INTER-CLUB POINTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 534, 11 December 1928, Page 16

INTER-CLUB POINTS

A AND B GRADES BEGIN The A grade inter-club competition for the season tvas somewhat quietly commenced on Saturday with the match between Varsity and Onehunga, at Onehunga. The tennis was not very bright, and in the play Varsity lost only one match, though it had to default in another. The courts were in excellent order, but the day was somewhat, breathless, and Miss Miller, in second place to her sister, for Varsity, fainted after a hard match in which she lost 4 —6, 4 —6, to Miss Litten, and later defaulted in the women’s doubles. This default was regrettable, as it closed what promised to be the most interesting match of the day. Miss J. Taylor had taken Miss P. Miller to three hard-fought sets, and it would have been interesting to see how the Onehunga combination fared against the Miller sisters. The Onehunga team is, if anything, weaker than last year, and it is to be further depleted by the loss of Miss Taylor, the No. 1 lady, who is going to New' Plymouth. Miss Taylor is recognised as a coming player, and she certainly has a style that will be a good example to other players. Her smooth, flat follow-through, w r ith all her strokes, is pretty to see, compjared with the usual lifting, half-finished shots of the majority of players. She gave the impression that her shots were good enough to allow of a little more attack in her play. Her length was so good that she had Miss Miller hard back on the fence during much of the play, but Miss Taylor lacked cross-court and other placement shots that would have put her in winning position. None of the first four players in the men’s matches displayed anything sensational in the way of form, the best performance being that between -Stedman and Harrison, w’hich went to 16 games in the second set. Miss Parr and Cole (Onehunga) took Miss Mueller and Hubble to three sets, and were playing well enough in the first to completely outclass the opposition, but they could not keep it up. Cole appears to have yet to learn that

there is no excuse for double faults in a doubles game. At Parnell Remuera’s first team in the B grade scored a substantial win and should go to the final. C. F. Macintosh, better known as a dashing threequarter for Varsity, was the onty Remuera player to lose a single, Brown being too steady for him. The doubles between Watkins and Macintosh and Aldred and Stallworthy was a hard-fought game, there being practically nothing between the sides. Remuera’s girls did not lose a match, though Mrs. Napier dropped the first set to Miss Chadwick in her singles. The match between Remuera (2) and Eden and Epsom was in doubt up to the last, the home team getting the decision by one set, five matches all. Lucas playing a good game, out-re-trieved Potter in the first singles, but McKeown was too wise a player for Milne, a schoolboy with excellent style. Both Miss Roberton and Miss Taylor showed good tennis in the first set of their singles, the Remuera girl having that extra steadiness which gave her the match. In the second set she W'ent to a 3—o lead. Hughes and Milne almost downed the older pair, Campbell and Bartleet, and Lucas and Craig combined well to dispatch McKeown and Potter in three sets.