WINS TENNIS FROM OWE 50/

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 3, 4 January 1941, Page 3 (Supplement)

WINS TENNIS FROM OWE 50/

tITILLIAM TREVOR POUNTNEY. who !s*l »» Saturday won the Auckland handicap singles title from the difficult mark of owe 50, has at the early age of 22 caned a name for himself in the New Zealand tennis world. A joint member of both Remuera and Camp bell Tennis Clubs. Pounlney has been the tennis spotlight since the 1936-37 season, when he won tlie South Auckland singles. The following season he won the men* singles at Dannevirke, Wanganui and »1 Palmerston North. Back to Auckland, where he and Miss Nessic Beverley won the Auckland mixed final, defeating the New Zealand title-holders. Jack Gunn and Mis? Margaret Beverley. In 1937-38 he also won the Auck land hard court championship singles and combines without losing a setIn club events he won the Remuera junior and senior singles and the combine*. At Campbell Park the singles, doubles and combines. The titles here presented are moftlv in the senior event*, but in the last fow years innumerable junior and intermediate titles fell his way.

A likeable personality. Pountney has the earmarks of a plavcr who win figure prominently in New Zealand championship plav before lone Hi# Ins opponent vainly struggling in mid-conrt. Hb serve is recognised is bein" equal to the beet m the country, while his court temperamentUirreproachVb]^ • J^w S^ rday hc , dis P ,a . ved rare form to win the haadicap title, and it is donbtfnl if any other player has won this event from hi* markT "nek landers wiU next see him in action at the Auckland lawn tennis championships, and, like Beau Vite, he'll come at the right end. ««unpion