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KOWLOON C. C. BEAT

Vines And Crawford Reach Wimbledon Final

THURSDAY, AUGUST

1933.

BOWLS CHAMPIONS

Cochet Loses To Californian In THE BEST SEAT AT

Four Sets

SATOH FINE FIGHT: GERMAN

DOUBLES WIN

(By A. WALLIS MYERS.)

WIMBLEDON,

Occupied By Boy Who

SUCCESSFUL

ON TWO RINKS

AND TIE THIRD

Fraser's Fine Recovery

Against Omar.

RECREIO BEAT YACHT CLUB

Winning on two rinks and draw- ing on the third the Kowloon Cric- ket Club caused a sensation when

SWIMMING

SHEK KAM - PUI WINS AGAIN.

50 Metres Open Race At Chung Sing Gala.

DEPARTMENTAL RACE CAUSES

KEEN COMPETITION.

(By CRAWL).

Was Bored. POUNDS and pounds would they beat Craigengower, premier

Shek Kam-pui, of the Young have been paid by many peo-Bowls League champions, by 22 ple to have been in the position shots in their postponed game at Companions Aquatic Association, Craigen- secured an easy victory in the 50 They bid high prices for the gower, as the result of play on Metres Free Style Invitation event: coveted seats around the famous Saturday, commenced the game 2 at the Chinese Civil Servants' Swim- Centre Court when the great shets up.

AMERICA and Australia - Ellsworth Vines, of California, and son venteen-year-old Wallis Rob-the K.C.C. yesterday.

Jack Crawford, of New South Wales have qualified for the final at Wimbledon.

The centre court was packed in every nook and cranny yesterday matches are being played, but In the other postponed game the ming gala last night at North Point, to see these national champions survive the penultimate stage. Robson had a better seat than Recreio juniors beat the Yacht Club before a large attendance, Love or money could not secure a seat when play began.

them all.

Nothing obstructed his view, He could see every hit by Helen Wills-Moody, Cochet, Borotra, Ellsworth Vines and

D. M. Omar's rink at the K.CC. led Joe Fraser's four

by 19-15 at the 20th end, but

the K.C.C quartette fought

窳

Leung Shui-man (C.B.C.) and. A. G. Donn (Y.M.C.A.) did, not: compete, and Tsang Ho-fook (C.B.C.) and R. Wood (Y.M.C.A.) came second and third respective-

back spléndidly to make lly.

draw of the game.

As the result of their defeat-

The Departmental Team Race-

ten games the proved a great attraction, and the the other stars. No one had their fourth in a finer opportunity of studying champions have lost ground to the finish was one of the best seer at

Bowling Green in the champion any of the Club's galas.

the tennis of the masters.

He sat just behind the umpire by 9 shots at King's Park after win- Vines beat Cochet 6-2, 3-6, 3-6, 6-1, and Crawford beat Satoh and guarded the refrigerator ning on two of the three rinks.

wherein the' tennis balls and the 6-3, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4. It is indicative of Wimbledon's lure that one had drinking water were kept at the travelled 6,000 miles and the other 14,000 miles to meet on a neutral right temperature. court. Their title match is fixed provisionally for to-morrow.

The first match, exciting in In the first game of the second set the Frenchman prospect, was less appealing in

made his first passing shot practice. The victory of Vines,! if delayed by interludes of in- on the backhand, but though it action the marksman, so he won the game with it, Vines was hitting through seemed, pausing to reload was

him again in the next two. signalled after the champion had

Then, in the fourth game, won two sets.

with Vines serving and run- ning smoothly to 40-30, error from the champion which wns "to prove the prelude to many others.

Conceivably the ninth might not Vines had shut off steam to have gone to Cochet if a net-cord make a drop shot. It failed, stroke had not come to his aid. and for the next, three games he About the fourth set there is an engine without motor nothing much to say. If it did not

came

was

[power.

ал

The KC.C. wis, which

A combined Boys' and And yet tennis was not Wallis ship race.

Girls* Robson's game. He prefera augur well for their success cricket..

against Craigengower in the Semi-race gave rise to great enthusiasm Final of the Spey Royal Cap oa on the part of the spectators, and tions; in this phase the service of Sunday, has placed them on level Miss Ng Wun-ying is to be con- Viles was almost innocuous. terms with the Kowloon Docks, gratulated on her excellent per- who have also beaten the cham-formance in gaining second place.

LUCKY NET-CORD STROKE.

Would America rally again? It plons-in their last match looked possible when the eighth

game was carried easily.

K.C.C. Triumph.

A water-polo game between boys and girls (juniors) completed an... excellent programme.

The following were the results:

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11. Shek Kam-pui (Y. Companions)

2. Trang Ho-fook` ` (C.B.C.)

3. R. Wood (European Y.M.C.A.)

Time 29.-2/5 secs.

100 Metres Mixed Race:-

1. Pau Hon-lam

Wun-ying

2. Miss Ng Wun

Time

1. min. 54.-3/5 ̊ secs..

Men's 100 Metres Breast Stroke:-----

Cochet the champion was only on view, like the Léon- ide meteors, at long inter- vals. Vines, looked like the champion of 1932, as he was, and of 1933 as he may be. Cochet was playing, so one thought, in an environment

show us the best Vines, we often of the past; the weight of CHEERS FROM CROWD. saw the worst Cochet. All the modern metal was against

The crowd, lulled by the lack Frenchman's backhand, weakness him.

of conflict, cheered wildly as returned; even when he got a broad volleying chance ne would not take In the contest between Craw Cochet. squaring his ford and Satoh, although ite shoulders and gathering confidit; Vines presented him with the

others he took! At the K.C.C. the Kowloon Cric-1. Fan Kwan-choi length was similar to the other ence with each point won. ad-second game; the match, one did not feel that the vanced to 5-2.

with an even flow of deadly firing. ket Club beat the Craigengower 2. Suen Fan-sen

SATOH v. CRAWFORD. Cricket Club by 22 shots. gallant little Japanese was dead)

Craigengewer Here was promise of a hot de- There were comparatively few K. C. C. juntil his body ceased to inovel

bate; the fact that the repartee of bad patches in the second match, W. Hyde and his mind to work on the

one was made easier by the loose and even these could scarcely be Centre Court. Four sets were talk of the other did not mat- dull, when Crawford was always E. C. Fincher required in this test, as in the other; and in each case the loser er. It was felt that the match the artist of stroke play and Satoh A. Hyde Lay

had begun. And had not Vines's the subtlest of generals.

(Skip) ....26 The Australian champion; save H. Overy service been broken twice?

Alas for the hopes of France at moments of vital importance, A. E. Hayward and a sympathetic crowd! Vines and even then he

was uncertain, F. Goodwin had been missing the lines by was not at his best. He had not feet: sometimes he did not en-enjoyed, like Vines and Cochet, a sure that his drives cleared the string of testing maches, and, as We must not spoil what we net. Now all his old accuracy I have said, some of his admire. Crawford was still and speed returned; instead of had to be expended in doubles. human yesterday. "Charms he yielding the set to gain it became

carried off the third set. Bul the fourth set in the second duel was a real fight; in the first it was almost a sham fight.

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Yet Crawford played shrewd- ly enough to win the first set, to 3 and the second to 4. Their feature, perhaps, waS the confident way in which the Japanese returned the service;

this was his metler throughout the match.

J. A. Howe

1

A. E. Coates

L. E. Lammert

Fraser (Skip)....13 M. W. Brown V. C. Labrum J. M. Jack A. E. Silkstone

(Skip)

D. Rumjaha

B. W. Bradbury

3. Cheung Yue-tin

Time 1 min. 30.-1/6' secs.

Men's 100 Metres Breast Stroke (Open)

to, Civil Servants only)

1. Kal Yde-wun

2.

So Yan-kit

3. Po Tat-chol

Time 1 min. 35.-1/5 seca.

(Skip)....13 Men's 200 Metres--

W. Brightman

E. Tuck

J. Cavanagh

U. M. Omar

(Skip)....19

G. L. Buchanan

J. S. Landolt

1. Chan Fook-eing

Cheung King-to

3. Mak Wai-ming

Time 2 mins. 48.-3/5 ́ secs.

Ladier 100 Metres Back Strokes-

1. Miss Chan Wun-king

2. Miss Ng Sung-ying

Time 1 min. 46-1/5 secs.

Men's 30 Metres Fairs' Medley:-

1. Chan Fook-sing and Cheung Kit

chol

2. Cheung King-to and Sven Fan-sun 3. In Chi-sek ad Mak Wai-ming Time 45,-1/5 secs.

H. Beer

R. Basa

....22

(Skip)

152.

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Recreio Win.

too." His two doubles matches

COCHET MISSES CHANCE. of Tuesday (in America, by the

He was lucky, as all daring way, doubles are never sandwich- ed in between singles) may have men must be.. In the ninth game, disturbed the rhythm of Indepen when Cochet was on the verge of dent tactles that singles demand. clinching he set, the Frenchman

At King's Park the Club de Re- fumbled a smash of easy exccu- Satoh had only three sets of tion. That error alone

Satoh was also clever, as he crelo juniors beat The Yacht Club must doubles, and very: short sets have told Vines that the hand oftion of his next move; he searched Yacht Club

always is, in concealing the direc-by 9 shots. of doubles, and very short sets; greatness was passing. It was the lines with skill. But his LS; Greenhill Crawford had seven.: Vines. It not a victory stroke.

strokes, if varied, had not the A. W. Brown may be noted, had none; his

length and speed of Crawford's; J. W. C. Bonnar singles play gained by his early

nor was his backhand always proof A. Macfarlane dismissal from the doubles event.

against a co-ordinated assault. At Wimbledon in a heat wave: every breath must be saved.

The "cooler day-coats were back on male spectators-favour; ed brisker play, but the first sef of the Vines-Cochet match did not show. either player at their highest inflation.

When Vines, now in hot pursult again, had launched his thunderbolts in the tenth game, to win it from 15, the threat from Cochet seemed exhausted. But the French resistance was not spent, and Cochet's filching of the eleventh game, to regain the lead, was an effort worthy of the day.

...19

Recreio L. J. Silva

D. F. Lopes A. E. S. Alves

H. Rosario

(Skip) (Skip)....13

F. Xavier B. Basto A. V. Basto

J. Easto

(Skip)

Crawford eased up his attack in A. Murdoch the third set. It was not an un-W. J. Hansen wise tactic, yet when Satoh carried 1. Bentley it at 6—8 the effect of the interlude] A. Chapman

(Skip)....18. was visible in the fourth set. The |Australian had reduced his pace, J. Spence

now slicing where he had formerly N. V. A. Croucher F. X. Soares, used the spinless drive.

E. Abraham Satoh could now play the ball in F. Sutton

BACKHAND WEAKNESS.

How brief this episode of The first services on both sides were won to love; the loss of quality. Vines put a period to front of his body. He could make (Skip) Cochet's in the third game was the set in a blaze of withering the forcing shot into the corners duc to Cochet's weak guard in blows. He won seven points in and come up, with his dainty vol- the backhand corner,-and not to sequence,

and every

leying touch, to drop the ball just. scoring any explosive shots from Vines stroke came from a master over the net. Crawford was ahead American went hand. Cochet was but the bap he lost the long sixth game, and at 3-2, but, serving without are, And when the out at 6-2, it was through anjless victim of inspired play. the seventh was well captured by TENSE THIRD SET.

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easily yielding door. The length and strength came from Cali Yet the match was by no means LONGEST GAME OF MATCH. fornia, very little of either from over. Indeed, the best of it was to Crawford served well to Lyons.

come. The games in the third set equalise; then came the ninth began to lengthen; the tension game, the longest and most critical rose; the struggle for their posses- of the match. Satch double-fault- Įsion increased in bitterness... led and Crawford advanced, to

·That” both men were straining 1540. Deuce was subsequently every muscle was shown by their called at least a dozen times. Each {irritation at any extraneous in-player. had the vantage point in cident, Cochet held up his hand turn; each either threw it away or as if to check an outburst of an- was cheated by a brilliant coup. plage before the rally ended; the Once Crawford fell, but rose in umpire passed on his wish for time to execute a brilliant passing greater silence to the crowd, shot, Vines, too, was little "nervy." He signalled to the ball boys not BREAKING IN & SCHOOLING OF to come too near the field of play;

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Another double fault came from Satoh, he missed an easy -- smash a little later. At lớng Last Crawford fook the fateful game and was acclaimed the winner a few shots Inter,

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PROPRIETOR.

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D. Alves

7. G. Ozario A. H. Basto

(Skip)

Ladies 50 Metres:---

1. Miss Chan Woon-king.

2. Miss

Ng_Won-ying

Time 33.-4/5 secs.

Civil Servants Departmental Teara

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1. Education Dept.-(Chan Wah, Wod- Heng-tak and Cheung Hok-nang).

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Time 2 mins. 13 secs.

Men's 50 Metres Blindfold Race:

Won by Chan Fook-sing who was the only entrant to touch the other end of the first length.

It was pointed out in the case of Sam Ferris that the time for his most recent win corresponded, to an abso lute fifth of a second, with his time seven years ago, a wonderful tribute to the possibilities in developing auto- maticity. Younger runners lack this co-ordination and judgment and run 26 themselves out early in the race. would always, fancy the chances in Marathon of a man of 36 againat man of 20-Dr. Adolphe Abrahams.

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Lawn Bowls League Tables To Date,

Bowling Green (8) Police R.C. (7) Civil Service (3) Craigengower (1) Club de Recreio (2) Kowloon Docks (5). Kowloon C.' C.. (4) Taikoo Docks (6):

Craigengower (1)

- Bowling Green (5) Civil Service (8) Club de Recṛelo ́ Police EC. ( Yacht Club. (2)- H. R. Electric (8) Kowloon C. C (7) Indian R. G. (R

FIRST DIVISION

Shots Shots P. W. LF. A Up: D. Pts. 11 8 3 688 687 1010 16: 11 74 655 663 10 8 14 10 6 4 605 568 37 0 12. 106 4 576 640 360 12. 11 6 6 618 627 0 .9.10. 11 4 7 611 625 0148 ́:

0 20 11 4.7 628 648 11 3 8 599 722 SECOND DIVISION

· 0.20: 0:123

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110543 .7140 171 2: Figures in brackets denote positions held by the respective clubs at the conclusion of last season; The Police and Indian B Care dewcomers to the unfor division in the absence of the Tai- koo second string,

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