1938-03-01 — Page 18

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH, 1, 1938

TENNIS OPENS IN GLORIOUS WEATHER

Lo Brothers Win Very

Convincingly

ALL RESULTS AS

ANTICIPATED

KWOK AND LIANG EXTENDED

(By "ADREM")

THE Gods smiled on tennis yesterday and the Open Championships opened at the Hong Kong Cricket Club in weather that was literally perfect-bright sunshine, the right temperature and little or no wind.

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PLAY WAS TYPICAL OF THIS STAGE OF THE TOURNA-

ABSENCE OF

CORINTHIANS SURPRISED

IN MACAO

Held To Draw As Result. Of

Last Minute Equaliser

The Islington Corinthians yes- terday met a Macao team and could only manage to share two goals.

The Corinthians scored” within two minutes of the start, but the

defence Macao

was very solid. thereafter and the equaliser came a minute before full time..

TO-DAY'S

MENT. IN NO MATCH WAS THERE ANYTHING TO ENTHUSE TENNIS

OVER.

THERE WAS A COMPLETE

CONFI-

DENCE EVIDENT IN THE MOST SEASONED CAMPAIGNERS PROGRAMME

WOMEN GOLFERS WHO WRITE

PROPOSAL TO LIFT THE BAN

(By GEORGE GREENWOOD).

London, January 19. The controversy : which has arisen round the name of Miss uumim Pam Barton and other "prominent women golfers concerning their amateur status will have a sequel at the annual meeting of the La- dies' Golf Union in London Feb. 9.

é

on

The following proposal, sup- ported by Surrey and Kent, will be submitted.

A professional is one who carries clubs for hire or receives any con- sideration either directly or indirect- ly for playing or for teaching the game-with the exception of instruc- tion by writing-or for playing in a

All match or tournament..

others are amateurs. If this proposal is passed the There is again a big programme ban on player-writers receiving of matches in the Colony Tennis payment for instructional and All matches went as anticipated--they always do at this stage Championships down for decision technical articles will be lifted. of the tourney but the easy victory of the veteran Lo brothers this afternoon none of which look over a pair which is supposed to have occupied a prominent place in particularly interesting. Canton tennis, occasioned a certain amount of surprise.

AND AS A RESULT MOST OF THE TIES PROVIDED FARE FOR THE CROWD OF SPECTATORS.

RESULTS AT

A GLANCE

SINGLES

The Los were possibily a little; mumaqupTATURETMENLEGIT slower in getting around the court than of old but all their strokes were there and they made them with all their old fluency. They were never really extended and it is difficult on this perform- ance to estimate their real capa- bilities but I am told that in practice game last week against Willie Hung and Teddy Fincher, they managed to share six sets, so there is obviously plenty of fight left in them yet.

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The only match which went the whole distance

the was between Army representatives, A, Warr and W. A. Land, and S. W. Liang and Frank Kwok, of C.R.C. It was re- markable chiefly for the pathetically low standard and the large number. of errors committed by both sides.

At the outset, the Chinese pair, who appeared very much out of touch, could do nothing right and Warr and Land went out at 2-6. Apparently over-confidence then set

vious set.

DULL

A. Crawford beat Marsland 6-4,

6-4.

Leong Ping-chiu beat H. Y. Ho

6-0, 6-0).

S. A. Rumjahn beat Major F. T.

Baines 6-1, 7-5.

F. V. Harrison beat P. S. Leong

6-1, 6-0.

E. C. Fincher beat-Ma Nai-kwong

6-1, 6-2

DOUBLES

Luke Ding-cheong and Wong Shiu- wing beat A. and H. Chan 6-4, 6-1

M: W. and M. K. Lo beat D. K. Leong and B. Szeto 6-1, 6—–—–—–0. F. H. Kwok and S. W. Liang beat W. A. Land and A. Warr 2——6, 6-4, 6-2,

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the way of strokes and made a col- lossal number, óf errors.

Warr's was most happy when he in as the result of this success and was volleying. Although fair- it appeared to me that they thenly reliable, he never went for shots that they had notpeared confident off the ground dreamed of attempting in the pre-but nevertheless, he played very pluckily. I felt that. 23 a team, the Army pair would have met with more success if Warr had "poached" less. His propensity in this direction never gave Land a decent chance to recover his con- fidence and there is little doubt that this reacted on him badly to wards the end.

They paid the penalty and Kwok and Liang gradually drew away to win the second set and subsequent- ly the match,

WILL IMPROVE

LITTLE OF INTEREST

Among the potential titlists, who will be on view, are Tsui Yan-pui and W. C. Hung, while the appear- ance of Lee Wai-tong

and Paul Kong is certain to attract a big Chinese gallery.

PROGRAMME

SINGLES

J. F. L. Smalley v I. M. A. Razack Cdr. Rump

v J. C. Pool

Tsui Yan-pui v W. J. Skinner Cheng Ping-

yeung

W. C. Hung:

G. W. Sewell "

and

Tennie Wong Tonnie Wang

DOUBLES

T. C. Monaghan

and

Ma Nai-kwong |Li Kwan-hing

A. C. I. Bowker

and

W. M. Barton Paul Kong

and Lee Wai-tong

Wei Chung.

and

Pang Oi-lam

and

Leong Ping-chiu Marsland

R. B. Bulpin and

F. A. Fowler In Cho-ping and

Lui Kwai-fan

MISS BARTON'S BOOK Miss Barton, who is 20, after winning the British and American Women's Open championships, pub- lished a book, the major part of which was instructional matter on how to play golf.

She was officially informed that if payment was received her ama- teur status would be forfeited.

GOODMAN

SEEKS BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIP

TO COMPETE AT TROON

(By GEORGE GREENWOOD)

London, January 31. John Goodman, American ama- teur champion, has entered for the British Amateur Champion- will be played at ship which Troon, Ayrshire, in the last week in May. Aged 29, and an insur- ance broker of Omaha, Nebraska, Goodman is ranked as world's leading amateur player.

One of a large family of chil- dren, Goodman Jnr. began his career as a caddie. At the age of 20 he made a sensational advent into the game by defeating the great. Bobby Jones in the first On first approaching the court on round of the U. S. Championship. which Leong Ping-chiu was playing | Four years later he won the H. Y. Ho, I thought that I had in-American Open in a field includ- ping-ing all the famous professionals. advertently turned up for a pong match. Ho with studious care In 1934, when he was last in this was pushing the ball back where it country, Goodman led the Ameri- went he cared-not! It availed him can team in the Walker Cup little, however, and he failed to match against Great Britain to a break his duck” in either of the decisive victory. seta.

The Chinese pair were far from convincing but I have little doubt. that they will improve considerably as the tournament advances, Kwok was generally sound, his chief There was little of interest in the

F. V. Harrison, the Naval player, BEN FOORD MARRIED assets being his heavily topped fore- remainder of the programme, Craw- hand drive and fine retrieving pow- ford, the youthful K.C.C.player, maintained his promise of last year ers. Liang played badly in the first had quite a good game against in scoring a comfortable victory two sets, never appearing to gain Marsland, the CR.C. junior cham- over P. S. Leong, while Teddy Fin- control of his strokes but towards pion, but I always felt that he had cher, although the scores would in heavyweight boxer, who is training the latter stages of the final set, he | heaps in reserve. improved considerably and pulled "Sirdar" Rumjahn also had an position. his weight in fine style.

I must confess that after the pro- mising manner in which he start- ed, I expected far better of Land. He is extraordinarily well-built and has a powerful forehand drive. Apart from some nice winning smashes, however, he revealed him self to be very poorly equipped in

Hambuuary 19.

Ben Food, the

African

dicate that he was given little of fight with Max Schmel-

was made to pull out some

Jan. 30, revealed to-day that: was secretly married last month

Major Souter, Zouch

Ashby-da-la-

easy passage against Major Baines. of his best material to win. Ma The Major was aggressive andrushed drove very well but was not auto Miss Phyllis Souter, daughter of the net at the slightest provocation ficiently consistent to stand up to a in an effort to carry the attack into sustained driving duel. the enemy's camp but his volleying In the remaining match,

lmost invariably broke down un- Ding-cheong and Wong Shiu-wing, ler the consistent stream of drives last year's semi-finalists, were much on both hands which flowed from to steady for the Chan brothers and

won as they liked. he ex-champion's racket.

Luk

Foord said the marriage took" place on Dec. 3 before he left for Germany. Not oven his wife's fam- ly knew anything about the cere mony at the time-Reuter.