LAWN TENNIS

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24816, 5 March 1946, Page 3

LAWN TENNIS

♦ NUNNELEY. CASKET CHALLENGES DECISIONS OF CANTERBURY ASSOCIATION A challenge for the Nunneley Casket from the Hutt Valley Association was received at a meeting yesterday of the management committee of the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association. The Hutt Valley Association suggested that the match be played on March 22 and 23. It was decided to advise the Hutt Valley Association that Otago had already entered a challenge for the casket, and that the Canterbury Association was prepared to leave the New Zealand Association to decide which match should be played. It was also decided to write to the New Zealand Association suggesting that only one further challenge be played if Canterbury was successful in its defence of the casket against Auckland, the dates for such game to be March 29 and 30. A decision was made to ask the New Zealand Association to give a claßsificarules . regarding replacement Of A P i a^ ers ln casket matches. le * tter ??? received from the Auckl and it - As i? clation regarding its challenge ? r ti ] e + . Nunnele y casket. The Auckland Association suggested that the game be on J^ arcl k 15 . and 16 - n was deadvise the Auckland Association “‘a dates were acceptable. A decision was made to submit the names of Messrs J. Mercer and R. Browning to the New Zealand Association as referees for the game. In view of the representative and competition matches yet to be played It was ?i e „ C „ ld : d u W,? the Ota/° AwoSation asking that the representative match against Canterbury be played on April 7. , A. Lee was appointed manager of jL he Canterbury Nunneley Casket team , p . rice of admission to the Nunneley Casket match against Auckland was fixed at Is 6d.

Canterbury Team Selected It was announced that the following team would represent Canterbury in the representative match against South Canterbury on March 9:—G. R. Atkinson. J. J. Borough, A. T. Cartwright, B. R. Penfold, E. D. White M. Wall. Misses P Dickey. S. EJsom. I. Kitson. J. Mac Gibbon. P. Stevens. M. Whiteside. Emergencies: A. T. Goddard. T. A. Howe, Misses A. Peppier and J. Murray.-