WIN FOR ENGLAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 775, 23 September 1929, Page 6

WIN FOR ENGLAND

AUSTIN SUCCESSFUL IN AMERICAN TENNIS BETTY NUTHALL ALSO (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) LOS ANGELES, Saturday. In the South-Western Pacific tennis championships today Austin (England) defeated Edward Berrj' (Los Angeles), 6—l, 6—4; Mrs. Covell defeated Elizabeth Deiks (Los Angeles), 6—3, 6—2; Doeg defeated Carl Bartlett (Long Beacld, G—o. 6— x; Mercur defeated Phil Hanna (Los Angeles), 6——l, 4- 1 6, G—4. In an exhibition match Keith Gledhill (Santa Barbara) defeated. Oliff (England), 6—3, 4>—-1. In the women’s doubles ■ Bptty Nuthall and Caroline Babcock (Santa ilonica) defeated Midge Glad-man and Helen Marlowe (Los Angeles), 6—2, Cliff Robbins (University of California) defeated Oliff (England); G—3. 1!—1; Norman Farquharson (South Africa) defeated Lester Stoefer (Los Angeles). Xn exhibition matches Betty Nuthall and Austin defeated Edith Cross and Doeg, 7—5, 6—o; and Phoebe Watson and Dorothy Shepherd Barron defeated Airs. May Sutton Bundy and Mary Greef (California), 6—4* G—o SUBMISSION KNOCK-OUT? INQUIRY INTO AUSTRALIAN CONTESt REDMOND DOWNS MILLER f Ahrattan and XZ. Press Association) SYDNEY. Sunday. In a boxing bout at the Sydney Stadium last evening Pat Redmond, the Irish giant., knocked out Blackie Miller, formerly Australian heavyweight champion, in the fourth round. Miller was twice warned in the third round owing to carelessness as to where his blows landed. The management decided to withhold Miller's share of the gate money pending an inquiry into his conduct in that round; also because it is alleged that he illegally took the count in the fourth.