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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1934.

PERRY AND HUGHES, TITLE HOLDERS, WELL BEATEN

MRS. KAYLL'S VOLLEYS

ENTERTAINING TENNIS DISPLAY.

AGAINST K.C.C.

COLONY'S NEXT LADY CHAMPION IN THE MAKING

U.S.R.C. A CINCH FOR THE MIXED DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP

(By "Veritas").

HOBBS SCORES 197TH CENTURY.

London, May 28. John Berry Hobbi, veteran Surrey and England batsman. scored the 197th century of his career, to-day at Manchester, when play- ing for Surrey against Lan- cashire in a county chom- pionship match-British Wireless.

DOUBLE HEADER WIN FOR GIANTS

The Mixed Double tennis league championship was virtually decided yesterday when the United Services! Recreation Club visited the K.C.C., and won by six Four

sets to three.

It is, perhaps, a little unfortunate, that such a claim can be made after the second match of the season, but after yesterday's showing by the United Services, and the obvious decline of the reigning champions, one finds it difficult to imagine any other outcome. Yesterday's tennis at the K.C.C., 1 powerful stroke this, and a difficult was highly attractive and entertain-shot to counter. Mrs. Kayll was t correctly ing, with the ladies playing anast always timing

All through the three sets yesterday. unqually important part. eyes were centred on Mrs. Kayll, but when she did! who, although often Impetuous, Overhead there was the same and guilty of numbers of errors, decisive stroke: no chap; a full] showed enough skill to satisfy one lonted hit made from anywhere that the U.S.R.C. possess the 1984 between the net and three feet from lady champion of the Colony.

the baseline. It was all attacking tennis, and because of this left stranger to Mrs. Kay'M me, a

werd wondering. There her contemporaries in liongkong.very few signs of a defensive should imagine her to be game behind the impetuous voileya

than better alngles exponent.

and kills, and her rushes to the doubles. Her confident covering net on sometimes very bad length of the Court betrays a desire to balls. But it was an entertaining be "in at the kill", to adopt a hunt- demonstration of care-free tennis, ing expression, and yesterday she and both Mrs. Kayll and Goldman figured in na many finishes of the will have to play very badly to rallies ns Goldman, her partner. lose a set in league tennis this

Mrs. Kayl was not so powerful in forehand drive as one would

BETTER AT SINGLEST Mrs. Kayll's game is considerab-

ly more developed than most

but

of game:

year.

BELOW FORM.

have expected. Her unxiety to It was a pity that Mr. Wilson keep the ball in the court found was feeling unwell and was there-

heavy top-spin fore below her adopting

form. Nevertheless strokes which tended to suffer in length. But on the backhand she her match with Teddy Fincher Was sound, and belied early im-gainst Mrs. Kayl und Goldman pressions that the strokes were was worth seeing. purely defensive, by obtaining winning points therefrom.

AT THE NET.

The K.C.C. pair had one glorious opportunity of winning the set, but threw it away. After trailing But Mrs. Kayl! was happiest at at the first and third games, Mrs. the Wilson and Fincher broke through the net; not, perhaps, iu success of her shots, but in the Mrs. Kayll's service to lead 3-2. buoyant and confident manner in Fincher's service followed, but a which she tackled them. Her bad error by Mrs. Wilson at the the height of the net, and elever volleying by Mrs. volley above

the advantage lost. Dot is worth nuting. She de-Kuyil saw finitely hlts the ball, full faced, The K.G.C. pair should have gone

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Players Hit Home Runs For Yankees

had a

New York, May 28. The New York baseball teams field day. The Gants bagged a couple of wins in a double header against Pittsburgh and the Yankees scotched St. Loals by claiming 13 runs from their battery.

Results A cabled by follow:

Reuter

AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Philadelphia

(Fox scored two home runs) Cleveland ...... 6 14 0

There (Averil homered. were ten innings)

R. 5

IL

E. 1

New York ...... 13 21 1

(Gehrig scored two home runa and, Ruth, Lazzeri and Satiz- gaver one cach)

St. Louis

(West homered)

1

! 33 0

China's triumphant olympic ladies swimming team is here pictured: . Reading from left to right they are Mias Lau Kwai-chun, Miss Young

Sau-king. Miss Leung Wing-lau, and Misa Chan Wox-kong.

HAT-TRICK AGAINST

AUSTRALIANS

H. J. ENTHOVEN'S To-day's

GREAT FEAT

Washington

7 12 2

(Manush homered)

17 Chicago 11

(Bonura and Appling homer-

BUT TOURISTS

4

ed)

Boston Detroit

A 12 1 12 16 0 (Greenberg #cored two home

3

NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Pittsburgh ........... 2 6 1

New York ...

(Jackson homered. were eleven innings)

Pittsburgh ...

(Hubbell pitched) New York

(Jackson humered) Cincinnati....

1 There

D 5

0

15

0

8 (Schulmerich homered).

16

1

Brooklyn............

ย

2

Chicago...............

3

G

2

Boston

St. Louis

10

15

0

Pittsburgh

0 7

3

(Bill allahn pitched)

NEW SWIMMER

U.S. TO PRODUCE A CHAMPION

WIN AGAIN

BRADMAN BATS: GRIMMETT BOWLS

London, May 28.

The Australians and Middle

Tennis Programme

C.R.C. TEAMS IN

CONFLICT

To-day the first two teams of the Chinese Recreation Club in the

SENSATION IN FRENCH

CHAMPIONSHIP

ENGLISHMEN LOSE TO MENZEL & HECHT IN THREE STRAIGHT

BRITAIN WELL REPRESENTED IN LADIES LAST EIGHT

Paris, May 25.

Overseas invaders continued to dominate the scene in to-day's continuation of the French tennis champion- ships at Auteuil, and big crowds saw the most 'sensational result of the meeting to date, when Fred Perry and George Hughes, the British Davis Cup pair, and holders of the title, fell victims to R. Menzel and L. Hecht, the Czechoslovakians in the third round of the men's doubles.

Menzel and Hect won in three fone semi-finallets, although it is im- straight acts with scores of 6-4, possible to have an all-English final, 6-4, 6-2, and at no stage of the If Misa Stammers beats Fr. game did they appear in danger Aussem, England will be certain to figure in the final, as Miss Stani- of defeat.

mera will meet the winner of the This is the worst beating Perry Miss Scriven-Miss Lyle tie in the and Hughes as a combination have semi-final. sustained for a considerable time. Easily the most successful combina- tion in England, their successes in previous Davia

AUSTRALIAN BEATEN.

To-day Miss Stammors accoiy- Cup encounters, plished nu excellent performance in the French championship last year beating Miss Joan Hartigan, the and the Australian championship Australian lady champion by the of 6-3, 6-4, while Mias only a few months ago, lent con- scores viction to the bellef that they Helen Jacobs had an casy taak could hold their own in the inter-against Miss Hardwicke, another national field of tennis quite com- English competitor, winning 6-0,

6-1. fortably.

In the Davis Cup last your, Hughes and Perry won three dou- bles matches and lost two. Against Czechoslovakia they met Menzel and F. Marsalck and won in straight actis 6-3, 6-4, 6-1.

SOME RECOMPENSE.

The English team, however, Kained

by the some recompense success of H. W. Austin and C. E. Hare against the strong German couple, Von Cramm and Denker whom they beat after a gruelling five-set match. Tite Englishmen were trailing after the first and back very strongly to capture the fourth at the 12th game and the fifth at the tenth game.

sex figured, in some bright "A" Division clash at Causewayird sets, but came

cricket at Lord's to-day, when the tourists beat the county team by ten wickets.

Some characteristically big hitt- ing by Bradman was succeeded by a "hut-trick" by H. J. Enthoven, Cambridge Blue for Middlesex,

Bay, and a keen match should re- sult.

The K.C.C. have a big task, journeying to Sookungoo to op pose the IR.C., who seem to have: discovered winning combinations. 1 cannot see the Kowloon players.

and some fine bowling by Grim-obtaining more thus three sets. mett, who twice took wickets with consecutive deliveries.

The Australian carried thoir overnight score of 135 for 2, to 345 before the last wicket fell. Brud- man-was-very-aggressive....and added further 60 runs to the three figure mark which he rench- ed before the clone on Saturday, His best hits were a six and five together with 27 fours.

Alec Kippax also batted con- fidently for his 56.

NEW BOWLER.

!

But chief honours of the day fell to it. J. Enthoven, who, in his first over after lunch, dis- missed Eheling. Grimmett and Wall with consecutive balls. He finally returned figures of 1 for 50, while Smith, a new mem- ber of the attack, took 4 für 99..

Although

In only 87 rans arrears, Middlesex made a sorry

JACK MEDICA SHOWS showing in their second knock, and

GREAT PROMISE

with Crimmétl at his best; were sent back for 114.

The slow bowler twice narrowly Chicago, Ill., May 26. missed the "hat-trick", and in all Bermuse he has broken six captured five wickets for 27 runs. world swimming records in the Set to score 28 to win, the Aus- last year, 19-year old Jack Medica tralians hit off the runs without is expected to carry much of this loss, putting on 29 before stumps country's hopes at the 1930 Ber- were drawn.-Router. lin Olympics.

Amateur athletic authorities

a fow more records."

feel that Japan is making a strong soon as he had broken all the bid for swimming titles At Ber-records on the book they re- lin, and they hope for a few more cognized our individual styles as Hike Medies to meet Nipponese, orthodox. The same thing will From an alternative on the happen as soon as Medica breaks United States Olympic team two years ago, Medica has developed Ross, who is the only swimmer into the greatest swimmer in this to win both the 400 and 1,500- country from

220 yards to one meter races in the Olympic games, mile.

that Medien will duplicate predictų During the four nights of the his performance in the 1936 gumes Womon's National Indoor Swim-at Berlin.

ming Championships here recent- HELENE MADISON COULD ly, Medica broke nine records.

Norman Ross, former Olympic

BEAT HIM.

Medien in 19, weighs 185 pounds' champion, who once held 72 re- and is the third of three grout enrds, believes Medica has swimmers to come from the Pael- chance to annex overy record on fic Northwest Ross was the first, the books from 220 yards to one then came Helene Madison, and mile.

now Medien. He started

swira- STILL TO REACH PEAK.

ming in 1901 and practiced in the "Medica's performance in break-

samo poal with Helene Madison. ing nine records in four nights is For six months Helene could as great as anything I have ever beat me," he recalled, "but pretty Heen in swimming." commented soon I got sO

could take her at Ross. "He's not far from being every datanco. Training with her the world's greatest swimmer, and helped me a lot." ho hasn't reached his peak yet. Ray Daughters, who developed Modica's "Like all great swimmers of the Helene Madison, is past, he has a style that the conch. Liko Ross, he thinks that alleged experts term unorthodox. Medica will continue to Improve That's what they said about me until he will be unbontable by and Johnny Weissmullor, but ma the 1936 Olympics.

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The Recreio will be fairly: tested by the U.S.R.C., but South China should be able to overcome the Cricket Club.

The complete programme is:

""A" DIVISION:- C.R.C. "A" y C.R.C. "B" C.R.C. “C” v C.C.C. Recreio

v U.S.R.C.

S.C.A.A.

LR.C.

v H.K.C.C. * K.L.C.

"C" DIVISION. K.B.G.C.

v Rudio

THREE WINNERS

The last eight In the women's singles is now complete,, and finds England represented by Miss Margaret Scriven (the halder), Miss Nancy Lyle and Mas Kathleen Stammers. Other survivors are Fr. Aussen, Mdme. Mathieu, Sign, Valerio. Mlle. Payot and Miss Helen Jacobs.

According to the draw.. Miss Serivan will meet Miss Lyle, Fr. Aussom is opposed to Miss Stam- mura, Mdme. Mathieu of France meets Sign. Valerio of Italy, and Mlle. Payot of Switzerland encoun- ters Misa Helen Jacobs of America. Six nations ure represented, and England is hound to supply at least

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An Anglo-Polish' alliance net with success in the second round of the women's doubles, when Mies Susan Naeland Mlle, Jedrzejowaita overcame the well-known British palr,

Miss Nuthall and Mies Scriven in straight sets.

The scores na cabled by Reuter follow.

MEN'S DOUBLES.

Third Round

Hect

R. Menzel and (Czechoslovakia) beak F. J. Perry and G. P. Hughes (Eng- Ind) 6-4, 6-4, 02.

H. W. Austin and C, E. Hare (England) heat Von Cramm and Denker (Germany) 3-6, 12-10, 5-7, 7-5, 6-4.

LADIES' SINGLES,

Round Third

Miss K. Stummers (England) beat Mies J. Hartigan (Aus- traila) 0-3, 6-4.

Misa H. Jacobs (U.S.A.) beat Miss Hardwicke (England) 0-0,

LADIES' DOUBLES.

Second Round

Miss Susan Noel (G.B.) and Mlle. Jedrzejowska (Poland) beat Miss Nuthall and Missi Scriven (England) 6-3, 6-4.

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