GOOD SIDE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 895, 12 February 1930, Page 15

GOOD SIDE

Australian Tennis Team for N.Z.

PROVISIONAL ITINERARY From Our Resident Reporter YY ELLINGTON, Tuesday. The All-Australian tennis team, announced to tour New Zealand, is tho most powerful side ever to visit tins country from the Commonwealth. F. Kaims (New South Wales), C. Sproule (New South Wales), C. Donohue (New South Wales) and W. Teague (Victoria) are the side, and all are in the first six in their States. The New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association hoped for Hawkes or Schicsinger as a fourth man, but are very pleased with the side. Halms is well known in New Zealand, as with Willard he is the only man in the New South Wales first six today who was ranked in that position when a colts’ team from the Dominion went to Australia, in 1925-6. In that year, Crawford and llopman were playing in the juniors, and Kalins beat E. D. Andrews in the final of the Australasian singles championship. Two years ago, Kaims won the New South Wales singles championship and played third in the team of which Crawford and Hopman were members and which beat the British side at White City. Sproule and Donohue are recent arrivals and their record this season has been a fine one. In the Victorian tournament, just before the Australian Championships Crawford beat Sproule. 6—l. t— 3, 2 —6, 9—ll, 6—4. and Hawkes beat Donohue!' 6—3. 6—2, 4 —G. 0— J J, 6—4. In the In-ter-State match between New South Wales and Victoria, Donohue lost to O'Hara Wood, B—G, 3—6, 3—6, and to Teague (who is sixth player in Victoria), 5—7, 5—7. Sproule beat Teague, 6 —3, 6—3, and also beat O’Hara Wood G—3, 6—3. In the doubles Sproule and Donohue lose to O’Hara Wood and Hawkes, 3—6, 5 —7. In a trial match for the Davis Cup team, Sproule beat Hopman, chosen to represent Australia in the Davis Cup, 7 —5, 6—3. 6—o. The provisional itinerary for the visitors. as announced by the N.Z.L.T.A.. subject to acceptance by the various associations of the matches offered them, is as follows: The Australians will play Auckland Province at Auckland on February 21 and 22, leave for Botorua and there* play an exhibition match, or meet s. Maori representative team on February 24, proceed to Napier and play an exhibition match on February 26. proceed to Palmerston North (which has been chosen on account of its centr'd position) and play a North Island team 1 on February 28 ard March 1. Th e j Australians are scheduled to meet Wellington, ut Wellington, on March 3 and : 4. and to proceed to Christchurch t • play the only test match on March 7 and S. The team goes on to Dunedi.i I and there meets the South Island team ; on March 11 and 12. leaving Dunedin on March 13 for Wellington and sailing { on the return to Sydney on March 14.

OH! the* pipers at Luna Park charm the ear, They are telling the world that the Scots are here; bags and their pipes are in sair demand. So here is guid luck to the Pipers’ Band.

The struggles for American cinema fame of Mona Maris, former film star in Germany who has been in America only six months, are over. She lias been signed to a long contract by Fox Movietone following her work in “Romance of Rio Grande,” starring "Warner F.axter, Miss Maris has had a kaleidoscopic career. She is a native of Buenos Ayres, of French-Basque and Spanish-Basque descent, and is thereby the only real Basque actress on the screen. She was educated in > ranee, attended a convent at "Lourdes made her stage debut in London and wound up her Continental experiences by acting for UFA in Germany.