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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. · WEDNESDAY,

NOVEMBER 18, 1936.

PERRY OR VINES: WHICH IS GREATER PLAYER?

Tilden Plumbs

For His Compatriot

ENGLISHMAN'S RECORD FOR PAST 3 YEARS INFINITELY BETTER

Perry.

Firstly, to Hong- | weydil War Footwork au3 |

1.

to

where Perry

་་་་

follows his own sweet way, but the

of his shots is no fleet

greater. The point is (and it has been stressed by dozens of competent critics) Perry is in many respects a law unto himself.

But it is a law which re- aims true in the face of technical treatises by Tilden and other experts,

Dramatic pictures showing Jimmy Walsh of Chester retaining his lightweight championship from Mister. Left

Our Daily Golf

LONG-FACED, hunched are successive years is an ir

shouldered "Big Bill" Tilden finitely greater achievement than profusionals, Vines 1s 11 tennis has been thoroughly enjoying topping the world's best group of himself in the role of dogmatic player-extraordinary, but th prognostigator since Fred Perry moment he is not a whit superior fu. turned professional tennis player is the of a week ago. kong newshounds, he mocked the

that Perry, suggestion though up to Tuesday last the acknowledged World's No. amateur player, cocld hope beat Ellsworth Vines, or that he could "live with Hans Nusslein."

and it has sent him to the top flight momCZNIE CİTROL WILKÅPENATIS TESTÈT A G Since then he has given Manila

of world tennis. Surely then he is reporters the benefit of his pro-entitled to a better ranking in Tilden's phetic tongue, but has gone a bit further and ranked poor old Fred No. 4 ip world's list which includes Gottfried Von

IT should or Tilden, is, Cramm. be, one of the heat judges of tennis talent alive today, but one can't help feeling that he is allowing his natural delight in a bit of showmanship to obscure his better judgment, Results Which Count Dossibly the majority of us would agree with Tilden that Vines, Hans Nusslein, Von Cramm and even

11

Clubhouse Chatter By. "Veritas”

Tilden himself are all better players than Perry if regarded in the light of orthodox technique. But in using the word "greatest to describe the difference between Perry and the other three players named, Tiklen is apparently basing his views on more

sheer

list than No. 47

Perry Will Win

Is a little unreasonable to Al- tempt to cumpare Vinc andj Perry of to-day in the light of their pust meetings. They fast played each other in 1933 when Perry way Just

Hint

Every backswing should

posscas controlled and modulated speed, regardless of how hard the ball is to be struck.

Kell Greene.

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on the brink of becoraing world's champion, and 11 is not insignificant to note that the English-

collaps

man back the last word for he beat Vines in the Davis Cup Inter-Zone Anal in Paris, the American ing when Perry held match point to

Jetore 15 against service.

this

Vines had things pretty nearly his own way with Perry, but The Englishman was then in the early stage of his career, while it is worth bearing in mind that most of their encounters were on courts In

United States. I have no doubt that Vines has improved enormously since 1933. But so has Perry, and I eather

think tink

pronoune ndvaner has been more:

has been

quired amount of practice on

win.

The world's londindexy of technique Tennis Exhibition

authorities on

King's Horse Favourite

But Loses

HIGH HOPES ARE DISAPPOINTED

Icchase victories.

JIMMY

loft: right, the champion counters a load,

WALSH KEEPS HIS TITLE

Mizler Is Beaten At His Own Game

(By Fred Darinell)

London, Oct. 22. Jummy Walsh, of Chester, successfully defended his title as British light-weight champion last night, defeating Harry Miz- ler, a former holder of the title, run in 15 rounds, on points. dia-

Walsh, whose judgment in this stage of the fight was superb.

Mizler was a trier to the end, but all in vain.

SEAMAN ROWLES BEATEN

In the preliminary bouts Seaman Bowles, grown rather cumbersome, was outpointed in eight rounds by Juck Stanner, a Widnes youngster.

Walsh lands a body bi ow.centro Mizler missos with his

DISPUTE OVER LAWN BOWLS ADMINISTRATION.

Dominions Oppose Adoption of Scottish Laws

(By E. J. Linney)

Important questions of bowlts administration were discussed at the. council meeting of the E.B.A. in London last month, when the report of the International Bowling Board was received. One was the recent decision of the 1.B.B. to adopt the Scottish laws of the game. The Do minion Associations, although mem- bers of the Board, refuse to agree to this, claiming that these laws do not apply to them, as local conditions for differ. New Zealand is pressing an alteration In status, whereby the mein" Dominions should be Associate

bers, instead of actively participat ing In the management. This is to be discured at the January meeting of the L.B.3.

PLAYING

RUGBY-

AT 63

A stocky men of 63 gathered the tacities. and effective because it

London, Nov. 17. cen made in the face of much Marconi, the first horse to

ball, flung off a would-be swerved to beat another, sprinted stiffer opposition than that met by under His Majesty's colours. Vines since he turned Pro.

The match took place at the Em- When appointed high hopes to-day when

half, the length of the field, and they meet again in New York next he ran tenth in

threw a perfect pass to enable his side the te mile press Stadium. Earl's Court, where

Tom Marin, a coloured middle-

to score a try in the first minute of a January, the match will probably be Thorneycroft hurdle race at Wolver- its new life in promising style..

the National Sporting Club started

weight, of London, showed clever

a Rosslyn played on a covered court. On the hampton.

form in beating Roy Mills, of Sun- It was alleged that England is the Rugby match between face of it this should be a handicap

Marconi started at the het odds of

Many notable figures were among

points:

only one of the four home countries Park XV and the Old Mithillans at the Hendistone-tane, Harrow, Middlesex to Perry, but if he gets in the re-5 to 4. but he upset ail predictions in the 9,000 spectators, but it is a pity derinnd, on

obtaining and forwarding to Ernie Roderick, of Liverpool, beat B.B. fees for open tournaments, the the other day, this a field of 17. The horse was made that the principal fight of the even-

Dave McCleave, of London, on type of surface, I still think he will a warm favourite on his past per ing proved so one-sided.

Major Cobb, who first turned out In the sixth round the re-other countries issuing licences free Walsh, who wrested the light-points.

of charge. It was unanimously de- formances which included two steep-} weight title by a knock-out from Kid feree, Mr. Jack Smith, stopped the elded that the I.B.B. must be pressed for Rosslyn Park in 1895 ond cap- club for three tuined that famous Derg six months ago, beat Mizier in bout and asked for more action, and

years, talked to a Sunday Chronicle The race was won by Mr. White-15 rounds so emphatically that the hot crescendo of punching then de- for consistent treatment. law's Glenteshil, which started at 10 loser's only satisfactory share of the Highted the crowd.

It was stated that Australia had representative in the changing room. The fight between

Larry Galus Invited a British team to visit them points was in drawing the first and last rounds of the fight.

(Canada) and Jack London (West in 1937-38, and this will be con Hartlepool) was declared no contest aldered in 1837. Bowls will be in- -WORTHY-CHAMPION

In-the-eighth-round. Mr.-Moss-Dey-cluded in the British Empire Games) he plauded Tilden and Vines in about the revised arrangements may

ung ruled the bout out after both in Sydney in 1933. players, most Manila this week when the pro- be of assistance. Holders of white All the other 13 rounds went un- men had been cautioned in the early if not better, fessionals made two appearances in tickets which would have admitted questionably of whom are as

of the rounda. favour than Vines when he was in the same exhibitions. This should encourage them to last Monday's tennis champlos, whose ring strategy, speed ranis: and with all due respect to Hongkong to turn out in full force will be Able to secure ad and skilled boxing were well worthy the excellent standard of professional for the players' final demonstration mission on Friday, but holders of the position he held..

at the Cricket Club on Friday after- of red tickets originally tennis, venture to suggest that to

best Mizler, who is one of the remain world's

following amateur champion neon The

boxers the amateur world ever sent to the professional ranks, was more than beaten at his own game.

game may shudder at Perry's

but

methods

they

of stroke unfair, ignore results

without being

can't. Arrangements For three years now-Perry-has-heki.WELVE his head high above the rest of the world's best

amood.

thousand people.

_up-/

Information

to 1-Reuter.

(Continued on Page 9.)

Slazengers

THE FAMOUS ALL-WHITE RACKET.

Lead the World!

in-

In

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Absence from the ring had blunted his skill and dimmed that speed of hitting and footwork which used to be such marked fes- tures of bis work.

Mizler fought with a praiseworthy fameness and persistence, but it was a hopeless and pathetic display,

The straight left has always been A strong suit of Mizler's, but the swift stabbing leads of Walsh celips- ed il round after round until one grew tired of registering the points scored by the North Countryman.

As he fought and boxed last night Walsh may be written down us al- most the ideal champion.

He went to work with splendid assurance but never deviated from a policy that combined safety with superiority. He used his fine speed to splendid purpose,

His opponent, after the first round, was dazzled

and puzzled by the

Successes achieved with the "Slazenger" rapier-like lefts that played on his All-White Racket include:-

face.

PILED UP POINTS

Footballer

Who Will Never Talk Again

Coalville (Leicestershire),

Oct. 29,

TO-DAY, as * guest of the

Abbot of the silent Cister- cian Order of monks here, 1 saw how James Paul Campbell, a Greenock solicitor and Scot- tish amateur footballer, will spend his life as a member of this famous brotherhood.

Mr. Campbell, who. is the son of the late Johnny Campbell, famous During the fight Mizler's features Scottish International, this week en-

The Championships, Wimbledon, 1936. mes paul evidence of the punishtered the Abbey, which is in the heart

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ment he received. He bled from the of the Charnwood Forest. mouth and nose fiercely and his left

eye in the later stages was almost For the rest of his life, it he closed. He tried In vain to recap- resumes his vows at the end of

five ture his boxing, prominence against his

years' novitiate, Mr. this stinging will o' the wisp.

Campbell will not speak, will have We saw the old Mizler polsed, no money, will not see the outside upstanding, and with the glove world again, writes Д Sunday held in the proper copybook style, Chronicle correspondent.

but that was all. Walsh flashed in

and

non-stop

out-a veritable fighter landing no destructive blows, but rating a tremendous lead on points in every round.

It is a long time since I have seen boxer of Mizler's class so utterly out-classed as he was by Walsh. The

a

latter is a great little workman, and

has progressed in his profession where Mizier has gone back,

Mizler did not attempt to uso his

right hand until the last four or five

UP AT 2 AM.

To-day I saw him working. with his fellows on the new Abbey build-

g

He was wearing the rough, brown woollen habit and heavy cowl of his Order. His head was shaven, and he had been up, since 2 -the usual hour of rising,

His day was spent working, pray-

rounds, by which time he was in ing seven times in the chapel.

such, a stupendous margin of arrears

that nothing short of a merelless

He retired at 7pm. to a simple

knock-out could make him a win-1 traw mattress.

ner.

An all his life he may not speak.

He tried in these last swiftly-pass- No one talks in the monastery; signs ing rounds to find a way out of it all. are used.

He smashed in vengeful counters and He will never receive visitors; even shortened his right arm in the hope relatives are barried. No women are of catching his man.

allowed within the monastery, save

Of course, it was all obvious to a princesa of Royal blood.

An E.B.A. County Association has been formed in Norfolk, this bringing the County membership of the E.B.A. to thirty.

PHYSIQUE OF 25

"I have come back to the game," said "on the advice of my doctor.

musoles "He said I had tho and physique of a boxer of 23... and I must eliber do something or burst!

For seven years I have been tor- It was agreed to ask the IB.B. to tured with neurasthenia, and I feel Issue definite instructions to umpires that companionship in playing regu- regarding measuring and other de- iarly will be a great help to me.' tails.

For 1937, the appointments recom- mended are:

Muras

President, Mr. Hant, Mr. H. Thompson (Middlesex), SLB.B. Delegates: Messrs. H. Muras, (Northumberland): Vice-President, Mr. R. T. Alden W. G. Cross, E. M. Trevor, F. Hotch- (Oxfordshire), Junior Vice-Fi....... kiss, J. Lang.

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