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- ↑ Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Daily Telegrams. (Tuesday 28 August 1883). MID-DEVON LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT. The annual open lawn tennis tournament, under the auspices of the Mid-Devon Lawn Tennis Club was commenced yesterday on the Club ground. Exeter, Devon. England. p.3.
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- ↑ Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Daily Telegrams. (Tuesday 28 August 1883). MID-DEVON LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT. The annual open lawn tennis tournament, under the auspices of the Mid-Devon Lawn Tennis Club was commenced yesterday on the Club ground. Exeter, Devon. England. p.3.