TENNIS.
BOROTRA’S SUCCESSES. FIFTY TITLES. The rodent successes of J. Borotra in the French covered courts lawn tennis championships brought the total of his national title wins in this game to 49. He.has now won the singles title in the French covered courts championships 10 times. Borotra was very anxious to complete the winning of 50 national championships and he might have done so in the mixed doubles but for the severe physical strain of other matches. Yet he has 50 national titles,, and to celebrate this the junior tennis players of France are to offer him a souvenir at a dinner. The 50th title is an Association football one, for lie was an outside right in a Polyteclmicteam that won a French universities championship, and his friends recall that his dashes down the wing, sometimes ending in impetuous over-run-ning at the corner flag, or unintended contact with the earth as he tried to centre while running at full speed, outdid in virility anything he has shown on the lawn tennis court. Borotra lias been criticised for his reluctance to play in singles in lawn tennis of late years, but wisely replies that only by husbanding his physical resources is he able, at the age of 37, to do as well as he does.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 169, 1 May 1935, Page 2
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