AUCKLAND LADDERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 222, 8 December 1927, Page 7

AUCKLAND LADDERS

ALTERATIONS MADE Competition is keener, for places on the Auckland ladders this season. In the mens singles, A. 8. Lamb challenged and beat I-I. C. Rowlands for 12 th place, 6—4, 4—6, 6 —4, and Chalmers won his place at the bottom of the status by defeating the 16th man, I-I. O. Thompson, 6 —3, 7 —5. In the men’s doubles Hubble and Turner defeated the Stedman brothers S’—lo, 6—4, 7—5, and Lamb and Horne had a walk-over against Knott and Sturt. The positions of players on the doubles ladders are as follow: Men. —Bartleet and Robson, 1: Griffiths and Brinsden, 2; Johns Bros., 3; Lamb and Horne, 4; Knot and Sturt, 5; Tonk and Macfarlane, 6; Turner and Hubble, 7: Stedman Bros., S: Robinson and Williamson, 0; Potter and McKeown, 10; Hickson and Williams, 11. Women. —Misses Colebrook and Knight, 1: Misses Witherow and Ramsay, 2; Misses Macfarlane and Mrs. Robson, 3; Mrs. Scott-Watson and Miss Whitelaw, 4; Misses Bryant, 5: Misses Aiser and Sturt, 6: Miss K. ■Woods and Mrs. A. C. Worsop, 7.

In the two outer-suburban matches played up to the present, Papakura is the only club who has won both matches in the A and B grades. Papatoetoe and Valley are next on the list, having lost one each, the former in the B grade and Valley in the A grade. In the next round, to be played on December 17. Papatoetoe and Papakura cross rackets, and a good match is expected between the two unbeaten teams in the A grade. “We should have done this long ago,” said the president of the L.T.A., Mr. E. Hickson, when the report on the formation of the Primary Schools’ Tennis Association was given. “We must get into the schools and teach the children how to pla3 T .” The schools need second-hand racquets and balls, and these will be secured by Mr. L. W. Swan, the L.T.A. secretary.