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HONGKONG · DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 27TH, 1926
"LAWN TENNIS AND HOW TO PLAY IT."
BY
'SUZANNE LENGLEN.
To, 2.
FIRST STEPS" IN PLAYING.
IDEA FROM THE START.
GETTING THE RIGHT HOW TO HOLD THE RACKET AND 2 GRIP FOR THE FORE-HAND STROKE.
THE BACK HAND.
(THE THIRD OF THIS SERIES OF ARTICLES BY ROLLE, SUZANNE LENGLEN, WILL ON THURSDAY NEXT-ALL RIGHTS RE APPEAR IN THE DAILY PRESS MERVE).
Lawn Tennis looks so easy, doesn't it. with your shoulders square on to "the when you see two experis playing ittnet Stand sideways, with your left foot Yet through how many dreary hours of despair must a beginner live before he can reach even average form.
pointing-in the direction in which you wish the ball to go, and your weight on your right foot. As you hit, follow I wonder if it will encourage the be through-I shall have a lot more to say ginner to know that a good many players about that later on-and transfer the who have reached one point, and who weight to the left foot; so as to get the stick there, wish that the coural begin whole of the body into the stroke. Well that's all over again! They won't do it, off you see what I mean? course, because while they are unlearning enough to go on with for the moment. their faults they will play worse than Mind, racket in line with arm, arm at ever, but it would be a very good thing full stretch. follow. through, and feel that you are getting the weight of your for them if they would do so,
body: as well as the force of your wrist Never mind and arm, into the shot. about the back-hand stroke yet. That' come later,
A
The trouble is that most players start wrong. There are not enough lawn tennis coaches in the country to go round. man or a girl buys a racket, joins a club, watches indifferent players, and copies their faults.
BILLIARDS
CLAUD PALKINER'S BRILLIANT
DISPLAY.
Cland Falkiner, who is one of the finest „billiards players in England gave a bril
liant display at the Chinese Club last night when he played al game of 800 yp with Leung Kam Kwong, ex-champion of the Colony..
Only on three occasions did he go to. the table without scoring a point, but even on those visits he missed his shot, by an ace only. His highest break, was 2k, his second best 170, and his third 119. He visited the table 10 times and bis average score was about 30. His oppon- ent played somewhat poorly, scoring 110 only when Falkiner rau out. His highest brenk was 17
Falkiner was particularly brilliant in playing nipsery cannons at the tap of the table, and was continually applaud. ed. *He manœuvréd the balls beautifully. and played, throughout with case and surety. 累
On his first visit to the table he could only compile 15. maissing a fairly easy red loser." The same ill-luck logged him on his second visit, when he scored 21. Leung replied with th, and in this THAT BUGBEAR-THE BACK RAND break maile some clever shots. Reaching
STROKE:
There are men and women in lawn'
Now if you are beginning to feel, that tennis to-day, the Wimbledon class of lawi tennis 1 mean, who, if they had when you do go on a court, you may be only begun right, would be now very nearable to hit a ball with what we call the to championship formi. Yet they stick fore-hand stroke, I want you to make an where they are, and, so set are their experiment, just to satisfy yourecli. fault, that they cannot ever hope to want you to feel what's wrong, and
what's right with the various strokes. improve.
Now that is the reason why I am going Hall your racket just as you have to insist on little details at the start.been doing. Only now turn with your You may think I'm writing about things right side facing the supposed net, in
Suppose a ball is that don't matter, but, believe me, I'm stead of the left. not. Every little detail counts, and if coming at you which you must play back you get one of them wrong you will pay hand. Make a sweep of it. without
altering your grip. the pennity.
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HOW TO HOLD THE RACKET. Everybody. I suppose, thinks they know how to hold a racket. Simplest thing in
Doesn't feel the sani", does it? You haven't got any power behind the shot have you l It's just a wave of the
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U.S. LESSONS FROM
17 on his third visit, Falkiner, put hiar To train Surrey county cricket fielders self in an awkward position, but brought to hurl in a ball at a speed of 120 miles off a brilliant cannon. He, however, an hour is part of the ambition of failed to go farther. After a break of 43, "Pitcher" Muirhead, the Canadian base tr. which Leung replied with Falkiner ball player, who has been engaged by got into his stride and kapt the balls at Mr. P. G. H. Fender to show the Surrey the top of the table. Several series of team how baseball men throw, nursery capnons. alternated with red Mr. Muirhead has seven broken fingers
losers and red winners, brought his is prove his devotion to baseball." "
"I don't know whether I can show break up to 244, when having the balls in a fine position he failed at a red anything to the Surrey boys," he told loser." He was very unfortunate in¦ a repórter, "but if I can do anything to make things interesting for the crowd failing with the stroke..
at the Oval 1 certainly will."
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At the next visit he scored 53, and on the two following visits failed to score. Leuag compiled nine, and having poe keted his opponent's ball gave him a Falkiner missed. He double baulk.
PRECIOUS SECONDS.
The iden is not mine at all. Mr.
Fender the Surrey captain, has seen a good den of baseball in America, aud
the world, in't it? Don't get running! racket, instead of a stroke with force Inter misued in playing a back screw thought that some of the baseball players'
away with any idea like that!
To begin with, in England, people are under a bit of a handicap. Those great players the Dohertys used to use what was called the unchanged grip." You know that in lawn tennis there is a fore hand and a back hard stroke, and is
behind it. Exactly
Now this back-hand stroke is very difficult to describe in more words, so I must ask to read carefully,
Keep your grip just as it is and rest racket-that's thei the aplice of the triangular bit between the handle and
cannon. Later, he again gave a bril liant display in compiling 475, scoring profusely with nursery cannons and red !' losers." His downfall came again through a miscue."
This was his last visit to the table and it was perhaps his minst brilliant
finger and arm babits might be of use to cricket fielders. So he approached the Anglo-American Baseball League, which plays matches at Stamford Bridge every Sunday in the summer.
I volunteered to perform for Sur- rey at once. This iden has nothing to do with bowling. It is purely to help the Gelder. When seconds are precious the
making both thes, these great brother, the frame-on your left hand. 1 want display, particularly as regards nursery vital thing is to get the ball in at once.
cannons. When he concluded his score was 336-
There was a good attenilance, and the thoroughly rajoyed. exhibition
Wils
The baseball player has to throw in his ball in a straight line, and not as a more or less dropping shot. The whole of his technique helps him to send the imal straight-and fast.
the face of the racket to be at right did not alter their hold on the racket.
Now don't get this wrong: "It suited angies with the ground, facing the net: them and their style of game, and inNew slide your right hand backwards, their day there was no one in the world quarter of the way round the racket, Alter the position of your thumb so that to beate them. But the unchanging grip does not suit one player in a hundred it lies along the back of the handle and Take Miss Joan Fry, for instance, who you have the back hand grip as it ought!hibition game of billiards with Mrbal leave bia hand at 120 miles an hour.
niet me in the final last year.
to be used.
Now I want to get this absolutely She held her racket perfectly for her for-hand stroke, but she never altered right, so I will describe it another way. Stretch your right arm out, straight in her grip when she wanted to hit a ball front of you with the palm facing the Lack-hand. This year, hear; she is
ground. Now draw your arm, in. keep- altering her grip, and her game cannoting the forearm, wrist and hand, failed to improve...
straight out, with your elbow to your side. Your left hand is holding the racket by the splice, as right angles to the ground. Place the handle, of the racket in the right hand, with the thumb behind, and you have the back-hand grip.
Statistical experts have figured out that a good baseball player can make the.
Mr. Falkiner will play another ex-
the Club Osmund as his opponent al
When a ball gers at this speed there Lusitano on Saturday evening. The ex is of course tremendous force behind it. hibition is open to lady and gentlemen Of my fingers, excluding my thumbs. friends of members of the Club. Tickets seven have been broken and the ends are
brat. of admission can be obtained from the
Secretary's office.
THIRD EXTRA RACE MEETING.
ENTRIES AND WEIGHTS, The entries and weights for the Ban- stead Plate Tattenham Plate and Aggre,
The baseball man is so trained to pick up the ball as it rolls towards him that at the moment he grips it he is lean- ing back in the throwing attitude. The all is never thrown from higher than
the shoulder,
MR. FENDER'S KEENNESS. When seen by the Evening Standard. representative Mr. P..G. H. Fender, who. proved himself useful in the baseball field, was enthusiastic "about his in-.. novation.
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THE FORE-HAND STROKE. First let's deal with the grip for the fore-hand stroke. Your land and fingers should lie rather along than across the handle, if you know what I mean. Per
I hope that from these two descrip- gate Stukes at the Hongkong Jockey haps it will make it clearer if I say that, holding your racket with your arm at tions you will be able to get an idea of Club's third extra race meeting at Happy The Surrey side are excellent in the full stretch, the racket should be in what I mean, and you must do so before Valley on Saturday, June 5th, were pub-field," he said, "but there is always room for improvement, and it is this straight line with your arm. "Don't try ever you go on a court. The back hand lished in the Daily Press on Monday which has led me to strike a new line, to get it quite "in a straight line if you is the weakness of ninety-nine players At that time the entries and weights were feel it cramps your wrist. You must be out of a hundred, and most of that weak-not available for the third. fifth and able to wave it backwards and forwardaness springs from the fact that they do arventh events which are handicaps. The with the greatest freedom, without any not know how to hold their racket for list is now completed and the entries for
the shot, suspicion of cramp. Let the leather, on the handle, rest, not in the middle of the hand, bat where the wrist joins the hand, You must not let it get in the way of course, but that is about the place for
it.
If you have mastered these two things up to now, I can assure you that you know, "afrendy, a good deal more about lawa tennis than most players do who have been at the game for years. It may There is no need for you, just yet, to all sound very simple. Lawn tennis looks go and practise on a court Practise simple, as I said, in the hands of experts. aiming at a ball-an imaginary ball that it is simple, as a matter of fact, if you is-with your arm at full strength. To do will take the trouble to master- the this you must stand sideways to the ball. tetails. For it is the details that count. There is hardly a shot in lawn tennis in the making of what we call which you play facing the net-that is, form."
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INTERPORT SHOOT.
OLD LADY WHO ENJOYED THE Yesterday the names of the Shanghai
THRILLS.
team participating in the annual inter- port rifle shoot, were published in the Fine," exclaimed Mrs. Elizabeth Daily Urea, Shanghai are firing this Fuller, aged 83, of Plymouth, when showrek It has now been decided that the landed from her first aeroplane trip,
Hongkong team will fire or Sunday Hearing that a number of free lights afternoon at the Taikoo Range. were to be given to women, Mrs. Fuller ports taking part in the competition are wrote saying she hoped she would be Shanghai, Hongkong, Singapore and chosen. A car was sent to take her to Penang. the flying ground, and she was wrapped in an airman's coat and a helmet was placed on her head
When in the air she laughed gleefully as the machine banked, and in descend ing expressed regret that she could not make a long air journey, Mrs. Fuller said she would like to venture on the (Oontinued at fust of next Column
these three races are given below:---
"All those who have seen a baseball
match will agree that the returns at that game are the fastest in the world, and I have for a long time thought that there is a lot to be learnt that might be ap- plicable to cricket. I am very optimistic
The special line to be taken by the roach will be that of fast, low pitch-
JUNE HANDICAP "A" CLASS (1 Mile). about the results. Brigade Call (163 lbs.), Home Call (100) lbs.), San Diego (155 Ths.), Dobbin (a) Goblin (late Bundoran) (149 lbs.). The ing Melody Dablia (162 lbs.) The Geezer (148 lbs.), September (147 lbs.). The Regent (146 lbs.), The Sandpiper 146 lbs.). Boston (145 lbs.): The Chome (late Shere Khan 11.) (144 hs.). Rothesay (144 lbs), Aralian Parrot (143 lbs.).
[If the top weight does not start all weights will be raised 5 lbs.]
נ'
TENNIS COMPETITION." The decrease in the number of applica- tions for April coaching practice at the Oval led to a surmise that cricket is finding lawn tennis too strong a rival among schoolboys. At the moment only 120 applications from schools have been received, compared with 200 last season.
JENE JANDICAP "B CLASS (1 Mile).- Sunburst Rose (10 Thx.), Wimera (161 No one who saw the arrival of the lbs.), Rechalite (164 lbs.), Fireworks (1999) Australians." Mr. Fender commented, lbs.), Loch Rannoch (12 lbs.), The could possibly credit such a statement. Goneril. (late Donaghadee) (137 lbs.), I expect this will prove the most intercat- Saracen (150 lb), Reynolda (153 lbs.), ing and popular cricketing season since The Gowk 11 lbs), John Smith (152) the war, lbs.), Grey Streak (159 lbs.), Tutix (152 Tbs.), The Golden Pheasant (150 lbs.), "The reason for the decrease at the District Call (149 lbs.). Beiderney Star moment is that we cannot take any more (143 Ips.), Craigavad (143 lbs).
boys. The state of the grass "only allows one pitch to be used; but this is used ESHER HANDICAP (1 Miles). Brigade from morning till night and Mr. Call (163 lbs.). Total Abstinence (164 Maurice Bird, the coach, is kept at it The Souvenir (158 lbs.), San Diego (158
lbs.), Dobbin (155 dbs.) felody Dahlia throughout the week (162 lbs.), The Goblin (late. Bundoran), (142 Tbs.), The Geezer (148 lbs.), Septem ber (147 lbs.). Boston (145 lbs.), The Gnome (late Shere Khan II) (144 lbs.), Sunburst Rose (142 lbs.), Wimera (141 be.), Loch Rannoch (130 lbs.). The Gomeril (late Donaghadee) (134 lbs.), Saracen. 133 hs.), Reynolds (132. b.). The Gowk (131 58.), John Smith (130 Iba) Grey Streak (130 lbs.), Tutix (199 lbs.), The Gink flate Demon Boy) (135 lbs) Beldorney Star (120 lbs.),
wings of an acroplane. "There are plenty of wires to catch hold of," she said; “I should not fall off."
Twenty Plymouth women have offered to make parachute descents from ab aero- plane, and one of them is to be allowed to perform the feat.
WEATHER REPORT.
Last night's weather report forecast and remarks by the Royal Observatory said:-
The depression over China has deepen- ed slightly.
Loco forecast: S. winds, moderate, overcast, rain.