TENNIS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 21 February 1925, Page 9

TENNIS

Both. Hawera clubs have had a busy time since the holidays, and many inter-club matches, wincii do so muen to foster the game, have been played. The afternoons have witnessed a very busy scene on the courts day by day. It always strikes the onlooker that more progress would be made if members practised regularly. There is no doubt room for much more, and it is certain the joy of players would be much increased by mastering shots that now give trouble, and thus being introduced to a better class of tennis. One sees players week after week playing just the same kind of game, and what is noticeable is the absence in very many cases of power in the sljots. Players seem content just to go along playing in the same old way. The interests of the individual and of the club would both be served by more striving to improve. Next summer’s lawn tennis championship are far ahead, so far as England is concerned, but, according to a London correspondent, Wimbledon fans are already speculating on one chance. Mile. Suzanne Lenglen has recovered from her unfortunate indisposition, and is back in strenuous training again. So there is a possibility she may visit London to compete for the, crown of feminine victory, and that she may meet Mile. Didi Vlasto, the present" French lady champion, who defeated Miss Kane," the British hope, but lost to Miss Helen Wills, the buxom American girl, at the last Olympic Games. Though of Greek parentage, as her name suggests, handsome Mile. Vlasto was born in Marseilles, and is a brilliant modernist of the courts. She has never met Mile. Lenglen, and, Sis both are temperamental ladies, an encounter at Wimbledon would he thrilling.

WILDING PARK FUND. A special meeting of the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association was held last week to make arrangements for a fete in aid of the Wilding Park fund. The chairman said the meeting was to consider the holding of a fete on the United Club grounds on similar lines to the one held last year. The previous fete brought in £323. A big effort should he made in the next 12 months to put tie Wilding Park scheme on a good, sound footing. Appeals to the players and the public would go on for the" next 10 years, and yet the Park would not be complete with stand accommodation and grass courts. He hoped that the fete would be taken up enthusiastically, and that it would be a big success. It was decided to hold the fete at the United Courts on March 21.