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How Kay Stammers Entered Women's Final
A Brilliant Display Bowls Singles Ties
Against Mrs.
Fabyan:
Miss Marble's Triumph
London, July 7.
For To-day
If grecas are in a fit condition for play, the following matches will be decided in the first round of the Open Bowls Slugles Championship of the Colony this afternoon!
At Kowloon C.C—G, C. Moss v. A. Eastman.
At Kowloon F.C.-J. S. Riddell v.
At Talkco B.C.-R. Basa. v. N. R.
After a match which began at 2 o'clock and finished. Gitlins; J. N. Wong v. J. A. La nearly four and a half hours later, England gained a place Fraser; J. E. Noronha V. F. E. in the Wimbledon finals yesterday. Miss Kathleen Stam-Chonning, mere defeated Mrs. Palfrey Fabyan, of America, by 7-5, Z-6, 6-3 in a contest which was interrupted four times by rain.
The actual playing time was an hour and a quarter. The fourth interruption Insted 2 hours and 10 minutes, and few thought play would be resumed at all. Even the officials had almost despaired of further play, and they would probably have sent round the "No more play to-day" notices at 6 o'clock. But a few minutes before that hour the drizzle stopped.
At once the tarpaulin covers were worked almost to perfection. With removed from the court and not only it she raked the corners of the was this match finished, but Miss American's court, clipped the side- Alice Marble, of Amerlen, joined lines with deeply ungled cross-court Miss Stammers in the final by oncjshots, and occasionally found the of the quickest victories ever record- narrow opening for the pass when ed at Wimbledon. She beat Mrs. Mrs. Fabyan was in her favourite Sperling, of Denmark, 6-0, 6-0 in volleying "position. 10 minutes.
To do that was an echievement. How for the interruptions affected Mrs. Fabyan showed that she is not the tense first battle it is difficult to only the neatest and nimblest fore- nt which they court player of all women, but her say. The points arrived suggest that they had no anticipation
Miss of
Stommers's adverse results for Mrs. Fobyun. counter thrusts was at times un- She was 1-4 down in the first set canny. It was, therefore, to a large when the first stoppage came. She extent, the English forehand against won the next game after resuming, the piercing American volleys, though and pulled up from 2-3 to 4-5 bo-Miss Stammers may also claim a fore yielding the set,
service superiority.
DEFENCE V. POWER
of her drives. A manlike overhead
Kill helped in the capture of Mrs. then the battle was at its hottest. Fabyan's service game for 5-2 and
STROKE OF LUCK
second services, and surged up to the Mrs. Fabyan punished some weak net on her own service. So excellent was her anticipation that her racket secmed us n magnet to the ball, and court she never appeared to have to although she moved swiftly about the hurry.
net-cord stroke, one of many that her She drew level at all, and if a
had not come to Miss Stammers ald top-spin forehand luckily gothered, in the next game, she might not have But Miss Stammers'
won the sel.
It wa now Mrs. Fabyan's turn, be-
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YANKEES TROUNCE
Starting Times At Fanling
The following are the starting times
at Fanling on Sunday:
reprisal was a worthy one. The forchand was again the predomin- ant stroke in some fine driving bouts, and England was soon a up.
Though she began the set with two tween showers, to reach 4-love. Baseball double faults, the tennis was even, better, the rallies even keener, and the games still wavering around deuce, Miss Stummers won two long deuce und 'vantage gomes, and then Mrs. Fabyan went out. Mrs. Fabyan could not, of course, But the rain was now falling
I. 11. Geare. keep up a non-stop volleying attack.heavily, and, with the mutch al
9.24 A. N. & Q. A. A. Macfadyen, 125 E Laldiaw, R. Burchard. Mes, Fabyan proceeded to 4-love 15 stay back, pitting her skilful de-again drawn over the court, this time For many rallies she was compelled square, the dismal tarpaulins were
9.32 H. O. Baldwin, B. 8. Cirurch, and to 6-2 before the long wall fence and fleethess of foot against for more than two hours.
10.00 J. W. Mayhew, J. M. Pearson. braved by many more than half the the pace and power of that waking
1020 RA. V. RA.M.C. 10.24 RA, v. R.A.M.C 13,000 crowd present, was enforced forehand drive.
It might have been thought that Her strategle use
10.32 R.A. V. RAM.C en pent-up players who, long before of the lob, not only in moments of the long wait would attack the play
1030 HA, V. "TUA.M.C. The following are the results of 10.44 A. v. RA.M.C ther they would ask to be allowed the point of attack, was excellent. It was up, must have debated whe-stress, but also as a means to turn era nerves, but the third set, was matches played in the Major Baseball 10.40 HA. V. RAM.C. to begin all over again or resume
probably the best of all. Certainly Ledgue to-day: Some of the rallies were entrone, it was Miss Slummers' best. She
The next delay come at 1-love to Mrs. Fabyan and deuce. She won the next two points to be 2--0 before the players had again shelter.
10 fun to
at which they had left off.
BRILLIANT LAST SET
ST. LOUIS
New York, July 20.
——————-NATIONAL LEAGUE....
on the morrow at the critical.stageing and each-interruption seemed won the first two games, held a very like taking a succulent sweet out of close one on her service to keep the WINNER BETTER THAN EVER a small boy's mouth just when he advantage et 3-———), and then succumb-| Pittsburgh
R. II. E.
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and
was enjoying the full measure of ked to some brilliant American volley- New York One clear impression remained Though Miss Stammers secured a ing and equally brilliant passing Fletcher homered for the Pirates from the painfully drawn out en-4-love lead in the first set, the strokes when Miss Stammers herself and Seeds for the Giants. Batteries. counter. Such fiery tennis deserved games were by no means easily come tried to force home a net oltack. |--Pirates, Klinger and Berres. to be sunt, and that the thread had by, Mrs. Fabyan was within a point So it was 3-all, but it was Mrs. thus to be broken will be regretted of the second, had & game points in Fabyan's last thrust. Miss Stemmers Chicago by all who saw this lively display of the third, and another for the fourth, went out triumphantly from that Boston women's lawn tennis.
What could be closer than that? point, losing only four more points, Batteries-Braves, Posedel Atis Stammers was at the top of She checked the unhappy sequence and a still large crowd cheered lustily Lopez. her form. I would say that at times by holding her third service game in enough for the full house that had
AMERICAN LEAGUE she touched greater heights than ever the rain, and after a quarter of an watched the earlier chapters and
hour's delay captured Miss Stam- then went home in despair. Her forchand drive, the most mers for 2-4. The English girl's
LIGHTNING VICTORY powerful weapon in her armoury, reply to this was to increase the pace
before.
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Miss Marble's lightning victory Dickey. was astonishing. Mrs. Sperling could win only 9 points in the first set and Bosion 5 in the second.
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OLD COURSE
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1940 WINTER GAMES
Berlin, July 10.
Japan has announced her intention
of participating in the Fifth Winter Olymple Gumes to be held next win- ter in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
This brings the number of nations enrolled up to five, the others being |America, Canada, Norway and Italy. 1-Trans-Ocean.
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The Danish woman's Arst service Batteries.-White Sox, Lec and was contemptuously crashed to glory. Tresh,
It was the threatening gesture. The
Americon, with sweeping drives of Washington tremendous pace and power to the Detroit
Parliament To Adjourn
LONDON, July 20-The Opposi
13 1 tlon's attempt, to keep the House of
11 6 Commons in session while the crisis
far corners of the court, scarcely met i Estalella homered for the Senators exista falled to-day when the House,
a counter after that from a player and Greenberg. Averilt and Cullen- by a vote of 208 to 147, adopted Mr. reputed to be one of the toutest and bine for the Tigers. Batteries.- Chumberlain's programme providing ffeetest retrievers in the glime,
Senators, Kelly and Guillant.
tor adjournment on August 4.-United Philadelphla
Presz,
Mrs. Sperling was rendered com plotely helpless against the storm of Cleveland
drives and volleys that were rained
on her. She was never allowed to
10 8
Siebert homered for the Athletics. Batteries.--Indians, Harder
and
get into her stride. It should be Pytlak.-Reuter...
great Ünal between Miss Morble and
Miss Stammers to-morrow.
The meeting was virtually saved
doubles semi-final before
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MOSCOW, July 15-A stupendous project is to be launched in Uzbekla- tan on August 1, when 14,000 collec- live farmers and 2,000 techicians will
270 kilometres long in a single month. Of the 14,000 farmers, 10,000 will be women.
from a continuation into the third WASHINGTON, July 20-The be put to work to building a canal week by squeezing in the men's House of Representatives has orders dark, whether 1 new board should be: Cooke
and Riggs In partnership created to iako over administration reached another final at the expense of the Wagner Labour Act from the
The conal will serve to irrigate
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3–6, 6–2, 63,
One imagines that the slight damp. ness of the surface and one heavy fall affected Borotra, who still feels the knee injury he received in n skl-ing neelden! last winter. How ever that may be, he was at a dis count against the quick-fro Ameri- can volleys.
There must be an Anglo-American Anal in this event. C. E. Hare and F. II. D. Wilde, the British Davis Cup pair, won a fourth round match against the Jugoslavinns, Puncee and Mitle, 6-1, 6-1, 7-3, and they meet another home pair, J. S. Oll and
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