Tennis

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 45, 24 January 1949, Page 5

Tennis

Reid Cup Match Now Postponed Again Postponed from last week to this week-end, the representative tennis match between the Bay of Plenty and Poverty Bay for the Reid Cup has again had to be postponed because of no accommodation being available at Opotiki. The match has now been set down for March 19. One of the selectors, of the Bay of Plenty team, Mr R. Bryers, Whakatane, commenting on the teams chances said that it was not quite so strong as last years, when the Bay of Plenty had won the cup with comparative ease. This year, however, the women players were a lot weaker. He said he could not give any indication as to the strength of the Poverty Bay team at this time. Tennis Films About 50 people attended the tennis films screened by the Bay of Plenty Lawn Tennis Association at Whakatane on Thursday night. The films are at present being shown round the various centres of the Bay of Plenty. The films shown were:— •Tennis at Wimbledon; the 1946 and 1947 Davis Cup final challenge games between Australia and U.S.A.; and one showing how various sports equipment are made. The Bay of Plenty Centre hopes to be able to obtain three coaching films on tennis by Bill Tilden, Donald Budges and Jack Kramer, for screening at Whakatane towards the end of next month. Offer From Japan Refused An invitation to send an Australian tennis team to Japan in 1949 has been rebuffed by the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia. Sir Norman Brookes, the president, told delegates at a council meeting of the association that, in the circumstances, a visit to Japan by an Australian tennis team was “out of the question.” 'The meeting gave a unanimous vote in favour of a motion refusing the invitation. Unless there is a considerable change in Australian feeling against Japan, it seems likely that the L.T.A. of Australia has set the standard for Australia’s sporting attitude towards the . Japanese for some years to come.