Half Volleys

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 568, 22 January 1929, Page 14

Half Volleys

The draw for the Auckland championships will be made to-day at 4.30 p.m. Entries closed yesterday.

Auckland should make a good bid for the North Island titles being decided at Masterton, there being a strong contingent down there headed by Miss Marjorie Macfarlane, A. Stednian and Sturt.

There is every reason to believe that tho Executive Committee of the United States L.T.A. will, at its next meeting, reinstate William T. Tilden, 11., who was barred from tournament play in August last. The c.isqualification became operative at once, and consequently Tilden was barred from both the doubles championships and the singles championships, which were held at Longwood and Forest Hills. Tilden was tho doubles champion, with Francis T. Hunter, at the time the disqualification took place, says “American Lawn Tennis.”

A remarkable achievement was that, of G. P. Hughes and D. M. Grcig, the latter an English internationalist and the former almost equally well known, in winning four Continental European doubles titles in succession. They included the championships of Germany, Austria and Ozecho-Slovakia, all played early in 1928. —“American Lawn Tennis.”