NEW ZEALANDER'S SUCCESS.
Though considerably chagrined that their predictions in the tennis championship final were wrong, Wilding defeating McLoughlin by three love sets, the critics in the London papers general 1" give great praise to the New Zealander. In the files just to hand they speak of him as a fine type of manhood, and in some cases are actually proud to liken him to a "typical Englishman." It is rather sordid to seek for the advertisment value in a win on the field of athletics—even in a world's supremacy—but it is possible at least to feel a certain national pride in the magmricent achievement of one who hales from these shores. The "Daily Mail" congratulating Wilding, editorially, says: "It ha is not an Englishman by birth, he is at least a citizen of the Empire. It is. by the way, a strange reversal of our old ideas to find a New Zealander contending with an American for preeminence in a game which was invented in these islands and in which for a generation we were supreme. This is the first occasion in the annals of the game on which no Englishman has figured in the final encounter. '
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Northern Advocate, 23 August 1913, Page 4
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198NEW ZEALANDER'S SUCCESS. Northern Advocate, 23 August 1913, Page 4
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