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Show Tennis Rapidly Gaining Followers in Australia Tennis is rapidly supplanting cricket as the most popular outdoor sport in Australia, according to the Sydney Referee, the well-know'i sporting periodical. peri-odical. It points out that during Christmas week there were tournaments tourna-ments at South Yarra, Camperdown, Ballarat, Sale, Kalamatite and Frank-stori, Frank-stori, in which more than 1,"(H.) competitors competi-tors took part. There is a tremendous rush of tournaments all over Australia and the state championships are attracting at-tracting more entries than ever before. "In Victoria," says the Referee, "the cricketing clubs in the conn try towns are finding their leading players prefer tennis to cricket and they cannot get teams together without dilliculty. The cricketers seem to prefer a practice game of lawn tennis to lheir own love. Times are surely changing." |