LAWN TENNIS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 173, 23 June 1926, Page 14

LAWN TENNIS.

WIMBLEDON MEETING. FIRST ROUND OF MEN’S SINGLES LONDON, June 21. Tho Wimbledon lawn tennis championship tennis meeting opened to-day ai fine weather and beioro a crowded attendance, with a jubilee celebration in tho form of a Royal pageant, in which tho King presented commemorative medals to ex-champions from the 'eighties up to last jear. Despite tho absence of Miss Helen Wills and Reno Lacosto, the international element is strongly represented at the meeting. A noteworthy first appearance, is that of the Royal entrant, tho Duko of York. In the first round of' the men’s singles championship to-day’s results are as follow :

Randolph Lycett beat Glanz 6 —l, 6—2, 6—4; C. N. Turnbull beat G. It. 0. Crole-Rees 6—3, 6 —3, 6 —2; C. H. Kingsley beat E. T. Robson (Argentine) 6 —2. I—6,1 —6, 6—2. 6 —4; L. O. Austin beat- Lawrence 6 —2, 6 —o, 7 —5; Vincent Richards beat A. F. l r encken ,6 —0, 6 —o, 6 —o; Jacques Brugnon beat N. Mislinu 4—C, 6—4, 6—3, 6—l; B. von Kelvrling "beat P. Feret 7 —5, 64, 2—6. 6 —3; Higgs beat D. J. Sumner, the Australian, 6—3, 6 —2, 7 Aitken beat Eric Jones (Australia) 6—o, I—6,1 —6, B—6,8 —6, 6—o; Kinsey beat C. P. Dixon 6 —2, 6 —l, 6—l; Borotra beat Godfree 6 —3, 6—4, 6—4. —A. and N.Z. cable.

WOMEN PLAYERS’ DRESS. LONDON, June 21. Nothing was more amusing in the Wimbledon pageant than the contrast between the press photographs of women players in 1908, in long, stiff skirts, and the modern players in flimsy, scanty, but more graceful attire. There is keen regret that no Australian champions were in the pageant of players.—A. and N.Z. cable.