1938-06-13 — Page 19

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 13, 1938.

Wightman Cup Triumph For United

States

Doubles Victory For

British Pair

London, To-day. The United States retained the Wightman Cup on Saturday, at Wimbledon, when they ended the day by beating Great Britain by 5 matches to 2 and thus gave evidence of their superiority in women's tennis.

Mrs. Helen Wills-Moody, staging a comeback after an absence of one season, gave evidence of her of strength when she beat both Britain's leading singles players. She beat Miss Kay Stammers, con- queror of Miss Alice Marble, in a three sets duel, and with the ex- ception of a ding-dong struggle in the second set, proved much too good for Miss Peggy Scriven.

had Actually the United States secured victory in the series long before all the matches had

been completed.

the

Miss Joan Ingram, one of most imporved players among the younger contenders for British ten- nis honours, and Miss E. M. Dear- man, a veteran campaigner of the Wightman Cup series, secured a meritorious victory in the doubles, when they defeated Mrs. Helen Wills-Moody and Miss Dorothy

Bundy, in straight sets.

Results were:-

SINGLES

Miss K. E. Stammers (G.B.) beat Miss Alice Marble (U.S.) 3-6, 7-5, 63.

A Formation Flight-Yorkshire's champion women's gymnastic team is the Salts Gymnastic Team of Bradford, present holders of the York- shire title, which they are here seen preparing to defend. Our photo- graph shows a spectacular leap in unison by members of the champion team. (Copyright, Fox).

FRENCH LAWN TENNIS

SENSATION

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Petra And Destremeau Beat Budge And Mako

MME. MATHIEU'S

THREE WINS ·

Paris, To-day.

British Grand Prix Triumph

Picardi, (France), To-day. Raymond Mays, driving a Bri- tish E.R.A. racing car, yesterday won the French Grand Prix motor- racing classic at an average speed of 146,328 kilometres an hour. F. Bianco, driving an Italian Masera- ti, was second, while Soffioti, also driving a Maserati, was third.

SURPRISES FEATURE 2ND ROUND OF OPEN PAIRS

The Second Round of the Open Pairs Lawn Bowls Championship provided several surprises among which was the defeat of the holders, C. S. Rosselet's rink, and the elimina- tion of a strong Craigéngower four, skipped by B. W. Bradbury, at the hands of E. Souza's Third Division quartette.

Detailed results of matches played yesterday were as follows:

AT THE POLICE R.C.

C. C. Pereira O. P. Remedios, J. C. Remedios and 0. de Souza (skip) beat

WORLD FOOTBALL MAR. Souza, J. S. Landolt, R. Basa

CHAMPIONSHIP

Surprise Defeat Of Switzerland

Paris, To-day. Three nations, Hungary, Sweden and Italy

entered the Semi-Final Round of the World football cup, as u

have

result of Sunday's matches.

sharing two goals, and will have to be

and B. W. Bradbury (skip) 23-13.

R. P. Shaw, E. Strange, G. Duncan and W. Gill (skip) beat A. H. Rum- jahn, A. Bakar, A. M. Wahab and M. R. Abbas (skip) 23-13:

AT CRAIGENGOWER C.C. F. V. Searle, G. C. Norman, K. C. Hamilton and J. G. Meyer (skip) beat J. Gellatly, J. Deakin, J. Purvis and L. Collyer (skip) 18-16.

AT CIVIL SERVICE C.C. W. McLeod, W. Cameron, E. G. Post and A. E. Carey (skip) beat J. Howell G. S. Graver, A. Hodges and A. Brooksbank (skip) 19-12.

The game between Czechoslovakia and Brazil ended in a draw, the teams

D. M. Khan, M. Y. Adal, A. R. Dal- replayed at Bordeaux, to-morrow.

lah and A. K. Minu (skip) beat W. One of the outstanding surprises of Brown, T. Grimes, J. Watson and T.- the day was the defeat of Switzerland, F. Stainton (skip) 25-13. by Hungary, at Lille.

AT HONG KONG F.C. The Swiss plainly revealed them-1 A. S. Gomes, A. A. Razack, A. M. Mrs. H. Wills-Moody (U.S.) beat A sensation featured the closing selves as a tired team following their Omar and U. M. Omar (skip) beat S.

with Germany, and

Eccleshall, W. Cullip, J. McGowan and Miss Peggy Scriven (G.B.) 6-0, 7-5, stages of the French Lawn Tennis two hard games

G. Sheriff 20-16. were eliminated by two goals to nil. Mrs. H. Wills-Moody (U.S.) beat

AT KOWLOON F.C. Miss K. E. Stammers (G.B.)

France put up a good show_against 62 Championships when Y. Petra and

Bernard Destremeau, of France, Italy until half time, when both teams

E. A. Xavier, A. M. Xavier, M. A. 36, 6-3,

Carvalho, and L. A. Gutierrez (skip) Mrs. S. Palfrey-Fabyan (U.S.) beat beat the Wimbledon and Australian had scored one goal.

In the second-half, however, the Ita-beat H. Stoneham, S. M. White, J. E. Miss Margot Lumb (G.B.) 5-7, 6-2 Champions, Donald Budge and Gene lians secured the upperhand and won Henson, and S. Randle (skip) 22-18. 6--3.

A. Noronha, C. A. Lopes, J. E. No- Miss Alice Marble (U.S.) beat Miss Mako (U.S.) by 3–6, 6–3, 9-7, by 3 goals to 1.

The match, which was played at ronha, and C. G. Silva (skip) beat C. Peggy Scriven (G.B.) 6-3, 3–6, 6—3.6-1.

DOUBLES-

-Budge-was-very-erratic, but the Princess Park, Paris, was witnessed by W. Lam, N. P. Karanjia, W. Howard,

65,000 spectators.

and E-Zimmern (skip)-23-16. Miss Joan Ingram and Miss E. M. French pair literally smashed their

Sweden enjoyed shooting practice: A. Calman, M. Fergusson, H. G. Dearman (G.B.) beat Mrs. H. Wills-

op against Cuba, winning by 8 goals to Cooper and J. McKelvie (skip) beat Moody and Miss Dorothy Bundy (U.S.) way through their American

D. C. Alves, J. M. Alves, C. M. Alves 6-2, 7-5.

ponents, whose volleying was their nothing.

In the Semi-Final Round, on June and H. Botelho (skip) 27-9. Mrs. Sarah Palfrey-Fabyan and weakest department.

16, Hungary will oppose Sweden, whilst AT THE KOWLOON B.G.C. Miss Alice-Marble (U.S.) beat Miss In the Final of the Women's Dou-Italy will meet the winners of the re- J. Luz, A. P. Guterres, F. X. Soares Margot Lumb and Miss Freda James

bles, an Anglo-French pair in Miss play between Brazil and Czechoslova-and B. Basto (skip) beat J. Soares, J. (G.B.) 6-4, 6-2.

A. M. Yorke (G.B.) and Mme. Ma-kia.-Trans-Ocean. thieu (France) beat an all French combination comprising Mlle. Halff and Mlle. Landry 6-3, 6-3.

Mme. the Mixed Doubles Final, Mathieu and Mitic (Czechoslova- kia) beat Miss Nancy Wynne (Aus-

and tralia)

Christian Boussus (France) 2-6, 6—8, 6——A;

Mme. Mathieu has had a very

AMERICA'S ELEVEN WINS Of the total number of matches played to date, the United States have won on 11 occasions and Great Britain four times, the latter secur- ing their last victory in 1930. at Wim- bledon.

The first match was played in 1923, Mrs. George W. Wightman, when America's first ranking woman play- er of 1919, donated a trophy for an-

nual competition, the event being series is open to the world, but 50 named the Wightman Cup series. The far only teams from Great Britain and the United States have partici- pated.

MRS. MOODY'S FINE RECORD

Mrs. Helen Wills-Moody, who play- ed in six consecutive Wightman Cup games, from 1927 to 1982, has an un- beaten record in her 12 singles mat-. ches, not even conceding a' set.

In 1929 Betty Nuthall ran her to 8-6, 86, but that was the only occasion she was extended. In her six dou- bles matches, however, Mrs. Moody succeeded in winning only two.

Helen Jacobs, who played in 11 successive encounters, from 1927 to 1987, won 18 of her 20 singles en- counters and five of eight doubles matches.

Kay Stammers, British representa- tive for the past three years, won two of her six singles matches, while Mrs. Phyllis Mudford King, who first played in the series in 1931 and then - took part in the 1982 and 1935 mat- ches, won one of her four singles matches,

Miss Tennant and Miss Morrill, both of America, are nowcomers to the Wightman Cup series.

In

ELLIOTT RIDES TWO DERBY WINNERS

Paris,

W. Leonard, L. C. R. Souza, and C. S. Rosselet (skip) 26-20.

F. Machado, C. M. Silva, J. Riberio and F. X. Silva (skip) beat A. W. Ramsey, R. Harding, T. A. Madar and E. C. Fincher (skip) 22-20.

AT CLUB DE RECREIO W. Mulcahy, T. Carr, W. Greig and Monsieur Boussac's Colt Cillas, J. Fraser (skip) beat J. C. Brown, J. Watson, T. Coleman and R. Duncan rode Bais riden by Elliot, who

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AT INDIAN R.C. W. Ward, H. W. Randall, to McDonald, A. Soutar, W. Campbell Whiteman and W. K. Way (skip) lost and R. Ellis (skip) 18-22.

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