Tennis PUBLICITY FOR PLAYERS
“Could Spoil Our Youngsters”
Excessive newspaper publicity for young people in sport could grossly distort their sense of proportion of sport compared with home life and studies, said Mr S T. Day at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Junior Lawn Tennis Association last evening.
“I am not in favour of excess publicity for 11, 12, 13, and 14-year-olds,” he said. Mr Day was speaking against a motion that the association appoint a publicity officer for the 1962-63 season. The motion was carried. “Tennis is an individual sport which emphasises very much self-will and ego. We could spoil our youngsters by puffing them up to much,” Mr Day said. Mrs C. Davidson said she felt that young players should be pushed to the front but not necessarily by having their photographs in the newspapers.
Earlier Miss P. Cuddon asked the meeting whether it would be possible to have a Tennis Youth column in “The Press.” "All we want would be enough space to get the game to the fore.” she said.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19620823.2.194
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume CI, Issue 29908, 23 August 1962, Page 15
Word Count
175Tennis PUBLICITY FOR PLAYERS Press, Volume CI, Issue 29908, 23 August 1962, Page 15
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in