LAWN TENNIS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 174, 31 December 1914, Page 8

LAWN TENNIS.

i NEW ZEALAND CHAMPIONSHIPS. 1 By Telegraph.—Per Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night, llie New Zealand championship tennis tournament commenced to-day in splendid weather. The entries were not so .large as usual, hut amongst tho competitors are most of last year's champions. Results: MEN'S SINGLES. R T ¥i^r E e ol l lnd: Pcarsc beat Wilding, o-i, 6-0, 6-2. jr n e 'i'e d - om ' h Wilkil ' k ' llt Bray 2-C 0-0, 3-0, /-5, 0-3; Di t . kic beats. \ Brown o-o 0-2, 5-7, 0-S, 0-3; Ollivfer* beat Nicholson, 0-0, 0-1, G-2; Wallace beat Borrows, 1-0, 11-i), 0-1, 6-3; Jennings beat Scay, 0-1, 0-1, 0-2; Harraway , beat lathers, (i-2, !)-li, 0. 0 j, 2 (Father's retired). / LADIES' SINGLES. I First Round: Miss Hughes beat Miss ! Jackson, 6-1, 0-3; Miss Brewster beat | Miss Black 0-1, 0-3; Miss Campbell beat , Miss Duthic, 0-1, 0-0; Mrs. Nagle beat Miss Elisor, 6-1, 0-1. MEN'S DOUBLES. • First Round: Ollivier and Wilding beat Pearse and Goss, 0-2, 6-2, 0-3; Dickie and Wallace, beat Brown Bros., 6-2, 0-3 7-5-Borrows and Seay beat Harraway and McDougall, 0-0, 0-4, 0-1 j Nicholson and Jennings beat Bray and Wilkie, 0-4, 0-2, LADIES' DOUBLES. First Round: Misses White and Black beat Misses Cook and Jackson, 6-2, 0-3. Second Round: Misses Gray and Baird beat Mrs. Nagle and Miss Hughes, 6-3 6-1. ' COMBINED DOUBLES. First Round: Goss and Miss Baird beat R. S. Brown and Miss Cramond 0-8, 8-0, C-4.