LAWN TENNIS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 85, 10 April 1912, Page 3

LAWN TENNIS.

• ~ „;'; UNIVERSITY CHAMPIONSHIPS., ... :t. {[BfIBLIimAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.] JJ DUNEDIN, 9th 'April. Pine 'weather prevailed when the TJni- ■ ' versity 'tennis championships \vefe resumed this morning, but .the aftJernoon was web and unpleasant. The. laatchee were,iproceedcd with, however, o\ving to the Wellington and Auckland* <teams ' having to leave for home tomorrow, I Following are the results:— f ,' Ladks' Championship Singles,— riFinal : \ Miss Cross (Canterbury) 1 'bealT Miss Tennent (Victoria), 9-6. Ladies' Championship Doubles.^-Scnii-final: Misses Cross and Jamiespn (Canterbury) beat Misses Tennent ail 3 Cook (Victoria), 9-4; Misses Hunt andt F&rnie (Otago) beat Misses Walker and'Bqith"wiclc (Canterbury), 9-2. Finals ? Misses Cross and Jamieson (Canterbury) beat Mifcees Hunt and Farnie. (Otago), u 9-4. ' Men's Championship Singlce.-'iSecond round : Smith (Canterbuiy) Jbeal -Thompson (Otago), 6-2, 6-3; Jenningej(.Canterbury) beat Partridge (Olago), 6-I,' 6>o. The final round being betwcen^Canterbury representatives will . bevplayed in • Christchurch. ' ■' Men's Championship Doubles.-^.Sccontl round : Abernethy and Parsonsori (Canterbury) beat Miles and White' (Otago), 6-2, 6-0; Cleghorn and Parker (Victoria) beat Bruce" Scott and Jacobscn (Aucldand), 6-2, 6-2 ; Jennings and , Smith t (Canterbury) beat Qampbijil and . Reynolds "(Auckland), 6-1 J 6-0; -Partridge and Thompson (Otago) beat Brown and Reid (Victoria), 1-6, 6-3, 6-5. Third round : Cleghorn and Parker won froai Abernefchy and Parsonson by default ; Jennings and Smith beat Partridge and Thompson, 6-0, 6-1. Final: Jmminge and Smith beat Cleghorn and Parker, 6-2, 6-3. Combined Championship, Doubks.— Final : Miss Cross and L. ' S. Jenningu (Canterbury) beat Miss Tennent and G. M. Cleghorn (Victoria), 6-2, 6-0. OTAGO' TOURNEY. DUNEDIN, 9th -April The' Otago Lawn .Tennis 'A6BQciation\i tournament was continued _;■ "to-day. Showery weather interfered willi the play, and the- tournament was ,nbt con eluded. In the final of the^Ladiee' Championehip Singles, Miss Campbell (Dunedin) beat Miss Bloxam " ; (Chmv> chtu'ch), 8-6, 6-1.