BADMINTON TEST
VICTORY FOR AUSTRALIA. NEW ZEALANDERS BEATEN FOR WHYTE TROPHY. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, August 9. The badminton test match for the Whyte trophy ended at 11.30 o’clock last' night in a victory for Australia, who scored seven rubbers, sixteen sets with 317 points, to New Zealand’s five rubbers, twelve sets and 303 points. The gallery totalled nine hundred spectators. A feature was the match between McCabe, the Australian champion, and Roussell. McCabe won by unfailing accuracy. The results were as follow, the Australians being mentioned first in each case: Harper defeated-Miss Pearce 11/15, 15/5, 18/14* Misses Hewett and Robert defeated Mrs Wren and Miss Flemming 15/12 15/11; McCabe defeated Roussell 15/12. 15/3; Tonkin and Miss B. Cuthbertson defeated Spudding and Mrs Wren 15/11, 15/4; Miss Robert lost to Miss Flemming 11/7, 9/12. 3/11; Mrs Wray and Miss B. Cuthbertson lost to Mrs Hawksworth and Miss Kerr 4/15, 2/15.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1939, Page 7
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