LAWN TENNIS.
THE DAVIS CUP. (Per Press Association ) (Christchurch, October 10. Preparations for the Davis Cup contest are in a forward condition. The Davis Cup sub-committee of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australasia have instructed the architects engaged by it to call for tenders immediately 7 for the erection of stands to accommodate 5000 persons round the courts on Lancaster Park. The Davis Cup is being forwarded to Christchurch by the Lawn Tennis Association of Australasia, and on its arrival it will bo on exhibition. In anticipation of trie large number from Australia and from different parts of Now Zealand out-
side Canterbury who will he present to witness the contest, the Tourist Department is at present arranging for the issue of tickets at excursion rates.
The New Zealand Lawn Tennis Associaion championships are to he decided at Lancaster Park just prior to the Davis Cup contest, and courts are being laid down to the westward of the Davis Cup court.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 48, 11 October 1911, Page 5
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