TENNIS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20606, 21 December 1936, Page 3

TENNIS

COMPETITION GAMES On Saturday at the St. Joseph’s courts, the home side defeated Tirnaru Baptist by 14 sets to two. Results: (St. Joseph’s names first) : Men’s singles: G. Dwan 9 beat H. Dingwall 3; P. Gilmour 9 beat E. Spence 4; V. Spillane 9 beat R. Armstrong 5; J. Gilmour 9 beat L. Delaney 2. Women’s singles: Miss P. Spillane 7 beat Miss J. Brice 2; Miss M. Spillane 7 beat Miss F Steele 1; Miss K. Spillane 7 beat Miss B. Barkley 4; Miss M. Healy 7 beat Miss J. Cameron 3. Men’s doubles: Gilmour and Gilmour 8 lost to Dingwall and Spence 9; Dwan and Spillane 9 beat Armstrong and Delaney 1.

Women’s doubles: Misses P. and M. Spillane 7 beat Misses Brice and Steele 6; Misses K. Spillane and Healy 7 beat Misses Barkley and Cameron 2. Mixed doubles: J. Gilmour and Miss P, Spillane 7 beat Dingwall and Miss Steele 0; P. Gilmour and Miss M. Spillane 6 lost to Spence and Miss Brice 7; Dwan and Miss Healy 7 beat Delaney and Miss Cameron 4; V. SpWane and Miss K. Spillane 7 beat Armstrong and Miss Barkley 5. Town and Country Game In the Temuka Town and Country Tennis Association’s B grade competition Presbyterian defeated St. Joseph’s by 14 sets to two. Results (St. Joseph’s names first):— Women’s singles: Miss M. Earl 1 lost to Mrs D. D. Wall 6; Miss M. Coffey 6 beat Mrs H. Wilson 2; Miss K. Healy 1 lost to Mrs T. King 6; Miss T. Hoare 1 lost to Miss M. Paterson 6.

Men’s singles: M. Healy 2 1 ' to D. Hopkinson 6; B. Collins 3 lost to A. J. Davey 6; G. Leonard 6 beat G. Allen 1; G. Robins 2 lost to A. Opie 6.

Women’s doubles: Misses Earl and Healy 4 lost to Mesdames Wall and King 6; Misses Hoare and Coffey 2 lost to Mrs Wilson and Miss Paterson 6.

Men’s singles: Healy and Collins 0 lost to Hopkinson and Davey 6; Leonard and Robins 2 lost to Allen and Opie 6.

Mixed doubles: Miss Earl and Healy 0 lost to Mrs Wall and Hopkinson 6; Miss Coffey and Collins 3 lost to Mrs Wilson and Davey 6; Miss Healy and Leonard 1 lost to Mrs King and Allen 6; Miss Hoare and Robins 3 lost to Miss Paterson and Opie 6.

EXTREMES OF WEATHER Although frosts were experienced on two mornings during the week, Saturday was the hottest day yet experienced this summer. Eighty degrees in the shade were registered. A further point of interest was that the heat was followed by rain, several heavy showers falling during the night and a drizzle being experienced yesterday. SCHOOLBOY’S SUCCESS The distinction of being the writer of the best individual essay in the standard V section of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association’s annual Anzac essay competition has been earned by an Orton schoolboy, Kenneth Beck, son of Mr and Mrs H. G. Beck. The marks gained were 75 in a possible 100. The Orton School is conducted by a sole teacher (Miss H. Cameron).

A certain number of certificates for essays are awarded to pupils of each school in the Canterbury district and to the school securing the highest aggregate marks with its prize-winning essays goes a banner. The Temuka District High School secured fourth place.

CRICKET On Saturday a friendly game of cricket was played between the captain’s and vice-captain’s teams of the Temuka Cricket Club. Johnson’s side batted first and made 78 (Colville 31, Johnson 14) Reynold’s team replied with 106 (Haar 27, Reynolds 25 retired, Baxter 22 and Stringer 15). Wickets were secured for the captain’s side by McDougall two for 23, Johnson two for 16, Tully one for 15, Colville one for 27, Gale one for 16, and Gibb one for none. For Reynold’s team Reynolds took three wickets for 22 runs, Stewart three for 28, Joseph two for 12, Stringer two for none, and Baxter one for none. PERSONAL Mr G. Maister, of the Canterbury Training College, is spending the r-a-tion in Temuka. Miss I. King, Waimate, is spending the Christmas vacation in Temuka. Mr A. W. McDougall, of the Dunedin Police Force, returned home to-day after spending his annual vacation with his parents, Captain and Mrs McDougall, “The Anchorage,” Temuka. BOWLING The following team has been selected to play a team from the South Canterbury Women’s Centre, at Temuka this evening: Mesdames Shand, Winter, Marshall and Haub (s); Mesdames Cameron, Blackmore, Martin and Fletcher (s); Mesdames Joynt, Johnson, Earl and Davis (s). A start has been made with the games in the Temuka Bowling Club’s singles championship. In the first round T. Edwards beat E. C. Johanson and A. S. Mclnnes beat J. Gourley. In the women’s club pairs championship Mesdames Bussell and Cameron beat Mesdames Whitehead and Shand, Mesdames Sheil and Earl beat Mes-, dames Taylor and Marshall, Mesdames Galbraith and Davis beat Miss Thomson and Mrs Winter and Mesdames Frisby and Cain beat Mesdames Blackmore and Joynt. “THE FLYING DOCTOR”

Australian film production has come into its own. With international stars heading the cast, expert British technicians behind the production, and a story no true Australian can fail to appreciate, “The Flying Doctor” comes to the Elite Theatre to-night, starring Charles Farrell, with Mary Maguire, and a magnificent supporting cast. The story has for its theme two dramas, Sandy Nelson (Charles Farrell) is a wanderer. Casual, tireless, incurably restless. ever on the look-out for wider horizons, he typifies the Australian adventurer; and he is a man whom none could fail to like, and trust. By chance he meets little Jenny Rutherford (Mr -j Maguire), and before his true spirit, momentarily drugged by the sweet romance, can reawaken to assert itself, he is married to her. But the eagle cannot be pinioned. He disappears, and after vicissitudes in Sydney, working at casual jobs, and fighting for a crust in the wrestling ring, he heads for outback again. And this time he is lucky. He and his little pal, “Dodger” (Joe Valli), strike gold. MILFORD Because it had been found necessary to postpone the annual concert of the school through the outbreak of infantile paralysis, representatives of the school committee met at the school on Thursday evening to decide a number of competitions that had been conducted in support of school funds. The winners were: Goose, Mr R. Armstrong; bag of wheat, Mrs A. Macaulay; half a lamb, Gerald Bolderston; half a lamb. Mr V. Sullivan (Temuka). In conjunction with the committee the j Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union decided a Christmas hamper competition which resulted: Graham Henderson 1, Mrs M. Ritchie 2, George Phiskie 3.

The Temuka auction mart will hold a sale of poultry on Wednesday December 22, at 2 p.m. The Temuka Borough Council advises that the Council office wi’l be closed from Thursday, December 24. until Monday, January 4.