The Archive · 1924

Chinese at Wimbledon

'The reference in this wee! telegrams to a: Chinese lawn tennis player, Mx. Woo, figuring among the competitors' at Wimbledon to who he may the first learn locally, Mr, the Ne family of Hongkong, Woo, or Wo as spelt in Shanghai, being the mandarin form of the Ng common in the South. This family counts several excellent lawn tennis players among its number, the leader of them, Ne Sve-kuang, having been champion of Hongkoi his brother, now an und graduate at Oxford, we are told, who is playing at Wimbledon, It will be remembered that Mr.

Lock Wei, the former Hongkong and Shanghai lawn tennis player, was appointed to choose Chinese to represent China inthe Olympic Games, and when he left here it was to meet Mr. Woo and continue with him to Paris for the competitions there, Our informant-as regards the above details is somewhat uncertain about them and we should be glad to hear from any reader who can give us' further news of an interesting personality.

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