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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY. 6,

1934

CASSUMBHOY EXTENDED ALL THE WAY BY S. W. LIANG

TWO UNCOMFORTABLE

SETS IN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP OPENING

LIANG'S STOLID DEFENCE NEARLY WINS MATCH ··

NEW FIRST CLASS PLAYER. TO ADD COLOUR TO TOURNAMENT

PROMISE OF G.R.M. RICKETTS -

. (By "Veritas"),

After two very anxious sets, J. A. Cassumbhoy, last year's finalist in the open singles championship, yesterday survived the first round of the current tournament, beating S. W. Liang, prominent C. R. C. league player 7-5, 4-6, 6-2.

Cassumbhoy went very near to defeat, and the spectators lining the No. 9 court were very nearly treat- ed to a sensational first day's result.

Liang, playing stolid, but }

stylish tennis, went to

h 5-3,

lead in the first sut, only to the first round

lose grip when it appeared that

without the loss

of a game, a rare occurence in he had matters well in hand..he toni champlońskiya. Cassumbhoy produced some fero-

nine

G. Gamble gave Lieut. Hoare a cious driven in the subsequent good run for his muncy, worry- four games to break through the naval officer with a spen- did norvice which captured for and capture the set. There were several unusual fen-him the majority of his

Hoare tures about the match, chief of games in a couple of sets. which was the loss of services was steadier of the ground and corners with well in the opening stanza. It was not found the until the seventh game that a ser-directed drives on both hands to vico game was won, and Casaumb-win 8-6, 6-8. hoy did not win on his deliveries

until the 10th game.

: PLAYERS TO BLAME.

Harry Owen-Hughes did well to overcome Wong Fuk-nam In straight sets, and with the loan of but six games. The cricket For this, the players were en-Interport skipper made the utmost tirely to blame, Cassumbhoy In of his long reach and height at particular. The LR.C. exponent the net, and in this phase had one served powerfully enough to war too many tricks for Wong, rant a net attack, but he clung to the baseline and was often beaten by the speed of the return shot. Ho should have followed up to the net even after his second delivery,; which was good enough to open up a not attack.

One disappointment was the non-appearance of M, W. La, who is I understand, sick. At the time of writing it is not known whether he intends to go through with the champion- ship, or to concede a walk over In the first round.

RICKETTS THE FORMIDABLE

Cassumbhoy only became danger- ous to Liang when he rushed the net. From the baseline, the C.R.C. player was perfectly at ease, and

If he should scratch, it will producing a rhythmic backhand drive, and a heavily topped fore give G. R. M. Ricketts an almost hand, Invariably sustained the certain entry into the semi-final. rallies long enough to lure, Little has been heard of Ricketts. enssumbhoy into errors.

But when Cassumbloy approach ed the

was net he

fautless majority the

I myself have been rather ignorant of his prowess, although vague rumours have reached me.But I recently watched him in action, and there is no denying that he his points from this position. knows the game and is easily one Whilst taking into considera of the best stroke-equipped "play- tion that it was a first ouers in the Colony to-day.

and scored

on

of

ing in the tournament, it cannot fairly be claimed that Cassumbhoy played up to the standard of a finalist. He had difficulty in con- trolling his ground shots, this be- the ing especially noticeable backhand. His punishing forehand drives did not operate very suc cessfully until late in the first set, and then he suffered another inpse in the second, and had to wait until the fourth game in the final stanza

Yesterday I learnt that he met Tsul Wal-pul in Swatow lust summer and beat our No. 2 ranking player In two sets. His height is a tremendous Beset the net, and his ground strokes are extremely well produced, being both powerful and accurate,

ni

Even if Lo does decide to carry

before he could utilise his fore- on I think he will have a very

hand ground atrakea with degree of confidence.

taxk when ht meets any severe

Rickolis in the second round..

PATCHY CASSUMBHOY His display, in fact, was patchy, brightened mostly by sound volloy- ing in which he was aeldom at fault.

R. H. Wild made short work of A. Crawford, winning in straight sets, but as anticipated. the Horace Lo-In Tak-cheuk en- counter went the full distance, with Lo capturing the first set but losing the match. Iu's.com- Liang justified my prognoatiga-pincent and persistent sustaining tions offered last Saturday. He is of the rallien eventually broke a tremendously improved player, especially in defence, which at times down Lo. who played very enter

A back Prising tennis in the first act. suggested impregnability. hand drive, made with the fint The average standard of play racket, and therefore rather more in the various matches was, on the effective than his heavily topped whole quite fair, although some- forehand which offered no difleul-thing brighter can be expected ties, was a chief weapon of attack, this afternoon when W. A. H. and time and again it sought out Duff and Tapi, Yun-pui meet on

particu the mala court. Cassambhoy's wonknass,

larly in the second set.

AN OLD PROBLEM.

THE RUGBY INTERPORT - TRIAL-

IT 15 TO BE HOPED THAT HAMMETT WILL USE HIS BETTER NATURE WHEN TACKLING AT SHANGHAI.

THE CONVERTING BY THE TEAM WAS QUITE GOOD, AS

THE

BALL

WAS NEVER MORE THAN 50 YARDS AWAY FROM ITS

MARK.

-BY “ALTO”

HAD THE GAME LASTED JUST TEN MINUTES LONGER, WE FEEL CERTAIN THAT THE REF, WOULD HAVE BEEN

DISFIG

URED

FORS

'LIFE:

FECT

WHY DID THE TEAM LOSE? BECAUSE THEY DISREGARDED THE SPECTATORS WHISPERED

ADVICE

IF A FEW OF THE FORWARDS COULD TURN OUT LIKE THIS

WE FEEL SURE

THAT MOST OF OUR LOYAL SUPPORTERS, WOULD NOT BE FEELING LIKE THIS ABOUT THE FORTHCOMING CHAMPIONSHIP

F

Meeting in a rugby Interport' trial of Happy Valley last Saturday, the Probables were beaten by the Rest by 7 points to G. This is how our artist felt about the whole thing.

WHO PLAYS WHICH AND WHY?

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS.

Yesterday's results in detail

were:

R. H. Wild beat A. Craw ford 6-3, 6-3.

Ju Tak-cheuk beat H. Lo 4-6, 6-1, 6-3.

J. Barrow beat Henry Ung 6-0, 6-0,

G.

R, R. G. Hoare beat Gamble 8-6, 6-3,

H. Owen Hughes beat Wong Fuk-nam 6-2, 6-3,

I. M. A. Razack beat Ng Wai-lum 6-1, 6-1.

J. A. Cassumbhoy beat S. W. Linng 7-5, 4-6, G-2,

TO-DAY'S PROgramme.

:

The programme for to-day, which includes the W. A. Í. Duff_v_Taul_Yun-pui_tic,_is... n8..

follows:

P. K. Linng y Firdos Khan. A. E. P. Guest v H. B. Day.. D. C. Dunham v W. C. Hung, D. S. Green v Ng Kam Cheun. P.S. Cannou v H. J. Armstrong F. H. Kwok v A, L. Sullivan. Toul Yun Pui v W. A. H. Duff.

HOW OUR INTERPORTERS PLAYED

GAMES IN HANOI DESCRIBED

RECOVERY IN DOUBLES

Curious Error in Tennis Championship

WRONG COMPETITORS BRACKETED IN THE SECOND ROUND

(By "Veritas").

BIG CLASH IN SENIOR SHIELD

S. CHINA & ST. JOSEPH'S IN SEMI-FINAL

BORDERERS PROSPECTS. VERY. ROSY

ARTILLERY'S GOOD DRAW IN

JUNIOR TOURNEY

(By "Veritas").

Having evaded South China and St. Joseph's in the semi-final draw, the Borderers are almost certain to reach the last round of the Senior Shield, whilst their prospects of carrying off the trophy are distinctly rosy.

St. Joseph's and South China, whom many people considered would have figured in the final had they escaped each other in the next round, will be clashing on February 24 in what can expected to be one of the most thrilling games of the season.

for first place.

The Club's chances against the Borderers are very slight. They will be without Bickford, and pro-

It was mentioned in the letter that bably Skinner, thus losing two im-the following programmo had been portant men in both defence and drawn up:

attack.

Wednesday, Feb. 14, Shanghal v.

The Borderers will also be Hongkong. affected to the extent of Wallace Thursday, Feb. 15, Tlentain v. and Harria, who leave the Colony Shanghal.

Saturday, Feb. 17, · Hongkong ̈*. by the Neuralia during that week- end, but they will not be faced with Tientsin.

Sunday, Feb. 18, Combined. Inter the same difficulty in finding suit-port Tenma v. Combined Chinese of able substituten.

Shanghai.

The Club will be peculiarly placed, for to draw from the se cond eleven means robbing them of the chance of figuring in the Junior Shield Anal.

MY TIP.

The Royal Artillery have been favoured by the draw In

the

A VISIT TO MAČAO."

The Council gave the necessary permission to the Club,do Recreio to visit Macao during the holidays and play the Portuguese Colony on Wed- nesday, Feb. 14.

junior competition, and are a LEADERS LOSE FIRST fairly safe bet for the Bnal.

Readers will recollect that when the Shield tourney

started I

quietly tipped the Gunners to win it.

LEAGUE POINT

The Club, who have, with all Orpheus Held To Draw

dua respects, been somewhat lucky

to reach the last four, must face the Navy, holders of the Shield. A big proposition this.

From this distance I would name South China and the Bor- Shield and Navy and Artillery for the Junior, but the forecast is aubject to amendment in view of the team changes which appear to be inevitable.

Here is the complete draw:

SENIOR SHIELD.

Musing over the printed draw of the singles cham- derers for the final of the Senior pionship in the club house of the H.K.C.C. yesterday, I discovered a strange thing. The second round, as it stands to-day is completely wrong. All of the players, with the exception of the four who have drawn byes, have been incorrectly bracketed.

It was obvious, after closer (the Razack-Ng Wal-lam encounter, inspection, that the error lay and M. W. Lo, If he wins, should not in the draw, but in the oppage Ricketts if he survives-

CURIOUS POSITION. actual bracketing of the com- petitors in the second round. But the printed draw shows According to the printed draw Barrow receiving a bye into the three players third round, Owen Hughes and to-day, there are occupying the one bracket at the Cassumbhey in opposition, Ramck. Hoare top of the list, and three in the if he wins,-against Wild, one bracket at the bottom. Curious-ngainst Lo, if he wins, and ly enough, although at the bottom, Ricketts, if he gets through, op- the three players-C. A. Wright, posed to Iu-Tak-cheuk.

The position is a curious

one,

K. M. Wong and the winner of the Tam Yoc-fong v J. C. Haigh en-but everything points to the ne-

S. China v. St. Joseph's

(Club Ground).

Borderers v. Club

(Kowloon Ground)

By Pandora

SUBMARINE LEAGUE

FOOTBALL

Two matches were played during the week-end by the Orpheus, leaders of the Sub. marines Football League in the course of which they con- ceded their first point of the season, H.M.S. Pandora spring- ing a big surprise.

On Sunday the Orphous casily defeated the Osiris by four clear

These two matches will kick off goals, this making their sixth suc at.4.15 p.m.

JUNIOR SHIELD.

Club v. NAVY

(Kowloon Ground)

S. China "B" v. R. Artillery

(Club Ground).. These two matches will kick off

counter are actually bracketed, at sessity of a new draw sheet being at 2.15 p.m.

the other end, the draw allows J. printed with the bracketing

J. Barrow, who won his first round rected, otherwise

cor-

We get the

WONG MEE-SHUN SUSPENSION,

tie yesterday, to receive a bye In-anomalous position of a player During the meeting the chairman to the third round, there, apparent actually competing in the first read the minutes of the meeting of

one

CHARITY FOOTBALL.

.

cessive win of the season. The winners' score should havo boen much bigger, Osiris being no match for them.

Yesterday, Orpheus met the Pandora and were held to a draw of two goals each. The Pandora led by the odd goal until late in the second half, when the leaders snatched an equaliser.

FAILED TO APPEAR. Owing to a misunderstanding,

y to meet either. Tasi Wal-pul or round and drawing a bye in the the Appeals Board which considered the Pandora failed to put in an second, and three other players an appeal against the decision of the appearance at Causeway Bay on Chiu Chun-chiu.

What has happened is that the trying to fight for the one position. Council upholding a previous deci- Saturday when they were dug to Perhapa we, who are so often sion made by the Emergency Com-meet the Parthian in a league en- brackets have boon lowered

mittee. The Appeals Board upheld counter. It is not yet known player, so that the present draw the butt of sparkling wit, often the decision of the Council.

whether the points will be award- ed to the Parthlan, who, with the Ands the wrong players in opposi-can, without any hard feelings

point out that printer's errora are

referee, waited on the ground tion in the second round.

Barrow should be meeting Owen- not only to be found in news-

until 6.80.. Hughes, Cassumbhoy the winner of papers!

Playing on the Dockyard ground before a large number of specta- tors, the Submarine Spare Craw defeated H.M.S. Horald by five goals to two yesterday.

Rathor against the run of the of the revision of play, the Herald led by the odd

It was announced that a sum of $500 would be paid to the children's Playgrounds Committee profit from the recent clarity match at

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tournament matches with two de- set against Ho Ka-lau, but Im-ranged for the specific purpose. feats.

GAMES DESCRIBED.

proved later. His heavy too spin driyos made Ho play on the de-l fensive throughout the first two:

REVISION OF RULES.

The question

(By "Voritas"). Unfortunately, in the final edition of the Telegraph

Ho Ka-lay, the Hongkong capnets, but in the final set. Ho Ka- rules was mentioned and during the goal in three at half time, but in yesterday, I gave a false im- pression of the results of the tain, has submitted some interest lau adopted. a not attack with discussion Bir. FT James Bought the second half, the experience tennis matches played being notca to me on the matches at effect, and won fairly easily.

From here, Ho made very few tween the Hongkong trio and Hanol. In the mutch in which ho

lost to Duong, He states that his mistakes, angle volleying and kill the Indo-Chine players at opponent played his usual forcefuling with accuracy. Haiphong.

gume, and found the corners so regularly that Ho Ka-lau eventually run off his fect.

was

KEEN DOUBLES.

.

to eliminate the present system of

appeals against decisions made by of the Spare Crew made itself suggestion that appeals against deci-goals, scoring at regular intervals. the Council. The Council accepted a apparent, and they put on four Purkins (3). Hodgkinson and alons of the League Management Committed or the Emergency Com-Burrows netted for the winners; mittee could be made either to the, and. Williams scored both of the In crediting Hongkong with two

or to the Appeals Board, Herald's "gonis, wina and one defeat, I attributed

In the doubles match between Council Ho stormed the net in the

whichever the appealing party desir Unhappily, for him, he had not

Ho and Tsul and Doung and ed, and that the decision of either the wherewithal to adopt a net at- Incidentally the big chimney one of the victories to Ho Ka-lau

Gino, the Indo-Chine couple the Council or the Appeals Board tack, and this disadvantage made stack at the Naval Yard is causing and Tsui Wal-pul and the other to second and brought off many low

started forcefully with, drives was final, to a 4-2 lead,

and occasional lobs. Ho and itself apparent as the game. pro the old, old problem. After the an unfinished match between Tsui volleys, which allowed him to go

Capt. C. E. Elliot-Heywood sug Many times he had frat four games, the balls were Wal-pul and Duong.

of the Actually the results

„Taul missed many volleys at the Rested that the present rule allowing from the

Orpheus Casaumbley on the run and cor- dirt black, gathered

net and were too erralic ever to four marvico players to represent a courts by matches played at Haiphong were

Glyn Club in any match be altered Persous- the muts carried to the roctly cornered to go up to

as follows: middle of the court, but on ovary the wind from the Yard. occasion he was forced to stand back, hug the basaline and allow hia opponent, to extricate himself.

Kressed.

Had Liang boen equipped with a volley and an overhead, he would assuredly have beaten Cnssumbhoy.

Whon added to this, the light! fails as it did yesterday, the lot of a tenals playor in a championship match on the H.K.C.C. is cer- tainly not a happy one,

Tam Yoc-fong beat J. Saumont 0-0, 6-2: lost to Tran-Van-Duong 6-4, 1-0, 1-6.

SUBMARINE LEAGUE, League Table.

hope to save the first set. · to one orvica player.. The sugges-Phoenix

Goals.

P. W. D. L. F. A. Pts. 7 0 1 0 22 4 18, 7 4 2 1 1

118 7.10 6 4 11 24-100 8 11 7 8 7

213 10 14; &

2 1 3 0

2′′ 38

In the final sot Ho Ka-lau was]. too exhausted to play his net] game, and Duong's consistent driving won him the match

In the second the Hongkong pair tion, however, was not accepted by Proteus after establishing a 4-1 lead.

of the members Olympus Improved, and won the majority of the major portion

present. Duong was again in fine driving their points from the not Going It was decided that the rovisad Odin

Oswald Furthermore, in the Round form against Tsul Wai-pul, but he to a 4-2 load they waited for sor- Robin aerlos, distinct from the lacked variation, and it was in vice to capture the ant at 6-8. rules be submitted to an extraordin Rainbow. Playing at the top of their form, ary general meeting of members of Pandora the Association on Thursday, March Parthian It was a strange trick on the oficial Interport although it in this phase that Taul eventually part of the Clerk of the Weather, cluded the Interport results, Tam won. Tauf lost the first four the visitors took the first three 10; at the Sports Club, at 6.80 p.m. tus that after a week of perfect con- Yoc-fong at Hano! defeated Edėl games of the opening net and games of the final set, and then ditions in the afternoon, the sky 0-0, 6-8, 6-2, and Ho Ka-lau won Anally the set at 6-3. He was allowed themselves to be caught, again B-love down in the second and lost four games in a row. Ho The rest of the programmo yesterday should be clouded over his match by default.

At Haiphong, exhibition doubles set, and then wisely adopted the Ka-lau became prominent at this concerning the forthcoming Inter

The Marylebone touring eleven to went pretty well to expectations. and radiata that curious and dis- 3. J. Barrow, leading Civil Ser turbing reddish hue, which were given by Tatil, Wal-pul and initiative. Serving well and rald-stage and volieving extraordinari-port. The letter, stated that the

Mindras scored oply 145, to which vico Cricket Club player, had a tenders eight of a white ball Ho Kn-lau and Tam's one set ing the net wth confidence, Taully well anved the eighth game, northerners were in agreement with day defeated Badras by an fhnings. ridiculously easy passage against d'mult, let alone a black one. victory against Duong was also au wiped of the arrears, and from Taui Wai-puf served strongly in the Hongkong suggestion that the Henry Ung whose nervousness The handicap under which the exhibitions

that point was complete mastor, the ninth which was won, and present holders of the Cup should re Johnstone contributed 09 Marriots

Duong's Borvice was brokentain possession of the trophy: In the took five wickets for 48 runs, moludister

ovent of two or more teams tieinging the “hat trick, Reuter prevented him from showing his players turned out could not but The fun! results showed the capturing five games in a row.

Hongkong trio having won seven Saumont was erratie in the first through at the tenth, real ability, Barrow survived the materially affect their efforts

MAIDEN SETS.

THE INTERPORT. A letter from Shanghai wae_read

Osirla

Madras: Fab. Ba