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Australian Suspended
<N.Z. Presa Assn.— Copyright) MELBOURNE.
An Australian tennis player, John Sharpe, has been suspended until January 31. This followed a complaint from the German Tennis Association that Sharpe had “deliberately lost a match” in Berlin.
It claimed that Sharpe had entered for two tournaments at the same time but dropped out of one because of an alleged foot injury. Twenty-four hours later, it said, he had won the doubles final of the other tournament. The Australian association refused to accept his explanation of a foot injury and suspended him from playing as an amateur until January 31.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30886, 20 October 1965, Page 27
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