OVERSEA ATHLETICS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 552, 6 July 1909, Page 5

OVERSEA ATHLETICS.

1 , LAWN TENNIS. , GORE-AGAIN WINS CHAMPIONSHIP OF ' ENGLAND. ' (By Telegraph.—Prcsß Association —Copyright.) London, July 4. i G6re beat Ritchie, in tho final for the lawn 'tennis championship, 6—B, I—6, 6 —2, 6 —2, V 3. n .'i ' -nil ' .-••-■ [Arthur Wentworth Gore was born on Janu. ary 2, 18G8, and is the oldest player who has ever hold the lawn tennis championship bf England. Ho possessed that distinction when he won it in 1008, and now that ho has retained it jn Jflo9 the honour of this imperturbable veterin, with the nerve of steel, is the greater. In J907 he was beaten by Brookes, of Victoria, but m>l9oß h'o defeated Kopcr-Barrett, and this year tho well-known M. J. G. Ritchie failed to wrest from. Gore-the coveted honour, Mr. Ritchie is 39 years of age, two years younger than Mr. Gore. The New Zcalandors H. A. Parker and Quill competed at the tournament, as did Doust, of Sydney.] A TWENTY-FOUR HOURS' CYCLING i CONTEST. , London,' July 4. In, a twonty-four hours' cycling contest at | tho London Stadium, Bishop, a Londoner,' was the winner. He oovered a distance of 513 miles'l43o yards. , [For 24 hours' oycling, th 6 indoor record is 815'tniles 1408 yards, by E. Bouhonrs, France, May, 1908. Outdoor performances ,034 miles 774 yards, A. E Walters, France, 1900 j 610 miles 340 yards, M, Cordang, England, September 15, 1897,] , ' TWO-MILE CHAMPIONSHIP WALK, , / ' London, July 4. Webb was first, and Rowland, a New Zealander, second, in tho two miles walk for the amateur, dhampidnship at the Stamford Bridge ground, London. [A. E M. Rowlands, formerly of Christchurch, in 1907 won the one imlo and three milo walks at the Australasian amateur championships, besides winning the New Zealand championships In 1908 he won several walking Taocs at Homo, bttt failed to got into tho finals of the walks at the Olympic Gam«s, in which the flew Zealander, Kerr, got two thirds. Webb, who has just defeated Rowlands, is an Englishman, and was second \o the Englishman Lamer in tho Olympic 3500 meters walk.]