1938-09-21 — Page 20

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER

21,

1938.

FOUR BRITISH LADY GOLFERS IN SECOND ROUND

GOOD RECOVERY

MADE BY MISS CLARIE TIERNAN

IMPROVED CONDITIONS FOR U.S. TOURNAMENT

B.

Wilmette, Ill. Sept. 20. Miss Jessie Anderson, Miss Clario Tiernan, Mrs. J. Walker, and Mrs. A. C. Critchley were the British ladies who got through the first round of the American Women's Golf Cham- pionship on the Westmoreland Country Club's course to-day.

Miss Nan Baird and Mina Phylis Wade, two members of the British Curlis Cup team of this year, were beaten, the former by her team-mate, Mles Anderson.

com-

Miss Anderson won fairly fortably by 5 and 4, but Miss Helen only Waterhouse, of Rhxte land,

just managed to beat Miss Wade by one up.

a plucky The British girl matc fight of it after being three down at hed a the eleventh. Actually the chance of winning bit at the 18th she was bunkered.

Miss Tiernan beat Miss "Laddie" Irwin, of Glenridge, one up, after being three down at the turn.

Mrs. Walker beat Mrs. Tim Lowry, of Illinois, by 7 and 5.

2.

Mrs. Critchley beat Miss Jane Cothran, of South Carolina, by 3 and

Mrs. Jullus Page

beat (U.S.A.) Mrs. Eric Phillips, of Ontario, by 4 and 3.

Conditions, which were miserable during the qualifying round yester- day, improved to-day. The weather was warmer and, instead of rain, the sun came out.-Reuter.

Rugby

ARMY TEAM TO VISIT HONGKONG

Three Matches In

Philippines Invite Golf

Stars For

1939 'Open'

the

Outstanding Players Asked To Participate

in

Determined to make the coming Philippine Open Golf championship biggest tournament staged the entire Far East, officials of the Wack Wack Golf and Country Chu, who are sponsoring the tournament, have sent Invitations to the out standing players in the United States with an offer to bring them out by elipper to participate in the P10,000 at the championships scheduled Mandaluyout course on January 6,

and B.

Among those who have been in- vited for the local Open are Ralph Gudahal, winner of the United States Open last year and the year before fast; Sam Snead, winner of the re- rent Canadian Open; Harry Cooper, who was runner-up to Snead in the Canodian

Lafoon who Open; Ky won the $10,000 Cleveland Open Inst month; Paul Runyan, who defeated Snend for the national professional Holf association championship last July; Henry Pheard, Jimmy Thom- son, Horton Smith, Tommy Armour, Al Zimmerman, and Lawson Little, all of who rank among the world's outstanding pinyers.

The above players have been re- quested to reply to the invitation by Clipper. Meanwhile, Wack Wack officials are in communication with Java relative to entries from there. Australia has already assured the entry of Norman N. Von Nido, who won the Philippine

pine Open last year, 5. Richardson, andi V. S.

Austration Open champion. Japan has niso practically given assurance that n large dele- completed for the visit to Hong-gation will be sent down here for the

Six Days

Arrangements nre

kong of an Army rugger team from Singapore.

It is proposed that the ten spend piny days In Hongkong and three matches, one against the Army, one against the Navy and one pro- bably against all Hongkong or the Hongkong Club.

The trip is almost a certainly, and depends only on whether arrange- ments can be made for the team to travel on a troopship. The date of departure will probably be October 25.

The proposed visit of a Malaya rugger team to Hongkong early next

tournament. Last year, Japan had a dozen entries, three of whom finished among the first Ave.

Wacit Wark officials recently an- that the second 18 hale nounced course will be ready by the time the Open gets underway next January. Work is being done on the last nine holes of the how courso.

year has not yet been confirmed. It is hoped to have this visit coincide with the visit to Hongkong of a Shonghal team, thus making a tri- angular tourney.

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THE HIGHEST INDIVIDUAL SCORE in a Test match was made in the Fifth Test at the Oval by Leonard Hulton, of Yorkshire and England. Above, he is being congratulated by Don Bradman, the Aus- tralian captain, who with 334 previously held the record for the England-Australia series. On the right, Hardstaff is offering his hand,

Rain Washes Out Several Baseball Ties

New York Yankees Beaten Again

New York, Sept. 20. Rain again Interfered with the National Baseball League programme to-day, no matches being played in

Football Union Will Accept Pools Money

London, Sept. 4.

the

Narrow Escape For American Tennis Lady Champions

Miss Marble And Mrs. Fabyan Just Scrape Through

From A. Wallis Myers

Brookline, Mass., Aug, 24.

The public concentrated on the women's event in the American Doubles Championships here to-day. Teams of four nationalities reached the semi-finals. A high wind was inimical to scientific play and seeded pairs were in jeopardy.

Mina Alice Marble and Mrs. Fab- yan, the holders, indeed, had the narrowest of escapes and were lucky to survive against Mrs. D. B. Andrus and Mme. S. Henrotin after being} within two points of defeat.

of her Mmc. and

one

Miss Marble struck "errorful days, and with Henrotin volleying perfectly raising stived Jobs which pitched on the baseline, the Franco-American

wing set. In the pair led 4-1

ocked here Their advance was and the holders snatched the sel, but the advantage proved clusive, Mnie. lfenrotin and Mrs. Andrus played sound tennis, squared the match, and advanced to 3-1 in the final

From now until the Anish issue wavered. Mrs. Andrus lost her service, but Mme. Henrotin con- tinued to dominate the match and eventually Mra. Fabynn's service wns broken for the champions to face a real crisis.

net.

the

TOOK LEAD IN 21st GAME Mrs. Andrus served a double fault under excitement and ultimately the holders forced the land in the 21st

game and then won Mme. Henrotin's service to love for the match,

ind

if

It was the French player's only her American part- ner had returned services more con- sistently Miss Marble and Fabyan must have gone down.

Miss Stammers and

K.

Miss M. Lumb had an equally strenuous fight against Mrs. H. C. Hopman and Miss D. Stevenson and

after the won Australians had two match balls on Miss Lumb's service in the third set.

Luckily Miss Lumb was serving wind and at this crisis she served two aces.

Previously, the British pair had given hostage to fortune when they failed to carry Miss Stammers' set- vice from 40-love to gain a 5-3 lead.

stantly had the Californian girls in difficulties by astute lobbing and varintion of pace. Miss Bandy and Miss Workman could only win three gumes.

.

The wind wes 80 violent later that canvos screens were removed to prevent an accident-uninviting conditions for mixed doubles.

R. A. Shayes and his young Call- fornian partner, Misa Jane Stan-

too, put out Y. Petra and Mme. Majicu, the second "secded" pair,

(Continued on Page 9.)

VARIED SPORTING

PROGRAMME

BOWLS, TENNIS AND SOCCER

A varied programme of sporting events has been arranged for this

The afternoon. Mrs.

weather having cleared up, a treat is in store for bowls, tennis and soccer enthusiasts.

That twice-postponed match in

In the semi-finals of the bowis singles championship of the Colony betwen W. Bradbury and A. R. Dallali B. will be decided to-day at the Club de Recreio. Mr. H. A. Alves, will omelate.

Bradbury has now recovered from recent indisposition, and took part in the Aitkenhead Shield match last Saturday between Hongkong and Kowloon. His tie against Dal- In should be a very interesting one. The winner will meet J. A. Luz in the final.

Although one must admit that the Australian girls showed the finest Hrit and gauged the wind to a nicety with their lobs.

his

Across the road, at the United final match in the hardcourt doubles Services R.C., the remaining semi-

Court

Considering that the Australian tennis championship will be played An important resolution on the football pools offer of $5,000girls played almost exclusively at the at 4 pm. The contestants are the back of the court against two at Tsul brothers, holders of the grass- a year to the football League's Jubileo Benevolent Fund was tacking volleyers, they did extreme-

tille, and E. C. Fincher and V Remedios. Good though the what passed at the annual meeting of the Association Football Players ly well, proving Industry and

courage enn do in a distracting wind. latter players are, they are not ex and Trainers Union at Manchester.

SEMI-FINALISTS

pected to be a serious threat to the

Union, said

Miss Slammers and Miss Lumb favourites.

Lee Wai-tong will once again be It was announced that the Union chairman of the

the main attraction at Caroline Hill was prepared to accept any money pools were getting money out of the now meet Miss Marble and Mrs. given by the pools promoters or from game and If they wanted to help Fabyan, and in the other semi-final this section.

cer match between the Hongkong any other source for the benefit of the players in return they could do: Wynne and Miss T. Coyne this afternoon when the charity soc- so. "We are prepared to publish the will oppose. Mme. S. Mathieu and The matches affected were Pitts-needy players.

Chinese Amateur Athletic Federa Mile, J. Jedrzejowsks, facts about the distribution of every burgh

tion and the Middlesex Regiment to Brooklyn, V.

Chicago

Coyne, Miss Wynne and Miss V. Philadelphia (double-headers), St. Omcials of the Union pointed out penny they give us," he added.

bothered by the

too raise funds for refugees in South gale, netted the

China will be played. not for

The Louis v. Boston, and Cincinnati v. that the money was

many volleys in the first set, but Chin This view was also expressed by

decided last Satur- New York.

benefit of their funds, but would be

steulled down in the second should have been ret and bout their young. eager day, but on account of the threaten- In the American League, the match used exclusively for needy players. Mr. James Fay, secretary of

Sam Crooks, the Derby County Union, who pointed out that they American opponents 10-8, 6-2. Ing weather it was postponed, between Philadelphia Athletics and

is the were helping players no longer in England forward, who

Mme. Mathieu and her Pollsh At Happy Valley, a bowls match Detroit Tigers was washed out.

The and

between been arranged for the Arst time, Civil Service C.C, and a team led partner, pairing results of other matches were:

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Washington

Cleveland

Boston St. Louts

Boston

R. *H. E. St. Louis

I D 0

the gume,

2 3. 1

0 10 0 (The match was called in the

eighth inning owing to darkness).

12 13

15

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they

has

Came

the

Governor.

It was announced that the Union rouled Miss D. Bundy and si last year secured compensation for Workman. Mme. Mathieu scarcely by His Excellency the players amounting to £9,475, an in-made a single error, and she con- Play is scheduled to start at 4 p.m. crease of over £3,000 on the previ

year and making a total of £53.000 In the last nine years. In addition, It had spent over £600 in varlous ways to help players.

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