TENNIS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10318, 29 January 1927, Page 9

TENNIS.

HARD COURT AND LAWN. NOTES AND NEWS. (By “Sideline.”) Where Lies the Fun? “There was a time,” said Joe, “when we— That’s Bill and Jim and Bob and me— Played tennis with one pair of balls For months and months; my mine! recalls No thoughts that then we did not get As good a time as now—l’ll bet That in those games of yesterday T'was better than than now we play. . Ah me! The older that we get The more we grouch, the more we fret We want new halls because we say Our drive needs new ones, or it may Be just because it is a pose To need new- balls, because of those Who high above, in loftier spheres u n social planes, where Vere de V ores Hob-nob, thev have for every set A dozen balls. We quite lorget That aiter ail, the envied one Should be the guy that geis the fun.”

Odd Strings. Canterbury’s grass courts at 'Wildin o- Park, Christchurch, which were opened for the first time for the recent Canterbury championship tournament are the" “last word’’ in completeness. “I think the appointments at Wilding Park are.wonderful,” said Dr. North, the New South Wales player, to an interviewer. Prom information received , says the “Evening Post,” Miss Marjorie Maefarlane, the well-known Auckland champion, is performing splendidly in tournament play in Pngland. lhe New Zealander’s win from . Miss Clare-Deckingham, who was in the last eight at Wimbledon championships, was particularly good, and ns she also beat Mrs. Strawson (nee Reid Thomas) the same day 'bi Southport, it can be taken for granted that Miss Maefarlane is greatly improi'ed in her play. Mr. P ■ 11. Woodward, New Zealand s delegate to the English Association, has been most helpful to Miss Maefarlane in arranging practice games.and advising her in regard to tournaments, in fact, nothing was too much trouble for him to do, and New Zealand may he considered as blessed with a most painstaking and up-to-date delegate. Miss Maefarlane has every intention of being back in Now Zealand lor the 11)27 national championships. “Geoff 01 liver is still the best man you’ve cot in New Zealand,” said Mr v . Peach of the N.S.W. team in discussing New*' Zealand tennis at Christchurch recently. I ‘There is no doubt about that. Some of these chaps who watch tennis say there isn’t anything very brilliant coming from his- . stick, bu believe me, he can make it not. 1 laying my brother and I at Masterton, be showed us what he could do he —well he made himself a damned nuisance. Geoff doesn’t get the credi for what he does. He does all the hard solid work, and his partner Provides the fire-works. Its the hi’ e " works that gets tlm crowd, and tne man who provides them gets the applause.” '