour, but Hyde over the Indian R.C. at Cox's Road, his unbeaten record remained intact. have made their mark in the Hong second place in the League Table and Madar played very consistent kong Amateur Football
Lea and have a good chance of finishing bowls, especially the latter, who was They include several South China the season in the runners-up position. always near the Jack. Hyde over- "stors," who have appeared in re- Their win over the Indians was well-shadowed D. M. Khan in the opening presentative matches in the Colony deserved, all three rinks being up, hends, but the boot was on the other usual the Indians' weakness while foot towards the end. Tommy obvious at Muder was the man who was doing home rinks all the damage to the Indland, how- wal (South China "B"), Tse Kom- and for the rest of the
substantial lead, over. When Khan was sending his hung (South China "B"), Sung Ling-visitors
Kanc the woods consistently close to the jack in were fighting sing
uphill in the remaining few heads, Mudar (Eastern),
Ting-sang battle. The only Indian skip to have almost always succeeded in either (South China "A"), Wan Cheuk-aun, been up at any stage of the match sitting on the jack or tralling it to La Thu-man ( sinr from Shanghai) was M. R. Abbas, who led E. C. his aide's back woods.
Cheung Moon-wing (South China playing away was very
"A"), Wong Kal-ming, Leung. Pak- the stort, The three
ench run off with
Lau
Chu Kam-sing and Lau Chung-sang)
(South China "B").
Mr. Chu Chik-tsze, of the Nam Wah Yat Po will be manager of the team, while Mr. Pau Tze-tuen will be Secretary.
The team salla by the Empress of Japan on July 22 and will play two games In the Colony prior to depar- ture, on July 18 and 20, against the Volunteers in ald of the War Rellef Fund. The Volunteers have several players profielent at this game, in- cluding several members of the St. Joseph's team. It is hoped, I am in- formed, to include A. V. Gosano, the old Interport soccer player, to turn out for these exhibition matches. The Hongkong team is a strong one, containing as it does many players well-known in local soccer circles and the sponsors feel confident that it will give a very good account-of itself in the North.
Bowls Surprise
UEER things happen in lawn bowls. This is a saying which, if trite, nevertheless remains trug. Otherwise it would have been ex- tromely dificult to Imagine that the Civil Servants, judging by the poor form they have been showing this. "Staff Photographer),
Luk Ding-cheung and Les Wai-tong did yeoman service for the C.R.C yesterday by playing 8.A. Rumiahn and Omar Rumjahn to a standstill in the opening set. Their splendid retrieving wore down the Indians. Lutk is seen making a two-handed volley with Les looking on. (Photo
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