LAWN TENNIS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10169, 20 February 1911, Page 5

LAWN TENNIS

PALMERSTON NORTH TOURNA- . MENTY ■ ■

By Telegraph — Press Association, t

Last Night, The Paimerston North Tennis j 'Club's annual-' tournament, which, this-year lias drawn -.■ players from | nearly all.,parts ( of the North Island, 1 ! was to have been concluded yester- I day, but though play continued'.'wirth" out interruption for ten hours, owing .to the large entry it ivas found impossible to complete the game in two days, and'in ■future it will be a three days' 'tournament'.! " The unfinished : matches are to be concluded' to-mor-row. The results, of the day's play were as follows:—r Men's Championship (third round) -Fisher (9) heatMair (5); Wallace beat M. Wybourne by default;, 'Dickie (9) beat Clere (6), R. Wybourne (9) beat R. Clark (7). Pinal: Fisher 'beat Dickie, 6—3, 6—l. Men's Champion ship Doubles. (Third round). — Dickie and Wallace (9) beat Collins and Clere (4), Fisher and Prouse (9) beat Palmer and Powdrell. (4). Final: Wallace- and Dickie beat Fisher and Prouse, 6—o, ; G—2. ' , i . Ladies'' Championship.— (Third round).—Miss Simpson (9) beat Miss E. S. Wijson (5), Miss Hartgill. (9)', beat Miss L. K. Hughes (7). Final: Miss Hartgill (9) heat Miss Simpson (7). Ladies' Championsliip Doubles. —. (TWrd round). — Misses Williams and Hartgill (9) beat Misses Hughes (2), j (6), Misses Simpson and Wilson (9), beat Misses E. G. Wilson and Porter (2). Final; Misses Williams and Hartgill (9) beat Misses Simpson and N. Wilson (2). Combined Championship Doubles. —(Third round). — Fisher and Miss, Hartgill (9) heat Clere and Miss Porter (2), Wallace and Miss Simpson (9) beat Hartgill and Miss Williams (7). The Men's Handicap Singles was won by Broad, the Ladies' Handicap Singles by Miss Sylvia Ahraham, the Ladies' Doubles by the Misses Bailey (2),. and the Combined Doubles by Clere and' Miss Porter.