LAWN TENNIS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 14, 11 October 1927, Page 15

LAWN TENNIS

LONDON BEATS BERLIN BY Telegbaph.—Press association. CoPYRIGH.. London, October 9. London beat Berlin at lawn tennis by 9 games to 2. Crole Rees and Miss Betty Nuthall beat Demasius .and Miss Kallmeyer. 7—5, 6—l; Greig and Mrs. Godfree beat •K.leinschrotli and Mrs. Neppach, 6 —4, 6— o; Crole Rees and Sharpe beat Demasius and Hartz, (I—l, I—6, 6—4, I—6, 6—l; Higgs and Greig beat Moldenhauer and Kleinschroili, 6—l, 6—4, 6—l; Miss Nuthall beat Miss Kallmeyer, 10—12. 6 —3. 6—2. —A.P.A. and “Sun.” FRENCH EXHIBITION MATCH Paris, October 9. Tn nn exhibition match Lacosto and Borotra beat Cocjiet and Brugnon, 3 —6, 6—2, 6—3, B—G.—A.P.A. and “Sun.” AN GLO-G ERMAN TOUTIN'EY. London, October 7. Tn a lawn tennis tourney, Queen’s Club, London, are leading Berlin by A games to 2. Mrs. Godfree beat Frau Neppach, 6—l. 6—4; Crole-Rees beat Kleinscliroth, 6—4, G—4, 6—2; Moldenhauer, the German champion, beat Higgs, 7—5, 6 —o, 6—l; Demasius beat Greig, 4—6, 4 —6. 6—4, G —4. 7—5. Mrs. Godfree and Miss Betty Nuthall beat Frau Neppach and Fraulieu Neppach, 6—2, 6—3. PETONE CLUB. The opening of the Pctonc Tennis Club took place on Saturday, there being a large attendance of members and friends. Mr. IV. G. Lodder, the new president, conducted the ceremony, which' was followed by afternoon tea and an exhibition match between Messrs. McGill and N. Wilson. The season promises. to be an excellent one for the club, as, although the inembership list is not quite full, yet there is much enthusiasm shown by all, and the courts are already in use constantly.