1936-06-15 — Page 19

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, JUNE 15,

1936.

Siamese Tennis Players Win In Canton

State Titlist

with the California women's slate golf championship safely tucked away, Peggy Oraham, 18, Los Al- Keles, is readying herself for a try at the national women's title this year. Playing golf only four years, l'eggy twice won the Southern Callioria de.

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World Swimming Mark Lowered

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SHOW GOOD FORM AT BADMINTON

Lai Well Held

(By "VERITAS")

All-conquering tennis

PRACHAUB MURANANDA Bisnese Badminton Player

combination Sanch Var. The Olympics

nankwra and Prachaub

Murananda, who beat the Of majority of Hongkong's

Ancient

best partnerships It Greece

week won further laurels

in Canton on Saturday

HAD ONLY ONE REFEREE

when they beat Chau and THEY Sze To, the nominated Canton Citizens Club pair in straight sets of 6-2, 6-4. Thus Sanoh and Prechaub will return to Siam with as fine a playing record as any touring!"

Siamese Tennis tennis players to visit Hongkong.

Players

Kowloon Tong Garden City Club will be hosts to the Siamese tennis players, this evening when the main attrac- tion of the programme will be a series of badminton matches in which the visitors and local! players will participate.. Prachaub Murnananda, Sanoh Var nankwra and Munng Reong all play a Last very useful game of badminton.

| evening, after returning from Canton, they put in some practice and showed promising form.

This is their impressive record since Saturday week:

Athens.

years

Big Features Of This Week's Tennis

Schedule And Prospect

(By "Veritas")

One of the most important features of this week's league tennis will be Kowloon Cricket Club's attempt to lower the colours of C.R.C. (1) potential champions of the "B" Division. The teams meet at Causeway Bay ex Wednesday, and although the visitors will be allowed a slight chance of winning, C.R.C. are cx- pected to win.

Our Daily Golf Hint

a

In playing from the rough grass, the fault of most players is that they handicap themselves by mowing swath before reaching the ball. There is no need to do anything of the kind.

-E. Roy.

YESTERDAY'S LAWN BOWLS

Two Rinks Matches

None of the players in yesterday's During Greece's golden

Whether or not K.C.C. will make open Rink's championship of the world arnilstien was proclaimed by the three chief princes before Olympic further experiments with their third Colony match between J. J. Basta and Games competitions were held.

pair remains to be seen. Last week C. B. Robertson touched true form. they introduced Poglass with Mackay All found the heavy green trouble- The first Olymple Games were clone and the combination gave a certain some and scoring was notably slow.

Basto's rink won easily by 21 to 10, ly associated with religion and the amount of promise. But if K.C.C.

pening day of the competition always are to win they must have at least the losers scoring singles on eight was devoted to holy rites.

one set from their third string. It heads. The winners registered a four! is possible, though the odds ar on one head, but for the most pari against them, that Burnett and scored only twos. Ranisey and Crawford and Gray can collect four sets between them.

beat Tsui Wai-pui and Tsui Yun-

The Games were regularly carried pui 8-6, 4-6, 8-6.

beat E. Fincher and G. Bolkeren until the conquest of Greece by the Romans who prevented the competi- tions us a precautionary mensura.

7-5, 1-6, 6-2.

bent 1. D. ftumjaha and A. H. Madar 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.

bent A. V. Gesnae and A. V. Re. medios G-1, 1-6, 6-3.

bent Taui Wai-pul and Taul Yun- pui (in official exhibition) 6-1, 6-2.

beat Chau and Sze To (Canton) 6-2, 6-1.

All public reunions were at first prohibited by the Romans.

FULL PROGRAMME

be

The Hellunodiki wore official scarlet robes during the Games which lasted!is will be specially reported

The Portuguese are conceded a faint 30 days compared with the 15 days of competitions in the modern meetings Their seats were higher than those of the spectators.-United Press.

TO-DAY

Mixed Doubles

A.

Winning rink was composed of C. M. Silva, G. L. Basto, F.-X. Soares and 3. J. Hasto (skip) the losers be ing E. 3. Carter, G. S. Graver A. There is the usual full programme Webster and C. B. Robertson (akip).

This after- The decline of the Olymple Games arranged for the week.

R. P. Phillips rink of F. noon twa mixed doubles matches are Broadridge, 8, J. Houghton, W. Gealt continued until 303 A.D.

lue to be settled. K.C.C. (visits himself as skip completely out The first Olympic Games had one Recreio and should win, the Cox played C. Dawman's four comprising

The Hellanolike. Road combination appearing do referee known as The 50th Olympiad saw the introdur somewhat better balanced. Kowloon and himself as skip by 30 shots to W. Greig, C. Blacltburn, T. funter MUANG HOLDS LAI

tion of a second Hellanodike., Sub-Cricket Club second team recelvel unsequently the Gantes became more U.S.R.C., and the Services must win. nine. Muang Reong also remained

The big match in the "A" Division defenteil at singles. At the Canton complicated and the lellanodiki be-

The Kowloon Cricket Club rink to-morrow is that between Chinese| Citizens Club on Saturday he shared came ton,

Recreation Club (1) and Recreio. scored heavily on the early heads and two sets with bai Kwong-tsun, the

by during the match registered five fours. Canton champion. Lat, playing fault-j

"Veritny." less tennis on a hard court, won the first set 6-3, the Siamese being unable They felt some difficulty in change to control his shots on a surface which

chance of winning, but if farm courts gower are bound to beat University for anything the Chinese will win by and 1.R.C. should be too strong for about 6-3.

Central British. ng their court tactics as in Siam they was foreign to him.

In the second set Muang made

According to official fixtures C.R.C.

Here is the full programme for always play with three on each side splendid recovery to win at 6-2. The

have two home engagements

to this week. of the not-two to guard the fore-natch was left unfinished at this court and one at the bagdine. In stage as Muang was feeling the effecla not be raised to an Interport atatus. morrow, though I don't know whether Chief impressions left by the play- they will be able to fulfil them as they Hongkong, however, the Europeas of his energetic week.

Muang has played four singles ers have been their fine sporting de- have now but a limited number of of the style of doubles, with two players matches during the past seven days. meanour both on and off the court, the courts owing to a section naide, is followed.

He first of all fed S. A. Rumijahn in a fotentialities of Muang Reong as a ground being taken over for a lawn game at the 1.R.C. 0-7, and 3-1, then singles player of distinction, and the bowls green.

C.R.C. (2) are at home to South! LIKE HIS TENNIS

bent A. V. Gosano of Club de terreio skilful strategy of Sanoh Varankwra, Sanch's delicate shots were proto-6-3, 6-3, defeated S. A. Runjahn in the Hongkong can point to a host of play- China and this should provide sone official exhibition on Friday 6-3, 1-0,ers whose court-eruft has car-marked interesting tennis. The teams appear chances of the That in 1928 Lee Wai- of his tennis. He also revealed 6-3, and in Canton drew with Lai 3-6 them as players of cutstanding ability to be extremely well matched, but I

one thinks of Ne, Sze-kwong, 6. E. rather fancy the a good overhead. Munng prefers the 0-2

Mr. and Mrs. Vilas Osatananda ac-Green, Honda, Sirdar Rumjahn, Taui King's Park outfit. captain of China's faster style of play but his shots are tong,

K.C.C. should win against United companied the players to Canton, who, Wai-pul and others. But it is doubl Olympic football team, play-os quite so well developed as those on Saturday evening were entertained ful whether any of them practised the Services and it is hard to imagine ed a football match în of his colleagues.

to dinner by Mr. S. C. Man, chief of salstieties of the game with greater R.C. failing to beat the Cricket Club.

skill or better effect than Sanoh, the Bureau of Public Works. sandstorm attired in a

Canton "A"number" of prominent local league After-returning from

expressed Muang Reong's stroke" "production:

In addition to the match between Helmet, gloves, and players will play unlches with the yesterday, the playera

When he C.R.C, and K.C.C. in the "B" Division Siamese this evening including J. J. themselves well satisfet with their and use of his feet make him a most

visit to Hongkong and with the results attractive player to watch. plus-fours.

However, has strengthened his forehand anden Wednesday, another engagement Remedios and M. A. Oliveira of Club of their tennis matches.

tumed the drop, and some spin strokes, he Service, a very useful team, entertain He revealed this recently in an in-de Recreio, S. A. Rumjahn of V.R.C. they feel they have played enough developed subsidiary shots such as of some importance is scheduled. Civil terview with the Singapore Sunday The Indies who will share in mixed

present he has strokes and knows son's title. will rank as a very fine player. At Club de Recreio, who are and S. A. Gray of Kowloon Tong. tennis for some little time.

he has excellent physique, is among the "Possibles" for this sea- Tribune, adding that the conditions

There is no doubt that longkong how to make the best use of the court. Nevertheless Recreio will have to were such that whenever the ball was doubles games are Miss A. Maclenzio kicked high, the wind would send the of Kowloon Tong, Miks C. Silva, Miss

in the be on their best behaviour to over- generally was taken by surprise when Ribeiro

Prachub's performances of the visitors Inst week continued to

their ball backwards towards their own M. Silva and Miss

show such consistently good form. doubles matches have been extremely come the Civil Servants, who goal. All shots had to be ground shots Recreio. ̧*

They quickly dispelled all ideas that creditable, particularly his finishing particularly useful said Lee, adding too the interesting

The remainder of the programme 8.30 and Colony tennis was vastly, if at all, shots from the net. Ranong's game courts. information that the forwards" could not distinguish their own defenders include men's doubles and mixed superior to the best in Siam, and has clearly benefited from the ex-

there is now no reason why any fu-perience of playing against many of suggests obvious results. C.R.C. (2) should beat the Cricket Club, Craigen- through the swirling aand.

ture visits from Stamese teains should the Colony's leading exponents.

0.

nt The matches start

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"D" Division

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"GIVE YOUTH A CHANCE" CRICKET PLEA CAN BE OVERDONE: WHERE ARE THE PLAYERS?

THERE has seldom been a time in first-class cricket as is the vice; some had not the faith to fight against a few fallures; others, possi case to-day. On the one hand we hear the lament that the ply more numerous, have stood still On the other hand for the reason that as soon as they younger players are not coming forward.. there is the cry, "Drop the old men and give the youngsters a made a few big scores, and secured chance" writes "Watchman" in the Sunday Observer.

a place in a county side, they ima wined that they knew cricket from A.

a player should to Z. whereas they only knew it from No one will deny that there is the age at which justice as well as policy behind the have arrived," have considerably A to B. They got no farther because, [with self-satished smile they closed Give Youth a Chance" plea. But altered. The greatest players had must always be borne in mind that established themselves as England the book and declined to open it again. of recent seasons youth has frequent men by the time they wore half way These are some of the causes why the ly let its advocates down. It is one through the twenties. Nowadays it game contains so many half-way cric- thing to say that men of over forty is common to hear a batsman who is eters, the mark-time brigade, the should be placed on the compulsory approaching the thirties spoken of as men rich in promise without fulment.

CONFLICTING COACHING There is much talk of retired ist. It is another thing to "promising.

To-day there stand among us many find the younger men capablo, to all with more experience." And In cer their places:

tain cases players who are of obvious young men who, in the natural course we should have lost a accomplishment, and who have al-of events, should reach the heights. Already great deal of pleasure this season if ready "come of age," have been kept There must be something in a bats- Hendren, now in his forty-eighth back from the county sides because man who, fresh from his school cle- can take A hundred off the year, had been exiled to the outer they are "too young." Yet when ven, darkness of umpiring or coaching. In S. Jackson scored a century against Gloucestershire bowlers as W. Mur- his opening game against Yorkshire Australia in a Test match as a Cam-ray-Wood did for Oxford. And on he made over 70 runs when batsmen, bridgo Blue the people of his day did the county ground staffs, as well as who by this time in their careers not imagine that a miracle had hap-at the schools and the universities, should have sclipsed him, were fail-pened; nor did those of a later period there are numbers of players who Ing hopelessly. In the next match regard J. W. Hearne as a phenomenon demonstrate clearly that England has against Surrey be was concerned in when he troubled the Australian bow-not ceased to breed the best kind of a long stand with the young player lera for 114 at Melbourne au-Eng- aricket physique, the fine qualities Edrich, who last year proved himself land's "number three" batsman some of eye which marked other genera- gooil enough to score a century weeks before his twenty-first birth- tions, the cricket against the South Africans. Yet it day. Such instancea could be multi-British pluck. Some of them will be kept out of first-class matches be- WRA the veteran who showed theplied. atroko quleknons, the mastery, the A dismal side of England's cricket cause of the necessity to earn bread power of attack, the young man who history since the war has been, pro-and butter in other fields. That is found himself compelled to wait for vided by the number of players who a story familiar through the years. the rank bad ball before he could in their early season showed signs It is probable, too, that all conches score. And on the same day the of potential greatness, but who sud. and county committees have not ye ancient Mead, fifty, next birthday, denly ceased to progress. Some, per- sumclent enlightenment to see the wan discovered, making by far the haps, lacked the head to support their folly of stifling a bateman's natural changed game because it is possible to get out most runs for Hampshire.

physical attributes; some

(Continued on Page 9.) Thore is no doubt that our ideas of their game because of mleguided ad-

mind,

R.S.C. C.B.A. S.C.A.X

A.T.C.

v, K.LT.C. v. P.R.C.

v. LE.C.

TO-DAY'S LAWN BOW IS MATCHES

In Open Pairs Championship

Ten matches in the lawn bowls pair championship of the Colony will be settled this afternoon H tho weather remains fine.

The full programme follows.

OPEN PAIRS

C. Roza-Pereira and C. G. Silva-

v. A. Steven and J. A. R. Selby (K.B.G.C. Green)

F. A. Machado and H. F. Rozario v. J. MacDonald and A. M. Holland (Kowloon Dock Green)

M. I Walker and H. II. Rose v. 1. A. R. Souza and W. V. Field (H.K.P.C. Green).

T. Coleman and G. N. Mitchell v. E. el Arculli and D. Rumjahn (K.C.C. Green)

J. Hollidge and P. E Knight v. C. J. Tacchi and R. Basa (Talkoo R. C. Green)

N. J. Bebbington and A. Hyde- Lay v. A. M. Omar and U. M. Omar (Recreio Green)

A. E Contes and J. Cavanagh v. 8. M. Rumjan and A. M. Wahab (Police R. C.

Č. Green)

Orem and J. 8. Riddell v. W. Greig and W. Mair (LR.C. Green) A. R. Minu and 8..0. Bux v. L. Glendinning and J. S. Shepherd

(C.C.C. Green)

D. M. Khan and M. R. Abbas v. H. E. Strange and R. R.. Wood (ILK. Electric Green)

All matches are due to start at 5 o'clock.

HOME CRICKET

CHAMPIONSHIP TABLE

London, June 13. Rain throughout the country pre- county vented many of to-day's cricket matches from being started. There was no play in the following fixtures:

Surrey v. Essex, Derbyshire v. Yorkshire, Lancashire v. Middlesex, Worcestershire v. Northamptonshire, Oxford v. Leicestershire, Cambridge v. Free Forcaters, Nottinghamshire v All Indin, and the Test Trial between the North arid South of England at Lord's.

Gloucestershire, playing against Glamorgan, scored 16 runs for one wicket when rain "stopped further play.

"Somerset put up 100 runs against Kent, Freeman taking six for 60, and. Kent replied with a score of 22 for one wicket.

In the match between Sussex and Warwickshire, the former made 199 for four wickets-Reuter.

CHAMPIONSHIP TABLE

1st inne No Pts WLW LRes Poss Obi Per

3 1

Kent Derby Mex.. Surrey Hampshire

Notti Yorkshire Warwick

Fancx ... Jancashire

Ilcester

Gloucester

Worroller. Sonæreothe Glamorgan

Northampton

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