WALLACE MYERS DEAD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 142, 19 June 1939, Page 8

WALLACE MYERS DEAD

NOTED TENNIS AUTHORITY JOURNALISTIC ( AREER IN LONDON LONDON, June 16. Mr. A. Wallis Myers, the lawn tennis authority, is dead. Mr. A. Wallis Myers was born at Kettering in 1878 and was a son of the late Rev. John Myers. He was educated at Watford and at The Leys, Cambridge. He began his journalistic work on the Westminster Gazette and later was on the Editorial staff of George Newnes, Ltd., publishers. He joined the Daily Telegraph staff in 1908, and for over 20 years he was the lawn tennis editor of The Field. During the war he was attached to the British Ministry of Information and was sent on two special missions to Italy, and subsequently he was Director of Publications to the National War Aims Committee. He founded and edited Reality, a Government war publication. As a lawn tennis critic his fame was world wide. He was a player of class himself and won many tournaments on the

Riviera as well as smaller meetings in England and on the Continent. In 1920 he won the All-England Veterans' Doubles and in 1923 the U.S.A. Veterans’ Doubles. He captained the Er/flsh team in South Africa in 191011 and founded the International Lawn Tennis Club, of Great Britain in 1924. being successively its secretary, chairman, and vice-president, and captaining teams which it sent to India and South Africa. He also founded the Lawn Tennis Golf Club in 1913. His writings on the game covered a wide range of books and include “The Complete Lawn Tennis Player,” which was very popular in the days before the ultra-rapid camera upset preconceived ideas of the game, “The Story of the Davis Cup,” “Fifty Rears of Wimbledon,” a contribution to the “Encyclopaedia Britannica.” and a volume on Anthony Wilding. He also founded and edited the Lawn Tennis Almanack, and his list of the first 10 players of the previous year came to be accepted asa standard ranking. He was made a C.B.E. in 1920. received the cordon of the Legion of Honour in 1932. and was awarded an Olympic Medal by the Swedish Olympic Committee in ,1912. He was married and had four daughters and one son.