SPORTING FAMILY
New Zealand has acquired something of a reputation as a possessor of "sporting families," and to the list should be added the Hooper family, of Palmerston North. Mr. R. V 7. Hooper was a pioneer of both badminton and squash in that city, and he is also a lawn tennis player of no mean ability, winning, in partnership with M. Lampe, the veterans' championship at the Centennial tournament. His sons, Wyndham and Stafford, have carried on in the same tradition. While they were at the Waitaki Boys' High School they swept the board as far as the lawn tennis championships were concerned. Both of them aro at Otago University now and have given up most of their activity in tennis and badminton circles in favour' of squash. Wyndham has been at some time North Island lawn tennis junior champion. Hawke's Bay junior champion, and Manawatu combined doubles champion, winning the last-named with Miss N. Beverley as partner. Stafford has also an impressive list of "scalps," and. besides playing with his brother in tho New Zealand championships, he is ex-junior champion of Otago, Hawke's Bay and Wellington.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23657, 16 May 1940, Page 16
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