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favour for a steady but uninspiring} "stonewaller" who was opposed to Mrs, Moody, and the champlon showód herself an adopt in handling mass feeling. Sce- Ing how matters were, Mrs. Moody elected to win over that crowd, and this she did by just
IN ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND playing thist stonewaller at her, own
AMERICA
(By J. E. SAMPSON.)
game, but much better. Presented with an opening for a winning 'drive, Mrs. Moody would just lob instead. Sho
won easily, and finished with the gallery roaring its appreciation.
Like the French, the American; crowd likes a personality, a Betty Nuthall, a Fred Perry. Occasion- ally its demonstrations are a little embarrassing, as when it takes the steadily repeated, "Come on, Betty. form of exhortation in chorus
Come on, Betty." Doubtful do-f cisions
such
The English tennis crowd is per- France is "on valvet" the applause haps the most genuinely sporting is fairly distributed, may even be of any. This is said in no vaunting more partial to the visitor. But if spirit. It is easily the most order-France is in jeopardy, has her back ly crowd and the most amenable to to the wall, then the applausd the exhortation of the umpire. Na rather runs upon the lines of "my turally the English crowd wants to country, right or wrong, but my see the English player win; and for country!" Doubtful decisions oc- many years it has been wanting.casion violent interruption, ent But it is generous to 1 calls, and whistling. The excite. degree in its acknowledgment of ment is general, the air electric, | foreign talent. Wimbledon is uni-and the violent emotion of the crowd is communleated to the players, who become so often just bundles of nerves. The phlegmatic and well-controlled player is little affected, so that Cochet or Lacoste remain icily albof, merely petition- Auence, in ing for silence with aloquent which the other side of the net is addition to the task gesture. With players of the Boro- tra or Perry type it is different. This typo, rather the flamboyant,
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At the end of a big match the nat infrequently stops the game. cushions are thrown into court, as they are in France. The Influence of a crowd has to be felt to be realised. If it is against you, then! it calls for a definite assertion of will to fight and conquer that in-
presenting. If for you, then it is a tremendous stimulant.
A fine!
day, a fine crowd, a fine match- an exciting rally and you win with a backhand down the line. The that moment a glittering one in roar that greets that winner makes) life's procession, and the glitter has been provided by the crowd, the cessary adjunct and background for the great games.
FOOTBALL.
Navy's Good Win.
ARGYLLS FIRST DEFEAT.
At Sookunpoo, yesterday, in the. Senior League the Navy defeated the Argylls by two goals to ai and on the run of play fully de- served their good win.
atmosphere and tradition; It is also unique in the character of its crowd, and that be- cause the meeting is not only a great sporting fixture but an out; standing social event. The social fights are not numerous in relation to the sum total of spectators, but the presence of the exalted In most prominent seats, and on occasion the advent of royalty, has a certain the baroque type, la dearly loved influence upon the crowd. The by the demonstrative crowd, who Wimbledon
though, is of a want a colourful personality on higher class than that of other na which to feed. One has seen Boro tions. This is just a plain state-tra appeal for silence, get it, start ment of fact and not written in any to serve, then stop, and turn ap derogatory spirit. The rough, pealingly, almost in anguish, to the noisy, and rowdy elements are just gallery. The umpire's "Un peu de not there. At Wimbledon the play silence" hus not been sufficiently er is vtry conscious of the specta- answered. A baby is crying, and tors; they are in every sense very the crowd laughs, When excite- near, nearer than at Roland Garros 'ment runs high the balls that shave or Forrest Hills.
the lines are often the subject of While our own assemblage is the loud and excited comment. Tho mildest mannered and the best be, players labour under an additional haved, it carries the defects of its strain, that of the match and their virtues in that it is less exhilarat-response to An overcharged at- ing and stimulating than a cruder mosphere. When the Davis Cup and more vehement one. At Wim-challenge round is over, and France bledon all is decorum, with the on- still holds the cup, then follows the Jookers in general keenly alive to inevitable cheering and the shower the possibility of extracting any of "soft seats" into the arena. amusement from trifles. Thus the breaking of an umpire's voice or At Forrest Hills the crowd again his confusion over a score are la largely popular; the fashion eagerly seized upon as a relief from element is generally lacking. As tension. At Wimbledon a doubt compared with Wimbledon the con- ful decision is an incident always courao la at arm's length and the easily controlled by the umpire. player leas conscious of it, provid- The loser is sure of his meed of ed that nothing very exciting is praise equally with the winner, but taking place. The Americans are there is not that powerful urge quick in adopting players, in 'recog which is furnished by the vocinising a pleasing personality, and, ferous and burning partisanship of once having made its election, la Roland Garros and Forrest Hills.. noisy in making it known. Equally is the reverse true. Thus, one ar- In France, at the Stade Roland dent "fan", not caring for the ruth- The party of Bavarian Garros, the crowd is more remote less accuracy of Mrs. Wills-Moody;taineers, organised by Herr Paul! from the player, and it is of a endeavoured to induce some variety Bauer to reach the summit of Kan- different texture from that at Wim- by blowing a whistle cach time she chenjunga, in the Himalayas, has bledon, and is certainly not a served, and calling out, "How do had to abandon the attempt at al fashionable assembly. At Roland you like that, Helen?" writes height of 26,000ft. Garros there is the popular and E. J. Sampson in the Man-. cheaper side, where on a hot day chester Guardian. The Ameri- the males ait in their shirt sleeves and are out to enjoy the tennis and themselves, and must show their enjoyment by making a noise. If
The French Crowd..
At Forrest Hills.
can crowd is a generous one, with its sympathies generally with the under dog. Thus on one occasion it was loud in its expression of
for
Parker scored a good goal the Navy early in the second half and Langmead secured the other from a centre by Robertson,
Navy Argylls
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