Sportsman's Notebook AUSTRALIAN TENNIS TEAM TO TOUR NEW ZEALAND

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29377, 2 December 1960, Page 7

Sportsman's Notebook AUSTRALIAN TENNIS TEAM TO TOUR NEW ZEALAND

Eight promising young Australian lawn tennis players will be seen in action in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch in January when the Australian Universities’ side makes its four weeks’ tour of the Dominion. This visit. continues a series which started with the visit to New Zealand of the Australian side in early 1957, and with a New Zealand visit to Australia in January, 1959. The Australian side will arrive in Auckland on December 30. and will immediately travel to Wellington to take part in the North Island championships at Lower Hutt from December 31 to January 5. From January 7 to 14 the players will appear in the New Zealand championships in Wellington. While in Wellington they will also meet the Victoria University, Otago University and New Zealand Universities’ sides. In Christchurch on January 18, the team will play its second match against New Zealand Universities, and on January 20 will meet Canterbury University. These matches will probably be played at Wilding Park. From Christchurch the team will travel to Auckland to play in the Auckland championships and to meet the Auckland University side. At stake on the tour will be the Inter-Dominion Universities’ Tennis Cup. Two matches were played between the national teams on the 1957 tour, and New Zealand Universities won them both. New Zealand also won the only test played in Australia on the 1959 tour, gaining a winning margin only seconds before heavy rain forced the abandonment of the contest. * * * Ski-ing Reserves The New Zealand ski-ing selectors. in announcing the names of those to represent the Dominion in a visit to Australia next August, also nominated seven reserves for the team. Among these is the Christchurch skier Miss K. Guy. The others are Misses C. Sheil (Otago) and E. A. Keane (Chateau), and B. Fulton (Otago), C. Gemmell (Wanganui), T. Graham (Taumarunui) and D. W. White (Otago).' * S: * New Squash Courts Squash rackets, a sport which has been gaining rapidly in support in New Zealand during the last four years, will be publicly introduced in Hutt Valley next year. According to a recent report in a Wellington newspaper, a syndicate of 20 professional and business men in Hutt Valley is to purchase a large building, which is expected to give room for up to 15 courts. There are ultimate plans for the alteration of one side of the building to permit the

erection of accommodation for spectators, in the form of a miniature grandstand. * * * Centre Court Tennis The featured match in the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association’s senior men’s competition tomorrow afternoon will be that between University and Opawa. In the top men’s singles spectators will see the third meeting thisseason of C. G. Judge (University) and G. D. Moss (Opawa). In the final of the Carnival Week tournament Moss beat Judge without difficulty but Judge reversed this result in a ranking match on Tuesday evening. Other members of the teams will be: L. J. Walpole, D. R. Preston, and D. J. Marshall (University) and R. Blunt, S. F. Clarke and W. A. Dickson (Opawa). * * * Swimming Trials The Auckland Swimming Centre has nominated 15 swimmers for the national trials to be held in the Nae Nae pool, Wellington, on December 17. to aid the selection of the New Zealand team to compete in the Queensland championship next month. Included in the 15 are Misses J. Hunter and K. Sawyers. These two competed in the 1958 British Empire Games in Cardiff, and have been nominated for this month’s trials in spite of a recent statement from the New Zealand Swimming Association that swimmers with previous Olympic or Empire Games experience would not be considered for the Queensland trip. Auckland has protested against this ruling, and it will be interesting to see whether Misses Hunter and Sawyers are invited to the trials.