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Show KUMAGAE IS GOOD IMITATOR Japinese Tennis Player Owes His Championship Form to His Ability to Copy Rivals. The Japs have been noted as hustling hus-tling imitators ever since the day Commodore Com-modore Perry paid his famous visit to the little brown men. This oriental trait is manifesting itself in sports Tennis and golf appeal especially to the far easterners. Ichiya Kumagae, most capable of the Japanese tennis players, gives plenty of proof how his n V y - Ts Li - kA pi :liiyf I If iP yir pjyysglyJ P illlllSllillt JiXlfM Ichiya Kumagae. countrymen copy their foreign models, mod-els, says an eastern sport critic. Two years ago Kumagae competed In the national championship at Forest For-est Hills. His was the old traditional English game, everything from the baseline. The system got the little brown visitor past two rounds. Then Mr. Kumagae encountered George Church, who plays the aggressive net game so popular with American stars. The Jap was a discouraged and pathetic pa-thetic little figure as he chased around the court first one side then the other trying desperately to compete with his opponent's tantalizing way of putting the ball just out of reach. Kumagae learned vell his lesson. He went back to his flowery kingdom and practiced the latest model of tennis ten-nis playing, particularly the method of choking 'em off at the net. Kumagae is back among us again, a greatly improved racquet wielder. |