DISQUALIFIED FOR FIVE YEARS

Evening Star, Issue 21317, 23 January 1933, Page 4

DISQUALIFIED FOR FIVE YEARS

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. BRISBANE, January 22. After an inquiry by a stipendiary magistrate W. Tucker, a jockey, was disqualified for five years on a charge arising out of the discovery of a battery in the jockeys’ room at the Albion Park races, and tiie fact that in the heel of a boot belonging to Tucker electrical terminal points were subsequently found. Tucker declared that ho bought the boots from an unknown man, and did not know anything .about the terminal points being there.

In the girls’ singles final Jessie Burns outdrove Joy Bishop in a basehns game. The winner also hit a much harder hall and kept a better length, and placement. . . , Bedford, in the hoys’ singles, outplayed Gunn in all departments, drivel and volleying with scarcely a mistoThe ladies’ doubles semi-final between Mesdames Adams, and Dykes and Misses Wake and Andrew was exciting, the former pair the Match point against them at 2-5 in the third, set. They only won after Mrs Adams left the service line for the baseline, where her defence was rocklike, allowing Mrs Dykes to make brilliant winners from the net and disconcerting the opposition. .' . Misses Gould and Whyte had no chance against Mrs Melody and Miss Nicholls, the last-named being especially reliable. - Results MEN’S SINGLES. SEMI-FINALS. C. E. Malfroy (Wellington) heat H. Barnett (Canterbury), 6-1, 6-2, 6-2. ’ E. D. Andrews (Dulwich, England); beat C. Angas (Canterbury), 7-5,‘ 3-6> 6-3, 6-2. ” 7 LADIES’ SINGLES. SEMI-FINALS.; , \ Miss Dulcie Nicholls (Canterbury)] beat Miss Doris Howe (Wellington), 6-0, 6-4. • ' ,: Miss Marjorie Macfarlane . (Auckland) beat Mrs H. M. Dykes (Wellington), 7-5, 6-1. MEN’S DOUBLES. SEMI-FINALS. r : ' , A. L. and D. Gi. France (Wellington) beat N. R. C. Wilson (Wellington) and A. C. Stedman (Auckland),5- 6-4, 2-6, 9-7, 7-5. o C. E. Malfroy (Wellington) and X* A. Seay (Canterbury), beat E. D. Andrews (England) and J. N. Lowry (Hawke’s Bay), 64, 6-3, 6-1. ■ LADIES’ DOUBLES. i SEMI-FINALS. , ' ’ r Mesdames. H. M. Dykes, and R. P. Adams (Wellington) beat Misses M. Wake and M. Andrew .(Canterbury); 4-6, 6-0, 9-7. : Mrs W. J. Melody (Wellington) and Miss D. Nicholls ’ (Canterbury)’ heat Miss B. Gould ( Canterbury) and Miss M. Whyte (Wellington), 6-2, 7-5. MIXED DOUBLES. THIRD ROUND. E. D. Andi’ews and Mrs H. M. Dykes beat T. Rhodes Williams and Miss T. Poole, 6-3, 6-2. ; ; ■ - A. L. France and Miss D. Nicholls beat I. A, Seay and Miss M. Andrew, 6- 6-4. C. E. Malfroy and Miss M. Macfarlane beat D. G. and Mrs France, 8-6, C-2. N. R. G. Wilson and Mrs N. M‘Nair Thomson heat G. A. Pearce and Miss N. Fleming, 7-5, 7-5. ; ' BOYS’ JUNIOR SINGLES. FINAL. N. P. N. Bedford (Wellington) beat! J. W. Gunn (Auckland), 6-3, 6-4, GIRLS’ JUNIOR SINGLES] FINAL. Jessie Burns (Wellington) beat Joy Bishop (Auckland), 6-3, 6-1. BOYS’ DOUBLES; / ’ FINAL. N. F. N. Bedford and. W. A. Morrison (Wellington) beat R.. -T. Wilson (N.Z. Maori) and M. F. Lees (Auckland), 6-1, 6-2. GIRLS’ DOUBLES. Vera and Jessie Bums (Wellington)" beat Roma Drake and Joy Bishop (Auckland), 6-3, 6-1. JUNIOR MIXED DOUBLES. FIRST ROUND. ■ N. P. N. Bedford and Vera , Burns beat D. F, Cameron and Aileea Smith, 6-2, 6-2. / J. W. Elyth and Joy Bishop beat. R. T. Peacock and Dorothy Dickery,- 64,-s-6, 6-i. _ : - ■ N. A. Morrison and Jessie, Burns beat J. W. Gunn and Audrey Kean, 6-1,64. " F. Renouf and Roma Drake beat M. Goodson and Mary Sinclair, 64, 64.Morrison and, Jessie Burns beat B. J. Fitzgerald and' Nancy M‘Farlane, 6-1, 64. THIRD ROUND.Morrison and .Jessie Burns beat J* King and Myra King, 6-0, 6-0. INTERMEDIATE OPEN SINGLES. SEMI-FINALS. W. G. Robertson. (Timaru) beat M. Ferkins (Wellington) ( 6-2,- 6-2. N. F. N. Bedford (Wellington) beat} E. F. Pag© (Wairarapa), 6-1, 6-1. FINAL. . . 7... Robertson beat Bedford, 2-6, 6-3, 8-6. , ■< . ■