Presbyterians Top Gardens Our Lady’s B for Final Four Hopes
Presbyterians edged Gardens Our Lady’s B in a tense tennis bout where defeat could end a final four bid. St Mark’s beat Spaldings A easily but must wait another year for final four honors.
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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Feb 09, 1940
Page
3
Presbyterians edged Gardens Our Lady’s B in a tense tennis bout where defeat could end a final four bid. St Mark’s beat Spaldings A easily but must wait another year for final four honors.
Reports list scores and winners from February 3 matches across Albion Ad and local clubs. Included are numerous pairings such as Booth versus Fleming Day and Ross versus Russell Day, with both men and women events, Presbyterians defeating Methodists, and detailed 7 to 5 style scorelines across multiple contests.
Linton 63-22 Grogan Keon d Douglas White 7 8 Grogan Maloney d White Goddard 17 5 Keon Maloney d Douglas Goddard 7 0 Misses D Kelly Grogan d Misses Goddard Self 7 1 Misses D I Kelly d Misses Goddard Hale 7 8 Misses Grogan I Kelly d Misses Self Hale 7 3 Maloney Miss D Kelly d Douglas Miss Self 7 0 Keon Miss Grogan d White
The record lists numerous local tennis matches with results across July dates. Players include Miss Goddard, Miss Kelly, Miss Lind, Miss Penrose, J Vance, Perry, C Vance, Mrs Graham, Miss Seddon, Miss Lindsay, Miss Matthews, Mrs Omant, and others, with several 7 0 or 7 6 style scores. A North Sunshine Gold versus Blue clash shows no result.
Clubs must send two umpires to the association secretary by next weekend and ensure result forms are in by Monday evening for percentage checks. Singles entrants choose a grade but the committee may regrade. Three grades run only with sufficient entries. The Seymour trophy goes to the most consistent competitor across the three events not already winning another trophy.
Members opened the year with a large attendance and discussed tree destruction by fire in parks, dog nuisance enforcement, street channel cleaning, and a request to extend afternoon mail delivery to a developing block bounded by Chapman Couch Stanford and Graham Streets. The association donated £1 1s to the Braybrook Shire Soldiers Presentations Fund.
L Carter stood firm for Carter Bros B in a 6/654 declared win over Sydenham, scoring 48 off the 6th wicket after 5/22. F Schearer 24 not out and Jack Hughes 20 key Sydenham second innings, as final score shows strong batting. Tomorrow Sydenham faces Ascot Vale at Ascot Vale.
Sunshine Anglers plan a bay boat competition at Seaholm on Sunday February 18 with 6 am departures from Sunshine Post Office. Referees Roy Crick and Leo Fisher. Reports from Werribee Maribyrnong Deep and Jacksons Creeks show mixed fishing with redfins on Jacksons Creek and bigger redfins near Nagambie Weir. Trout fishing expected on the Yarra at Launching Place and Warburton. Ninth annual picnic postponed to March 10 at Bacchus Marsh with expected cook of fish Mr Tom Allen.
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