TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS

Evening Star, Issue 22873, 3 February 1938, Page 14

TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS

RAIN INTERFERES WITH PLAY RESULTS OF MORNING MATCHES £Feb United Press Association.] AUCKLAND. February 3. _ To-day was practically an off-day in the New Zealand tennis championships, which were, continued in threatening weather with a steady breeze. The early morning events commenced at 10.30, and the rubbers were to begin at 2.30. • Rain stopped play at noon. The results up to that stage in the New Zealand Plate, for players put out of the singles championships, were: — MEN’S QUARTER-FINALS. M. T. Wilson (Auckland) beat A. J. Dickie (Taranaki), 6-4, 6-0. J. J. Steevens (Poverty Bay) beat D. H. Ward (Wairarapa), 6-3, 7-5. J. D. Mitchell (Auckland) beat J. N. Lowry (Hawke’s Bay), 6-4, 6-3. O. N. Bold (Wellington) beat M. L. Latnpe (Wanganui), .3-6, 6-4, 6-1. WOMEN’S, SINGLES* —Quarter-final.— * Miss K. Armstrong (Canterbury) beat Miss J. Forrester (Wellington), 6-2, 4-6, 7-5. MINED DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP. —Third Round.— R. D. Sharpe (Manawatu) and Miss M. Glenny (Hawke’s Bay) beat C. F. Penfold and Miss D. Dickey (Canterbury), 6-2, 2-6, 6-2. N. F. N. and Miss J. Bedford (Wellington) beat D. G. and Miss France (Wellington), 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, . -—Quarter-finals.- — M. T. Wilson and Miss E. Stewart (Auckland) beat G. A. Pearce and Miss E Plummer (Wellington), 2-6, 6-1, 6-3. R. W. Smith and Miss Pamela, Cooke (Auckland) beat K., W. Dyer (Wellington) and Miss Nessie Beverley (Waikato), 6-1, 6-3.