LEE CUP CHALLENGE MET BY TAURANGA
ROTORUA DOWN, 9— io B TEAM WINS WATT CUP , MATCH The Rotorua Tennis Club's challenge of Tauranga for the Lees IC'up was unsuccessfulj the holders winning by ten games to liine at the Tauranga courts yesterday. At the same time, the Rotorua B team played a Watt Cup match, this being a points trophy for eentre competition. Rotorua won by seven games to three. Details are as follow, Tauranga players being* mentioned first in each instance: — Lees Cup: A Team Dyer beat Rusbatch 6 — 4, 3 — 6, 6 — !0; Aitkenhead beat Penney fi — 1, 6 — 0; Stevens beat Vugler 2 — 6, 6 — 5, 6 — 4; Ward lost to Le Lievre 0 — 6, 5 — 6; Johnston lost to Hadley 0 — :6, 1 — '6; Dickinson lost to Wilson 2 — 6, 3—6. Miss Kirk beat.Mrs. Lee 6 — b, 6 — 2; Mrs. Jones lost to Miss Knight 3 — 6, G — 2, 2 — 6; Miss Pat Johnson beat Mrs. Jackson 4 — 6, 6 — 3, 6 — 0; Miss Pam Johnson lost to Miss ILolland 4—6, 1—6.
Dyer and Aitkenhead beat Penney and Wilson 6 — 5, 6— 3;« Stevens and Ward beat Rusbatch and Vugler 6 — 3, 6 — 3; Johnson and Dickison "oeat Le Lievre and Hadley 6 — 3, C — 4. Mrs. Jones and Miss Kirk beat Mrs. Lee and Miss Knight 6 — 4, 6 — 1; Miss Pat and Miss Pam Johnson lost to Mrs. Jackson and Miss Holland 2 — 6, 4—6. Dyer and Miss Kirk beat Penney and Miss Knight 1 — 6, 6 — 3, 6 — 1; Aitkenhead and Mrs. Jones lost to Le Lievre and Miss Holland 6 — 2, 2 — 6, 2 — 6; Stevens and Pat Johnson beat Rusbatch and Mrs. Lee 6 — 5, 6 — 3; Dickison and Pam Johnson lost to Wilson and Mrs. Jackson 6 —0, 4 — 6, 4—6. Watt Cup: B Team 'M. Guinness lost to R. Nairn 4 — 6, 6 — 4, 3 — 6; Nicholls beat L. Palmer 6—4, 2— C, 6—0. Miss A. W. McKenzif lusl to Miss W. Lavsen 2 — 6, 2 — 6; Miss Brown lost to Mrs. R. Edward:-*. 0- — 2, 2 — 6, 8—6. Guinness aml Xicholls lost to Nairn and Bell 4 — 6, 6 — 5, 3 — 6; Davidson and Gammon beat Jackson and Palmer 6 — 5, 6 — 4. Miss W. McKenzie and La Tonche lost to Miss Larsen and Mrs. Langguth 6 — 5, 5 — 6, 1 — 6; Miss Brown * and Fulton lost, to Mesthiines Edwards aml Still 2—6, 4—6. Davidson and Miss La Touehe beat Johnson and Mrs. Still 1 — !, 6 — 8, 8 — 6; Gammon and Miss Fulton lost to Bell and Mrs. Langguth t— 6, 4 — 6.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5318, 3 February 1947, Page 3
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435LEE CUP CHALLENGE MET BY TAURANGA Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5318, 3 February 1947, Page 3
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