TENNIS CHAMPION

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 233, 14 September 1934, Page 12

TENNIS CHAMPION

NOT A MODERN GIRL Miss Dorothy Round, the tennis champion who burst into tears in the moment of her triumph over Helen Jacobs at Wimbledon a few month' ago, and who is to tour Australia and New Zealand during the coining season, is a tall, dark, and very slim girl who lives in a quiet, old-fashioned house set in a. beautiful garden at Dudley. Shy and retiring, she has, since she was 19, concentrated on winning at Wimbledon one day. Like the Rounds themselves, their home has an atmosphere of dignity and reserve. For generations, the .family has been staunchly Methodist, and today, in an era that tolerates Sunday sport and gaiety as a matter of course, it takes the stern stand of the Puritan Nonconformist. The daughter of the house has been brought up to be the direct antithesis of the “modern girl.” Although she has lived a cosmopolitan life within the last two years, travelling in luxury tra-ns-Atlantic liners and staying at tho smartest hotels all over Europe and America, she still buys her clothes in Dudley. She loves to crochet and knit, and makes all of her own jumpers—but in the main street of the town'there is a shop kept by two ageing spinsters. As a little girl, Dorothy used to be taken there by her mother to buy her simple frocks, and now that she is world tennis champion, she goes there just the same for tennis frocks and party frocks and most of the rest of her wardrobe. The Oxford Group has claimed Iter as one of its earnest students. She never misses a meeting if she can help it. Its members sit iu silence, and when the spirit moves them, they rise and. speak. She speaks at sportsmen’s religious services in different parts of the Midlands, and at meetings of the Youth Movement, The baby welfare centre at Dudley receives a good deal of her attention when she is at home between tournaments. She helps with the. cooking and housework in her home, and likes to sew and arrange the flowers. This is the girl whom Australians and New Zealanders will meet —the girl who throughout her tennis career has resolutely refused to play tennis on Sunday, and has stuck to her convictions in spite of persuasion and even ridicule. A. religious vein runs through her whole life. Yet she is definitely not narrow-minded. Good health to a large extent is dependent. upon good eyesight. Eye strain means nerve strain. Seieneu provides you with an optician to safeguard your sight. H M. Beniwtf, Opficiau, He?- 1 ings Street, Napier.”