TENNIS THE BASIC WAGE.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1922, Page 3

TENNIS

THE BASIC WAGE.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z- CABLE ASSOCIATION WTN FOR PATTERSON. /Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) NEW YORK. Aug. 17.

Tn the first match at Philadelphia between Australia and Spain, Patterson defeated Gomar 6—3, B—6. 6—4. Tn the first sot, Gomar’s service, was weak, though he outgeneraled his opponent in the sixth game, Patterson not scoring at all. The Australian’s service was the speediest and his effective smashes brought him through a winner. Tn the next set. Gomar played with more precision and luing on closely, taking game's alternately to the sixth, hut Patterson forged ahead at the finish and won,'with some trouble. In the third and deciding set, the Australian demonstrated his superiority being both faster and hitting the ball harder than the Spaniard. NEW YORK. August 17.

\lonzo (Spain) defeated Wood (Australia) 2-6. 3-6. 6-2. 8-6. 6-1 In the first set Wood won rather easily. Alonzo showed versatility and several times made remarkable shots, winning tle fourth game hv an imparently impossible return, but Wood was steadier in the next set and the Spaniard did a little better. Wood won the third game by a wonderful recovery at the very last point, through Alonzo failing with a return. He also won the fourth when his opponent was forty to love. The third set showed reversal of form on tne Australian’s part, and he could only win two games, the second and seventh Alonzo secured four games in succession. play in the fourth set produced better tennis than in the Patterson-Gomar contest. Woods arm appeared in excellent condition but lie seemed tired. He returned refreshed by a period of rest and playing a fast well placed game had his opponent lieat and then lost by his own mistakes. In the eighth and ninth games Alonzo was within a point of losing hut Wood served a double fault in one, and found the net in the other. The Spaniard squeezed out .and won. This double fault lost AVood not I only the game, but the contest. In the final set, Alonzo, vociferously cheered, i showed sensational form. Wood tired I to nothing, and was hopelessly beaten.

'Received this day at 9.50 a.m.") BRISBANE, August 18. \t the Conference of Australian Employers Council, Win. Brooks of Sydney, in an address on the basic wage, said the amount paid in wages throughout the Commonwealth as a direct result of the assumed increase in maintaining workers, his wife and dependent children showed an increase between the years 1914 and 1920 of one hundred million sterling per annum. Of this, forty million was paid to unmarried adult males and a further twelve million to married adult's without children. This proved that not only had the wages of such workers been unwarrantably inflated but an unwarrantable burden ) la s been placed on the shoulders of men with large families. He urged the need for basing the living wage upon the cost of maintain a. husband and wife only without additional provision recording the number of dependent Children. The Conference adopted resolu. tions in favour of fixing the basic wag< along the above lines, instead of th< present two children standard, and con demiting the reduction of forty-eighi to forty-four hour week; favouring ai amendment of the Arbitration Act am restriction of its functions to specifiet industries; providing a declaration foi a basio wage for periods not exceed jpg sijt months.