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The Annual Oaks Bluff Tennis Tournament, which began some twenty years ago when some visiting Buff visited the courts just to get a few licks in, is now the major sporting event among the vacationeers and is the premier attraction of the Labor Day weekend.

The 1970 competition was highlighted by a furious battle between Pam Coveney, a youngster who grew up on the courts, and the town's top player Mrs. Winston Burnett for the Women's Singles crown and a sitdown strike staged on the court by Mrs. Funn, Mitchell, Cable and who refused to move from court number one, where the ladies were playing a Women's Double runner-up game, to make room for a Men's Final match.

Among the winners of the best matches ever seen to date were Larry Josephs who, after years of trying, improved enough to defeat Hilton Davis for the Men's Senior Singles crown; Mrs. Winston Burnett who repeated her previous year's performance to win the Women's singles crown from Miss Pam Coveney; Mrs. Burnett and Mrs. Marion Sykes won the Women's Double crown from Mrs. Cable and Mrs. Funn; Bobbie Shaw and Toni Santios defeated Dr. Hayling and Hilton Davids in the Men's Doubles.

The upset of the year was engineered by Mrs. Doris Preston who rose to the occasion to defeat Mrs. Debbie