TOUR OF UNITED STATES

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1933, Page 13

TOUR OF UNITED STATES

AUSTRALIAN TENNIS TEAM

QUESTION OF EXPENSES

NEW; .YORK, March 23.

: THe Australian . Press Association learns that arrangements have been completed for a tour by an. Australian tennis team to the United States, following the "Wimbledon tournament. It would, play at important eastern tournaments in America, including the national doubles and singles, and negotiations a_re proceeding for a series of transcontinental exhibition matches in such cities aa Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City, with the Californian players, who would then be proceeding home by easy stages from the east to airivo in time for the Pacific Coast championships in the early autumn, in which the Australians would also participate.

If is reported that Australian participation in this tour depends on agreement about the question of expenses from the gate receipts, the Californian tennis authorities thus far being reluctant to share them. These exhibitions are now a fixture of some years' standing, and are said to have been made attractive "gate" propositions by Californian playors in the past.

It is contended, however, that the gate receipts would probably.be greatly increased by the participation of the Australians. Much interest has been aroused in America in McGrath's style, and he is expected to be a special drawing card.