‘CROQUET TOURNEY

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 112, 5 February 1931, Page 4

‘CROQUET TOURNEY

Provincial Meeting GOOD PROGRESS MADE The eleventh Wellington provincial croquet tournament was continued on the Kelburn, Karori, Wellington, THataitai, Island Bay and Mount Victoria lawns yesterday. The weather was fine until late in the afternoon and good progress was made with the various results. The handicap doubles is now well advanced, while a start has been made on both lives of the women’s championship singles, the level singles, and the club pairs. From to-day until the end of the tournament iJny 'will be confined to the Kelburn, Wellington and Hataitai lawns. The results in de.tail are as follow:— HANDICAP DOUBLES. Mesdames Deare and Liddell beat Mesdames Simpson and Tennant, 26— 24; Mesdames Palmer and Gooder beat Mesdames Walker and Cleary, 26—17; Mesdames Chambers and Howatson beat Mrs. Caldow and Miss Bates, 26—18; Mesdamea Cleland and Barker beat Mesdames Chambers and Howatson, 26—18; Mesdames Polson and Spackman beat Mr. and Mrs. Pollock, 26—22; Mesdames Spence and Neumann beat Mesdames Bassett and Finlayson, 26—13; Mesdames Savage and Lees beat Mesdames Lowery and Esam, 20—21; Mesdames Cleland and Barker beat Mesdames Palmer and Gooder, 26—18. HANDICAP SINGLES, A GRADE. First round: Mr. Jolly beat Mrs. Glenny, 26—12; Mrs. Colley beat Mrs. Fuller, 26—16; Mrs. Richards beat Mrs. Bassett, 26—20; Mrs. Manton beat Mrs. Walker, 20—14; Mrs. Heymanson beat A, Pollock, 26—21; Mrs. Savage beat Mrs. Heenan, 2& Third round: Mrs. Butcher beat Mrs. Lowery, 26—13; Mrs. Brice beat Mrs. Finlayson, 26—11; Mrs. Henderson beat Mrs. Bush, 26-24; Mrs. Watkin won by default from Mrs. Laurie; Mrs. Flint beat Mrs. Jolly, 26—18; Mrs. Moeller beat Mrs. Robinson, 26—8; Mrs. Mitchell beat Mrs. Neumann, 26—22, HANDICAP SINGLES, B GRADE, Second round: Mrs. Connell beat Mrs. Stewart. 26-5: Miss Langdon beat Mrs. Ilsley, 26—17; Mrs. Trevor beat Mrs. Redmond. 26—16; F. Laurie beat Mrs. Lewis, 2 * s Thf’rd round: F. Laurie beat Mrs. Trevor, 26-24. WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES. First Life. First round: Mrs. Moeller beat Mrs. MiL«.. „ , • First round: Mrs. Monat beat Mrs. Brightlngl 26—22; Mrs. Flint beat Mrs. Glenny. 26—14: Mrs. Gardner beat Mrs, Bock. 26—22; Mrs. Jarvle beat Mrs. Walker, 26—22. LEVEL SINGLES. First Life. First round; Mrs. Wincheombe beat Mrs. Ilsley. 26—11; Mrs. Rudkin beat Mrs. Sears, 26—19. . . . Second round; Mrs. Wincheombe beat Mrs. Burd. 26—17. Club Pairs. First round: Mesdames Breeze and Griffiths beat Mesdames Scott and Chambers, aa_l6 ' DRAW FOR TO-DAY. The draw for to-day’s play, commencing at 9.3 oa.m., is as follows:— Kelburn.—Mesdames Finlayson and Polson v. Mesdames Jarvie and Mouat; Mesdames Boocock and Glenny v. Mesdames Bock and Lowery: Mesdames Anstis and Simpson v. Mesdames Caldow and D. C. Henderson; Mesdames Savage and Flint v. Mesdames Johnson and Walker; Mrs. Ashton v. Miss Tennant. _ . . .. Wellington.—Mesdames Brlghtlng and Moelior v. Mesdames Gardner and E. Henderson: Mesdames Robinson and Heenan v. Mesdames Watkin and. Magill; Mrs. Chirnside v. Mrs. Bowie. Hataitai.—Mrs. Liddell v. Mrs. Veitch; Mrs. Deare v. Mrs, Pollock.