LAWN TENNIS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16411, 27 April 1921, Page 3

LAWN TENNIS.

NEWS AND NOTES, <By ‘ ONLOOKER. v ’> The following are p number of re- j suits from the Beaulieu tournament j (Franc©), interesting in view of th© a*]>- ! preaching Mi mb led on tournament, and ; tho participation therein of of i tho players mentioned. On th©, first dav of play (February i 22), Major A. K. F. Kingfcote and \ Miss Eleanor Gobs, the American lady j doubles champion, won their matches in : single events with ease. Airs Beamish t also gained an easy victory over her j opponent in the open singles. In the first round of the open i singles, played on the following day, i Gerbault (a leading French player) de- j fen tied his opponent very easily. E . | G. Lowe was another easy winner in j the samo event. Mrs Satt err th wait© and Miss Ryan j (two well-knowri English lady players) j defeated more or less mediocre players < in t.ho singlesIn the first round of the ladies’ open j doubles Millie. L©ngleu arid Miss Ryan 1 won their match, 5-1, 5-1. In the first round of the mixed j doubles King?cote aud Mdlle. Lenglen, j V. G. Lowe and .Miss Ryan, and Major j Dudley and Mrs Beamish won their j matches. In the third, round of the singles ] Major -J. C. S. Honda 11, the Anglo- : Indian player, proved too steady for the brilliant Frenchman. Gerbault, and gradual!v wore him down. Tho ©cores were 3-6, 6-2. 0-2. A. Wallis Myers (an ‘old-timer’’) won easily in tho same ©vent. Tn the mixed doubles. Wallis Meyers, playing with Miss Goss, beat Major Rendoll and Mrs O Neill- 6-3, 6-4. K ingseot© and Mdlle. Lenglen, Lowe. ■ 1 and Miss Ryan, and Hilly arc! and Mrs j Sat ter th w a it© n : ere also carried into the next round by the result of decisive ( contests. Tn the men’s doubles, Kingscoto and AVallis Meyers easily won their match. A great game was seen in one of > the semi-final ties of the Indies’ singles j on February 26 between JMiss Ryan and Mrs Beamish. After losing the first set at 7-5, Mrs Beamish won tlie second with th© same score. She actually led at 5-4 in tho final set, but Miss Ryan won the next three games and match, the score being 7-5. 5-7, 7-5. Kingscoto and Mdlle. Lenglen_ beat Lowe and Miss Ryan in tb© semi-final of tbc mixed doubles, 6-1, 8-6. Lowe was defeated in the final of 1 lie men’s open singles, when Kingscote just managed to win a long and exhausting match, which was full of safety play. The duration of the contest, which ended love’s sequence of successes on the Riviera, was three Hours and three-quarters. The score stood at 3-6, 9-11, 9-7, 6-3. 6-1 when the last ball had been served. Mdlle. Lenglen and Miss Ryan beat Mrs Lambert Chambers: and Miss Cross in the fiual of the doubles. The victory was surprisingly easy—*3-0. 6-0— considering the calibre ot the opposing players. In the final of the mixed doubles. Kingscote and Mdlle. Lenglen boat Hillyard and Mrs *Sattcrthwaite, 6-3, 6-0.“ Miss Ryan won the ladies’ singles, in which Mdlle. Lenglen bad not entered, tier opponent was Mrs Satterthwaite. who retired at 6-0. The Anglo-French pair. Major Ren da 11 and A. F. Poulin, just managed to emerge successful from a long five-set match against J. M. Hillyard and “ Lo Charles ” in the final of the men’s doubles. They scored 6-8. 6-3. 6-3. 6-8, 0-4. Previously they had climbed over Kingscote and Wallis Meyers. 6-4. 5-7, G-2, in the semi-final.

TENNIS PARTNERSHIP. AUSTRALASIAN ASSOCIATION AND DAVIS CUP. The announcement from Melbourne that the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association proposes to withdraw from tbc Australasian Association haa been explained by Air M. K. Denniston, of Wellington, chairman of the Dominion Association. “ The position, so fax a* the Davis Cup is concerned,’' he said, "is that when the late Anthony Wilding was in his prime, ic was recognised that he was the only plaver who could be associated with Brookes in a team of world’s eli,..iipion standard, f'ouseqnently. New Zealand joined Australia, the combination being known as ' Australia with N©w Zealand.’ Under the conditions agreed upon between New Zealand aud Australia, one ' match in every ‘lire© played in Australasia had to played in New Zealand, and in the ©vent, of a termination of the partnership New Zealand would be entitled to one-third of the accumulated Davis Cup partnership funds- These now amount to uDout £'4ooo. excluding any moneys that may have hern derived from th© last contest at Auckland. This fund wn<s primarily instituted to send teams in pursuit of the ©up/-when the contest is played outside Australasia. The agreement. is so arranged that money can bo taken from the fund to send a team, sax', to New York this year, ot a cost of, maybe, £ISOO, but should any profits accrue from such a trip, the gross proceeds are paid into the Australasian Lawn Tennis Association funds (as distinct from the Davis Cup fund), and New Zealand would be entitled to rr reive only one-seventh of the money in th© event, of leaving the. Australasian Association, Nen Zealand being one of tlie seven bodies affiliated. “It therefore follows that the whole of the accrued money t«* the credit of the Davis Cup fund could be spent in a vain pursuit of the cup, and the management committee of the New Zealand Association, uot being able, at present, to see any New Zealand player likely to be sufficiently prominent to bo chosen to take part in this content, has. after mature consideration com© to tho conclusion -that it would be in the interests of New Zealand tennis to terminate the partnership and secure its share of the fund. This could be ear-marked ana used as a fund for the encouragement of tennis in New Zealand. , “It is not the intention of the New Zealand Association to sever its affiliation to the Australasian Lawn Te.nnis Association. Tf in the future players who are considered worthy of challenging for the cup should be found, the money which will lie received as a result of the severance of the partnership could he used to send a purely New Zealand team to play for the coveted trophy. The agreement docs uot permit of New Zealand seceding from the partnership while Australia with New Zealand arc challengers, as is tlie position now, but one rear’d notice can

he given, and this is what New Zealand has doue.” Touching on th© question of a separate nation, Mr Dennistou stated that New Zealand is a separate entity an affiliated to the English Lawo Tennis Association, and has been for many ..years. Tt was not considered that ex isting regulations would require to b© altered other than the application by New Zealand to be recognised as a separate nation.