ROTORUA TOURNEY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 305, 26 December 1928, Page 5

ROTORUA TOURNEY.

FIRST ROUND RESULTS.

ROTORUA, Tuesday. The liotorua tenuis tournament, commenced today, the weather -being dull and showery. There is a large entry. Results : .LAMES", HANDICAP SINGLES. I'im Round.—Miss A. Higginson beat Miss Mitchell. B—6: Miss MeCrae beat Miss Kuril. S—4: Miss Humphries beat Miss Waters, B—4: Miss Hayden beat Miss Wilson, B—6:8 —6: Mrs. McLean beat Miss Waters. S—7 : Miss Leys beat Mrs. Elliott, B—7;8 —7; Miss Warren beat Miss LoflVy, B—7:8 —7: Miss Beverley beat Miss Campbell, 8 —1; Miss Coates beat Miss I. Mitchell, B—2.8 —2. MENS HANDICAP DOUBLES. First Round. —Brougta and Hobbs beat Hay. and Morrison. 10—8 : Tonson and Wood bea't Bennett and Eraser. D>—- : Sicdinan and Miller beat Otway arid Barker. 10—1 : Paul and SinnEouils beat Tukcre and Auga by default. MEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES. First Hound.—Carnachan beat Hosking by default; Ferguson beat Otway, »>— 2, 6 —4 ; Tukere beat Barker, 6—2. C—o ; Johnston beat Potter, 6 —2. 6—2 : Donnafaerd beat Brown, 6—3. ti —O; Storries beat Bird, 6 —o. 6 —o ; Royal beat Phillips, B—s, 0—1; Miller beat Castleburgh, 6—l, 6—o; Morrison beat W. Phillips, 6—5, 6—3; Brown beat Johnson, 6—3, 6—2. MENS HANDICAP SINGLES. First Round. —Tonson beat Short. 10 —2 ; Hobbs beat Osborne, 10 —5 ; Chapman beat Brewer, 10 —6; Morgan beat Elliott, 10—9; Simmonds beat Storrie, 10—2: Johnston beat George. 10—7; Robb beat Steadman, JO—9: Bond beat Hosking. 10—3: Henderson beat Downer, 10 —2; Walker beat Johnston, 10—3.