Newton named in tennis team

Press, 23 August 1978, Page 32

Newton named in tennis team

PA Wellington Christine Newton, of Canterbury, has been named in the New Zealand Federation Cup women’s tennis team to play in the cup series at Melbourne in November.

The other members of the team are Judy Chailoner and Brenda Perry, both from Auckland.

Perry, 21, has been included for the first time in the three-strong team, which will join 31 other nations in the Colgate-sponsored tour* nament at Kooyong.

Chailoner and Newton were both members of the tram that reached the second round of the competition at Eastbourne, England, last year.

Robyn Hunt (Canterbury) is the non-travelling reserve. Pauline Elliott, of Hamilton, a regular member of the side for the last three years, was not considered because of injury. And the North Shore junior player, Debbie Leat, will be banned from all international competition if she does not immediately explain her absence from this year’s Wimbledon junior championships. Leat, 18, was to have been

New Zealand’s representative in the girls’ tournament in July, but English officials said she disappeared on the eve of the event.

The All England Club has twice written to the N.Z.L.T.A. requesting reasons for her sudden departure from London. The New Zealand association has decided to write to her parents saying they should contact Debbie, by telephone if necessary, to get an explanation. If there is no explanation it will issue an instruction that she be disqualified from all future tournaments under the jurisdication of the International Tennis Federation. The chairman of the N.Z.L.T.A. Mr lan Wells, said yesterday the last All England officials knew of Leat’s departure was that she had moved out of specia 11 y-arranged accommodation at Crystal Palace at 5.30 a.m. the day before the tournament.

League.— One o£ Australia’s greatest rugby league wings, Harold Horder. has died in Brisbane, aged 84. Horder, who toured England with the Kangaroos and played tests against New Zealand in 1921-22, was regarded as one oT the fastest wings ever in the game.