UNIVERSITY TENNIS

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 88, 8 January 1935, Page 6

UNIVERSITY TENNIS

New Zealand Players Return AUSTRALIAN TOUR Impressed by the standard of University tennis in Australia and particularly at Sydney, and by the numbers of promising young players in the Commonwealth, the members of the New Zealand University lawn tennis team returned yesterday by the Monowai after their Australian tour. The team is: J. J. McCarthy, H. A. Barnett. B. A. Barrer and R. A. Young. The team left 'Wellington on December 13 and spent eight days in Sydney and eight in Melbourne. It was defeated by nine matches to three by Sydney University but put up a better showing against Melbourne University, to go down 7-5. Mr. McCarthy said yesterday that Varsity tennis in Sydney was* undoubtedly of a higher standard than in New Zealand, but with a little more luck the team would have won in Melbourne. There was a tremendous number of good juniors in Australia, and the outstanding feature of their game was their net play. Bromwich, a youth of 15 who was playing in the Australian championships, was a peculiar player who served with his right hand, used a two-hand forehand, an ordinary backhand and smashed and volleyed with both hands. Huxley, who was 16, was another promising youth, and was a great stylist. The New Zealanders found the courts in Australia were not as hard and.fast as they had expected, owing to rain. Their visit was the first of what it is hoped will become an. annual exchange of visits between New Zealand and Australian University teams, and if this' eventuates,' an' Australian team will be in the Dominion next season.