Showing undisputed strength, the Sh nghai Recreation Club scored a splendid victory over the Cercle Sportif Francais in the Shanghai Lawn Tennis League Second Division by a score of 10-5. The Recs are now hot favourites to capture this year's championship.
The Frenchmen, who were visitors, took two doubles out of five, winning the and last pairs. Oliveira and Lopes bowed in defeat to the combination of Flood and Taylor in the lead-off encounter. The Recs. won first set 6-3 but dropped the next two by identical tallies Indricksen and Neugebauer mad a clean sweep in their match against Shafter and Fumagali, by 6-2, 6-4, 6-3. The winning pair worked smoothly all the way, despite the opposition put up by the losers. Hayward and R. Murray, in the third doubles, equally well against Wilson and Pottinger as they also shut cut the French players. The scores went 6-1 7-5, 6-3. Wilsoni and Pottinger nearly come through in the second set but encountered bad luck in crucial stages.
The fourth doubles saw MacDonald and T. Murray beat Judah and Down, after conceding the initial set by 6-4
Police Win The Police Recreation Club while playing on the Bramtoco Tennis Club courts also had a successful time as they chalked up the season's third victory in four starts, The law ficers won comfortably by 11-4, thus boosting their total in the league race considerably.
Stanley Gash and Yorke, the first doubles, were the only representatives on the victorious side to receive a setback, losing to Ephgr and Norris, by 5-7, 2-6 9-7. It was not until in the third set that the visiting couple woke to-life and saved a straight loss. Of the remaining pairs, Petroff and Reffushin who played the sreond doubles, worked well together to win 3-0 by scores of- 6-4, 6-1, 7-5 Aiers and Douglas did bkew beating Spiegler and Segal by 6-2, 8- The other two matches saw ley and Crawford beat Zelmanoff and Stein 2-6, 6-1, 6-2, while Turner and Shute defeated Carter and H. W. Tamlyn 4-6, 6-4, 7-5.
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