LAWN TENNIS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20311, 22 May 1934, Page 1

LAWN TENNIS.

Anglo-French Match at Paris. BOUSSUS BEATS PERRY. United Press Assn. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received May 22, noon.) PARIS, May 21.^ In the Anglo-French match, C. E. Malfroy (New Zealand) beat Landry, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1. Sharpe beat Berenard, 7-5, 6-3. Boussus beat Perry, 6-4, 2-6, 7-5. Austin beat Merlin, 6-1, 7-5. Perry led 5-3 in the third set of his match against Boussus and had match point, but lost four games, mainly ow-ing to carelessness, although Boussus made a remarkable rally when apparently defeated. Perry and Hughes beat Borotra and Bernard, 6-2, 7-9, 6-3. Brugnon and Gentien beat Malfroy and Tuckey, 2-6.

N.Z. TENNIS PLAYER.

E. D. Andrews on a World Tour. Mr E. D. Andrews, the ex-New Zealand tennis champion, is a world traveller. In letters to his parents, Mr and Mrs O. Andrews, Palmerston North, Mr Andrews discloses that since leaving New Zealand three months ago he has completed a business tour in China and Japan'. continuing from there to England, where he was to arrive this week (reports the “Evening Post”). He travelled by the Shanghai-Pekin the Shanghai-Pekin-Tientsin express to northern China, and while there his experiences were most interesting. He saw armed guards both on boats and the trains, owing to the possible bandit attacks. On one riverboat he was the only Briton on board Going on to Japan, he completed a number of business appointments before sailing on the Empress of Britain to Vancouver. The Empress of Britain, with 500 on board, including Mr Paul de Ricon, an Oxford tennis blue, was. on a world tour. The ship had a full tennis court and a squash racquets court, and Mr Andrews fully enjoyed the facilities of both Mr Andrews visited Honolulu on the voyage in the Empress of Britain, a 42,000-ton vessel, and later San Francisco, Los Angeles (including Hollywood), Chicago, and New York. He expected to arrive in London on May 15. From there he was going to Paris, staying there from May 20 to June 2 for the French tennis championships, and then going on to Prague for the Davis Cup match New Zealand versus Czechoslovakia, about June S, 9 and 10. lie expects to return to London n n June 14, as the games at Wimbledon begin about June 23 or 24. Following that Mr Andrews will be returning to New Zealand.