Junior Girls’ Tennis Team

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 39, 16 February 1938, Page 5

Junior Girls’ Tennis Team

NEW 2IEALANDERS LEAVE FOR SYDNEY :E*or Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. The Ne w Zealand junior girls' tennis team to compete in the New South Wales championship tournament, commencing at the end of next week, left for Sydney this afternoon by the Awatea. Despite drizzly rain which fell just prior to the departure, there was a large crowd of enthusiasts and officials on the wharf when the shij) sailed. The members of the team are: Miss Margaret Beverley (Waikato), Miss Joyce louthett (Wellington), Miss Kathleen Armstrong (Canterbury) and Miss Bebe Wilson (Southland). Two promising Auckland players, Misses Pamela Cooke and Marion Hodges, are unofficially accompanying tho party as nominees of the Auckland Lawn Tennis Association. The manager is Mr. G. Gore. The team will leave Sydney on March 12 by the Awatea, arriving in Auckland on March 15. WAIKATO TITLES COOMBE TAKES SINGLES HAMILTON, Feb. 10. The finals of the Waikato tennis champions iliips played here, resulted: — Men's .singles: D. C. Coombe (Wellington) beat D. Livingstone (Waikato), 6—l, 6—4, 7—5. Women ’s singles: Miss N. Beverley (Waikato) beat Miss E. Plummer (Wellington), 7—5, 6 — l. Men’s doubles: Coombe (Wellington) and Clow (Waikato) beat Livingstone and Dold (Waikato), 6—4, 6—4, 7—5. Both the women’s doubles and the mixed doubles were won by default. DAVIS CUP TIE CANADA AND JAPAN MONTREAL, Feb. 14. Mr. R. N. Watt, president of the Canadian Lawn Tennis Association, announces that the association will decide on Saturday whether Canada will play Japan in the first round of the Davis Cup competition. Reports that the association is considering Britain's example of not participating in the Olympic Games by refusing to meet Japan in the tenniu match drew a declaration from Tokio that Japan, would claim the game by (flefault.