THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 81, 1988.
Scottish Hard
Hard Court Titles
OUR LONDON #AIR MAIL SPORTS NEWS
Pro. Tennis Stars At Eastbourne
Lady Rowallan Into Last ENGLISH
Eight At St. Andrews
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St. Andrew's August 18.
The Scottish Hard Courts Championships at St. Andrews were again favoured by excellent weather conditions yesterday, and the nine courts were fully occupied throughout the day.
GIRLS' TENNIS WINS IN
U.S.
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Manchester (Mass.), August 16. Miss Margot Lumb, a member of the
In the women's singles event, All interesting feature of the girls' British team in America, entered the Lady Rowallan, Kilmarnock, singles is the strong challenge from quarter-final round of the Essex Coun Intry Club's tournament to-day by de Edinburgh St. George's School. fought her way through to the the final eight there are five girls from feating Mrs. Stark, formerly Caroline Three of the four players taking part in the final pool competition for third round against Miss H. M. the school, including Miss N. C. M. Babcock, the American Wightman Cup the Professional Singles Champion-Proudfoot, Murrayfield, who con-Jupp, who won the British girls golf player, by 6-4, 6-3. ship of Great Britain, at Devonshire tested the final of the girls championship before she was 14. Park, Eastbourne, were nursing in-championship last
Scovell and MacInnes were so keen Miss Kay Stammers, the British juries on August 14, and so the two
year. Miss
to play their men's singles tie that Wightman Cup player, became one of concluding matches could not be play-Proudfoot fully extended her they played it off last night instead of the quarter-finalists when she beat ed. T. C. Jeffery (Melbury), the more experienced opponent, the to-day. MacInnes now meets Mac- Miss Helen Pedersen, of Stamford, holder, scratched to D. Maskell (All match being carried to three sets Phail in the semi-final.
Connecticut, 36, 7-5, 6-2, in the England) owing to pulled muscles behind his right shoulder, while J.
third round of the singles.
of 27 games.
Pearce (Queen's) scratched to F. H. Miss Proudfoot took the first set, at Poulson (Queen's) owing to a sprain-6-3, but she failed to maintain an ac- ed right wrist, but Poulson himself curate length with her powerful driv- could not have played because he had ing, and Lady Rowallan profited by her a sprained left wrist. All these in-opponent's mistakes to level matters by juries became apparent after play on taking the second set at 6-2. The Friday.
decider was very closely contested, the Muskell therefore becomes cham-first six games going with service, but pion again with three points, Poulson Lady Rowallan then broke through at is second with two points, Jeffery 53, and although she dropped the third with one point, and Pearce ninth game, she ran out winner by fourth with no points. It is the first taking the next. time that Maskell has won the cham- pionship without losing a set. He first won it in 1927, and held it until last year, when he lost it to Jeffery.
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Miss H. R. Knight, North Worces- tershire, and Mrs. W. S. Smith, Drum- chapel, had also a long drawn-out tussle before the former claimed vic- tory. It was a dogged base-line duel,
Sir Malcolm Campbell with long rallies the feature.
Just Fails
Sir Malcolm Campbell failed by just over 3 m.p.h. to beat his world water speed record of 129.50 miles an hour in Bluebird on lake Geneva on August 13. He covered the measured mile in the outward direction at an average speed of 128.57 miles an hour, but his run back was only 124.13 miles an hour, giving him an average of 126.30 miles an hour.
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In the first set Mrs. Smith led 4-1, but she did not take another game and lost it at 6-4. Miss Knight had good chance of winning the match in the second set as she led 5-4 and then 6-5, but, she could not pull out winning point. Mrs. Smith tired in the final set, and only managed to get the second and fifth games.
the
EDINBURGH PLAYERS Three more Edinburgh players have now joined Miss M. S. Welsh, Liberton, in the last eight. They are Miss M. E. The engine did not appear to be Smart. Miss R. Sklovsky, both Edin- pulling well and he had bad conditionsburgh Waverley, and Miss B. Keith under which to make his attempt. The Murray, the Murrayfield representa- water was smooth, but it was raining|tive, but unfortunately from the Edin- heavily and the visibility was bad. burgh standpoint, the clubmates Miss Further, there was a lot of floating Smart and Miss Sklovsky meet in the timber and other flotsam on the course. third round to-day. --Reuter.
BOWLING ALLEYS EXLENSION
New Site Purchased
Kong Bowling Alleys has already
The holder of the men's singles, Don- ald MacPhail, jun., Pollokshields, and I. G. Collins, Monkton, both made pro- gress towards the final yesterday. R. Barr, Larbert, was no match for the champion, and Collins rather easily disposed of R. K. Gordon, Giffnock.
RUNAWAY WIN
The Edinburgh aspirants for the men's doubles title, W. C. V. Tait, Waverley, and R. W. Welsh, Liberton, reached the third round with a runaway victory over. W. C. Youll, Cambridge University, and J. P. Marindin, Glen- farg who did not win a game.
The boys' singles championship is now dominated by West of Scotland contestants. There are no fewer than five in the last eight, and favourite for the title is W. Blackadder, Glasgow High School, who won the grass courts. Ichampionship at Peebles, and is mak- ing a determined bid to bring off the double.
The popularity of the Hong YESTERDAY'S convinced the proprietors that an HOME SOCCER
extention of the premises will be
more than justified, and to this end ENCOUNTERS ··
ground adjacent to the existing
London, To-day.
alleys has just been purchased The following were the results of from the Hong Kong Land Invest-¡games played yesterday ment Co.
SECOND. DIVISION.
Burnley
2. Southampton - Mr. S. Lillicrap, manager of the THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH) Hong Kong Alleys, states that the Bristol R. 0 Brighton new building will be ready by THIRD DIVISION (NORTH) Christmas and will house 20 alleys Rochdale
2 Carlisle
-Reuter.
·MATCH POSTPONED
and the latest improvements in the game. The comfort of patrons, who are experiencing some conges- tion in the alleys as they are now, The semi-final match in the will be a paramount consideration Lawn Bowls singles championship, in the new site, which is stated to between B. W. Bradbury and A. R. have cost approximately $100,000. Dallah, fixed for to-day on the Club The proprietors announce that de Recreio green, has been "post- they are prepared to spend con- poned for a week owing to the in- siderably more than this sum or a disposition of the former player. pastime which has proved very The match will be played on Wed- popular with the Hong Kong nesday, September 7, on the same public.
green.
Yesterday's open results were:-
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