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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 15, 1937.

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Pictured with the trophy (left), which was presented to him for winning the tenth annual 130-mile Albany-to-New York outboard motorboat marathon, is Marshall Eldredge, of East Weymouth, Mas- sachusetts. Another trophy and $250 also were awarded. The win- ner's time was 3.06.2; his official average for the distance was 41.7 miles per hour.

JACK DOYLE'S STIFFEST

TASK SO FAR

TO MEET GUNNAR BAERLUND

(By HAROLD LEWIS)

HEAVY-WEIGHT, AT THE

London, May 20.

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SURPRISE DEFEAT OF HARE AND WILDE

UMPIRE'S DOUBTFUL

DECISION

HUGHES AND TUCKEY ESCAPE

(By A. Wallis Myers).

Auteuil, May 21. TH

HERE was a tense moment this afternoon when

it looked as if both British pairs might be out of the French doubles championship. This two-fold disaster was only averted by a splendid recovery in disconcerting rain by our Davis Cup couple.

BEFORE HUGHES AND TUCKEY SURVIVED, AFTER FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES AGAINST KÜKULJEVIC AND MITIC, OF "JUGOSLAVIA, WILDE AND HARE HAD GONE DOWN ON THE CENTRE COURT TO DE STEFANI AND CANA- PELE, OF ITALY, WHO WON IN THE NINTH GAME OF THE FIFTH SET.

This surprising result had this element of luck—a rather large slice, in fact--for unless my own eyes and those of many other on- lookers were temporarily blinded, Count de Stefani served a double fault when the British team had their third match ball in the fourth sets. There was no centre linesman and the umpire in the chair was not in a position to see where the ball pitched--more the pity.

This unfortunate incident, a by the umpiring error already men- part of the catastrophe was duetioned, but they certainly deserved to de Stefani's fine double-hand-to win the match on the moral ed ground shot and to the fail-rebound. ure of Hare and Wilde to follow their usual custom of camping at the net and parrying the attack of their adversaries further back.

It was de Stefani's match. Like Goschen on a famous occasion in British political history, he had been forgotten. Twice a finalist în. the French singles championship, and a conqueror of Perry at this same court, he was absent last year. Abyssinia was the cause.

STEFANI UNDERESTIMATED?

ATLAST JACK DOYLE HAS BEEN MATCHED FOR A FIGHT It is possible that Hare and Wilde WHICH WILL PUT TO A REAL TEST HIS CLAIM TO A regarded his reappearance without LEADING PLACE IN HEAVY-WEIGHT BOXING. HE IS TO sufficient respect for his talent, MEET GUNNAR BAERLUND, THE 24-YEAR-OLD FINNISH though they were soon to find that EMPRESS STADIUM. EARL'S he could return the service for a COURT, ON JUNE 28 IN A TOURNAMENT ORGANISED BY winner, and using either hand for THE MARQUESS OF QUEENSBERRY FOR ALL SAINTS' HOS-his racket grip, hit clean aces PITAL.

through two players, shaken out of This represents not merely the hardest task given Doyle since their rhythm by the celerity of the he returned to the ring, but the hardest he has ever tackled, Baer-stroke. lund, on the form shown at Wembley two years ago when he beat The loss of the brief first set in Ben Foord in six rounds, and on the reputation he gained in Ameri-the 7th game was only material in ca until he was taken ill, would be reckoned to beat any British that it indicated that the British heavy-weight, including the champion, Tommy Farr.

pair were in rather a sluggish mood and were helping both the Italians

He holds the International character of their second services.

Baerlund is big, powerful, with (number of fights and is still win- to propel forcing shots by the meek heavy bones, and has á stiffning. punch in each hand. His techni-Boxing. Union's bantam-weight | De Stefani was "dining off" these que gained as an amateur cham- title, and the promoters of the tour-stereotyped deliveries. pion has survived, so that henament are endeavouring to boxes, well in an orthodox style. arrange for that title to be at stake.

COMING CHAMPION

He is at present at home in Fin- land, and is perfectly fit again.

Kane has made amazing strides since London first saw him in 2

NOT STOKED UP

But first sets in a 5-set test are

Efforts had been made to match him couple of National Sporting Club often sacrificed by a superior team

in London, but had failed, and it had been expected that he would return to New York where the opinion was freely voiced last year that he was the coming world's champion.

If Doyle wins this fight it will be easily the greatest achievement of his career.

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Another attractive fight on the programme is one between Peter Kane, the all-conquering Golborne flyweight, and Petit Biquet, of Bel- gium, a grand little fighter, whom I can remember in contests at the Albert Hall ten and eleven years ago, against Phil Lolosky, Johnny Hill, then British champion- and lucky to win on a disqualification-- and others.

FIGHTING TOO OFTEN? Biquet has had an extraordinary :

fights last winter, and will doubtless win again. He is fighting so often, however, that he must be running a risk of becoming stale.

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RECREIO AND INDIANS CLASH TO-DAY

(Continued from Page 18),

Indian R.C.

S. A. Rumjahn and A. R. Minu H. D. Rumjahn and A. H. Madar I. M. A. Razack and M. C. Hoosen

United S.R.C.

C. Crooksbank afid C. Riley L. Goldmari and A. L. Sullivan

G. E. R. Divett and Lt. Tomlinson

South China A.A.

A. Chan and Wong Fuk-nam Ip Cho-pong and Ho. Kin-kuen Lui, Kwai-fun and Ho Wei-hing

Hong Kong C.C.

J. F. Leys and F. V. Harrison'

LOOSE PLAY IN FINAL SET

In the final set the British couple reflected their inner feelings by loose play, while their opponents, braced by their reprieve, spurted with great spirit. They broke through Wilde's service to gain a vital lead served again, his attack had gone and then, when Hare

and the game was lost to love.

In quality of play 'the Anglo- Jugoslav match was much superior." I never want to see one disputed · with a finer spirit or with such bouts of really good play. Hughes,

of course, knew the merits of his

doughty adversaries, and did not forget that they had played 5-set matches in the Davis Cup last year against Borotra and Bernard and Von Cramm and Henkel.

In the first two sets Kukuljevic was the best of the four players, and it was not his fault that his piercing left-handed drive and lead of two sets. smashes did not give his side a when the Central European had a It is true that point for the second set on Hughes' vice return, but the real service, Kokuljevic missed his ser- chance came when Mitic had 40-15 on his service at 5-4.

MITIC FAILS IN CRISIS

It was Mitic who lacked at this crisis, though I recall one priceless bank-hand volleying interception of Hughes and a beautifully-judged lob by Tuckey.

nents were

which has not stoked up. The anormal match began to take

The Wimbledon champions were course when the British pair struck their first service break through far from secure

after they had young Canapele's errors. Then, levelled the score and taken the shaking off their early inertia, they third set easily while their oppo- collected two 9-game sets.

Everybody thought, balancing up came back to his best form in the reacting Kukuljevic relative equipment, that the 4th set would go the same way, and so it fourth set, and the British pair had should have done when, with a

to face another crisis when their lead of 5-4 de Stefani found himself lead melted. Cool and 40-0 down on his service. The to the end, they can calculating Italians got out of this deep hole last; he cracked in the last game.

A. C. I. Bowker and R. K. Valentine H. Owen-Hughes and G. W. Sewell Kowloon ̊C.C.

E. C. Fincher, and G. Bodiker E. F. Fincher and S. A. Gray A. E. P. Guest and A. Crawford

·Club de Recreio ・・・ : A. V. Remedios and J. Gonsalves A. V. Gosaño and F. J. Remedios H. A. Barros and C. A. Barretto

Mitic at

Borotra and Bernard, the hold- ers, were also in jeopardy to-day, having to play five sets against the Poles. Hebda and

Tloczynski. | Here, too, there was much enter- prising hitting mixed with some very delicate coups. It was No. 2 court and not the centre court that provided the brilliant play to-day.