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OUR TENNIS CHAMPIONS:

HONG KONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 29th,

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*NOTES ON THE SEMI-

FINALISTS.

UNSUALLY HIGH STANDARD.

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This year's tennis tournament under the auspices of the Hong Kong Cricket Club has proved of exceptional interest. The semi- final stage has been reached and the following notes on the players left in the open singles and doubles Championships of the Colony will interest all local exponents of the

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Four players remain Open Singles Championship of the Colony, viz. Ng Sza Kwong, H. D. Kamjabo, T. Honda and S. A Rumjahn. There is little doubt that from the form the semi- finalists as shown during the cur- rent tournament that they are the pick of the 54 who originally com peted in this event. The semi Enal matches, which will be played next week, are expected to be the best fer many years and it is extremely difficult to forecase which two will qualify for the Enal.

NG SZE KWONG,

WOMAN AND HER LOVER.

REMARKABLE CONFESSIONS.

Nrw Yong

To-day.

Jumble Sale (H.K. Benevolent Society), City Hall, 2.30 p.m.

H.K.C.C. Tennis Touraninent Full confessions were chained (details in sports column daily). from Mrs. Ruth Snyder and Heory Ten Dances: H.K. Hotel, Hotel Gray of plotting and executing one Savor. King Edward Hotel and of the most cold-blooded and re-Cate Parisien, 4.30 p.m. morseless murders in the history of Dioner dance, Cafe Parisien, 8 this country, with Mr. Albert Snyder, art editor of

a local magazine, as the victim

The confessions disclose that Mrs.

Sayder and her Inver Gray talked over plans to get rid of Mr. Snyder three weeks, previously, arranged details by mail and telephone, and planned what they considered to be perfect alibis to establish their innocence. Mrs. Snyder, in nati- cipation of her husband's death, increased his life insurance recently from £4,000 to £3,000.

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Service Men's Concert "Cheer " ¿Y.M.C.A.

II.K. Dance Club carnival and fancy dress dance, Lane, Craw ford's Cafe, 3.30 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: Three."

The Unholy

World Theatre: "The Freshman. Star Theatre: "Big Brother." Lee Theatre: Professor Harry Pisler (Occult Science Performance, etc.), 15 p.m.

Principal Mails:-Outward: Anstralia, etc. (Arafuro), 2:30 p.m.j Europe via Siberia (Srechten), 5; p.m.

Saturday.

Macao Race and Recreation Club Athletic Meeting.

Final: Football Lai Wab Civilians (holders) s. Army, H.K. F.C.

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Gray, who is the same age as Mra Snyder-just past 30-wears that the woman threatened to tell her husband and Gray's wife of their illicit relations unless he consented to help her to get rid of her bus band, whose only admitted fault was that he liked to stay at home at night and resented his wife's penchant for gay cocktail parties. When Mr. Snyder retired to bed eatly on Sunday morning "Mrs. Ng Sze Kwong has the biggest Sayder, according to statements reputation of the four players, made, stale downstairs, opened the He has been Singles Champion of door to her lover, and, sitting over (details in sports column daily). the Chinese Recreation Club for a bottle of whiskey, the two plan-

Quarry Bay Cup competition, ! over a decade, Singles Champion ned the final details of Mr. Sayder's of the Colony for six consecutive destruction. While her daughter Volunteer Headquarters, 3:30 p.m.

Hockey Wanderers r. 5/2 Fun- years (1919-1923), Doubles Champion slept peacefully in an adjoining jabis, 4.30 p.m. of the Colony (with Wong Po bed-roomZ Mr Snyder watched Tennis League:Division "A": Keung) for three consecutive years Gray chloroform Mr.

Sayder, H.K.C.C

0.0.0. U.S.R.C. v M.B.K.; Division "B": and with Wei Wing Lock for two strike him on the head with a win-

He bas, besides, repre dow.sash weight, and tighten pie-.0.0.2.

H.K.C.C.; M.B.E.. sented Hong Kong in Interport ture wire about his neck. Gray U.S.I.C.; Club de Recreio v. Matches and China in the Far swears that Mrs. Snyder helped to Nippon Eastern Olympic Games. His ex bind her dead husband's hands and perience is a decided advantage feet. and he is out to regain the title he lost to Honda in 1924 It will be interesting to see whether he will be successful this time.

years.

H. D. RUMJAEN.

H. D. Rumjahn meets him in the semi-final. H. D. Rumjahn is the youngest of the four. He won the Open Doubles, in 1924 when he partnered his cousin, O. Rumjaha, who is now figuring prominently in Tientsin. He was champion of the Indian Recreation Club in 1994. He reaches the semi-final for the second time in his career and has shown a great improvement on his last year's form. A remarkably cool player, he volleys with graco His wrist work is, and accuracy. perhaps, the best in the Colony.

T. HONDA,

T. Honda is by reputation the cleverest of the four. In 1924 when he won the Championship be was the first man for six consecutive years to beat Ng Sae Kwong. Capt. O'Callaghan beat him the following year and last season he recovered the championship after

close match in the dual with 5. A. Rumjaha whom he nices in the semi-final this time. He bus lost two other matches only since be cqme tere in 1093, one to 0, Rumjaha and the other to H. Snodgrass, both exbibition matches. B. A. RUMJAHN.

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SA Rumjahn, the fourth, has ahowa .consistent form since he joined the tournament 1921. He a good all round player and aggresive, though at time reckless,

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Macao Race and Recreation Club Athletic Meeting.

S.C.AA. annual sports meeting, H.K.F.C. ground, Happy Valley.

St. John's Social Gathering, Cathedral Hall,- € p.m.

Principal Mails-Inward: Canada, U.S.A., etc (President Linenit). Monday.

H.K.C.C. Tennis. Tournament (details in sports column daily).

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, Hotel Savoy, King Edward Hotel, and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m.

Combined dinner and concert of Mounted Infantry and Armoured Car Companies, Volunteer Head- quarters, B p.

He has been the lending light of something for the recreation of the P

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Dinner Dance, Cafe Parisien; #

Royal Engineers' and Royal Corps of Signals dance R.E.

bolder of the Singlca Championship developed, and the Kowloon Dock Theatre Wellington Barracks, 8.30 of the Indian Recreation Club, United Services Club is to open on Many of his supporters have con- Sunday for the use of the Forces P Principal Maile-Outward: fidence that he will beat Honda this time, but much depends upon bis The bathing matshed is to be Europe vid Biberia (Suwa Maru), form on the day of the match.

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Yew Man Teun and Yew Man since a Japanese pair entered the Kit appear in the first semi-final semi-final.

As a pair, they combine very well I, M. Razack and J. A. CasṣUID- and are expected to give a good bhay are the youngest players of account of themselves against the four surviving pair. They beat Honda and Akiyama. It should the Fincher brothers in a very su not beyond their ability to win, prising manner in the third round, They catered together in 1924 when but are not expected to do the they gave the Lo brothers a close saame trick against their club mates,

H. D. and S. A. Rumjahn. run in the second round.

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