LAWN TENNIS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20190, 5 July 1928, Page 4

LAWN TENNIS

ON WIMBLEDON COURTS TOURNAMENT PROCEEDS RAIN STOPS PLAY [ Australian Press Assn, j LONDON, July 3. In the Wimbledon tennis tournament in the first round of the mixed doubles Crawford and Miss Akhurst .had a walk-over against the Geramns Frenz and Fraulein Hoffman. In the second round Spence and Miss Ryan beat Hennessy and Miss Jacobs 6 —3, 6—3. In the third round Scroope and Mrs Shepherd beat Barron Hopman and Miss Bickerton 6—2, 6—3. In the third round of the men’s doubles Patterson and Hawkes beat Borotra and Lacoste 6—3, 5—7, 6—4, 9—7. In the thir.d round of the women’s doubles Misses Boyd and Akhurst beat Misses Shaw and Watson 7—5, 6—4. Mrs O’Hara Wood and Miss Bickerton beat Mrs Edwards and Miss Stokes Rain stopped play in the men’s quar-ter-final when Lott and Hennessy were leading Moon and Cummings 6 —l, 6—2; also in the second round of the mixed doubles when Crawford and Miss Akhurst were leading from Kehrling and Fraulein Aussem 7—6. lu the quarter-finals of the men’s doubles, Cochet and Brugnon beat Timmer and Fisher 6—3, 6—3, 6 —2; Tilden anl Hunter beat Crole-Rees and Eames 4—6, 6—l, 6—3, 6 —2. In the second round of the ladies’ doubles Mrs Strawson and Miss Hemmant beat Miss Betty Nuthall and Fraulein Aussem 4—6, 64 } B—6.8 —6.