LAWN TENNIS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20930, 8 January 1938, Page 5

LAWN TENNIS

SHIELD AND CASKET MATCHES CANTERBURY IN THE LEAD By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, January 7. After many keenly fought matches, Canterbury gained a lead of four rubbers to two against Wellington in both the Anthony Wilding Memorial Shield and Kathleen Nunneley Casket contests at Wilding Park to-day. Canterbury, defending the trophies for the fourth successive year, is thus in a fairly strong position for the final matches to-morrow afternoon, although it is not beyond the powers of the strong challenging teams to recover the lost ground. The results were:— WILDING SHIELD Singles C. Angas (Canterbury) beat N. F. N. Bedford (Wellington), 6-1, 6-1. H. A. Barnett (Canterbury) beat N. V. Edwards (Wellington), 7-5, 6-3. H. Dymond (Canterbury) lost to D. G. France (Wellington), 7-9, 3-6. A. R. Cant (Canterbury) lost to E. A. Roussell (Wellington), 2-6, 0-6. Doubles Barnett and Cant (Canterbury) beat Bedford and Roussell (Wellington), 4-6, 6-4, 6-3.

Angas and Dymond (Canterbury) beat France and Edwards (Wellington), 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. Rubbers. Sets. Games. Canterbury ... 4 8 69 Wellington . . 2 6 61 NUNNELEY CASKET Singles Miss I. Poole (Canterbury) beat Miss J. Douthett (Wellington), 6-1, 7-9, 6-2. Miss T. Poole (Canterbury) beat Miss F. Fernie (Wellington), 6-2, 6-4. Miss N. Bishop (Canterbury) beat Mrs N. St. C. Dickson (Wellington), 6-3, 6-3. Miss D. Dickey (Christchurch) lost to Miss E. Plummer (Wellington), 3-6, 6-3, 3-6. Doubles Misses I. and T. Poole (Canterbury) beat Miss Fernie and Mrs Dickson, 6-3, 6-2. Misses Bishop and Dickey (Canterbury) lost to Misses Douthett and Plummer, 0-6, 4-6. Rubbers. Sets. Games. Canterbury ... 4 9 71 Wellington . . 2 5 56