Tennis.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8189, 17 September 1906, Page 5

Tennis.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Per Press Association.

Eeceired September 17, at 8.30 a.m.

LONDON. September 16. Wilding (N.Z.) won the South of England tennis championship at Eastbourne.

Mr A. Wallace Myers, writing on " Lawn Tennis Personalities " in a recent number of the Tatler, says:— " A. F. Wilding is built after the style of Brooks, but has not yet quite acquired the splendid command of tactics which his fellow-colonial enjoys. His play is well-known to English spectators, for he has spent four years in this country, and was quite the best exponent at Cambridge since the Doherty brothers went down. A far younger man than Brooks, Wilding has possibly a greater future in store on the courts. Physically he is superior to the vast, majority of Home players, and in the .'difficult, yet priceless, art of ' keeping fit' he is a past masterl I travelled many miles with the New Zealander on the Continent this spring, and I remember how at every fresh hotel at which we anchored he would go to his bedroom, and if the bed was not as near to the window as it conceivably could be would there and then seek my assistance in removing the article to a position where the night air could; penetrate into every pore of his, body, for he always slept with the window open, and with next to no covering over his frame."