TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS.

Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 2, 3 January 1900, Page 5

TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS.

MISS frUNNELKY AND HOOPER THE WINNERS. q [BY TELEGB4TO — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] i, PALMERSTON, 2nd January. '■- The lawn tennis tournament was conclud7 ed torday in fine weather : — c The finest play was shown in the Men's * Champion Doubles, in which the present '■ champions, Cox and Collins, out-classed '" Hooper and Peacock after a hard struggle. £ Miss Nunneley had a fairly easy win in both the Ladies' Singles, and, with > Fisher, played splendidly in the Combined Doubles. . The visitors were entertained at a ball ' to-night, and most of them go on to Wai- '_ pawa to-morrow to attend a tournament s there. The players generally commend the [m way in which the tournament has been^con- * ducted. The following are the results of j. the day's play :—: — Ladies' Handicap Singles. — Miss Cave a beat Miss Simpson, 6—3, 6—2 ; Miss Rame say beat Miss Newcombe, 6—3, 4—6, 6—2 ; ,f, f Miss Cave beat Miss Rainsaj', 6— 2, 6—2;6 — 2; l_ Miss Nunneley beat Miss Cave, 6—4, 6—3 y (final round). Men's Handicap Singles.— Wallace beat s Bunting, 6—o, 6—2; Dickie beat Wyy bourne, 6—3, 6—5; Smythe beat Upton, d 5—6, 6—3, 6—4; Dickie beat Young, 3—6, v 6—3, 6—4 ; Loughnan beat Laishley, 6—o, ) 6-r-5; Dickie beat Wallace, 6—3, 3—6, c 6—3 ; Dickie beat Smyfche, 6—5, 6—5 (final :- round). s Men's Handicap Doubles. — Crump and , Upton beat Laishley and Smythe, 6—l, '- 6—5; Crump and Upton beat Ross and 1- Seay, 6—3, 6—3 ; Crump and Upton beat V Barron and Ross, 6—3, 6—3 (final round). Q Champion Combined Doubles.— Miss r Nunneley and Fisher beat Miss Simpson and 0. Cox, 6—3, 6—B, 6—o (final round). Men's Champion Doubles.— Cox and ColT lins beat Hooper and Peacock, 6—4; 6—4, * 6-2 (final round). Ladies' Handicap Doubles.— Misses Harman and Ranisav beat Mrs. ""ayne and Miss ; Powdrell, 4—6, 6—4, 6—3 (final round). '' Ladies' Champion Doubles. — Misses NunI neley and Harman beat Mrs. Payne and a Miss Powdrell, 6—2, 6—o. ,8, 8 Ladies' Champion Singles. — Miss Simp- , a son beat Mrs. Abraham, 6—l, 6—l ; Miss .. Nunneley beat Miss Simpson, 6—2, 6—l6 — 1 '■ (final round). Men's Champion Singles.— -Hooper beat d Peacock, 10—8, 6—3, 7—5. £ Combined Handicap Doubles.— Mrs. s Payne and Wybourue heat Miss M. K. [. Simpson and M'Kellar, 6—2, 5—6, 6—4;6 — 4 ; 1- Mies Ramsay and Ross beat Miss Van Asch c and Wallace, 6—4, 6—4 ; Miss Ramsay aad a Ross beat Mrs. Payne and Wybourne, 6—2,6 — 2, c 6—3 (final round). s The colours presented by Mrs. H. M. q Gore go to the Canterbury Association, the % points scored beiug— Auckland, 6; Canteri- bury, 15. i PALMERSTON NORTH, This Day. a The visiting players at the Lawn Teni. nis Championship Meeting were enteril tamed at a dance last evening, when the r prizes were presented by Mrs. Simpson, t wife of Mr. R. M. Simpson, of Wellings ton, President of the Association. Mr. >- H. M. Gore, on behalf of the visitors, - proposed a hearty vote 01, thanks to tha local club for the successful manner in which the tournament had been carried n out. The motion wag carried with en5 thusiasm.