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- ↑ "LAWN TENNIS. ENTRIES FOR THE PORTLAND PARK OPEN. Entries for the annual open tennis tournament to be decided next week". Shields Daily News. Newcastle, Northumberland, England: The British Newspaper Archive. 16 June 1920. p. 2.