LAWN TENNIS

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27666, 24 May 1955, Page 5

LAWN TENNIS

BRITISH TEAM BEATS FRANCE (NJS. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) . PARIS, May 22. The International Lawn Tennis Club of Britain beat the-French International Club by 11 matches to 9 in a three-day contest which ended today. The clubs were level with 9 matches each when th© Australian pair, Mervyn Rose and George Worthington, playing in the doubles for Britain, and Britain’s Roger Becker won their matches. Rose and Worthington beat the American pair. Budge Patty and Ham Richardson, playing for France, 3-6, 6-2, 11-9. Becker beat the French veteran, Bernard Destremeau, 8-1, S-7. 6-3. This was thirteenth victory in. 39 matches. France has won 22, and four matches have been drawn.

NATIONAL COACHING SCHOOL

ELEVEN-DAY COURSE ENDS

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON. May 33. About 40 athletes, including seven women, attended the 11-day national athletic coaching school that ended at Day’a Bay, Wellington, last week. Mr J. Hutchinson who ran the school on behalf of the New Zealand Amateur

Athletic Association, said the standard was well up to that of former years. However, some of the younger candidates for coaching diplomas were not sufficiently drilled to become national coaches, and he thought more could be done in introductory cousres to prepare candidates for the national school. •