'The doubles competition needs! speeding up as it is behind schedule, Only two encounters in the somlfinals took place yesterday after-oon but only one was completed'
which H.C. Collaco and J. G.
Forbes took the measure of Indrickson and W. A. Slobodchikof? straight sets by 6:0, 6-4, 6-2 to enter the semi-fnais, Harry K. F. Li and Poker Tong, defending champions, met K. Fujitt and K. Tazoe also in a quarier-final itch but the play was stopped by darkness afler "the 'Chinese' were ding by "6-3, G-4 and 1-2, Collaco and Forbes had things their own way and received little opposition from the Russian players. The score of 6-0 in the first Is self-explanatory. Li and Tong fought hard to gain an edge over the Japanese, who played a purely defensive game by employing lobbing tactics. The hard services of the Chinese pair were responsible for winning the first two cots.
Two matches in the second round are still on the outstanding list. [V.-r. Wang and 7. K. Leung are to clash with S Fukushi and K. Baba while Gordon Lum and Tong. Liang are to tackle Gordy Chun and P. C. Hsu.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.