1937-03-11 — Page 18

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 11, 1937

BADMINTON QUARTER-FINAL MATCHES

INSPIRING DISPLAY BY T. J. ONG

P.K. HUI ELIMINATES C.E. CHNG

FISHER'S POOR JUDGMENT

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T. J. Ong, of the Chinese ""Y, played the pluckiest game in the Colony last night, when he lost to M. A. Oliveira, of Recreio “A”, by 2 games to 1 in the Quarter-Final Round of the Open Singles Badminton Championship, at King's College. P. H. Wong beat K. S. Liew by two clear games, while P. K. Hui beat C. E. Chng by a similar margin. T. C. Lee also entered the Semi-Final by defeating A. L. Fisher by two clear games.

LEE WAITONG AND J. F. LEYS MEET TO-DAY

GOOD DOUBLES ENCOUNTERS

Exciting Tennis Anticipated

R. NAVY AND FUSILIERS GOALLESS

Wallace In Fine Performance

SAILORS SHOULD HAVE WON

en-

A slippery surface resulted in several glorious openings going abegging in the postponed First Division League Football counter on the Navy ground yesterday, when the Royal Navy and the Royal Welch Fusiliers There is not a particularly large shared the spoils in a goalless

(By “ADREM”)

open championship tennis pro- draw, both goals experiencing gramme

down for decision very narrow escapes. this afternoon, although all the The Navy defence was in ex- matches have their own interest. cellent fettle and broke up the In the singles, J. M. Tomlinson Fusilier attacks long before they K. S. Liew, of the University, and P. H. Wong, of the Chinese “Y” met in the first fixture of the evening. Wong held the lead will meet Kenneth Shute, who to-could achieve any element of. throughout, but did not play up to his usual standard. Liew cover-gether with his brother, is rapidly danger, although there were oc- ed the court much faster than his opponent, besides playing a learning for himself the reputation casions during the

of "Giant Killer".

when Wolverson and Reglar were much better game, his placings beating Wong time and again.

Liew was very exhausted when the second game started, but he Shute, has been playing the called into action. Wolverson managed to hold the lead until Wong drew level, when he aggregame since his infancy and as a was a tower of strength in the gated. 7 aces after which the service exchanged hands on four oc-result his performances are mark-Navy back division, Reglar being

ed with a maturity which his lack much too impetuous. casions before Wong drew away to beat Liew 15-7.

M. A. Oliveira, above, success- fully negotiated his quarter-final Open Singles Badminton Cham- pionship encounter last night when be beat K. S. Liew, at King's College.

V.R.C. SUCCEED AGAINST K.-TONG "B"

Clean Sweep On Away Court

encounter

of inches belies. Unless Tomlin- Laister and Chearman were hard-

out-

P. K. Hui, of the University, son, who is comparatively unknown working halves, while Love, on the who encountered C. E. Chng, in local tennis circles, is a player left-flank, played brilliantly for open- of the Chinese "Y" did not take very much out of the ordinary, Ilings and gave Wallace, his winger,

excellent service. advantage of his over-head work fully expect young Shute to win.

ANOTHER UPSET?·

OUTSTANDING PLAYER for which his is well-known in!

The biggest upset in the tourna Wallace was probably the mixed doubles games, thus de- monstrating that he is more at ments so far, has been the defeat standing player on the field and had throughout home in a doubles match.jof Bodiker by Frank Kwok. I see Wheeler in difficulties It was his steadiness which car-the prospect of another upset this the game. His fine body swerve while ried him through to win both afternoon, when J. F. Leys meets on the ball, and brilliant ground games. Chng, in spite of his de- Lee Wai-tong. Leys arrived in the passes, should have seen a

Colony during the last League sea- fruitful result, while the two occa- feat, gave a fine display

son and was responsible for some sions on which he was in a position excellent displays.

to shoot, might also have had bet- In partnership with B. O. Mter results. LFisher, of the Free Lances, Deane, he gave an outstanding per-- Tippett and Anderson were the who, through poor judgment, alformance against the Shutes last

T. C. Bee, of the University, did not find it an easy task to beat A

more

lowed the former to get away with week. He boasts one of the finest pick of the inside-forwards, parti several aces Time and again services seen locally since Vines, ball in great style only to fail in cularly the latter, who worked the Fisher returned a shuttle which and plays a fine all-round game,

was well out of bounds. He started his ground strokes being particu- the finishing touches.. well in both games, but showed larly powerful. (M signs of tiring as the match pro- gressed.

OLIVEIRA IN POOR FORM

Rowlands had two lucky escapes, his second providing the biggest thrill of the game when, spread-

Lee Wai-tong's game is based on spin and although this type of game should prove effective on a eagled on the ground, he managed to push the ball away off the goal- court that is certain to be damp, line as Tippett rushed in to shoot. Leys has a sufficiently large range

M A Oliveira, of Recreio "A" of strokes to successfully counter was in poor form,

J. Ong, of then he met T.

ing this game,"

Fave Dur-{

abril-

it.

ARMY FINĀLISTS

EVANS SHINES

Keating was the better of the two backs, and was always very cool in the face of danger, while

In the doubles the Army singles Evans was at his best in the in- liant display, evoking applause finalists will be seen in partner termediate line, Wanklyn and Tay- from all quarters of the hall. He ship against Sewell and Monaghan for being unable to keep to their surprised many badminton follow- and should win a close game. It ers by his clever display, while will be interesting to see how the feet, while the latter was much too slow and was always robbed in Oliveira was obviously suffering standard of tennis in the Army,

possession. from nervousness and found Ong compares with the best in the

All the Welsh forwards worked a stronger opponent than he an- Colony. ticipated. However, in the second F. H. Kwok and S. W. Liang are hard and several of their chan- At Kowloon Tong last

Kamigame, which he won by 15 aces to expected to have a rare tussle with ces should have ended in the net, VRC. beat Kowloon Tong "B" 10, Oliveira's steadiness and speed A. V. Remedios and A. V. Gosano. but lack of support in duel efforts team by the maximum margin in carried him through safely.

Both pairs play aggressive tennis reduced their chances of scoring. the ** Division of the Men's At the beginning of the third but in view of the fact that the Set Isley refereed and the teams Badminton League. The winners and deciding game, Ong could former are slightly steadier, they were far superior and were never hardly stand on his legs through should have a slight edge on the seriously extended..

exhaustion, but sheer pluck car Recreio combination.

C. A. Gaan, of the V.E.C., deputised ried him through in a thrilling, but for Smedley, of Kowloon Tong, who unavailing effort. was unable to play.

Scorers

W. Lawrence and M. M. de V. Soares

beat Soares and

RC)

Imada

best Peter Lo and K. C. eo

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

Open Singles an

J. M. Tomlinson K. Shrite

On the whole, Oliveira owed his F Leys *r Leë. Vai Tong victory to Ong's lack of stamina,

Open Donbles and Ong not only played a super-G W. Sewell and T. C Monaghan 1 21-9 for game to his opponent, but A. Warr and G. E. Clarke. 21-4 practically showed the Portuguese 21-11 player how the game should be

played

"beat NAE. Mackay and C.A.2.

Gaan

3. A. Bumjahn and CaN, da Silva

Victoria RC)

beat Soares and D'Almada

beat Lo and Yeo

beat Mackay sad Gaan

A. ♬ Bast and 4.0. Barretto

(Victoria R.C)

beat Soares and D'Almada

beat Lo and Yeo

beat Mackay an

Last Night Results

FH Kwok and SW. Liang Y A. V Gosano and A. V. Remedios.

Club Championship Singles BO.M. Deaney FA Redmond

Cinb Handicap Singles

at K S. Liew 15 11,0. A. Hansen (26) ▼

21-15 2.107 MP T

21-1159

TC Lee

M. A. Oliveira beat 5-10

hng 15-6, F. A.

15-10, D. S.

Ong

JFL. Smalley (-2.6). Joseph (+26) ▼

N. X. Littlejohn (36) Robb (15) v.

AH NeBride (126). kenzie (1–1677

A E Valentine (118)

were:——

Royal Navy:- Reglar and Wolver-, son; Laister, Chearman and Love, Bliman, Stevenson, Anderson, Tippett and Wallace.

Fusiliers-Rowlands Wheeler and Keating Taylor, Wanklyn and Evans, Jones, Highes, Sullivan, Talbot and Roberts.

WELSH REGIMENT WIN ARMY RUGBY CUP

Aldershot, Yesterday In the fin- at of the Army Rugby Cup the 1st.. Battalion, the Welsh Regiment (Belfast) beat the 1st Battalion Prince of Wales

eers (Dover) 13 points