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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1938.

LEONARD AND

AND CHOA

CHOA CAUSE FIRST TENNIS UPSET

BEAT FANCIED

PAIR IN THE OPEN DOUBLES

LOBBING CAMPAIGN HAD KONG AND LEE TROUBLED

(By "Aue")

The greatest upset so far in the current Colony Tennis Cham. pionships was caused yesterday when, on the stand court of the Hongkong Cricket Club, J. W. Leonard and George Chon defeated Paul Kong and Loe Wai-tong in the quarter-finals of the doubles in straight sets by scores of 8-6, 6-4.

Regarded as one of the best com- | trailing behind all the time in the binations in the competition, Kongcond, Kong and Lee remained the and Lee, who once held the hard- more aggressive. court championship of Shanghai, were expected not only to beat the Happy

pinyers but also have in hand. Itowever, playing below their usual standard they were always up against it after their lead of 3-1 in the first ett hud been wiped off.

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The poor form shown by Lee Wal- the chief tong was undoubtedly

Impressively

reason for the Chinese pair's defeat. The former soccer idol never seemed happy during the whole of the match and

Innumerable was guilty of

up blunders, messing

even the It easiest of sinashes. was his worst display

for a long time.

off started Kong enough, but seemed affected by the mistakes of his partner and he also fell short his usual standard the latter part of the match. Of the four men, his overhead work wis the most reliable, though his volley-

crlan ing was neither as arcurate as in earlier matches,

TACTICS CHANGED

nor

Great credit must be given to Leonard and Chon for their ability to adapt themselves to the needs of the the moment. Outplayed in opening games, they changed their lobbing taelles and commenced It campaign which had their upponents

completely demoralised that so comple many occasions even their webfcent lobs were treated with a great deal of repre!! Ine Wallenge

en

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dence was early shattered when he smashed a few easy labs out of the court, and right to the end his over- head work remained uncertain.

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Probably brengen h younger player. Chou was the target, for lont rods. of his annonats attack. But he was not found want- ing. If i lob veldom attained the depth of Leonard's, he was able to introds a reliable turshund drive relieve the monotony. In spite of the importance of the enrostes

At one stage of the second set, vhen Kong and Lee pulled up from )-4 to 3-4, It looked as if they might yet snatch the match out of the fre, ut Leonard and Choa went on to inex the set in the tenth game,

Leonard and Chon will now meet he Tsul brothers in the semi-finals.

PORTUGAL

EXTENDED

BY CHINA

(By The Pågrm")

At King's Park last evening in the first round of the Hongkong Hockey Association International Tourno- nent, Portugal defeated Chinn by a goal to nil. Collecting a forward puss rom E. L. Gosano. A. P. Souza was Fortunate to score after he had kirked he bail, with the umpire unsighted. to give Portugal a lucky victory,

For the first ten minutes. Portugal played will only nine men, and China ook up the offensive and looked at though they were going to win by wide margin. With the arr val of

Z. Cosano and R. Marques, he Portu-

J. W. Leonard and George Choa nearly clashed when Lee Wal- doug shot a drive down the centre in the quarter-final match played in the Colony Tennis Championships at the Hongkong C.C. yesterday. Leonard and Chica caused a surprise by beating Paul Kong and Lee

(Photo: Mce Cheung). Wal-long.

Boat, Race

SUMMER WEATHER PREDICTED

Crews In Final Practices

London, Apr. 1. Water-men at Putney predict that

uese defence was strengthened and the recent summer weather will pre- feveral really good movements by

China were checked by 2. Gosano nud vall for the Boat Race to-morrow. Rodrigues.

Though scheduled to commence at

The Chinge half-backs were well

2 p.n. G.M.T.. the race is expected)

in the picture, C. II. Tenh in partito start a little earlier owing to tide

war fading his forwards with well-conditions.

Ametod passes. P. G. Tang broke Both crows had their final two through with an enterprising effort practices to-day. Oxford had an un- but his shot was well off the mark.

The reare sheo! was blank at half thing. the vehicle klipnina

with the

he kent marvellously cool, demen-Portuguese defending foully. atraling that added to the promise shown by his stroking he is endowed with a suitable temperament for big

: tennis.

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TOOK UP ATTACK

After the interval, the Portuguese) at once toute un the runnin". Ted by

As usual, Leonard was very stendy Beltran, the forwards worked up throuzhnyt, ཊཱཏྭཱ」 ཨ – ... po

several soirited ralds, but A. P placements than on speed. His per- Souza fell into an enidemic of off| sistent ichbint forced his op side. He has played the game for into committing all sorts of errors.

WINNERS ON DEFENSIVE The match was chiefly interesting not because, of the standard of play produced but because the closenes

years and there was no excuse for him to get himself into ruch a peri- | tion, so often. He completely dis- organised his side.

J. Sul and O. C. Leah, however,

of the struggle and the different came to the rescue of Chinn methods adented by each

Chen.

with

some timely clearances. Thirteen pair minutes from the end, E. L. Gosano Leonard and Chon made no pretence dashed in and sent across a forward of the fact that they were on ass which Souza collected to bent

the base-line rallies; defensive in the they seldom tried to pass Kong and Lee with drives but mainly depended! upon their lobs to send their op. ponents back. On the other hand, although they were always in danger of losing the first set after the score had been levelled at 4-4, and were

Rothmans

"Shall We Have A

Boat Race?"

Cambridge wrote to ask Oxford when this year's Boat Race could best take place.

Oxford pointed out that the 11 formal challenge had not been received.

The pleasant, rambling reply contained this: "I suppose we had better have a Boat Race, hadn't we?"

The race will be rowed to.

day.

expected

two-minute

row

Helen Wills To "Come Back"?

New York, Mar. 24.

Mrs. Helen Wills Moody is included in the American Wightman Cup team to play Great Britain during the sum- mer, along with Misses Marble, Jacobs and Bundy and Mrs, Grace Fabyan, with Miss Wheeler as reserve. It is not yet

whether Mrs. known Moody will play in the Wim- bledon and American cham- plonships-Reuter,

BOWLS MATCH

It should be noted that the bowls match arranged between the Kowloon B.G.C, and the Dockyard R.C. will be played this afternoon. The Kame commences at 3.15 p.m.

that, a great race will be seen in ideal conditions.-Reuter:

PREVIOUS RESULTS

The following are the results o he University Boat Race since

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Except for a few raids made by Tan :

in the 1932 and Ling, China were penned in their own territory for the rest of the ears, morning in addition to a short spin 10

and a couple of practice starts. 193 A. Gonsalves, centre-half, and Z.

1935 Indications, 1937

Gosano, right back. for Portugal, Cambridge did some light work. 1030

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Undergraduates Win Championship After Replay

Thrilling Badminton Against Portuguese

The brillance of the University's C. K. Lee and C. O. Lee, of the first pair, P. K. Hui and K, L, Yong. University. The Portuguese started who won three games, and the shakily, and the unorthodox play of weakness of the Club de Recrelo's the two Lee's gave them a load of third string, IL A. Barros and 11. A. 16-0. Remedios and Oliveira im- swung the proved as the game progressed and

who lost three,

Alyes la favour of the under-Anully drew level at 10-16. After

graduates when the two teams met the score had been. "setted," the at the Taikoo R. C. court last evening undergrads fed 4-3 with service to in the second matel of the play-off follow but could not obtain the vital series for the Badminton League point. Their opponents then reeled Championship.

off the necessary two points for the The University won the encounter game to place Recreio on level terms.

Baaring to a new record. Huang Starting well against T. F. Yona Wee-tens, of SL Joseph's College, by five gumes to tour, and as they

Re- defeated the Chinese "y" on Wednes and P. K. Chan, Barros and

winning the polo-vault at the Inter- day evening on the same court, they nudios took a lend of 7-2, but went School Sports yesterday. His jump

to pieces thereafter and the Univer- er 8 ft. 16% tox, was a record.

thus retain the title.

It was a grim fight all the way, with the result in doubt until the

evening. final game of the

sity pair annexed the game at 21-10. At the end of the second round, The the teams were on level terms. standard of play, on the whole, was Carvalho und Silva defeated the Lee like losing. They finally won by

mination. ond Remedios and

21-12 to give the University vletory pay high, au only to be expected of

by 6-4. two teams who have vied for the Oliveira followed this up by account-

ing tor Yong and Chan, while Hul K. L. Yong was the outstanding ush, for so long.

player of the match, surpassing even Hui and Yong gave the under-and Yong bent Barros and Alves.

P. K. Hul. graduates a good start by beating The Portuguese led for the first

Scores: Carvalho and Silva in the first game time during the evening when Car- e evening. When these pairs valho and Silva beat Yong and Chon, met last at King's Park, the and their hopes

rose when Remedios but and Oliveira led lui and Yong by ortuguese combination won, this time the undergraduates obtained 6-0. The undergraduates, however, heir revenge. Both pairs, however, steadied down and drew level, and were inclined to be nervous and play from this stage each pair led in was rather patchy, although each of turn until 17-17 was called. Then he four in turn made some brilliant the Recreio pair fell off and Hul and

Yong went out at 21-17. shots.

P. K. Chan and T. F. Yong lost to The closest game of the evening With the store led at 4-4, the Carvalho and Silva 7-21; lost to Remedios and Lee's went into the court to face Oliverira and Remedios 0-21; beat was between J. J.

Prane and Alves and never looked Alves and Barros 21-11.

M. A. Oliveira of the Reerg'o

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P. K. Hui and K. L. Yong (Univer- sity) beat L. A. Carvalho and A. M. Silva 21-14; beat M. A. Oliveira and J. J. Remedios 21-17; bent H. A.

Alves and H. . Barros 21-10.

C. K. Lee and C. O, Lee lost to

Carvalho and Silva 12-21; lost to Oliverica and Remedios 23-24; beat Alves and Barros 21-12.

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