LAWN TENNIS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 40, 17 February 1939, Page 13

LAWN TENNIS

PUBLIC SERVICE

YESTERDAY'S TOURNEY

The annual Public Service lawn tennfi tournament commenced at Miramar yesterday.

There were large entries which will necessitate the completion of the tourney on Sunday week.

The weather was' ideal for play yesterday.

In the following results the Departments which the players represent are indicated- at follows where the full name is not. given:— State Fire Office (Fire), Government Life Insurance (Life), Public Works Department' (P.W.1).), Public Service Commissioner (P.S.C.), Commercial Broadcasts (C.8.), Valuation (Val.), Treasury (Treas.), State Advances (Adv.), Native Affairs (Native), Marketing (Market.), Internal Affairs (Internal), Industries and Commerce (Industries), Defence (Def.), Railway (Ely.), Post and Telegraph v (P. and T.), Public Trust (Trust), Mental Hospital (Mental Hos), Taxation (Taxes), Education (Ed.), Lands and Survey (Lands), Transport (Trans.), -Agriculture (Agric), Pensions (Pens.), Printing (Print.). Results in the later founds of play are as if olloWs :— A GRADE. Men's Doubles. Fourth Round. —Taylor and Beck (P. -and T.) beat Ashby and Doherty (Audit), 9-8; Edwards and Hoyte (Rly.) beat Nevitt and Patchett (Treas.), 9-2; Booker and Bold (Rly.) beat Smith and Morrison (Native), 9-4. Women's Doubles. * Semi-finals.:—Misses Rigby and Lambourn* (P. and T.) beat Misses Heard and O'Flaherty (Fire), 9-5; Misses McColl and Thompson (Ed.) beat Misses Howard and Cade (Dental). 9-2. ' Mixed Doubles. Second Round.—Banks and Miss McGovern, (P.W.D.) beat King and Miss Watt (Rly.), 9-7; Lyons and Miss Dentlco (P. and T.) beat Rose and Miss Taylor (Census), 9-4; Kelly and Mis» O'Brien (Audit) beat Beale ami Miss .. WUcombe (Ed.), 9-5; Edwards ami Miss Burbidga \- (Rly.) beat Nevitt and Miss Willis (Treas.), by ■-, default; Foley and Miss Liddell (Audit) beat " Innes and Miss Heard (Fire), 9-6; Clark and /. Miss Chipper ,{Lab.) beat Lapp and Miss Shore l (Rly.), 9-5. ! B GRADE. -? Men's Doubles. ' Fourth Round.—Pickering and Walls (P.S.C.) beat Cunliffe and Mills (Ed.), 9-5; Cragg and Thurston (Rly.) beat Mitchells and Miller (Print), 9-4; Bitchle and McMaster .(P. and T.) beat Collins and Dimes (P. and T.)t 9-3; I McSherry and Smallbone (Navy) beat Hold- [ stock and Wilson (Treas.), 9-2; Templeton and Crtmdis (Rly.) beat O'Halloran and iFraser (P.S.C), 9-3; Ruane and Charlton (Trans.) " beat Gamer and Thomas (Mental Hos.), 9-5. ; Women's Doubles. Third Round. —Misses Lawton and O'Flaherty (Agric.) beat Misses Cooke and Auld (Lab.), 9-6; Misses Mulcahy and Gustofson (Pens.) , ' beat Misses Stevens and Coghlan (Trust), 9-5; Misses King' and Spillane ( —) beat Misses McGovern and Dallard (P.W.D.), by default; Misses McNeill and Beard (—) beat Mlssea ,' Foley and Clipper (Lands), 9-2; Misses Hay-, '« wood and Boollerls (Agric.) beat Misses Griffla _. and Lynsfcey (E.), .9-2. ' Mixed Doubles. : Third Round.—-Palliser and Miss Stevens ' (Trust) beat Marshall and Miss Grant (Lab.),- ,i 9-6; Burns and Miss Walker (Life) beat Shields f and Miss Lamb (Pens.), 9-6; Ford and Miss Fortune (Audit) beat Dunn and Miss • Smith (Census), 9-3; Fraser and Miss McKendry (—) ... beat McKay and Miss Webster (Census), 9-3; Ross and Miss Davies (Print.) beat Chllds and Miss Duff (P. and T.), 9-6; Hamilton and Miss Guinness beat Paul and Miss Spillane (Print.), :' 9-4; Tindall and Miss Stevens (Tourist)' beat :. i Sternmetz and Miss Finnegan (Marine), 9-5; , „ Duncan and Miss Hoyles (Mental Hos.) beat' . Liddell and Miss Boss (Print.), 9-3; Slater - and Miss Ireland (Audit) beat McCullough and - : Miss Green (Audit), 9-4; MeMaster and Miss ' Johasnesson (P. and T.) beat Oliver and Miss 1 O'Flaherty (Agric), 9-4; Lemmon and Miss ' Foley (Lab.) beat Philip and Miss Stewart ■ (Air), 9-7; Kirkham and Miss Randall (Trans.) beat Baker and Miss Rollett (Actuarial), 9-6.