ENGLISH TENNIS STAR

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12297, 10 April 1937, Page 3

ENGLISH TENNIS STAR

RETURNS FROM ABROAD

HER WORLD TOUR “JUST A LUXURY’’

SHE PREFERS' THE LITTLE HOME TOWN

'B.P. Times” .Special Service. —liy Air Mali London, March 20.

Dorothy Round, Britain’s woman lawn tenuis champion, has been to Australia, Japan, the AVest Indies, Malaya, and eveiybody has made the greatest fuss of her. And the has come back to the little, dirty, midland town of Dudley, where she was born and taught Sun-day-school, to find a husoand and to make-a home 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 said 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 have plenty of friends. I shall he able to play golf and bridge and tennis with them besides funning my home. I thoroughly enjoy my work as a sports clothes designer and I shall that up. “AVhether 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. But if I am in good form this season and they want me to go to America for the AVightman Cup I will.

“I have had a delightful time playing in championship tennis. I have loved travelling round the world, especially my vint to Australia.

“It’s lovely to be fussed over, but not to get used to it unless you’re voing 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 'till does. It is not real l ; fe. It’s just a. luxury, hut I have loved having it.”