TENNIS

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 January 1938, Page 4

TENNIS

CANTERBURY TITLE-WIN NEBS [per press association.] CHRISTCHURCH, January 2. A. D. Brown, of Auckland, and Miss T. Poole are the 1937-38 lawn tennis champions of Canterbury. On Thursday. Brown beat C. Angas, who. with the exception of one year, when he was absent in Australia, had held the title for 10 seasons, and on Friday he beat even more decisively H. A. Barnett, Canterbury’s second ranking player. The championship finals were watched by a large gallery, who again saw some splendid exhibitions of the game. The stadium courts at Wilding Park were in splendid order, and the weather, overcast but warm, and with a fairly brisk south-west wind, were almost ideal for play. The full list of championship winners, with the title-holders of the previous season in parenthesis, is as follows: Men’s Singles: A. D. Brown, Auck land (C. Angas). Women’s Singles: Miss ’J. I oole (Miss D. Nicholls, Wellington). Men’s Doubles: H. A. Barnett and A. R. Cant (D. C. Coumbe and J. C. Charters. Wellington). Women’s Doubles: Misses I. and I. Poole (Misses 1. and T. Poole). Mixed Doubles: Miss 1. Poole and A. R. Cant (Miss N. Bishop and H. Dy mond). . ~ T Boys’ Singles: R. J. Donkin (M. J. Corich). ' Girls’ Singles: Miss D. Elsorn (Miss K. Armstrong). Boys’ Doubles: R. J. Donkin and R. J. Barton (V. Jones and A. D. Atkinson). , , Girls' Doubles: Misses H. and D. Elsome (Misses P. Dickey and N. Smither ).

STEDMAN AND COOMEE CHRISTCHURCH. January 2. The New Zealand Davis Cup players. A. C. Stedman and D. C. Coombe had no great difficulty in beating a Canterbury team consisting of C. Angus. H. Dymond, and A. R. ('ant. in a special match at. Wilding Park on Saturday afternoon. The results of the match, which produced splendid exhibitions of the game, were as follow:—• Singles: Stedman (N.Z.) beat Angas f Canterbury ). 6 —3. 6 —2. Coombe (N.Z.) beat Cant (Canterbury), I—6.1 —6. 6 —2. ti —3. Doubles: Stedman and Coombe (N.Z.) beat. Angas and Dymond (Canterbury). S —6. t> —o. 9 —7. , AUSTRALIAN INVITATION. BRISBANE. January 2. At the annual conference of the Australian Catholic. Lawn Tennis Association, it. was decided to ask Victoria. if it was practicable to invite a. New Zealand team to meet, an Australian team at the inter-State carnival in Melbourne. Tn discussion of the admission ot' New Zealand into the Archbishop Kelly Shield competition, it was stated that, an amendment, to the rules would be necessary. The matter will be considered at the next conference. HONOUR. EOR RUDCE. ■NEW YORK, December 31. The Amateur Athletic Union has awarded the James Sullivan Memorial Trophy for 1937 to J. D. Budge, the American tennis champion, who is described as a true sportsman and gentleman, with a. modest and unassuming manner. “His general demeanour on and off the courts, 'both here and abroad, has always resulted in favourable comment,’’ the union states.