INVITATION TOURNEY
Eighty-one playors entered for an invitation tournament held on th/> Brougham Hill Club's courts on Saturday afternoon as a farewell to Miss Dulcie Nicholls, the New Zealand singles and doubles champion, who is shortly to leave New Zealand at the head of the women's team to visit Australia. The club courts were lent to the Wellington Lawn Tennis Association for the event, but the contest was managed by Mr. J. A. B. Howe. A doubles Yankee tournament was played, competitors drawing for partners and matches taking place from a scratch basis. Three "rounds" were then played, each one lasting for fifteen minutes, and players, attempting to score as many points as they could, and. at the end of the: afternoon the pair which', scored, the greatest numbers of paints in.. thY time allowed was judgedV tine winners.. The successful players. ;were H. S. McLaren and Miss BucHoltz, 91 points, the runners-up being H. K. Hesketh and Miss K. Pears,-89-points. '.:.'■ ;-.The^courts ,were yisited by : a number of members- of the management committee1? of the Wellington • Lawn Tennis Association, including the chairman: -and: Seeretar. y. Several members of y the "committee. took/part in the matches, including Messrs. A. W. Man-tell-Harairig,'L.,::Poll6ck;' and N. Smith.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 91, 14 October 1935, Page 14
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INVITATION TOURNEY
Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 91, 14 October 1935, Page 14
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