LAWN TENNIS.
■ THE DOUBLES .' CHAMPIONSHIPS. . ■ ■ WILDING SUCCESSFUL. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS. ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.)' (Rec. July 3, 5.15.p.m.) i London, July 2. At tho lawn tennis • championship meeting Ritchie and Wilding/won the doubles championship, beating Gore and Roper-Barrett, 6-4, 6-2, 4-6, 4-6, 9-7. Wilding and Mrs. Chambers won the mixed doubles- ; charipionship, beating Roper-Bar-ret and' Mrs. Sterry, 6—4, 6—3.
Gore and Eopcr-Barrett' wore respectively the champion and runner-up* in. the singloß championship.ln': sharing"with Ritchie the honour of tno doubles championship, tha Now Zealander has, somo consolation, for his defent in . the singles, championship by. Roper-Barrett, nnd his previous, tlin final oovered by':'Goro.''':-j 1 -Wilding "'in "the", champion J mixed doubles.. His'partnor,,'Atrs. Chambers, was formerly tho 'lady champion of biit the'.'American' terror, Miss- May Sutton, :be*t h'er at Wimbledon .last year. Tho cablegrams s« far have said nothing about . the 1 ladies' championship,' or about the Dohertys,' or tha prominent American players of laßt year. .
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 241, 4 July 1908, Page 5
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151LAWN TENNIS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 241, 4 July 1908, Page 5
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