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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 21, 1941.

GRIM

STRUGGLE 0. UMETANI AND

NO DECISION REACHED AFTER 90 MINUTES

By "Adrem"

Two matches were played in the Colony tennis tournament at Hong Kong Cricket Club yesterday but only one was finished the Rumjahn cousins, holders of the doubles title, receiving little opposi- and M. Pagh tion from Lee Ming and Kenneth Lo- and O. Umetani being unable to reach a decision after a gruelling struggle which lasted almost an hour and a half.

I

From a point of view of lengthy the Rumjalins, although Lo ve- ralties and determination by bottepensımallyępulled out a nice fore- men. the match between Pagh, hand drive. who won the Club chama-

pionship Just year. and Ume-TO-DAY'S FIXTURES tani will probably not be

surpassed

OPEN DOUBLES

W. C. Hung and E. C. Fincher Wer

T. Chau (5).

Chung and S

TSUL Yan par and Tsui Wai.pul V

R.

at any stage of the tournament. Umetani was the bet- ter player, in that he was fully equipped to play every stroke, but Tagh's fluent forehand drive and

accurate placements on the back- |J. hand. combined with judicious Jobbing enabled him to hold his

own.

Umetani won the

first set at

B

E. Guest and B. C. Fay (8).