1935-06-24 — Page 20

THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,

JUNE

24,

1935.

ELIMINATION

OF BOWLS RINK CHAMPIONS

SMART VICTORY Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships Starting To-day

BY WINNERS

PORTUGUESE PLAYERS SPRING SURPRISE

REMARKABLY GOOD FORM SHOWN BY

YOUNG QUARTETTE

L. F. XAVIER AND H. A. ALVES CARRY OFF HONOURS

(By "5gx")

Yet another surprise was occasioned in the local bowls tournaments yesterday afternoon on the Craigongower C. C. green when E. W. Simmonds, J. W. Deakin, F. Į. Jones and A. W. Grimmitt, of the Civil Sevice C. C., holders of the Rink Championship were beaten by 20 shots to 15 by L. J. Silva, L. J. Xavier, F. V. V. Ribeiro and H. A. Alves, of the Club de Recreio.

The elimination

of the champion, whole his standard was not that of of his experience, le rink in the rcond round of the conte un exponent petition woul grem but

a natural was overshalwed by a much more

sequence of events of what has been accurate player, one who was rarely

a somewhat sensational season in the far off the mark with his was]s. foen howls championships, it has

been the rale, rather than the excep-

Qon, for the less experienced player,

seasoned exponents

HOW SCORING WENT

The Club de Recreio players opened

ar players, to perform the unexpected with two singles but lost the leaf an who the third head when the Civil Service and bent

Jones bumped a three. have attained the highest pinnacle in: sils scored a

up a woud to Be the shot after the in Hongkong. the game

Kuese four heir victory!

and they displayed form that the inte worthy of carrying

was

opponents.

Their Majesties the King, and Queen at Wimbledon last year when they were graciously pleased to receive the newly-crowned Singles Cham- pions in the Royal Box

GOLDEN GLOVES

CHALLENGE

BRITISH

BOXERS

NOMINATED

U.S. ACCEPT

248

BRITISH GOLF TOURNEY

START TO-DAY IN BRITISH OPEN

CHALLENGES FROM AMERICA

PLAYERS FROM OVERSEAS OUT FOR TITLE

STRONG CONTINGENT TO TEST F. J. PERRY

G. VON CRAMM BEST AMONG THE FOREIGN CHALLENGERS

(By "Sagax")

MRS. HELEN WILLS-MOODY

Without the necessity of official recogni- BADMINTON tion as such, the annual lawn tennis tournaments

AS AID at Wimbledon have, by their international appeal and character, become to be regarded as FOR TENNIS the championships of the world and each title holder is acclaimed the best amateur player or players of the year.

be expreted The International Lawn Tennis he will confidently Federation recognises, each rench the semi-finals at least.

to

year, a number of national cham

DR. D. PRENN ALSO pionships but none of these can

Twelve months ago Von Cramm fell equal, in attraction, the competi- tions organised by the English to V. i. Kirby in the fourth round Lawn Tennis Association and of the tournament and in the French conducted by the All England championships rerently he was beaten by Fred Perry in the final round. Club at Wimbledon.

Germany have only nominated G. Whatever the

Yon Cramm and Mme. Sperling for

for reason

thef

SIDNEY WOOD TO BEAT PERRY

AMERICAN'S HARD TRAINING

toa.

"What I have always lacked is stamina. This game is giving it to tennia the fair-haired ine," said player, after a hard game with Jess Willard, the American Badminton champion.

"I've always felt that I had the shots

with which to bent Fred Perry,. Bunny Austin and the rest of them, but my legs wouldn't stand through

up the long gruelling matches."

London, June 12.

Los Angeles, May 28. The challenge of the Amateur

Sidney B. Wood Jr., is staking The defeat of the Civil Service rink Recreio had had the shot from the Boxing Association of England

enormous popularity of these annual the championships. The German most of his hopes of beating Fred was due, primarily, to the brillianes utret but Alves trailed the Jack to to oppose a team of American the lie. Grimmitt als enrried the jack amateurs in the Annual Golden of Alves, and, secondarily, to

been A flock of United States play- Wimbledon championships, the Lamden champion will be partnered in the Perry and Bunny Austin in this tournaments each year attract the mixed doubles by Mme. Sperling, who year's Davis Cup matches, on the consistency of Xavier, both of whom left the position unaltered. With Gleves Tournament has

the ers are listed as entries in the leading players of the world to reached the final of the women's ancient British game of Badmin. relaxing a much better game than his second wood, however, Grimmitt unanimously accepted by

tailed the jack, and this time

in considerably larger singles in 1931. British open golf tourney which Wimbledon American boxers. their opposite

The Port- a court of three. This was

Dr. Prena is another German rem- The New York Daily News, which will take place at Muirfield to-numbers than any other national lawa the first and only period of the game:

tennis competition and this year has petitor although the former Davis Cup

(Continued on Page 9.) sulted the New York

Gloven the that the holders were head of their cars the meeting every year, com day.

Ammar them are the perennial Gene proved no exception. to wis ther they won Sarnzen and

Lawson Little, who

J. 11. Crawford attributes much of Anni, if no further.

"Graniti, on the fifth bend, was boxers Silva was the weak link of the

ut a challenge from Brits learned how to ping golf in a Chinese the success of the Championships at

and the proposal 38'214

cemetery and then taught it to a bunch Wimbledon to the fact that the ment- If Wimbledon Recrein chain but weak only in com, uzuín required to give of his best to re

masters in all parts of the United ime is played on grass. parison with the consistency of his save a count of three. He knocked, untes

centre-court by a Nu definite date has got been fix-

MacDonald

also over supplants the Smith is rink mntes. Ile more than held his, the jack to a back wood to lie the greeted with a roar of approval.

Simmonds

although shot but Alves managed to draw fried but it is expected that the contexts

Wimbledon. "Without the neither could be said to have played a count of one, and take the lend by will take pads bird in among the aspirants, as is Joe Kirk hard court, he says, it simply will not

York on July 1 or 2

In uldition 10 the above top they could ever have built up the bowls of a particularly good standard. 5-3,

pectives will reveal Jos Egur, Henry it is the warld's best tournament and

an theone cannot imagine it anything but and Frank Hall, and Bantani weight: L. Classe,

Reserve Picard

Medart turf. Thousands of people go there erratic but often brilliant

so well. A. Barnes,

because the ground looks up the invaders. wints Featherweight: E. T. Ryan, Re.

However, Little, Kirkwood, Medart They admire Wimbledon, its hedges

with J. W. Treadaway.

everything Bull will

so beautiful and vili probably be the only erved.

Lightweight: F. Prost, Reserve, F.

certain starters, the others being more green. There is something in J. Simpson.

less problematical participants, atmosphere, and this something owes AN Reserve. Each year the British open entry-list much to the grass courts and their

looks like a who's who of American verdant

but when teeing-off time comes

own

Mainst

NO. TWOS DECIDE MATCH

Staten.

wood,

turf

the seventh end the Civit: New Retish team of fifteen minutchers, 8 glance at the list of pross great tournaments as they have downt

Service quartette Ihrentened to take

RATING: the lead when Junes trailed the jack

It was in the number two that; to lie three or four but Alves drew Here was a striking contrast and it second shot. was definitely in the second link of the Civil Service

chain that

galy

A three on the eighth hend gave) the tlay Recreio players the lend by d holders found their weakness, Deakin' and it was evident at this stage of had un of

off day and could do little; the game that they were not right. Throughout the afternoon, playing better bowls but showed every with the exception of one shot, he likelihood of being able to spring & their nor experienced nover sent down a wood that could be surprise on termed anything more than fairly good, opponents, I think his bowls, way omewhat upset

With their four on the eleventh early in the game when, on the second hend; he was heavy with bath his head the Kowloon players jumped into deliveries and his woods were picked 13-7 land which they converted into at- Service four In beinted recovery rad. The Civil tempted to stage

managed to draw four to make the store 18-15, with two heads to go.

Flyweight; 3. Pottinger.

Welterweight: D. Lyneh. W.-S. Pu

Middleweight: 4. Magill.

r

The

its!

Light Heavyweight:. A. Shawyer | from across the sea.are rendy to try proximately 200

Resend, only a handful of the boys at the famous Mecca to-day when apj

J. W. Jackson. Reserved. Grizin,

Heavyweight P. Phyd.

out of the ditch by his skip. After out of 17-11 on the seventeenth v. A. Stewart. that he was inclined to be in the short on the fifteenth head be brought off his best shot of the day when he trailed the jack to secure

side but

a count of two.

Xavier, on the other hand, was in his best form and was rarely sending down a wasted woud. He was able to put wouls wherever directed by his skip. He simplified the work of both; Ribeiro and Alves who required a the assistance they could get to com- bat the accuracy of Jones who was constantly destroying positions built up by the early Recreio players.

JONES OUTSTANDING

However, the Club de Recreio scored two singles on the last two hends to win by 39-45, 2-

MIXED DOUBLES

in

TENNIS

.

Reserve.

ANOTHER WIN

Stanley Woods Again

First In Senior T.T.

London, June 22.

!!" shafts...

will cominence? competitors

GREAT BASEBALL PITCHER

DEATH REPORTED IN AMERICA

OLD TIMER PASSES

Sidney is knit his training more seriously this season than ever before, It is fully expected that he will have to bear half the singles burden with Wilmer Allison in the European zone matches. Explaining why he is train- ing sa intensively, Wood said:

to

When you step up to the baseline. Herve and your left les stars you start think- buckling on you ing out how to save steps on the ecurt-that's when Perry and Austin

St. Louis, May 20 of the greatest left-handed and the others have the edge on me.

"I asked Gene Tunney how I should In the various competitaschall pitchers of all time, Thralore condition myself for stamina, and he , viru all of the neted British tions. For the past month or two Breitentein, has died of heart disense

the

suggested boxing, with lung workouts players are entered, and will probably lending players from all over start

McGovern, Old-timers still recall the almost on the road, and sent me to Terry The list includes Jack Mclean world, representing in all sixut at the age of sixty-six,

en route for

forgotten exploits of Breitenstein who*Honestly, if I had boxed any more of Scothad; Henry Cotton, last year's nations, have been

all these competitors) winner

Abe England and of the Belgian title; Michell, Archie Cumpston, Alfred will this afternoon, and for the next first made his name in baseball with I'd have been punch drunk. And I St. Louis Nationals, now the St. didn't seem to make any progress. assemble at Wimbledon to Louis Ilrowns, in 1892. fortnight. Padgham

One day the ever-present

I suggested Badminton to

and In twenty years, of which ten of

him. He laughed seemingly ever-good Cyril Tolley, suy's play off their ties. the United Prena,

is, imiced, There

galaxy of talent

mean that sissy game'?" he compiled a record of 302 games | "But I got him to go and look at The rales call for each plager to for England's championships and if he were spent in the Major league,

in one round on each course, at indleations of the past month is thy won and 256 lust, despite five years the game once, and he agreed with mo Muired and Gulant. Players with evidence then the tournaments this with a St. Louis team which was very on my badminton idea."

put

the

ILI

play the first

The

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is and men's titles. for the first time in

the

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maichi

You

ne hundred lowest scores will year will equal last year's memorable near, bottom of the league. Even in "I started playing Badminton in After the most thrilling race in the fat Mulund of the tournament season, merwrable particularly tohose years his carneil-run average New York and since I've been hero

Britain for she captured the ladles'; was about two per game..

I've been playing,

Willard eight or He showed what he could do with nine games a history of the Tourist Trophy races,

opening competition

"I'm in better condition than I ever Stanley Woods, riding a Guzzi, won scheduled to follow the qualifying twenty years.

a strong club when he was sold to the scifior event by four seconds from rounds immediately, and will probans COMPETITORS HAVE TRY OUT astounding price of $10,000 (£2.000): the court, and that includes 1931, too, Cincinnati in 1897, for the then was before in my life. I'm faster on Guthrie, who was riding a Norton, start on Wednesday. Tertative plans

call for the second round to be on the Isle of Man to-day.

Woods

course of 264 on June 27, with the sixty completed the calles in hrs.

when won the Wimbledon singles

7 pigs. 10 secs., having the lowest segres Save already been seen in tournament only four, ranking only second to the crown."

Chinese And Kowloon

The majority of the competitors That year he won 16 games and lost C. C. To Meet

Wood fought Perry through five acts. It was Jones who saved the Civil Service C.C. from a bigger defeat.

Later after ten years as an umpire before he lost last year. averaging a speed of 8.68 miles per any ties that may occur) taking part. play this season and the results of great Ames Rusic.

the various competitions have gonę to' Although there are only four hour, while Guthrie's time was 3 hrs. The final two rounds will then get confirm apinions based on probably the outstanding

previous in n minor league, "Briet" as hix) Jess Willard, when asked what he He was

ofundes way on the Friday after which for player of the match and was always teams

14 sees, nu average

friends called him, retired from active thought of Wood's chances of becom Mixed Doubles 7 mine. the

form. able to save or draw shots when re- Lengte there has been less matches $1.65 miles per hour.

1021. ing a ronlly great Badminton player, the oys on the viber side of The outstanding events of the year participation in baseball in quired by the standard of bowls pro- played by chubs competing for the

Rusk on a Norton was third, over water will know whom they have to prior to the English championships During his last three years he was as replied that Wood, with less than a duced by Xavier, coupled with the!

have been the Australian and, more employee of the St. Louis Park De year's steady training, would be beat

Ing him regularly. Willard, in- cy of the two Civil Servicej Dunlop Shickl than for any other two minutes behind the leaders, his beat for world honours.

time being 3 ars, 0 mins. 15 secs.

recently, the French championships. partment. players,

There

been the South His wife, Mrs, Ida Breitenstein, cidentally, is one of the greatest ex- have also

ponents of the game to-day. tho often equal to Ribeiro was

African and Italian championships on did just a week before hiin. which

of the iden uni bcension and although he never touch ed the brilliance of Jones he brought

potentialities of the various players, off on particularly good shots to enable his side to take temporary com- mand of the situation.

local tennis trophy.

All these three riders bruke the The Chinese . C. have only | previous records.

Woods established in new lap re- played one match la date although, according to the official fixture list cord of 86.59 miles an hour.-Renter. today should be the final day of the competition.

This afternoon the Chinese play Alves was always the pick of the their return match against the skips. He added the necessary polish Kowloon C. C. "A", whom they to the scintillating play of his colleagues, and on many occasions he beat by eight sets to one in their had firmumitt completely outplayed. lust meeting. On one head, the eleventh, when

The match is to be played on the Ribeiro carried the jack to lie two Kowloon Courts. Alves drew two perfect shola dend on the jack to secure a four.'

The second match in this league There were occasions when Grimmitt will be between the U. S. R. C. and played bowls which earned for him the Kowloon C. C. "B" on the the three titles last season but ng a' former's courts.

EIGHTH WIN

A British Wireless message states that J. Dunean, on a Norton, was fourth in 3 hrs. 16 pins, 15 xees,

Woods' eighth win in This was Tourist Trophy races.

An earlier message stated that for the first time in 28 years it wa necessary to postpone the Senior T.T race which was originally arranged reduced for Friday. Heavy mist visibility to a few yards on the moun- tain parts of the course.

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GAMES ARRANGED

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Mussolini stadium could be com-

memorated in a suitable manner, at- tracted an International entry but none or few of the more prominent' players, participated.

STRONG OVERSEAS

CHALLENGERS

FOR TO-DAY Matches in the lawn bowls championships postponed from last Monday on account of the bad weather have been rc- " arranged for this afternoon. As holder of the men's event, Fred There will be seven ties for this Ferry will be the attraction of the afternoon in the Open Singles Wimbledon championships this year event. Some of the leading and his recent auceesses at Paris and in the Bournemouth hard court players in the colony will be figur championships will increase his pros- ing In the contests, including D. picata. Rumjaku, Inst year's runner-up, The Englishman will be given -A who is to meet a club mate, E. cl thorough test by strong Arculli, on the Civil Service C. C.{challenges, Jack Crawford, last year's runner-up and 1933 champlon, being among the entries,

green

The full programme for to-day is an follows"

E. « Arrull}

F. J. Jones

Civil Service C. 6. Green) D. Rumjan v. A. B. Gener Tiku. C. Gren)

6. F. F. Thompson v. W. Glendinning

(Chib de Beerelo dreva), Knight

P.

W. K, Way

v. J. McKeiric (Kowloon D. 1, 0. Green)

J. Zenon

· (Kowloon Dock Brown).

J. Cavanagh (Kowloon. C. C. Groen)

v. A. A. Hack (Hongkong F. C. Green)

R. Duncan

Hennessy Road, Wanchai.

V. Petherick

oversens

The other Australian Davis Cup players, Vivian McGrath, Adrian Quist and Don Turnbull, will also be competing and any of these is capable of causing early surprises.

From Germany comes the most formidable challenger for the title in Baron G. von Cramm, the conquerer of | Jack Crawford in the recent Davis Cup contest between Australia and Germany. Von Cromm has been | regarded as a futura champion and

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