TENNIS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 15 January 1932, Page 5

TENNIS

AUSTRALIAN TEAM.

GAME STOPPED BY RAIN,

INVERCARGILL, Thursday

Further rain this morning made it impossible to play the concluding games in the tennis mtach between the New South Wales ladies’ team and a South Island team. The visitors left this afternoon for Dunedin. (P.A.) JAPANESE IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, Thursday. The Japanese tennis players who are to tour Australia have arrived ta Sydney. The team consists of T. Harada, R. Nunoi and J. Satoh, who were cordially welcomed by Australian tennis officials, the Japanese Consul and a group'pleading Japanese citizen.s Mr Harada, interviewed, said Japan uould have an excellent chance of capturing the Davis Cup in five years’ time, as there were four 20-year-old players in f Japan whom he described as world—namely, Ito, Yamagishui, Fuzikura and Hawy.

N.Z. CHAMPIONSHIPS.

SINGLES DRAW.

Very satisfactory entries have been received for the forty-second annual New Zealand championship tournament, to be held at Auckland on January 25 to January 30. The draw was made last night at the office of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association by the secretary, Mr D. M. Kean, and Messrs. G. N. Goldie and J. A. McGill. The following is the draw for the • men’s and women’s singles:— MEN’S SINGLES. Byes in top half—A. C. Stedman v. N. Smith; D. I. Robertson v. E. W. ' Griffiths; H. A. Barnett v. F. W. Martin; L. T. Piekmere v. S. Lamb; N. R< C'. Wilson v. C. Partridge. First round: S. J. Robinson v. C. A. •4k. Deaker; R. E. Taylor v. A. W. A. L. France v. J. B. Maepherson; K. Hayes v. A. K. Turner; R. A. Court v. Y. R. Johns; P. H. Jones v. T. Patterson; E. L. Bartleet v. D. G. Glanville; W. J. Melody v. J. C. Charters; G. L. Brown v. C. F. Schadick; A. J. Dickie v. E. W. Wright; J. T. Laurenson v. A. C. Notman. Byes in bottom half —R. R. Lees v. winner pf. J. T. Laurenson and A. C. Johns v. E. F. Page; D. G. France V. C. 11. Bowen; E. A. Roussell v. M. L. Lampe; N. G. Sturt v. R. Carter; W. Davys v. C. Angas. The following players have been a seeded” —Stedman, Barnett, Wilson, • A. L. France, Patterson, Bartlett, Laurenson, D. G. France, Sturt and Angas. WOMEN’S SINGLES. Bye in top half—Miss D. Nicholls. First round —Miss I. C. Needham v. Miss EV'M. Johnston; Mrs W. J. Melody v. Miss N. Beverley; Miss R. Taylor v. Miss J., Hartigan; Miss Marjorie Maefarlane v. Miss M. Potter; Miss B. Griffiths v. Mrs D. G. France; Miss V. M. Accles v. Miss M. Humphreys; Miss fitaamsay Y Miss U. Yallcenburg; Mrs ' Dykm-ih v - Miss M - Hooton; Miss L. Robertson v. Miss D. Howe; Miss W. Lloyd v. Miss P. Miller; Mrs N. McNair Thomson v. Miss N. Hall; Miss B. M Knight v. Miss N. Howell; Miss Marion Maefarlane v. Miss T. D. Newton. Byes in bottom half-Mrs E. Napier v. Mrs M. Molesworth. “Seeded” players are Mrs Melody, Mrs Dykes, Mrs Molesworth, Misses Hartigan, Marjorie Maefarlane, Lloyd, Hall, and Knight.

ST. PATRICK’S v. KURIPUNI, ■

The following team will represent St Patrick’s Tennis Club on the Kuripuni courts next Saturday:—Misses M. Buckley, M. A. Buckley, L. M. Carter, H. Mulyfe’, N. Mulvey and D. Frost! Messrs * 'Svron, Par rig. O’Halloran. O’Leary, Vincent and McLeary. Players are requested to be at the couits by