TENNIS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10308, 18 January 1927, Page 7

TENNIS

AUSTRALIAN DAVIS CUP TEAM. COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO 'WATCH PLAYERS. MELBOURNE, Jan. 17. A meeting of the Australian Tennis Council appointed a committee to watch the form of contestants in the, Australian tennis championships at the end of this month, and to pick a team if it thought advisable to participate in the 1927 Davis Cup matches. The Council agreed to permit matches between amateurs and professionals provided the State D'nnis Associations were placed in lull control of the matches and the proceeds were devoted to some tennis ■purposes. It also was decided that Australia should Vote in favor of Germany being allowed to enter the Unvis Cup competition, and favoring the cup being competed for annually. ' —U.P.A

N.S.V. BEAT WAMIAHAPA. MASTEKTUN, Jam 37. The New South Wales tennis team. played a match to-day against a Wairarapa team, supplemented by G. Udvier, N. R. C 7 Mil, son and CL E. Malfroy. The visitors were successful by seven matches to two. The detailed results are as follow, the visitors being mentioned first:— nil . . Singles.—N. Peach beat Olliviei 3_Ji e fl_4 S-G; A. L. North beat Ol a'Wilson 4-6, «-y Fitzgerald lost to Malfroy *> -, o ll 4—G ; McCausland beat Welch 7 5 ’6—3; Brewster beat Miller 6—l; F. Peach beat J. Martin U Doubles.—Peach and Peacli lostto ' Ollivier and Wilson o , • ' North and McCausland heat M-dlioy and Hodder 6-2, (1-4; Fitzgerald beat F. W, Martin and T The o< visitm-t’ caressed pleasure at the solondid condition of the Mastert n C üb’s courts on which the match “s vZli, stating that tW (he fastest vet played:on ■* the Bominion.— P.A.