1935-12-26 — Page 9

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,

Garthwaite Among The Wickets

RACKETS

AND THE LIKELY MIXED DOUBLES SQUAsh Rackets

NAVY COLLAPSE

Triangular Tournament Cricket

CHAMPIONS

(Continued from Page 83

characterises Mrs. Wilson's strokes, Both Indies played exceptionally well in this match. They reduced their mistakes to the minimum and rarely lost the opportunity of

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finishing off a rally with aco shot.

SERVICES TITLES

FRANCE FACING

UP TO

TENNIS PROBLEM

HARD COACHING FOR PLAYERS

Paris.

Spurred on by the stinging defeats absorbed by her net players in the internationai matches of the past season France. is determined to be fully prepared for the 1936 campaign.

Surprise Defeat Of R.A.F. The board of strategy of the

Title Holder

French Tennis Federation has put its players into the hands of its most competent conches for immediato in tensive training, with greatest phanlge to be paid to the promising of the younger players.

en)- more

In addition to having her players in excellent shape by the time the May, the Federation hopes further

definitely

London, Dec. 3. Flying-Omeer J. W. C. More scored a surprise in the final of the Royal', Air Force squash rackets champion- ship at the Kensington Country Club, Kayll was not so alrong ns Hung

by defeating the holder, and it was this difference which | Flight-Lieutenant G. R., A. Elamie, by Davis Cup matches come around in finally turned the scales in the 9-6, 4-9, 9-6, 6-1. winners favour. Hung is one of Lient. Clive Garthwaite did the most improved pinyers in the thoroughly deserved his victory, for, which of the pladers tely discovered

to see apart from his tireless retrieving, he not allow an injured hand to Colony. One would like

him take up this stand between him and a bril-seriously. He has most

really produced more effective shots than his opponent, in particular nome of the liant spell of bowling in the strokes, several of them already pretty drops, and on the whole kopt a better length. Elsmie made far more Triangular Tournament cricket well developed and the others only mistakes. match between the Army and needing práctico and stimulation to Navy which was brought to become very fine weapons. conclusion early Tuesday after-

11000.

The Army fast bowler played havoc with the Navy in their second innings, and as a result of his figures-15.1-0-48-7—the Army won comfortably by five wickets.

game

There are no unnecessary em- bellishments about his service de livery; yet because of its rhythm and fine timing it is a highly effective stroke. He supports this with steady volleying in which he place

prefers to concentrate on ments rather than speed. He is a patient player and not always go ing for outright winners and it Is this factor which makes him Isuch an excellent doubles exponent.

Lieut. Holland-Martin, Surg- Lieut. Kirkwood and Sub. Lieut. Wraith were the only nautical BARE UNDERSTANDING batsmen who could stand up ayningt

the Bud merchant.

He and Mrs. Wilson played with Holland-Martin scored a very at- Fare understanding in view of the fact they have hnd but little prae- tice together. For the most part they were calling the tune in this

tractive 35, while Kirkwood hit merrily for his 27. Wraith contri- buted a valuable 18, but the Navy

were all out for 127.

The overnight всого left the Army leading on the first inningu by 102, their score being 249 for 8 declared in response to the Navy n 147. The Army were thus left with but 20 runs to win, and, sending in their "tail" batsmen, they scored these for the loss of five wickets.

Tufnell bowled well during this short period, capturing three wickets for eight runs in 2.3 overy.

- BAD START

SOUTH AFRICA IN THE TOILS

SECOND TEST COLLAPSE

match, and although the losers re- sponded whole-heartedly, the tempo was just a bit too fast for them. The most unfortunate feature

about Kayll's inconsistency.

game

WAR

for the singles roles and which for the doublen

THE INDUCEMENT What actually induced the Fedora- tion to take this step was the recen Indoor Canet Cup

play, the last official tournament of 1936 before the his players are ranked in mid-December. Quite often he With only inshed out some fine shuts which youngsters failed to get anywhere,

One

exception the reaped points, but too often he and the exception, 10-year-old nullified this by committing bad Bernard Destremenu was eliminated errors. It seemed to me that there in semi-finals. It WHB the is a lot of tennis in him, but it has veteran Jean Borotra who won the singles, men's and mixed doubles been frustraced.

It was a most entertaining dis play, and it is doubtful whether any other match in the champion. ship, with probably the exception Setter of the final, will produce tennia.

Hung and Mrs. Wilson will now meet the winner of the II D. Rumjahn and Mrs. Chiu Chun-chiu and T. A. Pearce and ALS. Rice, Evana contest, in the semi-final.

If Tuesday's winners play up to form I think they are bound to reach the final and I shall expect them to win the title.

China Wins, But Not

Meritoriously

(Continued from Page 8.)

ran into offside positions too frequent ly, Chenk Shek-lam overdid the fan- cy stuff. The rapid tackling of Gor- man, Gilchrist and Blackburn set at nought most of Cheuk's, efforts to be

clever.

In the second half even this wing deteriorated, and when Matthews went off with á broken head, Mc- Leary, found himself unable alone to combat the attention of Leo Kwok-wal and Tam.

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George Duncan, brought in at the last minute on the left wing comparatively starved. Albeit he was opposed to the best hair back on view, and with Mak Sui-hon also FINE HALF. BACKS

playing well within himself, had few China won because they had n

chances of being conspicuous,

There was

no real co-ordination vastly better half back trio. Wong

whereas Mec-shun and

about the Scottish attack, Wing-chut Leung were two of the best players on the Chinese forwards tended to over- do the inter-passing stuff, and kept view. Their anticipation WAS CS- pecially Ane and it allowed them to the ball much too elone. intercept 80 per cent, of the

ракет

made by the Scottish Intermediates.

Blackburn and Hill were equally aK

the ball clear.

the

crowns.

the

DECEMBER

26,

1935.

If Borotra, who is no longer ranked In the singles, defeated the young. stern and the pick of the French stars, what will the ranking players of other countries do to them, reason-i ed the Federation. To make it much worse, the French junior champion Destremeau, the most promising play. er in this country since the advent of the Three Musketeers, cannot be counted upon.

SWELLHEADEDNESS

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A season of local successes given him a severe attack of "swell- headedness." lie is aloof, indepen dent, headstrong and quite the pri madonna. He has refused with the greatest consistency to accept any kind of counsel or advice from those who We are in a

a position to give it. He has plenty to learn before he can be given the responsibility of represent ing his country in an International match, His aititude has irritated ing press was made him its special everyons and even the French sport- target.

of

When the players were ordered to go into immediate training, De tremeat was excepted. An official stated that it would be a waste time or money to coach Destremenu while he remains in the clouds. he doesn't mend his ways rather soon. Desirement may find himself sidetracked completely--as they are rather expert at this trick here. The only man auro of his Davis Cup post in 1936 in left-handed Christian Boussus, who will be rank ed No. 1 again this year. The other post will probably go either cocky Andre Merlin or southpaw Marcel ly ranked No. 2. Bernard, who may probably be Joint-

DOUBLES PROBLEM

Ten posily

TWICE NEARLY SCORED Scotland twice went very close to Johannesburg, Dec. 24.

good as Mak Sul-hon and Tam Kong-scoring in the first half. On one oc- South Africa made a pak in defence. Blackburn continual-casion Knox rushed through and

saved the Scottish goal from fall-headed a high bouncing ly

ball over disastrous start to the

ng with his ready tackling and first Wong Wing's hands. The ball was The doubles problem is harder to second Test match which ime punting.

straight for the net, but Mak solve. With Toto Brugnon's retire- going D. Knox was not the success hoped Shut-hon dashed in from nowhere and ment from Davis Cup play Inst started here to-day. The for at centre-forward. My complaint cleared. Another time MeLeary test season, France called upon Bernard Australians pitched them of last week that he is a lazy player ed Wong, Wing with a very hard to play with Borotra but the result

was amply substantiated in this gunie. ground drive, the

not a hanny one. ive, the goalkeeper only fuxt was out on a fiery turf wicket Nevertheless one must give him cre | succeeding in pusons with a blank partner to steady him and give him

discouraged, Bernard must have for getting the ball out to his The interval before 8,000 spectators for wings in very smart style on several score-sheet, and the game until then encouragement and the brilliant but occasions and he had the hardest of had been highly interesting. Scot- erratic Borstra, with an eye for the a mere 157.

luck when, will finely judged head and fully deserved to be on level spectacular for the plaudits of the Three bowlers did the damage, er he beat Wong Wing for the ball terms at half time, and with the crowd, is not the ideal partner, O'Reilly, following up his suc-only to see Mak Shul-hen rush in all slightest bit of luck would have been

clear from under the bar.

lending.

Coach Rene Lacoste may Junk the cess with the ball in the first

Howlett's poor ball distribution In the second half the game lost combination and point for a few Test at Durban, captured 4 for spoilt an otherwise hard effort. I am its savour, because of the silly and seasons ahead by giving Bernard a 54. McCormick secured 3 for 36 afraid the Sapper was somewhat out "hildish tricks adopted, chiefly by the who is the nearest thing the French young partner. Marcel Pstrn, 21, of his class of football, and he never Chinese, There were a dozen or mor have to Ellsworth Vines, has shown and Grimmett had 3 for 29.

gave any indication of goal-scoring ouls of a pelty nature and several potentialities.

thers of a more serious character.j special caning

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towards doubles hina went ahead an the result of a plaving. Then there is Piom Pelidza. SMART RIGHT WING

ui- stocky 18-year-old natural plaver. eky point scored by Young Shui- The most effective section of th ek who Iterally scrambled the ball Roussus, himself, is too frail to Scottish attack was the right wing

after Rodger had saved nto the

both singles and doubles, otherwise goal MeLeary was a marniñsant les an

ut not cleared, A few minutes be he would be the best bet. and the end Cheuk Shek-kam netted in the first half he put the ball across

Wenn how until Februsev ita, hand the goalmouth with unerring cons. with a beautiful shot following a nice work for tency. Matthews played up to him well, movement between him and Fung February 13, 14 and 15 the result of the tennis players. On but he would have been more usefu King-chung.

thin intensive training should make if he had kept farther up the field and

By this goal alone China deserved itself felt when the Paris-London prevented Tam Kong-pak from have their entry into the final, but it wasn't matches are played at Dulwich.-- ing so much room in which to operate, the best of games.

The Australians proceeded to consolidate this position by scoring 168 for the loss of three wickets before close of) play.

Fingleton hit up 62 and Brown contributed 51.-Reuter,

A striking calendar showing Chinese gatoway and a train in the background has been issued by the Kowloon-Canton Rallway.

United Press.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

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Here's how one of Stanford's many gains clicked in its 32-0 win over University of Montana. "Bones" Hamilton, Blanford halfback, is shown receiving a pass over his shoulders, which eluded the efforts of Blastic, Montana star, to knock it down. The ball wound up on Men- tana's 10-yard line.

FOOTBALL PROGRAMME FOR WEEK-END

SEVERAL FASCINATING FIRST

DIVISION MATCHES

SUNDAY

FIRST DIVISION Police' v. Navy (Kowloon), 4 p.m. Referee, 1. M. Omar; Linesmen, C. Mason and T. Evans.

There is an unusually in-.. Polico "C" V. Lincolns (King' teresting programme of league Park), 2.30 p.. Referee, J.

Gomen, football for the coming week- end and at least six of the first division matches hold. promise of outstanding enter- tainments for the "fans." South China "A" and Athletic meet for the sccond Sunday in succession and the clash of thene teams is always

East Lanca, V. Boycal Welch fascinating spectacle.

Fusiliers (Sookunpoo), p.m. Ro- an old bogey in the Club, while the

South China "g" are up against ferco, H. Martin; Linesmon, J. Tracey

and R: Aldridge. Polico are promised a rare hustling. by the Navy. There is a military

SECOND DIVISION R.A.S.C. and R.A.O.C. v. Royal Lancashires meet the Fusiliers, and Referee, K. K. Ip. "Derby" on Sunday when East Engineers (Chatham Road), 2.30 p.m.

South China "A" v. Chinese Athletic (Caroline II), 4 p.m. Referes, H. F. Scrutton; Linesmen . Hammond and C. Lane.

on Saturday Recreio try conclusions Royal Welch Fosiliers v. Eastern with the Lincoins in what will be the (Soskunpoo), 2.30 p.m. Refereo, R. 1. battalion's lant league match in Evans. Hongkong.

The complete programme for Satur day follows,

SATURDAY-

FIRST DIVISION South China "B" v. Club (Caroline Hl), 4 p.m. Referee, E. G. Inley: Linesmen W. Brierley and J. Butter worth.

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THIRD DIVISION. Royal Welch Fusiliers v.. Enst Lancs. (Chatham Road), 14 p.m. Re feree, R. Chapman.

Police Europeanяv. Royal En- gineers (Kowloon), 2.30 p.m. Referee, D. T. Smith.

The

Mainland v. Island (Club ground), 3.30 p.m. Referee, H. F: Scrutton; Linesmen, D. Kossick and E. G. Isley. REFEREES' MEETING Kowloon v. St. Joseph's (Kowloon), Referee, W. R. Reynolds; p.m.

fortnightly meeting of the Linesmen, W. Collier and T. Davies. Hongkong Referees' Association will Club de Recreio v. Lincolns (King's be hold in the offices of the Hongkong Park), 4 p.m. Referee, A. C. Wand;] Football Association on Monday, Linesmen, D. W. Ellis and G. E. December 30. Goodfellow.

R. A. Iyomun v. R. A. Stonecutters Sookunpop), Kossielt Linesmen, R. Richardson and 4 p.m. Referee, D.. IL J. Bland.

SECOND DIVISION

SHIELD HOLDERS SUCCEED

(Continued from Page 8.)

East Lanes. v. Club (Sookunpoo), 2.30 p.m. Referee, W. P. Payne.

ing Soppers attack, but failed to Edward Road), 4 p.m. Refore, W. C. sary measure of support.

Lincolns v. Chinese Athletic (Price give their own forwards the neces

Twaites.

Beacham defended brilliantly and University v. Navy (Navy ground, was the finest back on display. Causeway Bay), 2.30 p.m. Referee. But he had to shoulder too much A T. Jarmain.

Kowloon v. Club de Recreio (Kow. Work and himself went to pieces in Reforco, J. 1. the closing stages. The Docherty loon), 2.30

and Ewart wing was Lawrence.

the most effective section of the Air Force attack which did not combine or Liga Portuguesa v. St. Joseph's Anish so well as their vis-a-vis,

The (St. Joseph's ground), 4 p.m. Referee,|

Engineers were better balanced and deserved to win, al- A. Wess Eldine.

R.A.F. v. RA.M.C. (Rallway), 4 though the score rather flattered p.m. Referee, A. E. C. Clarke. them.

p.m.

THIRD DIVISION

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