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"LAWN TENNIS
AND HOW TO
PLAY IT.”
BY
SUZANNE, LENGLEN, No. 4.
THE FOREHAND SWING,
THE BACKBONE OF THE GAME. DRIVE.
KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BALL. TIMING AND FOLLOW THROUGE,
(TÉK FIFTH OF THIS SERIES OF ARTICLES BY VELE SEZZANE LENGLEN WILL APPEAR IS THE DAILY PRESS" KESERVED).
Although a game of lawn tennis, of
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a bent elbow is to leae not only speed, but direction as well.
1925
INTERPORT CRICKET.
HONGKONG'S SECOND DEFEAT.
F.M.S. WIN BY INNINGS AND 107 RUNS.
In the second of the series of Interport matches, which concluded +% Kuala Lumpur, yesterday, the F.M.S. defeated Hongkong by an innings and 107 mina.
When play was brought to a close on Tuesday, the FMS. had scored 994 (Rhodes, 8; Maartense, 33; Mustard, 87; Hennessey 26 (not out) and Penmon 26). Bowker took 6 wickets for 96, and Reed-
3 for 53
course, always opens with the service there are a good many reasons why I I mentioned, earlier in this series of want you to study the forehand drive articles, that there is hardly one lawn first. You will have a forchard shot ten tennis shot which is played with the
Hongkong, who on the previous, day times as often as you will have a service, player standing square to the net. In were all out for 41, went in again yester- twice as often, probably, as you will have the forehand stroke you stand sideways, day and scored 10 (Fincher, 17; Beed, 10: all the other shots in the game put to-left shoulder, to the net, weight well bo-Ramsay, 10). Bostock Hill took 17 wickets. gether. That is why I call it the back-hiad as you swing back, the weight to for 46 rans and Hennessey took 2 for 18. bone of lawn tennis.
ceme in, of course, as you meet the ball.
THREE METHODS.
There are three
horizontal drives.
ways of playing Personally, I don't
Now I have already dealt with the proper grip for this shot. I have also mentioned the horizontal drive, and bere I want to lay stress on one thing. It is your object, when you are playing any top spin so I hit the ball with a shot, to catch your opponent out of posi- plain racket, that is, with a racket! tion, and it will be clear that the which keeps at right angles with the quicker you play the ball after it has round. There is no spin at all, on a! bounced, the less time will he or she ball hit this way. It is what we call have to get back into a safe position. It a Derfectly plain bail. used to be the custom to let the ball drop a good deal before it was hit, but that does not apply to-day. Take it at about the height of the shoulder. It will be difficult at first but it will pay in the end.
And now for the proper way in which to play it-those details which are so important
THE FIRST RULE.
Capt. Wilding, who used to take the ball a little bit lower than what I do now, used to whip it up from behind, putting top spin on it, and this caused it to jump forward when it hit the ground. I am getting into rather advanced tennis now, but I may also remark here that top spin helps to keep a ball inside the line, as it causes it to dive down as soon
it begins to lose speed. A ball driven with top spin will often look to be going
To-day the Hongkong team open their match against the Singapore Cricket Club at Singapore
GOLF.
ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
DENISON CUP.
The result of the May Qualifying Competition for the Denison Cup was as follows:-
C. A Middleton Smith....77-19 03
qualifies.
Other ecores:
J. W. Franks W. Lang
A. S. Excell
There were 36 entries.
74— 73=88} 76-967 30-10-693
HAPPY VALENT, MAY POOL
There were 74 entries in this competi
The results were:-
The first rule, and it is more important than all the rest put together, is: "Keepdenly duck and hit just inside the line.
The third way, a very common one in your eye on the ball until it actually
these days, is to turn the racket over meets the racket!!!
The slightly just as you hit the ball. first five hundred times you try this you will send the ball into the net and, as a matter of fact, it is a dangerous stroke in the hands of a beginner. Perhaps we'd better leave it out for the time being.
a yard outside the court; but will sud-tion.
I know that you will tell me you do this; I am just as equally sure that you don't. If you do then you are a good player already, and well on the way to
more success.
But the one stroke I do want you to avoid is the old "underhand lift" drive, for it's quite out of date. Years ago the ball was allowed to drap to within
foot
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MATE ANSWERS LOVE CHIRRUP..
That the note of a cricket is really a language and ret a mere cry, a conver- satioanl effort rather than an exclame- tion, has been demonstrated in some most. curious telephone experiments made by
Of course, you think you do! But watch yourself very carefully-and then
THE FANLING TIGER STORE. watch others. You are so sure that you're going to hit it with the centre
"A Golfer" writing in a Home paper of the racket-the only proper place, of or eighteen inches of the ground, and on the strange things that happen on course, that you take your eye off. it, the racket was swung on to it with an the links, makes reference to the shooting ansious to see where it is going before upward blow, much after the style of an of a tiger at Fanling a few years since.
Dr. W. Köhler, president of the Psycho- you have hit it! You should have made ordinary under hand service. That
Not so long ago, he says in the course logical Institute of Berlin. Crickets up your mind where the ball is going stroke will never do any good in lawn of bis article, the fisherman had almost stridulate (chirrup) by rubbing their before you start that long swing back tennis as it is played to-day. It cannot the monopoly of tall stories. Now-a-daye wing-cases with their ridged forelega. which I told you about. after that the be made severe enough, "and in my the golfer shares the honours with him- This produces a note on the same pris- une thing to watch is the ball. Glue your opinion it is not very accurate either.
but with the advantage of being able to ciple as that made by a boy who runs eye to it no matter what is happening Of course, most of you will have seen produce witnesses to testify that "the a hoopatick along a row of palings, only on the other side of the net. Watch it, or heard of Miss Ryan, who has still on thing which couldn't happen has occur-it is immensely higher in pitch. if you can, till it leaves the racket. It other way of playing it. Miss Ryan.red. sounds simple but you'll not learn it in when a ball bounds at all high, cats it a day or a week or a month or even a with her racket in an almost vertical season. In times of stress I am afraid position, almost in the same way as the we all take our eyes off the ball occa-service: It is a great shot, and comes sionally; and almost always disaster very fast off her racket, but naturally if follows. Your hand and wrist and arm, is difficult to play when, on a soft court, BEAR BRAND MILK. you see, have to work with your eye the balls do not rise to any height.
I have tried to give you just an idea and if your eye turns the job in, just before it is Erished, what can you ex-of every kind of forehand drive, but if you will take my advice you will stick. pect?
"Now here is another instruction, which, to the first one for some time at all
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A female cricket was placed near "
In the match between the Army Golf telephone receiver during the test and ing Society and St. Andrews the other the line was put "through" to another day Colonel Howard and Lieut.-Colonci instrument, where her mats was crawl- Buchanan, "playing in the foursomes ing about. When the female called, the against J. Rodger and J. Mackie, became
telephone diaphragm picked up the separated in a bunker. Each played a Bound with sufficient truth to attract the strake simultaneously, and the two balls, attention of the male. He answered the converging on the hole, collided a few telephone by rushing to the receiver, feet up in the air as they neared the which was lying on a desk. It was not
turned in his direction, and nothing wa tion to it. Other sounds of lower tones done which might have drawn his atten- such as human speech-left him cold.
green.
Earl
During a game on the new links in though it locks simple, you are, going to events. The ability to hit what, as I say, the National Park, near Jasper, Alberta, find difficult to carry out. Ninety-nine we call a "plain bail" goes a long way last summer, bears intervened and fought players out of a hundred get too near in the game of to-day. It is a difficult among themselves for a ball. the ball when they play not only this shot to play with absolute accuracy but, Haig, opening the links, drove the firet stroke but almost every other. You must once you have mastered it. you will come ball. Lady Haig drove the next. Colonel get into the habit of standing well away to be known as a pretty dangerous OP-F. F. Clarke drove the next, which had no sooner stopped than a bear came at full arm stretch, so that you can get ponent.
In the meantime, by the way, don't trundling out of the forest to investigate the whole sweep of shoulders, wrist arm and racket at work in one line. If you forget to practise that backhand grip it. It was followed by another bear
use
by the time the two Bruins had chewed
it about!
do that you will find it not necessary to I wrote about. In my next article and there was not much left of the ball
The hope to tell you some more about the way a tremendous lot of force. swing, the timing, and the follow through to play the backhand stroke, which is will give you all the pace you want such a weakness amongst not only "be- and a good desi more than your opponent ginners, but even advanced, even tourna- wants generally! To play this shot with ment, even Wimbledon players.
INTERFORT SHOOT."
SHANGHAI AGAIN WIN TROPHY.
A TIGER ON THE LINKS. On the Hongkong links, over on the China mainland, where I was playing a
THE LOST BALL Other fauna than the impecunious caddy, do that young man the justice of remembering, have a certain fondnes for the strayed golf ball.
A couple of ball's were found in the stomach of a bullock killed recently at the Blackburn abattoirs.
a ball, but four times during the singles A roving crow will often fly off with
matches between Surbiton and Raynes Park, on the latter links, one Saturday afternoon last October, a regular raidė ing party of crows swept down and per petrated this crime. If the bird world
few years ago, a man-eating tiger inter-had sunk to the vindictiveness of man's
warlare, their demonstration might well" vened and livened things up consider- have been a reprisal for an amazing in- ably. He killed a Chiness and a Sikh cident, a month previously, on the
Curzon Park Course at Chester, when To- policeman, who had rashly stung him up ball bit by the club professional killed tal with an old shot-gun, before British two water wagtails, cutting one clean in
Following are the scores:- 200 500 yds. yds. yds.
600
30 33 33
:34 34' 103 £6
3:
32 33
32
31
32
94
39
22
T. S. Parry F. E. Hodges Shanghai, for the second successive V. Sharman year has won the trophy in the Interport T. R. Main
J. S. Chen..... Rifle Shooting Competition: The shoot
K. McKelvie
was fired off, in the Northern port on A. M. Collace 28 Friday last, the score being 940.
R. I. Itoựn D. E. Sauvie
The Hongkong team scored 806 in theirs. A. Ransom
shoot on Sunday. Singapore scored 837.
Commenting on Shanghai's performance
marksmen with high-powered rifles track two! Geed him and sent him to his last account- Deing.
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THE WET FLAG
In America, Ioat spring, a ball" fell into the flag, which, was wet and had
What do you do when you rouse blown into a tangle, on the green. The
wasp's nest off the links? (That, as you 91justly remark, is an easy one in prac-
10
20
89
309 321
310
Counted out:
of Friday last, the .-C. Daily News aaya :-Mr. T. S. Parry is to be cow. E. Saucr gratulated on his fine performance of 103 C. W. Glover out of 105 points, which constitutes a record for individual shooting in an Inter- port match. Out of 210 counting shots, Shanghai made 112 bullseyes, Be inners and 12 outers. Thanks are due to the
When Day Laterrock Rás 2 Londen, ampires and to "A" and "B" Com- MAL FROM JA, HELENAS 21. Jew York Ow· 26 42
punies, S.V.C., for the use of the range. Muậy Braam - HAU PALINIM
20
29
29
28
·
Rules of Golf Committee gave a deck
sion on such a case, lor future reference. The ball should be lifted out of the Eng and dropped as near as possible (into
tice, but the theory, at any rate, is not no cat and dried.) Topping his first the hole then, they'll be saying up in 940 drive into the rough at Wallasey, Mr. Aberdeen 1) No penalty is incurred ex- Craigmile found his bail at the front cept when, in medal play, the ball was door of a wasp's nest. And an indig played from within 20 yards; then it is nant soviet of these merry little hymenop- two strokes. 86tera, whose numbers were being augment. Two forgotten what happened up in 85 ed every moment, was dealing with the Scotland, on the Duddingston, Midlo
emergency on the spot.
thian, course, on that memorable spring Criticising Mr. Craigmile's procedure, day when a ball became embedded in the Harry Vardon declared subsequently thick wool on the back of a sheep. The that he thought that the player was sheep was chased-that much I do re- wrong to go back to the tea. Mr. Craig collect; but whether the victim managed mile, however, felt that it was the very to drive it almost to the green or whe rightest thing he had ever done is his ther his rival succeeded, while appear. ing to be helpful, in chivying it back to the tee, has slipped my memory. (Continued on next Column):
Probably the phrases, "I beg your pardon" and "Thank you" do as much the course of a year to add to the general cheerfulness of humanity as any other phrases of the same length-fr. fo. Robert Zynd.