TENNIS PROS.
VISIT TO AUSTRALIA UNLIKELY The negotiations for the proposed visit of the professional players V. Richards and J. Ivozeluh came to an end last week when a. cable message was received from Richards stating that the terms offered by the Australian Association were not acceptable to himself and Ivozelus, says a Melbourne writer. # After consideration the R.T.A.A. offered these two players £250 each for appearance money, as well as all their expenses from and to America, an allowance of £1 a day while on ship for incidental expenses, and £ 2 10s a day for hotel expenses while in Australia, and all rail fares for a tour | of six weeks—approximately in all 4 £1,500. A reply .to this offer was! received asking for £1,000" each as well as all travelling expenses. The association then increased its final offer to £350 each for appearance money, with a possible further percentage of any profits, all other conditions being the same, but evidently expecting that Australia was a gold mine for any j players after the handsome profits made by the French team in 1928, the professionals did not consider the offer lucrative enough, and the proposed visit has now definitely fallen through.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 851, 20 December 1929, Page 12
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201TENNIS PROS. Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 851, 20 December 1929, Page 12
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