"LADIES' DAY"
WIMBLEDON TENNIS
SIZZLING HOT WEATHER
MEN'S DOUBLES START
United Pres3 Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received June 22, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 21. "Ladies* Day" in the Wimbledon lawn tennis championships was sizzling hot. , Mrs. Pittman was unable to reply to the superior versatility and vigori ous driving of Miss Wynne (Australia). Miss Hardwick was definitely superi ior to Miss Hartigan in a hard-driv-i ing match. Miss Jedrzejowska, last year's run- ' ner-up, produced a stream of beau- [ tiful drives in defeating Miss Steven- ' son, who made a gallant fight. Miss Coyne had an easy victory over Miss Yorke, a versatile doubles player. Mrs. Mathieu, who defeated Miss Lizana in a quarter-final last year, repeated the victory in the second round today. The Chilean failed to produce her usual clever game. WOMEN'S SINGLES. (Holder: Miss D. E. Round, Great Britain.) First Round. Miss M. C. Scriven (Great Britain) beat Miss T.'R. Jarvis (Great Britain). Miss D. Bundy (U.S.A.) beat Miss P. N. Morrison (Great Britain), 6-2, 6-2. Miss T. Coyne (Australia) beat Miss A. M. Yorke (Great Britain). Miss J. Jedrzejowska (Poland) beat Miss D. Stevenson (Australia), 6-1, 3-6, 6-3. Miss N. Wynne (Australia) beat Mrs. J. B. Pittman (Great Britain), 6-3, 6-0. Miss S. Noel (Great Britain), beat Miss J. Wilson (Australia), 6-2, 6-3. , Miss M. E. Lumb (Great Britain) beat Miss O. Craze (South Africa), 6-0, 6-3. Mrs. S. Sperling (Denmark) beat Miss H. Kovac (Yugoslavia), 6-1, 6-2. Miss H. Jacobs (U.S.A.) beat Miss M. Whitmans!). (Great Britain), 6-0, 6-1. Second Round. Miss A. Marble (U.S.A.) beat Miss Cootes, 6-0, 6-2. Mrs. R, Mathieu (France) beat Miss A. Lizana (Chile), 6-4, 6-4. Miss R. M. Hardwick (Great Britain) beat Miss J. Hartigan (Australia), 6-4, 6-2. MEN'S DOUBLES. (Holders: J. D. Budge and C. G. Mako, U.S.A.). First Round. A. L Delia Porta and L. J. Walter (Great Britain) beat D. C. Coombe and A. D. Brown (New Zealand), 6-3, 4-6, 10-8, 6-3. M. Cejnar (Czechoslovakia) and C. E. Malfroy (New Zealand) beat N. de Manby and I. H. Wheatcroft (Great Britain), 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 145, 22 June 1938, Page 11
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