LAWN TENNIS
VICTORIAN TOURNAMENT. WILDING DEFEATS ALEXANDER.. PreS3 Association—By Telegraph—CopyripJit. MELBOURNE, November 23. (Deceived -Nov. 2-1, at 0,25 a.m.) Wilding won tho Singles Championship of Victoria to-dav, beating Alexander. 4—5, 6-0; 6-2, 6-2. •• v ' The games formed a brilliant and filling termination to the tourney. Thoy demonstrated bow a physically good player will triumph over, another wlio is his equal as far as actual play is concerned but who is inferior In bodily strength. Wilding was the giant and Alexander just the average human being.' After the first set the America')! VSB never in it. One of the features was, for good players, the inaccurate service. Both made no fewer than nine double faults in four sets. Alexander's fceadirork was at times faulty. Wilding won seven games in succession.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14379, 24 November 1908, Page 5
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129LAWN TENNIS Otago Daily Times, Issue 14379, 24 November 1908, Page 5
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