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j SUZANNE LENGLEN AGAIN TAX COLLECTOR STOPS PLAY. LONDON, May 29. Mile. Suzanne Lenglen’s exhibition I lawn tennis match at Amsterdam was interrupted, says the correspondent of the Daily Mail, when many of the 2000 spectators moved to dearer seats, causing the entertainment tax inspector to stop the play until extra duty was collected. | There was uproar for nearly IO , minutes, while the public demanded the continuance of the match. The management and the players discussed the matter, but as the police threatened to 1 impose a penalty of £l2O if the extra ■ tax was not collected, a compromise was eventually reached. Mile. Lenglen., with Pina,,.defeated; the Dutch brothers, Goeclraad, 6—o, 6 —l, 6 —l, revealing that she has lost nothing of her old speed, nimbleness, and powerful drives.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21978, 13 June 1933, Page 9
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