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TENNIS NOTES
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(By "Racquet.")
Ae stated in yesterday's issue, the
unfinished matches -in connection wiiJi
the "B" grade roster have been abandoned,
the reason given being that the
University team had established itself
in such a lead that, even if they iost
the remaining matethes of the
roster,
their position could not be affected.
As expected, the University
players
found little difficulty in disposing of
their less practised and weaker com
petitors.
They are people of leisure,
most of them, and their constant practice
maintains a degree of efficiency
Which those who only -play once a
week, or perhaps
less, seldom ever
reach.
It is undoubted also that the
victorious team contains at least two
men tit decided ability—Johnson
and
Rayner.
The other two -players, Butler
and Moore, are somewhat erratic,
and cannot be absolutely depended on,
its oau the others.
The team as a
whole has ibeen remarkably consistent
in winning every same..
I have referred before to the laxity
displayed in most of the teams as. regards
t.he keeping of their
engagements.
There -was another instance
nt this last Saturday, when Eellerlve
forfeited
to
University,
Now.
the
reasons which make It inconvenient, or
even i;upes'--tf)le. for .players to carry
out the programme drawn up -bv the
association may, of course, be "very
excellent in themselves.
In fact. I
dare say that they have been so ill
every ense. for no man would wantonly
ncgle-t to play when he* knew others
were expecting Mm to do so.
But li
is a question of iiriiu-tp'.e. and the as-
Delation or anyone else cannot
expected to in-juire into
tihe
cau
which mnke a team let :i match go bv
default: but the mere tect that there
has been su:h default jus'iiies a presumption
.if iiegle-.-t.
For
when
man allow? vbc selectors to choose
!ll ! » sli-.uld Hiev so de-:ire. surely he
undertake- 1 ; to -play if
is
chosen
The.reason given for the abandonment
c.f the ."W grade roster is that
the
I'niversiiv team could
not
be
displaced,
but the reason -for their rcition
may perilips -be -partly attributed
to tbe reelect of .ether teams to -play
them at the appointed times, while It
is also fairly certain that, if-there had
b«on mr-e interest taken In the roster,
it would have been gone through
-to the end.
Perhaps if tennis was di:sconiitniei
<i»ri7>j the winter months
there would be more interest taken.in
it j]iroupl!.?<:t tbe rest of (he year..
•Nine teams have entered .for
the,
ladies' "B" grade rosier, and cf 1"-icse"
•'sere Is one ea---.li freni the New Town.'
Wyndarra. Marana. Lcttra.
and
Poiand
two on^ii frcn
™ ena clwbs
the
University and CirK
H's-h
School.
The drawing up of-the'ro?jev in:, been
lert in -the bards of i'ie s:==.--:-.'>:i;ion"s
secretary. Mr. C. Allanhy. :U'd a commeiicpnient
will he ms:le shortly.
After rciforring to.the
zbitndnnmi'iii
cf the Davis Cini contest-
for
this
senson, the
-R.-rerer-"
'.-onlinuen:—
"Tlie next thine of international imr.-.-i
•'•!> the paw
will he the trip t«
Hn.abnd- and America of
Australia's
best playois. or three of them air.'-
wrv.
namely.
X. E. Brooke;, A. W.
Punloj. and Red 'Heath, and they wiii
nrobably -be joined by Anthony Wild-
ing, now picking up
odd
diampions'liiiis
on the Continent (his latest -was
at OsientJ. where he defeated Frasens'trr,
of 'Belgium, in -the final). Henry
Marsh will join the team, and, atter
competing in the English - championships,
they, or most of them, wJIl go
to America, and then we shall
pro-
(balbly ihear of great doings, Broakes r.
Lamed, Brookes-Wi)d.ing v. Aloxander-
Haokett, and
Heath-Dunlop
against
other .pairs.
"Tihe only defect, from the ipoint ot
view of many of us Is that we will
not he there to look on.
1 'hope that
four-aside -matches against
England
and America will
be
arranged.
If
fixed, t'hev would not interfere with
the Davis Cup match, for each of the
four could .plav a single, and each .pair
two doubles, like the
Buckley
Cup
competition.
That against England
we should w.in easily; but America is
another matter, and-1 wouldn't care
io
anticipate the result, as the nations
appear to be
evenly matched.
Rod
'Hetith has i-tnproVed so greatly that I
think .he could hold his own against
all but the dhampion of America.
Possibly
Doust would go in with one four,
and as a double he and Poidev.in might
displace Heath and Dunlop. for Heath
•'s not so good at doubles as at singles,
-but one of them with Dunvop would Ibe
'best, f.-.r the latter is one of the best
doubles players in the wsrid."
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