TENNIS TOURNAMENT

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 228, 23 June 1936, Page 6

TENNIS TOURNAMENT

Timaru’s Hopes Fading

By Telegraph—Press Association.

Christchurch, June 22.

Tlie South Canterbury representative, Mr. C. Glanviile, found himself alone in advocating the claims of Timaru to control the national lawn tennis tournament at the quarterly meeting of delegates to-night of the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association. It was suggested that Timaru had organised its campaign with exceptional thoroughness and this had been the chief reason for its success in obtaining the sanction of the New Zealand Council for the holding of the tourney at Timaru, a decision to which the major associations were opposed in principle. Mr. A. R. Sherris said he regarded the Timaru proposal as the thin end of the wedge. If the tournament were taken away from the major centres it would be taken in other years all over New Zealand. Mr. W. N. Seay said he was convinced it was not in the best interests of tennis to take the tournament away from the main centres.

Other speakers agreed that South Canterbury had not done anything wrong in seeking to obtain the tourney.

Mr. J. H. W. Sheppard, who had previously said the Timaru courts were “rotten,” withdrew the term, but insisted the courts were not good enough and would not be good enough for championship play for two years.