THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 1, 1988.
Shayes Rises Seven Places In
TENNIS RANKING
MEN
1. H. W. Austin (1)
C. E. Hare (2)·· 3. R. A. Shayes (10)
Task
4.
L.T.A.'s Difficult
In Compiling This Year's Lists
CHINESE GIRL INCLUDED
FOR FIRST TIME
(By A. WALLIS MYERS)
London, November 8.
The official ranking lists of players, based on re- sults in singles during the past year, were approv- ed by the Lawn Tennis Association at their meet- ing in London yesterday.
D. W. Butler (5) 5. C. M. Jones (7)
M. D. Delaford (12)
7. J. S. Ollif (11)
H. G. N. Lee (4)
ON- GEO¤JORACK-
E. J. Filby (12) D. MacPhail (9)
N. Sharpe (—) H. Billington (- WOMEN
Miss Scriven (3)
2.. Miss Lumb (11) 3. Miss Hardwick (2) Miss Stammers (4)
Mrs. Hammersley (8)
Mrs. King (7)
Miss V. Scott (~)
6.
7.
8. Miss J. Saunders (0)
9.
Miss Nuthall (-)
10.
Miss R. Thomas (~)
11. Miss Hoshing (—)
12. Mrs. McKelvie
The figures in brackets indicate the position in the 1937 list.
With the best will in the world, the ranking committee cannot ¿3-07-11TTSBYTES. satisfy, or even please, every player who comes into their survey, and their task has been made harder this year because of the wider horizon imposed, and the many "stars" who, sometimes erratically, have passed across it.
The men's list is likely to excite less comment. Austin was predestined leader.
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A fool-proof classification of wo- the men players is impossible, and the committee, I suppose, have made Hare played little in this coun- the best of an order which try, but he may play more next never be free from anomaly.
Miss Mary Hardwick, for exam- year, and it is just as well that his skill, which has not yet fully ple, defeats Mrs. Moody, Senorita be recognised. Lizana and Madame Mathieu, yet matured, should
to three. Miss against drops from two He' won more games Budge in the American cham- Lumb beats Miss Jacobs and rises pionship than Austin did in the nine places. final at Wimbledon.
MISS STAMMERS' CASE My own impression is that Miss TOURNAMENT WINNERS The next four have played regu-Stammers, despite her variable larly throughout the season, and form early in the year, should be between them have almost corner-higher. She had a much better re- ed the tournament prizes. Shayes cord in the Wightman Cup at Wim- has jumped up seven places and bledon than Miss Scrivens, and she Deloford six. The best of neither put up a great fight at Forest Hills has yet been extracted. Butler against the winner of the American and Jones have also advanced.
SOFTBALL
GIRLS IN GOOD EXHIBITION
Lois Terry Shows Them How
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"REVIEWER'S" SPORTS COMMENTARY
Boy Louw's Best Rugby Players
QOY" LOUW, the South African, retiring after many years of ascendancy as a Rugby forward, makes a good selection when he chooses Spong (England) and Mark Nicholls (N.Z.) as the best five-eighths he has seen;. G. Beamish (Ireland), Aub, Hodgson (N.S.W.), and Maurice Brown- lie (N.Z.), and Ben du Toit (South Africa), as the best forwards,
"Boy" has evidently never seen him- self playing, otherwise he must have been included in the list.
Spong and Beamish were in Austra lia with the last British R.U. team. Spong played the game very much after the manner of Ernest Norman, the Rugby League five-eighth, an adept at the diagonal cut-through. Beamish was a champion, and Aub. and Mau- rice were top-liners, Aub. still is.
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Average System For The Minor Counties?
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had
Softball The American Girls
Minor Counties' Association excellent exhibi-TH players gave an
may adopt the average system of la “double header," when they were pionship, instead of the percentage tion at Caroline Hill yesterday in scoring, as used in the County Cham beaten by the Chinese team by two method. At their annual meeting at Lord's the Minor Counties will compare runs to nil, but won the next game the two systems.
An amended definition of a tie has by three clear runs.
The crowd which attended the been approved by the Minor Counties' game was larger than anticipated Committee following a suggestion by
was used to express the result of and encroached on the field to such the M.C.C. Formerly, the term "a tie" an extent that interference with the match when the sides engaged game occurred on several occasions. scored an equal number of runs at the The first game was featured by conclusion of a match irrespective of
the number of wickets down. some brilliant pitching of Skipper Beck and the safe handling at first No doubt Miss Scriven gets the base, of Kay Rohrer. The fielding Harry Lee's relatively low posi- tion at No. 8 is doubtless due to his top place because she won the two of the girls was very good, the only On a British championships-the Hard error of the game being made by business preoccupations.
the Kay Rohrer which resulted in the non-turf court he might beat any Court at Bournemouth, and of the seven above him except Aus-Covered Court at Queen's. On turf Chinese scoring. tin, and only a few days ago he got courts her achievements have been
in a county less impressive. · the better of Jones match.
None will cavil at Filby's ad- vance. He is the only player in the list who has lowered Austin's that his colours, and one hopes place two-thirds down the list will not preclude his inclusion in inter- national teams next summer. ·
FAILED LAST YEAR Billington failed to be ranked last year; this year he comes in at the bottom. If doubles were in- cluded in the estimate he could not fail to be near the top.
As it is he is too low down. No. 12 does not do justice to his hand, his head or his heart.
championship.
AN HONOUR Miss Nuthall returns to the list, and Miss Scott, Miss R. Thomas, Miss Hoahing and Mrs. McKelvie
are newcomers.
The new definition is: "A tied match is one in which the scores are equal when time has been reached and only if the match has been played out, or if the side to bat last has commenced that innings."
There is an addition stating that in a one-day match a tie can only apply to the first innings result of the match has not been carried to a further con- clusion.
A POOR RETURN! Kay Rohrer was the only one to register any hits and her two-base
P. F. Choy bet-C. S. Chung clout should have not with a ter fate, but for interference from H. Quon the spectators.
Columbia
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Herbert Quon, the Chinese pitcher, Scores by innings: 1 2 3 4 5 7 Runs 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 Hits 2 0 1 0 0 0 0-3 Miss Hoahing, by the way, is the struck out eight batters, but his Chinese first Chinese girl to be included, pitching was wild at times while the but as she was born and educated rest of the team were on their usual in this country and has made her mettle. home here, the precedent is justi- fliably created..`
Rüns 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Hits 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 HONG KONG ALL STARS
LOIS TERRY SHINES In the second game
the Girls, Paulino
C. Waggoner
It may be that Mrs. Ellis, who with Lois Terry pitching, had E. Hearther D. Leonard was formerly Senorita Lizana, and things very much their own way.
She made even David. Leonard K. Nazarin is now, through her marriage to a
A. P. Pereira Scotsman, a British subject, will look easy, varing her deliveries very A. V. Gosano
cleverly.
Amper soon be admitted.
For the local team, David H. Wing Lee Leonard and Hearther outstanding players and
The classification is:
were the
between
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double-plays of the afternoon.
R. H. E.
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HOLLYWOOD STARLETTES
Wanda Macha Melita Forster:
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Cox. 1 Jerry.
The game was called off after the Lois Roberts fifth inning owing to bad light. Gabby Young
COLUMBIA PICTURES
Kay Rohrer Stonebreaker Kay Shinen Ede Richards Bobby Borchers Dot Israel Dot Shiner Rolly Halapoff Skipper Book
N. Lum W. Ching E. Wong T.: Chan C, H. Lo 3. Wong.
ALL CHINESE
0 0 0 Aneta Carlucci
0 Lois Terry
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Score by innings: Hong Kong
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Hollywood Stars
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Runs 0 0 0·00—0 Hita 01201-1
Runs 0 8 0 0 0–3 Hits 0-2 0.0 0-2
Sir Julien Cahn's team will play nine R. H. E. matches in New Zealand, one against 1:0] All New Zealand. The tour opens in
0 Auckland on February 11:
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North Brighton ground (owned by
0 the N.S.W. Association) will provide 0 for five matches each day in the coun-
try week. Wickets are in rare order.
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