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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 9, 1937.

DEFEAT OF MISS ALICE MARBLEHOL

TITLE HOLDER LOSES TO MISS D. BUNDY

FORMER CHAMPION'S

DAUGHTER

(By A. WALLIS MYERS)

Forest Hills (N.Y.), September 9. THIS year all records for mid-week crowds at the American Championships here have been broken, and purveyors of hot-dogs and candies have been sold out. The big crowd to-day had an early sensation the defeat of Miss Alice Marble, the reigning champion, by Miss Dorothy Bundy, daughter of an American invader who, 32 years earlier, had, while still in her teens, triumphed on

· the old Centre Court at Wimbledon.

How the pulse of May Sutton, now Mrs. Tom Bundy, of Santa Monica, must have quickened when she received a radio despatched from my side as I wrote. The score was 1-6, 7-5, 6-1, and rarely has there been such a complete metamorphosis or such a surprising surrender of a title. When Miss Marble, playing every shot with authority and control, had taken the first set at 6-1 and led 4-3 in the second, scoring like a man and moving like a gazelle, Miss Bundy seemed destined for quick extinction."

Overawed, she had continually been netting while her mes the seemed at the mercy of champion. Lo and behold, Miss Bundy took the next nine games, and Miss Marble collected only one more game before the stun- ned gallery had grasped the miracle.

SOME SCOTTISH FOOTBALL YOUTHS OF GREAT PROMISE

(Continued from Page 19) OLD SERVANTS From the young fellows to some of the older school who are doing well despite their length of arduous At first the stocky little player, service. It amazed Celtic people to who was singularly calm and collect- find right back Leslie of Kilmar-ed-usually she is gaily casual and exuberant-looked only nock, quite clearly the best man on vocally

RALLIES LENGTHÈN

the field in the battle at Rugby Park.(stolidly steady, content to parry Miss Leslie is in his twelfth year with Marble's fiercer shots and throw up Kilmarnock. He played with,a pow-jlobs when the

er and with such mobility that one striding forward. could have been forgiven for assum

whole-

champion- came

CORINTHIANS COMING HERE FIRST

I was given to understand by) Mr. Wong Ka-tsun, who is in charge of the South China Athie

Sec- tic Association, Football tion, that the Islington Corin- thians will not call at Manila first, as was their original in- tention, before coming to Hong Kong.

As a result of the For Eas- tern conflict, and the change in

the selling schedules during the Coronation,

the Corinthians

•have found it impossible to:

make the trip to the Philippines first, and will arrive here first from Saigon. As soon as they have completed their fixtures în the Colony, they will go on to Manila, Japan, returning

Canada.

via

Football League Teams

FIRST DIVISION

St. Joseph's: R. Marques; Bowen and V. Costa, Sprinkle, Hussain (Cap- tain) and Delgado, Castilho, Ward, D Leonard, Gomes and Alves.

South China “A”-Wong

Lee Ting-sang and Mal Shui hon; Lay Hing choi, Leung Wing chu and Lee Kwok-wai Tso Kwai-shing, Lay Shui- wing, Fung King cheong (capt Cheak Selam and Cheong Booz- wing.

Kowloon Chinese: Wong Cheong, Chan Hoi-ching and Chong Kim fan, Wang You-tim, Chan Wong and Man Ping-wong Chin Chi-fun, Yeung, Kan- po, Yu Wah Choon and Kok Wai-yee.

Eastern: Sammy Tsang Kwok Ping-cheong and Wong Ping Tsang Chong-wan, Soong Ling-sing and Lo Wai-kuen, Chan Ping-to, Lee Tak-kee, Chan Man-chi, Kok Ying-kee, and Han Ching-to.

Police: Manning, Blackburn and Pile; North Gongh and Parker, Willer- ton, Morrison, Johnson, Howlett and Green.

and KFC: Rowlands; Everest A. Ulrich, Evans, Bliss and Vale; Coak- ley, P. Jorge, D. Knox V. White and ›

But as the rallies lengthened, and EVERYBODY'S SAYING

ing that he was a player of. say,Miss Bundy increased her length, two or three seasons' experience using the volley to shift Miss Marble în his very prime.

out of her familiar orbit, the strain Edward Summers, full back, of began to tell on the more excitable Clyde, and now of Ayr United is holder. Her physical reserves, now in his tenth season as a senior. drawn upon, were seen to be failing.

HAD OTHER VIEWS This fine defender gives

feet Yet when Miss Bundy bad squared hearted service. Not at his can be laid the blame of any Unit-the match with a run of four games, ed reverse. Summers is probably everyone thought Miss Marble would one of the fittest men in the game. jreturn from the dressing-room after or-the interval and re-assert her ascen- His active interest in youths'

of dency- ganisations necessitates fitness mind and body. Summers should i last a long time in Soccer.

MR. GRORY GOING BACK?

But Miss Bundy, using the whole court, had other views. Her ground shots, orthodox in production and Is James M'Grory going back? less strainful than her mother's had Even some Celtic people believe that been, not only kept Miss the time has come when the Park-away from the net, but won the ma- head people must try out a lad with jority of the base-line rallies

successor.

Marble

· She

a view to alighting on M'Grory's did not make a mistake until she But then, that was said was 5-0 and love -15.

Two or three loose blows-follow- two or three years ago, and still the centre is a most dangerous leader. ed, Miss Marble achieved one great At the same time, there is an absmash, and then the end came quick- sence of some of that crispness that ly, Miss Bundy winning the seventh protracted distinguished his footwork and his

game from 30 after 2 heading. He is more interested now rally, in which the youngster showed in cultivating the wing game from no sign of cracking.

fairly far out and running into posi

tion for the return. He seldom at- tive Mugiemoss for Ibrox Gray has

given solid service to Rangers tempts the break-through.

always -

A player who seldom comes into seidom injured, the lime-light is Gray, right back, thoroughly consite of Rangers. It is now more than the top-lines. Still, Gray has the twelve years since Gray was. apsolation of knowing that the proached by Director James Bowie tainence of the form that has cari and Manager Willie Struth in alhìm through those twelve years will train coming North after an inter-ensure a berth at Ibrox for quite national junior match at Birming-la long time. He is as staunch now ham, and fixed up to leave his na-las he has ever been.

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