THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY,
OCTOBER ··12, 1938.
Australians Only Just THEY KEPT
Failed To Win The Davis Cup
Budge And Mako Are Not An Invulnerable Combination
By F. K. 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 wrest 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,
It is safe to say that, if
he had been "taken in hand" early his career and "conched," he
DAVIS CUP
NAVY DISCOVERS USEFUL
The four members of the American Davis Cup squad which retained the trophy for Uncle Sam against would never have risen to the the Austenilan challenge. Left to right: Joe Hunt, Bobby Riggs, Donald Budze and Gene Mako. As ex- eminence which he achieved. Great pected, the burden fell on Budge's shoulders, he won both his singles, and though he and Biako tosi ile players are born, not made; lucky doubles, the victory secured by Riggs over Qulst gave the Americans a 3-2 success.
are those who are strong-minded and self-confident enough to resist having their individuality "coached": out of them.
It was a great performance on the the world. part of the Australian pair, Quist and Bromwich, to win the doubles against Budge and Mako, especially after the overwhelming defeat the two Americans 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 Budge and Mako must know by this time that they are by no means in- vulnerable nothing like so rellable
DAVIS CUP MEETING Well, no more Davis Cup this pair as Wilmer Allison and J. van Ryn were few years ago. They year. But before finally leaving t entered on the match with two wins it in not uninteresting to note that
to the ometal organ of in the singles on the previous day to
the
game has al hearten them, but their defeat threw laat published a report of the meet- the issue Into the melting-pot ugain. ing of the Davis Cup nations which
The first single of the fing
final day was field in. London more than a settled matters finally in America's couple of onths ago.
of months
It will be favour. According to the reports rememb
orts remembered (though doubtless there cabled over here, Budge's victory are hopes that it may OVET Quist
DC
have
been
Was Largely wing to the forgotten!) that the main subject for Australian being put off his game discussion was whether the Davis by being frequently and relentlessly Cup foot-faulted. These incidents are up-held
or biennially, Ameri-
fortunate; but if a man consistently should in future bel
served foot-faults
that he should be penalised.
Players eminent enough
for their country certainly ought
ough to school themselves to obey the rules
Ano
country
U.S. PICKS MARGOT What Australia Needs
LUMB AS HELEN'S SUCCESSOR
By Stanley N. Doust
She has endeared herself to the | crowds--and when
American
an
crowd likes anyone the enthusiasm
whole-hearted.
Miss Lumb, unt! last year, when she was selected to play for Britain the Wightman Cup team, was bet- ter known in squash rackets then in lawn tennis.
London, Sept. 14.
W. Oldfieid Writes Book On Cricket
I is accepted generally that no finer wicket-keeper has ever graced
To Retain “Ashes"
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 bowler, a new fast bowler and a now opening bat before the next Test series.
Should The Fox Be Exterminated?
"War" Threatened In Ireland
side are
BOWLER; KOWLOON
ALL OUT CHEAPLY
Hongkong v. Kowloon Game Revealed Nothing Of Note
(fy "R. Abbit") ..
I was very sorry not to be able to get 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 I opened my paper on Sunday.. morning. Judging from the scores I do not think I missed very much.
hat can send
golf team it seeme
The KC.C. who seem 10 have played many times before but only been at full strength, with perhaps sporadically In the last - twenly the exception of Teddy Fincher, years, 1 think. The game on Monday made a most terrible mess of it. was spoilt by the weather and also Actually, I
I am told this newcomer
by the absence of three prominent a particularly useful players at least, Teddy Fincher, H. Moorca is bowler and I am looking forward to Owen Hughes and T. A. Pearce, the seeing him in nction. My old friend latter of whom is, I gather, mixed Paxton, whom intter myself I can up in this billiards gone to grass keep out of my wicket on matting at Fouling. Incidentally, if Shang- so long as 1 don't try to get any runs, seems to have found the length too. His figures were 3 wickets for 16 as compared with Mouren 5 for I did hear he bowled as well as Moores. Anderson and Ernie Fincher, were the only two to get into double figures for Kowloon; in fael they were the only two to make more than three runs. A dreadful business.
18.
a pity that they cannot send a cricket suppose age and weight will tell.
team.
To revert to the game. 11 WAS too wet to start until after tifin and I am afraid that a lot of damage has been done to the newly laid ground. In view of the great efforts that have been taken to get the Club pitch into passable order, it is rather
ft
pity the game was played at all as it taught us nothing, and was not very brilliant.
Anderson and Mackay opened for
When the Navy batted 5 wickets fell pretty cheaply but Commander Taylor got 24 and Talbot mado a similar number, while Moores picked up 37 not out. No-one else seems Kowloon at 1.34 p.m. to Minu at to have run into form, and Whit-the Naval Yard and Beck bowling marsh has not hit his proper form the other end-the wrong one for yet. Manners pleked a good un early on. It always takes the cracks some time to settle down.
CRAIGENGOWER COLLAPSE
him of course. The former bowled a nice length and turned the ball as well, and bath batsmen fell to caught
the
slip entches. Beck, I Rather, his with his chest. Fincher started confidently and made his half con- Recrelo did fairly well against tury just under the hour but apart Crolgengower ot King's Purk. from Gosano the batting was not of Rodrigues, Reed, Soares and E. La very high order, and even Gusano ali got double figures to start latter scratched about 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 woll. 6 wickets for 32 runs. Personally I Stokes and Ferry do not seem to never can see that he is anything have caught my informant's eyel
nge bowler, but he change more than a
NOT SO GOOD does seem to come off in a sur
a surprising way, Billimoria who, to my
mind,
The Hongkong Innings was mad- is twice the class only managed to denning in that it taught us little. get 3 for 47. When Cralgengower
In the
than
of
to the biennial pro- (and Quist has posal was, naturally, very strong;
The United States already sees a successor to Helen Wills and long been well known as an in- and the resolution was lost by four- velerato foot-faulter) it is only right teen votes to seven, although all the ultimate women's champion at Wimbledona British girl.
strength of the British Empire (with Sho is Margot Lumb, who surprised the tennis world by beat- the very
natural exception of Ire-ing Miss Helen Jacobs, No. I seeded player, 7-5, 6–2, in the third land) was cast in favour of it, to- round of the National Championships of the United States at Forest gether with the votes of Germany Hills on Monday. of the game; and it is no excuse for Greece, and Switzerland. All the breaking them to say that the rule other European countries, as well as is a bad rule. Bad it may be, and Ind and
Japan,
Fair-haired and blue-eyed, Miss voted with the In the opinion of most people it is: US.A. for the maintenance of the Lumb has taken the United States but the International Federation bus status quo. To them the Davis Cup by storm. 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 until that tries, and they saw no reason what-|
went into bat it was a dreadful busi- We know that Colledge, Nazarin, solution is found, if ever, players ever for preventing them playing for
ness, as they only managed to tot up Souza and Mador can get runs and must be prepared to put up with it every year if they wished to
59 for a wickets, thanks to a gallant that Minu is a slogger that delights being penalised if they continue to enter, Conversely, there is no rea
21 not out by A. K. Ismail, They the eye. They did their bit. I was infringe it.
son whatever, if a country does not
glad to see Nazarin get going as he pulled off a draw with 2 wickets to UNORTHODOXY SUCCEEDS wish to enter every
a lean patch. Klibee Is year, Australia's
why it
**go. No less should not enter every second or
seven bowlera has had fight, however,
qulle out were tried out and Ozorlo with 3 for duck. He did so well in the Trials.
form. Kitchell got a London, Sept. 20. entities her
her to good hopes for nexi every tenth year if it so desires. It
"War" is threatened in Ireland.12 did best. Quite the fen- is hard to see nenson's competition.
why this
that this will probably be very salu! ture of the whole
was the should have supported a proposal
I don't know Longfield but I She has won the women's singles the cricitet field than W. A. Oldfield, The question at issue is whether the matel
tary, K.C.C'S REVENGE
... brilliant
of Bromwich, It is play of
hear he had the consolation of being which Was from the very start in squash rackets four years in suc- the Australian player, whose sill fox is to be exterminated. On the unfortunate, in one
horse- ranged the defeat. Or all nations cession, and it is said of her that she has been so much admired in Aus-one bis doomed to way, that
second eleven game be bowled by a real good "un which In breeders and followers of the fox tween the K.C.C. and the Navy, the turned a lot-one of those balis success should be obtained by the our Association is for the richest, is as far ahead of her nearest woman tralls, England, and elsewhere. use of such extremely unorthodox nut can well afterd to send its team rival as Amr Bey is among the men. his book. "Behind the Wicket" hunt. On the other are the smaller senior service were all shot for 44, which, if they are the first one. gots, he deals with his experiences in a farmers, who are alleging that the of which Brownrigg made 20 not will close most innings. Minu did his racket us both hands to grip anywhere in Europe to play Davis:
their but his style
happy and reminiscent way, and fox is destroying poultry, undeniably Cup matches. It would be indeed
out. Baxter took 8 wickets for not time them as well as usual but 1030 competition
although there may be little that is
in six question, especially rune grave
overn. For really constructive in the publication in fed by its results. Australia surprising if the justined
Kowloon he had
from Anderson the well-known fox-hunting Baxter completed
good match by which read 2 4.00. Robert Lee appears to have unorthodoxy in iis found no team from Great Britain
It is a very pleasant contribution to areas like the County Meath. very air. V. B. McGrath is, like apoARIUM ET MUTABILE
the entries,
The knocking up 49 retired and R.T, and bowled well as usual. He and Minu the literature on the game. Bromwich, a player who unc
hunting field in, of handed blow, for some of his strokes. No more admirabic illustration of Her rise to fame in tennis began Oldfald tells his story from the dispensable adjunct to the horse-F.A. Broadbridge also retired with are easily the best pair of bowlers
62. and 18 respectively to their cre- in the Colony to-day.
: I and very good strokes they are, pos- the dimeully of assessing the "form" at Wimbledon only last year, when beginning of his career in a, most breeding industry, since
(asentertaining way, making reference that the young bunters are/dit. Nobody else did very much. players could well be she extended Senorita Lizana sessing the great advantage of con- of women
to the best advantage. were batting,
was sorry to sea that when the Navy Hosegood was not cealing their intended direction en-imagined than that demonstrated in she was then) to three sets on the to many of the great ones he has and shown
The fox hunt cannot continue to given a chance with the ball. He is Urely from the adversary. And the the match played this last week bo- Centre Court- thing no English-fuisved with and against. His adulcest without foxes, and it has to be to my mind a belter bowler than he 500n. The only
woman had done for 18 months. to wicket-keepers, naturally, must
be valuable, and his comments on admitted that in the past the smell is a bateman. The selectors were searching for the development of junior players la farmers have been very tolerant in talent to go to the United States Instructive. He points out that in view of the damage which the fox for our Wightman Cup team and they chose Miss Lumb on this per the parks and suburban areas of the undoubtedly does to the barnyard
fowl. formance,
principal cities of Australla
these farmers have hundreds of wickets made of con- Their choice has been amply justi-crete, over which, before play begins, raised the cry that they cannot stand fled.
a type of green coir matting is the destruction of their poultry any siretched to lessen the high bound longer, and they have called on the She is 20 and left-handed, hits very of the ball, and at the same time local agricultural authority to offer hard, has a "break" service which is protect the ball from being damaged. price for the extermination of the difficult for women to negotiate and On such pitclics thousands of foxes.
ΟΙ perhaps it was this service that help-erlaketers play competitive cricket
mothods as
ΟΣ
A
two-
shid was
greatest of all Australian pinyers, tween the team of Australian women Norman
Brookes was by no means and their hostesses in the US.A. It model of orthodoxy. It was
two-day match: on the first day the Australions led by four matches to two; on the second they lost four aut of six, with the result that the whole encounter ended in a draw. The four chief singles had these remarkable results: Miss Coyne
him that he did everything wrong -held his racket wrong, had his feet in the wrong position, and in short, committed all the faults It was pos. sible to commit. Yet he was, in his day, undoubtedly the best player in
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A 'BREAK' SERVICE
Her speed of foot is phenomenal and has helped her tennis as much as her squash.
ed her to beat Miss Jacobs,
DIU
It is a
Just
now
of course,
3t is
in-
county are torn by two loyalties.
The Agricultural Committee In the
metent associations, of
der the ench
Saturday under
delegates from, the various clubs beat Miss Jacobs, Miss Jacobs beat constituting these associations. Ofto admit the losses incurred by the Miss Wynne, Miss Wynne beat Mrs- examination on the rules, are pro-likely that a compromise will have ficial umpires, who have to pass on
Fabyan, and Mrs. Fabyan beat Miss: Coyne! More succinctly, A bent B. vided.
of They know the value of the fox to the horse-breeder, while they have
fowl breeder. In the end, it seems
be renched by which the number B beat C, C beat D, and D beat A. In the
of of foxes will be reduced and the elties and suburbs This sort of thing, which
damage all the hen-roosts pro-
to occurn Sydney itself there are thirty such much more frequently in everyday associations, comprising almost one portionately mitigated. tennis than one would believe pos-
Another form of sport which thousand teams and providing com- sible, to the despair of handicappern petitive play for approximately 10,- threatened is that of front-fishing in of tournaments; who
of the midlands. The could Bay 000 players cach week. As imilar to lakes which of these four Ja
case, is a strange the best associations exist throughout the Comy, In this player? The compliers of ranking country districts as well it can be type of wild duck which has recent
lats and "seeding" committers are realized the wonderful fostering of bourhood of the lakes. According 17 taken up its abode in the neigh- not to be envied, either. Their task talent which is continually being to anglers, it does more damage ls never easy; and when, in a couple carried out And the foundation
Ja
of days, every result is turned up which is being laid for the produc- than the penchers. The ukose has side down, what safe conclusion canon of future champions. All of gone forth, and the unwelcome duck they possibly draw? The only cer which goes to show the thoroughness is going to have a bad Ume of it. talrity Appears to be to adopt of Australia's cricket mind,
Our Our Correspondent.
G. B. S. apophthegm, "You Never • "Behind the Wicket," By W. A. Can Tell"
Olfeld. (Hutchinson). 10s, éd.
\GETS IT
THE LIQUID CORN CURE Just a few drops of. Gets-It will; kifl the pain and your corn traubles will be ended!
T-T1-
Obolensky To Continue His Rugger Feats
Prince Alex Obolensky, the old Oxford and England Rugby wing three-quarter, will be acen regularly In Landon Rugby this season, play- ing for Rosslyn Park, on the Old Deer Park ground at Richmond,
Capped for England in all the 1930 internationals, "Obo" will be remem bered for his great pace on the wing. He scored two glorious trian Logainst the All Blacks, and still retains much of the speed that made him the closest marked man Indie game,
MONDAY'S GAME
These games between residents of Hongkong and Kowloon have been
NOW
one over
CARDS
is
I do hope I shall get some cards
one I have C.S.C.C. which shows a game against 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 song in the dis appointment over the Interport.
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