EXHIBITION TENNIS.
CONTEST AT MIRAMAR
MARRED BY RAIN
The light rain, which set in shortly after midday today interfered with the programme of .the exhibition tennis matches between, .the. English, Australian, and New Zealand players ;at the Miramar grounds. ... .. > ■. Play was to have commenced'at 1.30 p.m. with a singles match between D. G. Trance (Now Zealand) and F. H. D; Wilde (England), but at that hour the'! weather was unsuitable for tho o'pomiig of play*. The court had been covered, arid it was not till an hour later that it was decided to put on a doubles match between P. .T. Perry.and F. H. D. Wilde (England) and C...E. Malfroy1 and D. G. France. (New Zealand). Play began at 3 p.m. after a delay occasioned by the net-cord breaking. Malfroy and France won the first set, 6-3, taking- the last-three games in succession. '' •'
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19331028.2.130
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 103, 28 October 1933, Page 11
Word Count
143EXHIBITION TENNIS. Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 103, 28 October 1933, Page 11
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in