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LAWN TENNIS

THE CHINA

VAIL, JULY 4, 1989. HOPES

BRITAIN'S CHIEF BEATEN AT WIMBLEDON

H.W. Austin And Mrs. Little Give Poor Displays

MISS STAMMERS GOING STRONG

London, To-day. It was a bad day for Great Britain at Wim- bledon yesterday, all leading players, both men and women, being now eliminated with the exception of Miss Kay Stammers and Miss M. Hardwick from the singles event.

Greatest setback to British hopes was the crushing defeat of H. W. "Bunny" Austin at the hands of E. Cooke, of United States. Austin was a shadow of his former self and although he revealed occasional flashes of brilliance, notably with his passing shots, generally his timing was poor.

In the women's singles, Mrs. Dorothy Round Little, former hold- er of the title, was beaten by Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan, of United States.

Mrs. Little was over-driving and netting and generally played very budly in the first_set_but rallied strongly in the second. Her efforts

in this set took too much out of her, however, and tired in the third set, she proved an easy victim to the aggressive American.

MEN'S SINGLES Quarter-Finals:-H. Henkel (Ger- many) beat Kukuljevic (Yugo-Slavia) 6-1, 6-3, 6-2.

Puncec beat Eugene Smith (U.S.) | 6-0, 6-2, 6-2.

KAY STAMMERS

R. Riggs (U.S.) beat Ghaus Mo- LAWN BOWLS hammed (India) 6-2, 6-2, 6-2. (G.B.) 6-3, 6-0, 0-1

E. Cooke (U.S.) beat H. W. Austin

MEN'S DOUBLES Third Round:-C. E. Hare and F.

Wilde (G.B.) beat Edwards and Mor- ton 6-1, 6-3, 6-3.

P. Hughes and E. Billington (G.B.) beat Gabory and Szigeti (Hungary). Miss Peggy Scriven fell a victim 16-2, 4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. to Madame Jedrejowska,

WOMEN'S SINGLES

of Po- Fourth Round:-Mrs, Sarah Palfrey land, whose powerful driving prov-Fabyan (U.S.) beat Mrs. Dorothy ed too much for her.

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Other two British woman to fall by the wayside were Miss Margot Lumb, who was beaten by Miss Helen Jacobs, and Miss Valerie Scott who was eliminated by Ma- dame Mathiou, of France.

Only bright spot as far as Bri- tain was concerned was the fine form of the left-handed Miss Kay Stammers, who saved the day by beating Mlle. Henrotin of France in straight sets.

The draw for the last eight in the women's singles was made in the evening and resulted as fol- lows:-

Miss H. Jacobs (U.S.) v Miss

Stammers (G.B.)

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Madame Mathieu (France)

Mrs. Fabyan (U.S.)

+

V

Miss Hardwick (G.B.) v Mrs.

Sperling (Denmark)

Madame Jedzrejowska (Poland)

v Miss Marble (U.S.)

Round Little (G.B.) 6-1, 3–6, 6–2,

A.R. MINU AND

HOOSEN IN

GRIM STRUGGLE

Several interesting games were Miss Peggy Scriven (G.B.) 63, 62.

Mlle. Jedrejowska (Poland) beat seen yesterday in the Third Round Madame Mathieu (France) beat Miss of the Open Pairs, Lawn Bowls Valerie Scott (G.B.) 63, 4—6, 6—2.

Championship.

Miss Helen Jacobs (U.8.) beat Miss Margot Lumb 6-2, 7-5.

Miss Kay Stammers (G.B.) beat Mile. Henrotin (France) 7-5, 6-2.

Miss M. Hardwicke (G.B.) beat Mrs. Macpherson-Grant (G.B.) 6-4, 8–6. Halff (France) 6-1, 6-1.

Miss Alice Marble (U.S.) beat Mile. Mrs. Sperling (Denmark) beat Miss Peggy Saunders (G.B.) 6-2, 6-4.

MIXED "DOUBLES Donald McNeill (G.B.) and Miss Kay Stammers (G.B.) beat H. Henkel (Germany) and Miss Gracyn Wheeler (U.S.) 6-4, 6-3.

WOMEN'S DOUBLES Billie Yorke (G.B.)

Miss Helen Jacobs (U.S.) and Miss beat Mlle. Cou- querque and Mlle. Pannetier (France) 6—1, 6———4—Reuter.

TO-DAY OPEN

In the men's singles, Puncec, of PAIRS MATCHES

Yugo-Slavia, scored a surprisingly

easy victory over Eugene Smith, the young Californian sschoolmaster

The following is to-day's programme who elminated two "seeded" play-in the Third Round of Open Pair Bowls ers in his path to the quarter-finals, championship.

Following is the draw for the men's singles semi-finals:

Puncec

H. Henkel

v E. Cooke

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v R. Riggs

-Reuter.

WHAT FUN!

At Kowloon F.C.

and J. Gibson beat A. S. Russell At Club de Recreio, W. V. Field

and G. Cooper by 28 shots to 13, but in spite of the difference in the score the game was intereating. Russell and Cooper were leading by 13-10 on the 16th head but did not score thereafter while the win- ners included two fours in the re- maining heads.

Leading by 10-4 at the seventh head J Hoosen and A. R. Minu conceded a single and a five in the next heads to O. P. Remedios and E. de Souza to be square

on the ninth head. At the 14th head the pairs were again on level terms with the score at 14 all, and at the 17th, the Portuguese pair had taken the lead at 18--16 but failed to score on the remaining heads, the Indian Recreation Club pair eventually winning by three shots of yesterday's games:

The following were the results

At Club de Recreio J. Gibson and W. V. Field beat A. T. E. Robson and H. Nish v. K. M. S. Russell and H. G. Cooper by 23 Omar and U. M. Omar.

shots to 13.

At Kowloon Bowling Green Club L. C. R. Souza and C. S. Rosselet v. P. Remedios and E. Souza by 21 shots J. Hoosen and A. R. Minu beat O. W. Glendinning and W. Mair.

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At Kowloon C.C. H. A. Alves and F. V. V. Ribeiro beat A. Calman and J. C. Brown by 23 shots to 14

At Hong Kong Football Club JC. Remedios and C. C. Pereira beat W. McLeod and W. S. Dall 2312. At Civil Service Cricket Club J. C. Chalmers and W. Melrose beat A. E. F. Castro and V. N. "Atienza 24-18.

was, no doubt that in a couple of sea- sons time they will be worthy mem- "bers of any side, Dignan especially has the speed and quickness in the fuptake to become a fine

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ARMY

SPORTLIGHT

(By "SQUADDY")

ON Friday afternoon I went to

Shamshuipo to witness the foot- ball match which I mentioned in my, notes last week, between the Corpor- als Mess. of the Middlesex Regiment and the Corporals Mess, of R.A.S.C.

As anticipated the match was played very keenly, and although at the final whistle the score was four to nil in favour of the R.A.S.C.. side the game was quite an interesting affair with the "Diehards" fully extending their opponents at times.

Middlesex included Freshwater, the Interporter, in their side and he play- ed a big part in holding the side to- gether when all seemed lost. In the second stanza he moved from centre half to centre forward in an effort to break through the resolute Service Corps defence, but was unsuccessful.

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Cpl. "Mud" Harvey, who was chief- ly responsible for arranging the fix- ture, played a hero's part at right back for the Mids. His streamlined dome could be seen in the thick of the fray whenever the goal was threaten- ed and he came out of the game, per- spiring profusely, but happy!

Grady (the Middlesex welterweight)

The pugilistic activities of Cpl. Me- in goal had little significance to the Service Corps forwards who gave him a trying afternoon, However, he made many fine saves and was not to past him. blame for any of the shots that got

An unfortunate injury to his brother L/C. McGrady who was appearing at outside left, during the pecially as he had proved himself second half weakened the team, es- dangerous raider beforehand.

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"Gunner" Perry and "Buster" Seton, the two inside men, tried hard, but the "Ration Boy's defence proved too good for them.

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Corps played extremely well as team and though they might be blamed by some for not having obtained more goals, I do not think that it was real- ly their fault as the conditions were very bad for football owng to the ter- rific heat. The two wingers "Gingor" Glen and "Catgut" Martin were very fast and received ample support from the inside forwards "Mank" Hills and Young while Havercroft did his stuff in the centre.

A discovery was made in Mattison the goalkeeper who gave an exception- ally promising display and has caused

debate in the Service Corps ranks as to whom is the best keeper they have. Even Big Ben, Benford forgot" to miskick in this game and played a great part in the victory!

As I have said before, these games are great from the sporting point of fact that there were only two fouls, view and this was emphasised by the both unintentional, throughout the game, and the referee had a very easy

time.

Others to whom tribute should be paid for the organisation of the match o Cpl. Sheehan of the Mids. who McPherson who ran the line for the provided the "refreshments, and L/C. service Corps in place of "Can't take ft" Mann,

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