LAWN TENNIS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21970, 19 December 1936, Page 19

LAWN TENNIS

_ + . AN OUTSTANDING ENTRY PROVINCIAL TOURNEY LEADING PLAYERS TO COMPETE Very few of the Dominion's leading .players who will take part in the New Zealand championships at Timaru from December 30 to January 5 will not also be competitors in the Canterbury provincial tournament at Wilding Park beginning on Christmas Day. The most outstanding entry in the history of the championships has been received this year, and some first-class tennis should be seen at the tournament. C. Angas is. the provincial champion, and also the highest-ranked resident New Zealand player, but he will have strong opposition this year. N. G. Sturt (Auckland), D. C Coombe (Wellington), A. D. Brown (Auckland), J. C. Charters (Wellington), H. A. Barnett, H. Dymond, and A. R. Cant (Canterbury), all New Zealand ranking players, will be competitors in the men's singles event. Other visitors of note include G. A. Pearca (Wellington), J. T. Mayson (Auckland), D. Clow, J. Leng, D. Livingstone, and J. Roach (all of Waikato), J. W. Gunn (Auckland), C. T. McArthur, K. W. Dyer (Wellington), E. A. Pearce (Otago), C. B. Beatson, B. M. O'Connor (Nelson), G. P. Cachemaille (Wellington), and J. and R. H. Lewis (Auckland). The tournament will be notable for the number of young players of great ability, including Brown, Gunn, Mayson, I. J. Corich, and R. G. Pattinson, members of the team of juniors which visited Sydney last year. O'Connor, runner-up in the New Zealand junior championship last season, Leng, Clow, and McArthur. From these young players will come New Zealand's future champions; some of them are not far away from that standard now. Six of the first 10 ranking women players of New Zealand will contest the women's singles event, the holder of which is Miss T. Poole. These are Miss D. Nicholls (Wellington) ,_ New Zealand singles champion, Miss N. Beverley (Waikato), Miss T. Poole, Miss I. Poole (Canterbury), Miss J. Ramsay (Auckland), and Miss N. Bishop (Canterbury). Mrs C. B. Beatson, formerly Miss Marjorie Sherris, a past holder of the title (Nelson), Miss Margaret Beverley (Waikato), and Miss L. E. Berry (Wellington) are among the visiting women players. The seedings for the five senior events are as follows: — Men's Singles—l, C. Angas; 2, N. G. Sturt; 3, H. A. Barnett; 4, T>j C. Coombe; 5, A. D. Brown; 6, J. C. Charters; 7, H. Dymond; 8, A. R. Cant. Women's Singles—l, Miss D. Nicholls; 2 Miss N. Beverley; 3, Miss T. Poole; 4, Miss I. Poole; 5. Miss J. Ramsay; 6, Miss N. Bishop; 7, Mrs C. B. Beatson; 8, Miss M. Beverley. Men's Doubles—l, Angas and Dymond; 2. Coombe and Charters; 3, Barnett and I. A. Seay; 4, Sturt and J. W. Gunn. Women's Doubles—l, Misses T. and I. Poole; 2. Misses N. and M. Beverley; 3, Miss B. Gould and Mrs J. D. Carl; 4, Mrs Beatson and Miss M. Wake. Mixed Doubles—l, Coombe and Miss Nicholls; 2, Seay and Miss T. Poole; 3, Charters and Miss N. Beverley; 4, Dymond and Miss Bishop. CANTERBURY TEAMS i PLAYERS SELECTED FOR I PRACTICE J i The selectors to the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association (Messrs J. Mercer, J. H. W. Sheppard, and T. W. Patterson) have named the following players to practise with a view to selection for the Anthony Wilding Memorial Shield and Kathleen Nunneley Casket matches against the Northern Zone (Waikato and North Auckland) on January 8 anfl 9:— Men—C. Angas, H. A. Barnett, H. Dymond, A. R. Cant, I. J. Corich, B. D. Duffield. n T „ , „ Women—Misses T. Poole, I. Poole, N. Bishop, E. Rudkin, D. Dickey, and I. Morrison. Practices will be held at Wilding Park on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. BRITISH UMPIRES' ASSOCIATION C. P. DIXON AND C. H. IIYEM RESIGN (UNITED TEESS ASSOCIATION—COI'YMOMT.) (Received December 18, 9.57 p.m.) LONDON, December 17. C. P. Dixon, British non-playing captain of the Davis Cup team, and C. H. Hyem, have resigned , from the Lawn Tennis Umpires' Association owing to their being dissatisfied with the manner in which line umpires were selected for the two Davis Cup ties and the Wightman Cup in 1936. When asked to reconsider their de--1 cision they agreed to suspend their resignations pending the next meeting of the council. ALL-ENGLAND CLUB SIR LOUIS GKEIG ELECTED CHAIRMAN , (Received December 18, 9.50 p.m.) LONDON, December 17. The "Daily Telegraph" says Sir Louis Greig has been elected chairman of the All-England Lawn Tennis Club. He partnered the King (then Duke of York) in the doubles championship in 1926.

Mason, Struthers have engaged Mr Earle Einam, official coach to the Canterbury Tennis Association, and he will be pleased to book coaching lessons, and to supply leaflets with illus- j trated hints to players. Mr Chas. Angas. New Zealand's leading amateur, is also associated with Mason, Struthers' Sports Department, and will be pleased to assist players with advice. —0