LAWN TENNIS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143451, 11 March 1911, Page 8

LAWN TENNIS.

(By “Volley.”) .

After losing tlio first sot 3—G, Miss Brewster defeated Mu>s V. Simpson and so retained the championship of the New Plymouth Club. The iinal scores read 3—6, C—l, C—o. J. C. Nicholson had a rather easy win from Bert Griffiths. Ho did not kae a set, the ecoro rending G—3, 6—l, so that now he luus to moot A. C. Thompson in tho final. Although the Filer has improved considerably, I do not think he is yet good enough for Inst year’s champion. The Now Plymouth team which travelled to Inglewood on Thursday was much too good for tho Vocal players. In tho men’s singles Now Plymouth won 49 games to their opponents’ 29; in the ladies’ singles 22 to 20; in tho men’s doubles 20 to 18, and in the ladieed cuuble.s the figurets wore oven, each side ll games. Tho visitors won ’y 24 games. The, handicap singles of the Filzrov Club have commenced. AV. Lints, the scratch man, has had the misfortune to dislocate Ids knot*, and ko will not bo able to play. L. 0. M‘lsaac is awsy in the country, and so will also bo a non-starter. Tho man w)x>, I think, has tho beet chance is J. \A r . Smith, a this season’s player, who is on the limit. Ho will certainly, if ho docs not win, reach tho final stages. Altogether tho handicapping is fairly well done, and .some close finishes may bo expected. Tho first round is to bo played within a week. Tho Marlborough Association put in a rcouost to tho Now Zealand Association for afKistanco. in connection with a loss suffered in holding its local tournament, which followed tho championchip meeting. IT. A. Parker and F. M. B. Fisher arc playing together to-day at Adelaide in tho South Australian Doubles Championship. Of all tho games played on the parks in London, tennis was the only one during 1910 that did not show a decrease in the number of devotees. Norman Brookes, who returned from a trip to Ceylon by the U.M.S. Otranto at the end of February, met a representative of the National Association of the United States at Colombo, who :s----surod him that this body was making a big effort this year to get the symbol of international supremacy (the Davis Cup) back to America. It was pro)K>sed to send separate players to Australia for the doubles and singles matches. F, B. Alexander, who visited Australia with the 190 S American team, and H. Hackett, who holds, in partnership with Alexander, tho title of doubles champions of America, will represent tho challengers in the doubles matches; while Maurice M‘Loughlin. who was a member of tho team that failed to lift the cup in tlio match in Sydney in 1909, will, with America’s now star performer, T. C. Bundy, compote iu tlio singles matches.