A. BURNS REACHES N.Z. JUNIOR FINAL

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 21

A. BURNS REACHES N.Z. JUNIOR FINAL

TOURNAMENT AT WANGANUI. D. ELSON BEATS R. HODGES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WAXGAN'UI, Friday. With only a slight breeze to contend with, better conditions prevailed for the third day of the New Zealand junior tennis championships. The bovs' singles was reduced to the final, which will be played to-morrow, by A. Bums, Auckland, and N. McKenzle, Wellington. The quarter-finals and on** semi-final were played in the girls" cnamplonships, the semi-finalist winner being the Canterbury girl Miss D. Elsom. In the other girls' seml-flnal Miss B. Potter. Auckland, will meet Miss J. Wallace, Auckland. Both doubles championships reached the final a S d . V the comb i ne d doubles one quarter-final has oceii played. Results of to-day's play BOYS' SINGLES. Kell - V (Wellington) beat Haddock (Waikato). (s—l, « oin- iM , nzi ? (Wellington) beat D. Smith (Wellington), 6—l, 7—5; R. Secord (Canterbury) beat R. Forsyth (Marlborough), 6—3. T—s. Semi-finals.—Bums beat Kelly, 6—t, 6—4, McKenzie beat Secord, 6—l, 6 0. BUOYS' DOUBLES. Quarter-finals.—Boosey and Walker beat Barrance and' McKenzie, 10—8, 0 7 6 3 Seml-flnal«.--Biirns and J. Smith beat Boosey and Walker, 6—3, 6—3; Thompson and Johnston beat Secord and Barton, 6—3, 5—7, o—3. GIRLS' SINGLES. Quarter-final*.—B Potter (Auckland) B - Warren (Taranakl), 3—6, 6 2 mTk.. J - ) v . ft " UOe (Auckland) beat J.' Nicholls (Wellington), 6—l, 5—6 0 ° • D. EUom (Canterbury) beat R. 'Hodges , iS il . 6—o. 6—4; N. Symes (Auck--1 6 -J' Carrell (Wellington), o S a m 'a fin i'*c" P -- Elsom beat N - Symes, GIRLS' DOUBLES. Quarter-finals—M. Hodges and R. Hodge* beat Gilmour and Carrell, 6—2 2: w - Smith >nd Wallace beat Jacobs and Spackman, 5—6, 6—4, 7-Zs. Semi-finals.— Hodges sisters beat Nlcholls and Monknoan, 6—3; Elsom and Meet wood beat Wallace and Smith, 4—6 | o—2, 6—4. MIXED DOUBLES. Third Round.—Barns and Miss M. Hodges beat P. Smith and Miss O'Neill, £? r " y t h "S 11,88 Lloyd beat seeord and Miss Burrell, 6—4, 6—2 *J. ss W. Smith beat Dunn and D h«S? n 'r 6 h~ 4, 6 — 2: Kell >" and Miss Nlcholls beat Johns and Miss R. Hodges, 9~?' ®—4; Walker and Miss Gilmour beat Barrance and Miss Chester, • i t,tt and Miss Dickie McCracken and Miss Warren, t> 2 1 jo-1 o-1 £?'. Mfi (tl.'" Kitt