NEW ZEALAND AT LAWN TENNIS AND BOWLS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8504, 6 August 1907, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND AT LAWN TENNIS AND BOWLS.

(From Our London Correspondent.) LONDON, June 13. New .Zealand has been active in both of the above sports, but having unfortunately, been unable to attend any of the matches, I am obliged to give accounts of them in the words of a well-known sporting contemporary:— The latest trial to the committee (lawn tennis) appears from the doings of Mr A. W. Gore and Mr Roper Barrett, in "invitation" doubles at Beckenham. Gore is not supposed to be a success in double harness, nor is the combination obviously admirable. But on Friday they saw their way to beating Messrs Hillyard and Eaves, and on Saturday pulled off an extraordinary match against Mr Norman Brookes and Mr A. F. Wilding. The match was won on the odd games of the odd set, and was watched by a big gallery. From first to last Mr Barrett missed little that could be saved; his supreme steadiness overhead never failed. Mr Gore played as he played in the championship doubles last year; his game was quite unlike his single game. For,||keeping up consistently, he hit with positive ferocity. The pair played together as if they had done so every I day in the season, though this is Mr j Barrett's first appearance at a tour- j nament this year. The Australasian j pair, on the contrary, were not to- j gether at all. Mr Wilding shows best j when his partner is weaker than him- j self. If he has two-thirds of the j court to cover and plenty of space to j open his chest and fling out this arm j to a ball, he manages to do a lot of j useful work. But on Saturday he ! was not comfortable in his part in ] the neat net play of the other three. Mr Wilding is never "neat." He is j colossally vigorous and powerful. But j he wants room to turn round. Put ! him in a four with, say, Mr Ball Greene, Mr R. F. Doherty, and Mr Holcombe Ward, and he would bewithout disrespect to his splendid game—like a bull among the picadors. In a single, of course, Mr Wilding can call the tune as well as another. On Saturday Mr Gore had to pay the piper. In many meetings on grass Mr Gore, till now, has always won. He has seemed always to play a little closer to the sidelines than Mr Wilding could manage. On Saturday he lost to pace and youth. Mr Wilding took the first two sets — the best of the match—at 9 —7, 6 —2. Mr Gore made it level with 3 —6, o—6, but it was his last effort. Mr Wilding had the fifth set all his own way, and took the Kent Championship from the holder. Scores: — Gentlemen's Singles (Championship I ■of Kent). —Challenge round: A. F. Wilding beat A. W. Gore (holder) by 3 sets to 2 (9—7, 6—2, 3, -6, o—6, 6—l, 24 games to 22). Gentlemen's I Open Doubles —Final: E. W. Timmis P. Rhodes, w.0., N. E. Brookes and A. f. Wilding scratched. Invitation Doubles—Final: A. W. Gore and H. Roper Barrett beat N.m. Brookes and A. F. Wilding (2—6, Jl—9, 6—4). . - In defeating the Sunderland Club on Saturday, says this critic, by a single point, the New Zealand bowling team achieved a victory the more notable from the fact that the home side included the champion of the English Bowling Association, Mr C. L. Cummings.