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TOURNEY

FITTING

INTERESTING

P.K. Hooi Takes Honours With Two Major Titles

Miss Khoo Plays Game Of Life

By "Adrem"

Badminton in Hong Kong reached hitherto unattained heights at Kowloon Cricket Club last night, when a crowd every bit as large as that pre- sent on Tuesday, watched the concluding series of matches in the Colony championships.

Newcomer Choy Kok-wah might have taken the most coveted title the senior singles cham- pionship-but the palm goes to the popular P. K. Hooi, who, with Miss Khoo, won the mixed title, and in partnership with H. F. Chew, the men's doubles crown. Hooi did not take part in the tournament last year, but for the previous two sea- sons he achieved the coveted feat of winning all three major titles.

In previous badminton pro- | several times without result, they grammes in the course of the went on to 4-1 and then won the tournament just concluded, there game and set when Hooi caught have been very good matches in-Choy off balance with a clearing terspersed with very bad ones service that left him standing,

Last night, matches were all first-class en- tertainment

while the

three! however, the

value.

Deadly Smash

men's doubles produced a stan- Choy was easily the best man

dard in some of the rallies which inust have been, as Hon. Mr. T. E. Pearce remarked luter, bordering on first-class.

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RESULTS AT

A GLANCE

MIXED DOUBLES

P. K. Hool and Miss U. Khoo beat K. W. Choy and Mrs. Cas. tro, 15—12, 15-9.

JUNIOR SINGLES

T. 5. Young boat A. L. Fisher, 12--15, 15-9, 15—12

SENIOR DOUBLES

P. K. Hoor and H. F. Chew beat K, W. Choy And K. B. 15-7, 11-15, 18-14.

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Dour Match

The junior singles was a dour 10 08 affair with neither player giving | 10.12 an inch. Sound methods were 10 16 pursued rather than the brilliant 10.20 and consequently the rallies were never spectacular but throughout the three games, one man was always fighting against great odds | 10.32 and this maintained interest.

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At 11-6 uce, Young looked certain to take the game but Fisher staged a magni- ficent rally and, playing fine de- fensive badminton In which he was content to win points Young's errors. he made up the defeit to go out at 15-12.

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on the court but there were occa- sions when I thought he was as- sumung too much of the play. His smash was invariably deadly and his short game accurate but his That Choy did not meet with much-busted backhand drive much success is in no way a re-down the sideline did not register a fast shuttle in the second game flection on his skill or fighting once. capabilities. At various perinds]

in both matches he very nearly! Low's positional work was also beat the opposition off his ownot all that it should have been racket, but whereas his terrible but he played very well indeed. smash and powerful clearing shole are so deadly in the singles game, at doubles they can be countered and, with two such fine combina. tiona as Hooi and Mis Khoo, and Hooi au Chew, countered they

were.

Difficult To Report

اد

Fisher had some difficulty with

and Young had secured a useful to 20 lead before he had it changed,

With Young at 11-3. it ap- peared to me that Fisher was prepared to concede the game and throw all his reserves into a big effort to take the dcolder.

He was rarely caught with anything that it was possible to get to and he more than match. ed Chew with his drops. I pars When Young made a series of ticularly liked his smash, as errors, however, Fisher evidently although it was not spectacular, changed his mind and he contest- was well-placed and very ed every point bitterly and made crisp.

up a great deal of arrears before Young won the game,

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TO-DAY'S TENNIS

Following is to-day's Tennis Championship programme:

It is difficult to put into cold Hooi was sound in every depart- words

report

the

With the K.C.C. player at 94 men's ment except service and it was his doubles match which wound up inaccuracy with his service that in the Bnal game it all appeared the evening; the "bird" flashing nearly cost the match. His court- to be over but once again came a from side to side of the net and craft was excellent, while over-rally from Young, who played brilliant shot being countered head he was decisive,

some daring shots to emerge a de- with equal brilliancy. At times

Chew played some of the most serving winner. E the excitement rearbed such a subtle shots of the four but he was pitch that speriaturs - the staides! į inclined to overdo his angled į of them could scarce forebear drops, failing with these quite as the season were presented by Mrs.chard

cheer before the rally was many times as he scored.

to

finished.

In the dest game, with Low showing some signs et nervous- ness, Hool and Chew won at 15--7 although they had to fight hard; for every point. In the second game, Choy played brilliantly and he and Low levelled the issues by

His stroke-equipment is very complete and on his form in his last two matches he is probably the finest doubles player in the Colony.

With Miss Khoo playing The

winning at 15—11 affør a great game of her life and, on occasions struggle in which their opponents even standing up to Choy's smash.

tried hard

gomes.

to score in straight

In the final ganie, Low struck his best form, playing some bril- liant shots at the net and smash- ing accurately for outright points, When Choy and Low led 9-2 and lster 11-3 it all appeared to be over, but Hool and Chew then re vealed their fighting capabilities and slowly crept up.

At this stage the terrific of- fort he had been called upon to make in both his matches was beginning to have some effect on Choy, who made errors that hitherto he had not been seen to *make, and slowly the opposition crept up, eventually to "seft" at 13.

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Miss Khoo and Hool were at all times superior to Choy and Mrs. Castro, although the latter pair had quite a long lead in the early part of the first game.

Mrs. Castro had an unhappy match and appeared to be nervous

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At the conclusion of the pro- gramme of matches the prizes for

T. E. Pearce.

OPEN SINGLES Semi-Final

S. A. Rumjahn v Tsui Wai-puí (Stand Court).

CLUB HANDICAP MIXED DOUBLES Semi-Final

C. H. R. Oxlade and Miss Prit- (4/6) v J. S. Theobald and Mrs. Torrible (-15) (4).

GRAPHIC GOLE

ARC OF CLUBHEAD

IN FULL IRON SHOT

TRAVELS LOW PARALLEL TO GROUND NEAR BALL

Path Of Stroke

3.28

By BEST BALL

The actual arc of Bobby Jones club head are is illustra- ted above as revealed by the Natur- split second camera.

ally it is pretty hard for the average player to visualise the path of his own stroke but following, as well as possible, such a pattern, as that shown above, will have a beneficial effect. Naturally everyone cannot make his backstroke so the clubhead complete that

will reach the low point, be- low the horizontal, shown here but some effort can be made to maintain its width.

This means

that the club must be pushed back with an extended left arm, and

the greatest value of this method les in the hitting area within eighteen inches of the ball. It is at this point in the down- the clubhead swing that should pursue a path close to the ground and parallel to it, so that contacting the ball in this area at any point, will result in a well hit shot.

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