TENNIS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19513, 16 February 1926, Page 4

TENNIS

: WANGANUI v. PALMERSTON NORTH NEXT SATURDAY. The following team has been selected to represent Wanganui in a match against Palmerston North on the Wanganui club's courts on Saturday next: Messrs Lampe, S. Powdrell (captain), Wheeler. Barkman, J. Powdrell, J. E. Marshall; Misses Calver, Myers, Mrs Mrs Barkman, Mrs Waters, Miss Walker. Emergencies: Gover Miss Purcell, Mrs Jones. The Wanganui Club has kindly placed its courts at the team's disposal for practice during the current week. Members are asked to get in as much praelice as possible. The visit of a B team to Palmerston North was to have taken place next • aturday, but has been postponed owing to the inability of several players to make the trip this week. PROPOSALS! SUZANNE AND HELEN. GOSSIP ON THE RIVIERA. LONDON, Feb. 3. Suzanne Lenglen and Helen Wills are last becoming the centre of the Riviera’s most romantie rumours. They arc daily accredited with new proposals of marriage. When one denies a rumour the gossips immediately connect a suitor with the other. The' latest is that a prominent English nobleman has •authoritatively” proposed to Mlle. Lenglen. T representative of the “Evening Standard” found Suzanne and Helen sitting in a secluded corner of the Nice Tennis Club, discussing the respective merits of the Franco-American tennis balls, and asked Suzanne to confirm or deny the rumour. She turned to Miss Wills and said: “Oh, mon Dieu, Miss Wills, listen. Everybody’s anxious to marry me off except mother and father.” Miss Wills answered: ‘‘l’m not surprised. They have already alleged several proposals to me, although I have only been here a fortnight.” Suzanne admitted that she often saw the nobleman and was very fond of him as a friend, but it was the first she ever heard of his intention qf proposing. It is amazing how such rumours start,” she added. ‘'He’s a fine man. 1 even introduced him to Miss Wills.” Miss Wills exclaimed, “Here don’t drag me into this. They will say next that the nobleman has jilted you for me. ’ ’ The “Evening Standard” learns that the nobleman in question is offering practically any odds that Suzanne will beat Helen. He has always heavily backed Suzanne., THE RIVALS BOROTBA’S VIEWS. The London “Evening News” a fortnight ago said that a canard exists to the effect that Suzanne Lenglen, fearing defeat, refuses to play in any tournament where she would encounter Helen Wills. “The truth is,’’ the paper adds, “that Mdlle. Lenglen originally intended to play only in the two singles tournaments on the Riviera. Miss Wills is certain to enter wherever Mdlle. Lenglen plays, because she is ambitious to play her rival as often as possible. They will probably meet at Cannes and Nice. ”

Jean Borotra expresses the opinion that the French girl will beqt the American, 6—2, 6—2.