SUNDAY TENNIS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 16, 19 July 1923, Page 7

SUNDAY TENNIS

AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION OBJECTS.

CUNITED. PRESS ASSOCIATION.-COPTRIGHT.)

SIDNEY, 18th July. Referring to games being played on a Sunday by the Australian lawn tennis team contesting the Davis Cup against Hawaii, Mr. Colquhoun, chairman of the Council ot the Lawn Tennis Association, explains that after the association had cabled objecting to Sunday play, My J O. Anderson had replied that the tfable had reached him too late, and in the meantime arrangements had 5 been made to play the match on Sunday. It was too late to cancel the arrangement, but the council had instructed him that no subsequent arrangements were to bo made for Sunday play, and also that members of the team were to carry out the instructions of the Council.

(Received 19th July, 11 a.m ) ■ . . SYDNEY, This Day Mr. T. H. Hicks, secretary of the Australian Lawn Tennis Association, has communicated with the chairman of ths DaVLs Cup competition, reiterating the Australasian Tennis Council's unanimous objections to Sunday gates. He adds that consideration of the takings does not outweigh the objections.

On 30th June the annual meeting of the Australian lenms Association reiected a. cabled request from the United States that the preliminary rounds of the Davis Cup be played, on a Sunday The Americans explained that Sunday play would give larger gates, but the Australian Association replied that the Commonwealth had various objections which were not outweighed by the gatetakings.. ■