1937-06-26 — Page 18

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 26, 1937.

YORKSHIRE AGAIN IN LIMELIGHT

LATEST

WIMBLEDON RESULTS

Parker And McGrath In Last Eight TWO OPEN DOUBLES ENCOUNTERS

London, To-day. Lovely weather again prevail- ed at the Wimbledon Lawn Ten- nis Championships, the results going according to plan. Fran- kie Parker, youthful American player, and Vivian McGrath, holder of the Australian Singles title, both entered the last eight, the former eliminating Daniel Prenn, the former German Davis Cup player, while Mc- Grath accounted for R. A.

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS

AT A GLANCE

The following were yester- day's results in the Wimbledon championships :-

MEN'S SINGLES (FOURTH ROUND)

- Frankie Parker

•

(U.S.) beat

Daniel Prenn (Germany) 7-5, 6-2.

Vivian McGrath (Australia) beat R. A. Shayes (Great Britain) 6-2, 6-1, 6-3.

MEN'S DOUBLES (SECOND ROUND)

Kho Sin-kie (China) and

Karl

Schroeder (Sweden) beat Lysaght and Sherwood (Great Britain). 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6—3.

H. Nakano and J. Yamagishi (Japan) beat E. J. Filby and J. Cook (Great Britain) 6-3, 6-3, 6-7, 3–6, 6–2,

Shayes, the well-known British IMPORTANT

tournament player.

Mme. Mathieu (France) Mrs.

Dorothy Andrus (United States) BASEBALL GAMES

and Mile. Jedrzejowska (Poland)

all succeeded in their matches THIS WEEK-END

yesterday and entered the last 16

in the Women's Singles.

Kho Sin-kie was not at his best in partnership with Karl Schroeder in their Open Doubles encounter against Lysaght and Sherwood, and was unable to concentrate.

Volunteers To Meet Pui-Ching

TWO CLASHES FOR TO-MORROW

(By "INFIELD”)

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HUTTON, SUTCLIFFE AND LEYLAND

SCORE CENTURIES

REMARKABLE BOWLING

FEAT BY CLAY

DERBYSHIRE AGAIN LOSE

London, To-day..

With fine weather prevailing at Home, several very big scores were registered in first class cricket matches just concluded. Yorkshire were again well in the limelight with the huge total of 523 for 3 dec. against Leicester, at Hull, veteran Herbert Sutcliffe and Leslie Hutton both amassing scores of over 150, while Leyland was also prominent with an unfinished 118.-

TWO EXTRAORDINARY INDIVIDUAL FEATS WERE RE- TURNED AT SWANSEA, WHERE THE WE? 3H. COUNTY BEAT WORCESTER BY 9 WICKETS. CLAY, WHO HAS STRUCK HIS BEST BOWLING FORM, RETURNED THE AMAZING FIGURES OF 17 FOR 212, AND TURNBULL COMPILED 233.

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Derbyshire continue to meet with reverses and dropped first innings points to Hants. They were fortunate in escaping outright defeat as they were well in arrears at the close with only 3 wickets in hand.

In a comparatively low-scor- ing match at Ilford, Essex beat Somerset by 161 runs. O'Connor

innings, contributing a very use- was prominent in Essex's second

ful century.

COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP

At Ilford, Essex beat Somerset by 161 runs. Essex-119 (Hazell 5 for 23) and 373 Somerset 94 and 237..

(O'Connor 107).

At Swansea, Glamorgan beat Wor-

Worcester-123 (Clay 9 for 66) and

-360. (Clay 8 for 146). Glamorgan 417 (Turnbull 233, Ho- "worth 6 for 96) and 70 for 1.

POOR PARTNERSHIP The Chinese Davis Cupper fre- quently hit the ball out of the court, and the brunt of the work

The three baseball games of retrieving points fell upon the ranged for this week-end should go shoulders of Schroeder. The Chin- a long way towards indicating the ese-Swedish pair were not ideal potential champions of the League, partners, although they were good and this afternoon the Volunteers enough for yesterday's match. will be given the biggest test of the The Japanese Davis Cup pair of season when they encounter the H. Nagano and J. Yamagishi were unbeaten Pui-Ching team. featured in a five set duel against The Volunteers have only lost one E. J. Filby and J. Cook, a seasoned game so far, against the Japanese. British pairing, who were at sixes- In the first game of the season and-sevens in the first set, although (against Pui-Ching, which was later 'they' improved as the match pro-declared void by the Committee:cester by 9 wickets. gressed.

they lost

by, only one run. JAPANESE. PERSISTENT

It is uncertain whether Pui-Ching Cook had a splendid service back-will include the American players ed up by fine volleying at the net from the US.S. Mindanao this week, by Filby, keeping the Japanese or whether they will field the team

But the which beat the Filipinos recently. players on the baseline. Japanese were persistent in their VOLUNTEERS' CHANGE efforts to break through their op- The Volunteers are contemplat- ponents' defence. and while. noting one change in the side, V. Costa showing exceptional form, Yama-will take over his old position at gishi

with first base, where his height is of very accurate some brilliant drives down the side- great advantage, while Mendonca

will be seen in the outfield. Nakano worked very hard, but The Defence Corps will again: de- was sometimes caught out of posi-pend on their hitting to pull them tion. The Japanese led 4-2 in the through, but in to-day's game, hard third set, but the Britons rallied hitting will not be sufficient as the

They Pui-Ching fielders are very safe. splendidly to win at 7-5, captured the fourth at 6-8, but were unable to sustain their form, the Far Eastern players exerting their superiority in the last set to clinch the match.

lines.

was

ANOTHER OFFER TO JOE LOUIS

Harringay's Bid For Title Bout

London, To-day.

TO-MORROW'S CLASH- To-morrow, Pui-Ching will en- counter the Nippon Club and, the latter will go all out to .reverse their previous defeat when they lost by an only run, w

The Hong Kong

who

still have a chance the cham pionship, are meeting the

Hong Kong Club and though the latter have the better balanced side, the Chinere expect to give them a good

game.

against Buddy Baer, giant brother of Max Baer, former world cham- The Harringay Stadium authori-pion, to take place in London. ties have offered Joe Louis, who re- If Joe Louis beats Baer, he will cently knocked out Jim Braddock în be matched against the winner of Chicago, in their world heavyweight the Tommy Farr-Max Schmeling boxing clash, £20,000 for fight bout, for the world title. Reuter.

-At Hull, Yorkshire beat Leicester on the first innings. Yorkshire-523 for 3 dec. (Sutcliffe 189, Hutton 153, Leyland 118 not out) and 77 for 4. Leicester 458 (Dempster 146, Watson

122).

At Northampton, Lancashire beat Northamptonshire by 6 wickets. Northang-168 and 274 (Cuthbertson

96), Lancashire 234 (Partridge 5 for 38) and 211 for 4 (Washbrook 121 not out).

Manchester-Lancashire v. Surrey. Newport Glamorgan v. Somerset. Basingstoke Hampshire

Cam-

bridge U.

Tunbridge Wells-Kent v. Middlesex. Buxton Derbyshire. v. Gloucester-

shire.

YANKEES SWAMP TIGERS

Chicago Too Good For Brooklyn

New York, To-day. The following were the results of yesterday's major League baseball en- counters:~-

NATIONAL LEAGUE

H. E.

1

0

Brooklyn

Brack and Phelps hit homers. Chicago

11 .11 Chuck Galan (2) and Collins hit homers.

At Chesterfield, Hants beat Derby- shire on the first innings. - Hampshire 841 (Pothecary 115)" and

199 for 1 dec. (Arnold 105 note out).

Philadelphia Derbyshire-265 (Smith 140 not out) Pittsburgh.

and 172 for-

FRIENDLY

Boston Cincinnatti

At Worthing, Sussex drew with New York Cambridge University.

St. Louis Sussex-317 (Cox 96, Harry

89) and 314 for 8 dec. (Bartlett 122). Cambridge $14 (Yardley 104, Tindall

(117), and 2043

TO-DAY'S

LORD'S ZEALAND

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shire.

MATCHES

AND EV NEW

Match): Nottingham

Hove Sussex v. Oxford U. Birmingham--Warwickshire

Northamptonshire Worcester-Worcest shire

terahir

528

14 0

- 12

24

9

10

12 0

9 140

Padgett and Joe Medwick hit homers.

Detroit

New York:

AMERICAN - LEAGUE

Gehringer hit a homer.

Dickey hit a homer.

St. Louis

Clift hit a homer.

Boston

Chicago

11

Joe Kreevich hit a homer. Washington

12

Reuter.