JUNIOR TENNIS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 16, 19 January 1940, Page 3

JUNIOR TENNIS

; National Championship Tournament I QUARTER-FINALS REACHED • WANGANUI BOYS IN DOUBLES [ Per Preiis Association.] WELLINGTON, Jan. 18. The national junior championship ( ; tournament of the New Zealand ( j Lawn Tennis Association was ccn- . tinned to-day. The quarter-finals ■ i were reached in each event. ! One of the surprises of the day was the defeat of the Nunneley Casket j player, Miss Doris Elsom (Canterbury) by the 15-year-old Levin girl ’ Miss Evelyn Attwood. Miss Attwood won 6-4, 1-6. 6-2. Results are as follow: - Boys’ Singles Third Round.—A. Johns (Manawatu) beat B. Graham (Poverty Bay). ; 6-3, 2-6, 6-2; J. Smith (Northland) ’ beat J. Kidd (Wanganui), 2-6, 7-5. 1 6-1; A. Brown (Auckland) beat N.I ’ Wallace (Auckland). 6-1. 6-1; R. Mc- ’ I Kenzie (Wellington) beat R. Winstanley (Taranaki), 6-1, 6-4. Girls’ Singles ; Third Round.—Rosemary Hodges (Auckland) beat Dorothy Dickie i (Taranaki), 6-1, 6-4; Evelyn Gilmour I . (Wellington) beat Freda Jones (Wan- | ganui), 6-4, 6-2; Pat Longton (Wek 1 lington) beat Margaret Burrell (Can- I terbury). 4-6. 6-3. 6-2; Eveljn Alt- ; . wood (Manawatu) beat Doris Elsom ! (Canterbury), 6-4, 1-6, 6-2. Boys* Doubles Second Round. A. Johns (Manawatu) and R. McKenzie (Wellington) beat B. Dillon (Southland) and P. Calvert (Otago). 6-0. 6-0; J. and P. Smith (Northland) heal B. Graham and A. Shone (Poverty Bay), 6-3, 6-1: | J. Kidd and D. McLisky (Wanganui) I beat J. Murray and I. Freeman | (Otago). 6-4. 6-2: A. Brown and N. I Wallace (Auckland) boat N. Ingram (Waikato) and D. Kelly (Auckland). 6-3, 2-6. 8-6. Girls’ Doubles Second Round.—Rosemary Hodges (Auckland) and Jean Wilson (Wellington) beat Misses Jean Lloyd I (Marlborough) and Grace Bissell j (Manawatu), 6-4, 6-2; Aileen Na.-h ; and Tui Sexton (Manawatu) beat : Margaret Alexander and Dorothy l Dickie (Taranaki), 6-4. 6-4; Dor:.-' Elsom (Canterbury) and Evelyn Gilmour (Wellington) beat June Carrel' (Wellington) and Margaret Burrci' (Canterbury), 6-0, 4-6. 6-2; Pat Longton and Nola Huse (Wellington) beat Mavis Humphries (Taranaki) am Freda Jones (Wanganui), 6-3, 6-5. Mixed Doubles

lii.wu uuuiiir* Second Round.- A. Johns (Man:watu) and Miss Rosemary Hodge (Auckland) beat P. Smith and Mi.--Pru Miller (Northland), 6-4. 6-1; B. , Dillon (Southland) and Miss Heather Todd (Wanganui) beat J. Lyons (Wei-1 lington) and Miss Phyllis Mules (Manawatu). 6-3, 6-2; D. Kellv (Auckland and Miss Grace Bissett (Manawatu) beat D. McLisky and Miss Freda Jones (Wanganui), 6-3, 6-3; R. McKenzie (Wellington) and Miss Doris Elsom (Canterbury') beat A. Shone (Poverty Bay) and Miss Jean Wilson (Wellington), 6-4, 6-3; J. Smith (Northland) and Miss Pat Longton (Wellington) beat B. Graham (Poverty Bay) and Miss Tui Sexton ■ (Manawatu), 6-2, 6-2; J. Kidd (Wanganui) and Miss Dorothy Dickie i (Taranaki) beat E. Meachen (Marb borough) and Miss Aileen Nash (Manawatu), 6-2, 6-2; A. Brown 1 (Auckland) and Miss Nola Huse (Wellington) beat 11. Field and Miss Barbara Bothamley (Wellington), 6-2, 6-4; A. Daly and Miss June Carrell (Wellington) beat P. Norris (Manawatu) and Miss Margaret Burrell (Canterbury). 6-5, 6-3. Third Round.-—R. McKenzie (Wellington) and Miss Doris Elsom (Canterbury) beat D. Kelly (Auckland) and Miss Grace Bissett (Manawatu). 6-4, 6-2; A. Johns (Manawatu) and Miss Rosemary Hodges (Auckland) beat A. Brown (Auckland) and Miss Nola Huse (Wellington), 6-1. 6-2; J. Smith (Northland) and Miss Pat Longton (Wellington) beat J. Kidd (Wanganui) and Miss Dorothy Dickie (Taranaki). 6-2, 3-6, 6-4; A. Daly and Miss June Carrell (Wellington) heat B. Dillon (Southland) and Miss Heather Todd (Wanganui), 6-3, 6-4.