LAWN TENNIS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 99, 27 March 1939, Page 8

LAWN TENNIS

PALMERSTON BEAT LEVIN. A HOLLOW VICTORY. Ringing down the curtain on the tennis competitions for the season, the Palmerston North Club, winners of the northern section of the Manavratu Lawn Tennis Asociation, scored a hollow victory over the southern champions, lx;vin, on the Linton Street courts on Saturday, winning by 16 rubbers to nil—32 sets t.o nil and 192 games to 67. Playing fine tennis, the city club avenged their defeat by Levin by 9 rubbers to 7 the previous year, and loft no doubt as to their supremacy at the present time. Details arc as follow', Palmerston North players being mentioned first:— Men’s singles. • Hobin lie at Thompson, 6—o, 6—l ; O’Brien beat Blonkhorn, 6—3, 6—3; Glovn beat Patterson, 6—2, 6—3; Johns beat

Taylor, 6—4, 6—3. Women’s singles.—Mrs ■ Anderson beat Miss Pritchard. 6—3, 6—4; Mrs Hobin beat Mrs Patterson, 6—o, 6—o; Mrs Lennon beat Mrs Porter. 6—l, 6—l ; Mrs New beat Miss Nicholson, 6—l. 6—3. Men’s doubles.—Hobin and O’Brien boat Thompson and Taylor, 6—3, 6—4: Glovn and Johns beat Blenkhorn and Patterson, 6—5, 6—3. Women’s doubles.—Mrs Anderson ami Mrs Hobin heat Miss Pritchard and Mrs Patterson, 6—2, 6—l; Mrs Lennon and Mrs New bent Mrs Porter and Miss Nicholson, 6—l, 6 —l. Mixed doubles.—Hobin and Mrs Hobin beat Thompson and Miss Pritchard. 6—l, 6—o: O’Brien and Airs Anderson beat Blenkhorn and Airs Patterson, 6—o. 6—4; Glovn and Airs Lennon beat Patterson and Afrs Porter, 6—l. 6—2; Johns and Airs New r beat Taylor and Aiiss Nicholson, 6—1,-6—3.