LAWN TENNIS

Evening Star, Issue 18173, 13 January 1923, Page 14

LAWN TENNIS

WIN FOR NEW SOUTH WALES. The New South Wales ladies defeated the New Zealand ladies on tho Tho radon Courts, Wellington, yesterday by 8 matches to love, 16 sets to love, and 76 games to 35. The visiting ladies were superior all round, especially in the doubles. Airs Hodges had hard luck in losing the second set against Alias Lloyd. The best match of the day was tho GrayHowo contest, which was full of hard hitting and attractive play. The junior champion had 5-3 in the first set, but suffered bad patches. Miss Gray vras undoubtedly the most stylish -and attractive of tho visitors. Results :

Singles.—Miss Lance beat Mrs Scott- Watson 6-3,6-1; Mrs Lowlles beat Miss MacForlano, 6-1, 7-5; Miss Gray l>eat Miss Howe, 7-5. 6-4; IMiss Lloyd boat Mrs Hodges, 6-2, 6-4. Doubles.—Miss Lance and Mrs Lascellcs boat Mrs Scott-Watson and Miss Howe. 6-0, 6-3: Misses Gray and Lloyd beat Miss MacFarlano and .Mrs Hodges, 6-1, 8-6. In an exhibition combined doubles 0. Peacock and Miss Snow-Clark beat R. N. K. Swanston and Miss Fenwick, 6-3, 6-1, In an exhibition, game, which was not of a high order. Miss Lance led Mrs Scott-Watson all the way. In the game between Miss MacFarlano and Mrs La.scollcs the second set was very close, there being only one point of difference in the total.

In the doubles nine games wont iby before Mrs Scott-Watson, and Miss Howo notched one, but with, a, little support the younger player would have made a fight of it, Mrs Sco+t-Wntson being very unsteady. The Miss Gray-Miss Lloyd combination developed into two volleyers versus two base-liners, and save at the end of the second set the issue was never in doubt. Miss Lloyd’s not play and Miss Gray’s hurricane drives crushed the opposition. Mrs Hodges let Miss MncFarlano down, at the end. The combination of all the New Zealand ladies wa-s never up to that of their opponents. The second series of matches for to-day were ;—Miss Lance v. Miss MacFarlone, Mrs LasceUcs v. Mrs Scott-Watson, Miss Gray v. Mrs Hodges, Miss Lloyd v. Miss Howe. Doubles.—Miss Lance and Mrs Lnscolles v. Miss MacFarlaim and Mrs Hodges, Miss Gray and Miss Lloyd v. Mrs Scott-Watson and. Miss Howe.