LAWN TENNIS.
BRITISH WOMEN WIN IN AMERICAN TOURNEY. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, August 4. The women’s invitation lawn tennis tourney at Maidstone, East Hampton, New York, was concluded to-day. Results: Doubles. Semi-finals. Miss Betty Nuthall and Miss Phyllis Mudford (Britain) beat Miss Marjorie Morrill-and Mrs Marion Jessup (U.S.A.), 6- 6-1. Miss Dorothy Round and Mrs Fearnley Whittingstall (Britain) heat Miss Mary Greef and Miss Penelope Anderson (U.S.A.), 6-3, 6-4. Final. Miss Nuthall and Miss Mudford beat Miss Round and Mrs Whittingstall, 5-7, 7- 6-2. Singles. Final. Mrs J. van Ryn (U.S.A.) beat Mrs Dorothy Shepherd Barron (Britain), 6-2, 6-4. VARSITY TOURNAMENT. RUGBY, August 4. In the international university tennis match at Eastbourne to-day, Oxford and Cambridge beat Harvard and Yale by sixteen rubbers to five, the largest margin since the inception of the contest.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 185, 6 August 1931, Page 11
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