TENNIS CONTROL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1938, Page 2

TENNIS CONTROL

PLAYER WHO ARRIVED LATE ,AT TOURNAMENT. EXPLANATION ACCEPTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, September 5. Seven days were allowed by the Management Committee of the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association for H. Dymond, third-ranked player in the province, to supply an explanation of his conduct in arriving late for a match at the Easter tournament. Dymond’s explanation arrived on the seventh day. This information was given to a meeting of the committee today by the secretary (Mr S. W. Jameson). After considering the letter, the committee agreed to accept the explanation as satisfactory, but Mr Jameson was not satisfied. “To my mind, it is a very lame explanation,” he said. Mr Jameson read the letter he sent to Dymond, following on the last meeting of the committee. In this letter he referred to the fact that no reply had been received to two previous letters and added that unless an explanation was received within seven days, the player would be disqualified or suspended for a period. Dymond’s reply, which Mr Jameson stated was received on the seventh day, said he was late at the courts because he had been driven home for lunch by a friend. The friend was late in calling back for him, so he had to wait. Also he had business to attend to.