LAWN TENNIS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 302, 21 December 1931, Page 11

LAWN TENNIS.

Angas Beats Seay in Dull Game. A’COURT IN FORM. In the senior inter-club competition on Saturday principal interest was centred in the first meeting this season of I. A. Seay and C. Angas, between whom the final of the prinvincial title should lie. Angas won, 8-6, 5-7, 6-2, but it was an uninspiring struggle. C. Angas brought to the game his usual tenacity of purpose, his strength of body and fitness, and his wonderful volleying ability. Seay brought an undeniable brilliance of stroke equipment, but lacked the something that clinches points after they have been almost won. It was on these points that the result of Saturday’s struggle depended. It was Angas’s sureness of purpose and quick eye for an opening that gave him the victory. Both players were closely on guard, and there was little of the brilliance of play that would probably have resulted from a meeting under different circumsaances. From the start the games see-sawed, 2 all, 3 all and 5 all. Seay was playing a lively game, but at times dropped easy points out or into the net. Angas, too, was making more mistakes than usual. Occasionally one player or the other would pull his game together for a moment, and a nice passing shot at the net to Angas, or a neat placement down the lines to Seay, would give a game. In the second set Seay was using a chopped drive effectively, but his forays to the net nearly always ended in disaster. It was here that Angas showed a marked superiority. Following nearly every service he went into the net, and unless Seay passed him with a drive to the corners, it ended mostly in one way. Seay was out-thought at the net, where Angas Won frequent applause. It was Seay's service that won him the odd games in this set, though several of the deciding games went to deuce, through dropped backhands. The third set saw both players trying more, with Angas now showing a harder front to all attacks. Both players were dropping critical points in incredible fashion. Neither, with plenty of opportunities, could get in a telling smash, and most points were won from the rtet. Seay won occasional applause with a nicely judged drive, but Angas was always on top in this set. One of the best matches of the day was that in which J. A’Court beat D. F. Glanville, 6-4, 6-4. A'Court has shown considerable improvement this year, and his victory on Saturday was well deserved. Glanville has shown a definite falling-off, and against A’Court’s hard attacks he could not muster sufficient, defence to keep him out of danger. A’Court threw down hard drives, came Into the net with vigour when It was to his advantage to do so, and in all played a well-judged game. On his present form A’Court should be well up the ladder by the end of the season. During recent matches Rhodes-Wil-liams has shown a good return to form, and on his display on Saturday should do much better in the Canterbury championships than has been expected. In J. H. Griffiths, of Canterbury College ir.. Rhodes-Williams did not meet with a great deal of opposition, but the United man was master of all situations, and in his clean stroking gave the impression that he was in tip-top form. Rliodes-Williams won, 6-0. 6-3. A. R. Cant struck trouble in his nv>trh with N. G. Munns, of Fendalton. The young Canterbury College man, who in the absence of H. A. Barnett was playing first, was tiot in good form, and took onlv five games from a player whom ordinarily lie would run close. Munns is another ruich-iumroved player. After his defeat of H. Dymond earlier in the week, B. K. Sou ter, of Avonside. was evnected to give T. W. Patterson (United) a hard battle, and in the ser-ond set he did, Patterson winning 6-2, 7-5. Souter's style is deceptive. He mishits most strokes, but somehow his attack senis to worry all opponents. It is not the style, however, that will take him into “big” tennis: Results:— SENIOR GRADE. CASHMERE v. FENDALTON 1. Singles. D. F. Glanville lost to J. G. A'Court, li. Browning beat W. S. Somerville, 8 R.’ A. 4 Young lost to J. W. D. Fisher. 1 X. lost to E. A. Lee, 7-5, 3-6. 2-6. Doubles. Glanville and Browning beat A’Court and Fisher. 6-4. 6-4. Young and Winchester lost to Somerville and Lee. 1-6. 6-3. 4-6. Fendalton won by 4 matches to 2. ST ALBANS v. LTNWOOD. Singles. W. R. Robinson beat J R. Johiistoti, 6-2. in-8. R. H. Tait lost to C. C. Treehy, 4-6. 6-7. N. S. Anderson beat S. W. Field. 6-0, 6-4 W. Goss, jun., lost to V. K Gabltes, 6- 10-8. Doubles. Robinson and Anderson beat Johnson and Treehy, 6-3. 6-4. Tait and Goss beat Field and Gabites, 11-9, 7-5. St Albans won by 4 matches to 2. CANTERBURY COLLEGE I. V. FENDAI/JfON 11. Singles. A. R. Cant lost to N. G. Munns, 4-6, 1-6. B. A. Barrer lost to B. B. Loughnan, 5- 3-6. 2-6. 11. S. P. Andrews beat P. D. Hall, 6-3, 7E. H. Adkins beat D. W. J. Gould, 6- 6-3. Doubles. Cant and Andrews beat Munns and Loughnan, 10-8, 6-1. Barrer and Adkins beat Hall and Gould, 6-4, 6-2. Canterbury College won by 4 matches to 2. united it. v. Canterbury COLLEGE 11. Singles. T. Rhodes-Williams beat J. H. Griffiths, 6-0, 6-3.

H. G. Earle beat A. A. Mac Gibbon, 6-4, 7-5. E. L. Prebble beat G. Knight. 6-3, 4-6, 6-(i N. J. Daly beat R. L. Bowden, 6-4, 6-4. Doubles. Rhodes-Williams and Searle beat Griffiths and Mac Gibbon, 6-1, 6-1. Prebble and Daly beai Knight and Sowdeh, 6-2, 6-2. United won by 6 matches to nil. UNITED 1. v. AYOXSIDE. Singles. I. A. Seay lost to C. Angas, 6-8, 7-5, 2-6. T. W. Patterson beat B. E. Souter, 6-2, 7-5. J. 11. W. Sheppard lost to H. Dymond, 1-6. 2-6. P. G. Greenwood beat J. W. Arnold, 6-2, 6-4. Doubles. Seay and Patterson lost to Angas and Dymond. 4-6. 4-6. Sheppard and Greenwood beat Souter and Arnold, 6-4. 4-6, 6-4. Avonside won by 70 games to 67. QUADS A. SECTION 11. Beckenham heat Hornby by 10 pets to 6; Redd iffs beat Waimairi 10-6; TJnwood 11. beat Union 9-7; Elmwood beat Wesley 10-6; Opawa beat Avonside 11. GRADE B. SECTION 11. Opawa beat Belfast by 15 sets to 1; St Martins beat Hornby 12-4: Elmwood beat Templeton 14 matches to 2; Edgeware beat Shirley by 10 sets to 6. GRADE O. SECTION 31. Linwood bent Union by 10 sets to 6. North Linwood beat Waimairi by 12 sets to 4. St Phillips beat Yaldhurst by 10 sets to 6. GRADE D. SECTION 11. Opawa beat Aulsebrook’s by 13 sets to 3. New Brighton beat Riccarton by 10 sets to 6. NORTH CANTERBURY. Playing in the North Canterbury SubAssociation’s competitions on Saturday, Rangiora United tied with Balcairn, each team winning 110 games.