1937-04-07 — Page 19

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 7, 1937.

INTERESTING TENNIS CARD FOR TO-DAY

Rumjahn Cousins Should Win

PAUL KONG TO MEET CAPT. COPPINGER

(By ADREM)

The entire

tennis

programme this In the Capt.

at the Hong Kong C.C. afternoon is interesting. singles, Paul Kong meets Coppinger and although he should win, his opponent's tenacious certain tactics may cause him a

amount of worry.

Coppinger is very unorthodox and never hits really hard, his lob- bing is very accurate and it is the unusualness of his game that up- sets his opponents.

The strongest contenders. for the Doubles title, the Rumjahn cousins, meet O. E. C. Marton and D. B. Evans, who, on form are quite cap- able of extending them. The lat- ter are both experienced players who have performed in a fairly good class of tennis and hit very hard.

GRAND TUSSLE

A grand tussle should be seen in the encounter between the Shutes, and Warr and Clarke. The latter made a promising debut last week *

When in Mexico do as the Mexicans do, says Cornelius Gilli- cuddy, better known as Connie Mack, as he dons a sombrero and--

The veteran manager of the Athletics the serape of the country. Baseball team is shown on his arrival in Mexico City to Spring training,

and made a favourable impression E.

on those who saw them play. The biggest fault of the Shutes is the practise of the father of going for practically everything overhead. As a result, very often gaps are left which expose them to attack with both speedy drives, with which Clarke and his partner are equip- ped. For this reason, I expect the Army pair to win.

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME Open Singles Championship Paul Kong v Capt. Coppinger.

Open Doubles Championship

O. E. C. Marton and D. B. Evans v S. A. Rumjahn and H. D. Rumjahn.

E. L. H. Shute and K. Shute v A. Warr and G. E. Clarke.

Ramsey.

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FINCHER

FINE

manage

STAGES

RECOVERY

ENTERS THIRD ROUND OF

COLONY SINGLES

(By “REFEREE”)

FUSILIERS

BOXING

TRIUMPH

SECURE HK. AREA TITLE

NOVICES FINALS

LAST NIGHT

Securing one point more than their opponents, the Royal Welch Fusiliers beat the Royal Ulster Rifles to win the South China Com- mand Challenge Cup in the Final of the Novices' Inter-Unit Hong Kong Area Boxing Championship, at Shumshuipo Barracks last even- ing.

The Fusiliers secured knock-outs during the night.・・・

four

At the conclusion of the pro- gramme, Brigadier Seth-Smith dis- tributed the prizes. The Judges were Capt. S. J. Ritchie, (Seaforths), Lieut. E. C. (Seaforths), and Lieut. J. M. Cal- vert Royal Engineers).

M.C.,

Gray

The Referees were Commander H. G. Hopper (H.M.S. Cumberland) and Lieut. C. G. S. McAlister (K.O.S.B.). Each event was limit ed to three rounds.

The following were the detailed results:

BANTAM WEIGHT:

Fus. Hooson (R.W.F.) beat Rflmn. Gardiner (R.U.R.) on points..

FEATHER WEIGHT

1st String: Cpl. Gleave (R.W.F.) beat Rfimn. Gellet (R.U.R.) on points. 2nd String: L/C. (29) Humphreys (R.W.F.) beat Rimn. McKenna (R.U. R.) on points.

LIGHT WEIGHT

1st String: L/C. Miller (R.U.R.) beat Fus. Bray (R.W.F.) on points, c

2nd String: Fus. Ryan (RWF) knock out Rilmn. McLarnon (RU,R:). 3rd String: Rim: McCandless (R.

OSING the first four games of the first set in a row, E. C.U.R.) beat Fus. (78) Roberts (R.W.F ́)

"Teddy" Fincher staged a fine recovery yesterday in his on points. Colony Open Singles Lawn Tennis Championship match against were occasions Tsoi Ping-fan, to win 7-5, 6-1, although there when I thought that he would be eliminated.

The court was not really in a fit condition to play on, the base- very soft, so much so, that Tsoi found difficulty in Wong Shiu-wing and Luk Ding-line being cheong v G. C. Burnett and A. W. keeping to his feet in the later stages of the match.

Tsoi started very confidently and played to Fincher's forehand, reaping a rich harvest of points as a result, but the fifth game saw a complete change, and with Fincher finding one or two loopholes W. Wooding (+3.6) v W. M. Barton in Tsoi's defence, the tide began to turn.

Club Singles

R. L. Withington v A. L. Sullivan.

H. Owen-Hughes v A. S. Read

(-+-1.6).

Club Handicap Singles

SECOND DAY'S

RESULTS OF

RIFLE MEETING

Kumaon Rifles' Success

AGGREGATE CUP WON BY R.U.R.

A fine turn in the weather made shooting conditions more tolerable at the Kowloon City Rifle ranges yesterday, the second day of the Services Meeting of the Hong Kong Rifle Association. Some very finë shooting resulted-

The Chinese player then made the mistake of trying to force

backhand 600 Fincher's

with dis- ess, scoring an aggregate of

Fincher took out of a possible 940. This was re-astrous results.

seventh and markably fine shooting. Second in the fifth, sixth,

row to draw the event were the Seaforths with eighth games in a

level, lost the ninth, but staged a a score of 440...

in the 10th from fine recovery

looked which point he never

The results were:

Light Automatic Match (440 vds. H.P.S."

320)

1, "B" Coy. Royal Ulster Rifles. Ag-back.

WELTER WEIGHTH LAR 1st String: Rfimn. Armstrong (R.U. R.) beat Fus. (61) Davies (R.W.F.) on points.

2nd String: Rfimn. Deegan (RU.R.) 3rd String: Fus. (16) Smith: (RW. knock out L/C Gilchrist (R.W.F.), F) knock out L/C, McKee (R.U.R-1,

4th String: Rfmn. Quinn (R.DR.) beat L/C Simmonds (R.W.F.)

MIDDLE WEIGHT points.

on

1st String: Fus. (500) Davies (R.W. F) beat L/C. Page (R.U.R.) on points. 2nd String: Fus. (81) Walker (R.W. F) knock out /C. Jamison (R.U.R.).

3rd String:“Rfmn.; Kinnin fR.U.R.) beat Fus. (48) Williams (R.W.F.) on points.

LIGHT HEAVY WEIGHT --~ Rflmn. Reid (R,U.R.) knock out Fus. Burridge (R.W.F:),

HEAVY WEIGHT Fus. Frimston (R.W.F.) knock out Rfimn. McNabb (RTR),

PAST RESULTS 1928-2nd Bn. K. O. SB. gregate 104. 2nd Lieut. Ryan (Com- Fincher, finding that the ball refus- 19291st Bn. B. and H. R. mander). L/C. Gordon, Cpl. Kernag-ed to rise to his forehand when serv-1930—2nd. Bn. K. O. S. B, han, Riflemen Doherty, Rush, Murphy ing towards Chater Road, forced his 1931-1st. Bn. S. L. L 1932--No Competition. 2, "C" Coy. R.U.R., Agg. 74; 3, "D" opponent to return towards his left, 1933-1st. Rn. S. W. B. Coy. R.U.R., Agg. 74; 4, "B" Coy. Sea-with the desired effect. His volley-1934-2nd Bn. East Lancs. forths, Agg. 54.

ing on the run was ineffective, but 1935-2nd. Bn. Fusiliers... Falling Plate Match

and McCrory.

The following Company teams quali- he was superb in his backhand re- 1936–2nd. Bn. East Lancs.

him fied, for the semi-finals. "B" Coy.coveries and on numerous occasions the tournament. was opposed to R.W.F., “E” Cov, R.W.F. Headquar-caught P. F. Tsoi on the wrong foot. Leung Ping-chiu, who beat

· NEVER IN DOUBT

although extended all the way. ters R.U.S. and "A" Coy. Kumaon Rifles.

The second set saw Fincher se-

Mar, a left-hander, served with effective a top-spin which proved

unable to insofar as Leung was

He score off them immediately. has a pleasing style and should in time develop into one of the Colony's best left-handed players..

Yesterday's results were as fol-

Revolver Team Shoot The tie-shoot. for second place "A" and the Seaforths tween R.W.F. will take place at 2.30 to-day.

Machines Gun Match (600 yds. H.P.S.,

be- the p.m.

Services Team Aggregate Cup · This Cup was won by the Royal Uls- cure a three games' lead, Tsoi, play ter Rifles with a total of 79 points outing with a new racket, making in- numerable double-faults in service. of a possible total of 80.

There was never any doubt that Fincher would eventually win and his subsequent drop shots on the backhand proved most effective against Tsoi's erratic positioning, Mar Siu leung,‹ á, newcomer (Continued at foot of next col.) Wallace (R.U.R.), Cpl. Watson. Winner: Rifleman McCosh, Royal U.R.), and L/C. Trimble (R.U.R.) tied

with a score of 39 each. Ulster Rifles."

Refolver Pool

In winning the Services. Team Aggregate Challenge Cup, the Ro- yal Ulster Rifles scored 79 points. out of a possible 80...This Cup was won on the results of four matches, namely, the Platoon Match, the

940) Company Match, the Light Auto-

1, Kumaon Rifles, aggregate 600; 2, matic Match and the Revolver Seaforths, Agg: 440; 3, R.W.F., Agg. Team Match. The Ulster Rifles 415; 4, R.U.R., Agg. 360.

Egg Pool. dropped only one point in the Pla- toon Match!

In the only other big event of the day, the Machine Gun Match, the Kumaon Rifles showed their prow-

* Decimal Target

(300 Yards).. Capt. Kenyon (R.W.F.),

to

The winner was Capt. Gwyder-Jones, C.Q.M.S. Royal Welch Fusiliers.

Iowa

OPEN, SINGLES WJ. Howardt beat Ng Kam-chuer

Y. W. Lee hent S. W. Liang, -6, A-2.

E. C. Fincher beat P. F. Taoi, 7—5 Leong Ping-chui beat Mar Siu-leung

60.