TENNIS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3409, 28 December 1911, Page 6

TENNIS.

N.Z. CHAMPIONSHIPS.

AUSTRALIA AND AMERICA LEFT IN MEN’S DOUBLES.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.!} , CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 27. : The New '-Zealand ■'championships' were continued toklay. The results were:

Men’s Singles’ Championship,‘.best of five sets, advantage sets,, present eham- : pidn J j C. Peacocko, Wellington .—First round, O’Hara Wood beat W. Shop-, paid 6 —2, Kidston walked over from 13.. Upton, F. M. B. Fisher beat S. W. Brown B—6, 6—2, 6—3, O’Hara 'Wood: beat L. Bonnington 6—3,Quill beat G. G. Aitken .3—6, 6 —3,' 2—6, 6 —4, 7 —5; third round, J. C. Peacocke beat R. D. Harman 6 —l, 6—4, 6—4, T. It. Quill beat H. Morpeth <B-—2, 6—3, 6~^3. ■ . Ladies’"Singles-Championship, best of three 'Sets,''' •' advantage; .sets'; present. .champion Miss Eva Travers, Wellington , —Second • round, Miss K. M, Nun-; nelly beat:Miss E. .Goodman 6—4, 6—2, Miss N> Hartgill beat. Mrs J, C. Lord; 6 1, 6—6, Miss 'E.:' Travers ■-'beat.-Mis.v E. M. ’Baird 6—l, 4—6,’ 6—2; Miss E. Seott beat Miss A. L. Brewster 6 —2, 7 5, Miss M. Buttenvorth walked over from Miss L. Williams; third round, Miss' E. Travers beat Miss M. Butterworth 6—3, 6 —3, Miss A. Gray beat Miss K. M, Nunnelly 6-4, 3—6, 7—5. Men’s Doubles Championship, ‘best of five sets, advantage sets. Present champions, F. M. B. Fisher and’ J. C. Peacocke.—Third round, Wertheim and Kidston beat Borrows and Ol’Hara Wood 6—3, 5—7, 6—2, 7—5, F. M. B. Fisher and J. C. Peacocke beat G. Olivier and Jennings 4—6, 11- —9, 7—5, 6—2; semi-final, Brookes and Dunlop b^at.,'Wertheim and, Kidston 6—o, 6 —o/ 6—l; Whighf arid' McLoughlin beat F. M. B. Fisher and J. C. Peacocke 6 —3, 6—3, 6—l. Ladies’ Doubles Championship, best of three sets, advantage sets. Present champions,.' Misses [ Eva” Travers (Weh lington) arid R. Bay).—Second' round, ‘Misses Butterworth and Simpson beat Misses ’ Molesworth and Greenfield’6—3, 6 —4, Misses Travers and Gray beat. Misses Williams and Hartgill 6— r 4, (> —3. Combined; Doubles Championship, b«? 1.

of three sets, .advantage sets, . .Present' cihampions. Miss’ r R. Wellwc>odA l Ha , i/ke(s ; ; Bay)'and H. T; Parker (N;S.W,)--First: , round, Kidston and- Mies .A. Gray beat. I F. M. r _ .Wilson : and‘7 Mfeff &Grgenfield'* I •second : rourid/ E. J. Ross' and Miss/D. Van Stavern ;b(eat,Pinfold * and. Mies B'- Scott , DroWn' t SK. M. timnriclly beat Oliphant andAiraßose,6—l j 6—3, Jen- - nings. and; Miss B. j 'arid' Mies and Miss A. Gray 'walked over from A. Dunlop and Mis* Wellwood, and Rico- • land-miss-L: Willia‘nls v be(it ! T. »R: QU»11 , and E: M. Baird-B—6, 6—4. , •_t •“"i"" ■ • ‘ ’V : 'i f.TH-E | IiFKOU Oui: OWN' v j V ’, 1 .- j t ; ■ :\ Tim local ■■a'nd Kew. { , -terinis playei-s-have blinded the. Da-vis-,Cup court excellont, ■’provided no bad, t weather intervenes'.before the .29th. . j Ploiity- <xf Apiiice has been;allowed, qb.tsifle ‘ 2 itlie actual ‘playing( 'flthd'jabpiiti '3sft at sjdes{ ;' Tli'e j ■efs are most’pairticular, and net -te>r • ’the'singles ‘is • to'befdiffierenf -frcun the. bne 'for doubles;• • ehoiderj blit same, dibight at .ends.. - . ■./ .■/• made? out-. sidie mslgm-’ ' is ; - IgjxAlTfid ! niittdrHf it/wbre; belmyg ■teieTO: f is'a.-'m^cn ; ' ! 'bettete. , phairce pwhccpmir : j • {plishirig'tfiis '^tE^e perly placed 1 just aibout 2ft 10iri outside, the line than a doubles post which; would‘be'fully 4ft 6m- further out, and consequently make it alinost a matter.; of impcekibilitiy tofflive a rdtiif ri outside j of and into ooilrt,'' * Particular,, ain’t,) they? t . I' saw MbLauglilin and. Beals Wright, »y a iri"the New Zealand chamIpionkliip'mfeetini;, .but-they w'ere'not a|L out by.a .'good-deal. ; " They plat up-soft., (stuff for t-heir oppmientsttofpimisJi, sand;, 1 rtlieni .tried too teach /th«se -liot - returns... , McL/augliMn’s Wristy'strokes arc beadti-,, ful, but -he didn’t let himself go. He is,; not above sft Sin, and has made himself., very popular They brotuglit'; no ‘ foiirthi' player" with them, and 011 i -; vier. tlie promising Canterbury colt,*, took j the«spleaidid opportunity, and t played 1 with them in pra/tdoes every,, day. He ,made>a good against,, Larned' and MbLaughlin/ taking a mow and then, but can do nothing with, 'Wright. , - ■ n . : Wright, who is a powerful looking chap, cuts'. every tiring .and. places' beauti- . •’fully, seldom, indulguiga'n.' hafd. smaslies, tiiougfi' 1 ' he care do .Jo ,if r . necessdiyPlease uhdersta nd .this -idea is gained from his exhibition in the aforementionedl double, where he wasn’t all out. Opinions are .very divided-among .the tennis “guns” a!s : to- what the result will be, but all are of opinion that it will be pretty closeFisher • and Peacock© gave Brookes and Dunlop a severe slopping'the other, day in a practice game, but- it goes for nothing. Both cup teams are simply practising shots, and not woiTying over, Winning sets. The seats and staging for ; ; the Cup are nearly completed, and over: 2000 seats were booked the morning the plan opened-