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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28,

In the World of Sports

TENNIS STARS AT WIMBLEDON

CHAMPIONSHIPS OPEN IN SUNNY WEATHER

CHINESE PLAYER WINS: AUSTIN EXTENDED BY

HUNGARIAN

QUEEN JUNE 27 (REUTER)

MARY WIMBLEDON, ARRIVED AT THE LAWN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS AT WIM- BLEDON JUST IN TIME, TO SEE THE GERMAN PLAYER, RODERICH MENZEL, BEAT ERIC PETERS, OF GREAT BRI- TAIN, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2, IN THE FIRST ROUND.

The Champlonships opened in sunny weather, but the sky became overcast later.

The Chinese player, Choy, beat Egan (Ireland) 5-7, 1-6, 6-4, 6-2. 6-3. Choy was under form in the early stages of the game and was Ilstless in his play. He began to volley effectively in the third set, when he led 5-1.

The Irishman became ragged in the closing stages of this two-hour duel.

AUSTIN EXTENDED Austin eliminated the Hun- garlan Davis Cup player, Asbeth, showed

·6-1, 6-4, 12-10, Austin

that be was badly in need of match practice. Asbeth led 7-6 and 10-9 in the third set.

The American player, Riggs, who is favourite with Austin to! win the title, eliminated the In- diar player, Dhamija, 6-3, 6-0, 6-4, while Shayes (Great Britain) beat Nicolaides, the Greek Cam- bridge Blue, 3-6, 6-2, 7-5, 4-6, 6-2.

A SURPRISE

The Midlander, Mottram creat- ed a surprise by beating the Davis- Cup hope. Filby, 0-8. 6-3, 4-6, 6-1, 7-5.

Brugnon (France) beat the Bri- tish Davis Cup player, Wilde, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3, and wood Cooke, of America, beat Boussus (France) 1-6, 6-4, 6-0, 6-3.

LEAGUE TENNIS

"B" DIVISION RESULTS

Chinese R.C. Defeat Hongkong C.C.

Chinese Recreation Club scored

6-3 win over the Hongkong

WIMBLEDON SCORE BOARD

Men's Singles Drobny,. (Moravia) beat J. Ho (China) 6-1, 6-2, 6-4.

Menzel

beat Peters (Britain) 6-1, 6-2, 6-2. Choy (China) beat Egan (Ireland) 5-7, 1-6, 6-4, 6-2,6-3,

(Germany)

Austin (Britain) beat As- beth (Hungary) 6-1, 6-4, 12-10. Biggs (U.S.) beat Dhamija (India) 6-3, 6-0, 6-4.

Shayes (Britain) beat NI- colaides (Greece) 2-6, 6-2, 7-5, 4-6.6-2.

Mottram (Britain) beat Fil- by (Britain) 6-8, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1. 7-5,

TO-NIGHT'S BIG FIGHT

Cricket Club in the "B" Division Joe Louis Favoured

of the tennis, league at Causewar

Bay yesterday,feature of the game being the winning of all their three sets by D. C. Luk and C. C. Luk.

Scores:

To Beat Galento

SPORTS NOTES

AND VIEWS

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W. T. WANG'S SHOCK FOR CHINESE R.C.

THE

South China's Fine Feat

FIRST HALF OF THE YEAR 1939 has seen a fair number of real upsets in the local world! of sport, Sensation No. 1 up to Monday, June 26, being the win-1 ning of the senior cricket shield in April by Club. de Recreio. "babes" of the league, but the feat

WHICH WAS THE

BETTER, HALF?" Husband; and wife, Mr, and "Mrs. H Brooks, of Morecam¬ be, both holed their tea, shats. in one at the third while playing over Morecambe golf course 'during a recent week- end. The hole measures 165 yards.)

Mrs. Brooks played 'first, her drive landing on the green and rolling in. Mr. Brooks rasped, followed, and'. the same!

Olympics

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US. BASEBALL

RESULTS

NEW YORK, Jude 27 (Renter)———- The following are the results of matches played yesterday in the Major League:

AMERICAN LEAGUE

CORRESPONDENCE CRAIGENGOWER

Macao Jockey Club Sweeps

The Sports Editor, “Hongkong Daily Presa".

BOWLS SIDES

The following are Craigengower- Cricket Club's lawn bowls leagues teams for Saturday's matches:—

First Division: v. Club de Recreio '8” (Away) 4 pm

Bir The Macao Jockey Club. is JW. Leonard, H. M. Omar, A. E. running a

Special Dollar Cash Coates, B. W. Bradbury (skip); W. Breep for the coming meet at Penny. L. C. R. Bouza, J. 8 Lan- Macro,

dolt, M. Omar (skip); A. A.

I have been buying these sweeps Razack, W. Ward, A..M. Omar, R

Basa (skip). on and off for several years, and

Boston

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Battery: Grove and Desautels. Detroit

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Cleveland

2 11 1 Battery: Bridges and Tebbetts New York Philadelphia

one point that surges in my mind

2 * 1 3.4 1

Second Division: v. Kowloon F.C.

is the non-publication of unsold ¦ (Away) 4 p.m.-

„J. H. Xavier, D. A. Rozarið, H. W. tickets or the numbers of tickets not entered in the Draw. All the Randall, M. A. R. Souza (skip); L. Racing clubs in Hongkong print Gaddi, W. McNelli, E. Zimmern, C.

8. Rösselet (skip); A. J. Coelñó, Dr.. their results with numbers of un

N. P. Karanjia. T. Locke, W. K Way (skip).

CHINA TO SEND SPORTING FIXTURES sad tikets as a proof of their FOOTBALL TEAM

TO-DAY

of South China Athletic Associa- tion's "A" tennis team in beating the Chinese Recreation Club in the

honesty, which is also the right

Third Division: y. Hongkong of knowledge of all Cash Sweep Electrics (Away) 3.30 pm- senior league on Monday must

China bas decided to send a TENNIS-C Division, now take pride of place. Unbeaten

Kowloon buyers, and unless this printed Tong v. Gralgengower, Recreto list is given, punters will not Hamson, G. S. Ladd (skip); G. A. 8. R. Solina, W. Phelps, A. B. since 1932, the CR.C. as a clubfootball team to the 1940 World have become looked upon as the Olympic Games at Helsinki, a6- T. Central British, Radio Sports know whether they have invested Payne, F. Petersen. Dr. C. W. Lam, Rumjahn Cousins were for years çording to Dr. C. T. Wang, China's v. Chinese, South China v. In-their money rightly,

John Pau (skip); E. McNay, · E diaris. looked upon as a pair in the Open chief delegate at the recent con

I am of the opinion that the Kerrison, F. X. Delgado, A. E. S.. tournament-Just unbeatable. Since ference of the Olympic Committee

TO-MORROW

officials of the M.J.C. have left Alves (skip), 1931, when the Indian Recreation held in London, who arrived in TENNIS-D Division (1), Kowout this important phase of public. Club last won the title, the C.R.C. Hongkong from England by plane loon v. Kowloon Tong, YMCA. interest quits inadvertently, and Jockey Club that a list of these, is have 'walked away with if every on Monday afternoon

7. Indians B. Kowloon

Indians the sooner they have this incor- always available at the offices of year with a regularity that was

Dr. "Wans who headed the

v. Kowloon Dock; D Division porated the quicker will the sale the Club, in Gloucester Building, "becoming monotonous to other

(2). Chinese v. Recrelo Indians of their cash sweeps jump.'

land, anyone" who wishes may have clubs, and previous to Monday Chinese Olympic team to Berlin

A v. Radio Sports Club, Civil)

Yours, etc.

a copy of such list on request. there had been nothing indicate

Service. v. South China.

"Some Hope” We were yesterday handed a list that this year would prove any Chinese Ambassador to the United

The publication" of unsold of cancelled tickets on the last different. The

by States, said that the sending of WATER-POLO-Victoria Recrea performance

tion Club v. Chinese Bathing tickets does Hot seem to the to special Dollar Cash Sweep of the South China is therefore, not only soccer team was certain, but that

Club (V.R.C. 815 p.m.), Euro-serve any purpose. With regard Club, drawn on the Lam Chen in the nature of a first-class sen- it was unlikely that a basketball

pean YMCA. v. South China to cancelled tickets we are in- Handicap, run on Sunday, May 14. sation but is one of the most team squad will compete in the

(Y MCA. 8.15 p.m.).

formed by officials of the Macao 1939-Sports Ed., H.K.D.P. meritorious things done in local 1940 Games.

sport for the past decade.

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ONE HAS BUT TO look at the mes of the C.R.C. alde that was defeated to realise just, how creditable was South China's feat. Doing their Hosts the honour of not underrating them, the Cause- way Bay men turned out their strongest team-Taut Wal-pul (singles champion and co-holder with his brother of the doubles title). W. C. Hung." Tsu! Yun-pul singles runner-up and co-holder with his brother of the doubles title), Paul Hong, Lee Yue-wing and-Ho Ka-lau (doubles runners- up)-all' names' with which local net fans are thoroughly familiar. On the other side, although all the players "have figured in the local league for some years, only the names or Wang Wen-tsing and Szeto Bick are anything to conjure with.

BUT THESE TWO proved enough for the undoing of the champions, or, to be strictly fair, if invidious, Wang did. Seldom indeed can any player have dominated the courts in s league match as the latter dia in this encounter. There were oc- casions when Bick, his partner, was very erractic, but the ex- Shanghai player covered him so

NEW YORK, June 27 (Reuter)well that the pair swept every- Joe Louis, the World's Heavy-

thing before them Shanghai

P. T. Tsol and K. C. Ng (C.R.C) weight Champion, is a 6 to 1 Open Hardcourt Champion in 1925, beat E E. Storey and J. J. Fer-favourite to beat "Two-ton" Tony winner of the All-Comers, Tourna- guson 6-2, lost to B. O. M. Denne Galento.the Newark bar-tender.ment in Manila in 1928, when he and W. H. Jowett 3-8, beat 4 V. at the Yankee Stadium on Wed-beat Gavis in the final, and in the Whatman and B. C. Monaghan 6-4, nesday night for the defence of

şame ``year : winner of the PI doubles title in partnership with "C. C. Luk and D. C. Luk (CRC) the title. beat Storey and Fergusda 6-2, beat Galento is, however, confident the late Khoo Hol-hye, the pair not worried by Louis beating Zamora and Aragon in the Deane and Jowett 6-2, beat What- and s

threats to Bnish him of in one anal, Wang has been for the last man and Monaghan 6-4.

8. W. Liang and. F. H. Kwok round, like Max Schmeling, Jack two or three years in Szechuen. (C.R.C.) lost to storey and Ferru-oper and John Henry Lewis. He is here, I understand, on" a

Galento weights nearly holiday-cum-business

and son 4-8. lost to Deane and Jowett Tony

trip 2-6, beat Whatman and Monaghan 17 st.

from the point of view of South

6-3.

China, it is a thousand pities that ip is doubtful whether he will he here much longer. However, he has given his adopted club's light- ing chance of breaking the QR,C. | monopoly » "on" 'the senior tennis

league.

KOC, “B**TROUNCED

At Cox's Path, K.C.C. "B" were' at home to their chibmates K.C.C. "A" and lost by nine sets to nil

F. A Broadbridge and A. In Fisher (K.C.C. "B") lost to N. A. E. Mackay and D. J. N. Anderson 5-7, lost to P. Grose and. A. V. White 5-7, lost to W. M. Gittins: and B. Soltau 3-6,

SOUTH CHINA SOCCER TOUR

Draw, Win At Rangoon

THE FIRST OPEN

ALL

The South Chms soccer tourists CYCLING MEST to be held at drew with the all-Burma team at Caroline Hill Stadium on August 5

coring once..

L. Eymard and R. E. Lee (K.0.0. Rangoon list Bunday, each side and 7 is an enterprise that should

"B") lost to Mackay and Anderson

be grep every support Sponsored 2-6. lost to Gross and White 3-6, Chan Tak fal, centre forward, by Mr. P. C. Young, manager of lost to Gittins and Soltau 4-6.scored the tourists' goal

the Hongkong "branch of the Dun-

B. D. Lay" and "JR. Turner On Monday, the South Chins lop Rubber Company, and Fre (K.C.C. "B") lost to Mackay and men defeated the Rangoon Mart-sident of the Hongkong Cycling Anderson 2-6, lost to arose and time. Customs team by three goals Club, the meeting is aimed at White 2-6, lost to Gittins and to two There was a crowd of giving a further boost to the com- Boltau 2-6,

50,000 at the game, according to a paratively newly-developed - sport cable received. bere.

BRAUNSOUTH CHINA WIN

At King's Park, South China Athletic Association beat Kowloon

Indian Tennis Club by 7 sets to 2.

crelo beat the Civil Service C.C. by W. Lee and . H. Drew sets to 11.

LF. V. Ribeiro and A. M. Silva

of cycling.

Tickets for the meeting will

shortly be on sale at 31, 50 and 20 cents, being available for both days, and these may be had on

(8.0.A.A.) lost to 8. A. Hussain and Recreto) lost to I. Agafuroff and application to the Organiser. 8. 8. Hussain 1-6, beat M. 0. Hoo-B. Agafuron 2-8, beat W. J. Skin- The fact that proceeds will go to sén and A Rahmin: 6-1, beat F Khan and M, A. Khan 6-2. ner and F. B. Baxter 6-3, beat 8. the Society for the Protection of

F. N. Wong and H. K. Ho (8.0. A.A.) "beat Hussain and Hussain 7-5, best Hoosen and Rahmin 6-0, beat Khan and Khar 6-1.

Lee and WH Ho (8.0. A.A) lost to Hussain and Hussain 4-8, beat Hoosen and Rahmin 7-5, beat Khan and Khan 6-2.

C. Peck and J. Bicknell 6-3.

Children should act as an incentive to sales.

the Organiser Rubber Marina

G.A.. Noronha and M. A. Oliveira (Recreio) drew with Agafuroff and Entry forma are Agafuroff 6-8, beat Skinner and Baxter 6-2, beat Peck and Bicknell

AE. Xavier and H, F. Gonsalves British

(Recreio) beat⠀⠀ Agafuroff and Agafuron 6-0 beat Skinner! and Baxter 1-5, beat Peck and Bicknell

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