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THE CHINA MA

Tsui Wai Pui Much Too Good

RUMJAHN BEATEN IN STRAIGHT SETS

Champion's Fine Tennis In Hardcourt Tie

SPECIAL HOCKEY COUNCIL

MEETING

There will be a special, mooting of the Council of the Hong Kong' Hockey Association, at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, September 22, St. Andrew's Church Hall.

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All members of the Council aro' requested to attend, as the minutes of the Sub-Committes appointed to investigate the possibility of the Association running the United

GUEST LEADS SIRDAR RUMJAHN 5-2 Hockey Tournament, and to draw

AND THEN DROPS SET AND MATCH

(By "REFEREE”) ·

up representative fixtures for the Beason will be the main items dealt with on the agenda.

ARSENAL'S

SHARP SHOCK

London, Yesterday. Arsenal were given another severe shock to-day when Derby County visited Highbury and car- ried off both points. Sunderland won at Huddersfield. -

Another surprise was the defeat of Glasgow Celtic at home by Hamilton Academicals. The Ran- gers scored five clear goals at Motherwell..

Results were:

FIRST DIVISION

1 Derby

Paul Kong, Pang Ol-lam, Ho Hung-Huddersfield

SATURDAY, 5 p.m.

0 Sunderland

TSUI WAI-PUI, holder of the Colony Hard and Tacchi, A. E. P. Guest, G. A. White, Arsenal

Grass courts Singles and Doubles champion-yan, J. Gonsalves and A. V. Gosano). Liverpool 3 Middlesbro' ships, yesterday entered the semi-final round of the Colony Hardcourt Singles Championship when he comfortably disposed of H. D. Rumjahn, in straight sets, while his younger brother, Tsui Yun-pui, dealt umpire and linesmen). similarly with S. A. Gray, to also enter the last four.

HARDCOURT SİNGLES

(Quarter-final)

George Choa v. Wong Fuk-nam (same

SUNDAY, 4 p.m. HARDCOURT DOUBLES

(Semi-final)

Sirdar Rumjahn and A. E. P. Guest were featured in a long drawn-out struggle in which the former emerged winner after tak- ing the first set and being led in the second at 5-2.

S. A. Rumjahn and H. D. Rumjahn The standard of tennis, with the exception of the Tsui Wai-v. Pang Oi-lam and Mok Fuk-in (Um-

as on Saturday). pui and H. D. Rumjahn clash, was very mediocre, a strong wind pire Lt. Col. C. Burton, linesmen same which kept changing direction, greatly affecting the play..

H. D. Rumjahn caused some little surprise when he secured a two games lead against the Col- ony champion, but the latter was] finding the wind a little trouble- some and only fell into his stride in the third game when he came 'back from 15-40 to take the game, then levelled the scores in the next game from 0-30.

AV

SIZZLING DRIVES ·

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS

AT A GLANCE

HARDCOURT SINGLES Tsui Wai-pui (holder) beat H. D. Rumjahn 6-4, 6-2.

Tsui Yun-pul beat S. A. Gray 6————1, 6—3.

S. A. Rumjahn beat A. E. P. Guest 6-2, 7-5.

MONDAY, 4 p.m.

HARDCOURT SINGLES ·

(Semi-final)

Tsui Wai-pui v. winner of G. Choa : Wong Fuk-nam (Umpire Major F. T. Baines, linesmen same as on Saturday).

SECOND DIVISION Newcastle 5 W. Bromwich Southampton 2 Plymouth

THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH)

Reading

Watford

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3 Brighton

1 Newport

THIRD DIVISION (NORTH)

Hartlepools Wrexham

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3 Darlington

0 Crewe

SCOTTISH LEAGUE (1st Division) Arbroath

Ayr

Celtic

Hibernian Motherwell

1 Queen O'S

2. Clyde

1 Hamilton

0 Kilmarnock

0 Rangers 4 Albion -

St: Johnstone Third Lanark 1 Aberdeen

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The fifth game was a long one and went to deuce four times before Tsui secured the lead for the first time with some dazzling recoveries on the backhand and sizzling drives down the side lines, which left | Had Guest, when Rumjahn standing.

of energy and attempts to drive outright winners.

WRONG TACTICS

leading by 5 games to 2 in the second-set, varied his length, he might quite conceiv- "H.D." staged a partial recovery in the next game which he won to ably have taken Sirdar to a third square the scores again, but Tsul set, but he maintained the same brought his deadly drop-shot into length and when his opponent sent play, taking advantage of the cross-over, a short one, lost "his eye" and wind and jumped into a 5-3 lead. placed out of court or into the net. Tsui. Yun-pui proved much too The end of the first set was delay- ed a fraction, however, as "H.D." good for S. A.-Gray, the latter's won the ninth game, but lost the service failing him considerably.. 10th through playing into Tsuf's The Doubles match between E. C. hands, the Colony champion clever- ly luring "H.D." to the net and then lobbed over his head for point and set.

TSUI AT HIS BEST

The second set saw Tsui at his best and he ran away into a 4-0 lead with some. glorious driving on

Fincher and A. V. Remedios: and Omar Rumjahn and G. Choa was postponed as the last named player. is suffering from influenza. The Committee have given Rumjahn and Choa until next Tuesday to play off this fixture.

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