LAWN TENNIS

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21086, 10 February 1934, Page 17

LAWN TENNIS

[ NOT AN OFFICIAL MEMBER (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BT ELECTRIC TELBOEAPH— COPTEIGHT.) J MELBOURNE, February 9. The Council of the Lawn Tennis Association decided not to send H. C. Hopman with the Davis Cup team. The council decided to contribute £IOO toward the expense of sending Miss Joan Hartigan to Wimbledon. AUSTRALIAN DAVIS CUP I TEAM i i J HOPMAN TO BE SENT BY | NEWSPAPERS I i ! (Received February 9. 10.20 p.m.) ; SYDNEY, February 9. : The Sydney "Sun" states that H. C. j Hopman will accompany the Davis [ Cup team and will be available to play for Australia if it is so desried. The directors of the Sun-Herald cable service have decided that Hopman will follow the team as its special representative. 25,- RACQUET, RESTRING 12/6. Nowhere else can you have your racquet restrung with First Quality Cyclone gut (guaranteed 90 days), for 12/6. Bring or post your racquet to The Tennis Shop, 127 Armagh street, for reliable reslringing. — 6 METHODIST CHURCH j ♦ ■■ ANNUAL CONFERENCE ' , The sixtieth annual conference of . , the Methodist Church of New Zca- ■ land will open in Wellington on ' Thursday. It is also the twenty-first anniversary of the independence of the New Zealand Church and sepa- '. ration from Australia. The first : annual conference was held in i Christchurch in 1874. From here some [ of the ministers who will attend the : conference, going up on Monday night. are the (Rev. Clarence Eaton, the Rev. M. A. Rugby Pratt, the Rev. ■ E. Drake, the Rev. W. Rowe, and , the Rev. A. Hopper. The Rev. C. [ Eaton will be inducted as president of the conference.