MARCH 28, 1989
W
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acrobatic turns, whose marvels are also a mystery. The ordinary per- son in a music-hall is not a gymnast and does not know how incredibly difficult are some of the simpler- looking feats which scarcely elicit a single "hand." The best spectator is the man who knows the elements of the game, and how many of us havd ever tried our feet on the slack wire, our hand on the flying trapeze, or our entire persons as the base apex of a family pyramid? most of us have ping-ponged it in our time.
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KING AND QUEEN.-The King and Queen and performance at Covent Garden this week. ls, where this picture was taken. Photo shows Ro- ng a rehearsal of one of the striking dances.
Ice-skating, Ice-hockey, and Ice- music-hall-shows have become 'familiar dazzlers. London, amid the
broad acres of Earls Court, has re- cently added ski-ing to the list of spectator-sports. These are enough winter-sporters to create an experi- enced audience with some apprehen- There is sion of the fine points. also Basket-ball, which here is mainly left to girls' schools but in New York is played on the Hippodrome stage to enormous crowds and with enormous display of male profes- sional dexterity.
Meanwhile "anvoker" has gained hugely at the expense of billiards, being quicker more eventful, more picturesque, altogether better suited
ally conservative minton, with a special line of last to an age of speed and fidgets. Then
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all as well as a drill-
this year honoured
a turn in the Royal
cleverly Darts have had a sudden saves which are
·
rise in Did not a sporting parson
· made to look even more astonishing status. than they really are. The neatness ecently pronounce the text of his of the tricky footwork magnifies the address to be Samuel I, Double Top
--1.e., XA, 207
In that veise of
distances covered in order to make goripture Jonathar observes:
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the startling recovery of the shut- 1 shot the arrows on the side theraETROL
tie.
shot at a mark.” The London Coliseum recently of, as though I
The dart- had Mr. Henry Cotton for its star Plainly three doubles.
board is naturally too small to make turn, and Mr. "Cotton's serious de-
an effective spectacle on a stage, but monstration of golfing strokes might its lack, of size just suits the restrict- have been deemned too grave a matter ed field of television. There again a new phase of spectatorship is opened for vaudeville surroundings: but no, he was such a favourite that his up. The miniature games may now become the favourites for the new visit was prolonged. Swing, it seems screen. Why not, for example, for is in fashion, and not in dance music Television-a close-up of the Spilli- only. Now the Coliseum is offering kins Wimbledon, or whatever it is their high table-tennis, a vastly athletic matter, that Spillikinsmen call
steady hand? with terrific drives on the one hand,
tournament of the
leisure
inton, for example, and much diving and plunging and with general increase of
miraculous scooping of the ball off these are great times for sports and far-distant floors upon the other.
pastimes, both played and watched. The rivalry grows keener, and the It may or may not be necessary to cricketers, who think that they can liberties withi public y Performance. The have microphone commentators roar-
take any
There its two exponents at ing explanations and exhortations
is a tide in the affairs of games. dium is not exactly and generally "plugging" music-hail patience, must be careful. misses the touch of games. What is surely obvious is tactics of the game that these athletic displays of skill batterning of a good in games which we ourselves more e: But it is an clumsily practise lous cartoon of Bad- more interesting
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