LAWN TENNIS
' BACK TO NEW ZEALAND JUNIOR REPRESENTATIVES STANDARD TN' AUSTRALIA [ Per Press Association. ] WELLINGTON, March 18. Members of the New Zealand Junior tennis team, who have been ■ playing in Australia, returned by the Makura, viz., Messrs. X, F. Bedford. S. Painter, J. L. Corich, J. W. Gunn, and R. G. Pattinson. ' In an interview Mr. Bedford said the team had found the standard of junior tennis in Australia very much higher than in New Zealand. Promising players were taken in hand when 14 or 15, and the result was that some of them were wonderful exponents of the game. “Sidwell, who is only 15, was particularly impressive. Their volleying is miles ahead of ours, and as for stroking sonic of them arc wonderful. “
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 65, 17 March 1936, Page 4
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124LAWN TENNIS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 65, 17 March 1936, Page 4
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