OVERSEAS SPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 129, 2 June 1934, Page 9

OVERSEAS SPORT.

FRENCH TENNIS. Australians Still in Men's and Mixed Doubles. GREAT FRENCH COMEBACK. iDnited r.A.-Electric Telegraph-Copy right) (Received 10 a.m.) PARIS, .Tune 1. At the French lawn tennis championships, in the doubles semi-finals Crawford and McGrath (Australia) defeated Menzcl " and Hecht (Czecho-Slovakia), 3_C, C —l, 6—l, 0—1; Borotra and Brugnon (France) defeated Quist and Turnbull (Australia), C—2, 14—12, C—2. In the mixed doubles semi-finals Quist and Miss Ryan defeated Crawford and Miss Seriven, C—2, 4—6, C—l. In the women's doubles semi-finals Misses Jacobs and Palfrey defeated Misses Noel and Jedzrcjowska, 6 —l, o—4. Menzcl and Heeht began very strongly against Crawford and McGrath, but at the beginning of the second set the Australians took control. Menzel and Hecht both failed to reproduce anything like the form they had shown against Perry and Hughes. Borotra and Brugnon displayed their old-time generalship in defeating Quist and Turnbull. The second set took an hour to play. Quist failed to win any of his first four services, and was also uncertain overhead throughout the match. Brugnon gave a brilliant display of driving. COUNTY CRICKET. Kent Scores 114 Hourly Against Essex.

VERITY STILL IN WICKETS

(Received 11 a.m.)

LONDON, June 1

Results of the series of English county cricket games which terminated this afternoon: —

Warwick: First innings, 281 (Parsons 101); second, 247. Middlesex: First innings, 225; second, 184 (Paine five for 71). Warwick won by 119 runs.

Kent: First innings, four for 804, declared (Ashdown 333, Woolley 172, Ames 202 not out). Essex: First innings, 408 (Pope 100, O'Connor 105 not out); follow-on, 203 (Freeman six for 60). Kent won by an innings and 192 runs.

Sussex: First inings, five for 463, declared (J. Parks 160, Melville 105, James Langridge 88 not out).. Somerset: First innings, 140 (Tate four for 39); followon, 272 (J. Cornford six for 63). Sussex won by an innings and 51 runs.

Northants: First innings, 153 (Verity four for 43); second, 100 (Verity four for 25). Yorkshire: First innings, 257 (Partridge five for 99). Yorkshire won by an innings and four runs.

Lancashire: First innings, seven for 514, declared (Tyldesley 239, Hopwood 123). Glamorgan: First innings, 352 (Dyson 191 not out); follow-on, four for 148. Lancashire won on the first innings.

Gloucester: First innings, 161 (Smith five for 57, Geary five for 21); second innings, 293 (Allen 83, Neale-83 not out; Geary five for 60)., Leicester: First innings, 326; second, one for 129. Leicester won by nine wickets.

Minor Counties: First innings, eight for 539, declared (Farrimond 174); second, four for 129. Oxford: First innings, 469 (Mitchell-Inncs 140, Seamer 194). The match was drawn.

Kent on the first day scored 623 for two wickets. This total is within 22 runs of Surrey's record day's score.

Ashdown's 333 is a record for Kent. Kent's average rate of scoring was 114 runs' per hour. REWARD OF SUCCESS. GOLFER GETS POSITION. {Received 9 a.m.) LONDOX, June 1. The "Daily Mail" says J. Wallace, the Scottish artisan golfer who got to the final of the British amateur championship this year, has accepted an appointment as a playing professional with the Selsdon Park Club of Croydon, Montreal.

Wallace was an out-of-work tradesman of Troon, who entered for the British amateur championship in the hope _of doing sufficiently well to justify his making capital out of his golf skill by getting an appointment as a professional player.