TENNIS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 20 June 1927, Page 6

TENNIS.

ANGLO-AMERICAN TOURNEY. BY CABLE—PEEBS ASSOCIATION—COPY3IGHT LONDON, June 17. An Anglo-American tennis tourney on Davis Cup lines is being played at Manchester. Hunter beat Higglx 7 —5, 3—5, 9 —7, and C—4; Tilden beat Greig 6 —o. 6 —o, and 6 —2.—A.P.A. and “Sun.” LONDON, June 17. Betty Nuthall at the first International Anglo-French Women’s Tennis Tourney at Eastbourne, beat Madame Vaussard 6—3, 7—5, and with Mrs. Godfree beat Madame Mathieu and Mademoiselle Deve 6 —2, 6 —2. England is leading Py six matenes to nil. — A.P.A. and “Sun.” LONDON, June 17. In the doubles, Tilden and Hunter beat Crole-Rees and Eames, 6 —4, 6 —3, 7 —5. —A.P.A. and “Sun.”

AMERICANS BEAT BRITONS. LONDON. June ID. lii lawn tennis at Manchester, America beat Britain by five matches, to nil. Tilden heat Higgs (5 —4, (5—3, 6 —2 ; Hunter beat Greig G—•], 7 —5, o—B,0 —8, B—G. At the Anglo-French tennis international. MademoiseWe Deve> beat ’Betty Xuthall G—4, G—2. Miss Nuthall played well, but Ala deanoi sole Deve placed the ball magnificently.