LAWN TENNIS
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(United Press Awciatio- Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
AUSTRALIA v. BRITISH ISLES
(Received Last Night, o clock.) SYDNEY, January 17.
The lawn tennis tost match, British Isles v. Australia, ope nod in dull, muggy weather. Tho courts wero fast. There was an attendance of three thousand. A feature of tho contest was the brilliant display of Brookes, who beat Dixon in two love sets, the first lasting eleven minutes, and the second nine.
Dunlop easily succumbed -lo Beanin tho singles, Jones beat Lowe, ancl Parke beat Heath.
In the doubles. Brookes a.nd Damlon beat Beamish and .Dixon, and Heath and Jones beat Parke and Lowe.
• The present position of the scores is : Britain, two matches, five sots, five games; Australia, four-matches, nine
sets, fifty-seven gainea.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 18 January 1913, Page 5
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126LAWN TENNIS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 18 January 1913, Page 5
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