LAWN TENNIS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 492, 27 April 1909, Page 7

LAWN TENNIS.

. STYLES COMPARED. S N. E. BROOKES. OFF HIS FORM. ': (BI TELEQBArE—rBESS ACSOCIATION—COPTRIOnT.) Sydney, April 26. I Tho morning papers, make complimentary j. references .to tho play of the ■ New Zealand v ladies ill the tenrii3 match on Saturday. I 1 'The "Sydney Horning Herald" says : "The # visitors have shown to what perfection tho t forehand drive can bo brought. Oil the ? other hand, they will derive benefit from j some of the back-htyul strokes and volleying a of their opponents." ■; The contest in which Mrs. Colquhoim and j Miss Baker defeated Misses Ward and Well- r wood 1 was a remarkable one. \ It-started at ® 10.30, and was finished at .ono o'clock. The third set ran into thirty games, the match f taking fifty games.; . > • ; 'Brookes's plav, though marked by, flashes s of great, brilliancy, was lacking in the.latter r 'stages of the interstate matches. It wanted- * sting and forceful volleying. At tho ond n of' the day' he. announced that, not feeling (' fit, lie would not participate in tho matches j, during the present week. .. v ■ c •■■■-, — > ■ i

; RAIN DELAYS CHAMPIONSHIPS. [ (nr TEtEORArn— press association—coi-ituGn-r.) ■ (Rec. April 27, 0.5 a.m.) • Sydney, April 26. •* Owing to rain, no important matches in connection with tbo lawn tennis champion-ships,'Were-played to-day. Tho unfinished matches of Saturday, between New Zealand and Now South Wales ladies, were "not proceeded with. ' [Even if the Ner Zealand ladies lose all the matches—five—which are unfinished or not libgun, it seems that they will still win. 'l'he in- ' terestin? singles match Miss Nnnnelcy (New Zealand) v. Miss Baker is unfinished at 4—G, G—2. The following singles have-still to be-. 1 ' ■ played: Miss WeHwood (N.Z.) v. and ' Miss Ward (N.Z.) v. Miss Jones. In the'.doubles, ;the'match 'Misses Gray,- and Travers (N.Z) v. Mrs..Doyle and Miss Gardiner is unfinished at 6-4, -'4-6}' and ; Hisses Ward and Wellwood 'N.Z.) have still to meet Mrs. Doylo and Misf Gardiner. Taking tho totals, singles; and doubles, to date,: New Zealand has won U matches, 24 sets, 213,; gainei, to 5 matches, 1-1 sets, 184 games.] , '