1940-04-26 — Page 23

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 26, 1940.

TENNIS

Sirdar's

"Fire" Carries

Him Through Against "H.D."

Badminton Season's

ALTHOUGH

Conclusion

By "ADREM”

It was a great pity that Hui, owing "B" to impending examinations, could not see his way to defending his titles, as hercullan struggles hetween he and Wong would have been worth going

there are still some matches to be played in Division in order to settle the runners- up position, the badminton season closed officially on Wednesday even- ing with Presentation Night at Kow- loon Cricket Club.

As Rev. J. R. Higgs said the season has been a difficult one owing to the calls of volunteer duties and various other reasons connected with a Colony whose mother-country is at war. Nevertheless the Leagues were brought to a satisfactory conclusion, thanks to club secretaries, who made every ef- fort to catch up on their fixtures when these fell behind.

a long way to see.

W. Gillies, of St. Andrew's, proved his worth in the Junior Championship and, provided he maintains his present rate of improvement, his fine stamina should make him a formidable pro- position in the senior championship next season.

In

The crowds at Club de Recreio and

record-IN K.C.C. for the finals were breaking and it must be particularly

satisfying for Mr. S. A. Gray, the Hon. Secretary of the Association, who was one of the local pioneers of the game, to note the ever-growing interest.

No Upsets

sets.

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THE Leagues provided no glaring up

Chinese "Y" made a great effort to secure premier honours but they will not gainsay the fact that University definitely proved them- selves the better team. The under- graduates, however, were unable to retain their mixed doubles title, al- though, having regard to the circums- tances, they did very well to finish second to Recreio, who were easily the best balanced side in the competition. At the beginning of the season it was anticipated that "B" Division would provide a thrilling struggle between about four teams. With the arrival of Henry Eardley from Shang- hai, however, St. John's received just the stiffening they needed and there- after had little difficulty in finishing at the top of the table, losing only one match to St. Andrew's through poor pairing of their players.

King's College proved a very sport- ing team and started off very con- vincingly but a lack of balance cost them such matches as they lost.

Special mention must be made of St.

Andrew's, who at the outset could not

win a match but later improved to

such an extent that few teams were

able to beat them.

후

你

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Wong Dominates

THE championships have been do- minated by Patrick H. Wong, who

achieved what P. K. Hul succeeded in doing in the two seasons prior to this one-namely winning all three major titles.

BOWLING ALLEY JOTTINGS

(Continued from Page 22) The individual scores werei-

MINDANAO

J. T. Shoshan ... 831 D. M. Keplinger - 408 J. W. Davie ........... 400 E. L. Embrson.. 455

V

1922

ROYAL SIGNALS J. H. Watts..... 500 H. Blounta ... 800 G. Birkatt

443

a. Somerville... 406

1840

The standard of play in this match, taking it as a whole, was remarkably good, there being no fewer than 14 scores of over 100 pins per gamé; eight being bagged by Min- danao and six by Royal Signals.

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Sheehan made four games of over 100, Just failing to make 100 In his fifth game. This player by the way top scored with 591 to his credit, or an average of 106 pins per game. Walts and Blount tied for sòcond highest score with. 500 or an average of 100 pina per game.***

Mindanao's average per man per game was, 96, while Royal, Bignals', was 98, so it can well be fine inéd÷How? close was the match;

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Conclusion

FINE RALLIES IN FOURTH SET

·(By “ADREM”)

IN ONE OF THE MOST stirring matches seen for many a long day, S. A. Rumjahn yesterday staved off the challenge of cousin H. D. in the semi-final of the Colony singles tennis championship and won at the fourth set, the scores being 6-0, 6-4, 4-6, 8-6.

achieve

In many respects this match was forced him back and placed him in a similar to the one last week, which vulnerable position. was abandoned with the score at two sets all. Again on this occasion, S. A. settled down quickly and attacked throughout the first two sets when he

could not be held.

Again H. D. took the third set and had a substantial lead in the fourth set, but this time S. A. was not let- ting his opportunity slip out of his hands and he pulled up from a deficit of 3-5, fought off

a couple of set

at

Such success as H.D. did therefore was secured by entirely ne- gative methods, namely, maintaining the rallies until S.A. made the mistake.

Some of the rallies were of great length, both men seeking out the corn- ers and maintaining streams of good- length drives.

Sirdar's success can be attributed to the "are" in his play that was lacking He pulled out many of his

in H.D.

concluding my badminton notes for this season, I cannot do better points in the ninth game, took the lead best shots from losing positions and than reiterate Rev. Higgs' tributes to at 6-5, lost two match points in the was working for points all the time. Mr. Gray and the officers of the Bad- 12th. game eventually to go out done so much to ensure the smooth minton Association, whose efforts have 8-8.

running of all the competitions and the increase of interest locally,

I would also express my thanks to club secretaries for the co-operation

That 9. A. recovered, the lost ground was due entirely to his own efforts and not to any lapse on the part of H. D.

Indeed the tennis in the closing

they have always given in sending in stages of this set, although both men scores and enabling such records as

were obviously in the last stages of were kept to be maintained reason-exhaustion, was some of the best of ably up to date.

the match. Both men drew on some unsuspected source of energy and con-. tested every point bitterly:

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AREA SPORTS TO-DAY

Owing to the bad state of the ground following the rainstorm of Wednesday night, the Area Sports Athletic Meeting, which was to have been concluded yesterday afternoon, was postponed and will be continued to-day.

Annual meeting of Victoria Recreation Club will be held in the clubhouse at 8 p.m.

this evening.

His courtcraft was also much better and the use of his recently-acquired drop-shot and his surprise cross-court drive frequently caught H.D. 'on the wrong foot.

INTEREST NEVER LACKING - If at times the machine-like accur→

acy of both player made the exchanges

somewhat dull, interest was always matched men, who were never in posi- held by the gallantry of two equally

tion to disregard their physical limita- 'tions.

TO-DAY'S MATCH

On Stand Court of Hong Kong Cricket Club this afternoon, M. Pagh will meet B. C. Fay in the final of the Club championship.

FIGHTING QUALITIES Although sufficient credit cannot be given to S.A., easily the better man on the day's showing, tribute must be paid to the sterling fighting qualities of H.D. The latter, although he was steady enough, was not as sure of himself as he was on the previous oc- casion. At no stage could he produce strokes to beat his cousin outright. K.M.A. Barnett beat K. Weiss In a When he adopted his favourite form Colony Chess Championship Tourna- of attack and went into the net, ment game played at the Gloucester S.A.'s accurate lobbing invariably. Hotel yesterday evening.

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