Australians Win Doubles
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) MELBOURNE, Dec. 4. The Wimbledon champions. Neale Fraser and Roy Emerson, today added the Victorian doubles title to their impressive list of victories. They beat the New South Wales' pair, Bob Howe and Bob Hewitt. 6-3, 3-6, 15-13, 7-5. In the women’s doubles final, the visitors Maria Bueno (Brazil) and Christine Truman (Britain) had a runaway win over the Australians, Margaret Smith and Lorraine Coghlan, 6-1, 6-1. Rain ma: red the men’s final. The match was delayed half-way through the third set and again in the fourth set. It ended with light drizzle falling,
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29070, 5 December 1959, Page 6
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