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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 Yarru, Cnmperilown, Ballarnt, Sale, Kalamatite and Frank-Kton, Frank-Kton, In which more than 1,.'IHI competl-i competl-i tors took part. There is a tremendous rush of tournaments all over Australia I and Ihe state championships tire at- tractlng more entries than ever before. "In Vlcticla." says the Referee, "the cricketing clubs In the country towns are finding their leading players prefer tennis to cricket and they cannot get teams tok'elher without difficulty. The 1 cricketers seem to prefer a practice j game of lawn teimiM to their own love. 1 Times are surely changing." i |