FINALS PLAYED IN GALE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19825, 30 December 1938, Page 10

FINALS PLAYED IN GALE

CANTERBURY TENNIS 011AMPIONSHIP TOURNEY MAYSON DEFEATS GUNN (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Every senior title but one changed hands at- the Canterbury lawn tennis championship tournament which was concluded yesterday. Three of the tve titles went outside the province. The tournament was dogged to the. last by unfavourable weather for though yesterday was one of the few days on which play was not curtailed by' rain, the semi-finals and finals had to be played in a howling northwesterly gale. Results were:— Men’s Singles Semi-final. —J. W. Gunn beat H. A. Barnett, G —3, G —o. Final. —J. T. Mayson beat Gunn, G—l, G—4. Women’s Singles Final. —Miss M. Beverley treat Miss D. Miller, G—4, G—l. Men’s Doubles Semi-finals. —J. W. Gunn and J, T. Mayson beat H. A. Barnett and A. R. Cant, G —4, G —4; C. F. Penfold and R. G. Pattinson beat A. D. Brown and C. Angas, I—6,1 — 6, G—4, 7 —5. Final. —Gunn .and Mayson beat Penfold and Pattinson, 9 —7, 4 — 6, B—G.8 —G. Women’s Doubles Final. —Misses I. Poole and T. Poole beat Mrs. C. B. Beatson and Miss K. Armstrong, 6 —3, G —3. Mixed Doubles Semi-finals. —A. R. Cant and Miss I. Poole beat R. G. Pattinson and Miss K. Armstrong, 6 —3, G—3; C. Angas .and Miss T. Poole beat J. W. Gunn and Miss M. Beverley, B—6,8 — 6, 6 —3. Final.—Angas and Miss T. Poole beat Cant and Miss I. Poole, 6 —l, 3—G, 6—2.