LAWN TENNIS
RANKING SYSTEM WELLINGTON COUNCIL'S PRAISE (press association telegram.) WELLINGTON, January 14. The value of ranking matches was emphasised at the quarterly meeting of the council of the Wellington Lawn Tennis Association when a report covering the recent championships at Timaru was under discussion. Mr J. L. Mac Duff. chairman of the management committee, said that the council had some cause to congratulate its ranking committer on the success attending its efforts as shown at Timaru. The ranking system had en? abled players to go forward to the championships properly tuned up as a result of the match play they had already, received. Mr Mac Duff mentioned that a challenge had been issued to Canterbury
by Wellington for the Wilding Shield and Kathleen Nunneley Casket. The matches would be played in Christchurch at the first week-end in February. He said he thought that Wellington had a good chance of winning the Wilding Shield.-
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21991, 15 January 1937, Page 2
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