LAWN TENNIS

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 663, 20 November 1902, Page 7

LAWN TENNIS

The AVestraliahs are a sport-loving race, and among/other pastimes tennis has plenty of admirers. Says the ” Australasian ” in referring to the W.A. Championships :The annual tournament of the W.A. • Association, which was played -in Perth on October 16. 17, and 18, was a Very great success. The matches were played off on seven good grass courts on the Association Cricket Ground, and, although the entries numbered 170, and were larger , than those at the last, big Adelaide tournament, all the games were finished off in the three days. A start was made •every day at 9 a.rm, and play was only stopped jjy darkness, 'There were seventeen entries for the championship singles. Our old friend Faxon, who is now on a., visit Lothe West, and who gave Edwards such a fine fight in the semi-finals at . the Warehousemen’s ground last November, was. in his best form, and carried off the treble, winning the singles championship, the doubles with Kitchen (also a Victorian), and the mixed doubles cham-

pionship with Airs Kitchen. He had by no means a walk over in the singles, for Keane and Parker (West Australian) both gave him a very bard light. .In the finals he had to meet Cramond, the Victorian champion of IM>O. The latter ran away with the first two sets, hut Saxon then forced the game for -all it was worth, rushed for the net the whole time, bustled his opponent off the court, and won the next three sets straight. I'he match was a magnificent one. Faxon say.s that any player who can get a holiday in October could not do better than visit the West and take part in the tournament, and he speaks highly of the way in which everything is arranged. The tennis, he states, is far and away ahead of what he was led to expect. The ladies’ singles’ championship was also won by a Victorian, Miss Black having arrived in the state -ust. in time to enter and win. Over 150 matches were played off on the seven courts in three days, which must be something in the way of a record. On the final day the championships were witnessed by over LOGO people.”