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 "Sagax")
Yet another surprise was occasioned in the local bowls tournaments yesterday afternoon on the Craigengower C. C. green when E. W. Simmonds, J. W. Deakin, F. J. 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, whide his standard was not that of
of his experience, m exponent rink in the second rouml of the cutpi
neem hut petition would
He
a natural; was overshadowed by a much more Requerier of events of what has been accurate player, one who was rarely
somewhat sensational season in the far if the mark with his woods, Inent bowls championships. It
latts
been the rule, rather than the excrp-
ion, for the less experienced player,
tion,
ROW SCORING WENT The Club de Recreio players opened or players, to perform the anexperted with two singlen lett fest the foul on seasoned exponent win. the third head when the Civil Service and beat
Joper bumped altained the highest pinnacle in side scored & three.
ugen wand to lie the shot after the the game in langkous.
The defent of the fivil Service rink Recreio had had the shot from the
have
Was due, or
both of whom
of Alves,
were
their
of
Mi
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
a much better game than the position analund Gleves Tournament has
the
BRITISH GOLF TOURNEY
START TO-DAY IN BRITISH OPEN
AMERICA CHALLENGES FROM
day.. them into
1
PLAYERS FROM OVERSEAS OUT FOR TITLE
STRONG Contingent To TEST F. J. PERRY
G. VON CRAMM BEST AMONG THE FOREIGN CH ALLENGERS
(By "Sagax")
MRS. HELEN WILLS-MOODY
Without the necessity of official recogni- BADMINTON
tion as such, the annual lawn tennis tournaments at Wimbledon have, by their internationall
AS AID
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.
The International Lawn Tennis he will confidently be expected
each euch the armi-finals at least. Federation, recognises,
Jeading
the
London, June 12. The challenge of the Amateur team of American Boxing Association of England to the brillianes outset but Alves trailed the jack to to oppose a
the; Bie. Grimmist also carried the jack amateurs in the Annual Golden been scrondarily, to
Grimmitt second wood, however,
accepted by unanimously The Porte-again trailed the Jack, and this time numbers,
The New York Daily News, which guese four fully deserved their victory cured a count of three. This was American boxers.
was the first and only period of the game and they displayed form that
the that the holders were ahead of their conducts this meeting every year, cun- nted the New York Holden Chara worthy of carrying
apponents, if not further.
Grimmitt, on the fifth head, was boxers as to whether they would
chaBenge from
British Was the weak Hak of the
the
progol Recreio chain but weak only in com again required to give of his best to necept
ile knocked amateurs and parison with the consistency of his save a count of three.
"No definite inte hos yet been fix rink mates. He more than held his, the jack to a back word to lie the greeted with a roar of approval.
although shot but Alves managed to draw ford but it is expected that the contests Simmonds against neither could be said to have played a count of one, and take the temul by will take place in an open air area in mong the aspirants, as is Joe Kirk hard court, he says, it simply will not bowls of a particularly good standard, 7-9.
On the seventh head the Civil New York on July 1 or Service quartette threatened to take the led when Jones trailed the jack
Hantamweight: L It was in the number two that to lie three or four but Alves drew!
spend shot.
Silva
OWN
NO. TWOS DECIDE MATCH
that
Case.
WILK
-1
serve
Reserve
¡A. Barnes.
Featherweight; E. T. Ryan. Re-
4. W. Trelawny. Lightweight: F. Frest. Reserve, F. 3. Simpson.
Welterweight: D. Lgnel.
S. Park, W. S.
Middleweight: 4. Magill. T. W. Jackson.
The British tenta of fifteen men Flyweight; J. Pettinger-
or
there was a striking contrast and it
A three on the eighth head gave! was definitely in the second link of
chain that the the Recreio players the lead y the Civil Servire holders found their weakness. Deakin and it was evident at this stage af and could do little the game that they were not only day hal nu off
the afternoon, playing botter bowls hut showed every; right. Throughout
he likelihood of being able to spring a with the exception of one would.
their more experienced surprise, en never sent down at wood termed anything more than fairly goal. į opponunts, I think his bowls was somewhat
when, on the second. he WI deliveries and his weeds were picker out of the ditch by his skip. After that he was inclined to be on the short side but on the fifteenth head he brought off his best shot of the day when he trailed the jack to secure! a count of two.
Reserve
and
11
the
And
to
SIDNEY WOOD TO BEAT PERRY
AMERICAN'S HARD TRAINING
Los Angeles, May 28. Sidney B. Wood Jr., is staking most of his hopes of beating Fred Perry and Bunny Austin in this ancient British game of Badmin- year's Davis Cup matches, on the
ton.
Is
"What I have always lacked stamina. This game is giving it to me, said the fair-haired tenaie player, after a hard ganic with Jess Badminton champion.
GREAT BASEBALL Ward, the American
PITCHER
DEATH REPORTED IN AMERICA
AN OLD TIMER PASSES
"I've always felt that I had the shots with which to beat Fred Perry, Bunny Austin and the rest of them, but my legs wouldn't stand up through the long gruelling matches."
Sidney is taking his training more Heriously this season than ever before, It a fully expected that he will have
the
burden with to hear Half singles Wimer Allison in the European zone matches. Explaining why he is train-
Wood said: so intensively,
When you your left leg starts
step up to the baseline
10
Kerve
buckling on you and you start think ing out how to save steps on the court-
and Austin rt-that's when Perry and
others have the edge on me.". and the
"I asked Gene Tunney how I should condition myself for stamina, and he suggested boxing, with long workouts
year, a number of national cham-
DR. D. FRENN 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. ti. Kirby is the fourth round Lawn Tennis Association and of the tournament and in the French conducted by the All England clumpionships recently he was beaten by Fred Perry in the final round. Club at Wimbledon.
Germany have only nominated G. for Whatever
the von Cramships.
and Mine. Sperling for The German enormous popularity of these annual the A flock of United States play- Wimbledon championships, the Lemon champion will be partnered in the
of the to reached the linal the world
women's ers are listed as entries in the tournaments each year attract the mixed doubles by Mae, Sperling, wh
players of
Inger singles in 1931. in considerably British open golf tourney which Wimbledon
Dr. Pre is another German com- will take place at Muirfield to- numbers than any other national lawn!
tennis competition and this year has petitur although the former Davis Cup
(Continued on Page 9.) Among them are the perennial Gets proved to exemption,
I, Crawford attribuites much of Sarazen and Lawson Little, who learned how to play get in a Chinese the success of the Championships at
l then taught it to a bunch ị Wimbledon to the fact that the incet-j. in all parts of the Uniteding is played on grass. If Wimbledon
never supplants the centre-court by al States MacDonald Smith is
be Wimbledon, Without the turf wood.
up In addition 10 the above top they could never have built
have done, notchers, a glance at the list of pros- great tournaments
As they pectives will reven) Joe Egar, Henry is the world's beal tour but!
Frank Ball, and Picard
the one cannot lengine it on ften brilliant Medart turf. Thousands of people go there erratic but
berause the ground
so well. looks winds up the invaders.
However, Little, Kirkwood, Medart They admire Wimbledon, its hedges
BO beautiful the others being more green. There is sor
something in
its and Ball will probably be the only with everything" certain starters,
less problematical participants, atmosphere, and this something owes Reserve. Each year the British open entry-list much to the grass courts and their
like tuoks a who's who of American verdant surroundings.
The Championships will commence but when teeing-off time comes rolling,
the famous jeeve only a handful of the boys at-
to-day when ap
-St. Louis, May 26. ground.
Jeft-handed competitors wil
One of the greatest Light Heavyweight: A. Shawyer from across the sea are ready to try proximately With their four on the eleventh
in the var
various competi- participate shafts. their was the Kewlors players jumped into Reserve. T. J. Grifin,
month or two baseball pitchers of all time, The Heavyweight? P. Ployd, Reserve.
Virtually all of the noted British tions. For the past
Breitenstein, Bas died of heart disease leading players from all over the 13-7 lend which they converted into, lend! of 17-11 on the seventeenth |V. A. Stewart.
players are entered, and will probably world, representing in about 25/at the age of sixty-six. Service four at- end. The Civil
Old-timers still recall the almost the start. The list includes Jack McLenn
en have been route tempted to singe
of Scotland; Henry Colton, last year's nations,
"Honestly, if I had boxed any more competitors
his me in baseball with I'd have been punch drunk. And I first made winner of the Belgian title; Abe England and all these and managed to draw four to make the sedre 18-16, with two hends to go.
Mitchell, Archie Compston, Alfred will this afternoon, and for the next the St. Louis Nationals, now the St. didn't seem to make any progress.
and the ever-present fortnight.
at Wimbledon to Louis Browns, in 1892. off their ties
In twenty years, of which ten of hitn. He laughed and Bald: You is, indeed, a galaxy of talent them were spent in There the United Press. Stanley Woods Again
championships and England's
record of 302 games| he compiled a reco
"But I got him to go and look at The rules call for each player ta for put in one round on each course, at indications of the past month is any won and 256 last, despite five years the game once, and he agreed with mo First In Senior T.T.
Muirfield and Gullane. Players with evidence then the tournaments this the one hundred lowest scores will year will equal inst year's winorable with a St. Louis team which was very on my badminten iden."
near bottom of the
of the Jengue. Even in
"I started playing Badminton in his earned-run average New York and since I've been here play the
Britain for she captured the Indies" was about two per game. After the most thrilling race in the lat Muist round of the tournament į sensan, memorable particularly to the years
I've been playing Willard eight or The
competition
showed what he could do with nine games a day? is and men's titles for the first time in He history of the Tourist Trophy races,
to follow the qualifying twenty years.
#2 strong club when he was sold to
"I'm in better condition than I ever Stanley Wouds, riding a Guzzi, won scheduled
Cincinnati in 1897, for the then the senior event by four seconds from rounds immediately, and will pro COMPETITORS HAVE TRY OUT
astounding price of $10,000 (£2,000). was before in my life. I'm faster on Guthrie, who was riding a Norton, start Wellnestay. Tertative plans
when
I won the Wimbledon aingles Woods completed the course of 261 13 June 27, with the sixts players The majority of the courtiert only four, ranking only second to the crown."
The majority of the competitors That year he won 18 games and lost the court, and that includes 1031, too, Wood fought Perry through five sels in 3 hrs. 7 mins. 10 having the lowest scores including
Later after ten years as on umpire before he lost last year. the various competitions have gone to averaging a speed of 84.68 miles per any ties that may ocear) taking part. play this season and the results of great Amos Rusic,
Jess Willard, when asked what ha "Outstanding
Although there are only four hour, while Guthrie's time was 3hrs. The final two rounds will then get confirm opinions based on previous in a minor league, "Briet" as his He was probably the
of under way on the Friday after which
friends called him, retired from active thought of Wood's chances of becom- form. pinyer of the match and was always teams the Mixed Doubles 7 mins. 14 sees, at an average
1921. ing the boys on the other side of the
a really great Badminton player, The outstanding events of the year participation in baseball in able to save or draw shots when re League there has been less mütehes | 84.65 miles per hour,
Rusk on Norton was third, over water will know whom they have to
prior to the English championships: During his last three years he was an replied that Wood, with less than a quired by the stamilard of bowls pro
the played by clubs competing for, the
have been the Australian and, more employee of the St. Louis Park De-year's steady training, would be beat- duced by Xavier, coupled with
ing him regularly. Willard, In- time being hrs. 9, mins. 45 nees.
recently, the French championships, partment. inconsistency of the two Civil Service Dunlop Shield than for any other two minutes behind the leaders, his heat for work hondays.
lent tennis trophy.
All these three riders broke the
There live also been the South His wife, Mrs. Ida Breitenstein, cidentally, is one of the greatest ex- leading players.
ponents of the game to-day, previous records.
African and Italian championships on died just a week before him. which to form ភព idea of the potentialities of the various players, although the South African event did not attract the same world wide rom- petition as did the Australian and
while French championships,
the Italian meeting which was given the status of an "official" championship for 1935 so that the opening of the 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.
Xavier, on the other hand, was in his best form and was rarely sealing down a wasted wond. He was able to put woods wherever directed by his! skip. The simplified the work of both Ribeiro and Alves who required all the assistance they could get to coin- but the necurney of Jones wh was! constantly destroying positions built up by the early Recreio players.
JONES OUTSTANDING
It was Jones who saved the Civil Service C.C. from A bigger defeat.
the
often equal to Ribeiro was occasion and although he never touch ed the brilliance of Jones he brought of some particularly good shots to enable his side to take temporary com
annd of the situation.
the!
a belated recovery
However, the Club de Recreio scored twe singles on the last two heads to win by 20-15.
MIXED DOUBLES
TENNIS
Chinese And Kowloon C. C. To Meet
in
The Chinese R. C. have only played one match to date although, according to the official fixture list to-day should be the final day of the competition.
ANOTHER WIN
London, June 22-
s the Isle of Min to-day.
mila
Woods established A new lap re cord of 86,53 miles an hour.--Router, |
EIGHTH WIN
This afternoon the Chinese playi Alves was always the pick of the their return match against. the that . Duncan, skips. He added the necessary polish to the scintillating play of his Kowloon C. C. "A", whom they colleagues, and on many occasions he bent by eight sets to one in their had, Grimmitt completely outplayed. last meeting. On one head, the eleventh, when
Singly ever-good Cyril Tolles, says; play
etd.
opening
all for the second round to be
SINGLES BOWLS TIES
A British Wireless message states on a Norton, was
ir Woods eighth win This was fourth in 3 hrs. 10 mins. 15 se Tourist Trophy races.
An earlier message stated that for it was in 28 years the first time necessary to postpone the Senter T.T. reduced for Friday, Heavy mist visibility to a few yards on the moun- tain parts of the course.
The match is to be played on the Ribeiro carried the jack to lie two, Kowloon Courts. Alves drew two perfect slots dead on
The second match in this league the lack to Recure a four.
There were scensions when Grimmitt will be between the U. S. R. C. and which was originally arranged
played bowls which earned for him the Kowloon C. C. "B" on the the three titles last-season-but-as-a-former's courts.
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STRONG OVERSEAS CHALLENGERS
101! forgotten exploits of Breitenstein who McGovern and sent me to Terry
Matches in the lawn bowls championships postponed from last Monday on account of the badweatlier-have-been-re- arranged for this afternoon. A holder of the men's event, Fred There will be seven ties for this Perry will be the attraction of the afternoon in the Open Singles Wimbledon championships this year event.
Some of the loading and his recent successes at Paris and In the Bournemouth hard court players in the colony will be figur championships will increase his pros- ing in the conteats, including D.
pects Rumjahn, last year's runner-up, The Englishman will be given who is to meet a club mate, E. el thorough tent by strong Arculli, on the Civil Service C. C. challenges, Jack Crawford, last year's green,
runner-up and 1933 champion, being The full programme for to-day among the entries. is as follows: Eel Arcul}]
F. I. Jonru
D. Numjabu civil service da farrel)
v. A. 8. Blomen (Taiko R. O. Green).
P. E. Knight
G. E. 1. Thompson v. W. Glendinning
(Club de Reerela Greenl
J. McKalvin __Chowkor~D~~Or-Or-Girren)—– v. J. E. Henson (Kowloon Dock Green)
*. J. Cavanagh (Kowloon D. 6. Grem)
v. À. Á. Barack Hongkong F. C. Green)
W. K. Way
Hennessy Road, Wanchal,
IL Duncan
V. Petherick
2
overseas
The other Australlan Davis Cupl players, Vivian McGrath, Adrian Quial and Don Turnbull, will also be and any of these is capable of*
early surprises. From Germany comes the most formidable challenger for the title In Baron von Gramm, the conqueror of Jack Crawford in the recent Davis! Cup contest between Australia- and Germany. Von Cramm has
been regarded as a future champion and|
in the Majar lengue,
One day I suggested Badminton to mern that sissy game?"
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