Surprise in N.S.W. Tennis Championships

Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 December 1934, Page 7

Surprise in N.S.W. Tennis Championships

♦ GOOD PLAY BY HOPMAN ] AND MAIER PERRY AND HUGHES BEATEN. | (By Telegraph-Press Asnn. — Received Friday, 10.10 p.m. SYDNEY, Nov. 30. Surprises continue in the New South Wales tennis championships, to-day's being the defeat of Perry and Hughes in the doubles. The courts were slow after overnight rain, and a blustery wind made conditions difficult. Results were: — Men's Doubles Semi-finals Crawford and McGrath defeated Kirby and Quist, 6—3, 10—12, 6—4, 6—4. Hopman and Maier defeated Perry and Hughes, 6—B, 3—C, 10—8, 6—3, 6-4. i Women's Doubles Semi-finals Misses Dearmah and Lyle defeated Misses Hartigan and Bickerton, 6 —4, 6—o.

Miss Round and Mrs. Hopman dc feated Mrs. Westmacott and Mrs Molesworth, 6—4, 6—l. Mixed Doubles Semi-finals I Perry and Miss Round defeate( j Kirby and Miss Lyle, 6 —4, 6—4. I Hopman and Mrs. Hopman defeatec ! Menzel and Miss Bickerton, 6—4, 6 — l Perry and Hughes, after winning the first and second sets, led 5—3 and 3 —( in the third set. In the third set, j Perry was foot-faulted in this game and i his play appeared to suffer until the end of the set, which Hopman and Maier ' won after a grand fight. The Englishmen 's volleying in the fourth set was ineffective; so they resorted to tossing, but Hopman's and Maier's volleying and smashing were irresistible. "I've been afar," the traveller said, "I've passed through many lands, I know Siberia's icy wastes, And Egypt's burning sands. Where'er I've gone has travelled too A faithful friend, none truer, For coughs and colds I've been prepared With Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.*