LAWN TENNIS

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 307, 28 December 1935, Page 15

LAWN TENNIS

AUCKLAND ASSOCIATION. HANDICAP TOURNAMENT. GOOD PROGRESS AT STANLEY ST. Proceeding yesterday in ideal weather conditions, play in the Auckland Lawn Tennis Association's annual handicap tournament at Stanley Street made good progress, and several events reached the quarter and semi-final stages. The tourney is being continued at Stanley Street to-day. Results of later stages of Friday's play:— FIRST AND SECOND GRADES. Men's Singles.—Fourth round : .7. Leng heat W. H. Jaine, o—4,0 —4, 6—2 ; R. 11. Ijewis beat It. A. Goudie, o—3, o—3 ; O. Litherland beat G. Smith, G—3. 6—4 ; A. D. Brown beat P. E. Potter, o—i,0 — i, 6—l. Men's Doubles.—ihird round : J. W. Xeale and J. A. Allen beat J. C. Herbert and G. Sims, 7—5, 2—6, 7—D ; A. McKeown and P. E. Potter beat A. D. Brown and A. Porter, 6—3, 7—.'5 ; A. Lemon and W. Turei beat G. A. Smith and J. Beaumont, (I —4, G 1. Ladies' Singles.—Second round : Miss B. Hitching* beat Miss Sorby, G—l, G—o. Semi-linals : Miss P.. L. Bishop beat Miss B. Hitchiugs, G —l, G—o. Mixed Doubles. —Second round : Lltne'rland and Miss Hepburn beat Leech and Mrs. McCartney, <>—2, 7—o ; Brown and .Mrs. Wilson beat Hutchinson and Miss J. McClynlont, G—2, 8- 1 ; McKeown and Mrs. Stafford beat Spooner and Miss Green, 4—(l, G—l, G—:i: Mitchell and Miss Parry beat Handyside and Miss Sorby. G—2, G —4. Ladies' Doubles.—Semifinals : Misses Bishop and Stewart beat Miss McClymont and Mrs. Wilson, 5 —7, G —3, B—G ; Misses Sorby and Parrv beat Mrs. Adams and Mrs. Haynes, C—4, G—3, S —-G. THIRD AND LOWER. GRADES. Men's Singles.—Quarter-finals : G. Stone beat A. H. Eraser, G—4, o—o0 —0 ; C. X. Carston beat D. MaeDouald, G—3, G—l ; .7. H. Moller beat A. R. Stubbing, G—l. S—G. " Ladles' Singles.—Second round : Mrs. Haynes brat Miss Swan St on, G —4, 2 —G. o—40 —4 ; Mrs. A. E. Knowling beat Miss D. M. Stewart, G—2, G—2; Mrs. A. Porter beat Mrs. M. Robbins, o—2, G—l: Miss Lowe beat Miss L. Bishop, 6—4, 6—2. Men's Doubles—Second round: Lythbergand James bent Chandler and Forrester, o—4,0 —4, G—4 ; French and Walker beat .7. H. Moller and D. Perkins, 2—6, 7—5, G —l ; E. W. Robbins and Knowling beat M. French and Smytheman, 2—6, 6—3. 7—5. Combined Doubles. —- Second round : Knowling and Mrs. Knowling beat D. MacDonald and Miss Jeffreys, 3—o, C —2, G—7; W. R. Munn and Miss McLeod beat .7. E. Stewart and Mrs. Stewart, 4—G, o—4, G—4.