RACKET AND BALL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 478, 6 October 1928, Page 13

RACKET AND BALL

TENNIS SEASON BEGINS CITY CLUB OPENS Tennis rackets with strings decimated by winter weather have been coming out of cupboards in great numbers for the past week and, if the spring weather continues, the season will have an early start. Carlton, which opens its courts to-day, is the first of the city clubs to make an official start. The summer hard-court season will be in full swing in a week or two, Campbell Park opening next Saturday. Most of the grass clubs will begin on the last Saturday in October or the first in November. The lawns have never been in better order, the heavy' spring rains having brought the grass along nicely. One of the reasons for an early start is the playing of the test match against England here on November 3 and 5. The Lawn Tennis Association will probably ask clubs not to hold their openings on those dates. Some of the outer suburban clubs, including Alangere Central, have already got going. Valley Club also opens to-day. TATUANUI TENNIS CLUB The balance-sheet submitted at the annual meeting of the Tatuanui Tennis Club showed a credit of £8 13s Id on the past season. The officers elected were: President, Air. C. Sing; vicepresidents, Alessrs. J. E. Hillarv and E. Poynter: secretary and treasurer, Aliss Alundell; delegates to the Piako Association, Messrs. Hart and Wratt; committee, Alessrs. Wratt. Hillary, Woodley, Mesdames Hart and Forrest; Selection Committee, Messrs. Wratt, Alarshall and Mrs. Hart; Ladies’ Committee, Mesdames Forrest, Hart and Miss Woodley; club captain. Air. Wratt. At the Auckland Provincial Association Championship Tennis Tournaments this-eeason. Ayres’ Championship StitcKless Tennis Balls 'will be used. Insist on Ayres’, ... ••