LAWN TENNIS NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 14184, 8 October 1909, Page 3

LAWN TENNIS NOTES.

The Association tournament last Saturday was not an unqualified success from a playing point of view. This arose mainly owing i« the entries lieing far too large | r 1 future not more than one pair should bo allow'd to enter from any on® dub for each event. It paeans catering'for the few. j'*T there can be no option. The Men’s .Joubles brought forth some good and much indifferent play. The Brown brothers were not playing with their usual combination, and R. S. was uncertain, but S. N. was as reliable as ever. Whit© and Eweai .ire to be congratulated on beating our strongest pair. White was very good all round, and his return to match play will be wi I coinod by < all. Ewen made many splendid strokes, but he has his weaki -esses. Ho should endeavor to vary his return of the service, but his worst fault 1-he one on the base-line. Practically all of his services are faults, as he places his foot on the line. If umpires had been olllciatuig ii© wonld have been called fre--quently. Players should practise aoording to the .rales, as they have to play matches under them. The new service rule ap«pearecl in our last week’s notes. It will ■be noticed that it 'is not necessary that the central umpire should be absolutely certain that Lite servers foot is on the line before he calls fault. Some players stand so close to the line that it is impossible for an umpire in t-e sure that the foot is actually in co c with the line. The onus thereore ' ii the players, which means ''©l' should stand at such a distiim ii the line that the umpire can have no doubts. An inch further away makes all the difference in the world to the umpire, but not a- particle to the player, beyond this: that it relieves him of any chance of having his form upset through being foot-faulted. There were otheis on f Saturday making foot faults, so they should cultivate the correct thing. Hairaway and Jones put up a big fight against the Browns. The Balmacewen pair only winning after 5 all, 40—30, was caller!. The veteran was as solid as ever, but Jones quite eclipsed himself after the first few games. He has never played quite so well in a match previously. Braithwaite and Miss Lester accounted for the Mixed Doubles, meeting with little opposition till (ho final. Miss W. Hislop was in excellent form, and was superior to Miss Lcetor, but thisywas equalised by Braithwaite's superiority over oundie. Miss Lester took Miss Campbell's place, the latter lady being unable to play. Braithwaite placed as well as ever, and so did Bundle, but the latter still has the weakness (in match play) of not killing at every opportunity. At the Folkestone tournament Beamish followed up his victory over Parker—mentioned last week—by defeating E. R. Allen, 6—o, I—6, 7—5. but in the final Beamish fell to C. P. Dixon, 9—ll, 4—6, 3—6. Miss Boothby won the Ladies’ Singles. In the Men's Doubles semi-finals Const and Poidovin achieved fame by overcoming the Twin Aliens after some splendid play, 3—6, 8 6. 5—3. Dixon and Prebble beat lai Ker and Quill, 4—6, 7—5, 7—5, and the stone pair bea't Doust and Poidevin in the final, 4—6, 6—4, 6—3. Considerable talk was engendered through the action of Parker, who had that wellknown player Mias M. Coles as partner in the Mixed Doubles. Their opponents in the final were A. D. Prebble and Mias Boothby (England’s lady champion). Parker and Miss Coles took the first set, 6—2, and the score was 5 all in the second. Says an exchange : “ The final came to an abrupt termination. At 5 all in the second set Parker announced that he had a train to catch and hurried off to catch it, leaving his partner in . the lurch and his opponents to take a walk over in a match which they would doubtless have much preferred to fight out." At the Scarborough (North England) tournament H. L. Doherty retained Ills hold on the Open Singles Challenge Cup, playing through six rounds, comprising thirteen sets, all of which he won easily, and scoring 79 games to 28. Mrs Lamplough won the Ladies’ Singles, beating amongst others Miss Garfit (a triple champion). H. L. D. and Mrs Lamplough won the Allied Doubles, beating Crawley and Miss Garfit in the final, I—6, 6—4, 6 —4. In the Men’s Singles Crawley was beaten by F. G. Love quite comfortably. The day* previous to their match being played Crawley was chosen as one of the English Davis Cup team. *

At the Swanage tournamnet a long match eventuated in the Mixed Doubles final. Evered and Mrs Paley met Atkey and Aliss Shaldc, and, after one set all, the former pair won the final set, 19—17. At the Southampton tournament Airs Biroknill played seven'matches, sixteen sets, and 146 games on the last day. The Championship of Germany has been again won by Frotzheim, who defeated Rahe in the final. 6—o. 6—2. 6—3. In the Hamburg Singles final the following week the same pair met, Frotzheim again prevailing, although he lost the first two sets. Scores : o—6. 2—6, 9—7, 6—l, 6—3. Rahe was recently recalled from England to put in his period of service with the German Army.

'The Canterbury (Cranmer Square) Club’s final was played off on Saturday last, when the veteran Goss met Jennings, one of the most promising plavere unearthed in Christchurch for some time. Goss in the semifinal had beaten Ollivier, but against the youthful Jennings he was unable to secure a set-, the scores being 6—2, 6—4, 6—4. inning's weak point is in the back-hand court, hut his volleying and overhead plav are said to be almost perfection.