LAWN TENNIS
PREPARATIONS FOR DAVIS CUP CONTEST. PRESS ASSOCIATION'. CHRISTCHURCH, October 10. Preparations for the Davis cup contest are in a forward condition. The Davis cup subcommittee of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australasia have instructed architects engaged by it to call for tenders immediately for tbo erection of stands to accommodate JOOi) persons round the court on Lancaster Park. The Davis cup is being forwarded to Christchurch by the Lawn Tennis Association of Australasia; and on its arrival it will be on exhibition. In anticipation of large numbers from Australia and from parts of New Zealand outside Canterbury, who will be present to witness the contcst,/thc Tourist Department is at present arranging for the issue of tickets at excursion 1 The New Zealand lawn tennis championships "arc to bo decided at Lancaster Park just prior to the Davis Cup contest and courts are being laid down to tho westward of tbo Davis cup court.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7928, 11 October 1911, Page 2
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155LAWN TENNIS New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7928, 11 October 1911, Page 2
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