1927-06-29 — Page 9

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1927.

SPORTS

SHANGHAI COMING.

Cricket Team Due In November.

HOME RECORD SMASHED. Tennis Semi-Finals.

[By "Stalwart."}

SECTION

HOME CRICKET.

RAIN SPOILS MANY GAMES.

SUTCLIFFE-HOLMES RECORD,

BETTY DEFEATED.

LOSES TO MISS JOAN. FRY AT WIMBLEDON,

THE SEMI-FINALISTS.

THE CHINA MAIL

MISS HELEN WILLS.

REFUSES TO TURN TENNIS PROFESSIONAL.

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Commenting on reports that a

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turn T,T. on London commenced. There was a tense Helen Wills $400,000, to

Helen's father T.T. on Shanghai Mrs. professional,

Banks Hongkong Bank ............. struggle in the first set. Godfree displayed an impregnable said that Helen refined two

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a Mercantile A, & E. Rain throughout the country bardment and flicked Miss Ryan's people last year and she would Chartered Bank

tennis profes spoiled most of the matches drives back at an acute angle. do the same tif offered half which commenced on Saturday She discounted the pace of Miss million from

Ryan's service by clever position- sionals.-Reuter's American Ser.&O. Bank last.

The M.C.C. drew with Cam-ing, but in the second set Ryan's vice..

persistent attack found holes in bridge University at Lords.

The home team scored 295 Miss Godfree's defence.

netted easy returns. Miss Ryan (Hendren 67, Kidd 52) and 21 for latter outdrove her opponent but for none.

Cambridge replied with 228 improved in versatility, scoring

every time she lobbed. (Longfield 71).

I hear that Shanghai has ac-] cepted the local invitation to send a cricket team here during November, and it is probable that Singapore may have a team in A the Colony at the same time. triangular tournament would prove very interesting. A Shang- hai friend, writing about the in- vitation, says that the news that there is to be an interport with Hong Kong after all, unless something absolutely unforeseen happens to put a spoke in present plans, will be welcomed by all Shanghai cricketers. This year Shanghai should have entertain- ed a team from the Colony, but the time at which the team should have been here happened to coincide with the time certain Chinese were demonstrating the

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The following will represent Mrs. Godfree opened with a the K.C.C. on Saturday, at 4.30 No Result at Oval. There was no result in the love game in the third set and p.m.

Miss Ryan took the second, the "B" team v. University on Surrey-Somerset match at the final point being a netcord shot. K.C.C. ground.-C. H. Atkins

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before Mrs. Godfree, netted aand G. S. Ford, Trial Match Drawn.

"C" team v. Netherlands T. C. do. 133 for six.

The North v. South Test trial simple emash in attempting too match, which was scened at much. In the ninth Miss Ryan at King's Park.-C. H. Leddra Shell Transports

was twice within a point of the and K. A. Carstenson, R. F. Star Ferries Sheffield and not Leeds, was match, but Mrs. Godfree even Strange and J. S. Smith, Geo. drawn.

She however, ob,Lee and A. J. Kew. The South scored 235 (Jardine tually won. 57, Chapman 70); Jupp taking six viously was a beaten player and Miss Ryan had no difficulty in taking the set, wickets for 90.

The North mude 269 for no

Miss Ryan's was a victory of a wickets, Sutcliffe got 131 and

The Ameri- fervour of their nationalism by Holmes 127, this making their stubborn temperament overa shooting up everything in sight 41st three-figure partnerships, more sensitive one.

and it was really unfair to ask thus benting the Haywood-Hobbs can plodded through the match 40 partner content to lose points to Mrs. God- anyone from a decently govern-record, which was

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Yorks Beaten. Kent beat Yorkshire at Tor A fairly old standing cricket record has, I see, gone by the bridge on the first innings' play. Kent scored 243 (Valentine 60)

board.

This was the series of

forty-first wicket partnerships Jacques taking four for 99; and realising over a century each 10 for one.

Yorkshire made 131, Wright heid by Hayward and Hobbs,. which has now been topped by taking five wickets for 45 and Sutcliffe and Holmes, the York-Woolley four for 35.

Century for Holmes. ⚫shire opening pair. The record

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Borotra, with more interest and adroit network, though the court was slippery, repeatedly got the better of the mercurial Basque, to the amusement of the crowd.

Cochet completed the list of "Musketeer" semi-finalists by a recovery against magnificent interrupted play for an hour. Hunter. A thunderstorm at 8.20 Betty's Defeat.

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205 (Bettington 81, Clay 58). largest number of runs scored Oxford made 154 (Newman 72 by these two in an innings of this character was 347, against not out) and 258 for three

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Miss Nuthall played a delight-

Calcutta, June 21. ance of this great Yorkshire pair Broughty Ferry, Dundee, drew ful all-round game and scored

Dennis Rooke, the Australian was achieved last season at the with the Scottish Counties. with well-angled shots across the

airman, narrowly escaped. disaster Oval, in the match where Surrey The visitors scored 804 (Demp-court and crisp volleys.

on arrival at Karachi yesterday.

He failed to see the aerodrome. won three points for a first ster 154), Anderson taking five rushed up to the net at the con- innings' lead. In the first for 52); and 103 for eight clusion and congratulated Joan, seven miles from the city owing to innings Holmes and Sutcliffe wickets, when they declared, who replied, "Come and have a semi-darkness and circled seeking

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In the third round of the men's come to the semi-finals. The has a long way to go yet and fact that Tilden and the "Three plenty of time to do it in. So doubles, Eames and Crole Rees Musketeers" of France-Lacoste, has Jonn, who also is still in her beat Lacoste and Borotra 6-4, 4-6,

Miss Fry now meets 6-2, 4-6, 6-4. Borotra, and Cochet-are left to 'teens.

Higgs and Lester beat Harada fight for the men's singles cham- Miss Helen Wille (whose pic- pionship will surprise nobody,ture you will see on this page in and Washburn 2-6, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4, The presence of at least three of the semi-finals.

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My opinion Cochet beat Hunter 3-6 3-6,

year's defeat at the hands of a is that the bowling of to-day is 6-2, 6-2, 6-3. Frenchman.

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