1935-06-19 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, "HINE 19, 1935

Sporting Page

EVERYTHING POINTED TO A WIN FOR JAMES BRADDOCK!

TENNIS PLAYERS WHO

L

FIDDLE AROUND!

AIMLESS PLAY ROBS GAME OF INTEREST CLUB STANDARD SHOULD BE

CONSIDERA BLY HIGHER

(By Fred Perry)

London, May 25.

AWN-TENNIS "stars"-real and alleged-are thrust pro- minently into the public mind all the season through. Everything they do is recorded and photographed; their matches are written-up game by game.

When they win everybody knows about it in a quiet sort of way: when they lose much louder methods are used to acquaint the public of their latest failure.

Let us forget the stars fo

players.

r the moment and talk of club

I must be rather critical of some of them.

Why not? I have not been entirely immune from critic- ism these last three years. Now it is my turn!.

DANGEROUS

BOWLERS

REMOVED

Notts And Somerset Skippers Act

WEARING PITCH AT TRENT BRIDGE

London. May 25. What little hope remained of a definite finish to the Notts v Somerset game disappeared when rain limited play before] lunch yesterday to half an hour-

The play, however. PRIS noti without incident. When Somer set resumed 134 behind with four wickets to fall RA ingle was; caught at short-leg without addi- tion to his overnight 49.

Then H. D. Burrough was struck on the right thumb by a ball from Larwood, who afterwards dispos ed to Luckes and Andrews for a single to round off the Somerse! innings-

Dangerous Bowlers When Notts

batted a second time Wellard and Andrews, with their fast bowling. were really dangerous on a wearing pitch affected by rain.

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GOLF ENTRY GOES ASTRAY

1 The backbone of lawn tennis is the club-its members, its social life, and everything that tends to make a pleasant Saturday after- noo. A diversity of clubs pui- sue the game-big clubs small elubs, church clubs, boys' clubs. and there are courts at schools, hospitals, pablie parks and pri vate houses--everywhere that lawn tennis is known.

William Woodward, a banker, who owns Omaha, forewent the possiblity of achieving his greatest (English) Derby-to keep the colt at home to follow in the footsteps of his parent. Gallant Fox, in win Preakness (in which he is seen finishing above, arrow). Now Woodward (left) and Trainer James Fit Omaha for the choicest turf laurels, with the possibility that foreign invasion and competition on som older horses may come later. In a closeup of Òmaka, note his blazed forehead, exactly like that of G

ambition—to win the Epsom ning the Kentucky Derby and zsimmons (right) are pointing e of the English races for allant For

HELEN WILLS HAS WIMBLEDON FEVER

How do 90 per cent of the BITSY GRANT MAY

WIN INCLUSION IN

members perform? It is just as

well that the lawn tennis writers

do not record their strokes and play!

Amusement Not Seriousness

antuse-

In England particularly, club lawn tennis, except "for a com-| paratively few notable excep tions, is treated as an ment rather than a game; and the resulting standard is lament- ably low indeed it falls far be-1 low the average of cricket or golf:

U.S. TOURING TEAM

Everything Depends

On Himself.

DAVIS CUP INVADERS TO BE SIX-IN NUMBER

New York, May-17.- -This should not be read aloud be? I have because it is only being whisper- Why should this risen through the medium. of the ed by the tennis moguls of the clubs-to some of which I am country, but... duly thankful and have had a chance to study conditions.

If Bryan M. (Bitsy) Grant Jr., the peppery, little Atlantan.

It seems to me that most people makes a good showing in the who play the game do not take it United States-Mexico Davis Cup seriously enough. So many of series to be played this weeks them just fiddle around, tapping end in Mexico he is virtually the ball about, and do not even certain to go to England on get very much exercise.

America's..

team cup

next They wander about, play gentle month. That is assuming the Imixed doubles, belt their first United States conquers Mexico. service as hard as they can, andị Officials of the United States

BEN

THE BOWL "JINX"

CHAMPION

NEVER HELD

HIS TITLE

Similarity To Gene Tunney's Case

BRADDOCK PROVES OMENS- NOT ALWAYS WRONG

New York, June 19. Fight seers, looking for omess, to-day saw everything in favour of Jimmy Braddock and against Max Baer in their championship fight to be held on June 13, at the- Madison Square Garden Bowl.

The fight "jinx" in the Jersey Irishman's favour is the spell which the Garden Bowl has cast. over defending champions. Not once has a challenger lost his opportunity to take the crown away from

champion Carnera won the title from |champion Jack Sharkey and lost it to challenger Max Baer in the Bowl “McLarnin” lost his welter title to Ross as the de- fending champion; only to win it back as the challenger later

JUST COULD NOT RESIST last year. This hard luck visit-

THE LURE

SEEKS PRACTICE IN MINOR

TOURNAMENTS

ed upon boxing champions also affected champions in other sports in the bowl

"Unlucky Thirteenth”

The date "unlucky thirteenth” really must cast its unlucky spell over both fighters since both are

EX-QUEEN OF COURTS supposed to be guder its magic,

MR.S.

REPORTS FIT

Plymouth, May 25.

Helen Wills Moody, the American lawn tennis star, and six times champion at Wimbledon, landed here to-night from the liner Manhattan to prepare for a supreme effort to distance star, when the propos fight her way back to her former position.

EASTMAN

sid Ben Eastman, former Stanford middle

"Too busy to run,”

tion of going after the mile re cord was broached. Eastman: NOW holds the world marks for the quarter and half miles and is satisfied to leave the longer 'dis- tance to Jack Lovelock, Bill Bon- throm, and Glen Cunningham.

think it great fun if the ancient Lawn Tennis Association are ASCOT GOLD CUP ball should happen to bounce be- pleased, with the way Grant per-1 fore hitting the back-stop-

Withdrawal

formed in the preliminary series Felicitation's Surprise Play It Properly

against - China last week end and You can see this process every now the diminutive Georgian is where you go, with no one pay-"on the spot" in so far as realiz- ing any attention to even so ele-ing his ambition to go abroad as

Brews Hopes To Play In mentary a detail as. the proper a member of the Davis Cup team

British Open

London, June 12 Syd Brews, the South African Open champion, has still a chance of competing in the British Open Golf championship, play in which commences at Muirfield on June 24.

Officials stated yesterday that his entry was not among the 263 received, but the South African,; who is now on his way on England from the United States, declared to-day that his entry was sent in March

holding of a racket. -

is concerned. Now if you are going to play |

(Continued on Page 7) the game at all, ichy not play it properly, take it seriously, and AUSTRALIAN thus get plenty of exercise for CRICKETERS mind as well as body? --

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TILDEN'S ADVICE TO

MRS. MOODY

Minor Setbacks To Be Expected

- Tennis followers, among them

Chilvers And Gregory For India

Sydney.

The Test match player Jack Fingleton writing in the "Sydney Telegraph” says that HL C Chil- vers and J. M. Gregory will be the final additions to Tarrant's team for India Me

ENTRIES

WIMBLEDON BETTING

Champions Head The Lists-

HELEN WILLS AT 4 TO 1-

London, May 25.

дел-

yet all the prophets are tioning it as hard läck for Baer and indicating that in the past it | has" been a good luck day for the

challenger.

Others are pointing out the similarity between Gene Tinney

and the challenger. Both are Irish- American and both were born and spent their early years

in New Both started York City.

their pugilistic careers just across the Hudson River in New Jersey. An-

She has been absent from other oddity is that Tanney ap- [competitive lawn tennis for peared in a preliminary contest on nearly two years, since she re- the Dempsey-Carpentier card and tired through a strained back Braddock participated in the pre- during a match in America with liminary matches and both went Miss Helen Jacobs.

against the title holder at the ex- She put all speculation at rest treme short end of the betting-

TBraddock caused a sensation `by regarding her intentions in a statement to me,

in which she winning on points!] authorised me to say that she will

definitely play at Wimbledon.

It is her ambition to equal the K.B.G.C. RINKS FOR record of Mrs. Lambert Cham-

SATURDAY: bers, the British player, by win-

Bookmakers have already form-ning: the Wimbledon Champion Matches Against C.C.C.

The Aga Khan's Felicitation be able to accept the will not challenge of Brantome, the un-ed a market on the Wimbledon beaten French horse, in the Gold lawn tennis championship, which ship seven times Cup at Ascot.

begin on June 24. Mrs. Wills

Here For Six Weeks

The following will represent the Club

Felicitation won the Yorkshire Moody is quoted at 4 to 1 against I am here for just six weeks Kowloon Bowling Green Cup at York races recently, and in the women's singles Miss she told me, writes a Home Cor then a weakness showed itself, Dorothy Round is favourite at 11 respondent. I shall play in per and Frank Batters stated that he to 8, and Miss Helen Jacobs, the has three minor tournaments, as would not be able to prepare the American, second favourite.

horse for Ascot

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GOLF CHAMPION'S “AIR SHOT”

Lawson Little First

In 10-Years

Meanwhile, the South African! Golf Union have cabled the Royal

W. Lawson Little, the American and Ancient Golf Club this after- Big Bill Tilden, are sceptical of JAPAN'S 337 OLYMPIC GAME

and British golf title-holder, bad noon suggesting that they would Mrs. Moody's ability to make a

| armique experience yesterday greatly appreciate the indulgence successful come back after two

Japan has entered 337 competi- when playing in the British cham- if the entry were accepted since years absence from competition: Brews had already embarked for The California player, in Tilden's tors for the Berlin Olympic games pionship at St. Annes-00-Sea

opinion, should engage in several here next year. The expenses of In attempting to play a shot in the competition.

Brews was runner-up to Heary minor tournaments and be willing each competitor will amount to a bunker he missed the ball com- Cotton in the British Open Last to accept setbacks, at the outset, £175. Japan will be represented pletely an "air-shot

before making another champion-in nearly every event Bhip bid.

Year:

TEST MATCH ABANDONED

London, play in Test Bridge

In the recent Beckenham Cham- pionship "Mrs:-Moody last in straight sets to. Miss Kathleen' Stammers, the

rent BARNSLEY'S CENTRE FORWARD

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Joan Hartigan And

FC have signed Don Lawn

centre for playe who has spent the last two the undee to the Scot-for

Andrews Win Titles

London, May 25

is of the Surrey County championships

to-day, De

rained

grass courts It-3003 proved. however, that the state of the ground and the force at the wird were more decisive

Eresent quotations are

MEN F. J. Perry

Crawford

← I W. Anstin S-2 G. Ten Gramm 5-1 SB. Wood

6-1 W. Allison

31 V, B. McGrath -18-1 C. Bousses

12--15A, KA Quist.

special training for Wimbledon My appearance at Wimbledon 1 regard as beyond doubt.

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*EALING CHARITY LAWN

BOWLS TOURNEY-

An evening bowls tournament in 20-1 D. Prem & N. G. Farquaid of local hospitals is to be held on the Cumberland-tarf greens in The odds against the rest range Ealing from Jane 24 to July 6. from 25-1 to 100-

Play starts at 6 p.m. each day,

GERMAN OLYMPIC BOXERS

Germany is making early parations for the 1936 Olympic Games, and already Miss have been selected:

course of training at stein next month.

WOMEN Miss Round 21 Miss Jacobe 41 Mrx Moody -92 M-Stammers & Misa

Scrivan

6Mme Mathien

Mine. Sperling

enorita Lizzna - erdwick:

are quoted

WEST INDIES TO TOUR INDIA IN 1937-8

been

against Craigengower in the Lawn Bowls League on Saturday:

First Team 1 GCC. "A" at Valler

AS Enssell, W. S. Drake, J. Budding and L. Gay (skip).

P. Farrell, E. Duncan, H. Nish, and A. Holland (skap).

IG. Meyer, Tetley, "V. Petherick and J. C, Brown (skip).

Second Team T.. CCC at Kowloon

B. Rodgers, D., Waterton, M. J.. Henderson and G. Sherrill (skip),

S. Bright, Li A. E. Demean, J. G- Chariton and G. EF. Thonspor (skip).

G. Chambers, WE Hale, C Horking and H Eose (skip).

POLICE RINKS FOR SATURDAY

Games Against CS.C.C.

The following will represent the Police Recreation Club against the & Civil Service Cricket Club in the Iwas Bennecken-bowls league on Saturday

First Team At Civil Service JC. S. Fender, C DOWDED,

W. Mc He-dy, and G. Mosa

EG. Post, W. 8. Dall, G. Perkins and W. E. Hollands, (skip)15 (42

W. McLeod, T. Humber, F. Nolan, and J. Shepherd, (skip).

NEW NORWICH FORWARD

Norwich City FC have seca the transfer "from" Chelse: Samuel J. Smith,

who has beer at

befor

years with Birmingham

Second Team On Police Green W. L. Clark W. N. Beadridge,

Alexander, and S. Log

Glendinting, W and A