1937-04-08 — Page 19

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 8, 1937.

LONG RALLIES WITNESSED AT H.K.C.C.

COPPINGER WORRIES PAUL KONG

RUMJAHN COUSINS WIN AGAIN

YESTERDAY'S TENNIS

(By “ADREM”)

I don't know what the record number of strokes for any one rally is, but I am certain that the figure must have been topped on several occasions in the Colony

Lieut. F. O'Costa, above, is be- ing honoured this afternoon when he will captain a Portugal hockey eleven against Mr. A. A. Dand's eleven on the Y.M.C.A. ground at King's Park.

Open Singles tennis match at the JUNIOR

Hong Kong C.C. yesterday, be-

tween Paul Kong and Capt. Cop- INTERPORT

pinger, which the

former won

6—3, 1–6, 6–1, after a great tussle.

SOCCER XI

STRONG SIDE FOR MACAO GAME

Kong won the first set fairly easily, but thereafter Coppinger I should say fell into his stride. his two strokes started to work,

Though the team chosen to re- and by means of a pushed fore-

the Hong Kong Football hand with a slight slice, and present immaculate length lobbing, he Association against Macao on Sun- worried Kong to such an extent, [day, April 18, has been drawn for that the latter lost six games in the most part from Second Division teams, and is not the strongest a row to lose the set.

Harrison, of the Medicals, has at

At this stage, Kong appeared to available, it is at least representa- be thoroughly beaten and was obtive and should well. viously considerably upset by the stone-wall defence of an opponent, last received some recognition, for the is undoubtedly one of the best cen- who was content to maintain

in junior football, rallies and wait for him to make tre-forwards the mistakes. Early in the final and would do well with any senior

Kong

ob-team.

Mr. C. G. Warren, of the Royal Navy, will be accompanying the team as manager, while the game will be refereed by Mr. D. Kossick, The following is the teams with re-

set, however, it became vious that

the fine old campaigner that

he is was not going to give up without a struggle, and he played Coppinger at his own game, namely, pushed everything high into the air and Branwell (Rifles); D. W. Willis (Kow- occasionally dropping them short.loon) and Gaizley (Fusiliers); M. Pur- Spiers (Seaforths) and The rallies went on and on until vis (Club), one or the other overhit the base-Dewell (Engineers); J. B. Gonsalves (Recreio), Sumner (Stonecutters), line by a few inches, or hit the Harrison (Medicals), Lam Fook-chi net-cord in attempting a shorter one.

serves:-

Chinese) and Brewer (Kowloon (Navy).

Reserves: Duffield (Ordnance), Blackmore (Lyemun). Lewis (Stonecutters), Boyd (Rifles) and

FINEST EQUIPPED Kong, on his performance yester- day, is probably the finest equipped stroke player in Hong Kong. was obviously disconcerted by the was generally sound and is volley- retrieving of Coppinger, and as aling as crisply as of old.

He

result did not attack as much as Marton and Evans gave an he might have done, but all his cellent display, the keynote

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ex- of

shots were played with the fluency which was attack. Both of them of a "Bunny" Austin. His backhand, were particularly good at picking was particularly well executed, and up half-volleys and they were not

With more prac was a study in perfect footwork and afraid to smash. timing. Although not very forceful tise they would rank with some of overhead, he was nevertheless very the best in the Colony. confident, and on occasions pulled out

lobbing as that. of father and son, and utilised this. stroke

LOBBED THEIR WAY E. L. H. Shute and his son Ken- a beautiful ace service. Any young

· the aspirant to tennis honours might neth, lobbed their way into profitably spend an afternoon next round at the expense of Clarke and Warr, the Army players. I watching him in action.

As I have already stated, Cop-have rarely seen such consistently pinger, who, incidently, has play accurate ed at Wimbledon in the Navy Cham- both pionships and reached the semi-final, as they bases his whole game on two at every opportunity, and as their strokes, a sliced forehand push and opponents were never happy over- perfect lobbing. He demonstrated head, there could only have been one what determination and unlimited result... patience can do to the finest tennis player pitted against him.

Wong Shiu-wing and Luk Ding- cheong won fairly easily from G. In the other Singles encounter, C. Burnett and A. W. Ramsey. Y. C. Lau won in three sets from

YESTERDAY'S · RESULTS Open Singles

F. V. Harrison in a hard-hitting Paul Kong beat Capt. Coppinger game, chiefly featured by long base-68, 1————6, 6—1. line duels.

Y. C. Lau beat F. V. Harrison 6–3, 86, 62.

Open Doubles

Wong Shiu-wing and Luk Ding cheong beat A. W. Ramsey and G. Č.

"PULL UP THEIR SOCKS" S. A. and H. D. Rumjahn, poten-

S. A. and H. D. Rumjahn beat O. E. tial Doubles title-holders, will have C. Marton and D. B. Evans 6-3, 7-5. to pull up their socks if they hope E. L. H. Shute and K. Shate beat G. to reach that exalted position. True, E, Clarke and A. Warr 6-2, 6-1, they won in straight sets against Marton and Evans yesterday, but they were not as convincing as they might have been. "S. A's.” service again showed a good deal of un- reliability, while he was inclined W. Wooding (86) beat W. M. to overhit on the forehand, "H. D.,Barton (1.6) 6-3, 2–6, 10—8.

Burnett 6———4, 6—1.

Club Singles Championship H. Owen Hughes beat A. S. Read

4, 7-5,

Club Handicap Singles

LEE WAI TONG IN SINGLES

MATCH TO-DAY

GOOD DOUBLES ENCOUNTER SHOULD ALSO BE SEEN

(By. "ADREM"")

DOUR struggle between Lee Wai-tong and Leong Ping-chiu in their Open Singles tennis tie at the Hong Kong C.C., is almost certain to result this afternoon,

Leong is a fine defensive player, but for that matter, so is Lee. In addition the latter has a one of the shrewdest tennis brains in Hong Kong and this, combined with his uncanny ball control, should carry the day.

The doubles encounter between P. C. Lee and C. C. Ma, and P. F. Tsoi and Ng Kam-chuen, should provide some fast and thril- ling exchanges. Both pairs hit very hard and volley soundly. I am not prepared to forecast a result, but I think that it will take three sets to decide the match.

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME

Open Singles Championship Lee Wai-tong v Leong Fing-chiu,

Open Doubles Championship P. C. Lee and. C. C. Ma v P. F. Tsoi and Ng Kam-chuen.

Club Singles

F. V. Harrison v G. E. R. Divett.

Club Handicap Singles M. Pagh (80). v F. A. Joseph (-+-2.6).

Club Handicap Doubles

R. Hancock and T. E. Pearce (~2.6.) or J. F. Leys and L. T. Ride (-15.2) v G. W: Sewell and E. Bathurst (-30).

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