ANGAS ON TOP.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 934, 2 December 1933, Page 12

ANGAS ON TOP.

Adds Speed to Good Equipment. NEW SENIOR COMPETITION. Spectators at Wilding Park this afternoon, when the new senior competition of the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association was opened, saw a new Angas in play. The ex-New Zealand champion has learned many things in the months since the end of last season; lie has learned to put them in operation during a recent period of intensive coaching, and to-day he showed the results. To his undoubtedly good equipment he has added nearly 50 per cent more speed, and this factor may once again bring him to the top. The competition as a whole has taken a new lease of life under the new arrangement of teams. Nine l ave been entered, including three from the United Club, and instead of the lop-sided groupings of past years there has been a levelling of the standard. For instance, the first United team has Angas as first man, and with him J. H. W. Sheppard, H. G. Searle and H. S. P. Andrews. The other teams are similarly arranged with a similar grouping of experienced and younger players of good standing. Each Saturday they will meet players of more or less equal standing, and they are bound to improve. Decisive Stroking. To-day United I. met Cashmere and late in the afternoon seemed certain of victory. Angas’s form was noticeable from the start in his match with D. F. Glanville, and he won 6-0, 6-2. His service cracked at the full length of the arm and with as much force as that of D. P. Turnbull, of Australia, was many times a winner, and his ground strokes were similarly decisive. His smashes, when he was given any to hit, were taken, as he took his service, at full stretch and in most cases they ended the rally. As was to be expected, with every ball grazing the net, he made mistakes, but he easily regained the lost ground. He has adopted the flat drive with great success. H. A. Barnett, playing first man for Canterbury College, also had a good win, beating E. H. Orbell, of Fendalton, 6-0, 6-0. Orbell was playing pretty tennis but he lacked rallying power at critical moments and against Barnett’s stubbornness made no impression. Barnett has not yet reached form, however, and he made too many needless mistakes. Hard Battles. W. R. Robinson, first man for United 111., and ranked third on the Canterbury list, had to fight hard to stave off a challenge from A. R. Cant, who, this year, leads the Linwood team. Robinson won, 6-2, 7-5. In the second set Cant led 5-2, but a bad series of faults saw him lose ground rapidly and though he was battling hard at 5-all he could not make up the lost ground. As second men for both teams T. W. Patterson and J. R.'Johnson also had a good struggle, in which Patterson’s consistent length gave him the victory, 6-3, 6-2. The Addington-Cathedral mfitch saw two of the weaker teams meeting, though they are teams that should benefit considerably by the competition. J. W. Arnold, now first string for Cathedral, took three sets to dispose of D. G. Silvester, who again played a solidly good game, without producing anything of brilliance. -I. Corich, the High School and Canterbury junior champion, was third man in the Addington team, and though he played some < : • "ent tennis ho found F. O. Schmidt’s. < .. rience too much for him. Results were:— SENIOR GRADE. United I. v. Cashmere. Singles. C. Angas beat D. F. Glanville, 6-0, 6-2. J. H. W. Sheppard beat W. J. Deans, 6-4, 6-1. H. S. P. Andrews beat W. S. Angas, 6-3, 6-3. H. G. Searle beat A. Derbidge, 6-3. 6-3. Doubles. C. Angas and Andrews beat Deans and W. Angas, 6-1, 6-4. Sheppard and Searle lost to Glanville and Derbridge, S-6, 3-6, 4-6. United I. won by 5 matches to 1. Addington v. Cathedral. Singles. D. G. Silvester lost to J. W. Arnold. 6-2, 2-6, 2-6. F. H. Howard beat J. Mahoney, 6-1, 6-4. I. Corich lost to F. O. Schmidt, 4-6, A. Austin beat D. Martin, 6-4, 3-6, 9-7. Linwood v. United 11. Singles. A. R. Cant lost to W. R. Robinson, 2- 5-7. J. R. Johnston lost to T. W. Patterson, 3-6, 2-6. E. L. Prebble lost to B. B. Loughnan. 6-3, 4-6, 0-6. V. E. Gabites lost to D. W. J. Gould, 6-1, 2-6, 1-6. Doubles. Johnston and Cant lost to Robinson and Patterson, 4-6, 6-3, 2-6. Prebble and Gabites beat Loughnan and Gould, 6-4, 9-7. Fendalton v. Canterbury College. Singles. E. H. Orbell lost to H. A. Barnett, 1-6, 1-6. W. S. Somerville lost to B. A. Barrer, 6-3. 2-6, 3-6. M. G. Somerville lost to R. L. Sowden, 3-6, 2-6. E. A. Lee lost to R, A. Young, 3-6, 3Doubles. M. G. Somerville and Lee lost to Sowden and Young, 3-6, 2-6. W. S. Somerville and Orbell lost to Barnett and Barrer. 5-7, 6-4. 4-6; M. G. Somerville and Lee lost to Sowden and Young, 3-6. 2-6. Canterbury College won by 6 matches to 0. A GRADE. Linwood v. Belfast. Womens Singles—Mrs Wilson beat Mrs Blank, 6-3; Miss Williamson iost to Miss Scanes, 3-6. Men’s Doubles —Manchester and Glanville beat Morris and Neale, 9-4; Wilson and Mansfield beat Hassall and Li!lev, 9-7. Women’s Doubles—Mrs Wilson and Miss Williamson beat Mrs Blank and Miss Soanes, 6-3; Misses Dickson and Anderson beat Misses Smee and Goode, 6-5. Addington v. Cathedral. Women’s Singles—Miss Hoggan lost to Miss I. Poole, 2-6; Miss Lysaght lost to Miss T. Poole, 3-6. Men’s Doubles—Fletcher and Thomson lost to Mercer and Quinn, 5-9: Andrews and Clemens lost to O’Malley ant? Mercer, 6-9. Women’s Doubles—Misses Hoggan and M’Dowell lost To Misses I. and T. Poole, 4-6; Miss Lysaght and Mrs Biown beat Misses Hood and Fox, 6-5. Cashmere v. Woolston. Men’s Singles—J. Mosley lost to W. Hawkins, 6-9; J. Hargraves beat E. Biddle, 9-7. Women’s Singles—Miss Cooper lost to Miss Boyd, 2-6; Mrs Williams lost to Miss Dfck. 4-G. Men’s Doubles—Hargraves and Myers beat Biddle and Iggo, 9-7. Women’s Doubles—Miss Cooper and Mrs Beaufort lost to Mrs Douglas and Miss Dryden, 3-6. Opawa v. Edgeware. Men’s Singles—N. Franklin beat G. Carpenter, 9-6. Women’s Singles—Mrs Beale beat Miss Douglas, 6-4; Mrs Thomson beat Miss Armstrong. 6-5. Men’s Doubles—Franklin and Morrison beat Carpenter and Joyce, 9-8; Goddard and Garton lost to Griffiths and Kissel, 3-9. Women’s Doubles—Mesdames Beale and Thomson beat Misses Douglas and Richardson. 6-3; Misses Wickes and Taylor lost to Misses Armstrong and Legg, 3-6. g 1 ° Fendalton v. Canterbury Colleg’e. Women's singles—Mrs A. Cooper lost to Miss M. Morrison, 4-6, Men’s doubles—Jones and Jones beat Darfield and De Lambert, 9-5; WinHa^nVltoif n 9 7 JDarracot beat Lyles and •Women’s doubles—-Misses Dent and Mood lost to Misses Matson and Brewer. 2-6; Mrs Cooper and Miss Jefcoate K»st to Misses Morrison and M’Combs, St Albans v. Elmwood. Men’s singles—R. C. Beverley beat A. L. Kay, 9-8. Women’s singles—Miss B. Wade lost to Miss P. Wright, 0-6; Miss Brydon lost to Miss L. Camm, 5-6. Men’s doubles—Beverley and Mollison lost to Kay and Rumbold, 4-9; Huntle and Haberfield lost to Broughton and Broughton, 6-9,

Women’s doubles—Misses Drummond and Wade lost to Misses Wright and Camm, 2-6: Misses Brydon and Miller lost to Misses Hookham and Chapman, 5-6. Sumner v. Waimairi. Men’s singles—H. Hewstone beat H. Tillman, 9-0. Women’s singles—Mrs Brooke lost to Miss Logan, 2-6; Miss M. Smith lost to Miss R. Tullett, 2-6. Men’s dougles—Webb and Huston beat Smith and Andrews, 9-1; Hewstone and Browne beat Tillman and Squire, 9-4. Women's doubles—Mesdames Bell Syer and Brooke beat Mrs Sharpe and Miss M’Xae, 6-5; Misses Turnbull and Smith lost to Misses Logan and Tullett,