1938-04-20 — Page 8

TELEGRAPH, THE HONGKONG

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1938.

TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS RESUME WITH POOR

LUK AND WONG

IN SEMI-FINAL

OF DOUBLES

PLAYERS REACTING FROM EASTER HOLIDAYS?

(By "Abe")

Even taking into consideration the fact that the atmosphere was rather too close for really exhilarating tennis, play in the re- maining quarter-final match in the Colony Tennis Doubles Cham- pionship yesterday on the stand court of the Hongkong C.C. was disappointing-and the word is used in spite of the fact that once before a reader took me to task for thus describing the standard of play in certain matches. The players themselves seemed to be reacting from the Easter holidays.

Luk Ding-cheung and Wong Shiy- wing won the encounter because they made considerably fewer mistakes thau

their opponents, H. Owen |

RUGGER

Hughes and T. A. Pearce. Purther-i MEMORIES

more they were much inore reliable in their volleying and in their over- head work.

Wik

Nevertheless even Lak and Wong were strangely lethargic. It perhaps because they were never pressed that they played so much

elow their usual standard. times a winning volley or a 'winning. smash indicated what they were capable of, but these were fare and

far between.

PEARCE OFF COLOUR Neither Owen Hughes nor Pearce could find his touch. The latter was particularly off colour, failing to return many simple shots. Owen Hughes often tried hard to infuse a

Tennis To-day Starts

At 4.30 p.m.

It has now been officially announced that the replay between Tsui Yun-pul and H. D. Rumjahn in the semi-finals of the Colony Tennis Singles Championship, fixed for to- day, will start at 4.30 p.m. on the stand court of the Hong. kong C.C.

This is a wise move in view of the fact that it is almost impossible to finish a tie in good light if it extends to five sets unless an earlier start is made.

The last time these two players met the match was abandoned with the scores at two sets all and 4-4 in the The winner of the final set. tic will play Tsui Wai-pui in the final.

coups

many the

Bittle life Into the play by his inter- ceptions at the net. He was success- ful on several occasions, but after he had brought of threo successive he was not presented with opportunities of repeating rallies nul inany There were worthy of the name. The Chinese plodded on stendly and won straight sets, conceding two games in each.

In

Strangely enough both sets fol- The Chinese lowed the same course. lod 3.0, 4-1 and 4-2 before winning out.

The winners now meet the Rum- Jahn cousins in the semi-finals, thus repeating their feat of last year.

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REVIVED

Union Team For

South Africa

The announcement of the names of the players who have been selected to go to South Africa with the British Rugby team in the summer revived many pleasant memories of my visit to South Africa with Cove. Smith's team in 1924, wrlies Rowe Harding in the Daily Telegraph.

too be

The pleasant memories. I should add, are quite unconnected with the Bugby we played, which gave us and could very little satisfaction, have given very little to our hosts.

It cannot

strongly em- Rugby tour of South phasised that Africa is a tremendous test of skill, stamina and endurance, and not n task to be undertaken in any care- free spirit, if it is to be even mode- rately successful.

It is not merely that the visiting team will be meeting men who play magnificent Rugby; they will be and meeting men bigger, stronger tougher than themselves, in strange and difficult atmospheric conditions, on grounds often as hard as a high- long and way, frequently after fatiguing train Journeys.

PLACE-KICKING TECHNIQUE Probably the grounds will prove the greatest handicap to our players, unless conditions have altered since 1924.

Golfers who took part in the bi-annual match between the Happy Valley section of the Royal.

The Happy Hongkong Golf Club and the Kowloon Golf Club played on Good Friday at Kowloon Clly, Valley team won by 223; points to 11. (Photo: Mce Cheung).

Home Football

Huddersfield Staging A Late Rally

late

London, Apr, 19. Huddersfield, staging revival. have got further away from danger of relegation in the First Division of the Engilsh FooL- ball League to-day following their home victory over Derby County. (wo Winning by

goals to nil,

MACAO VISITORS

AGAIN BEATEN AT BADMINTON

SECOND SUCCESS FOR

ST. TERESA TEAM

In a return match against the Saint Teresa's badminton team last night, Huddersfield have jumped several racao Lyceum was again defeated. St. Teresa won by seven games to two. places in the League Table

In another First Division match, Leeds defeated Stoke by two goals to

one.

Scorce:

Peter Lo and Francis Tsang (St. Teresa) beat A. da Silva and G. da

II.

"With a victory of 4-0 over Swan-Silva (Lyceum) 21-5; boat sea 10-day, Aston Villa favourites Rodrigues and F. Rodrigues 21-0; for the Second Division champion-beat F. Ribeiro and J. da Silva 21-18. ship, have regained their lead from Sheffield United.

Joseph Tsang and Bernard Chan Coventry also have gone above (St. Teresa) beat H. Rodrigues and the result of F. Rodrigues 21-13; bent A. da Silva Sheffield United as

G. da Silva 21-16; beat their win over Barnsley. They now and occupy Arst place together with the Ribeiro and J. da Silva 21-17.

and John Lee

H. T. Tan (St. Ville who, however, have a mutch in hand.

Teresa) beat F. Ribeiro and J. du Silva 23-21; lost to H.. Rodrigues and F. Rodrigues 17-21; lost to A. da Silva and G. da Silva 8-21.

Results of matches played to-day were:

FIRST DIVISION

Huddersfield Leeds

2 Derby Stoke SECOND DIVISION.

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2

Aston Villa Coventry Sheffield W.

4. Swan.ca

1 Barnsley

1 Blackburn ¤,

1

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THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH)

1 Northampton

Bristol C. THIRD DIVISION (NORTH)

Then there

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--Reuter. grounds. We played most of our matches on surfaces of loam, grit or dust. That.... they. were hard goce

were

few

without saying, but they presented TABLE TENNIS

other problems as well-swerving, for instance, was extremely difficult

because of the very short studs we TIE FIXED

were forced to wear.

Place-kicking, too, needed a special

technique, as the ordinary method of FOR TO-NIGHT

making hole with the heel was out

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F.

The St. Teresa players were to brilliant form and never looked like fosing right from the start, especially the first two pairs. Peter Lo and Francis Tsang had little difficulty in

ali three sets. Francis! winning

Teang's beautiful disguised drop shots from the base line and return of ser- vices by delicate tap shots were a constant annoyance to his opponents 1 and enticed them out of position rẻ-

peatedly.

Bernard Chan, a player from Java, j pinying together for the Arst time with Joseph Tsang, gave his partneri splendid support. In all the three games which they won they were extended but Tsang's devastating smashes scored many winning points. John Lee and H. T. Tan did well to win one game since this is their In competitive experience An interesting table-tennis game frst

game. They tapped and I suppose we ought to be satisfied will be played between, the Hongkong games. They would do well to adopt

Federation and the a faster that we are able to send out a rea-Table-tennis sonably representative side, though European Y.M.C.A. in the Ling Tung dropped the shots too often. one cannot but regret the absence of Colegle, Nathan Road at 8 p.m. to- Jones, night. Two mixed teams will be in CHA

opposition. players like Shaw, Wooller and Dlek.

Federation will be represented The by the following:

of the question. The bull had to be

teed-up.'

Still, out of the material available It should be possible to build up a sound back division for the Test matches. I have a feeling that the success or otherwise of this tour is going to depend largely upon the

forwards:

I do not think this British team is by any means invincible, but it should of any rate improve on the record of the 1924 team.

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Boston Marathon Won By L. Pawson

Boston. Apr. 19.

The Boston Marathon was rum to-day and resulted in a win for Leslie Pawson, of Paw- tucket, R., in 2 hrs. 35 mins. and 34 4/5 secs.

George Shaw, the British Ice-hockey star, who was given special permission by the English A.A.A. to participate in the race, gave up after nine miles when he was running in 105th place in a field of 180. -Router.

Peter Kane

Draw Fights

With Lynch

Champion Thought

He Had Lost

GAME

A SIMPLE WAY TO BETTER GOLF Kenneth Wilson Ridicules·

ness

Many Familiar Maxims

Because it is provocative, and offers a challenge to the useful- of many of the accepted aphorisms, such as "Slow back," "Head "still," "Eye on the ball," and "Cocked wrists," Kenneth Wilson's little book, "To Better Golf in Two Strides," strikes an original and refreshing note.

For fifteen years Wilson has been playing with and teaching golf to players with handicaps varying from scratch to 36, and he claims to know something about the fundamental principles that have evolved from his experience.

His object (writes a special cor- of the Observer) is to respondent

man show the average golfer, the with a handicap of G and upwards, what a simple game golf really is. He believes that most golfers are in a state of fright because of trying to ev remember all the things that they have been told to do, and the in numerable things that they should not do. Hence, Wilson starts with a little "debunking" by way of clenc ing the ground for the constructive recommendations.

arm

"Straight left arm" is one of the familiar exhortations arousing his scorn, for the reason that if the shot

the left is played naturally cannot help being straight, but that if the player consciously thinks about it he will confound "straight"

with "stiff."

Wilson claims that there are only two bad shots in golf: cihter a bail is foully struck or it is hit in the wrong direction. It foully struck, the body is at fault; if sliced, or pulled the arms are to blame.

STUPID SLOGANS

There is a

He describes the "Slow Back" slogan as utterly stupid. natural speed for each individual which is determined by the indivi- duni not only in relation to the pace of walking, or driving a car, but in relation to the making of a golf swing.

ter

the

The front view of the player shows how, at the half-way stage of of the upswing the body, instead rotating, has rocked inwards, so that on Inward curve of the left ride is shown from the point of the shoulder in to the hip and out to the fool. The legs almost form a letter "K" and the hips are still facing towards the ball.

The "Two Strides" of Wilson's methods are: (1) Correct body move- ment at the start of the swing; (2) correct grip and hand action.

Linking up the "Two Strides" should produce a straight and nor- ul shot. If, however, it is a rank bad one, check "Stride One"-the curving in at the start of the up- swing of the left side.

If the result poor because the ball has gone in the wrong direction,

check

"Stride Two"-steering hand netion.

Home Racing

STARTING LIST NOW ALTERED

City And Suburban Stakes

and

London, Apr. 19, The following alterations have been announced in the probable list of starters for the City and Subur- ban Stakes:

A person with a naturally lively temperament will swing much fas- both up and down, than person with a quieter disposition. The controlling factor is the natural speed at which the brain registers.

Instead of attempting to swing back slowly, learn to have a deunite position to achieve before hitting at the ball, and swing as fast as you

that position is con- Perryman rides Puzzler, Lowrey the club in the hit.

Rippontor, Beary rides Lady of Other

Strelt stupid

rides terms, says Wilson, Shalott,

Santayana, are Wind-up" and "Pivot." The Packham rides Fedor, Wells rides player invariably connects the terms Mythical Ray, Griggs rides Intoler- with the meaning to "rotate," and ance and Elabaa (no jockey). the body action necessary in a golf Perifox, St, Magnus and Sansalvo swing is most definitely not a rotat- have been withdrawn. Reuter, ing one.

sciously

Like, registered before returning rides Noble Turk, Sam Wragg rides

Thinking of the wind-up of the hips is responsible for the cardinal sin in golf-hitting from "outalde-to- in." At Impact the club travela from right to left of the line of in- lended direction. Eliminate the term and substitute the "award rocking of the left side."

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It

for the head to remain still, in the accepted sense of the word, during the attempt to hit a golf ball,

As

a matter of fact, the head is

KEEPING HEAD STILL

Another popular and also an idio- lic piece of instruction Is, according to Wilson, "Keep the head still," As reported by cable, Peter Kane is responsible for, and the cause of, whole series of unnatural move- drew with Benny Lynch, world-ments for it is physically impossible weight champion, in a bout in Liver- pool on March 22, in which the title VISITORS OUTPLAYED

was not involved, both being well F. Ribeiro and J. da Silva, Macuo's over the flyweight.

Lynch, though he denied this nest string, were completely out- played last night and failed to re- afterwards, actually thought he had moving the whole time-floating, as rounds of it were, on the neck and shoulders, when

after twelve

In comparison with the speed of the gister any win. They possess a lost whe good knowledge of the game and terrific fighting, he followed him an clubhead it is steady, but it is not

to congratulate on stil court and

retrieving difficult shots his victory.

Before he could speak the words were quite speedy in covering the his corner but, unfortunately, they played carelessly, and on severn! vital ocen the referee stepped between them Ladies' Team:-Misses Shirley Losions missed easy "kills" at the net. and raised the hands of both boxers Angry protests and booing broke Mary Kwok, Rose Fung, Annie Ho. Their favourite attack was to pound to declare Lily Ho, and Mary Yik.

forth from the astonished crowd.

Mr. George Dingley, the man who made Lynch fly-weight champion, sald

"I thought Kone was just in front on points."

Coach: Mr. Tong Suen-hing. Men's Team:-Messrs. Tang Suen hing (Captain), Fox Hin-chiu, Chul Man-pan, Tam Hung-kwan, Chan Shui-pui, Li Chun-shiu, Yeung Shlu pui, and Chung Kin-yue.

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upon their opponents' backhand and this they did with satisfying results, Though they fost all three games they put up a great night and fully extended the St. Teresa players.

Rodrigues and F. Rodrigues hit very hard but did not combine pro perly. They were both inclined to go after the same thot and went up

the net at the same to

ime thus leaving the rest of the court vulner able. They so missed several im- portant points by erratic services.

A. da Silva and G. da Silva play- fairly, good game but need more knowledge of courtcraft.

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draw.

Wilson tramples heavily on other

golfing, slogans which, he declares, gol making the life of the average.

golfer miserable. After discussing at length all the various methods logical and logical-of doing simple task, he sums up as follows:

1. The natural blow starts in the feet and continues in a ripple of movement through the body until it reaches the hands..

Lynch himself admitted: "I was 2. Such a movement causes the not in my best form. Kane has mi-clubhead to be the last to leave on proved tremendously,

its journey both upward and down- ward.

It was a hard clean fight, but Lynch was less fiery and accurate than when he knocked out Kane last October in their title bout.

He was over the bantam limit at the weigh-in, which suggests that he will now have difficulty in defending his world fly-weight title.

3. The amount of the "cocking" of the wrists depends only on the speed of the upswing; the faster swing giving more and the slower swing giving less "cocking."

4. The "pull-down" of the left

arm originates quite naturally from

the foel that the blow commences in the feet, as at the start of the up- 'swing.

4.

The straighening of the left

arm at impact is naturally caused by the pull from the feet, plus the speed and impetus of the weight of the clubhead, This same cause ap- plies to the "rolling of the wrists" after impact.

"ENTIRELY UNNECESSARY”.

6. Finally, it is entirely unneces- sary for a player to perform consci- ously that overrated series of "drag the clubhead back," "keep the left arm straight," "cock the wrist," "pull with the left arm," and "roll the wrists after impact

I agree with Wilson when he says! that,

If the upswing is, right, the natural and subconscious reaction of the muscles of the body will ensure an automatically correct downrwing and hilt,.

His method rocking motion of the hips, originated in the feet-is excellent Illustrations in the book.

The tug-of-war 'ovent In progress at the annual Hongkong Ares admirably shown in one of the many athlete meeting held last week., (Photo: Ming Yuen).

THE CALL-OVER

London, Apr. 10. The latest call-over is as follows:

6/1 Domaha (0)

8/1 Plokin (t, and o.) 10/1 Lady of Shalott (1, and o.) 10/1 ́ Fing of Truce (0),-11/1-(1) - 10/1 Full Sall (0)

100/0

100/8

100/8

Noble Turk (0) Esquemeling (0) Santayana (0)

100/7 Puzzler (6) 100/6

Terror (0)

100/6 Intolerance (0) 100/6 Elsbas (0) 100/6 Orichalque (0)

100/8 Reward (0)

100/6 Rippouter (0) 20/1. Chucoteur (o) 20/1 Mythical Bay (0) 20/1 Never Surprised (0) 20/1 Apollo (0) 20/1 Fedor (0)

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