LAWN TENNIS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18368, 29 April 1925, Page 2

LAWN TENNIS.

METHVEN CLUB. The following are the concluding results ra the Methven Tennis Club's competitions: LADIES' HANDICAP. Mrs White (owe 15) beat Mrs Holmes (owe 40) 6-1. Mrs Llovd (owe .10) beat M:m Marsden (owe 30) 6-3. Mrs Whit? (owe 15) beat M'ss Adams (s:r) 6-2. Final—Mrs Lloyd (owe SO) beat Mrs White (owe 15) 6-3. LADIES' CHAMPIONSHIP. Semi-finals. Mrs Holmes beat Miss Msrsdtn 6-1, 6-4. Mrs Lloyd bent Miss Briden 6-4, 1-6, 6-5 Final. Mrs Holmes beat Mrs Lloyd 6-0, 6-3. MEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP. R. Dart beat W. P. Cosgrifl. F. Lloyd beat M. Stone. Dr. McKee beat A. Wilson. In the final, Dr. McKee will play the winner of the match Vctween Dart and Lloyd. MEN'S HANDICAP SINGLES. Semi-finals. R. Dart (owe 15) beat, Cosgriff (owe 30) 9-5. F. Lloyd (owe 40) beat Cotterill (owe lo) Lloyd meets Dart in the fin»l.

ALLEGED PROFESSIONALISM. (by cabij:—pebss associvhok— coptmohx.) (Stdnei "Sun" Smvice.) LONDON, Ar>ril 27. The "Daily News," defending the Lawn Tennis Association against the charge _of autocratic action in suspending players, declares that it was high time the Association took drastic action regarding enam amateurs. The word expenses covers a multitude of eins. The Association has been far too patient. Many players posing as amateurs are really as much professionals as paid footballers. Representatives of the Indian Lawn Tennis Association, in a letter to the All England Association, sav that no question of the rieht to suspend Jacobs and Fyzee is raised but thev point out that it would hare been better if India had been consulted first. Jacobs and Fyzee had been instructed to comply with the English conditions, and therefore it was hoped that the suspensions would be gracefully cancelled. ' Similar difficulties in future should be referred to the Dominion Association concerned.