LAWN TENNIS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 1 August 1924, Page 5

LAWN TENNIS

(By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright.; .Australian aud JN.Zi. Gable association.

NEW YORK, July 30

The official draw for the AustraliaChina match is:—First day, singles— Patterson versus W. Locke Wei, and Wood versus Paul Kong; second day, doubles, Patterson and Wood versus Wei and C. K. Huang; third day, singles, Patterson versus Kong; Wood versus Wei.

NEW YORK, July 31. In the Davis Cup preliminary bet tween Australia, and China Patterson defeated Wei 6—l, 6—2, 6—2. Thera was only a Handful of spectators. The Chinaman was totally unable to handle Patterson’s service and first ran up courageously, but ineffectively to the net, and then took to the baseline without success. Wei’s small stature was a. handicap against the Australian’s great reach and command of court. Patterson became temporarily erratic and inaccurate in the second set, but it made little difference. In the third set. Wei tried a change of pace and intermittent cross court shots, which ipade his opponent race about a little but did not seriously discomfort him. Wood defeated Kong 6 —o, 6 —l, 6—2. The match began amidst lowering clouds and rain seemed a matter of moments. Kong was larger than his team mate and also stroked more vigorously. He was fearfully nervous and erratic, and wholly unable to touch Wood’s service without driving out. In the second set ho sometimes scored surprisingly by breaking through the service with fine back hand strokes or cross-court strokes, but made many double faults. Both men played the back court game, in which the Australian was-superior. In the third set Wood frequently passed Kong, who, like Wei, attempted sporadically to play up to the net.