MUTUAL AGREEMENT IN TENNIS FINAL. —A mild sensation was created in the tennis tournament in America when the two Englishwomen, who met it the final, Miss Joan Ridley (above) and Mrs. Pittman, after winning a set each retired from the court apparently agreeing that the game should end then with honours even. They gave the excuse that they had a hard doubles final to follow. This they duly won.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 223, 21 August 1931, Page 4
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69MUTUAL AGREEMENT IN TENNIS FINAL.—A mild sensation was created in the tennis tournament in America when the two Englishwomen, who met it the final, Miss Joan Ridley (above) and Mrs. Pittman, after winning a set each retired from the court apparently agreeing that the game should end then with honours even. They gave the excuse that they had a hard doubles final to follow. This they duly won. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 223, 21 August 1931, Page 4
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