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LEAGUE TABLES & FORM GUIDE

COVERING the eaglish and Scottish Football Leagues indicates

OVERING the last five League matches, this guide to current

venue, opponent and result, with the most recent result on the extreme right column, i.e. (a18) indicates that the team played away to Team No. 18.

1

2

Arsenal

Aston Villa 3 Birmingham 4. Blackpool

5. Bolton

6 Brentford 7 Charlton

8: Chelsea

10

9 Derby

Everton

11 Grimsby

12

Huddersfield

13 Leeds 14. Leicester 15 Liverpool 16 Manchester U. 17 Middlesbro' 18 Portsmouth

19 - Preston

20

21

Stoke

Sunderland

22 Wolves

1 Blackburn

2 Bradford

3

Barnley

4 Bury

5 Chesterfield

FIRST DIVISION

(a19) 1-2 (h b) 3–1 (a13) 2—4 (h15) 2-0 (a14) 2-0 (a14) 1-1 (h 3) 5-1 (a16) 1–1 (h20) 3—1′ (a 8) 1—2 (h11) 1–1 (a 2) 1-5 (h22) 3-2 (a10) 2-4 (h12) 1—1 (h19) 2-1 (a 7) 1-3 (á 8) 1-1 (h 5) 0-0 (a13) 0-1 (h12) 3-2 (a 1) 13 (h 0) 1–1 ổn 4) Q0 th ) 21 (a 8) 3-1 (h`7) 1~0 (a 5) 1-1 (h13) 0-1 (a15) 0-1 (h18), 3-3 (a 6) 0-1 (h 4) 3–1 (a 9) 1–3 (h11) 3—1 (016) 1-1 (h 8) 0–1 (a19) 1-4 (h 7) 3-1 (a 5) 1–2

(a 9) 1-0 (h11) 5-1 (h 4) 1-1 (a21) 2-3 (h 2) 21 (a13) 2—1 (h14) 4–0 (a17) 4—4 (h 3) 4–2 (16) 2-0 (n 3) 1-1 (h20) 2–1 (a 8) 1–5 (h19) 1–1 (a 71 (h10) 12 (18) 0-2 (h 1) 4–2 (a 6) 1–0 (4) 1-0 (h14) 1-1 (h18) 4—4 (a12) 1–1 (a 1) 02 ( 6) 1-0 (h 9) 1–1 (a21). 2—5 (h 2) 1–1 (a22) 0-3 (h10) 02

(a b) 2-3 (a14) 1-0 (h15) 1–1 (h17) 0–1 (a 3) 1-1

(a15) 1-1 (a10) 0-4 (h12) 0–1 (a18) 1–0 (h ́1) 0-2

(h21) 3-0 (n22) 1-6 (h10).4-4 (812) 1-0 (h18) 82

COLONY TENNIS,

LONG

DRAWN OUT TUSSLE UNDER TRYING CONDITIONS

(By "ADREM”)

.

were

Two men dazed with exhaustion staggering around the court playing their strokes by instinct, was the scene on the Stand Court yesterday at 6 o'clock, when Lim Thian-tet, former singles cham- pion of Perak, maintained his promise of earlier rounds and outlasted Teddy Fincher to win a mara- thon match by 8-6, 10-8.

Conditions yesterday (h13) 2-0 (a15) 4—4 (a21) 2—6-(h14) 0–1 (a17) 2-8 (h 1) 2–1 (a 0) 1—2 (h 9) 4—1 (all) 1—1 (21) 21 hardly ideal for tennis. In the (h 4) 1-1 (all) 1-2 (h21) 3–1 (a 2) 1—3 (h22) 5-3 (h16) 5-2 (a20) 1—2 (h18) 0–2 (h 8) 3–2 (a19) 1—2 long drawn out duel that this (a15) 2—0 (h17) 6—1, (a 3) 2—3 (h16) 3–0 (a20) 3—5 match proved to be, the must have been killing. The rface SECOND DIVISION

of the court looked perfect it (n18) 3-4 (a 6) 1—0 (h 8) 2—0 (h13) 3-2 (a11) 2-2 had rolled out beautifully after (a14) 1-4 (hil) 0-1,(a 3) 0~0_(h18) 0-0 (a16) 2-3) (h10) 2-0 (a 4) 0–1 (h 2) 0–0 (a17) 0—4 (h 5) 1-2 the rain-but it was very greasy. found difficulty in (813) 1-1 (h 3) 1–0 (a21) 0-0 (h12),2—3 (a 8) 1-2 Both players (16) 3-0 (814) 0-0 (h15) 1-0 (20) 2-2 (a 3) 2-1 recovering, the ball skidded off (h20) 1-0 (a 5) 0-3 (h 1) 0-1 (a10) 0-0 (h 9) in a disconcerting manner and a (a16) 1-2 (h14) 1-2 (a13).1—1 (h11) 1–1 (a21) 0–3

(b17) 6-3 (h19) 3—~0 (u 1) 0–2 (a22) 1-0 (h 4) 2-1 slice was most difficult to pick up.

Lasts Better

Manchester C. (h21) 3-3 (a18) 3-2 (a10) 1-3 (h16) 2–1 (a 6) 1–0

6

Coventry

7. Fulham

8. Luton

9

10

Millwall

11

Newcastle

12

Norwich

13

Notts F.

14

Plymouth

15 Sheffield U.

10 Southampton..

17

Swansea

18

Tottenham

19 Tranmere

20 Wednesday

21

West Brom.

22 West Ham

Bristol C.

Aldershot

2

Bournemouth.

3

Brighton

4

5 Bristol R.

.6 Cardiff

7 Clapton

8

Crystal P.

9: Exeter

10 'Ipswich

11

Mansfield

12 Newport

13 Northampton.

14- Notts C

15 Port Vale

16 Queen's P.R.

17 Reading

Southend

18

19

Swindon

-20 Torquay 21 Walsall 22 Watford

1 Accrington

2 Barnsley

3 Barrow

4

Bradford C.

5 Carlisle

6. Chester

7 Crewe

8 Darlington

9 Doncaster

-10. Gateshead

11 Halifax

12 Hartlepools

13 Hull

14 Lincoln

-18 New Brighto

16: Oldham

17

Rochdale

18. Rotherham

19 Southport

-20 Stockport

-21 Wrexham

22 York

Aberdeen 2Albion

Arbroath 4 Ayr

"Celtic Clyde 157 Falkirk

8 Hamilton

9: Hearts

10 Hibernian

-11' Kilmarnock 12 Motherwell ∙18 ́Partick'

14 Queen O'S.

· 15 - Queen's Pa

167 Raith.

17 Rangers

(a16) 1-1 (h 9) 3-1 (h 6) 0-0 (a13) 0-3 (h22) 0-2

Strangely enough, it was Fincher, (a 2) 1-0 (h20) 2−−1 (a12) 1–1 (a 7) 1-1 (h 1) 2-2 (a10) 0-6 (h22) 2-6 (h11) 1–1 (a 4) 3-2 (h20) 2-2 despite the weight he had to carry, who (h 4) 11 (a17) 0-1 (h 7) 1–1 (a 1). 2—3 (h10) 3-0 appeared the fitter at the end of the

He utterly refused to (h 2) 4-1 (a 7) 2—1 (h 5) 0–0 (a19) 0–2 (h22) 0-0 match.

ro-

(h 9) 1-0 (a20) 0—1 (h17) 1-2 (a 5) 0-1 (h19) 2-0 cognise the advance of years. He went (h 7) 2-1 (a19) 1–1 (h10) 1–1 (a 9) 1-2 (h 2) 3–2 chasing up after drop-shots, dashing (a 8) 36 (h13) 1-0 (a15) 2-1 (h 3) 4-0 (18) 0-3] across to cut off drives and storming (a11) 1-0 (a22) 2—0 (h 9) 2–3 (a2) 0–0 (h17) 3—the net with all the dash of his heyday. (a21) 0-2 (h1G) 1–1 (a 8) 0-3 (h14) 2-0 (a15) 0—2) Realising that he would never beat (h15) 1-0 (all) 1—2 (h21) 2-1 (h 5) 0~0 (a12) 2-2 Fincher if he allowed him to stay at (h19) 2-0 (a 9) 3—8 (h 4) 0-0 (a20) 1—2 (h 7) 3—0o the net, and it soon became evident (h18), 0–2 (a12) 6—2.(h 8) 0–1 (a14) 0–0 (a10) 2-0 that his ground strokes were not pow- erful enough to produce passing shots, with sufficient regularity, Lim concen-

THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH)

and Fincher was beaten time again with some absolutely perfect Jobs which the state of the court made impossible to recover.

RESULTS AT A GLANCE

Open Singles

Lim Thiam-tet beat E. C. Fin- cher 8-6, 10-8 (Second Round).

I, M. A. Razack beat Luk Chun- cheong 2-6, 6-3, 7–5 (Third Round).

Tsui Wai-pui beat Wong Shui- wing 6-3, 6-2 (Third Round)..

Open Doubles

Major F. C. Nottingham and Capt. R. B. Lecky received a w/o from Lieut.-Col. L. A. Newnham and Major F. T. Baines (Second. Round).

"Club Handicap Singles

H. J. Armstrong (-15) bat R. M. M. King (+Ï.6), 6—–—0, 6–3 (First Round).

L. M. S. Lloyd (-1.6) beat N. L. Evans (scr.) 6–3, 6–2 (First Round).

Club Handicap Doubles

E. Laidlaw and A. C. Beck (scr.) beat T. E. and J. L. C. Pearce (+3,0) 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 (First Round).

Club Mixed Doubles T. J. Gould and Mrs. Whyte- Smith (26) beat Mr. and Mrs. E. J. R. Mitchell (-2,6) 6-2, 6-3.

attack with which he

succeeded

in

(a17) 0-5 (h21) 3—3 (all) 0-1 (h16) 2~0 (a18) 1-2trated on a campaign of lobbing which for a time, broke up his opponent's (h13) 3-1 (h15) 1-1 (a12) 2-2 (h 7) 0–0 (h 5) 5-2; (h 8) 0-0 (013) 4—1 (h12) 0–0 (a 7) 0~2 (120) 2—0 game. (a.5) 1-1 (h11) 2-0 (a16) 1-3 (h18) 1-0 (a 9) 1--1 (a12) 0-2 (h_7)11~0 (a20) 2-2 (h19) 5–0 (a 2) 2-5 (h13) 2-0 (a19) 1~4 (h15) 2—4 (a22) 0–1 (h 8): 0-1 (a18) 0-1 (h17) 1-2 (a 5) 0—1 (h 3) 2-0 (a 2) 0–0

The result was, he was caught in two (a 3) 0-0 (h16) 0-1 (a18) 1-3 (h 9) 3–2 (a 6) 1–0 minds. On several occasions, I noticed (12) 3-1 (a15) 2-3 (h22) 1-3 (a 8), 2–3 (h 4) 1-him move in for a net attack, only to (h14) 0-2 (a20) 1—1 (h19) 3–1 (a15) 0-0 (h22) 5-1 change his mind at the last moment (a 4) 0-2 (h20) 4–0 (h 1) 1—0 (14) 1-1 (h13) 1-1 and be caught in "No Man's Land." (a 9) 1-3 (h 5) 2-0 (a 3) 0–0 (h 2) 2–2 (a21) 1—1 There he was at the mercy of the stemming the tide. (a10) 2-0 (h-2) 0–1 (a21) 3—3 (h11) 1-1 (a16) 1-0 fine-length drives that Lim produced with the score at 3-1 in favour of (h 9) 3-2 (a 6) 4—2 (a 2) 1—1 (h10) 0 0 (a17) 1-2 at will and was forced into defensive (h20) 1—1 (a 8) 1—0 (h 4) 3—1 (a 1) 0–2 (h14) 0–1 (h 1) 5-0 (a 7) 2-1 (h20) 3—5 (a19) 2-4 (h15) 2——–1 (h 7) 1-0 (c22) 0–3 (h 8) 3–1 (a 4) 0-1 (h 1) 2-1 (all) 1-1 (h 6) 4—1 (a10) 1-3 (ħ17), 4–2 (a 5) 0—5 (h10) 11 (all) 0-4 (17) 5—3 (h 5) 2-2 (a 3) 0-2 (h15) 40 (a 1) 3-3 (h14) 3-3 (a13) 1-4 (h12) 1-1 (a 2) 1-1 (h18) 3-0 (a 9) 3-1 (h 6) 1-0 (a10) 1-5

THIRD DIVISION (NORTH)

(a 6) 0-2 (h 3) 1—4. (a 2) 1-3 (h21) 4-1 (all) 1-)

half-volleys when not beaten outright.

Lim, while being easily one of the most promising newcomers to. the local tournament for Luany years, is not likely, on his showing of yesterday, to get any further than the semi-final.

2

I

Lim, a dour struggle took place with Fincher, emerging successful after long series of dences were called but. Lim won the next game for 4-2, match-winning lead at that period thought everybody.

2

Fine Recovery. He has all the strokes, and, as Fincher then played some of the fin- remarked earlier, a splendid knowledge est tennis of the match. Hitherto of the game. His service is one of the beaten consistently by his opponent's finest weapons of attack I have seen drop-shot, he started to match drop with drop with a great deal more ac- for a long time.

curacy than Lim.

Not Enough

(h'7) 2-1 (a 5) 4-6 (h 8), 8-0 (a12) 1-2 (h10) 1- (h19) 3-1 (a 7) 0-0 (h5) 3–0 (a 8) 1–0 (h12) 2—0 (a21) 0-3 (h22) 2-0 (a17) 2–2 (a 9) 1-1 (h19) 4-0 (a21) 1-1 (h 9) 2-1 (a17) 1-1 (h 7) 4-1 (h18) 5-2

At about the same time, Lim's ser- (16) 1-6 (h 1) 6-4 (a 2) 0-3 (h16) 2—0 (a11) 1–5]~

He undoubtedly has a very dour vice, with which he had been scoring (h 5) 6-1 (a22) 2–2 (h17) 0-0 (818) 0-2 (h 9) 0-4

up considerably (h 2) 0-0 (a16) 0-3 (h11) 2-2 (a 4) 1–4 (15) 2-1 fighting spirit but I am afraid he will consistently, slowed (a14) 0-3 (h20) 4-3 (a 1) 0-6 (h 2) 0-1 (a16) 0-2 want more than that against either the and Fincher was standing right up to them and playing them almost on the (h11) 0-0 (a15) 6-3 (a 4) 1-2 (h 3) 1-1 (a 6) 4–0 Tsuis or the Rumfahns.

(a 4).1--1 (h13) 2-2 (a14) 0–1 (h20) 4–1 (a 1) 1-1, It was a game of fluctuating for half-volley for winners,

The scores were levelled at 4-all, The (h18) 1-1 (a 9) 0-0 (h19) 1-1 (a 7) 2–2 (h 6) 5-1 tunes. There was little brilliance in (a18) 1-4 (h14) 2–1 (a20) 0–5 (h 1) 2–1 (a 2) 0-2) the first set. Fincher won the first lead alternated until Lim levelled at (a10) 2-2 (h18) 0-2 (h21) 1-1 (a22) 0-1 (h17) 3-3 two games but when Lim settled down, 8-all after saving numerous set-points At and, with Fincher now utterly exhaust, (h 8) 3-1 (a18)-0-0 (h10) 1–0 (421) 0-1 (h22) 3—8 there was never very much in it. (h17) 8-1 (all) 0-0 (h 9) 3—6 (819) 1-1 (h 7) I-216—–—5 in his favour, Fincher had a set ed and unable to move for anything after not on his racket, the young Chinese (b.9) 0-0 (a19) 0-0 (h 7). 3—0. (a 5) 0—2 (h.8) 2—0point but was pulled back and (a15) 1-3 (h3) 2-2 (a 6) 0–0 (h ̊4) 1~~1′ (a18) 3-3 more grim battling, Lim's consistency emerged a deserving winner. (all) 1-1 (h15) 0-0 (813) 2-0 (h 6) 2-0 (a 4) 2-5 m all departments finally carried him Lim was pulled up, quite rightly. I thought, by Capt. Whitmarsh, a base- (a 2) 1-3 (h16) 0–0 (all) 1-1 (h15) 1-1 (a 3) 0-4 through.

(h 5) 3-0 (a 8) 3—4 (h12) 5–0 (a10) 1—4 (h21) 2–11 It appeared at the outset of the sec-line Judge. He is very apt to drag his (a 6) 2-4 (h.4) 1-1 (a13) 1-1 (h14) 1~0 (a20) 1—2 ond set that Fincher had shot his bolt, (h15) 2~0 (a-3) 0—2 (h⋅6) 2—2 (h13) 1-0 (a14) 3-3 He dropped the first two games with

out winning a point. SCOTTISH LEAGUE (FIRST DIVISION)

18:- St. Johnstone-

19 St. Mirram 20 Third LaHEN

(a18) 0-1 (h·9) 4—3 (a ́6) 1—1 (à 8) 0—1 (h15) 2-1 (a15) 2-1 (h⋅8) 5—0 (a17) 0—5, (a14) 3–3 (a 9) 0—2 (h12) 2-0 (h:7) 1—2 (a20) 0-3 (a10) 1-1 (h19) (10) 3-2 a13) 8—2 (h 5) 1-4 (h12) 6–1 (a18) 1- (h.8) 8-1 (h18) 3-1 (a20) 2—0 (a:.4) 4-1 (h·7) (814) 2-3 (h·1) 1-1 (h16) 2-3 (à16) 2-0. (17) (18) 1-1 (a 8) 2–1 (h10) 1–1 (a÷5):2-1 (b20) 4- (a14) 0-3 (h16) 1-3: (a 2) 0-5 (h 1) 1-0 (hi1) (1) 8-4 (h15) 8—3 (h14) 1-2 (a17) 1—1 (h 2) (h 4) 2-3 (hi8) 1—2 (a, 7) 1—1 (h 3) 1–1 (a18) (a18) &4 (á17) 2-2 (h14) 1—–1 (a16) 8—2 (x 8) (19) 472-1a 3) 0–2 (619) 2-1 (h18) 4–8 (24) (a 5)-1-8=(h 4) 2–8 (a12) 3-4 (a19) 4–1 (h10) 4– (h.8) 80 (b 6) 3-2 (a11) 1—1 (a) 9) 2–1 (h) (82) 1–42 (= 9) 3-8 (a 6) 8-2 (a 1) 1-2 (h16) (*.8) 8—1 th17) 022 (h11) 2—3 (1 6)-0~2(a1)

(a) 114(10) 2-1 (h19) 6-2 (812)-1-2 (K18) 2–5 (118)

In the third game, he launched

net

right foot over the line before striking the ball. He would do well to watch this fault as he was obviously upset by these decisions."

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