LAWN TENNIS
BROOKES’S REFUSAL TO PLAY FIVE SETS. '
MELBOURNE, January 28.
Norman Brookes declined to play the best of five sets because he had not had sufficient training, and was not well enough in condition to play along match.
It was reported yesterday that the Britishers desired the singles to be the best of five. Parke was especially desirous in this respect. They urged that the victory of Brookes against Parke at Sydney in two straight sets had been acclaimed as re-establishing Brookes’s supremacy, whereas it was not a championship tost at all. Brookes declined to play unless the committee’s original arrangement of the best in three were adhered to. Thu Britishers finally agreed to accept this arrangement.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8340, 29 January 1913, Page 7
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118LAWN TENNIS New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8340, 29 January 1913, Page 7
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