LAWN TENNIS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20380, 11 April 1928, Page 7

LAWN TENNIS.

SOUTH ISLAND CHAMPIONSHIPS. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, April 10. After having been postponed twice because of rain, the South Island hard court lawn tennis tournament resumed to-day. In the semi-final of the Men’s Singles, C. Angas defeated N. R. C. Wilson, and will meet the winner of the C. E. Malfroy v. T. W. Patterson match. This contest was begun in the late afternoon, but had to be abandoned on account of rain, tbe Wellington man having won the first set, 6—4. The other series has not yet advanced to the concluding stages. Results are as follows: LADIES’ SINGLES. Second Round. Miss M. Gibson boat Miss Rolleston, o—l, 6—3. . Miss Ward beat Miss Hislop, 6 —4, 6—l. Third Round. Miss Gibson beat Miss Andrew, 2—6, 6—3, o—3. Semi-final. Miss M. Gibson beat Miss M. Wake, 6—4, 2—6, 7—5. MEN’S DOUBLES. First Round. Hall and Hammond beat Goss and Greenwood, 3 — -6, 6 —4, B—6.8 —6. Second Round. G. Sumpter and N. Wilson beat Blackie and Fisher, o—4,0 —4, 6 —2. MEN’S SINGLES. Second Round. Malfroy beat Anderson, 4—6, 6 —2, 6—o. T. Patterson beat W. Pearse, 7—5, 6—2. D. Glanville beat Sheppard, 6—4, 6—3. A. E. Sandral beat Crawehaw, 9 —7, 6 — 4. Third Round. Angas beat Sandral. 6 —o, 6 —5. N. Wilson beat D. Glanville, 2—o, B—2,8 —2, 6—l. Semi-final. C. Angas beat N. R. C. AVilson, 6 —o, o—2. GAME SHOOTING CONDITIONS. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —As the opening of the shooting season is drawing near, I would like to know if it is a fact that the law has been altered to limit the time of shooting .to one hour before sunrise to one hour after sunset. If this is a fact, I think it is another instance of class legislation. It is all very well for they whose time is their own, and can pet out for a shot whenever' they please, but what about the poor workers who start work at 7, 8, or 9 and knock off at sor 6 o’clock—and six days a week at that in many Cases? It is dark long before they can get home and get their tea, and they have no chance whatever of getting a shot in the evenings. I have ‘enjoyed the sport of duck shooting for the last 35. years, and I consider it one of the best recreations a man can have, after his hard day’s work, to sit out for an hour or so at the haunts of the wily grey duck, to hear the whirr of the wings, the expectation of getting a shot makes one’s heart thump against one’s ribs. Talk about recreation! One forgets all one’s worries, troubles, and whether a person has any luck or not docs not matter much: he will do the same the next night. Now, if our time is limited, all this enjoyment is done away with, and I think the societies, instead of eucouragng good sportsmen, are really encouraging poachers. I know quite a number of sportsmen who would willingly pay twice what is charged for a license provided they could get a chance to get a shot, but with the time limit it is no use. Surely the societies can give the worker a fair deal.—l am, etc. Old Sport. fOne of - the conditions upon which licenses arc issued is: “ Shooting may begin not earlier than one hour before sunrise and must cease not later than one hour, after sunset.”—Ed. O.D.T.] “THE BLUE ROOM.” TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —An article on literature by “ Constant Reader ” attracted my attention in your issue of Saturday. It was a thoughtful and comprehensive article completely spoiled by the caustic and wholly inadequate paragraph concerning Clive Chapman’s local book, “ Tho Blue Room.” Whether the paragraph was the natural outcome of a long accepted fact, that no man is a prophet in his own country, or originated because tbe writer was out of his depth, I cannot gauge, but I maintain that his pen was caustic only for the local book. To quote your writer, “Unless the phenomena are to be the gateway to something less puerile, it is difficult to see its value.” The puerility, I take it, lies in the various psychic happenings under the heading “Dematerialisation.” Fools and children should never see a thing half finished. Your writer took a half-finished phase and condemned the issue on it. What was the object of Sir Chapman’s book was the attempt to prove that there is no death and that we continue to progress after death in much the same way, only more advanced than we do here. Is not that what every creed and cult strives to teach and to prove by various laws and assertions ! Is it not humanity’s dearest hope? Mr Chapman set out to prove by direct voice from, the unseen world, and by full light with no vestige of trickery, the fact of sojourn after death. To the mass of suffering humanity, bereaved, downtrodden, discouraged, Mr Chapman’s book comes as a fay of light and hope. We must progress in spirittial science as well as in physical, but the way of all reformers and advanced thinkers is ever a thorny one. Cases far more elusive and suggestive of conjuror’s tricks occur in the accepted Bible. AVhat about Daniel in the lions’ den? What' about the release of Peter chained to the two warders? And many more instances much more baffling than the disappearance of the red feather in Mr Chapman’s book. Your writer entirely missed the point of the book, and, I take it, writes on a subject on which he may have read much, but meditated and investigated little. Dematerialisation was only a link in the complete chain of investigation, a link which finally led to the production of the direct voice. It was a means to an end, and your writer uses it as a most unfair lever for his cynical remarks, condemning the use and purpose of the whole chain by the apparent ineffectiveness ot one link. 1 should like, in closing, to ask “Constant Render” whether a proof which he found he could accept ni a life after death' would not be a very inspiring beam in bis life, and also to liken religion to a wheel, in which there are many spokes, but always the one centre, and whichever spoke we travel along depends exactly on where we start from. —I am, etc., _ A Fair Pen. Dunedin, April 0. EARNED. NOT BOUGHT. How hard it often is to earn and maintain a good reputation, and how easy it is to lose one. As with a man a reputation, so it is with other things in his life. Some things achieve a reputation which stays with them. They are founded on intrinsic value. They face the public backed up by honesty, and work their way quietly and thoroughly. 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