TENNIS TOURNEY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 19, 24 January 1939, Page 15

TENNIS TOURNEY.

MARATHON MATCHES. ■ i DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIPS. PLATERS DECIDE SECOND ROUND REPLAY. Elimination contests in tlie earlier rounds of matches in the men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles events were played yesterday at the Stanley Street Courts where the annual Auckland provincial lawn tennis championship tournament was continued. Among long-drawn-out matches in th© first round of the men's doubles was one between the Waikato pair. D. B. Livingstone and J. Roach, and W. T. Pountney and I. A. Wylds, the former proving successful, and another in which A. S. Broun and E. H. Orbell defeated H. Bowen and D. Richardson. The lengthiest match in the first round was that between J. D. Bull and B. McL. Wallace and G. W. Radonich and M. R. Andrews, four erf the five sets going to advantage. This commenced at 10.43 a.m. and did not finish until 2.15 p.m. Bull and Wallace started in a second round contest against Anderson and Potter at 5.15 p.m. and at 7.30 p.m., when the umpire decided that the light was not satisfactory, the teams were 6-all in the I fifth set. Whether the match should be I resumed where it left off, or whether a I replay should take place remained at the discretion of the referee, who had left the courts earlier. Meantime the players had agreed to Start the match all over again. . . - Later results yesterday were:— MIXED DOUBLES. First Round.—G. Brough and Miss M. Hodges beat R. 8. Milne am) Mrs. Milne. B—o. 7—5; M. T. Wilson and Miss E. Piuinmer beat It. H. J. Sawyer and Miss M. Milne, 6 —o, (J—2; J. Koscli and Miss V. Mclndoe won from W. Derecourt and Miss \V. Smith by default; J. T. Mayaon and Miss M. Macfarlane beat L. Roach and Miss It. Hodgra, o—3. «—4: W. T. Pountney and Miss N. Bererley beat It. G. Pattinson and Miss J. Ramsay, 6—4, o—4 ; S. D.Lusk and Miss V. Brown beat A. Porter and Miss J. St. George, 6—4, o—4; M. F. Lees and Miss M. Wade beat E. M. Ohlson and Miss D. M. Robson, 6—3. 4—o, A—-1: J. I.eng ami Miss N. Symes bent J. a. Mitchell and Miss P. Mitchell, 3—6, 9—l, 6—3 ; R. W. Smith and Miss P. Cooke beat J. D. Lewis and Miss J. Hansen, 6—l, 11—9; D. Livings tone and Miss B. Griffiths bent T. H. Wilson and Miss W. Richardson, 6—o, 6—l; 1). G. France and Mrs. France beat T. H. Wilson and Miss W. Richardson, 6—l, T—s ; J. W. Gunn and Miss M. Beverley beat J. C. Charters and Miss R. Taylor, 6—l, 6—l; P. E. Potter and Miss M. Hall beat G. M. Radonich and Miss M. Dryland, 6—2, 6—o ; D. Clow and Miss B. Potter beat R. Matuschka and Miss L. Jeffrey a, B—6, 2—6, B—6; G. Allen and Miss J. Dryland beat M. R. Andrews and Miss B. Hitchinae, 5—7, 6—2, 7—5. Second Round.—M. T. Wilson and Miss S. Pluturner beat J. Roach and Miss V. Mclndoe, 9—2, 9—2; W. T. Pountney and Miss N. Beverley beat K. D. Lnrt and Miss V. Brown, 3—7, B—6, 6—3 ; J. T; May son and Miss M. Macfarlane beat P. Bl Potter and Miss M. Hail, 6—l. 6—3; D. B. Livingstone and Miss B. Griffiths beat D. G. France abd Mrs. France, 6—3, 3—6, 6—4; J. W. Guhn and Mlbc M. Beverley beat G. Brough and Miss M. Hodges, 6—2, 9 —l ; D. Clow and Miss B. Potter beat M. F. Lees-and Miss M. Wade. T—s. 9— 7; N. F. Bedford' and Mies B. L. Bishop beat 1. Leng and Miss N. Symes, 7—», 6—4, 6—3; R. W. Smith ahd Ml* P. Cooke beat G. Allen and Miss J. Dryland, 6—o, 6—2.