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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY,
OCTOBER 12, 1988.
THEY KEPT DAVIS CUP
Only Just
Australians Failed To Win
The Davis Cup
Budge And Mako Are Not An Invulnerable Combination
By F., Burrow
London, Sept. 12.
At last the long-drawn-out struggle for the possession of the Davis Cup for 1938, which has been going on ever since the middle of May either in Europe or America, has drawn to its conclusion; and the Cup remains in the possession of the country of its donor. Of all the nearly thirty would-be challengers for it, Australia came out top; but to wreat the trophy from the hands of the American holders proved just too hard a task for them-but only just. Budge was too good for either of his opponents to win a single from him; but, as I anticipated last Sunday, the American second string, R. Riggs, was able to win one of his two singles, and so made up for the loss of the doubles.
NAVY DISCOVERS USEFUL
7 CB#1
in his career and "coached,” he
The four members of the American Davis Cup squad which retained the trophy for Uncle Sam agafast would never have risen to the the Australian challenge. Left to right: Joe Hunt, Bobby Rings, Donald Budge and Gene Mako, As ex- eminence which he achieved. Great
pected, the burden fell on Budge's shoulders; ho won both his singles, and though he and Mako lost the players are born, not made; lucky doubles, the victory secured by Riggs over Quist gave the Americans a 3-2 success. are those who are strong-minded and self-confident enough to resist having their individuality "coached"
It was a great performance on the the world. It is safe to say that, if port of the Australian puir, Quist he had been "taken in hand" early and. Bromwich, to win the doubles apalit Budge and Mako, especially after the overwhelming defeat the two Amerleans had inflicted on them only a few days before in the final of the U.S.A. doubles championship; but anyone who follows the form of
And Mako must know by this out of them.
hat they are by no means In vulnerable-nothing like so reliable
a
that
· DAVIS CUP MEETING
the
Well, no more Davis Cup this! pair as Wilmer Allison and J. van Ryn were a few years ago. They year. But before finally leaving t entered on the mnich with two wins
it is not uninteresting to note that in the singles on the previous day to the official organ of the game has at; hearten them, but their defeat threw last published a report of
mcel- the
Ing of the Davis Cup nations which Issue Into the melting-pot again.
London more than a The first angle of the final
in was held day settled matters finally in America's couple of
of months ago. It will be favour,
to the reports remembered (though doubtless the According cabled over here, Budge's victory are hopes that it may
or
have
to the forgotten!) that the main subject for over Quist was largely owing to the Australian being "put off his game" discussion was whether the Davis easly Cup competition should in future be by being frequently, and relentlessly foot-faulted. These incidents are un-held annually
biennially. Ameri- fortunate; but if a man consistently can opposition to the blennial pro- served foot-faults (and Quist has posal was, naturally, very strong; long been well known as an in- and the resolution was lost by four- veterate foot-faulter) it is only right teen voles to saven, although all the strength of the British Empire (with that he should be penalised.
Players eminent enough to play the very natural exception of Ire- school themselves to obey the rules gether with the votes
for Grecce, and Switzerland. All
for their country certainly ought to land) was cast in favour
way,
not
Germ
the
U.S. PICKS MARGOT What Australia Needs
LUMB AS HELEN'S
SUCCESSOR
By Stanley N. Doust
London, Sept. 14.
The United States already sees a successor to Helen Wills and ultimate women's champion at Wimbledon-a British girl.
She is Margot Lumb, who surprised the tennis world by beat- ing Miss Helen Jacobs, No. 1 seeded player, 7-5, 6-2, in the third
Hills on Monday,
To Retain "Ashos"
London, Oct. 11. W. A. Oldfield, the veteran Australian wicket-keeper who arrived in England to-day, told Pressmen that Australia would need, if she is to retain the "Ashes", a new slow bowlor, a new fast bowler and a new opening bat before the next Test series.
round of the National Championships of the United States at Forest Should
She has endeared herself to the crowds-and when an American
W. Oldfieid Writes Book On Cricket
The Fox Be Exterminated?
BOWLER; KOWLOON
ALL OUT CHEAPLY
Hongkong v. Kowloon Game Revealed Nothing Of Note
(By "R. Abbit")
I was very sorry not to be able to got over to the match on Saturday at King's Park when the Navy played Kowloon. As a matter of fact I would have given the latter part of my engage- ment a miss, had I known that the game was going to be played, but the first I know of it was when l'opened my paper on Sunday morning. Judging from the scores I do not think I missed very much.
The K.C.C. who seem to have played many times before but only been at full strength, with perhaps sporadically In the last twenty the exception of Teddy Fincher, years, I think. The game on Monday made. a most terrible mess of it. was spelit by the weather and also Actually, I am told this newcomer by the absence of three prominent Moores is a
A useful players at least, Teddy Fincher, H. bowler and I am
forward to Owen Hughes and T. A. Pearce, the
mixed seeing him in action. My old friend Jatter of whom is, I gather,
up in this billiards gone to grass Paxton, whom I flatter myself can ken
of my wicket on malling at Fanling. Incidentally, if Shang- hat can send a golf team it seems as I don't try to get any runs, seems to have found the length pity that they cannot send a cricket
teem. too. His figures were 3 wickets for
suppose age and weight 16 as compared with Moores 5 for will tell
To revert to the game. It was 18. I did hear he bowled as well as Moores., Anderson and Ernie
too wet to start until after timin Fincher were the only two to get and I am afraid that a lot of damage into double figures for Kowloon; in has been done to the newly laid fact they were the only two to make ground. In view of the great efforts more than three runs. A dreadful that have been taken to get the Club business.
pitch into passable order, it is rather
BO
When the Navy batted 5 wickets a pity the game was played at all fell pretty cheaply but Commander as it taught us nothing, and was not
brilliant. very Taylor got 24 and Talbot similar number, while Moores picked Kowloon at 1.34 p.m. to Minu at Anderson and Mackay opened for
made a
up 37 not out. No-one else seems
to have run into form, and Whit-the Naval Yard and Beck bowling marsh has not hit his proper format the other end-the wrong one for him of course. The former bowled yet. Manners picked a good 'un
** nice length and turned the ball carly on. It always takes the cracks
as well, and both batsmen fell to some time to settle down.
slip
catches. Beck, I gather, caught CRAIGENGOWER COLLAPSE his with his chest. Fincher started confidently and made his half con- fairly Recrelo did
well against tury just under the hour but spart Craigengower ot King's Park.
from Gosano the batting was not of Rodrigues, Reed, Soares and E. L. a very high order, and even tho Gosano all got double figures to start latter scratched about a bit at first. with and the side totalled 140 runs. Madar made a couple of fine catches Sousa was the leading bowler with in the slips and Minu bowled well. 6 wickets for 32 runs. Personally I Stokes and Perry do not, seem to never
cun ace that he is anything havè caught my informant's eyel more than
than a change bowler, but he doca seem to come off in a curprising way. Billimoria who, to my mind,
The Hongkong innings was mad- twice the class only managed to denning in that it taught us little. get 3 for 47. When Craigengower We know that Colledge, Nazarin,
dreadful busi-
into bat it was
"War" Threatened, as they only managed to tot up
In Ireland
K.C.C'S REVENGE
NOT SO GOOD:
of the game; and it is not rule other European countries, as well be breaking them to
to say that the
Fair-haired and blue-eyed, Miss| is a bad rule. Bad it may be, and India and Japan, voted with In the opinion of most people it is: U.S.A. for the maintenance of the Lumb has taken the United States but the International Federation has status quo. To them the Davin by storm.
Cup spent at least four fruitless years in has been the principal agent in endeavouring to find a satisfactory popularising the game in their coun- amendment to it: and unl that fries, and they
hey saw no reason what- solution is found, if
ever, players ever for preventing them playing for crowd likes anyone the enthusiasm
Souza and Modar can get runs and 60 for 8 wickets, thanks to gallant that Minu la aalogger that delights being penalised if they continue to enter. Converse country does not she was selected to play for Britain } must be prepared to put up with it every year if they wished to is whole-hearted,
the eye. They did their bit. I was there 13 to ren Miss Lumb, until last year, when
21 not out by A. K. Ismail. They glad to see Nardin get going as he infringe it.
son whatever, if a
pulled off a draw with 2 wickets to has bad a loan patch. Kilbee is UNORTHODOXY SUCCEEDS wish to enter every усаг,
No less than seven bowlers quite out of form Kitchell got a why it in the Wightman Cup team, was bel-
go. Australia's
fine
fight however, should
were tried out and Ozorio with 3 for duck. He did to well in the: Trials enter every second or
London, Sept. 20. lawn tennis.
It is accepted generally that no entitles
that this will probably be very salu- her to good hopes for next every tenth year if it so desires. It is known in squash rackets than in
"War" is threatened in Ireland.12 did best. senson's competition. Quite the fea-is hard to see
finer wicket-keeper has ever graced why . this country
tary. I don't know Longfield but I ture of the whole match was the should
She has won the women's angles the cricket field than W. A. Oldfield, The question at issue is whether the have supported a proposal
the
hear he had the consolation of being brilliant play of Bromwich. 11 is which was from the very
start in squash rackets four years in suc- the Australian player, whose skill fox is to be exterminated. On
ranged the horse In the second eleven game bebowled by a real good 'un which unfortunate, in one
that his doomed to defeat. Of all nations cession, and it is said of her that she has been so much admired in Aus-one side are
In breeders and followers of the fox tween the K.C.C. and the Navy, the turned a lot-one of those balls success should be obtained by the our Association is far the richest, is as far ahead of her nearest woman tralia, England, and elsewhere.
Wicket hunt. On the other are the smaller senior service were all shot for 44, which, if they are the first one gets, Use of such extremely unorthodox and can well afford to send its team rival as Amr Bey is among the men. his book. "Behind the
he deals with his experiences in a
are alleging that farmers, who
of which Brownrigg made 20 not will close most innings. Minu did methods as using both hands to grip anywhere in Europe to play Davis
poultry. happy and reminiscent way, and fox is destroying
out. Baxter took 6 wickets for not time them as well as usual but le roo
It is A rocket; but his style is undeniably Cup matches. It would be Indeed!
grave question.
one over especially
in six overs. For Kowloon he had
from Anderson Justified by its reauits. Australia surprising if the 1030 competition
although there may be little that is
the well-known fox-hunting Baxter completed good match by which read 2 4. 8. Robert Lee appears to have unorthodoxy in its found no team from Great Britain
really constructive in contribution, to areas like the County Meath. The knocking up 40 retired and R.T. and bowled well as usual. He and Minu
a very pleasant very air. V B McGrath
is, like
nmong the entries,
the literature on the game.
hunting field is, of course, an in- F.A. Broadbridge also retired with are easily the best pair of bowlers Bromwich, a player who uses a two-
VARIUM ET MUTABILE
Her rise to fame in tennis began
from the dispensable adjunct handed blow for some of his strokes,
to the horse- 62 and 18 respectively to their cre- in the Colony to-day. Oldfield tells his story No more
admirable illustration of
In a most breeding industry, since it is there dit. Nobody else did very much. and very good strokes they are, pos- the difculty of assessing the "form" at Wimbledon only last year, when beginning of his career
Lizana (as entertaining way, making reference that the young hunters are "mnde" was sorry to see that when the Navy sessing the great advantage of con- of women players could well be the extended Senorita
Hosegood was three sets on the to many of the great ones he has and shown to the best advantage. were batting. cealing their intended direction en- imagined than that demonstrated in sie was then)
fox hunt cannot continue to given a chance with the ball. He is of all Australian players,
yers, tween the team of Australian women woman had done for 18 months.
t-keepers, naturally, must exist
and his comments on admitted that in the past the small is a batsman. Norman Brookes was by no means and the
means and their hostesses in the U.S.A. It The selectors were searching for the a model of orthodoxy. It
said was a two-day match on the Arst new talent to go to the United States instructive. He points out that in view of the damage which the fox of him that he did everything
wrong day the Australians led by four for our. Wightman Cup team and held his racket wrong, had his feet matches to two; on the second they they chose Miss Lumb on this or the parks and suburban areas of the undoubtedly does to the barnyard in the wrong position, and in short, lost four out of six, with the result formance. committed all the faults it was pos. alble to commit. Yet he was, in his day, undoubtedly the best player in
A 'BREAK' SERVICE
Her speed of foot is phenomenal and hus helped her tennis as much as her squash.
that the
runs
not
CARDS
I do hope I shall get some cards soon. The only
I have la
one
vy from the adversary. And the the match played this last week be- Centre Court-a thing no English- plaved with and against. His advice The without foxes, and it has to be to my mind a better bowler than he CS.C.C. which shows a game against
greatest of
was
MULLARD
that the whole encounter ended in
a draw. The four chief singles had these remarkable results: Miss Coyne
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Their choice has been amply just- fled.
She is 20 and left-handed, hits very hard, has a "break" service which is dimcult for women to negotinte--and perkups it was this service that help ed her to beat Miss Jacobs,
io
Thement of junior players la farmers have been very tolerant in
the
fowl.
principal cilies of Australia are hundreds of wickets made of con- raised the cry that they cannot stand Just now these farmers have crete,
over which,
before play begins,
is the destruction of their poultry any * type of green coir matting stretched to lessen the high bound longer, and they have called on the of the ball, and at the same time local agricultural authority to offer protect the ball from being damaged, a price for the extermination of the On such pitches thousands of foxes, cricketers play competitive cricket each Saturday under the direction of They know the value of the fox to emclent associations, comprised of delegates from the various clubs the horse-breeder, while they have admit the losses incurred by the beat Mias Jacoba, Miss Jacobs beat constituting these associations on fowl breeder. In the end, it seems Miss Wynne, Miss Wynne beat Mrs.
umpires, who have to pass an likely that a compromise will have Fabyan, and Mrs, Fabyan bent Miss examination on the rules, are pro to be renched by which the number Coyne! More succinctly, A beat B, vided.
The Agricultural Committee in the county are torn by two loyalties.
of foxes will be reduced and the damage to all the hen-roosts pro- portionately mitigated.
B beat C, C beat D, and D beat A. In the cities and suburbs of This sort of thing, which occurs Sydney Itself there are thirty such much more frequently in everyday associations, comprising almost une
Another form of sport which is tenna than one would belleve pos- thousand teams and providing com- Bible, is the despair of handicappers petitive play for approximately 16,- threatened is that of trout-fishing in of tournaments;
midlands. The who could say 000 players each week. As similar the lakes of the which of these four is the
strange best associations, exint throughout the enemy, in this case, is n player? The compilers of ranking country districts as well can be type of wild duck which has recent- ists and "sceding" committees
are realised the wonderful fostering of taken up is abode in the neigh- not to be envied, either. Their task talent which is continually being bourhood of the lakes. According it does more damage to anglera, Is never easy; and when, in a couple carried
and the foundation of days, every result is turned up which is being laid for the produc- than the poachers. The ukase has side down, what sate conclusion can tion of future champions. All of one forth, and the unwelcome duck they possibly draw? The only cer-which goes to show the thoroughness to going to have a bad time of it, tainly appears to be to adopt of Australia's crieket mind. G. B. 5.'s apophthegm, "You Never • "Behind the Wicket." By W. A. Can Tell."
Oldfield. (Hutchinson). 10s. 8d.
out
GETS-IT
THE LIQUID CORN CURE Just a few drops of Gets-It will kill the pala and your
sora troubles. will be ended!
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Our Our Correspondent..
Obolensky To Continue His Rugger Feats
Prince Alex Obolensky, the old Oxford and England Rugby
wing three-quarter, will be seen regularly in London Rugby this season, play- ing for Rosslyn Park, on the Old Deer Park ground at Richmond.
Capped for England in all the 1936 Internationals, "Obo" will be remem- bered for his grant pace on the wing. He scored two glorious tries against the All Blacks, and still retains much of the speed that made him the closest marked man In" the game.
MONDAY'S GAME These games between residents of Hongkong and Kowloon have been
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the H.K.C.C. on the latter Club's ground on Saturday next. I hope things start moving soon, as there. has been an awful snog in the dis appointment over the Interport.
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