1939-02-11 — Page 20

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 11, 1939

McHugh, Malaya's wing-forward, is tackled five yard from the Navy's goal line by Stevens during last Tuesday's Rugby match in the Club ground which the Malaya team won by 17 points to 6. Others in the picture (L. to R.) are Lt. Elliot, Lt. Talbot, Mackenzie, and Romans. ("China Mail" photo). '

Australian Davis Cup Team

BRITISH TENNIS TEAM IN S. AFRICA Wimbledon

Rain Interferes

With Match

Pretoria, (By Air Mail). After the British lawn tennis team had gained a lead of two matches to nil in the fourth match of their tour here against Northern Transvaal, play

had to be abandoned owing to heavy | Shayes and D. W. Butler had won the rain.

first set at 6-1, and their opponents, Miss J, Saunders beat South Africa's] L. Van Winkel and D. Breetzke, were twelfth ranking player, Mrs. E. M'La-leading 4-3 in the second when rain chlin,_by_7-5, 6-3, and E. J. Filby began to fall, and play was abandoned. beat H. Camp by 64, 1-6, 6-2.

Prior to this the British team had In the third match, a doubles, R. A. lost two of their first three matches.

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To Be Missed This Year

Melbourne, (By Air Mail). None of the Australian lawn tennis players who will play in the American Zone of the Davis Cup competition will be allowed to compete in the Wimbledon Championships this year. This was decided at a meeting of the Australian Lawn Tennis Associa- tion.

It was contended that competing. at Wimbledon involved a departure from Australia two months earlier and that the players would have too much tennis, and be stale for their Davis Cup matches.

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This was not the view of H. C. Hopman, manager of the last Aus- tralian Davis Cup team, which reached the Challenge Round last year. In his report to the Austra lian L.T.A. he advised their.com- peting at Wimbledon, as it would give them more match play before the Challenge Round.

The Australian. Davis Cup team did not compete at Wimbledon last уваг.

Surprise Defeat Of Boussus

Paris, (By Air Mail).-Chris- tian Boussus, France's second- ranked lawn tennis player, was surprisingly beaten 7-5, 3-6, 8-6, 6-4 in the men's singles quarter-finals here by the Amtteri- can player, Frank Bowden, who has beaten Jean Borotra, Sidney Wood, and Karl Schroeder.

Henner Henkel the German Davis Cup player, who beat Paul Féret (France), 6-4, 6-4, 6-3; and Róde- rich Menzel, the former Czecho Slovakian Davis Cup player, who heat P. Roux (France), 6-3, 6-3, 6-4, also enter the semi-finals.

Miss Gracyn Wheeler, of América, 'beat Mme. P. Lebailly (Fràncé), :8-10, 8-6, 6-1, in a wo- men's single quarter-final match. Miss Wheeler and Henner Henkel beat Mile. P. Mellerio and R. Des- sair (France), 13-11, 6-3, in a mix÷ ed doubles semi-final,