WIMBLEDON TENNIS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 147, 23 June 1937, Page 11

WIMBLEDON TENNIS

MEN'S DOUBLES START

NEW ZEALAND PAIR BEATEN

WOMEN'S. SINGLES

United Press Association—By Electric craph—CopyrlEht(Received June 23, 11 a.m.) LONDON, June 22. , The Wimbledon tennis tournament was continued today, a start being made with the men's doubles and the women's singles. Results are. — MEN'S DOUBLES.' (Holders, G. P. Hughes and C. R. D. Tuckey, Great Britain.) First Round. J. H. Bromwich and C. Sproule (Australia) beat L. de Borman (Belgium) and I. H. Wheatcroft (Great Britain), 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3. Kho Sin Kie (China) and K. Schroeder (Sweden) beat D. C. Coombe and J. Giesen (New Zealand), 6-1, 6-4, 6-2. G. P. Hughes and C. R. D. Tuckey (Great Britain) beat J. Borotra and M. Bernard (France), 6-4, 6-3, 1-6, 6-4. J. Pallada and J. Puncec (Yugoslavia) beat E. R. Avory and H. G. N. Lee (Great Britain), 6-0, 6-1, 5-7, 6-3. E. D. Andrews (New Zealand) and F. Quintavelle (Italy) beat A. A. Brown and Findlay (Great Britain), 6-0, 6-4, 6-4. WOMEN'S SINGLES. (Holder, Miss Helen Jacobs, U.S.A.) First Round. Miss A. Lizana (Chile) beat Miss G. K. Osborne (Great Britain), 6-2, 6-2. Miss J. Jedrzejowska (Poland) beat Miss S. Noel (Great Britain), 6-2, 6-0. Countess de la Valdene (Spain) beat Miss F. James (Great Britain), 6-4, 6-0. Second Round. Miss H. Jacobs (U.S.A.) beat Miss E. Harvey (Great Britain), 6-2, 6-1. Mrs. H. Sperling (Denmark) beat Miss M. Baumgarten (Hungary), 6-2, 6-0. Miss A. Marble (U.S.A.) beat Miss R. Hardwick (Great Britain), 9-11, 6-4, 6-3.

The other matches set down for today had to be postponed owing to r in.