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Championship Tennis
. Tho tenais has been-a great success,
both socially and Crom a sports point of.
view, and the Kooyong committee
would seem to be justified in believing
that, at last its courts, which have cost
it so much, aro established as a rende-
vous for all tennis lovers. In spite of
Henley and a big race inseting at Caul-
field, the crowd at Kooyong courts was
the biggest .tho committee-has known,
and consisted not only'ot people .who
are too sophisticated tor Henley, biit
of many hundreds of young men and
women of the business world conic to
see just how to improve their service.
Perry's win was well deserved. He
was just too good Cor his opponent all
the time, biit on another day Iho. result
might have been different. Another
surprising side of tho tournaments has'
been the public interest' in second and
third grade matches, all of which goes
to show that the decline in enthusiasm
for this.sport so often predicted is still
some way off.
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