SUNDRY SPORTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 18, 20 January 1913, Page 6

SUNDRY SPORTS.

LAWN TENNIS.

AUSTRALIA’S SUCCESS

PARKE’S FIRST DEFEAT. ■■ i Jin (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Sydney, January 19. Tho lawn tennis test match, British Isles v. Australia, was continued yesterday in bright and extremely hot weather, before an attendance of 35,000. Most interest centred in the meeting of Brookes and Parke. The latter at the start outplayed Brookes until the score was 5—2 in his favour. Then came a great deal of amazingly clever volleying from both. Brookes, recovering finely, took four games in succession, making it 6—5 in his favour. Parke won the next two, Brookes securing the last three and the set in 31 minutes. Parke won the first game in the second set n\ainly through two great recoveries. Brookes mixed fils game and rattled Parke, who made some weak strokes, whereas Brookes was right at the top of his game. The set lasted sixteen minutes. Brookes took 48 aces to 43, and 31 to 20. This is noteworthy, as it was Parke’s first defeat in Australasia. i

Dunlop gave a better showing in the singles against Lowe than on Inday, but found Lowe’s superior playing too much. Jones won the first set against Beamish, who played a fine game, but he went to pieces afterwards, his energy being affected. Heath opened sensationally against piston, taking the set to love. Dixon Iherafter played infinitely better. Tho score in the second set reached 3 all, and no fewer than ten deuces were called in one of the games. Beamish and Dixon succumbed to Heath and Jones, mainly through Jones’ fine net work, overhead work and severe serves. Dixon’s tossing was a valuable asset to his side, but Beamish’ tired towards the finish, finding the net too often. Brookes and Dunlop, as anticipated, defeated Parke and Lowe, Parke playing many pretty passing shots. Lowe s service occasionally beat even Brookes.

SCORES. Lowe beat Dunlop, B—2, 6 4. 1 Beamish, beat Jones, 5—7, 6—2, 6

Dixon beat Heath, o—6, 6—3, 61. Brookes beat Parke, 9—7 ? B—2. Heath and Jones beat Beamish and Dixon, 6—4, 4—6, 6—l. Brookes and Dunlop beat Park and Lowe, 6—2, 6 —3. Australia. Britain. Matches ... 7 6 Sets ... 17 .12 Games ... 149 121 SWIMMING. Sydney, January 18. The 220yds Swimming Championship of Now South Wales resulted: Longwor.th 1, Gr. Page 2, S. Smith 3. Time, 2ihin 31 l-ssec. Won by 3 3-ssec. Diving Championship.—D. Peel 1, T. Jones 2, A. Wickham 3. Five Hundred Yards Teams Championship.—Rose Bay (Sydney) A learn 1, Manly 2. Time, smin ssec. Melbourne/ January 18. The Hundred Yards Breast Stroke Championship of Victoria was won by W. Finney, with L. Brunton second, and J. Davidson 3. Time, Imin 1/ 4-ssec.

220 Yards Championship.—J. Stedman 1, W. Bennett 2, L. Greaves 3. Time, 2min 43 3-ssec. Quarter-Mile Country Championship. —P. Ellingson 1, H. Haynton 2. lime, 7min 15sec. Half-Mile Championship.—C. Powell 1, L. Green 2, C. Urquhart 3. Time, 12min 41sec. Diving.—S. Brane 1, M. Griffiths 2, A. Sante 3. THE LEAGUE CAME. Mr. E. Welch, of Masterton, during his recent trip Home, had an opportunity of seeing several of the best teams in England play the Northern Union game. “It is a much superior game to Rugby, when you see it played by such teams as Huddersfield, Wigan, Leeds, Halifax, Dewsbury, Oldham, or Hull Kingston Rovers,” said Mr. f Welch to a “Wairarapa Daily Times’ ■ reporter. “It is spectacular football, fast and exciting, the scene of play ever changing. Brilliant passing rushes are the order of the day. There is a noticeable absence of the “push and bullock” game so common in Rugby. In the games I saw in England there was an entire absence of anything suggesting rough play, and from the information I gathered from independent sources, the stories about the roughness of the League game are mostly inventions on the part of interested persons. s athletics. Negotiations are proceeding for the holding in England of a fifteen miles “Marathon” event, wherein world’s champions will compete, each contestant contributing £IOO towards the stake—the winner to take the lot.