LAWN TENNIS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5665, 12 August 1905, Page 9

LAWN TENNIS.

Reporting the third day's tennis matches for the British lawn tennis championships, tho estminster Gazette/' in the course of its remarks, says: —Before this match, A. F. Wilding, oi New Zealand, the Cambridge President Jiad come through a terrific game with Clothier, while Lamed, now the last surviving American in the Singles. Lad narrowly escaped defeat at the hands o. Wilding's lollow-colonial. It. A. Parker. Clothier's defeat was unexpected, although tho strenuous character of Wilding's attack. and his wonderfully sustained vigour arid pluck wore fully recognised. The match went* first one way and then the other, and it was only at the very end of the fifth and final set that the* victory of the Cantab was assured. No fewer than sixty-three games were contested, which is probably as near : record for Wimbledon as one could find. Lamed was palpably “slack” against Parker when he started, and but for flashes of his real greatness at most essential periods of the match he must have been beaten like his colleagues. Parker, on the other hand, played with great dash and consistency, his service always being difficult to negotiate and his curling cross-shots highly effective.