A GAME OF GAMES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 197, 9 August 1930, Page 1 (Supplement)

A GAME OF GAMES

TENNIS WORLD WIDE. Combining both a vigorous athletic and social side, tennis has become the most international of games, claiming as its devotees sovereign and commoner, youth and veteran of either sex. with the same rules of play holding in all the advanced countries (writes a New York correspondent). Wherever the Britisher has carried the flag of colonisation, to the far corners of Africa and Asia or the southern seas, there he hag brought his racquet and net. A glance at the names of tho nations represented in the 1930 Davis Cup contest indicates how the game has spread. The King of Sweden is a regular tournament player, though in his seventies. The late Lord Balfour never gave up his tennis.

The extraordinary development of free public tennis, especially in North America, indicates the volume of its appeal to the masses. It has advantages over cricket in the length of time needed for play, and financial advantages over golf or polo. It is a most healthy exercise, combining muscle and skill, speed and mental A bout of singles, with all it involves, will wear down the strongest person. Of no other game can so much more fun nnd congenial social mingling be garnered as in tennis. Yet to those out to become experts, no game calls for a greater measure of individuality nnd co-ordination of eye, band, and body.