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Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1922, Page 4

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AUSTRALIAN ANI) N. 7. CAULK ASSOCIATION. TENNIS REFORM. LONDON. Do: ember 11. Tie annual meeting ol tin* Lawn Tennis Association was unusually crowded and lively, owing to a reform lmiveinei\t as ea ,i. d i.u November I*o- - Wallis Myers, the reformers’ leader. eritirLed the Conned strongly for giving Spain a walk-over in the Davis Cup. lie pointed out Italy was making her utoibuti in the cup. Czechoslovakia. Belgium R”d even Rotliuania. although, all realising, they were sure to lie beaten, and mo of them “hurt ol funds, bad matc-te 1 0" > matches If the Council ecn-idetcd Britain s tennis prestige, it would surrender. Mr Myers .- Iso attacked li: • inhospitable treatment extended t > foreign ami overseas competitors, lie quoted Patterson’s statement in the Australian newspapers, contrasting the casual official re. option received in England with the way that the Australians were treated .in the United States. The new Cniincil includes a good prepaid ion of reformers, five out of six candidates in tho southern area, and six out. of nine in the Home Counties being reformers. Mrs Laniheri-Cba.nihers was elected. She- is the first woman elected to the Council. The reformers’ scheme for constitutional reconstruction (cabled on November IS) was referred to the new (Vmncil, but the motion to debar the representatives ot lmmufaeturers from competing in any tournament s was defeated by a large majority.