TENNIS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2685, 15 December 1909, Page 6

TENNIS.

I WILDING’S RETURN TO NEW j ZEALAND. Sunburnt, tall, in the pink of condition after his strenuous games for the Davis Cup against America sreprcsenltatiyes> Messrs Long and_ world’« Mr A. F. Wilding, one of the woMtl. Champion . tennis players, ashore from the Marama on her arnval from Sydney . yfftojday mornmg (s&vs the “Dominion” of Friday.) -His journeying? throughout the world duriSg So post, A or nme months •have been a triumphal tour. He van quishcd several, of the best pontmental 1 players when in Europe, m .Western Australia be found no serious rival and [in the recent Davis Chip,contests .ho and Norman Brookes proved too agile Hot the Americans though tbev put up m stout fight. They were young men 'of brilliant' promise, but laoked cnee, • which was so essential at crucial •points in the game. Mr. Wilding has inbthing but praise for Ins Victorian ■partner Brookes, whose amazing lettijiand serves were so difficult to negotiate'. The trouble Brookes experienced fwhen it was thought that he would mot. be able to play against the Americans proved to be nothing more serious jthan a sore throat, and Hie slight nerivousness it occasioned the Victorian. (Parker of Wellington, was still doing

well with the racquet, and was well up in the class which : includes such names as Sharp. Heath, March, Rice, and Dunlop.