YOUTHFUL STAR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 169, 10 March 1932, Page 2

YOUTHFUL STAR

LIKES ICE-CREAMS BUT DOES NOT LIKE GIRLS. * VIVIAN McGRATH. Just licking ice-creams. tn between licks signing autograph books — especially autograph books belonging to excited schoolgirls with long fplaits. Another ice-cream, another grin, another hundred autographs, ard — another ice-ereahi. So Writes a Sydney correspondent, giving kn impression of this new sdhoolboy tennis wonder, Vivian McGrath. "Vwian McGrath, tennis wonder of tha State. Vivian, grinning and lieking ice-cream, just before he played Turnbull, the Soutli Australian star."Never excited by a game, Yivian made some admissions. He did not Mlldimmil HIHI! 1111 mmiHIIIlil MIMI llllll 11111 HIHI 11111111111(1111

even watch the Australians beat the Japs. "Nobody ever coaches Vivian. He does not train. He just plays a natural game. He uses both hands, because with them he can slam the balls better. "Vivian never holds more than two balls when serving. He drops the last for freedom for his famous grip. He has no hobbies beyond, maybe, an interest in the family 6-valve radio. He reads realistic novels like "All Quiet on the Western Front." He swims a good deal — when he's not playing tennis — at Googee or Maroubra. "He likes talkies, and would like a regular school holiday, but all his holidays are spent playing tennis. "He's not in love. 'Go easy on that stuff," he said. 'I won't spring a surprise like Don Bradman did." "Then he had another ice-cream." iiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilfliiiiiMiiiiuniniilliuiMiiiliuiiiiiitifc