LAWN TENNIS.

Wairarapa Age, 3 February 1936, Page 4

LAWN TENNIS.

WAIRARAPA ASSOCIATION COMPETITIONS. MASTERTON BEAT GREYTOWN. GAWITH SHIELD MATCH. A grade teams representing the Masterton and Greytown lawn .tennis clubs played a Gawith Shield match on the Masterton Club’s court on Saturday. Play was interrupted by rain late in the afternoon, but not before Masterton had established a decisive lead. With the men’s doubles and combined doubles not played, Masterton were declared the winners by fourteen matches to one. In one of the men’s singles, H. E. Webster (Greytown) retired on account of an injury in the third set, the match being awarded to his opponent. Details are (Masterton players mentioned first in every ease): Men’s Singles.—P. Hawksworth beat M. Hobson, 2/6, 6/1, 6/2; E. M. Hodder beat H. E. Webster, 3/6, 6/5, 1/1 (retired); S. G. Wyatt beat J. Robb, 6/4, 6/1; H. G. Edwards beat A. Webster, 6/1, 6/1; H. G. Guy beat D. Beauchamp 6/4, 6/4; H. M, A. Major beat D. Trotman, 6/5, 6/4. Ladies’ Singles.—Miss G. Miller beat Mrs. A. V. Jury, 9/3; Miss D. A. Pragnell beat Miss B. Haigh, 9/2; Miss P. M. Betts beat Miss Collier, 9/4; Mrs. A. H. Ward beat Miss A. Trotman, 9/2; Miss M. C. Ross beat Miss M. Collier, 9/4; Miss D. Allan beat Miss A. Brentnall, 9/1. Ladies ’ Doubles.—Misses Miller and Pragnell lost to Mrs. Jury and Miss Haigh, 9/8; Mrs. Ward and Miss Betts, ■beat Misses Collier and Collier, 9/4; Misses Ross and Allan beat Misses Trotman and Brentnall, 9/4.