LAWN TENNIS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 204, 30 August 1933, Page 14

LAWN TENNIS.

PLAYEES FROM OVERSEAS. AMATEURS AND PROFESSIONALS. (By Telegraph.—(Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Information that three English tennis players were expected here on October 18 was given to-night by the chairman, Mr. Gordon Henderson, at the annual meeting of the council of the New Zealand Tennis Association. Mr. Henderson said he had received a cablegram saying that the three players, F. J. Perry, H. G. N. Lee and F. H. D Wilde, would leave San Francisco on September 17, and arrive 'at Wellington on October 16. They would stay in the Dominion about a fortnight or three weeks. A discussion on the disadvantage or otherwise of professionals in tennis took place when a report concerning the proposed visit of the professionals, Karel Kozeluh and Hans Musslein, was read. Mr. G. N. Goldie stated that any money available for visits should be spent on amateurs. The principle of playing for money should be condemned. Mr. H. M. Boddington (Wairarapa) said he considered that the registering of professionals in New Zealand was necessary. Mr. C. G. White defended the professionals for their eervice in improving games. If they were unable to earn a living by teaching, he said, they should be allowed to play exhibition matches. ' Mr.- F. G. Jolly (Auckland) said he considered that professionals would improve the standard of play, but they could be done without. "This amateur _ body should encourage amateurs," he said.