LAWN TENNIS
NEW ZEAL-ANDERS AT SYDNEY i.iiy Kleetric Telegraph.--Copyright.) (Australian A N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY. April 3. The New /calami tennis players created a favourable impression in the opening matches of the tour against New South Wales colts, sweeping the boards in the singles by six rubbers, twelve sots, sevnty-Iwo games to no rubbers. m» sets and 27 games, and scoring 3 rubbers 8 sets 61 games in the doubles to the New South Wales tally of 2 rubbers 5 sets s'l games. The ground was a trifle slow as a result of recent rains and possessed no terrors for the visitors, Scoj-es : - Seay beat, Hofman 6-4. 6—2; \Val-, lace beat Sproulc 6—3. o—4; Wilson beat Crouch 6—o, 6—2; Smyth beat Crawford 6—l, 6-2: Andrews beat Colvin 6—2, 6—4 ; France beat Dunlop 6_2, 6—4. Doubles: Smyth and Wallace beat Crouch and Sproule 6—3, 6—l; Frame and Stay heat Colvin and Dunlop 6-1. 6 1: Smyth and Wallace heal Colvin and Dunlop 6—4, I—6, b —4- Crawford and llopman beat Andrews and Wilson 5 -7, 6—4. 6—o; Crouch and Sproule beat France and Seav I—6. 6- -? "' -G,
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 5 April 1926, Page 1
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186LAWN TENNIS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 5 April 1926, Page 1
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