TENNIS VICTORY EXPECTED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19933, 18 October 1934, Page 5

TENNIS VICTORY EXPECTED

ENGLISH TENNIS TEAM SAILS FOR AUSTRALIA LONDON, October 6. “Good-bye! Good luck! Show the Australians they can’t win the ashes in every game,” shoulted a man in the crowd which watched the departure today of the English tennis team for Australia. The team consists of G. P. Hughes and Misses Round, Lyle and Dearman. F. J. Perry will join them in Australia. He is now playing in the United States.

Hughes said that the team was the strongest England had ever sent to Australia. “Nevertheless, we men expect formidable opposition,” he said. “I can’t see what can stop the girls from winning.” The girls wore white heather for luck. Miss Round, the English champion, said that she was thrilled to be going to Australia, which she had only read about. “Miss Round has only to produce her 1934 form on the beautiful Australian grass courts to win another crown,” says the "Evening News." “Miss Joan Hartigan will probably be her most dangerous opponent, as her forehand will be more devastating on the Australian courts, but Miss Round will have the advantage in style, technique and experience. “Like Perry, Miss Round is a champion of real British breed. She always gives her best when most is required of her.

“Her homeliness. despite her triumphs, is proved by her reluctance to leave her Sunday School class a' Dudley, even for a tennis tour.”