ANDREWS AT AUCKLAND

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 154, 27 December 1935, Page 9

ANDREWS AT AUCKLAND

NEW ZEALANDERS OVERSEAS

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. E. D. Andrews, the much-travelled 'New Zealand international. tennis player, arrived by the Mariposa. He said that, though lacking practice, he would play in the New Zealand tennis championships at Wellington on Monday next. Questioned concerning other New Zealand Davis Cup players, Andrews said that Stedman had gone ahead. He was in real international class, having improved in all departments of the game. His match with Crawford (Australia) in the Davis Cup contest was one of the most outstanding seen in. England this year. Malfroy had not been playing the same number of games owing to his being stationed in the West of England, where the opportunities were not so good as in London. Andrews said that the professional game was increasing in strength a little, and it only remained for another half-dozen or so world-class players to join, and it would occupy a prominent part in the world of sport. Andrews considers that the present lawn tennis standard is not,equal to that of six years ago, when players like Bprotra, Cochet, La Cflste, Vines, and Crawford were competing. All these were champions, whereas today there : was not the competition in world-class tennis. '