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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH

1938,

COLONY TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS START QUIETLY

EIGHT MATCHES DECIDED ON THE FIRST DAY COMFORTABLE VICTORY FOR THE LO BROTHERS

(By "Abo")

The 1938 Grass-court Tennis Championships of the Colony started at the Hongkong CC, courts yesterday afternoon rather quietly. Altogether, eight matches were played, five in the singles and three in the doubles, and of these only one went to the third set; the others were decided in two.

At such an carly stage of the competitions, it is of course not to be expected. that the ties would pro- duce anything outstanding. Never- theless thous on paper some of yesterday's matches promised some even tussles, expectations were not realised.

For instance, nobody would have thought that

game the doubles between the veterans, M. I. and M. W. Lo, and the Canton pair of B. Szeto and D. K. Leung, would turn out to be such a one-sided affair. And yet this the ended in a victory for the Lo brothers by 0-1, 0-0 No decision could have been more con- vincing than this. The match lasted approximately 23 minutes.

Badcock Is Going To England

Adelaide, Feb. 16. Badcock, star. South Aus- tralian batsman, has been pro- nounced fit and is definitely going to England with the Earlier Australian Test team. messages stated that he had failed to pass the doctor and his certificate of fitness had been held over.-Reuter.

When one realises that Szeto and Leung are prominent players from Canton the latter, I understand, is present champion of that city-one may be forgiven for thinking that the Rumjahn, a former champion and Lo brothers must have played a very | runner-up last year, had some useful high brand of tennis indeed to allow practice against Major F. T. Baines. their formidable opponents only one

He won the first act at 6-1, but twelve

annex the second.

game in two acis. Actually, how-games were needed before he could ever, they were never extended and merely sailed along merrily to their victory without any undue effort.

ARMY HOPES DASHED One of the steadiest pairs from the Chinese R.C., S. W. Liang and F. H. Kwok, had to play three sets before they could get through against A.

W. A. Land.

Warr and W. A. Land, of the Army, As a matter of fact, it was not unt!! they had conceded the Brst set that the Chinese settled down to their usual steady play. Neither Kwok nor Liang could be said to be brilliant at any stage of the encounter but their steadiness and their excellent retrieving prevailed In the end.

Perhaps the best tie was that in which A. Crawford defeated Mars- land by 0-4, 6-4. Though he won in two sets, Crawford was made to fight all the way and there were some fine rallies in which both men shone in turn. Crawford, however, Wag less prone to make mistakes, than his left-handed opponent.

met at Picture taken on Sunday of the Islington Corinthian and Colony football teams which

(Photo: King's Studio). Caroline Hill on Sunday. The tourists won the encounter by five goals to one.

By "R. Abbit”

Cricket Notes

Hongkong C. C.

And Indians

Im

Ladies' Programme Next Week

It should be noted that the Ladies' Badminton_programme arranged by the Club de Re- creio will be held on the even- ing of Wednesday, March 9, and not to-morrow.

Close Game Shelaeff

THREE LEAGUE. MATCHES

IN JUNIOR DIVISION

One felt last Saturday that, although there were only three League matches and those in the Junior Division, we were really getting back to cricket after that appalling spell of bad weather, and the pony business.

the

Too Good: In Manila

Now

Matched With Kid Vicente

HOW JAPANESE WON TENNIS TITLE

Matsumoto Shows Brilliant Form In Manila Final

Manila, Feb. 23, making it deuce, Matsumoto drop- For the first time during the 1938 ped a beautiful drive into the right International tennis tournament that and corner but was long on a base- ended last night at the Rizal Tennis line shot, deucing it once more. Stadium, Matsumoto of Japan, nom-i

ber two ranking player from there,

#amo

Matsumoto again hit the corner

a

displayed the tennis that made him with a dandy drive and the game The second greatest star In the land ended when Ladaw missed a corner of the rising

He played an placement. The last and final game extremely heady

ant out of the match saw the Filipino play- guessed Juan Ladaw, Jr., of FEU, in er erring four times, one being

netted baelthand, two being shots straight sets, 6-0, 0-1 and 7-5.

that were over the baseling and the last match point resulting from a missed

attempt at the sideline.

Many factors entered into night's play. In the first place, Mat- sumoto played a remarkably steady game, driving deep to the comers and content for the greater part in waiting for Ladow to err, wiilch he did innumerable. times.

On the other hand, Ladaw played by far the most unsteady game he hus offered thus fur la the tourna ment. He did not equal his brilliant and performances against Tsuruta L. Gavia. He missed the easiest of chances and taking his play as n whole, it goes without saying that he showed lack of competitive ten- als, needing quite a bit more season ing before he will be ready for the best invaders,

BAD MISTAKE

ROWDY SPECTATORS

again

The "undesirables" were out in force and cheered errors and points alike, even going so far as to call the shots themselves. They voiced their disappointment and pleasure decidedly and undoubtedly bothered

game of both principals by refusing to be silenced while the ball was in play.

the

the

After the match ended, Dr. Vic- tor Buencamino, president of the PILTA, presented the cups to the

Japanese victorious

entries, the having been won by 1he doubles combination of Tsuruta and Matsu- πισία the day before from Ampon and Carmona,

In trying to out-volley Matsumoto

Amudo Sanchez and Y. Tsuruta he made a bad mistake. He left played spariding tennis in the the net alono practically through second set of their two-set exhibl- out, though it is a fact that toward tion matels yesterday. Both hit the the end, when he did try and come ball hard and exchanged long hard up, this style of play was effective drives throughout the last three in spots and only fell down through games. Tsuruta won the first set,

his own miscuca.

6-3, and Sanchez

lettn.

won the second

Joc Davis is Still Champion

To Ladaw goes a world of credit, set, 7-5, for not knowing when he was llcked. Sanchez came from behind, 4-2, to Even when behind, 4-3 l the final win the second set. In the seventh. set, and with the game score 40-15 eighth and ninth games, he allowed with set point for the Japanese Tsuruta only two mere points and player be refused to baw

and led, 3-4, Tsuruta came back in the deuced the set at 5-all With game tenth game and tied the score at score again at 6-5 in favour of Mat-6-all, but Sanchez was really hitting sumoto and trailing at set point, then and caught Tsuruta Bat-footed he deuced this game also after a many times in the last two games E. F. Fincher entered the next

brilliant rally that saw at least 35 to win the round at the expense of Ma Nal-

set, 7-5-Manila Bul or 30 returns by cach player. kwong. I had only a glimpse of this tle, but Ma struck me as a young

Bolling the facts down, Matsu- moto's steady playing that brodered player of considerable promise. He has a pleasing style, with a good

on the perfect, allowed the Flipino star to defcut himself through bad- drive on both wings. His misfor-

Manila, Feb. 18. tune was to meet "Teddy" at such

Manila will have to dig up somely hit balls and poor judgment as

far as attack goes. an carly stage of the competition.

Junior League last Saturday. better welterweight boxing talent Leong Ping-chiu made short work

Daniells, for the first time I think soon if it wants to keep Andro The 11th game and crucial one, of H. Y. Ho, wlaning without the Sentor

London, Jan. 31. losa of a single game. Leong proved

for a long while, failed and apart Shelnek in the Philippines boxing the real last stand of Ladaw, was from 24 by H. E. Strange (who may

u thellter. Mutsumoto opened with

When Joe Davis bent Horace Lind- master of Ho's pai-ball tactics and ket Club and the Indian Recrea now be considered as a veteran per

rum by 37 frames to 34 in the Gold A. haps), Macgowan (10) and WAST Manila had barely heard of the sideline placement for a point and

Matsumoto drove Saturday he became champion of the K. Abbas (19), and Minu played

quite stout

baseline after a tournament for the second succes- Civil Service were all out for 70 and he arrivd from Shanghai six months making it 15-all. were all of them hitting the ball K. M. Rumjuhus cracked up a 61 and 380. Now he claims the welter- beautiful fally and Ladaw netted sive year,

Davis assured himself of victory by making very hard. Nazarin made some very

won by f wickets in which case,

and looks much too good for any it, 30-all. Every point at this par-winning the second frame 68-57 in one from Owen-Hughes. Abbas hit H. T. Barma retired before they had local-opposition.

ticular spot in the match was most the early session after taking the Neither Shelaeff nor his manager after long volley one terrifically hard back at Owen- won! The rest seems to have been

carefully played and long volley, Arst 70-72 on the black. In the Hughes who caught it, but I imagine rather cracking fun as in the end they Heinrich Seelig, are doing any talk-

resulted, Ladaw first game at night he played bell- dropped he rather wished he had not, as he lost 7 wickets for 122 runs. N. Singh |ing about "new worlds to conquer the right-hand corner but miscued before the session ended he had two

a pretty placement into

llantly to complie a break of 02, and got his finger pushed back and had bowled very well for the Indians to but the local boxing world believes

take 7 wickets for 23. I was in- they will sail for Hawaii or Call-At the net with another easy chance more runs of 48. Lindrum had a to get it patched up and it has in-

break of 84 in the fourth game of terested to notice that I. All was not formia unless somewhat painful injury. curred a somew

D good challenger

this session. However, it was not as bad as the playing for the second and I fancy appears.

about happened

12 he was the Ismail All who was given one which months ago when he followed

try out in the first against

The most interesting game in the Division was a non-league game between the Hongkong Cric Club. The latter side batted arst

kingdom.

V. Harrison also got through in con- and Nazarin (23). Kitchell (20); (10) no-one did anything at all. The 18-year-old Russian slugger when Ladaw followed with a service age, Cup snooker match at-Thurston's on:

beat the latter at his own game. F.

vincing fashion.

Results of yesterday's matches:

OPEN SINGLES.

cricket.

a ball over the

S. A Rumjaba beat Major Bainest nice-shots-unill-he-hit_right acrosaria 28. I am told that the IRC. weight championship of the Orient after another nice volley,

6-1.7-5.

F. V. Harrison beat F. 8. Lens 6-1, 6-0.

E. C. Fincher beat Ma Nal-kwong 0-1, 6-2.

Leong Ping-chlu beat I. Y. Ho 6-0, 6-0,

A Crawford beat Marsland G-4.

G-4.

OPEN DOUBLES

ML. K. and M. W. Lo beat B. Szeto and D. K. Leung 6-1, 6-0.

un

up

2

the

see his

his own bowling to Madar and stop- Hongkong Club and made 12 runa. ped a red hot return drive with his I am particularly glad to mouth, losing one or two teath and promotion. being badly knocked out. Although there was some quite useful scores

Land's prowess in other fields of S. W. Liang and F. II. Kwok beat sport is already well-known, but his A. Warr and W. A. Land 2-6, 6-4, the Indiane" total only went up as match yesterday was, I think, his 6-2,

for as 157 runs. Swain, whose last debut la compelllive tennis in the Wong Shin-wing and Luk Ding-match it is for the Club, had a cou Colony. He proved himself to be cheung beat A. Chan and II. Chan ple of wickets for 25 and Leckle quite a useful player with a fostish | 6-4, 6-1. service but his ground strokes have still to show conalderable improve- ment before he can reach the fore- front.

Warr was playing with a bandaged middle finger. How far this, affect- ed him I do not know, but I have certainly seen him play a better game both at Sookunpoo and at the Civil

Service C.C.

QUICK! SINGLES Except for one match, the singles were all decided quickly. S. A

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME Singles J. F. L. Smalley v. I. M. A. Razack; Cdr. R. H. Rump v. J. C. Pool; Tsul Yun-pul v. W. J. Skinner; Cheong Ping-yeung v, Tennie Wong; W. C. Hung v. Tonnie Wang.

swung them with the now ball to take 3 for 24. Owen-Hughes and the Perry ench had a couple but former was a bit expensive.

Doubles.-G. W. Sewell and T. C. 10 and Monaghan v. Wel Chung and Pang Ol-lam; H. Owen Hughes and T. A Pearce v. Lelsen Law and Peter U A. C. I. Bowker and W. M. Barton v. R. B. Bulpin and F. A. Fowler, Paul Kong and Lee Wel-tong v. Ip Cho-pong and Lul Kwai-fon.

SINGAPORE HOCKEY

TEAM MAY TOUR JAVA

F

is likely that a Singapore hockey eleven will leave on April 15 for a

tour of Java at the invitation of the Java Hockey Association.

Another invllation, extended by the Hongkong 11.A., for the_visit of either's Singaporo ́or a Malayan eleven for about the same time has bad to be held over for the present.-

A SURPRISE

his for the taking,

Matsumoto missed the sideline to Scores (Davis first): 70-72 (on deuce things up but the FEU boy the block), 08-57, 30-07, 40—08, fizzled an attempted smash as he 74-00, 00-80, 104-30, 51-94, 105

up for mid-court lob, 35, 28-109, D3-24,

The present challengers all look

They are Young Alde, whom Russian has defeated several times, Kid Vicente, Tiger Flowers and Rush Milling.

considerably below Sheloeff's class. backed

the

The Army "A" team either had

Vicente, who calls himself the Cebu an off day or did not Uke the matting Caveman, was scheduled to meet at Pokfulam as they were all out Shelaeff in December. He changed for 100, of which Northcott made 29, his mind a few days before the bout Calvert 22 and Glu 15. The rest did was to take place and is now de

to flaitely unpopular with the promo- nothing. The University scem

have come on a lot, possibly owing ters who were forced to cancel the to the advent of K. T. Loke. He fight. However he has now fixed up made 30 while Teoh had 22 and Ling to fight the champion on March 5. 21. Their total was 120. The most notable bowling fent was that of

figures K L. Ng whose

read 12-2-42-7., very excellent per-

n

H.K.C.C. WIN

Tiger Flowers returned recently from Singapore after a moderately successful campaign. He claims that Clever Henry, from whom Shelacff won his title, was afraid to meet him when they were in Singapore together.

SPLENDID FINISH Neve and Perry did not come off but Klibee played quite well for his Leckie, although he only made 14, had a most beautiful six formance. in it, when he seemed merely to push back the ball to the bowler and it went over the screen at the Naval

Over at the Recreio ground I un- Yard end. Haymes and Ride, how- ever, were the salvation of the Club

derstand that Recreio won the toss. One Manila sports writer hus sug- and put in the Hongkong Club pested Shefaeft is already ripe for in the middle, scoring 44 and 28 rea-

At first it looked as a trip to the United States to chal- pectively, although Haymes should second eleven.

If they had done the right thing as lenge such welterweights as the grent have had at least three more runs

who lost a close ns he declined to run for what he Armstrong, was bowled by the first Ceferino Garcia, thought was a boundary and found ball of the match and three wickets decision to world champion Barney the joke

was on him. Things got were down for 10 runs in 33 minutes. Ross last year. Most persona be- O However, Paterson played a very lleve, however, that the Russian boy really exciting at the end. Owen-

with Hay- stout and doar innings of white needs much more Hughes had a good stand to Minu Mitchell forced things a bit, though becoming worthy experience befor

he only tot 13 and N. P. Fox, talent. for

11 runs. (Mem. To tell

my who only received 4 balls, hit a six people that if they must scissor the and a four off two of them. It was Shelacff declined to talk about scores they chouk ndd them up to see that they total correctly) flow-left for V. C. Bond to play a good rumours he plans to go to Honolulu knock of 25. for the second top score. for a bout with Kid Moro, former ever, things got definitely hectic while D. S. Robb was not out with, 10 Oriental weller champion and now when he went,

to his credit when the innings wan

conaldered one of Hawai' best declared et 114 for 9. Alves bowled fighters. The eighth wicket. fell at 141 or thereabouts and the ninth 156, well to take 6, wickets for 23 runs.

EL

4 nm told that in his first spell of (I am

Shelaeff won the welterweight belti leaving three runs to win.

nine overs, he sent down three mal- in January with a third-round knock- not absolutely sure of the exact dens and took three wickets for 18 out over Clever Henry, who had Agurca as I am going on hearsay,

Just returned from Australia with an and it doem't work out with the

When the Recreio came to bat impressive record including a victory score). Anyway, what happend was Eastern hockey world were not-the Singapore for ten days, and all ex-left Dunnett to play cut four balls Soaren and Noronha, who put us 40 plon.

from that Tom Hayward took a single and they had an excellent start from over Tod Morg former world cham- meeting of Malaya and the Japanese penses in Java,with the exception, of the over which he did with comfort,

first wicket, but then the Olympic eleven.

of course, of personal items will be plete caso. Hayward then faced

three wickets fell; quickly, The Java tour should provide the defrayed by the Java HA.

Minu bowling from the. Law Courts Xayler being run out by Armstrong "winner take all" bout with Henry, local players with some excellent More than thirty Singapore players end and the held crowded in. Hiew with an excellent throw in which hit who claimed the previous knockout opposition, for it is on the carts that of whors who have taken part ever Minu pilthed one up and Hay-int of the amo

sticks. This was the turning 'punch was lucky, Henry entered the the Netherlanders have followed the in State ratches and trials have ward hit a beautiful six right over

After that it, zing obviously nervous in this second lead sat by the mother country, Hol been invited, and from the accepto the Law Courts.

procession. bout and Inst i technical knockout in tances a touring alite will be selected. feeling that this is the first six ho (12.4-3-23-0). For the last 3.4 overs one of the most aggressive attacks in

I have a sort of was more or less land, which has the reputation of

nicely the second round. Sholacft showed supplying n

Leaving Singapore on April 18, the has it for some time but if I am! greater number hockey players in proportion to popu- team will arrive in Batavia on Eun-wrong I apologie. It was really a

his analysis was 5 wickets with one this bout Manila hins seen in years A match very fino fluish. tation than any other country in the day. April 17, and play

malden and two runs. However, United Press. world,

ngainst Batavia,

one must not forget that, ha is an ex- Then will follow matches against

interport bowler, although I faney Bultenzorg, Bandoeng and possibly one either against Samarang or Sou- rabaya or a combined eleven from those two districts.

Molaya's hockey__ability is re drawn from Batavia, Buitzenborg, cognised over the Far East, and it Bandoeng, Sourabaya and Samarang,

A TEN DAYS' TRIP The players will be awny

ia conaldered i grent pity that rain caused the canecilation a while ago

of a match on which all cyen in the

Provisional arrangements for the tour comprise five games, the last of which will probably be against the whole of West Java, players, being

JUNIOR DIVISION LEAGUE

It will probably not surprise any one to find that the LLC. defeated the Civil Service recond eleven in

避

Wodehouse bowled very

He defended his litte February 5 in

It was way back in 1930 when he on Saturday and the account of the represented the Colony. The Club KC.C.C, and Cralgengower. Sunday won by 71-runs,

gomo until my Friday--article,

I am holding over three matches through pressure of space.

Successful Singers

STICK TO SHERRY

Amontillado Fino

Ceacabuck macgamot for

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