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The Spike or Victoria University College Review 1933

Tennis Club

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Tennis Club

Opening Day.

Opening Day was celebrated informally this year by a very popular Mixed Doubles Yankee Tournament. In the concluding rounds Miss D. Briggs and C. G-Lauchlan carried off the honours from Miss S. Phillipps and D. Heenan.

Freshers' Day.

The usual opportunity was given "freshers" to become acquainted with the older members of the Club by holding a Mixed Doubles Yankee Tournament. Miss N. McLaten and H. Sievyer won from Miss King and W. Thodey. A successful bridge party was held that night.

Club Championships.

In spite of an excellent start only one event, the Women's Doubles, has been completed. Misses M. Line and C. Longmore are the champions. Interclub Matches.

It was decided at the commencement of the season that the Club's policy would be to field as many teams as possible. The W.P.LT.A. made some alterations to their rules this year, one of which provided for the men and women playing as separate teams in the three top divisions. This enabled us to field more teams as we were no longer hampered through the comparatively lower standard of our women players who, moreover, could now play in their proper grade.

Team results are given below—

1st Division Men:

Wins. Losses.
Brougham Hill B 7—1 Brougham Hill A 1—6
Newtown 5—3 Thorndon 1—6
Wellington 1—7

The following gained a place in our first team:—

Ferkins (Captain), Gosnell, J. McCarthy, Whitcombe,

Black and Webb.

2nd Division Men:

3 Wins and 3 Losses.

There was plenty of material offering for this team as will be seen by the lengthy list of players: Whitcombe, Black, Webb, P. McCarthy, Davys, Plank, Simpson (Captain), Nankervis, Donovan, Page and Shaw.

2nd Division Women:

Winners of competition for this Division.

Wins. Losses.
Wellington 5—3 Nil.
Seatoun 6—2
Thorndon 7—1
Lyall Bay 5—3

The team tesponsible fot this fine effort consisted of Misses Line (Captain). Longmore, Gill, M. Briggs, and D. Briggs.

The 4th A Division and the 6th Division both won two games and lost four.

Tournament:

After our success last season we had hoped to win the Tennis Cup outright, but Canterbury proved too good for us. Mary Line and Clare Longmore succeeded in retaining their Women's Doubles title after being considerably extended in the final by Thyra Gil! and Stella Phillipps, our second string.

Club Ladder.

Perhaps the most encouraging feature of the season's activities was the interest displayed in the Ladders. For the first time for years it is possible to record the fact that considerable activity was displayed in connection with the Women's Ladder. Challenges were issued from the outset and the interest was maintained right up to the Tournament and even beyond.

It is believed that this success is in large measure due to the Committee's policy of purging the ladder of onetime members no longer financial and of others whose interest in College tennis has waned. This is placed

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on record as it may help to solve the difficulties of future committees. The top six on the ladders at the close of the season were, in order:—

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Men:

R. Ferkins, J. McCarthy, W. Gosnell, J. Black, G. Simpson, P. Webb. Women:

M. Line, C. Longmoce, T. Gill, S. PhiUipps, M. Briggs, M. Bell.

Old Boys' Day:

Old Boys' Day has now been definitely revived, thanks largely to Mr. S. Eichelbaum, and took place this season on April 1st. The Old Boys, Messrs. S. Eichelbaum, A. Fair, C. W. Batten, P. H. Putnam, A. H. Johnstone and Mr. Justice Smith proved not strong enough for the present members' team consisting of R. Nankervis, P. Webb, W. Harris, J. Macduff, F. Donovan and A. Hutchinson and went down by 7 matches to 2.