Miss Eardley Defeats Mrs.
Burton Then Helps to Win Women's Doubles Before a good crowd of spectators the first evening's play of the Shang hai Badminton Association's programme for the finals of the championships took place yesterday at the French Club.
The play opened with an exhibition match between a C.S.F. marker and one from the Country Club. This game was a revelation of apparent ease of play and lack of effort. Although the Home marker won an easy victory as far as the score was concerned, the play was brimful of action which brought gasps of admiration from the assembly. One very noticeable feature was the absence of drives, the play consisting of super-natively clever placing. One can but envy the power and flexibility of the back-hand strokes which this couple produced. The result was a score of 15-5 and 15-3 in favour of the CSF.
Mr. Burton put up a disappointing show against Miss Eardley, losing in two straight setts LI-I and LI-I. The champion played a quiet, steady game and soon found Mrs. Burton's weakness: backhands. Apart from one or two rapid passages there was nothing remarkable about the encounter.
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