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JUNIOR TALENT IN TENNIS NEEDS HELPING

FRED PERRY

AGAIN IN TO MARRY THE NEWS AGAIN

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WHILE NOBODY in Great Britain will agree with W. T. Tilden that amateur and International tennis will not recover after the war, there are many who believe that it will take longer to get back to normal if junior talent is not encouraged says a Home correspondent.

Compared with other sports very little has been done in this respect and, not unnaturally, the enthusiasts are asking why not? Although nothing has been an-

It is pointed out that the ruling In the days when we ounced officially, close friends of body should do more than issue a

Perry, England's famous

statement requesting clubs to en- thought such things im-Fred

What is tenis player who is now a pro- of portant,

is for the Lawn Tennis fessional at the Mexico City Coun-courage junior talent.

wanted footballing brothers, wry Club, are saying that he will Association to spend some of their

Dreux, at model marry Sandra name of Jones, was trans-rom Dallas, Texus, as soon as his many thousands of pounds, which ferred from Wolverhamp-divorce froin the

Vinson, becomes absolute ton Wanderers to the then Bank of England; she came to the

to model at

Perry met Miss

netres. Helen

Dreux when Country Club dress show given for a team (Arsenal)

by the Dallas firm of Nieman trifile of £14,000, writes a Marcu. home correspondent.

amateur tennis has helped to put into their coffers, and to do some thing more concrete than placing the responsibility with clubs.

make

Quite a number of clubs do not pussess the finances to promote tournaments, although they would Miss Dreux is now wearing an, be quite willing to

very engagement ring and shows no

satisfactory arrangements if they sign of returning to Dallas,

Friends say that their wedding is expected to be held as soon as sen-possible

should

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had the wherewithal.

Call it Allison's folly, or a mas- ter stroke of Soccer economies, as

Club is Doomed you fancy, but the immediate re- sult was the rocketing of a

There is the case of one club sitive player on to the front page

which is in serious danger of hav- A few pounds of every British and most Ameri-

foring to close down. insure Bryn can newspapers.

in the man

Western would allow them to carry on and, matches

the new

perhaps, play a part in keeping League.

standard of tennis that will help But, As only three of the clubs in the new group come under Foot-in the post-war comeback.

although during I'm afraid ball League control, Arsenal are in the painful position they have paid a good few pounds neither that body nor the country of either insuring a player who to the Lawn Tennis Association,

risking won't play for them or

closing to save this club serious deflation of his post-war association can make any advance transfer value by injury

down.

Bryn blinked uneasily Spotlight and never once played £14,000 game for hus Arsenal masters.

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Back To The Valleys The blaze of publicity in which some players, say Alex James, would have thrived shadowed the career of the highly-strung Welsh-

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The player, too, is hit, for he Came the war, and Bryn, fold-gets no compensation if his foot- ing his tent, slipped silently into ball career is broken or ended by the welcome obscurity of, the old injury incurred while on duly with club outside the scope of the home town- Merthyr.

League's insurance scheine.

The £14,000 star went through a period at Cardiff, but it was on! the lovely turf of his old club, Aberaman, where he leau und has art, that Bryn recaptured it and

hits bey now weekly enterta

hood pals tur something I than he earned in bonus Honey

Highbury.

Bryn Jones is himself again, and will the big-time Soccer stren beckon in vain .. rich material for the psychologist

Altogether one of those unadv able problems which follow the gri wake of war

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Played For R.A.F. Meanwhile, Bryn dones has had the unusual experience of playing as a civilian in one or two R.A.F. friendly games in his home area.

But £14,000 footballers, even with a war on, cannot for ever.A.F. station and led to hopeful escape the headlines. Bryn is news again.

Hobson's Choice For Arsenal

Arsenal, troubled over possible war investment, asked that Abera-

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their

from

existence

Of course the L.T.A. have an

answer and, to them, a satisfactory one. They cannot very well assist one cub without dozens of others probably expecting the same treat- ment if this were given the cash in hand would vanish very quick- Iv. There must be a way, how- ever, of considering every case 1 detail und treating them accord ing to their merits. ment the Association has quite a large sum ut in loans to clubs, who have been granted a nura- torium until after the war.

At the mo-

Meanwhile the 1..T.A. have va-

Which possibly explains how the story got started that Bryn was being moved to a North-countryented their old time offices, the lease of which has expired, but work, goes OI ut a private re- inquiries by Manchester City.

217 sidence und executive com- During my Welsh itinerary heurd colourful stories of a won-mittee, to deal with any war-time der

month. wink half-back Bryn is questions, meets once

next schooling at Aberaman, but as you Their first question can't keep the scouts from scout-meeting should be connected with ing in the valleys-an unsuspected ja nationwide move to give junior

I guess players a chance this Summer. ease of art for art's sake this isn't exactly news.

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A war-time "Wimbledon" can- not be expected, but there could he some sort of junior champion- ship, with district qualifying tour- naments throughout the country.

Coaching--and there must be many admirable teachers longing for an opportunity to leach the young footsteps along the right track s another point which might be considered. Clubs cannot afford to engage coaches; the L.T.A. could spend a few pounds in a far more wasteful manner. Opportunities for youngsters are given in several other sports, why not in lawn tennis?

ARMSTRONG'S NEW VOCATION These old champs get around. Jack Dempsey has got a job as sports editor and Henry Armstrong joins a dance band, writes Q correspondent from London.

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And Homicide Hank, who married preacher's daughter, told me on the Queen Mary his life ambition, was: to finish up in Médicine or the Church..

He tried to make his dimes as pin boy in a sitittle alley - pay: his medical, student's fees, but It didn't add up right, so' he

TENNIS

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The

Tennis League handbooks are now out of the hands of the printers 9.28 and are in the course of being forwarded

to the tennis conveners of the various clubs.

The League will start on Mon- day, with the first batch of First Division fixtures. Second Division, Third Division and Fourth Divi- sion matches will be played on Tuesday", Wednesdays and

respectively. Thursdays, hitherto,

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J. Redman, G. G. Ait- kenhead.

Major Giles, R. Young, R. S. W. Paterson, J. C. Taylor.

I. H.

Geare, R.

Gairdner.

C.

L. A. R. Duncan, S. L Lloyd.

J. L. Macintyre. A. McKellar

J. R. Way, M. A. Cairns.

F. X. Lee, S.

Church,

S.

B. O. Baldwin, H. W. Beisley.

A. K. Mackenzie, Col. Rose.

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MONDAY

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First Division

V. H.K.U.T.C. บ. S.C.A.A.

10.36

1040

V. K.C.C.

There is one error in the hand-

fixtures. In Third Division the en- book which concerny next week's

read C.CC. v. C.R.C. (2).

Following are the fixtures for try S.C.A.A. v. C.R.C. (2) should

next week

C.R.C. C.D.R. H.K.C.C.

C.R.C. K.C.C. S.C.A.A.

TUESDAY

Second Division

V. A.T.C.

V. C.S.C.C. V. K.T.G.C.A.

WEDNESDAY

Third Division

C.D.R.

C.R.C.. (1) H.K.U.T.C. C.C.C. B.C.A.A.

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V,

V. A.T.C.

K.T.G.C.A. K.C.C.

V.

V. K.I.T.C.

THURSDAY

940 a.m.

10:00

Hunter, J. A.

Blackwood.

R. P. Morris, H, A. Mills.

Purves, G. M.

C. M. Williams, P. E. Annis.

F. Heurther, H. M. Rowland.

J J. van Muhlen, D. H. Hamilton.

H. Overy, W. J. E. Mackenz e.

New Course

Miss Balchin,

Findley.

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A. C. 1. Bowker, J. R. Collis.

C.R.C. (2)

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