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will be their undoing. Mr. Ritchio's push drives to the junction of the side. line and the service-line look guileless enough, but if the return is straight it has to cross the net at its highest, and if it is diagonal the striker may look for a long journey to the further side of his own base line.
FRANCE AND THE BALKAN WAR. France's unreinitting efforts to preserve ponce; have won ber golden opinions; un- fortunately they were doomed from the first to fall on deaf ears, for the Balkan States, Turkey included, were fully resolved to cross. swords and put an end to an intolerable state of thinge. Having failed to avert war, France is doing all she can to induce the other Great Powers to bring their in. fluence to bear upon the regrettable situation in order to locate the Balkan conflict. That entirely depends upon the harmony existing between the respective Great Powers. Now that Turkey has declared war, the fighting must go ou to the bitter end. The most extraordinary feature of the war up to the present in the Balkans has been the hesitation of the Balkan League. Though a week and more has gone by since Montenegro struck the first blow, it is only now that the other Balkan States, including Greece- which Turkey ignores, but which means to have a finger in the pie-have started. warlike operations. This delay may well prove fatal to the allied States, as it has afforded time for Turkey to muster ber thousands against the invaders who may now reckon upon a hot time. Montenegro Bulgaria, Servia and Grecce are not in a position to keep up a long war, We shall soon see why the other Balkan States held back until now, leaving Montenegro to first face the foe, which she has so successfully done up to now.
If, 88 everyone anticipates, the delay is due to the Ralkan States not being fully pre- pared for war, they will have to pay very
For some years past, writes a lawn dearly for their rashness. To bluster tennis expert to The Times, Continental about war and to repel politely the in-players have been winning lawn tennis
It is on some such lines as those in- tervention of the Powers, with empty tournaments, and it is now usual to ascribe magazines and no plan for mobilisation much of the credit for these victories to dicated above that the typical hard-court. ready, is merely to court defeat. If, on the the hard court on which the winners re-game differs from the typical grass game, ceived their early training. The hard but, of course, no hard-and-fast distinc other hand, the Balkan States vore fully court possesses some obvious advantages; tion can be drawn between them. In M. ready, as they assure us, what induced it requires comparatively little tending Docugis Franco possesses a tactician with. it can be used all the year round, and, nothing to learn from any one, and Mr. them to sacrifice days and hears which above all, its surface is true. It is not Gore, the hardest of drivers, is pre- were of supreme importance Turkey to be wondered at, then, that the number eminently, a grass court player.
But Mr. Gore is a veteran, and Mr. has been given the advantage, and she of hard courts has been steadily increas
Barrett and Mr. Dixon will soon show the world that she has not ing in England, although here the hard Roper
court was regarded until recently as an veterans also. That is, to say, that tho been slow in taking the fullest oppor-understudy for the superior grass court. three players who defeated France the tunity of the extraordinary situation. But this attitude seems to be changing; other day at Folkestone are all men who The conclusion of peace between Italy there must now be a considerable body now for many years have been playing and Turkey is a severe blow to the Balkan of players who regard a grass court as their matches, not on the ordinary grass a horse omnibus-to be used when a newer courts, but on the gallery" courts, States, since by it Turkey is freed from and batter article is not available. where the bound of the ball can be
Had che of her chief embarrassments. the peace been concluded a fortnight ag the Balkan outbreak might have been prevented. Unfortunately, Fate ruled otherwise (unless Turkey did not wish to prevent war). and the Near East has become a cockpit. cf horrors. Slaughter and pillage, famine and pestilence, rapine and murder will henceforth stalk across wasted lands under the sacred hanners of Christ and Islam, and the century of peace and progress is already stained with the flowing blood of a bar barous, futile and desperate conflict. Thus end the dreams of the apostles of Pesce and the tardy endeavours of high diplomacy. The Balkans ablaze make a pitiful sight. Europe involved would make a conflagration which no mind can measure the extent. From the first France pointed out that the prevention of this war was a far easier task than its localisation. The safety of the other parts of Europe entirely depends upon the accord of the Powers.
گے گا
THE BRILLIANT BOY.
WHAT BECOMES OF HIM.
KIT
An Oxford correspondent writes to the Daily Mail :---
The weather of the last few months has awaited with confidence. Here, then, is done much to strengthen this opinion. an argument which the advocates of hard In accounts of grass court tournaments courts will not overlook. it has been a common thing to read, No progress could be made with the handi caps and it was only by using the hard courts which were laid down recently that the open events could be brought to a con- clusion. And on all sides one hears of clubs determined not to face another tournament season unprovided with hard. courts. Here, then, is a prety problem; one player is at his best on grass, another on sand; and it will rest with the referee to decide on what surface the match be- Those who read the tale of the brilliant young man from King Edward VII. tween them is to be played !
Hard court lawn tennis has diverged, Grammar School at King's Lynn, Mr. game R. G. Ruscoe, who was honoured by considerably from the parent evolved on the uneven grass of wet and receiving from the King His Majesty's windy England. Here to judge from gold medal for the most proficient scholar the laments of players the grass court of the year at the school, must have felt is much like the rural Greece of the school a douche of disappointment when they books-all thickets and pools with a sprite saw that his final ambition was to be à in each. The pixies on the player's side
teacher. of the net are malevolent; those on the
One who has lately escaped from the ether are benign and must be allowed to
At teaching profession to "a wider sphere" touch the ball as often as possible. any rate, the irregularity of the bounce emphasises "the anti-climax" which the is a dominant factor in the grass court account suggests. Eo writes: This game; the Englishman must wait until young scholar has climbed from the lowest the last moment before deciding upon his to the highest rung of the educational stroke, and knowing that his opponent ladder. He has progressed from the It has often been remarked that living also has to reckon with the surface he is Grammer School to Cambridge, after apt to content himself with drives which defeating the rest of England in the senior examination. To in France would be all the more pleasant the Continental player would consider Cambridge
achieve this a boy must have exceptional were it not for red-tapeism, or bureau- irresolute.
parte-intellect, purpose, adaptability. cracy, which is the curse of the country.
If a young Japanese bad done this the The Frenchman's love of office in a Gov-.
Again, smashing does not come naturalnation would have its eye on him. He ernment Department, which means not ly to the average Englishman; bred in would have been encouraged to seek the too arduous work, security of tenure, and damp climate, he is stiff in the shoulder; highest honours. Two Japanese Ambassa a retiring pension, has long become at least, one would imagine so from com dors in high place during the Russo- proverbia! There are far to many off-paring the throwing of English and Japanese War started just as Mr. Ruscos Australian cricketers. Be the cause what It is with unfeigned it may, the Englishman seems to be seek started, so far as the two countries may pleasure that one reads that the bureau-ing his own safety rather than his enemy's be compared. In England the final But the English game has ambition of scores of the better intellects cratic career hus lados previous downfall. stin vlen since quite recently. Is this qualities of its own, which reformers is never to leave the circle in which they would do well to preserve. For a point have started. School, university, school. only temporary?
One hopes not. Apto be lost through a false bound in a game again-that is the career, and at the end Flications for positions in the Civil Ser of skill is as illogical and exasperating they retire, having never touched national pice, we are told, have declined by as the interference of some hussy from life or the zest of competition.”
Olympus in one of Homer's duels; but
"THE CURSE OF FRANCE."
cials in France.
SMASHED AND FALSE BOUNDS.
80 per cent, during the past year, while life is full of false bounds and of Venus- in all the other Government Departments.
On
of the grass court. The Japanese-in-
THE NALBOW SYSTEM.
a slump in candidates is also recorded woven Banctuaries, and just as there is The fact is the fault of a narrow system. Eight years ago there were 120 applicants 18 science of living, so there is a science Our public schools send out scores of for 14 War Office vacancies;
this habiting an earthquake country-do men who fail miserably in life, especially only 18 candidates came forward for not pile up a Beauvais cathedral, and in Colonial life, because they have never seven posts a gratifying change, the other hand, the continuous increase in for that reason he never has to deplore been trained to compete or been taught the number of women Government emits collapse. Similarly the Englishman as if they would ever have to compete Lloyees, who to lay total 155,000, is signi in not aspiring to brilliance escapes many or to initiate or to struggle. They are ficant. The Ministry of Public Works & disaster. Moreover, the merits of his beaten again and again in the rough and finds employment for 25,000 of these, game are less obvious than the defects; tumble of life by men of inferior quality including female post-office assistants; he is blamed for not killing lobs, and is and knowledge. Teachers and taught are 4,000 are employed at the Ministry of thought, lucky when his opponent's suash both innocent of the Darwinian truth that War, and 15,000 by the Ministry of Ppitches out; his drive is described as life is competition, and the careers of Finance, chiefly in the State tobacco fac with false bounds is overlooked. More bundreds of boys are sacrificed to a system
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Teaching, of course, is one of the finest and noblest of professions. But there is something wrong if schoolmasters regard it as the triumph of their art, to produce schoolmasters, who, like themselves, have never touched the life or understood the struggle for life for which presumably they should prepare their pupils, both the brilliant and the less brilliant.
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Kent, armoured cruiser, 9,800 tons, 14 gats. Lh.p. 22,000, Capt. Alles T. Hunt, Hongkong.
Kinsha, river gunboat, 616 tone, Llup. 1,200,
Lt.-Comdr. H, Marryatt, Hankow, Merlin, surveying ship, 1,070,tons, 6 guns, 1:400 Lb.p. Capt. F. C. C. Passo, Surveying Duties.
Minotaur, armoured araiser (flagship Vice Admiral Sir A. L. Winsloe, K.C.B. C.V.O., C.M.G.), 14,500, tons, i... 27.001 Capt. . C. Cayley, on route to Hongkong Monmouth, armoured oraiser, 9,800. tom, i.h.p 22,000, Capt. B. H. F. Barthelot, M.V.O.. Weihaiwal.
Moorhen, river ganbost, 180 tons, 2 gass i.b.p. 800, Lient-Comdr G. P. Leith, West River.
Newcastle, 2nd class oruiser, 4,800 tons, tarbine 22,000 F.D., Captain George P. Hant, D.S.O.. Colombo,
Nightingale, river gunboat, 85 tons, 240 h.p.,
L-Comdr. Malcolm Mureny, BAN, Yang teze.
Otter, torpedo-bost destroyer, 385 tons, 6 gans 6.300 ih.p., Liant. Comdr. Chambers Hongkong.
Kibble, T.B.D., 590 tone, 7,500 F.D., 6 guns, Lt.-Comdr. EJ. G. Mackinnons Shanghai.
Robin, river gunboat, 65 tons, 2 gans, 240 p'h, Lt. Comdr. Allan Dixon, en route West, River,
Rosario, depot ship for Submarines, 980 tone, ih.p. 1400, Lt-Commr. N. E, Archdale, Hongkong.
Bandpiper, river guabcat, 85 tons, 2 guns, 240 h.p. Lleat. Comdr. LA. 8. H. Hatton, West River.
AFFITED TO ALL GENVINEYAGNETS 175 Snipe, river gunboat, 85 tons, 2 gans, 240 h.p.
Lt-Comdr. Maurice B. Leslie, Yangtse. Taku, torpedo boat destroyer, 305 tons, Lh.p.
6,000, Gauner Ryder, Hongkong. Tamar, receiving ably, 4,650 tone, 6 guts,
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Hongkong.
Bramble, gunboat 710 tons, 900 ..p., Ident,
Comdr. B. E. Prichard, Kizkiang. Britomart, gunboat, 730 tons, 900 hp.. Lient.
Comdr. W. H. Darwall, Hankow Cadmus, British sloop, 1,070 tens, ih.p. 1.400, f.d., Commur. Hugh P. F. 1. Williams, on route to Shanghai Cherub, water tank and tug, 390 tons, 1.b.p. 340
Muster W. Smith, Hongkong-
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Hall, Hongkong. Welland, T.B.D., 590 tors, 7,500 F.D., 6 guns,
Comdr. Seymour, Shanghai. Whiting, torpedo-boat destroyer, 340 tons, 5
guns, 5,900 h.p., Lásat. Comdr. G. B Hartford, Shanghai.
Borneo, an area of 30,000 square miles, form of machance it is with comparative in the sun" by their training? The Clio, British sloop, 1,070 tong hp 1,400 Widgeon, gunboat, 195 tons, 2 guns, 800
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THE DIFFERENCE.
AIM OF THE SCHOOLMASTER.
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adversaries into positions teachers are advisers of the Government 00 that where the least misbehaviour in the ball, and have double influence
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Liant Comdr. M. B. R. Blackwood, Yang. Defence monred cruiser 1 to 70: Woodcook, gunboat, 150 tank, & gas, 550 b
27,000. Captain Henry Bruce, M.V.O Hongkong.
Fame, torpedo-boat destroyer, 340
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Randy, torpedo-Lust destroyer 295 Lens, 6 guns
Cool.p.. Lieut.-Comdr. Hongkong.
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