TENNIS ASSN. DECIDES: Ninnely Casket, But Not Wilding Shield

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30892, 27 October 1965, Page 18

TENNIS ASSN. DECIDES: Ninnely Casket, But Not Wilding Shield

The Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association will not enter a team for the Wilding Shield competition this season.

This was decided at a meeting of the management committee last night.

Mr R. P. Murphy, who proposed the motion, said that the association could not afford the expenses of sending a team to compete for the shield.

Voting on the motion was evenly divided, the chairman's casting vote deciding the issue.

Mr M. C. Healey, who opposed the motion, said that it would be most degrading if the association were not to enter the competition. A second motion, that the association does enter a team in the Nunneley Casket competition this season, was car-

iried. Mr Healey, who supported the motion, said that if I the association did not coml pete in the Nunneley Casket ‘competition, it would be the I most degrading motion ever passed by the association. He said that the people who paid dues to the association expected it to enter competitions of this kind. Protest Letters The committee had no recommendations to make to the competitions committee regarding two letters of protest received from the United and North Linwood clubs. This was decided after a long discussion in committee last night.

The letter from the North Linwood club protested at the regrading to senior reserve of the club’s second entry in the senior men’s competition. The competitions committee also reported in committee its reason for disallowing the

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