TEMPTING OFFER.
TO LADY TENNIS CHAMPION. LARGE SUM DECLINED. Received March 30, 8.55 a.m. NICE, March 29. An American promoter offered Mdlle Lenglen £IO,OOO if slip would meet Miss Wills at Boyle’s thirty-acre ground in America, • where the promoter believed the match would attract a record crowd.
Madame Lenglen says her daughter declined, choosing always to play as an amateur. —A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 102, 30 March 1926, Page 7
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64TEMPTING OFFER. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 102, 30 March 1926, Page 7
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