TENNIS AT MIRAMAR

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 45, 22 February 1930, Page 11

TENNIS AT MIRAMAR

WELLINGTON STARTS' WELL

The first day's play in the series of lawn tennis matches between Wellington and Canterbury for the Wilding Shield left Wellington in the lead by four matches to two. Wellington won all the singles with the exception o£ one match, and won one of the doubles. Play started at 2 o'clock on the Wellington Association's courts at Mira'mar, which, were on the heavy side owing to rain early in the morning. MALFROY BEATS ANGAS. Most interest centred in the meeting of C Angus, the New Zealand champion, and C. E. Malfroy, whom Angas defeated in the semi-final of the New Zealand singles championship earlier iv the month. Malfroy won a decisive victory, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3. He played brighter tennis than he did on the previous occasion, and the match was interesting throughout. Angas commenced with the service, but Malfroy hit everything hard, and placing balls down the side-lines with great accuracy took the first game rather easily. In the next game Angas went into the net with marked success and equalised the score. From then on the players took games alternately till the score stood at 3-3. When Malfroy led 2-1 he missed three easy smashes, arid finished, the game with a double fault. The last three games of the first set were marked by some brilliant rallies at the net, and though the Wellington man was inclined to make the pace, Angas played steadily, and returning everything that came across to him, took the set, 6-3. The second set saw harder hitting with Malfroy taking an early lead. Angas equalised at 2-2, and that was the. last game the Canterbury man won in that set. Malfroy's driving improved a.ud he worked xVngas out of position fiv quently with heady shots. The latta made' some remarkable recoveries and sent back balls which it seemed he could not possibly reach, but., was outplayed. The final set saw both players extended, with Malfroy playing with greater confidence, tie drove an excellent length and came in to the net frequently to finish. Malfroy lost the first game, but secured the lead again at 4-1. Angas never let up and battled hard to the end, but he could take only two more games, the final set going to Malfroy. 6-3. The match between N. E. C. Wilson and T. W. Patterson was a long one, the first set going to twenty games. Wilson won 11-9, 6-2. The Wellington man started shakily, Patterson running to, a lead of 4-2. Then the score was evened at 4-4, 5-5, 6-6, 7-7, 8-8, and 9-9. Wilson's smashing was not very accurate in the early stages, but he improved and drew even at five, all after a long tussle. He drove a good length, and once he had settled down had matters very much his own way. Patterson played steadily throughout, and frequently passed Wilson at the net. The second set fell rather easily to the Wellington man, who ran out to win from 2-2. The France-Rhodes-Williams match was a walk over for France, who won 6-3, 6-2. France enjoyed a lead of 4-0 in the first set, and there was hard hitting on each side. The second set finished quickly with the Wellington man superior • all round. ■ , . Canterbury's only win in the singles was in the Glanville-Sandral match, which was won by Glanville 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. Glanville started .very well and went to 4-0 before the Wellington man settled down. In the second set Sandral 'started well by winning the first three games easily. The third set provided patchy tennis with the Canterbury man always on the offensive. THE DOUBLES. France and Malfroy were far too strong for Glanville and Patterson in the doubles which went to the Wellington pair, 6-2, 7-5. The smashing of France was a feature of the first, set, and he rarely let anything go by. In the second set France went completely off his game in the., early stages, and the \ Canterbury pair led 5-1. With the score badly against them the Wellington pan- played a great uphill game, running out winners "at 7-5.' The other doubles match between Angas and Rhodes-Williams and Wilson and Sandral went the three sets. The Canterbury pair established a lead of 3-0 in the first set, and in the second set the players battled for games alternately. There was little between them. The third set saw the Canterbury pair in the lead early, but the score was evened at 3-3. The combination of the Canterbury men was too strong for Wellington, who were beaten 6-3, the last game being a love game with Angas .serving. . I