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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL

2. 1936.

RUMJAHN'S RELENTLESS TENNIS AGAINST TSUI

Our Daily Golf LAWSON

Hint

To be putting well the golfer must have absolute control of his nerves, far

abows

nervousnesa

more

upon the green than any- where else.

BADMINTON

-J. D. Fratres.

RECREIO DRAWING CLOSER

To League Leaders

By defeating St. Andrew's "A" by eight games to one Jant evening. Recreio "A" crept within two points of Ellot fall "A the leaders of the men's division

LITTLE

TURNS

"PRO"

SIGNS UP WITH.

BOBBY JONES

Augusta, Georgin, Apr. 1. Lawson Little, world-famous Ameri- can golfer has announced that he is turning profession as from April 2 and in joining Bobby Jones in a golf venture involving an promotion education programme to be carried out all over the United States.

The programme will inblude exhibi- tlons and demonstrations for the general promotion of golf. It is understood Lawson Little is algning contracts involving the payment to him in the first year of at least) US$10,000, apart from what he carns In open' competitions.

In consequence of this decision! Little will not be eligible to defend his English and Amerienn amateur titles, but he intends to compete in the In the badminton United States open championship, and league. At the same time Stain hopes to take part in the British Andrew's hopes of anishing third in

the table wero somewhat affected.

The 8-1 defeat of Fire Frigade by | St. John's wan a little unexpected, but it greatly nasisted St. John's in their efforts to finish the season with- in the first six

ST. ANDREW'S "A" «. RECREIO "B"

Played at St. Andrew's Church Hall, i

"open," Renter.

CARDINALS "BOSS”

BADLY INJURED

the visitors winning by eight games American Sportsman In

to one.

M. Walll and A. `B. 1m (8). Andrew's ) loat to J. J. Bemedios and M. A. Oliveizm 11-ket to LA. Carvalho und, A. M. Hi 7--21: lost to A. E. Xarler and H. A. Aires 17-21.

Car Crash

Columbus, Ga., April 1. Branch Rickey, vice-President and St. Louis General Manager of the

meriously.

E. F. Fincher and II. Kow (BL _Andrew's) Lost to Remedios and Oliveira 7--21: It to Carvalho and Blima 21-24: bent. Xavier and | Cardinals baseball club Alvo 11-1.

ILIK and P. V. Wong (82. – Andrew's)

loat to llemedios and Ollveira 17-21 al to Carvalho and Bitve 3-21; foet in Xavier

med Alver 623.

ST. JOHN'S «. HIRE BRICADE Played at St. John's Cathedral Hall, the home team winning by eight games to ona.

P. 1. Kwok and G, A. Smilli (3€. Jahn's) best 12. Là H. Shuto and W. Shule 21—12; best A. 1. Maher and G. Williama 21-5; best J. L. Anderson and W. Stoker 21–7. .

I had and Morgan Smith (81 Joha's) beat Ahute and Shute 11-16: beat an William R-4; bef

Stoker 21-11.

Fisher Androm and

J. Bonnist and D. Kwok (St. John's) mat

Struts and Bhute 21-10; last to Fisher and

Wollem #: heat Anderson and taker

1-8

LEAGUE TABLE

P. W. L. F. A. Pts. Eliot Hall "AC 20 19 1 128 14 38 Recreio "A" ... 19 18 1 120 24 35

St. Andrew's

AN

C. R. C.

20 15 6 107 72 30

Fire Brigade... 20 8 12

73 44 20

OPPONENT

ON

Ip Pakiwa, South China inside forward, thwarted by Hall, goalkeeper' and a Stonecutters' defender whẹn he tried to rush the not during yesterday's football match at Carolina Hill. (Photos Mee Chaung).

SOUTH CHINA "A" WIN WITH EASE

$

STONECUTTERS NO MATCH FOR,

THE CHAMPIONS

LEAGUE TABLE

Goals

South China "A" scored his goalkeeping to as high a level useful consolidating win in the seen in the Colony this year. first division of the football league yesterday when they beat R.A. Stonecutters by two

P. W. D. L. F.A. Pts, goals to oil, and thus drew S. China "A" 19 14 9 5 69 26 28 H.K. Police 10 10 6 3 61 20 20 clear of their rivals in the 3. China "B" 10 9 8 2 38 26 20 league table.

Chinese Ath.. 18 9 7 2 R.W. Fus....

19 9 7 The two points were obtained with H.K.F.C.....

10 3 18 out difficulty. Good upposition as Royal Navy 19 11 0 offered by Hall in goal, and the Gun-R.U. Rifics. aners' two backs, Oliver and Lewis. St.

11 Joseph's But the remainder of the team were: He was taken to hospital with a rather out of their class. The far-nat Laser.

Recreto severely incerated head and face-wards as a whole failed to make any Kowloon F.C. 18 Renter,

Impression on n stendy and depend-

RA. Lyemun 19 2 jable defence, Moseley was ocen- Blonally dangerous,, his trickiness /RA. S'cutters 23 often taking the opposition unawares; hut he was much too selfish to turn E

but not critically injured as a result of being involved in a collision when his car and a lorry crushed on rain-soaked highway.

Britannia

To Escape Junk Heap

London.

Liko u burned-out racehorse that is

good!

his approach work to

апу account. Invariably he ignored his colleagues when they were obviously in much better positions for shooting. The Gunners half backs were over. rua and contributed but little clther in defence or in attack.

20 77 20

R2 21 1 7

K אז

3 10 16 04 5

LANCS NEED ONE POINT.

FOR THIRD DIV. CHAMPIONSHIP

third

RUN ALL THE

TIME

SUPERBLY

ACCURATE PLACEMENTS

WHICH EXPOSED A WEAKNESS

7

(By "Veritas")

Fincher And Hung Should Win To-day

STAND COURT

MATCH!

(By "Veritas")

Only one Colony championship tennis match has been fixed for this afternoon, but It is one which has aroused buch Interest and specula-| tion. L. Goldman and T. A. Pearce Yesterday H. D. Rumjahn who overcame the Iu brothers, meet became the first player to right of opposing the Lo, brothers in E. C. Fincher and W. C. Hung for the enter the semi-final round of the semi-final of the open doubles. the Colony's open singles tennis championship, when on the stand court, he coolly and relentlessly ousted Taui Yun- pui in straight sets by 6-2, 6-2. So far as the opposition is con- The match did not provide that corned much will depend on

The odds are distinctly in favour of Fincher and Hung. In fact, with the Rumjaha cousins out of the way I believe they will win the title this усаг.

FINE BADMINTON RECORD

Miss T. Kingsbury, by, wing ning the women's singles ilute si the All-England Badmin- ton champlonships. in London. recently, setup record by becoming the woman' champion of four countries in one, season. Here is her record in the cham- pionship finals:

Well-Beat Miss G. Graham (11-3, 11-4).

Scotush-Beat Miss D. Young

111)

(11-2

Irish-Beallss D, Devcion (11-4, 11-1).

All-England-Beat · Mrs. L

S. Uber (5-11, 11-3, 11-3)

VILLA AND RELEGATION BOGEY

nerve-tingling tennis anticipated by Pearce shapes. Though he just about BOLD ATTEMPT

TO ESCAPE

the clash of two such players. Ram-carried his weight in the third round Jahn, completely self-possessed and encounter, he is the weak link of the making copy-book strokes, had his combination, and against whom Fin youthful opponent running hither cher and Hang will doubtless centre and thither and playing an anxious their activities. type of game from the opening sør- On the other hand Hung did not

HOME FOOTBALL vice.

impress

in the alightest againât Rumjohn always called the tune, Tavares and Drysdale and he will need

RESULTS and although Taui changed his tacties to show iimprovement if he and two or three times, he could not Fincher are to win. But that display.

London, Apr. 1. ruffle an imperturbable opponent who I am sure, was but a.

Aston Villa, threatened with mometary lapse an answering shot for every-and Goldman and Pearce cannot hope legation, made a bold effort to escape thing sent ever.

for #

#repetition of it to

to-day.

this ignuminy to-day when they visited This match appeared to emphasise It is doubtful whether

the

encounter West Bromwich Albles and beat the one thing; that given plenty of time will go the full distance; this will Throsties by three clear goals. in which to made his strokes, Taqi largely depend on whether Goldman Yun-pui is one of the most effective can sustain his streaks of brilliance. players in local tennis; but make him But it should be an interesting match run after the bail, and his atroking and may well give us the clue to the loses rhythm and efficiency.

ultimate winners of the championship.

had

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME

re-

Arsenal, though playing at High- bury could do no better than draw with Bolton.

Fulham did West Ham and Charlion VERY WEAK SPOT

a bit of good in their race for pro- Rumjahn quickly discovered that

motion to the first division when they Taul's forehand drive, made on the Open_Doubles.-E. C. Fincher and drew with Manchester United, the run, was a very weak spot, and liko W. C. Hung v. L. Goldman and T. A, other London teams' most dangerous the true tacticlan he is,Rumjahn Pearce (stand court),

rivni. Fulham wore at home and played on this hand unmorefully. Club Handicap Singler----- V. R. shared four goals with the United. Taui endeavoured to counter this by Gordon v. H. R. MacGilchrist; G. W. who remain in third place, with n running in on cross-court driven to Sowell v. T. J. Price; M. Pagh v. game in hand of both Charlton and

West Ham, but Rumjahn's backhand, but the Indine Lieut. Commdr. Stapleton.

point behind the flashed out glorious passing shots Club Championship Singles.-D. M. first named and two points bohind which made Tsul shake his head in MacDougall v. F. A. Redmond,

the Hammers, resigned admiration and to retire to the baseline where he was given no peace by Rumjahn's perfectly con- trolled and accurately placed drives

from corner to corner.

not

Even Taui's backhand did function with the same facility as in his match against lu Tak-chouk and very early in the match became a purely defensive stroke. Albeit it was his safest hand And he com- mitted less errors on it than with his Jorehand shots.

EAST LANCASHIRES”’ SPORTS FIXTURES

Cricket And Hockey Competitions

MANY CHINESE RESERVES

East Lancashires now need but one Itumfahn's well controlled and South China, although without

The following sports fixtures in more point from their two remain methodical tennis was highly impres Wong Wing, Lee Wal-tong, Lau lling-ing matches to ensure themselves of Aive. He left one with the conviction connection with the East Lancashire

Leung Wing chui. Tay Qua-Hang thu chej, from the glue works by the and Tio lian-gwin, played just the Yesterday they made mincemeat of have pulled out even better stuff. Ha

division championship.

that had he been pushed he could (Regiment are announced. memories of his glorious victories right type of football to win without St. Joseph's to win by eight goals to round. his half-slleed backhand Lanes and the Punjabis Regiment The semi-final of the Large Unit will the famous Royal yacht

was well nigh faultless off theHockey competition between the East being unduly extended. Tam Kong nil, and, with one match in hand, "Britannia" escape the junk heap,

pak, restored to the forward line con- ho was Prince of Wales and launched unexpectedly scored a goal in this

wils for FF Edward VII when centrated on heading practice and not they lead their nearest league rivals as his act with the same securney will be played at Shamshuipe Camp

by two points.

pacy

ground to-morrow (Friday) - at 4.30 East Lancashires were not at full

CAPABLE OF BECOMING

p.m. CHAMPION

"The semi-final of the Large Unit) Cricket competition between the East

Wednesday, April 8, at 1.45 p.m.

On Sunday, April 6, the East Lanes,

saved

19 14

111 45 28

Ellot Hall "B"

17 12 6

83 43 22

HO

Recruio "B"

15 10 5

St. John's

10 0.10

81 00 18 67 101 16

V. R. C.

18 4 14 40 96 '8

"Kowloon Tong ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄19

St. Andrew's

19 017 34 102 2

S. and S. Home 18 1 17 30 143

2

(10948,

Wilts And Dorset Beat Hampshire

WAN

It was noticeable that Rumjahn cut

on the Tyne river in 1893, the Britan- manner-But To Kwai-shing trans-strength, but they played with rare nin" won many international yacht-ferred from right wing to inside right determination and were always loo world over.

But she has

| outlived her useful displaying the crowd with a Yachting men said she could control. nover win another race, and wa

ing events and became famous the the livellest of the attack.rust for the Saints, who played with down a good deal on his not advances, Lancs. and the Combined Small Units |

Stonecutters forwards subdued.

curacy.

LEAGUE TABLE

Goals

usually pulled off a winning coup. He

quite beyond repair. King Edward Lee Kwok-wai, playing at centre- penalty) scored before half ume, and disguised his intentions so cleverly liner Franconia at cricket, the match

Coster, Crooks, and Power (from a refused to go up on anything short

of a length, and it was because heare meeting a team from the Cunard VIII, who inherited the craft along half, was a tower of strength, and further goals were added at regular that Taai Yun-pui was invariably commencing at 2 p.m. with the crown from his father, was behind him Li Tin-sang and Lau Mau intervals by Crooks, Coster (2) caught off his guard and could not puzzled na to what should be lone played without error in keeping the Murphy and Ashurst. with the Britannin.

He finally decided the ship would South China was denied the satis. London, Apr. 1. be Inld on the stocks and her fato faction of a goal until ten minutes In a rugby union match played to docided at some later date,

She may

from the interval, when Tam Kong- day Wiltshire and Dorsetshire beats taken out now and then for a

pak leapt high to head in a centre East Lanes.. Hampshire by nine points to six- royal cruise, but her racing days are from the left wing. The second half.W. Fu Renter.

was well advanced before the Chinese Police (C) obtained their second goal. Then R.A.F. Wong King-chung broke away on the R.A.M.C. left and passed in to Tso who netted Itoyal Engr. with case. In the interim Hail, R.U. Rifles Oliver and Lewis earned applause for Liga P'guesa first rate defending, Hall was 'con-Police (E) 17 5 2 tinually thwarting the eager Chinese St. Joseph's forwards, and sometimes he raised tallway R.C. 17

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the Scottish League Third Lanark followed up last Saturday's cup success by beating Partick 4-1. while Hearta énjoyed a homo victory against Kilmarnock.

Complete results Router follow.

Arsenal

Як

cabled by

FIRST DIVISION

W. Bromwich

i Bolton

Aston Villa

SECOND DIVISION

Bradford C. Fulham

3 Newcastle. 2 Manchester U. THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH) Bristol C. 2 Watford

SCOTTISH LEAGUE

4 Kilmarnock

Hearts

Third Lanark 4 Partlek

THE LAD WITH THE LIMP

make adequate returna.

One fine day Mr. Geo Jabey Perhaps it is. too bold to assert entirely Gosano's fault, who, after went to watch a player in a Scun- that on this display Ramjahn looks pulling up from love-three to 4-3, thorpe-Denaby, football match. He P. W. D. L. F.A. Pts, good for the championship, but I cer- suddenly relaxed and made no serious was a centre-forward. 18 14 3 1.80 23 31

tainly think that if yesterday was apparently) efforts to BAYO the 19 12 2 58 24 20

true criterion of his present form, he match. 19 11 4 4 40 27 26

will reach the final, and furthermore 19 10 45 51 35 24

ho is fully capable of winning the title. 16 7.

18 7

18 7

17 7

18 2 1

BIG FOOTBALL PROGRAMME

THIS WEEK

The following in this week's programma of matches in the Hongkong Football League.

TO-DAY

First Division Chinese Athletic v. St. Joseph's (Caroline Hill), 6 pm.

"Third Division East Lancashires Y. European Polico (Prince Edward Road), 4.45 p.nl.

SATURDAY

First Division

Royal Artillery, Lyamun v. South China "A" (Sookunpoo), 4.45 pm.

Club do Recreio v. Royal Artillery, Stonecutters (King's Park), 4.45 pm.

Kowloon

Police (Kowloon Ground), 4.45.

Third Division Liga Portuguesa Y. East Lanca- shires (Chatham Road), 3.15 p.m.

St. Joseph's v. RA.M.C. (St. Joseph's), 3.16 p.m.

Chineso Pollos v. Royal Ulster Rifles Railway Ground), 3.15 p.m.

European Polica v. Railway (Kow- loon Ground), 3.15 p.m.

Royal Welch Fusillers v. Royal Air Force (King's Park), 8.15 pm.

SUNDAY

First Division

Royal Welch. Fusiliers v. Chinese Athletic (Sookanpoo), 4.45 p.m.

Royal Artillery, Lyemun v. Royal Ulster Rißes (Causeway Bay), 4.45

East Lancashires V. Chinese p.m. Athletic (Cansoway Bay), 4.45 p.

Club do Recrela v. South China

Royal Welch Fusillers v. St. "A (Careline Hill), 4.45 pm. Joseph's (Prince Edward Road), 4.43

Second Division

South China "B" v. Royal Navy Athletic (Sookunpoo), 8.15. p.m. (Carolina Hill), 4.40 p.m.

Second Division

South China . Eastern (Caroline

Hill), 8.16 p.m.

Royal Ulster Rifles v. Radio Sports (Causeway Bay), 3.16 p.m.

East Lancashiros v. Royal Navy (Sookanpoo), 3.16 p.m...

Royal Engineers v. Club do.Koerelo (Chatham Road), 4.45 pm.

Royal Welch Fusiliers v. Chinese R.A.0.C. and R.AS.C. v. Enatozn (Caroline Hill), 8.15 p.m.

*

· WEDNESDAY First Division East Lancashires y South Ching "A" (Sookuspoo), 5.15 pm.

Data to Third: Division RAM.C St. Joseph's"!" (St. Joseph'a Ground); 5 pm.

up

2

On the field with. Denaby came a Both players won a large percon- player with a limp. "What's

Derby on errors. Kwok's with that Ind?" asked of points tage

"He's been working in most productive strokes were made manver. The big question mark in the from the forecourt, while Gorand the pit all morning, and got a bump" subsequent stages of the tournament largely depended on a raking fore. was the reply. will probably be his durability over hand drive, which played havoc with The lame duck for twenty minutes five

these acts. Whether

days Kwok's feeble second service, hobbled along famously then cracked Eumjahn can last five sets ånd win For their errors off the ground the up, and had to play al outside right. is question which may be answered players had some reason for blaming during the next fortnight. I rather the court, which, after the last few he also shaped well. So Mr. Jobey The centro-forward of Scunthorpe, suspect that to win he has to finish week's continual use, was decidedly booked both players.

A match within four sets.

"rocky" and gave off several false Tennio Kwok made his way into bounds. At the

time one ΚΑΤΟ

Their names? Bowers, from Scan-

That was the first move of both

the last eight by beating A. V noticed some decidedly poor stroking

ing thorpe, and Barker, from Denaby. |Gosano 6-4, 7-5, but it is doubtful and although Kwok generally was

whether he can feel very satisfied the better player, he must show a towards caps marked E, v, S., mean- with his performance. That he was big improvement if he wishes to ing they have since represented their not forced to the third set was beat Taui Wai-pui in the next round, country in the biggest test of all!

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