A great crowd turned out yester= day to see some good tennly and to swell the British" War Fund when three exhibition matches were play-by top-flight local exponents on a Race Club court on the grass course, In fact, the crowd was so much larger than expected that It was necessary to slop selling tickets before the first match began. The sun was shin" ing brightly and the mass of spectators seitied down in anticipation of seme brilliant tennis, If the. tennis failed to reach a high standard, it was certainly hard-fought and ocean sional ashes of brilliance Were followed by thunderous applause.
Lewis Carson, Shanghai champion for the last seven years, proved too Meady and too accurate for Kho Sin el of Java, winning 0-4, G4, the first doubles match, 1.' F. Stokey and M. Benavitch lost' to Harry and Tony Liang by G-s, 7-5 and in the final doubles "encounter Carson and Squires lost the first set to Gore don Lum and V. 'T. Wang by 6-2, won the second set by G-4 and wore yet~ {ng into the third set when rain and failing Wight terminated the pro=
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