LAWN TENNIS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 7, 9 January 1926, Page 16

LAWN TENNIS.

, . ! TAMAXAKI TOURWAMSWT. ACCKLAKD TOTHB FCItB. BARTLEET WIX3" SINGLES. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) SEW PITMOCTn. Friday. Rate late In the afternoon prevented the conclusion of the tonrnaiaent to-day, bat, •with the exception of the combined, all championships iiave been coccicjcj. The Men's Slnpl#K.—E. Bartleft bent M. Lampc (Wanpancl). 2—o. C—2. !>—7. 3—c. β-l. Bartleet played Heady tennlx. and rsade Lamp* work hard In the first four ; ••«*• Latnpe broujrht off some «r«it recoveries, bat the effort took a mat deal oot of him, and he tired perceptibly in the final *et. In which Bartleet sjveeded up his Fftnr. and. polnn for »lde line* with wellrlaced drive*, barked up with deadly overhead work, ran otit na easy winner. o.—l. Ladles' Singles.—.Miss handle (Xew Tivraoath) beat Jliws Lloyd (X.R.W.I. 3—o. cT'l., —ii 80,,1 '1" 31 , , jpleyed Jtood tennis, hat Miss Knndle's fuperiorlty on the backtacfl and her plaeecients wore down her er-r>oaeat la the last two sets. Mfa * Doubles.—■Webrter and Smyth beat Brlnsdpa act! Gfiath!>. 7—r>. C—3. S G o—2. 6—3. The winners did not combine as well -- the Accklander?, whore work at the net wa» a feature of the *t»e. GriSihs ■"■«' *fry rteady. and Rrln«dea excelled In raofhlng lobs, of which Pmyth fare him Meaty. In effecting oone brilliant recoTertes, W*b«ter displayed all-round RSSH'i!*' * aa thi * ™ th hI » p»«ner'» ability Iβ coverlor the court, carried them throes! la the final sets. ,*al«, which cstae on itnfldealy, stopped $lay in the ladles' doable*, when M!««es JrewMer aad Lloyd were leedlae Mies end Mrs. by on? set (f— i) and foar eanses to one in the wcond. which the Aacklaad ladles who could r>lar tomorrow save by default. Glrle' Slajelc*.—Mlm Brmrnlee beat Ml»« Thorp*. «—2. f—l. The Auckland jrfrl was the all-rounJ mperlor of her opponent, i The conblnet] double* champlonfhlp and htsdlcipi will be completed to-tnorrow. i