{"id":2695,"date":"2021-03-18T01:37:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T01:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/?post_type=article&#038;p=2695"},"modified":"2021-03-18T01:37:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T01:37:22","slug":"the-historic-tildesley-cup","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/article\/the-historic-tildesley-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"The Historic Tildesley Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Tennis<\/h3>\n<p>\nCongratulations to <strong>Natalia <\/strong>(Year 12) who has been announced as our 2021 Tildesley Tennis Captain.<\/p>\n<p>The Tildesley Tennis Shield competition is IGSSA&#8217;s longest running carnival. It was first held in 1918, with the now defunct Normanhurst School in Ashfield declared the champion school. \u00a0Normanhurst had a very successful tennis program and by the 1920s had produced two of Australia&#8217;s most famous female tennis players. In 1918 the Headmistress of Normanhurst, Miss Evelyn Mary Tildesley (1882\u20131976) donated &#8220;a beautiful oak and bronze shield&#8221; for a tennis competition which encouraged team spirit among Sydney&#8217;s Protestant girls&#8217; schools.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Independent_Girls%27_Schools_Sporting_Association\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">From Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>We wish Natalia and her Tennis Squad all the best at this year\u2019s Tildesley Tournament,<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2698\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2698\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2021\/03\/EvelynTildesley1933-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2021\/03\/EvelynTildesley1933-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2021\/03\/EvelynTildesley1933-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2021\/03\/EvelynTildesley1933-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evelyn Tildesley 1933<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis Congratulations to Natalia (Year 12) who has been announced as our 2021 Tildesley Tennis Captain. The Tildesley Tennis Shield competition is IGSSA&#8217;s longest running carnival. It was first held in 1918, with the now defunct Normanhurst School in Ashfield declared the champion school. \u00a0Normanhurst had a very successful tennis program and by the 1920s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[7],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2695","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}