Barabba Tennis
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Tennis was played on a dirt court in the Barabba Recreation Reserve prior to World War I but there are no records or evidence of matches being played against other teams, only photos of players playing tennis, the women in long neck-to-knee frocks and large hats, the men in white shirts with ties and waistcoats and dark trousers.
In 1922 due to the efforts of Miss Amelia White who was school teacher at the Barabba School, a tennis club was formed and tennis was again played at Barabba on the dirt court. Later an asphalt court was constructed and matches were played against other teams.
In 1929 a Mr Marshall from Balaklava was engaged to construct a second court and coated it with bitumen and a tennis association was formed with Alma, Hamley Bridge, Stockport, Barabba and Mallala and competition matches were played.
The years 1932-33 and 1933-34 were good years for the Barabba Tennis Club for the team won the association premiership in those two years. Then the club went into recess owing to the shortage of players. Some members had shifted away and no more tennis was played until after World War II when another school teacher, Mr Sid McRostie, approached several of the young people in the district and tennis was again started in the middle of the 1950s.
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