MUCH TRAVELLED.
BOROTRA’S MILEAGE. AUSTRALIA MENTIONED. LONDON, Nov. 23. Tire Paris correspondent of the Star says that Jean Borotra lias already travelled 180,000 miles during 1925, and is determined to cover 210,000 before the end of the year for the purposes of tennis and business. He is sales manager for tlie Franco-American Petrol Pump Manufacturers. He had been two hundred nights in sleeping cars, 30 days at sea, and has made 25 aeroplane trips.
Borotra has travelled twice to California, and three times to New York. He has averaged a trip once weekly to England. Before 1926 he will visit Spain, Italy, Germany, and Scandinavia, He leaves in February for the United States and Australia. Lacoste has begun his military service. He is stationed at Paris, where lie practises tennis.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 December 1925, Page 9
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130MUCH TRAVELLED. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 December 1925, Page 9
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