GAY SCENES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 26 June 1928, Page 9

GAY SCENES

TENNIS AT WIMBLEDON. ANDREWS DEFEATS HUNTER. A FIRST ROUND SENSATION. (United Press Associu-tio-n— By Klectric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received 12.5 p.m. to-day. LONDON, June 15. There is little wonder that Wimbledon inspires tennis like nothing else on earth. To-day it i,S' a garden party of rare loveliness, with twelve thousand present, including many Dominion visitors. There was a picture of flocked society people, flannel-lod men and gaily costumed Orientals. As they paraded the beautifully hedged terraces, dividing the most perfect courts ever offered at Wimbledon one heard a dozen different | languages. The players alone >r<jprc-! seated twenty nations. Even the open-1 ing clay produced a first-class /sensation .in the defeat of Hunter by the New Zealander, Andrews.

WIMBLEDON TOURNEY

FIRST ROUND WINNERS

(Australian Press Association —United Service.) Received 11.50 a.m. to-day. LONDON, June 25. In the Wimbledon tourney, in the first round, Hawke’s beat Arte,ns (Austria) 6 —3, 6 —4, 6 —l; L-yeett beat Powell 6—4, 4—G, 7 —5, 6 —B, 6— 2; Coen (America) beat Peterson (Denmark) 7 —5, 6—3, 6 —l; Moon beat Gilbert 5 6—l, 6—o, 6 —4"; Oochett beat Sle-em 6—2, B—6,8 —6, 6 —2; Kleinsohrotli beat Collins (Scottish champion) 6—4, 62, 6—l; Jean Borotra beat A. H. Lowe 6 —2, B—6,8 —6, 6—4; Boyd (Argentina) beat Godfree 6—3, 6 —2, 6—2 ; Colonel Mayes beat Cummings 6—3, 6 —2, 6 —l; Kingsley beat Turnbull 3—-2. I—6.1 —6. 6—3, 6— 2; Dicks beat Peacock (New Zealand) 6 —4, 3 —o, I—6, 6— 2, 6—3; Peters beat Crole Rees 6—2, 6—2, 6 —l; Andrews (New Zealand) beat Hunter (America) 6 —4, 5 —7, 6—t, 2 —6. 7—5; Patterson beat- F. Crawford 6—3, 4—6, 6—3, 7—5; Hopman beat. Higgs 6 —2. 6—4. 7—5. Other first round winners were Hennessey, Tilden, Lacoste, Al| rpurgo, I Rmiissus, Edouard, Borotra, Brugnon. Obta (Japan) beat Stefani (.Daily) 6—3, I—6,1 —6, 6 —l, 6 —3; Landry (France) beat Greig fi_3, 6--S. 6—4. 4—6. 3—2 (retired) Hughes beat Young (New Zealand) 6—l, 6 —4, 6 —4 ; Crawford beat Hodges 6—l, 6—3, 6—2.