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| Picture No | 10934353 |
| Date | 1914 |
| Description | A. F Wilding plays Davis Cup tennis, 1914 |
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Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and four-times Wimbledon champion pictured playing in his last ever sporting competition - at the Davis Cup at Forest Hills, Long Island, N.Y, USA. He was part of a team (including Norman Brookes, who had beaten him in the final at Wimbledon that year) to win the cup for Australasia. Wilding was killed at the Battle of Aubers Ridge in May 1915.
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| Source | Photographs in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 5 September 1914 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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