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NORMAN LEE WAS OVER TRAINED

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fore the Colony Interport trials and the falling off after the Interport cancellation announcement.

GENERAL SLACKNESS

I am not confining my remarks solely to members of the V.R.C., an the contrary, the Chinese Clubs, es- pecially those at North Point, and Army the European YMCA. and have also shown a complete lack of interest in the Colony champion- of the ships, with the exception Middlesex Regiment, which entered several swimmers and a diver at the last moment, thus providing the one bright spots in a dark patch.

Many of the spectators and cri- tics alike were terribly disappointed at the performances of the new Co- of lony Champion, Norman Lee, South, China, who won the 50, 100 and 220 Yards free-style, and the truth of the matter is that he was obviously over-trained. I know that for weeks on end Norman Lee was swimming daily in the V.R.C. pool

UP HIS SLEEVE

WELLARD

1,000 RUNS

HIS

Then One Of Verity's Hat-Trick Victims

London, September 8. Wellard, the Somerset all- rounder, while scoring 66 for H. D. G. Leverson Gower's XI. against the M.C.C. Australian team at Scarborougk yesterday. completed the cricketer's double -1,000 runs and 100 wickets in the season. He is the eighth player to accomplish the feat this year.

The task of scoring 864 runs to win in 3 hours proved too

much for the M.C.C., but they

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 6, 1937.

AMERICAN YOUTH TAKES SET FROM BARON VON CRAMM

C.E. HARE'S REMARKABLE

RECOVERY IN US. LAWN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP

(From A. WALLIS MYERS)

Forest Hills, NY., September 8. JINETEEN YEAR-OLD Donald McNeill, from Oklahoma City, surprised a huge crowd here yesterday when he took a set from G. von Cramm in the American singles championship. Cramm, who won the match 6-2, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, after- wards paid a great compliment to his youthful op- Verity, the Yorkshire and Eng-ponent, with the comment: "Td hate to play him in

managed to stave off defeat. When stumps were drawn they

had lost seven wickets and want

ed 118 runs. The final stage, was notable for a "hat-trick" by

land slow bowler, and some ex- hilarating batting by F. P.. Brown and Wellard..

Verity, despite punishment, bowled consistently well, and the victims of his hat-trick, ac- complished in two overs, were Brown, Smith and Wellard. This was the second hat-trick in his

career.

Norman Lee was capable of break- ing both the 50 and 100 Yardsmart marks, of that I am sure, but I have

a feeling that he is keeping this MR. DEITZ

chance up his sleeve for a more op- portune occasion.

Luis Oliveira, the Shanghai cham- pion, was very unfortunate to have

GIVEN

sustained an athletic heart, but he ROUGH TIME

is not really deserving of sympathy as he should have known better than to have taken part in six Varsity heats on one afternoon and then at- tempt to swim a Colony 220 Yards championship the same evening. After all, there to human endurance. will not be swimming for time, I hope to see him well

- next season.

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McNeill's fine fight against the German champion revealed him He exploit- as the outstanding young player in American ternis. ed the back-hand drive to beat von Cramm repeatedly, and two other notable assets he possessed were a keen sense of anticipa tion and remarkable powers of recovery.

Von Cramm was forced to press for every point and although the margins of his success in the first two sets appear convincing on paper, his superiority was nothing like so evident and many of the games went to deuce.

set corded by C. E. Hare, who defeated Having taken the third from the German, McNeill play-Henry M: Culley, of America, 4–6 ed inspired tennis. He leapt about 2-6, 6-4, 61, 60

Hare was the winner of a match the court, twice retrieving smash-

es from 20ft behind the base that looked at one time hopelessly line. He won von Cramm's ser-lost. Culley had taken the first two vice from 40-love to lead 4-3 and sets when nothing went right for amid intense excitement got to Hare. within a point of 5-3 with beau- Itifully controlled attacking

shots.

GERMAN IN DANGER

Von Gramm at this stage was in danger of following his compatriot, he Mr. Norman Deitz was given a Henkel, into retirement but not some pretty rough time this morning tike Henkel through loose tennis. again when he took out a new Australian||

for he was playing as well as Mc- Neill would permit.

Flashes

Hare's first services were hitting the tape, his second pitching to Culley's back hand. He was lash- ing his volleys into the net and even his favourite smash deserted him, and only six games were gathered in the first two sets.

HARE: TAKES COMMAND

It was then that Hare staged a magnificent recovery. He electrified Subscription Griffin, No. 23, be

which the crowd and brought, thousands. longing to Mr. Chau Sing-toa. In

lightning of the company of pony No. 18, owned

illuminated the gloomy conditions into their feet cheering his brilliant by Mrs. Eu Tong-sen, the pony on

which the match was played, left the display. H. L. Ozorio, who was runner-up which Mr. Deitz was riding sud- to Lau Po-hei in the Hong Kong denly became restive and when crowd unperturbed. Everyone was

Of the next 13 games Hare won University swimming champion- nearing the six furiong post it un - terribly excited, and bursts of cheer- ing greeted both the young Ameri-

von Cramm's 12 and he was in complete command ships, put up a gallant showing last seated. Mr. Deitz.

of the court, serving aces at will, Yards in the 50 Saturday night,

At first it appeared that Mr. can's brilliance and free-style championship of the Co-Deitz had injured his left wrist, masterly stroke play. lory, after bearing the brunt of but after bandaging it with his McNeill's chances of taking the returning Culley's service for clean Ricci Hall's quest for the Inter-Hos handkerchief, he remounted and match to the final set. at least, slip-winners and achieving volleying ped when he sacrificed a vital point, coups that had Culley waving his tel Championship the same after-proceeded with the exercise.

This, however, was not the end and von Cramm went on to win the arms in despair. of his trouble, as, when nearing the fourth game as well as the next two five furlong post, he was again for the match. thrown, this time landing without apparent harm.

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Ozorio swain a very good race with the exception of the turn, where he lost a fraction of a second which meant all the difference between winning and losing. Ozorio is, unfor- tunately, only a sprinter when comes to competition among first fight swimmers, and is not really strong enough to compete against Lawrence, Norman Lee and A. A. da Roza in distances of 100 yards and over.

MISSED OPPORTUNITY

Oliveira had a wonderful oppor tunity of securing his first Colony Championship in the 100 Yards free- yle championship, but a collission against the ropes, marking the lanes, proved his undoing

I do not think that had he won his time would have been better than the existing record of 57 1-5 secs, standing to the credit of Wil- fred Lawrence, but Oliveira is still a youngster with years of swimming ahead of him.

(To Be Continued To-morrow) ›

NOTABLE VICTORY

It was a really dramatic recovery and, having squared the sets at two- all, he overwhelmed Culley in the

A notable British victory was re-last stage of the battle to bring off

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Vienna, September 8. Count von Bendern, who as John de Forest was successful in the tish Amateur Golf Championship in 1932, to-day won the Austrian ama- teur title, defeating the American, Ross Thompson, by 4 and 3 in the final over 36 holes.

Count von Bendern recently won the amateur championship of choslovakia..

Bendern won nine holes to his opponent's four, with two halved, the match ending at the fifteenth,