TENNIS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 April 1939, Page 7

TENNIS

TOURNEY GAMES AT HASTINGS. HAWKSWORTH IN FINAL OF MEN’S SINGLES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HASTINGS, April 10. Excellent weather enabled good progress to be made today in all events in the Hawke’s Bay Easter tennis tournament, which is being conducted by the Hastings Lawn Tennis Club on the club’s courts in Whitehead Road. Most of the quarterfinals and in some cases the semi-finals have been played, and all events will be completed tomorrow. Miss M. Budd, lately of .Hawke’s Bay, but now of Wellington, scored a good win over Miss M. Macfariane (Auckland) chiefly by her superior steadiness and remarkable powers of retrieving.

K. W. Dyer (Wellington) and P. Hawksworth (Wairarapa) will meet in the final of the men’s singles tomorrow, and from the standard shown by both finalists a great match is expected.

One of the finest matches on the courts this season was watched by a good gallery when Miss M. Evans met Miss M. Glenny in the semi-finals. At 5-all and 40-love down, Miss Glenny staged a great recovery to win the set. Miss Evans took the second set after a dour struggle, and put on the pressure to take the third set, 6-3.

Results of today’s play in the championships are:— Men’s .Singles.—Third round: Elliott beat Gould, 2-6, 6-1, 6-1. Fourth round: Hawksworth (Masterton) beat Fisk, 6-1, 6-1; Elliott beat McPherson. 3-2, 6-2; Fullerton beat Read, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2; Dyer beat Lowry, 6-1, 6-2. Semifinals: Hawksworth beat Elliott, 6-1, 6-3; Dyer beat Fullerton, 6-4, 0-6. 6-1. Women’s Singles. — Quarterfinals: Miss Glenny beat Miss M. Dickie, 6-1. 6-4. Semifinals: Miss Evans beat Miss Glenny, 5-6. 6-5, 6-3; Miss Budd beat Mrs Cotterill, 6-0, 6-3.

Men’s Doubles.—Third round: Dyer and Sharpe beat Anderson and Drew, 6-2, 6-0; Kitt and Williams beat Crosse and Gould, 7-5, 6-2; Dickie and Elliott beat Fisk and Ritchie, 6-1, 6-1; McKay and Bradley beat Jones and O’Brien, 6-1, 6-2. Quarterfinals: Dyer and Sharpe beat Kitt and Williams, 6-1, 6-2; Lowry and Fullerton beat Wilkinson and Morris, 6-4, 6-3; Elliott and Dickie beat Watson and Nevitt, 6-2, 6-3; Hawksworth and McPherson beat McKay and Bradley, 6-0. 6-2. Women’s Doubles. —Third round: Misses Evans and Glenny beat Mesdames Mawson and Hassall, 6-3, 6-2; Misses Dickie and St George beat Misses Milne and J. Betts (Masterton), 6-3, 6-4; Misses Budd and McFarlane beat Mesdames Bradley and Merigold, 6-4, 6-1. Semifinal: Misses Evans and Glenny beat Mesdames Cotterill and Milburn, 6-3, 6-5. Mixed Doubles.—Fourth round: Ritchie and Miss St George beat Fisk and Mrs Cotterill, 7-5, 6-3; Dickie and Miss Digkie beat Taylor and Miss

Marigold, 6-1, 6-2; Anderson and Miss Shewan beat Bradley and Mrs Bradley, 7-5, 8-10, 6-1; Lowry and Mrs Hassall beat McPherson and Mrs Milne, 6-2, 6-1; Sharpe and Miss Glenny beat Fullerton and Miss Evans, 6-3, 10-8. Fifth round: Hawksworth and Miss Betts beat Anderson and Miss Shewan, 6-2, 6-1; Dickie and Miss Dickie beat Ritchie and Miss St George, 6-2, 7-5. OTAGO LADY CHAMPION. MISS MILLER’S FINE RECORD. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) -DUNEDIN, April 10. In the final of the Otago women’s tennis championship singles, Miss D. Miller (North Otago) beat Miss R. Wilson (Southland). 6-2, 6r2, and won the title for the eighth time in nine years.'