Crash helmet boom
NZPA’ London Crash helmets, used in motor sports, ice hockey and now cricket, will soon be seen on British tennis courts.
But they will be worn by linesmen, rot the players. Mr Roy Cope-Lewis, the secretary of Britain’s professional tennis umpires’ federation, said in London yesterday that he was having cricket-style crash helmets made and they would be worn by net-cord judges at Britain’s first grand prix tournament this season, at Queen’s Club, from June 18.
Mr Cope-Lewis said: “I am totally opposed to netcord judges. I think they are unnecessary, but if we have to have them, why should we put their lives at risk? The way the balls fly about at this level of the game puts them in danger. “Medical experts have stated that it would need only one blow at the right point on the head to kill a man.
“We had an incident last November when a net-cord judge was hit in the mouth, and we are not prepared to take any more chances.”
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Press, 24 April 1979, Page 44
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