LAWN TENNIS.
! INTER-STATE .MEETING. i ! . Melbourne, Nov. 19. j For the inter-State. lawn tennis i meeting the weather was dull, and the courts soft. The interest chiefly centred in the match between Dunlop and Brookes and Wright and A. | B. Jones. The latter pair werte bril ■ liant frequently, but their opponents played magnificently throughI out, winning by 6 —3, 6 —o. Brookes I serving, volleying and overhead work | won many sets. His drawing off the i ground had more pace than usual. ! The same pair beat Kidson and 'Anderson by 6 —l. 6—o. Lycett and Heath were below i form, but they won all their matches, ; beating Anderson and Kidson by j 6 —3. 3—6. 9 —7, and Marsh and ■Metcalfe by 6—l. 7—5. I O’Hara Wood and Campbell beat : A. B. Jones and Wright, 7—5, 4 —6, j s—6. Wood showed remarkably fine 'work off the ground and his volley- | i:ig was splendid. f In the men’s open doubles. Mars■den and C. Ballantyne beat Oliver j and Ballantyne, 6 —4. 6—2,
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 297, 20 November 1912, Page 2
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