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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1936.

GENIUS OF HELEN JACOBS WINS WIGHTMAN CUP

MARESTARESTFUZZIEZI

DIVING WAY INTO OLYMPICS

U.S. Trials Begin

New York, July 7. The two-day final try-outs for places on the American Olympic diving and water polo teams begin here to-day.

United Press.

Members of the British and American Wightman Cup team pose for the camera at Wimbledon just before the player met in their annual match. Randing from left to right. Miss Helen Jacobs, Mrs. J. Van Ryn, Miss Caro line Babcock and Mrs. Sarah Fabyan (U.S.A.). Miss Freda James, Miss Doraily Round, Miss E. M. Hardwich, Mise Dearman, Miss Nancy Lyla and Miss Kay Stammers (Britain).

FOOTBALL LAW

ALTERED

Wolves' Profit For Last Season

At the anal meeting of the Inster- national Football

Troon, in alterntim

made.

LAWN BOWLS

CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHES

The following were the results in yesterday's lawn bowels championship

matches

Board, brbi at A. S, Gomes

to Law 7 was

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Under the new law the ball,. N. Mitchell 2 W. Mulcany from goal-tek, must be fireet into the field of play. Previous fy it could he tauhid to the goal- keeper,

Inst

OPEN SINGLES

21 R. Bastu (after 31 heads)

20

14

(after 20 bends)

. E. Noronha 21

D. Rumjahn Efter 19 hends)

10

A. Byde-Lag 21 A. S. Russell

17

(after 23 heads)

A. E. Carey

22 J. E. Lanny (after 27 heads)

19

13

A. M. Omar 21 W. V. Field

(after 23 heads)

Nuneaton and Bristol Rovers have been elected to the Birmingham and District League at the annual inrej- ing. Nuneaton were members Gesson, and after resigning decided to P. E. Knight 21 C. Champelovier 19 carry on. Rhys Athletic wit not be playing members next season. have applied for admission Cheshire County League,

They

to the

(after 23 heads) OPEN PAIRS

W. Grieg and W. Male 18; A. B Contes and J. Cavanagh 10.

Wolverhampton Wanderers made a year's working of £1,874, bal Bhot Is record profit last season of £17,799,countered by the fact that no less transfer more than twice the previous highest than £8047 was spent on profit the club has recorded. Profit fees. Such a sum has never been ap- on transfer fees Was more thanproached before by Luton, and prob-

£10,000.

bly not by any Third Division club.

Port Vale, who were relegated ali More than £200 in debt three years the end of last season, suffered a les | ago, Casuals F.C., the Amateur Cup of £1,046 on last year's working. holders, now have a credit balance of

Luton Town report a loss on the £1,130 19s. 11.

McEWAN-YOUNGER DARTS

LEAGUE

At the half way stage, the holders-Lycemun-maintain their proud position with 50 points out of a possible 70. As they still have to meet cannot relax their the C. & F. O.'s (Ilome and away fixtures) They efforis,

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A LAST HALF-HOUR THAT WILL LIVE IN MEMORY

(By Billie Yorke)

World famous as probably the best British dunhiee player of her generation.

I have just left the Centre Court at Wimbledon after seeing the most thrilling final set in a women's doubles match that I On this set hung the have ever witnessed in my tennis carcer.

fate of the Wightman Cup for another year, and though Kay Stammers and Freda James lost it in the end at 7-5, they saved two match points at 5-4 against them and went on to fight most gallantly to the very last point.

And until that point was over

no one knew what might happen. As it is, I shall never forget the ex-j eltement of that last half-hour as long as live.

Three matches all-set all-three games all surely there has never been such a neck and neck finish. It was only Helen Jacobs's genius for the game that made Just the difference when the last crisis of all came.

the court than is her wont.

But I have a shrewd suspleton that she will play much better in the Wimbledon championships. One more victory now and the match was ours. If only Mary Hard- wick could celebrate her first ap- perante in the Wighthian team by winning..

The bandage on the knee that she hurt in practice did not seem to be making much difference to her Earlier in the afternoon she had mobility. At the same time, although been disappointing-but let me start she was serving well she was ob- at the beginning.

viously nervous at first, and in con- It was strange to see the Centre | sequence: unable to keep the rallies Court stands half-empty, when Kay going for more than three shots, Stammers and Sarah Fabyan came

WEAKNESS out far the match. The atmosphere seemed somehow less electric and less Inspiring than during the Wim- bledon championships or the Davis Cup contest.

RAIN AGAIN

Mrs. Fabyan's placing of the Sail

delight to watch.

wag

Again and again she caught Kay on the wrong foot or hit a winner Into her backhand corner. It wasn't

that Kay was playing poorly or that she had reacted from her great win

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The chip shot with all clubs in an arm and shoulder shot. with no roll of the forearms.

-Charles Evans, Jr.

OH KAY!

MISS STAMMERS' BRILLIANCE

GREAT CAME WITH HELEN JACOBS

(By Frank Poxun)

London, June 18. There was some grand lawn tennis in the Wightman Cup contest between the women players of Britain and the United States yesterday on the Centre Court at Wimbledon. The Birst set in the match between Miss K-E-Starmere-and-Miss Helen Jacobs was the best I have ever seen In women's lawn tennis.

SOFT COURTS DID NOT HELP

YESTERDAY'S

HONGKONG SOCCER IS "CLEANER"

BIG SUCCESS OF CAMPAIGN

REVEALS H.K.F.A.

REPORT

The success

of the

ILK.F.A.' drive to clean up

local football

the Association's

claimed in annual "re-

port just issued. The claim

is substantiated by figures which show that whereas in 1984-36 110 less than 28 be serious offences had to dealt with by the Emergency Committee, last season this figure was reduced to 12.

Reason for this encouraging state of affairs can be traced to the chreu- Iarised appeal hande before the start of the season plue the "strong hand" polley adopted by the Emergency Committee when dealing with offen- ders,

This is emphasised in which observes:

Clubs

the

report

and players liice M141 appreciate that the Emergency Com

LEAGUE TENNISitter have given the utmost support

C. R. C. WIN EASILY

.

Courts were soft for the mixed

ecme

to referees who brought to their notfer the examples of bad sportamanalıip on part of players and have not hesitat ed to mete pat punishment mensurate with un offence in their endeavour to assist towards the uplift in the standard of conduct of some of the players on the field.

There is no doubt that the strong action tukerds the end of the 1934/35 by the Emergency Com- doubles league match yesterday bes

mittée tween

K.C.C. (2) and Chinese season, the appeals to players for Recreation Club, and, probably be more sporting and gentlemanly play cause of that, the tennis suffered. and the good example set by many of Certainly few of the players did the players themselves, resulted in a themselves Justice.

standard of behaviour of the field in Clark

Mrs. McCaw started the past season, which, while it stil! improvement, strongly and bravely for the home. leaves team and won a set against tu Tak | promises well for the good name of cheuk and Mrs. Chiu Chun-chlu. But Association Football in this Colony in the effort appeared to take something the future. out of them for they conceded long leads in their next two sets.

Mrs.

room

for

eliminate, ure which

year, is

taxing Aomclats,

the

The only unhappy note struck in the report concerns the financial re- McCaw was at her best in the salt of the year's working. Debit long rallies several times bringing balance totals $3,387.51. To an exchange of strokes to a successful or at least reduce, this figure en hy getting in a full length recurs every other drive which clipped the baselines.

ingenuity of Clark's ground strokes were fluent although on this point the report and efficacious, but he was inconsistent makes no observation. It is a difficult Miss Stammers opened shakily and from the forecourt, missing many vital and delicate question, a possible points through faulty volleying. answer to which may entail wholesale Miss Jacobs led 3-0.

C.R.C. were without Tsui Wat-pui, revision of but this made no essential difference to

The adoptivisting rules.

of a system of fines the result. Fu, except for some in for infringement of rules may be one judicious advances to half court where way of helping things, though it is he was several times caught at his more likely clubs will feel better dis- feel.

posed towards the alternative scheme proved a worthy deputy. Nice displays were given by the of a levy on all gate receipts, C.R.C. lady players, the improvement

་

Then the English girl found her real form and played brilliantly, her forte being constant attack..

She took risks but that is part of her game.

Agala, she was not pressing home Miss Slammers was behind at 2-4 r advantage quickly enough when and 3-4 and then drew up to 5 all she got her opponent out of court. and then 65. She was hended This was because she still takes again at 6-7, but she never ceased too late ball on the forchand,

to attack.

If she is ever lo be crowned champion at Wimbledon she must eradicate this weakness. At pre- sent she suffers from over-clabora- tion of stroke production, and this interferes with her fighting abili iles,

With Miss Stammers leading 10--J she had three set points.

Miss Jacobs anved one...

ibree

and it was to all.

twa

I have never seen a more courage- ous night than that put up by Miss

All the same, I think it was a mag-Jacolis in suving those points.

She fought magnificently, but so did Miss Stammers.

on Friday, but her opponent was nificent effort on Mary's part to win much better.

the second tel after losing the first, After America had won the Brst and in the second being behind all set and were one-all in the second, the

way up to 1-all. down came the rain again, and there This was the most exciting game was a wait for twenty minutes. in the match. Miss Babcock and the When they resumett Kay continued advantage three times, but failed to to be wild off the ground, while Mrs. clinch the vital

point, and Mary Fabyan never failed to put the ball served no fewer than three doubles away when she came to the net. before she finally crossed over lend-

What an exquisite volleyer she is!ling 6-1.

Then a shower of rain delayed the game for 10 minutes.

When the players resumed they harl Who to "play themselves in" again. could do it the better?

It was Miss Siammers who reacted the more readily.

She took the set at 12-10 and then played faultless fawn tennis and

You can almost hear her wrist saap She finished off the set with one swept Miss Jacobs off the couri tu on the bail, and in volleying it is the of the most brilliant backhand pass-gain a 6-1 second set win for the wrist, not brute force, which counts.ing shots I have ever seen..

match.

There is no doubt that Sarah' was Miss Babrock. hgwever, showed Often she netted and overdrove the

magnificent determination the better player.

In the

lines, but she never altered her set Now here are Dorothy and Helen Binal set, which she won 6-2, and plan of attack.

Miss Jacobs faced, up bravely, but coming out to battic. The tennis Great Britain, after starting the from the very first point is very ex- day's play leading by two matches she could not stand up against the controlled fury of Miss Stummers's citing and a brillant Arst set hus to one, were level again at 3-all Rone to Dorothy at 6-3.

Everything depended on the final attack. doubles.

She was attacking magnificently on both wings and playing right back Into her 1034 form, when she won the singles at Wimbledon.

I am so glud, because she is such a nice person and so unspoiled by all her success.

SHE ATTACKED

Both players, were" cheered to the Much as 1 admitre Mary's play, Techo as they left the court, the general think I would have been wiser to opinion being that it was the best have had Mrs. King at third singles Wightman Cup contest seen in Eng-

land in the post-war years. place.

Now everything depends on the ability of Kay and Freda to reverse what happened to them in the same mutch in Americn last year, when they also played Helen Jacobs and Mrs. Fabyan.

In the second set, when Dorothy

leading Was

3--2 And 40-love, Hele, by suddenly switching over

SUPERB VOLLEYS to the attack and risking all on coming up to the net, managed to Fredn is a superb volleyer,.at I catch up to deuce, and I said to my-have never seen her in better form in the Brut set, self: "If Helen plays this game now than this afternoon. and makes it three-all I think she which Creat Britain won 6-1, che] will save the match."

simply didn't miss a single shot, and But, fortunately for Great Britain, Kay also made some wonderful Dorothy managed to win that game drives. after all and lead 4-2. It was the But Helen Jacobs was giving her virtual end of the mutch.

partner no support at all, though. I I could not help, feeling that had a hunch that she would soon Holda seemed despondent to-day begin to play much better.

(Continued on 'Pago) autt was inovlig more slowly about

Miss Dorothy Round beat Mrs. Fabyan at 6--3, 0-4.

There was never any doubt about the result for Miss Round played at her best.

She drove faster than las Stam- mers, and her courtcraft was, flaw- less.

Mrs. Fabyan was outelassed, but sher left the court a popular user.

Whatever the state of the game sha knows how to smile.

The barometer was now "set fair". for Britain, but then came a 'reverse, for Mrs. J. Van Ryn and Miss Babcoct beat Miss Dearman and Miss Lyle in the doubles at 6-2, 1-6, 6-3,

The English players never produced their best form, and the Americans volleyed - their way to victory - with some degree of case.

This is almost certain to be debated in Miss Rose Perry's form being expe- at the annual meeting on Tuesday cially noticeable.

The match between U.S.1.C. art!

next.

The report is an excellent piece of K.C.C. (1) was postponed an account work, reflecting the highest credit on of damp courts, which gave the Kow-Captain G. W. P. Kimim, A.E.C., the

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