1937-05-24 — Page 22

TUCKEY'S CHALLENGE TO AUSTIN

HARD-COURT DUEL WAS THRILLING

HARE OUT OF DAVIS CUP?

James J. Braddock, above, will meet Joe, Louis, the sensational Negro boxer, now that the Court has lifted its suspension off his title fight.

1200 YEARS

OF CRICKET CELEBRATED

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 24, 1937.

PAVILION AT SEVENOAKS

LORD SACKVILLE'S REMARKS

London.

Shock For London Hospital Nurse.

Feared Her Career was Ended.

"It was a terrible blow to me when atron at the hospital

the surgeon and

told me I should sing because of

to give up nur- alth” said Nurse

M. Skene, of 16 Keston Road, East Dul- wich, London, to a newspaper reporter.

"I used to have attacks of giddiness, and would often fall down. My nerves went all to pieces, and I frequently burst into tears for no reason at all. I grew pale and thin, and lost over three stone in weight in just over months. I felt utterly worn out.

three-

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Lord Sackville yesterday opened the enlarged pavilion of the Vine Cricket Club, Sevenoaks, Kent, on London, April 30.

the historic ground where the game

"A hospital nurse has to be patient. H. W. Austin and H. G. N. Lee

has been played for more than 200 and good-tempered, but I became cross are to meet, as they have met

years. The pavilion has been con- and irritable. My heart was set on a. before, in the final round at

structed to commemorate the bi-nursing career, and I was terribly wor

ried about my health. Bournemouth for the British

centenary.

"The climax came when I went out Hard Court Singles Champion-

"It does seem appropriate,” said one day to visit friends. I was cross- ship. Yesterday's semi-final

Lord Sackville, that I-a descen-ing the road when I had an attack of matches, when a grey sky had

dant of those who really started giddiness, and fell right in front of a tram. The driver was just able to pull. turned to sunshine, at the West

cricket in Sevenoaks, and, I was go-up in time. The accident was reported Hants Club were as different as

ing to say, cricket in England to the police, and the hospital authori- chalk from cheese, for where

should be asked to perform this ties were informed." I was medically C. R. D. Tuckey attacked Austin

ceremony."

examined, and the surgeon and matron. for all he was worth in a vivid length not only måde hím a prey to Following the opening, a cricket interests, give up nursing, so I went afterwards told me I must, in-my-own struggle of far-flung drives, C. E.

Lee's storming forehand, a winning match was played. Among those home. I feared my professional career Hare's strokes against Lee we stroke if ever there was one, but present was Colonel C. Ponsonby, was ended.

might BO ineffectual that he

left him open to a vollèying attack M.P. for Sevenoaks, and another of

"I had treatment, but it did not seem have been mesmerized.

Then my mother told If yesterday's results are to against which a passing drive was the guests was Mr. H. D. G. Leve of much avail.

me how Dr. Williams Pink Pills had

girl and a victim of persistent anaemia. She urged me to try them, and I drop- ped all other treatment and commenced. taking the pills. I felt an improve- ment, and, encouraged by this, I con- tinued with the pills,

have any bearing on the selec.always beyond him. And Lee is not son-Gower, representing the MC.C saved her life when she was a young tion- of the Davis Cup team usually a volleyer:

who congratulated R T. Bryan, one There was no way out of Hare's of the players, on becoming captain

80oner or later he was trapped in

prospects of playing predicament. If he stayed back of Kent.

near

Hare's second to Austin in the singles must have been brought

the backhand corner, and when, des- BRADDOCK vanishing point, while Tuckey's rise with a leap that is, if pairingly, he tried to volley there

was not a forcing drive that made AND LOUIS Lee's fighting strokes are to re-passing him anything but child's main unavailable.

play to Lee. For a time the third WILL FIGHT

r of strife about it, Grass and Wimbledon, of course, set had an are to come, and if Hare could do but Lee by that time was so much no better than in the rout that the master that he could attempt brought him only four games yes-the impossible and see it succeed. terday he would not be playing in Hare, one repeats, is a much bet- first-class tournaments at all. His ter player than he looked yesterday. discomfiture was almost embarras- sing to the expectant centre court.

HARE OVER-RUN

FIGHTING CHALLENGE

Garden's Restraint Move Unsuccessful

Newark, May 14” Judge Guy L. Fake, in United States District Court, to-day denied the request of the Madison Square

injunction to

"I began to eat better and felt less depressed. My nerves became steadier and the bouts of dizziness. no longer troubled me. Before long I had regain- ed my normal weight and felt quite fit. and well. To my great delight I was- able to take up nursing again, and nów no work is too hard for me. I eat and sleep well and never seem to feel tired."

All this had been like a wet blan- ket coming after Tuckey's fighting Such listless strokes, with only a challenge to Austin in what was by Garden for an rare service

ace or killing smash to far the best match of what has show what he could do, such unima-been a rather murky week. Had ginative ideas surely were not true Tuckey managed to win the second of a man with doughty deeds in his set, and he should have done, record, and the less said about them might have had even Austin in the better. Poor Hare, with the serious trouble. Tuckey, buoyant the Braddock-Louis fight in Chica- your cure with them to-day.

chemists. weight on his shoulders of "making attack written all over him, has go as planned. good," may have been anxious to the never been such a formidable play- The Madison Square Garden point of futility where Lee, with er through the sweep of his fore sought to enjoin the both on the the serene mind of a man with hand drive to the backhand, the grounds that is held a prior con- nothing to gain or lose buckled to finality of his volleys high and low, tract for Braddock's services in well-laid plans on а day when and the power of a service whose fight against Max Schmeling of nothing could go wrong.

Germany.-United Press.

As a blood and nerve tonic Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills have a world-wide: reputation. It is simply by purifying and enriching the blood, and making. new good blood at every dose, that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills work the seeming re-miracles they do in cases of anaemia, - strain the heavyweight title bout nervous. debility, digestive disorders, between James J. Braddock and rheumatism in its various forms, gener- al weakness, and the ailments peculiar Joe Louts.

to women and young girls. What Dr. The decision was he

regarded as Williams' Pink Pills have done for-

Begin virtually assuring the holding of others they can do for you.

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second ball rears up viciously.

a

Lee's tactics were directed against Yet it may be recorded it was Hare's backhand and never in a Austin who served the aces, and championship semi-final can a back-actually won the match with one. Austin had to turn sharply in the hand have looked more enfeebled. A No one could have been given a backhand corner as though he were slow, high bounding ball in the more searching test of a curiously in a squash rackets court.

Tuckey.

A FINE LENGTH backhand corner can sorely try any swung backhand than

Austin, of course, had the fine one, and who more than a player Whatever Austin did it remained

and whose stroke is no stroke at all but steady and long,

sometimes length and control--if a little blur- an undercut jab?

very much a passing shot, although red at times-that we expect of there was never the far-flung him, but Tuckey, brimful of energy Hare' never looked like finding a strength about it as when he really and resolution, far from being reply to the conundrum. Worse, his hit ball on the forehand. Then daunted, put all he knew into the want of backhanded

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match and showed the ball no mercy when he had it to hit. Many an- other player might have wilted when Austin won the first set from three games all. Not Tuckey. · He was so quick in his volleying thrusts that soon he was leading by three games to none in the second set, and, more admirable still, when Austin drew level he came at him again and yet again until be was leading by five games to four.

Then Tuckey came to his undo- ing. Austin had, saved one set point with a cross volley, and when a second time he somehow picked up a mighty smash Tuckey, with the most unbelievable of "sitters" before him, crashed the ball out of court with a round-arm swipe. His chance had gone, for though Tue- key kept the set alive for four more games Austin pressed him so hard In the third set that it was soon

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