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TILDEN'S TENNIS TOUR

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH ---TUESDAY, JUNE

“A” DIVISION TENNIS

NEW FACES INCLUDED IN TROUP Full Programme For

THIS SEASON

New York.

Another "Tilden tour” is under way, the annual swing around the United States, touching almost every city large enough to furnish a suitable arena for covered-court play

show.

After all, it's his show. He started it-and from the way he keeps rolling nlong it looks as though he may still

be around, to finish f

This Afternoon

BRILLIANT GOLF FEAT

BY M. GOURLAY AT WORPLESDON

FOUR STROKES

The "A" Division lawn tennis players have not been favoured with the best of weather during

TO GOOD only one Tuesday has it been pos- the past month and to date on

London, May. 9... The cant of characters changes as the cap of pro tennis in general andsible for matches to be played

Worplesdon women's open little, each year. But always whether of Bill Tiden in particular that this off.

meeting yesterday saw one score playing the alar Individual role of not, į pair which had been so all-conquering To-day there is a full pro- brilliant that its perpetrator William T. Tilden II is in there against the world's best amateurs gramme of fixtures with the Club really had no cause to crave for whacking away at those tennis balls, should be turned back in its first sally de Recreio seniors and the Kow-the strong right arm of a male acoing that the court gets swept off into the pro field. and that the lights

The 42-year-old Tilden-who, it aloun Cricket Club providing the partner such as would have sup are property ndjusted, and in general running the estimated, has been getting in an main attraction of the day. They ported her in the annual mixed

average of close to 300 tennis-playing meet on the latter's courts,

The Chinese R.C. "A" side have was round in 73, and even allow- foursomes there. Mias Gourlay days a year for the last 15 years not only proved his right to continus in an easy task on hand and entering for the difference in tees, that this fast company. but to. many was tain the Club de Recreio second is a total that a mixed pair might the dominant star of the galaxy. team at Causeway Bay.

be justly satisfied with. The press-lox boys, whe sceni nover Tho following is the pro- amateur cvase wondering at the longevity, gramme:

to in Agility and stamina of Big Bill, were Davis cup challenge round play, con- in fact speculating that, if the time queror at Wimbledon, Forest Hills ever comes when Tilden feels uriable and practically every other major to Lake his place as a singles star battleground-bowed in before 14,600 customers at Madison Square Garden he can still go on for another decade or no # # Lop-class doubles per- and found Big Bill and his tall

pro-former." tego, Ellsworth Vines, too much for ing knowledge of court tactics.

leaning heavily on his amaz- them in a truly epic five-set battle,

There is no telling, of course, how Buch difference

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be seen in the play of these ex-amateur tandem champions-George Lott and Lester Rollo Stoefen-when they get more! accustomed to indoor play in huge arenus and on the special canvas court.

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ranking world's doubles team of 1934-upreme

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EXCHANGE RATES

over the more than satisfactory turn- Promoter Bill O'Brien, chuckling out at the Garden, was sure the Tilden tour of 1836 would equal or surpass Geneva. those of other yearn,

Paris.

Berlin.

Juno 1. .75.13/64 .15.05% .12.2214 .617 .80.6/16 .1/84% 4.96

Karel Kozeluh, the Czechoslova-Athens. fan, Hans Nusslein, the German, Milan. Vinny Richards, Henri Gechet, and Shanghai. Vines has been the respective "new New York..

barnstormings have Amsterdam....7.34% grown to annual thinks the enterprise has done all Prague. right in picking up the Loil-Stoefen Bucharest.

Madrid.

But it was undeniably a feather in as these stature, and Bill Vienna..

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Brussels..

This year's tour embraces almost Bombay. 80 cities, from eastern seaboard to Yokohama. - west coast, from Toronto to Atlanta, Montevideo.

It probably will get pretty weary, and Belgrade.. on those 12-year-old legs of William Montreal. Totem Tilden especially.

But he was there with the shots | Rio on that opening night!

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tees was The difference in chiefly apparent at the short holes, which had shrunk conveniently from a spoon to a No. 4 or even less. At the longer holes, there was not more than half a dozen to ten yards difference, so that it was really good golf which meant that players who expected to win the June 3

acratch prize were seldom obliged 74.21/64 to tako wood for their second. 15.07 Limber shafts have done much for 12.12

17 many, but in the case of Mies 59.7/16 Gourlay the extra longth which she 1/8.3/10 acems to have acquired comes from 4.02% a whippy hickory-shafted driver, 1.26%% a club of dreams with which sho

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She started off by putting a No. second shot nome three yarda 2/44 from the first hole, and sinking the 28.91 putt for n 3. The next incident, 1/6.6/32 since you cannot call faultless 1/28/32 figures that, was bunkering her second shot at the 5th and getting out too strongly over the green. 224% Many apparently good seconds Anished over there yesterday, for 15 there was a wind, with plenty of 33% weight in it, blowing up that fair- way. At the 8th a glorious drive left her no more than a little pitch and run, which scoffed at the new bunkers closing up the green, elimbed the hill, and gave chanco of a birdie 3. Mas Gourlay took | It, and in spite of a 5 at the 9th

was out in 35.

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An immense drive to the 17th boded well, a missed second boded badly, and a mashie nibick hit on the head still worse. This was terrifying. ---But somehow the shot, having run all round the cushions, came to rest on the upper out- skirts of the green. Miss Gourlay played a clever run up, and there was 5. She hit a fine drive to the 18th, but it was slightly to the right and there was no elreum- venting the guardian bunker; it must be curried and no mistake about it, and with wood, for the wind was strong. She played the sort of rare shot which does merit the word superb, carried the left-hand end of the bunker with just the right amount of drift to take her well into the green, and put the Home in 38. approach putt to the very lip,

Her card, a record for the present course, read:

3, 4, 4, 3, 6, 4, 3, 3, 5—35 out;

4, 5, 5, 3, 4, 5, 3, 6, 4-38 home- 73.

Mrs. Douglas Fish's 77 came second, Mrs. Peel's 79 third, for Mrs. Clarke, out in 36, broke down on the homeward way, so did Misa Halated, after getting out in 37, and Mrs. Kennedy and Miss Rabbidge in.38.

FAULTLESS SWING

Nobody appeared to be playing better than Mrs. Walter Greenless, one of the Scottish Internationala

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