DAVIS CUP CONTEST
DOMINION'S WITHDRAWAL NO PLAYERS FOR OVERSEAS COUNCIL SUPPORTS DECISION [BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION"] WELLINGTON, Monday The council of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association supported the management committee's decision to withdraw the Davis Cup entry this year and not send any players overseas. The discussion was taken in committee. The question of the demands for £2O each made by the American players Budge and Mako for playing exhibition matches at Auckland was also considered in committee and it was left to the management committee to write to the United States Lawn Tennis Association. Regarding Sunday play in the New Zealand championship tournament at Auckland, the chairman of the management committee, Mr. A. G. Henderson, denied that any -assurance had been given that in future there would be no Sunday play in similar circumstances.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22975, 1 March 1938, Page 10
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136DAVIS CUP CONTEST New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22975, 1 March 1938, Page 10
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