LAWN TENNIS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2221, 26 October 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

LAWN TENNIS.

The YVliatautopo Club will open its season to-day. During the past week local players have taken full advantage of the fine weather to get practice, and have kept the Gisborne courts fairly occupied. Nornuin Brookes intends leaving England by the Moldavia on October ■3, and will arrive in Melbourne abmfc November 16, bringing the Davis Cup with him. At a meeting of rho Yuctonian Lawn Tennis (Association it was decided to welcome the world’s chamxiion at an official dialer. , Anthony Wilding, who has “farm.•d” a good many of the principal awn tennis championships for. the past (two or three years, met with a -ude shock at Homburg this week writes the London correspondent of he “Canterbury Times,” under date ounger generation of German playrs had been a thorn in. tho side of Yugust 30). For some tinuj past (the :.lio English Itouring tennis player, nut until now no German has .been able to really extend the best of our peripatetic cracks. At Homburg, however, (the Germans more than held their own. The contest for the Homburg Cup, valued at £IOO, found no Englishman even in the semifinal. The best of the Otto Froitzheim and Kreuzer, came together in the top half, when Frotizheim won a hard-fouglit ‘match. In the bottom half the holder, A. F. Wilding, was opposed to Bnron Iv. von Lessner, and won •easily, but- ho “came undone” badly when opposed to Froitzheim in the . final. The German, who had recently given a taste of his quality (by bearing J. G. Ritchie. was “all over” the New Zealander, whom he beat decisively by three sets to love and eighteen guiles to nine. The Australasian internationalist did not play up to the top of liis ?orm, hut there is no getting away from the fact that in Froitzheim he met an opponent who. if lie cares to take 'the journey, will take a lot of boating at Wimbledon next year. He is certainly the most versatile player Wilding (liras yet met on the Continent, and has a castiron nerve. He lias, indeed, much the same match-winning temperament as Norman (Brookes, and, like that great player, always seems to be able to rise to the occasion when affairs are going against (him.