"JUST A LUXURY."

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 82, 8 April 1937, Page 17

"JUST A LUXURY."

CHAMPION'S WORLD TOUR. DOROTHY ROUND RETURNS. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDOX, March 20. Dorothy Round, woman lawn tennis champion, has been to Australia, Japan, the West Indies, Malaya, and everybody has made the greatest.fuse of her. ehe has come back to the little, dirty, midland town of Dudley, where she was born and taught Sunday school, to find a husband and to make a iiome of her own. Dr. Little, her fiance, is a Glasgow man. He came to Dudley only eighteen months ago. ,« "I shall make my home here," Miss Round »aid when her engagement was announced this week. "There is nowhere else I would rather be. I like London for some things, but it has a lot of drawbacks. Here I ha ire p!?nty of friends. I shall be able to play golf and bridge and tennis with them besides running my home. "I thoroughly enjoy my work as a sports clothes designer and I shall keep that up. Whether I shall keep on playing championship tennis I do not know. I shall play this season. I am getting married in September so that the season will be over and I shall not have to be away from my husband. But after September I am making no plans. At present I feel that I could open a paper

and read about Wimbledon and say, 'How interesting' and turn to the next page. Whether I shall feel like that when the season starts I don't know. : "If I am in good form this season and they want me to go to America for the Wiglitnian Cup I will. I have had a delightful time playing in championship tennis, and I have loved travelling round the world, especially my visit to Australia. It's lovely to be fussed over, but not to get used to it unless you're going to live the sort of life where you can always have it. I never got used to it. It always gave me a thrill and still does. It is not real life. It's just a luxury, but I have loved having it."