LAWN TENNIS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12989, 2 June 1904, Page 7

LAWN TENNIS.

The cost of sending a team of four Now Mand representatives (men) to Sydney to compete in the inier-Stato mrtohes new September is estimated at from £45 to £50. The chosen competitors will have to pay their own living expenses for tlio fortnight they aro_ in Sydney. . . According to a Melbourne paper, the -question of inviting 'the Dohcrtys, tlio famous lawn tenuis players, to visit 'Australia at the end of the present English season, has progressed another' stage, os the committee of itiie Melbourne Cricket Club lias referred! tho matter for report to tlio Lawn Tennis Committee of tire elub; but as the latter body, felt that it could not deal with the matter in any detail without further information from England, a letter has been forwarded to Mr Norman Bayles by Mr. H. G. 'Wimpole, requesting him to obtain full information on various points, and when this has boon obtained the whole matter is to ha thoroughly thrashed out. At Mo sametitno tho question of. inviting two other players, such as two leading Americans, to come out at the same time, will also bo discussed. The M.O.C. will also decide whether they will *Jfe the whole rgsponsi-

I'bifity of the tour on ttemseives from -a! financial point of w, or whether they will invito tho Lawn Tonni3 Associations of the other State and of New Zealand , to co> ope-rato-with thorn in this respect.

GYMNASTICS. The Ravensbourpo Club is still hairing good musters, and, under tlio able instaiotorship of Jlr O. Hudson, is making grca* strides. Among the new members T. Donaldson, P. Harridge; M. Smith, and C. Bolton shape remarkably weir.; while old sfcagora liie F. Mitchell, J. Connor, R. Smith, and A. Portman mo going as strops as ever. Tlie president of tl;o ctab has kindly donated a gold medaf to bo co*npeted for a't the end of tho year,, gad' this should 1 strovalato tho mombets to inrOitT, efforte.

INTBRJfATIONAi (iTM^ASdJCSI

—The Scoifisih Team Wa.~

The international CT3ajjasfeLo ship competrtions took plaoe- in Etigliad -en Saturday, April 9, in tho preseico of b large crowd, ttLich followed with flie dosesi interest the different items. '.UJie coanwtitora were teams represoutiijg Endsjidj i&ON land, and Ireland did not senfj "p •teain tiiis year, and Wales, (he of 'tho gymnaslit associartions, jiad'io drasq upon the famous Newport Club for liro jut of six of ita tesim. Jingknd took tljo Jpid on the liorizontal tar % four poulfe over Scotland, Wales being a long way in amtar. On tho rings England advanced two poims, whilst Walos foil still further In tlio 'rope-climbing Scotland, Ilk iojikis of tho championship, gradually gained 6a England, and in the end v-pn, by jnst unjior fivo (points. TCales mado her best ebw on the rope, only fepinj sliglitly TiehinoT: Scotland. Scores;— :

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