SUNDRY SPORTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 25, 28 January 1913, Page 5

SUNDRY SPORTS.

LAWN TENNIS. BRITAIN v. VICTORIA. A WIN FOR VICTORIA. vßy Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Alelbourne, January 26. Tennis was continued in hot weather. Lowe won the first set against Dunlop, and the first game of the second set. Dunlop then retired ill. Lowe was brilliant, his serving and placing being first-class. Brookes won his first set against Parke by 33 aces to 25. Brookes showed dazzling tennis, his serving and volleying being perfect. Brookes lost his first service game in the second set and was unable to recover this leeway. Parke winning by 39 aces to 32. Brookes secured the third set. The Britishers desired the singles to lie the best of five. Parke was especially desirous <jf this. They urged that the victory of Brookes over Parke at Sydney in two straight sots had been acclaimed as re-establi hing Brookes’ supremacy, whereas it was not a championship test at all. Brookes declined to play unless the committee’s original arrangement of “the best of three” was adhered to. The Britishers finally agreed to accept this. Heath and Campbell played very soundly. Campbell was intefmitt nt ly brilliant at the net and Heath was solid.

Lowe beat Dunlop, B—6, I—o (when Dunlop retired). Brookes heat Parke, 6—3 , 3—6, 6—3. Heath and Campbell beat Beamish and Lowe, 6—4, 6—2, 6—3. Idle score stands : Victoria three lubbers, ten sets, eighty-seven g mos; Britain three rubbers, tight sets, eighty-five games. Victoria thus won.

(Received 10.55 a.m.) Melbourne, January 28. Brookes declined to play the best ol five games because he had not had sufficient training, and was not well enough in condition to play a long match. BOXING. It looks as though a legitimate world’s champion pugilist is to be evolved next month. An independent cable message to the Sun states that “Bombardier” Wells, the heavyweight champion of Great Britain, has been matched to box Luther M'Caty. at Madison-square Gardens, New York, about the middle of February. The bout will be a ten-rounds one, and Wells is to receiver 25 per cent, of the gross receipts. It is estimated that the house will hold £6OOO. The Sporting Life is confident that Weil will acquit himself creditably. “Tommy” Burns is anxious to fight Wells at Cagary in April. He has guaranteed the Engish champion £2400. '1 he articles of agreement are being drafted. CRICKET. VICTORIA v. NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, January 26. New South Wales in their first innings scored 477 (Barbour 146). Carkeek kept wickets splendidly, there being only four sundries, which consisted of one bye, two leg-byes, and a no ball. Victoria in their second innings have lost 9 wickets for 335 runs (Baring 36, Seitz 44, Ryder 53, E. L. Carroll 43, Matthews not out 63). The weather was beautiful and the wicket good. THE PLUNKET SHIELD. Auckland, January 27. The following have been selected to represent Auckland in the Plunket Shield match against Canterbury, starting on the Domain on Wednesday —Hemus (captain), Gumming and Taylor (Eden), Grenier, Kerr and Oliff (Parnell), Horsepool '(Grammar School), Kavanagh, Sneddon and Robinson (Ponsonby), Sale (North Shore). W. Brooke-Smith (Eden) is the twelfth man. The new men in the eleven are Kavanagh, Kerr, and Frenier, who take the places of Sommerville, Dacre and Brooke-Smith. On Thursday next Mr. Newton King’s Stratford Staff are to meet Mr. King’s New Plymouth Staff, on the High School Ground, New Plymouth. The Stratford team will be sel cted from the following:—H. E. Abraham. F. H. Moore, B. V. Kivell, H. Cameron, J. J. East, R. Harkness, ell, R, Wood, G. Oliver, L. Lawrence, Bell, J. Hart, P. Paul, J. Hignett.