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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 3, 1940.

SPORTS PARADE

that he is, he preferred, to adopt the a crowd that will rank with the larg unspectacular methods which alone est ever seen at a Colony tennis final. could have brought him the success he so richly deserved.

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season for THE cricket

1939/40 should conclude to-morrow, pro- vided that the weather proves kind

| formidable aggregation sulled for Sai- gon to return the visit Soccer payed by that port to these shores earlier in the sea-

son. In addition to that series, in |Hong Kong, we have sent teams both to Shanghai and Manila, and the sea- son just concluding must be ranked as historic.

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now apparent and the season will

and I.R.C. and Police don't do any-SWIMMING activity at most clubs is thing so inconsiderate as to draw! be in full swing before very much

In a last desperate endeavour to get

longer. Without the the match over before lawn bowls

IT is not often that the overworked sports scribes of Hong Kong have anything over which to wax enthusias- tie; when an upset such as that on Wednesday occurs in the tennis world, It calls for something more Tennis than mere enthusiasm

but we'll leave that to the aforesaid sports scribes to attend to!

The taste of two months of the dreariest tennis in a tournament that

RUMJAHN'S win on Wednesday has has been growing more dreary each

opened up interesting possibilities year, can now be said to have been for this afternoon. The Tsui bogey removed from the mouth, for we have has been laid; a Tsui-and the better takes complete command of the Swimming incentive of an Inter- had something for which we have Tsui-has been beaten. With this grounds, the teams will meet at 'Soo- been hoping for years, but not ex-comforting knowledge behind them;

kunpoo-the only ground pecting a cut and dried tennis cham- when they enter Stand Court this Cricket available. It might seem pion being dethroned.

afternoon, the Rumjahns can be, ex- This does not sound too complimen-pected to face the outcome with far tary to Tsui but I would assure him more confidence. In the doubles game that all this exuberance is not the also, the physical factor does not enter result of the individual being ousted | into the picture quite so much. from his eminence, but rather to faith On the other hand, Tsui Wai-pui, being restored in the possibility of smarting from his first defeat in a Co- such an event happening.

lony tournament for at least five years,

port--which was', a possibility almost up to the time the team was due to sail last year—it is an unsatisfactory arrange-problematical as to whether the same keenness will be forthcoming this ment from the Police point of view

summer. but actually there was nothing else

Sufficient indication of enthusiasm for it and L.R.C. were probably the

was forthcoming during the 1939 more eager of the two teams to play

championships, however, as to indicate on a neutral ground.

a growth in popularity and, with the If no decision is reached, I cannot enterprising committee now in office see how a further match can possibly at Victoria Recreation Club, still the I notice that several contemporar-will be all out to redeem himself. But be played, as even in the unlikely

Colony's swimming leaders, and ies have enlarged on the shortcomings again the psychological element en- eventuality of a ground being secur- increased activity among the Chinese of Tsui to the exclusion of adequate ters into the scheme of things. Tsui's ed for the following Saturday, I can-clubs, there is no reason why this sea- praise for Rumjahn. A hackneyed game was completely broken up on not see the lawn bowls authorities let- expression says that a man only, plays | Wednesday-how far his confidence ting their players off for cricket in- as well as he is allowed. And that, I has gone in addition remains to be definitely now that the League is think, sums up the Tsui enigma. Had seen.

started. Rumjahn pursued the same methods In any event to-day's match should

MOST of the Colony's leading schools on Wednesday as he did against his provide a herculian struggle and

have now in YET another Interport football team cousin, I don't suppose he would have | strict contrast to

the poor paying has sallied forth in quest of sports meetings and in normal circum- taken a set, but, hardened campaigner | crowds hitherto, I venture to predict' further honours. On Tuesday a

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