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The Spike: or, Victoria University College Review, June 1916

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tennis notes

Though the standard of play has been considerably lowered by the fact that such a large number of our members are on active service or in camp yet the interest in the game in maintained as keenly as it has been in the past. On account of the present war the Wellington Provincial Association decided, at the beginning of the present season, to abandon the inter-club matches. As a result of this the club has had to arrange friendly matches with outside clubs as well as various tournaments among its own members in order to vary the monotony of Knock-up games. A fairly large number of ladder matches have also been played.

On Anniversary day a team of ladies and men journeyed up to Otaki. Though it rained steadily till after eleven a. m. we managed to day the courts, chiefly through the efforts of the ladies in our team, and play off the matcher. In this we were successful, winning ten sets to our opponents eight. On St. Patrick's Day we again went to Otkai and, the weather being kinder, managed to put in a whole day's play. We were again successful by a margin o two sets. On each of these occasions we enjoyed ourselves thoroughly, chiefly owing to the splendid hospitality of the Otakiites. Early in the season two friendly matches were played with Brougham Hill on their courts. We were successful in neither of these. On Saturday, February 20th, Trentham Camp, sent in a team to play us, the following are the results Trentham players being mentioned first—