1936-06-18 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1936.

C.R. C. REMOVE ANOTHER BIG OBSTACLE

In Quest For Tennis League Championship

BOUSSUS LOSES HIS' RANKING STATUS

Mdme. Mathieu of France, ance again among the select "eeded" sight of the women's tennis championship at Wimbledon, and (right) Boussss of France, who this year is denied that privilege.

Perry Is

Favoured

By The Draw

Wimbledon Title Holder To

Meet Americans

6.

Only five of last year'sright He has no Wimbledon record, "seeded" players will enjoy the same distinction at Wimbledon which starts next Monday, Boussus, Menzel and Sydney Wood are superseded by Bitsy Grant, U.S.A., Adrian Quist, Australia and Donald Budge, U.S.A.

and as Metirath last year found his way to the quarter-finals one would have expected to see him "seedfel" this time.

The draw, made yesterday, is de- finity in favour of Fred Parry, hobis er of the men's singles tid. Il i due Lo meet Grant, diminutive Ameri- can, making his initial apgearance at Werton, in the quarter-finals, and this Badge or Quist in the semi- Anala.

Van Granim, 1935 rimner-up, has the ntlife task. His quarter-fint oppon- cut, if the "send" works out according to expectations will be Jack Crawford, and after that he should oppose either Auilin or Winter Allison.

Are

*** Mile," Jedzrejowskn. Mrs. Sarah

Lizana Fabyan and Senorita ngw "seeded" players in the 30- nier's singles. They take the places of Miss Joan Hartigan, Australia, Mrs. Helen Wills-Mondy, USA., and Miss Peggy Seriven, Britain.

ANOTHER_JACOBS-ROUND FINAL?

There seems to be excellent chance of another 1934 Jacobs-Hound Anal. Miss Helen Jacobs, Inst year's runner- up is at the top of thứ draw aut in due to meet the Chilean champion, Senorita Lizana in the quarter-finals and wither Miss Stammers or Mlle, Miss Jedzrejowaka in the semi-finals. Round is at the bottom of the draw, with

of opposing Mdm. prospects Sperling in the inat eight and either i -Malmu, Matirimu-or-Mrs. Fatryan in-the-

semi-final.

GRANTS_BIG_HONOUR. Bidge by virtue of his szecess at Wimbledon last year when, although If the players are true to their "unseeded" he reached the Inst eight, ranking and survive to the semi-finals, fully deserves his ranking this year, there will be some magnificent matches while Quint is given this distinction in the men's doubles, Hughes and clearly in account of his brilliant-per-Tuckey, briliant British Davis Cup. formances during the last twelve combination, are scheduled to play Al months. Grant is very much honour-| lison and Van Ryn, while in the other ed by being included in the elect

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London, June 17 The "seeded" draw for Wimbledon was made towlay, the outcome, na eable by Reuter, being as follows.

1935.

MEN'S SINGLES

F. J. Perry (G.B.) holder Bryan-Grant (U.S.A.)

A. Quist (Australia)

D. Bunige (USA)

I. W. Austin (G.B.)

• W. Allison (U.S.A.)

• J. Crawford (Australia)

• G. Von Cramm" (Germany)

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WOMEN'S SINGLES

• Miss H. Jneobs (U.S.A.) Senorita Lizana (Chile) Miny K. Stammera_(G.IL) Mlle. Jedzrejowska (Poland) Mdm. Mathieu (France)

Mr. Sarah Fahyar (US.A.)

EASILY BEAT K.C.C.

UNIVERSITY

CAUSE BIG UPSET

(By "Veritas")

Chinese Recreation Club's senior combination in the "B" Division of further -the ti Irague gave

evidence of their invincibility yes terday when they defeated Kowloon Cricket Club by al sets to three

Our Daily Golf Hint

Any effort to change the natural loft of the club-ince in order to get more distance is a very bad and serious mistake.

-Charles Evans,

used thus removed another of their GIMBLETT

big obstacles in the quest for kle honourke,

K.C.C. could, and should, have done

better. But they appeared to

take

the courts confidently anticipating

ANOTHER HOBBS?

their doom and the match was as rood SHOWS BRILLIANT

PROMISE

as won and lost after the first three sets. They made a helited effort to tain late. The recover, ut resuit was kept alive until the last! 6.0. Allen came out of his first round which CI started lending public trial as a captain with marked four sets to twen, But Ramsey and Hurnett failed for a second time and the Careway Bay outfit run out com fortable winners.

moke any

effective reply to Chinese stolid type of game,

distinction.

FRANCE HOPES

TO WIN OLYMPIC ROWING LAURELS GOOD TALENT

Paris. Confident that they stand a good chance of scoring two Olympic, victories at Berlin, France's rowers are seriously * training to be in top form when

the Games open in August. "France, will participate in five of the seven rowing eveals," Maurizi Mahut, president of the French Row- | ing Federation, tok Cailed Press, think we stand a very good chance

of

| four-ong two events; the two and

with coxwains,

Msha picks the United States and

AFTER BARE

Italy to give France a very close LEGS,

batile in

event while the two-Dar Hungary and Germany, ho-snys, will, furnish the strongest opposition in the feur par race,

Roger Taic and Edouard Fourcade of the Racing Club de Bone, Algiers, of France, will prescut champions

make up the two-our team. They wo the title by turning th the fast tium of 7 69.6" for 2,000 metres. If they can duplicate that performance Berlin they might very well capture the Olympic title as it betters by many

tends the winning Uime of 8o 26,8* set by the American team of Jack Schauers and Charles Kieffer nl Los Angelea in 1832.

FOUR OAR TEAM'

BARE FEET

New Style In Tennis "Wear

"

The controversy which arose a few

ago as to whether stockings or no stockings" should, be worn nt Wimbledon died down quickly and bure legs are now accepted court

The public did not know at the the that the reason he did not make more use of Peebles bowling was because of a slight muscle strain; and 15,1e of Wyatt because at the time

The four-car team, which is counted Middlesex championships at Chiswick J. Notley, playing in the Wyatt had a thigh musele strain that was bad eitough for a medical man upon to score the second triumph for the other day carried the logic of the Choito hint that he might not be able to the Tricolour, is the Van Dernatt bruiden a little further and, in order to sub-bowl again this season. I am gladers, Fernand and Marcel, Louis get a firmer foothold for the use of Cosmat and Bernard Chauvigne free movements, took of her shoes.

to say it is not so bad as that.

WDS

DASHING START

C.R.C. mindo a dashing start. Ping-fan and La Man-kwong, sequently beaten by Crawford and

Allen showed great soundness in They have been French champions for She won her match, Gray; trounced Burnett and Rumsey keeping Sims on for so long. It is two years pad were second in the It remains to be seen whether I six-long, the visitors being unable to merely a malen tullacy, unsupported European championships. The best will be a ease of "others pienso copy,"

theby a little of evidence, that a spin time they ever turned in for the dis

howler cannot, ne should not. be used tance

6′ ~49.8". That Lime jus a stock bowler..

was excelled only once at the Gamer

was by the Italian team. and that 1928, Germany, who was the event

719". French tenis is not 'yel in 1932.

To the three otherį

Vincent Saurin, French sculls cham bion since 1930, will probably be the French representative in this event. His beat time in 81 58;8", but that was

On another court

were

Crawford and A bowler of Sims' casy, quiet action Gray lost the first three games to futan low! "to hours," as he proved Tak-mm and Luk Chun-cheong and just as well towards the end of

in this game when he was bowing in arrears before they spells as he did at any time, obtained in break-through and levelled at four-all. They looked likely win- uers at this stage, but things went wrong for them again and the Chinese labbed their way to victory on Gray's service.

MODERN FAITH

in 1920

IR

certain.

Indian Cricketers Refuse

way back in 1930 and revor duplicsted | Dinner

Where Allen's handling. of his tenur in the field was open to criticism was when he did not use a fast and a

since. Mahut picks him to finish slow combination enough; and in the among the Brat four. Įplacings of his field, his ships espec- The double sculls team will un- The visitors showed all-round im- [ally. He showed the usual modern duabtedly be Pierre Jacquet and Robert Bernett and faith in third slip, a position where Giriat, French champicns. Their beat proyement after this.

ala placed the fielder has nothing to do in three time is 7 19 They Ramsey snatched a set from Lee Yue- innings out of four, while he never third in the European championships. wing and Leang Ping-chui in the stationed the "double gulleys," which As in the single sculls, Mahut is twelfth game,

while Crawford and is one of the two most certain places confident that they will finish with

in the behind-wicket the leaders.. catenes Gray were always ahead of Choi and fur

The eight-car team will probably Lau, finalis winning G-4 after Craw-country,

Also, when the Indians were lash- be picked from eight of ten cand ford had missed an easy smash; when Ing out he made no use of the posidades Emile Lecuiret. Inuls Devillie, holding set point at 5-3. There was a tion of a leider about 25 yards be- Alphonse Bouston, Roger Antillat, terrific struggle for this ninth game, hind second slip, and to his right, Pierre Rigau, Alfred Pleta, Roger more than a dozen deuce points be- either for his own or for Bowes not Sourharce, Jean Rouge, Rene Reeanne

exactly county championship attack. I and Joseph Desvergens. V

Very weak in played.--

These who adversely criticised in the two and four-ears without Allen in this game seem to have gone exawain, France will not send teams

Lord's to do so. Their comments, to Berlin.

In the concluding sets, Iu and Luk

• Mdm.. Sperling (Germany)

set about Ramsey and Burnett 10 Miss Round (G.B.)

polish off things in quick time, win Indicates they were "needed" in ning 6-1, while Mackay and Poglase could not offer effective resistance to

MEN'S DOUBLES

J;

and Crowford (Australia) holders

A.

D. Budge and G. Mako (U.S.A.) G. P. Hughes and C.R.D. Teckey (G.B.)

ever, had to concede another set to

THE BIGGEST UPSET

to

if they reach the selectors of the team for Australia, fortunately will be as drizzle on a mallurd's back.

Invitations

For reasons of health the Indlan cricket team have had to decline dozens of Invitations to lunches and eeremonial dinners."

The M.C.C. banquet which they attended recently was probably their last big function before the end of their tour.

"The team cannot possibly accept all the Invitations extended them." one of the team managers told the News Chronicle.

"It is our duty Ju_keep_ilie.roen åt for cricket, and you cannot do that on rich foods. They are not undergoing any special dict, but they naturally WILL BE FIRST SINCE 1909 prefer Indian curries and foods. If the French win at Berlin they "We want the players to rest as will have scored their first victories much as possible, and that was why lias cricket found another Hobbs in an Olympic meeting since 1000 we turned down the invitation of the down Taunton way? Who can say when they took two events: four-onra Lord Mayor of Bradford to a dinner Chol and Lau. Lee and Leung, how-yet? The undoubted fact that there and seulls. At Los Angeles in 1932 at Bradford on June 6.

M they were represented by two teamsti During their stay In London the Quist Crawford and Gray, who played punch, and aggression with

better and better as the match pro-straight bat, in Gimbleit's armoury two-oars with coxswain which placed Indians are being served with menus

points that way.

third pa gressed.

and two-ours without coxswain which are predominantly "vegetable." For if ever there was bowling in unplaced.

Mr. Hermann Linder, chief chef of crickel's history that shrieked for Preparations are underway in each the Great Central Hotel, where the punitive treatment it is about ninely of the individual clubs in Francs lean le staying, gave-the-following- Last week's defeat of Craigengower per cent. of county cricket bowling which number about 200, On specimen menua 10 the News W. Allison and J. Van Ryn | by C.R.C, was more or less expected, to-day.

June 28 the Franch champion Chronicle. (U.S.A.)

but nobody anticipated the University Never was there such a plentiful ships will be held nt Suranes, Breakfast. Fresh fruit, fried eggES repeating the achievement yesterday, supply of bad bails, offering fours on Parls suburb, whereupon the and tomatoes and occasional vege- They beat Craigongawer by 5% sets a silver platter as there is to-day. Olympic team will then be handed table curries. to 3 and caused the biggest sur. Continue, Gimblett, you'll never bore over to the Federation trainer who Lunch-Vegetable soup, hors prise of the day.

any lover of real batting.

will take them to Samois, nene Fon-d'oeuvre, fish vegetable cullets You have John Danfell to thank talnbleau, during the month of July curried vegetables with new potatoes, Craigengower restored Leonard for the golden opportunity of being for the final workouts preparatory apple lan or fruli salad, tea. and Hachiama to their old-time Bent in Brst. Every cricket field, the to going to Berlin:

Dinner. Thlet vegetable |partnership and it earned three sets world over, is now open to you. Mahut sees one eure and another curried fish with vegeinbles or roast

for the team. But the other pairs

N.B.-nw might the M.C.C. match probable United States win at the lamb, fee pudding, coffee. failed badly, Zimmern and Choa saf have gone had Hindlekar appealed Games. He said, "The United States "Plenty of vegetables is what they fering an amazing debacle to lose all for a catch when Human had made ought to win 8-our event and fight want," said Mr. Linder. "They de- three nets.

40? The wicketkeeper thought the it out with England in the double mand Patna rice with their hot ball had touched the pad. Human sculls. England should win the two-curries, pompaduna (iluky pancakes) University owed much to Y.C. Lauid he hit the ball. Holmes con- oars without coxswait and fight and a morsel of Bombay duck in their and T.K. Liig and P.C. Lee and H.Narming. It made well over 140 runs out with Switzerland in the four-cars meat curries. Leg, who won two sets each, but it

"Incidentally, they are a nice set without coxswain while the Australian was the excellent balance of the team difference to the total-as well as a

Pearce should repeat in the sculls.

of fellows." which gave them such a creditable follow-on for the Indians.

ASCOT RACING

Guinea Gap Wins Hunt Cup

Ascot, June 17. The result of the Hunt Cup was as follows:

Guinea Ghp. (Jones); 28 to 1 Voltus, (Barber), 33 to 1 Rosecrag, (E. Smith), 33 to 1

Thirty, une ran.

The race was won by half length and there

tie anne sistance between second and third.

was

win.

con- 'Craigengower must now be sidered completely out of

the run ning for any of the honours. Recreio remain biggest mennee to C.R.C. (1),| Other starters included Galvani They just beat Civil Service at Hoppy, (Nevett), Fresh Fox (Whiteside), Valley yesterday, but it was, touch and Canteener (K. Robertson), Screamer | go, the result resting on the odd set. (Sharples), Misanthrope(Curtis), Recreio remain top of the league Scutter Cash (D. Smith), Yorkshire, table on sets average which is slightly man (Couch), Revelation (Evans), į better than C.R.C.“ Greek Abbot (Mitchell),

Papyrette, Japetus, Theft, Boethius, Hypothesis, Reveille, Red Raider were non starters-Reuter.

Another creditable achievement was that of C.R.C. (2), the “over-40" team, who entertained and beat Hong- kong Cricket Club by the odd set. The success as made all the more zweeter by reason of the fact that the winning not wor-eredited to the homester'a third pair, who were ast

NEW DISCUS RECORD expected to win a set.

German Girl Improves On

Own World Mark

Recreio C.R.C. (1) The women's world record for K.C.C. discus throwing, held by Fraulein) C.S.C.C. Mauermayer of Germany, was im- C.R.C. (2) proved by her yesterday by more¡ H.K.U.T.C. than metres when she hurled the C.C.C. discus to a distares of 47.00 metres...R.C Her previous mark, established last H,K.C.C. $2. year, wus 41.70 metres-favos: .C.B.A.

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