ENGAGEMENT.
(From "The Post's" Representative.)! LONDON, November 21. , The engagement is announced of. Mr: Eskell D. Andrews, the :Wimbledon lawn tennis star and New Zealand ■Davis Cup player,,son of Mr. and Mrs. , Oscar Andrews, of Pabnerston North, to Miss Yoma Hamilton Watson, daughter of Mr. Robert I. Watson and of Mrs. .Watson, of Boldrewood, Sunningdale. 1 Mr. Andrews, who is on the Stock r.Exchange, won a great reputation at ■'Wimbledon as a "giant killer." His great win over F. T. Hunter, the Ameri-! .can Davis Cup player, was a feature -of the 1928 championship meeting. In 1932 he led Frank Shields, another great American player, two sets to love before injuring an ankle, but still fought on to the fifth set. At Cambridge Mr. Andrews captained the university squash- team ;,'as well as gaining' a Blue for lawitXfeinis. A) Widely-travelled man, ifrr. Andrews hias recently made •world tours on business'in winch about ,50 countries were visited. He is a welliluiown squash-playing member of the l£ath Club,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 138, 8 December 1936, Page 16
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166ENGAGEMENT. Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 138, 8 December 1936, Page 16
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