SPORTS BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 118, 2 May 1936, Page 5

SPORTS BREVITIES

At the Bournemouth tennis tournament in the semi-final of the doubles Malfroy and Stedman defeated Wilde and Hare, 2—6, 4—6, 6—3, 7—5, 6—3. Press Assn. In the fi.ottish golf semi-final, E. D. Hamilton, sft. 2in., the smallest competitor Jn senior golf, sensationally defeated McLean, 3—2. McLean’s puting was poor.—Press Assn. In a Davis Cup first round France is leading China by two matches to nil. Boussus defeated Kho, 6—o, 6—o, 6—l; Deytremeau defeated Cheng, 6—l, 6—3, 6—B, 6—3. Lindrum is leading Davis in a snooker match in England by 26 to 24. —Press Assn, l The race fc .the Thousand Guineas at Newmarket resulted:—Lord Derby’s Tideway 1, Lord Derby’s Feola 2, Mr. Watson’s Ferrybridge 3. The filly Feola is from the King’s stables.—Press Assn. A 18-year-old schoolboy, holder of the boys’ golf championship, John Langley, defeated in the semi-final of the English amateur championship Cyril Tooley, winner of almost as many championships as his opponent has years, in one of the finest championship matches seen. Tooley was four down at the fourteenth and won the next three, but Langiey imperturbably putted at the eighteenth, halvin -„the hole. He meets in the final H. Bentley, Walker Cup player and ex-holder of the French and German championships, who in the semi-final defeated C. Stowe, a coalminer, who earlier defeated J. do Forest, son of the millionaire. —Press Assn.