LAWN TENNIS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 19

LAWN TENNIS.

AUCKLAND CHAMPIONSHIPS.

RESULTS OF PLAY YESTERDAY.

Yesterday's play in the Auckland Lawn Tennis Association's championships at Stanley Street, was watched oy a, small and unenthusiastic crowd ? ro .the greater part of the day the tennis was dull. Results:— MEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES. beat Lamb, S—fi S? *" > Start beat Roibiioo, 6—l 6 *> •' Laurenson beat Lampe, 6—2, 3—6 6 4'• Bartleet beat Brinsden, 4—6, 64,6 2 ' MEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP DOUBLES. Round - —Lauren-son and Lamne beat Wilson and E. Turner, o—o, 7 -5 • Stf Diamond and li* V" 0, 6 — 1 > Griffiths and Brinsden & ea t. Watson and Chfeholm, !>—7 3 <j L/iir n • ma s an<J SteduMin beat Martin «,f n m9 ' 1 — 4 ' 6 — 4 ' Knott and Sturt beat (Stallworthy and Aklred, 6 —2 C— 0 • lonfcs and Christmas won by default from Bowden and Thomson; Grant and Nicbo?S °^Jl e^' t jj artlee t and Robson, 6—3, 6 —i Third Round.—Knott and Sturt beat Tonks and Christmas, G—3, G—l;Lurenson, C » La e nP 3 beat fiowlands and MorriLA'DIES' CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES. D F S, Rara «ay heat Miss *J. Miller, 6 —o, 6—o ; Miss D t- ss (5—2, 13—li • Miss B Knight beat Mrs. Scott-Watson, S—6, 0 3. LADIES' CHAMPIONSHIP DOUBLES. Second Round.—Misses P. and D. Miller beat Misses Richardson and Napier, 7—5 V n ~ l Kn 'S-l't and Coiebrook beat Misses FrankhaiU' and Potter, 6—l 6 0 • Sf s .„ Ramsay and Nicholls beat Mrs! Scott-Watson and Miss Coiebrook, C—4, COMBINED CHAMPIONSHIP DOUBLES hmtvZL*^und.— Coater and Miss Wilson beat Potter and Miss Fletcher, 6—2 2—6 o—3. ' * MEN'iS CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES B GRADE. Second Round.—McKeown beat Bassett, : beat A. D. Thomson, rwL™~Sz „ risb ? ltts won by default from Uieeson , Stallworthy beat Risliworth. G—o, Fourth Round.— McKeown beat Brown, o—4, 6 —4; Bowden beat Christmas, 6—3, C GRADE. le ?' s Sipgles.—First Round: H. Scott y u d ® fa T Ult from N. Haggett; E. D. Robins beat J. E. Tonson, 6—2, 6—3 Second Round.—L. syms 'beat W. H. » A ' 6—2; McDonald beat Lintott, C • G - Bowden beat E. D. Robins. 6—o, 6—3. Doubles.—Second round: Storry and Haggett beat McDonald and Gleeson, fTTV; 2; Symes and Abbott beta Latta tt-nd Latta, 7—5, 6—o; Wood and Tension beat Bates and Bartlett, 6—o, 7—5. «+^ : Symes and Abbott beat and Haggett, 6—l, retired : Wood and ion son beat Scott and Warren, 4—6, ">—4, 7—o. K Singles.—First round : Miss beat Mrs. Worrall, 6—l 6— 0 Haydon, r «-L : 6-3. S L ' NelSOn beat Mlss —First round: Misses Cutforth and Melsop beat Mesdames Wor--1 11 ®on, 6—4, 7—5. Semi-finals: rwlt D - Bryant beat Mesdames Cooper and Needham, 6—2, 6—l; Misses fer G -t u^^6-2: sses Cutforth and 'Doubles.—First round: Mase , Rukutai beat Worrall and Mrs. ■ Pto i' - 6—4 ;J- N - ilson and 119 6—3 Lmtott and Misd Cox,