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MOST BRILLIANT CHAMPION THE COLONY HAS EVER HAD K.W. Choy Outplays Wong In Every Department

Chelliah's Plucky Exhibition

By "Adrem"

ANTICIPATIONS OF A RECORD) CROWD FOR THE FIRST SERIES OF COLONY BADMINTON FINALS WERE REALISED AND KOWLOON CRIC- KET CLUB LAST NIGHT WAS PACKED TO CA- PACITY, IT BEING OFFICIALLY ESTIMATED THAT OVER 350 PEOPLE WERE PRESENT.

As is fitting, the matches last night produced a much higher standard than hitherto and although the main match of the evening, which had attract- ed the crowd, was to a certain extent disappointing, there were rallies which produced some of the most brilliant badminton ever seen in the Colony.

Choy Kok-wah, the University | undergraduate, is the new singles His arrival in Hong champion.

Kong this season has revealed badminton in a new light and

is

there is little doubt that he the most brilliant player ever to have held the title.

The women's doubles

inatch.

con.

I formed the impression that! Wong was nervous as he sistently

the hit

netcord or Imashed wide of the side||ncs but under no circumstances do I think he would have won Choy was his master in every phase of the game.

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Most Thrilling Match?

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BOWLS TEAMS

The following have been chosen to represent their respective clubs in the Lawn Bowls League on Saturday.

K.B.C.C.

Kowloon

"A" First Division Docks (Away) W. L. Walker. W. McNeill, S. Randle and A. Holland (Skip).

TO-DAY'S

TENNIS

Following is to-day's Tennis Championship programme:

OPEN DOUBLES

Semi-Final

Tsui Wai-pui and Tsul Yan-pui v G. W. Sewell and D. M. Mac- Dougall (Stand Court).

· Revised Fixtures

The big match between 5. A. Rum-

R. P. Phillips, H. White, J. G. Jahn tholders and Taul Wat-pui, axed originally for last Monday, will be play-

Meyer and A. J. Hall (Skip).

1. Sykes, J. C. Gill, A. Hyde Layed on Friday and G. H. Sherriff (Skip).

"B" First Division

Recrelo

"B" (Home):---V, C. Dixon, W. C. THE NEW SINGLES CHAMPION Hodder, H. Lockhart and R. Dun-

Mrs. Torrible

cun (Skip).

A. Morton, P. A. Peckham, D

Waterton and J. McKelvie played a hard-W hitting game featured by some (Skip).

E. Scard. G. W. Deacon, E. A. good recovery-work but Mrs. Zimmern was palpably nervous Atkins and L. Guy (Skip).

Third Division v Craigongower and her game suffered in conse- |

Fraser, Sir A quence. Nevertheless there were (Away); J. A.

Searle and H. some good rallies and interest was MacGregor, E V always maintained.

Nish (Skip).

W. M. Wilson, S. C. Walker, L. Jordan and K. C. Hamilton (Skip) W. H. Organ, C. E Langley, J S, Dinnen and G E. F Thompson | (Skip).

The final series will be played on Thursday, when the prizes will he distributed, and those intending to be present are advised to be in their seats before 8.30, when the programme is due to com- |

chances are there mence, or the al

will be no seats!

The second game of the junior singles match between Young and Chelliah was easily the most thrill- 10g of the evening. Young set very high standard in the first game which he took at 15- 9. In

although it did not go beyond two games, was much closer than the scores suggest and it was only their experience that enabled the Misses Silva and Xavier to beat

Mrs. the hard-hitting

Torrible and Mrs. Zimmern,

The junior singles was probab- ly the most thrilling match of the second he went on to 11 1 the evening and, considering Was a junior match, the standard was remarkably high. was expected to win but Chelliah had not been seen in a big match this season and no-one expected hum to put up such a really fine showing.

that

K. W.

RESULTS

H. Wong

OPEN SINGLES

Patrick Choy beat

JUNIOR DOUBLES

and A. L. Fisher

P. Wynter.Blyth beat C. C. Pereira and A. E. Xavier

JUNIOR SINGLES

it but it then appeared to me

he slackened somewhat. Chelliah Young, Staged a spectacular recovery and

slowly made up the leeway with (holder) 15-5, 15-8. Young in the later stages showing signs of uervousness and loss of touch. "Setting" at 13-all, with 16-11, 18--14 the house in a great state of ex- The junior doubles was a keen-citement, Cheniah secured ly-contested encounter and again game at 18-15.

inc

(Semi-Final)

T. S. Young beat D. Chellish 15-9, 15--18, 16-8.

WOMEN'S DOUBLES

Miss M. Silva and Miss M. A. Xavier

K.C.C.

KOWLOON TONG

Second Division V (Away): H. A. Castro, J. Tung. A. Madar and A. J. Kew (Skip).

J. N. N. MacKay, T, K. Lin, Wong and J. L. Stephens (Sk'p).

H. Gittins, M. S. Phoon, A. E. Castro and W. J. Howard (Skip).

Reserve: H. Y. Hsu.

K.C.C.

First Division V Civil Service C.C. (Away):-A. E. Perry, A. W. Smith, L. Jack and E, C. Fincher (Skip).

the sides were much better match- His efforts in the previous game ed than would be suggested by had evidently taken a lot out of Blyth were the better combina-him for Chelliah gave little opposi- beat Mrs. A. Zimmern and Mrs. D. Tor. N. J. Bebbington and T. A. Ma- the scores. Fisher and Wynter- tion in the third game and rible 15-7, 15-7. tion and made fewer mistakes. Young went out for game and set

Wong Off vorm

ut 158 and was never in any difficulty.

Better Balance

There is no gainsaying the fact that the belter man won the sing- les but how much cluser the Fisher and Wynter Blyth result would have been had Wong showed somewhat more balance been at the top of his form is than Pereira and Xavier and won malter for conjecture, although two closely-cuntested games for a it is possible that his game was straight games win. Xavier play- broken up by the all-court played some nice shots at the net and and terrific smash of his

Op-¡ positioned himself excellently but ponent.

Pereira's smashing. which has carried this pair to success hither to, was very inaccurate last night.

It was this smash of Choy that really governed the match, although the University player, us in no other match he has play- ed in locally thus far, showed uncanny accuracy with his short game. He also easily matched Wong in the matter of disguise of direction, which it was thought, might enable Wong to keep Choy on the wrong foot and thus offset the latter's smash.

Choy's physical make-up plays a big part in his success. can drive and smash as

Wong

accur-

utely, and with as much force as the next player, but except for a few isolated occasions yester- day, Choy, with a couple of strides, was across the court with such speed that he had any amount of time to work out the direc- tion and possible effect of his next stroke.

Wong was playing a locing game almost all the time but I did admire the way he con tinually changed his tactics in an effort to stop the rot.

He started off. serving conven- tionally, clearing to as near the baseline as possible. Choy, how- ever, merely coiled himself like a huge spring and unleashed smash after › smash for which Wong had no answer. AJ NEM The Chinese "Y" player then concentrated on the short ser vice, with an occasionally clearing shot to his opponent's backhand. Unless that clearing shot was 100 per cent, accurate, however, Choy smashed and killed, and

when it was accurate, he had little digiculty in clearing in the effort Jess, manner at which he is so

Good Combination

The fine all-round game of Miss Silva and the splendid courtcraft of both players, enabled the Re-| creio combination to win the wo- men's doubles title. Miss Xavier was at her best when playing the short gume and both girls" covered each other very well.

PATH OF

By BEST BALL

The clubhead which travels low along the ground in the Impact area is thereby allow- ed a good margin for error. By this is meant that it may contact the ball at any point within a fair portion of its swinging are and still turn in a swell job. Such a swing is of course favoured over the stroke which requires impact at an exact spot in the swing- ing arc. The latter method gives little leeway for mis- takes, typical of strokes start- ed back by wrist roll, Harry Vardon was seldom off the fairway (some say never) during the years he was building up his great golfing record, His swing travelled low along the line of fight for the space of a foot on both.

adept on the, backhand...the up-stroke and down, en-

When he was meeting with most success, in the second game when he drew up from 4-0 to 478Wong was playing-drops. all

hancing his chances of hitting the ball properly.

• This type of hitting is ini-

the time and although he wontiated in the low to the.

Reveral points, it was during this merlod that Choy showed his abil- ify to play the short game every bit as accurately,

ground method by which the club is taken back. This is accomplished by pushing the club back with the left hand,

MIDDLESEX SKATING CARNIVAL

Middlesex Regiment are holding for the first time in the history of the Garrison a skating Carnival at theKowloon Skating Rink, Nathan Road at 7 pm, on Thursday.

The programine consists of the following events:-

Inter-Coy. Hockey competition for which eight teams have enter- ed.

Open events of Four and Eight Inps (open. to the Colony).

Inter-Coy. Races and other events.

Arrangements are in the hands! of R.S.M. Challis.

CLUBHEAD

GRAPHIC GOLE

Li

LET LEFTHAND PUSH CLUB STRAIGHT BACK FROM BALL

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In co-ordination with the body. tuin, so “ that it hugs the ground for the first foot or so of the journey upward?

Next ArticlePunch" And,

Precision

A. E. P. Guest, W. W. Parsons,

dar (Skip).

Geo. Lee, G. E. Taylor, A. W. Ramsey and J. Fraser (Skip).

Segond Division V Kowloon (Home):-R. S. Capell, F. A. Fa- bel, V. C. Labrum and T. W. Carr

(Skip).

T. R. Hunter, E. C. Curtis, J. M. Jack and R. S. Meadows (Skip).

A. C. Tribble, A. H. Martin, R. Leigh and A. Steven (Skip).

P.R.C.

First Division V Indian R.C. (Away):- G. Perkine

A. E. Carey and E. G. Post (Skip).

A. Soutar. H. Brown, W. Hardy and W. Mair (Skip).

W. McLeod, W. Harris, W. Dali and J. Shepherd (Skip),

Third Division V Indian R.C. (Home):--C. Gough, R. C. Fitches, A. J. Johnson and F. Channing (Skip).

J. Hayward, J. S. Riddell, J. R.

McWalter and A. Aitken (Skip).

W. Howell, G. Davies, J. Mc- Donald and J. Alexander (Skip) Reserves for both teams:-C Pile, C. Willcox, J. Hunter, W. Willerton, S. Smith and R. Mc-

Kenzie,

RECREIO

First Division "A" Y C.C.C. (Home); J. Luz, C. E. Marques, J. F. V. Ribeiro and C. G. Silva

(Skip).

L. F. Xavier, C. Roza Pereira, F. V. V. Ribeiro and F. X. Silva (Skip).

F. X. Soares, H. A. Alves, J. E. Noronha and R. F. Luz (Skip).

First Division "B" v K.B.G.C. (Away):-E, M. Silva, C. H.: Bas- to, J. C. Remedios and J. J. Basto (Skip).

D. C. Alves. F. A. Machado, Ed- die Sousa and B. Basto (Skip).

CVas, A. M. Xavier, A, M. Ro- drigues 'and A. P. Guterres (Skip). Second Division v H.K.0.0.

Following Are the revised tennis Extures for this week:

To-morrow

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP Semi-Final

Colony

R E Guest v M Pagh (Stand Court?

{་ {{ R Oxlade v F W Cartor (8).

CLUB HANDICAP DOUBLES

1. M S Lloyd and A. D Humphreys -3/6) v A. H Blake and H. C. D.

3/6) 141 Knight I

Friday

OPEN SINGLES Semi Final

5 A Rumjahn v Tsui Wal-pul (Stand Cota 1)

CLUB HANDICAP SINGLES

G W Sewell 4/6) v T. J. Gould (-13 2). (8)

CLUB HANDICAP MIXED DOUBLES Semi-Final

C. H. R. Oxlade and Miss Prichard 476) v J S Theobald and Mrs. Tor- betble 1--15) (4)

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Finals

The Final of the Open Singles will be played to-day week, and the doubles final on Friday

K.F.C. BOWLS TEAM

FOR TO-DAY

Following have been chosen to represent K.F.C. against the Kow Ioon Docks R,C. at Hunghom "to- | day, at 5.15 p.m. sharp:—

A. MacIntyre, C. Dowman, T. Fergusson and W. Simpson (Skip), A. Lapsley, V..Atienza, V. Chit- tenden and W. Field (Skip).

W. Nacf, A. Eastman, P. Young- husband and E. Kern (Skip).

FRIENDLY LAWN

BOWLS

Following have been chosen to represent Kowloon Cricket Club in a friendly Lawn Bowls, game against Volunteer Sergeants on Sunday at 3.15 p.m.

A. E. Perry, R. T. Burch, AW. Smith and E. C. Fincher (Skip).

A. E. P. Guest, A. H. Martin, W. W. Parsons and T: A. Madar (Skip).

Carey and V. C. Labrum (Skip).

G. Bowden, H. Langley, A, E,

R. S. Capell, E. C. Curtis, AJ. Kew and J. Fraser (Skip).

T. R. Hunter, S. A. Gray, R. Leigh and R. 5. Meadows (Skip).

(Home):~E L. Barros, F. X. Mon- WOMEN WHO WANT.

telro, C. M: S. Alves and O. P. Re- medios (Skip).sr

A. J. Osmund, A. V. Barros, Fred A. Xavier and J. R. Soares

(Skip).

TO STAY SLIM

bowL

can do so by learning t

Bowling furnishes just

J. D. Remedios, F. J. A. Mar-enough exercise for office worker ques, A. F. Noronha and J. A. and home-makers. And it's cash Remedios (Skip),

to learn! We'll give you all the Third Divisiony H.K.C.d. Instruction you need. Try It (Away)--G, A. Pinns, F. H. Car to-day. valhog M., F. “Pinna -and “R</A/ Yvanovich (Skip).

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HONG KONG

F.Sequeira, J. O. Ramedios, H. - BOWLING ALLEYS

M. Xavier and M A. Carvalho (Skip)

BL.A. Rozario, E. A. S. Alves?M. | Mendonce and M. Alarcon