CANTERBURY WIN

Northern Advocate, 19 April 1933, Page 6

CANTERBURY WIN

UNIVERSITY TOURNAMENT AUCKLAND AT BOTTOM. TENNIS FINALS.

(Special to “Northern Advocate.’*) AUCKLAND, This Day,

This year’s inter-university tournament, which was concluded yesterday, was won by Canterbury by a substantial margin. Yesterday’s event was the decision of the tennis finals, and there Canterbury won four of the five tiiles.

Canterbury won the rowing, the athletic shield, the swimming cup, and the tennis cup, scoring 254 points, .101 ahead of its nearest rival, Otago, winner of the boxing shield, which scored 15i points. Victoria, 9 points, won the basketball shield.. Auckland won the Kaslam Shield for shooting, and although its, representatives succeeded in leaving with Otago the famous wooden spoon for athletics, which Auckland had held almost continuously until last year, they won the tournament spoon for the lowest total points, scoring only Bi.

Results of the tennis finals were:—’ Men’s Singles. Pinal. —H. A. Barnett, Canterbury, beat R. A. Young, Canterbury, 6 —o, 6—2. Men’s Doubles. Pinal.—H. A. Barnett and B. A. Barter, Canterbury, beat J. J. McCarthy arid W. B. Gosnell, Victoria, 3 —6, 6 —4, 6—3. Ladies’ Singles. Pinal. —Miss M. Sherris, Canterbury, beat Miss R. Taylor, Auckland, 6—4, I—6, 6—4. Ladies’ Doubles. Pinal.—Misses M. Line and C. Lan remote, Victoria, v. Misses T. R. Gill and S. Phillips, Victoria, 6—4, 2 —6 (match abandoned). Combined Doubles. Pinal. —Miss M. Sherris and B. A. Barter, Canterbury, beat Miss R. Taylor and T. H. Wilson, Auckland, 6 —3, 6—2,