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"LAWN TENNIS AND HOW TO PLAY IT."
SUZANNE, LENGLEN:
No. 8.
THE SMASH
THE HALF YOLLEY HORIZONTAL"
USEFUL STROKE.”
WEL IT IS OFTEN MISSED HOLD THE RACKET THE DESPISED LOB
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(In this series of articles Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen acte put to explain to the average amateur how to play the game to secure the best result. The next article from her pen will appear nežt Saturday in the DAILY PRESS.")
comes a still more unreliable stroke... Naturally, then, you will have to get down to it, as I advised in the case of low folleys.
I made a slight reference to the smash, The half valley should be played with the that most glorious of all strokes, the racket as nearly horizontal as possible. Play with a hanging racket, either on glory of both the beginner and the the fore-hand or the back-hand, it bel pert, when I was writing about the ser vice. But there are ons, or two "other points I should like to emphasise.. I am told that I play my smash with exactly the same action, and, apart from being on the court instead of behind the line, from exactly the same position as I do my service. I think this is as it should be Sometime, of course, you cannot have the bell exactly where you want it, but you can generally get far enough to re- gard it as an ordinary service with which you have all the opposite court to aim at instead of only a quarter of it.
And yet how many smashes are missed even by good players. I think there are three reasons for this. The Arst onc don't say that you're tired of hearing it because it's true still--is that they take their eyes off the ball at the last moment. They are so sure they are going to hit it that they don't think it matters watch ing it. Then-into the net it goes!”
If in all the rest of the strokes of lawn tennis, it is necessary to watch the ball, it is doubly necessary hore. Your head naturally goes down to it when you stoop and it ought to be kept down until the ball is on its way back across the net Generally it is necessary to turn the racket on top of the ball slightly, to smother it sort of, or otherwise it will go too high.
In returning a half volley which has been sent to you, by the way always remember that in nine cases out of a hundred it will have back spiu on, and sometimes very strong back spin. To. counterset that, to prevent the ball going into the net, you will have to lift it rather more than you do, play it a little. higher, thair an ordinary stroke Mais applies, of course, to all balls with back spin on.
There is another use for the lob. Some- times during a long rally you may find yourself tiring or getting out of posi
The second reason is that these smashes are often played too wildly. They want
The lob used to be despised in the vid to be hit, of course. There is a place in the game for quiet smashes, when, with days, but now it is recognised as a very opponents out of position, no risks peed: valuable stroke indeed. Mind, it is a be taken. But the smash is, in the gift to your opponents unless it is ne- Fordinary way, just what its name implies, curate. It should be high enough to make There is no need to treat it with the sure that it will clear them, and decy respect, which some players seem to lavish enough to make them run.
Generally it is the best possible policy on it. Once you're sure where the bali
to lob into the corner of your opponents is going, be your evo to it, and hit!
Don't be afraid of The third reason why these smashes are back-hand court." missed, I think, is because the player, going deep. A little undercut, parti sometimes from anxiety to get on with cularly on a back-hand lob, will help to the stroke, sometimes from lack of judg-keep the hall inside the line. Ordinarily ment, doesn't get sufficiently under the there is cut on a backhand lob, too. That ball. You know that, when you throw is a point to remember when the lob is the ball up for the service, it sometimes against you. goes a little too far forward, and you are almost certain to serve it into the net. The same thing applies to a smash. It is difficult for you to notice your own tion. A high deep lob will give you a play but just notice. the next time you couple of second to breathe and Enshle see some novices smashing, if these three you to get your feet disentangled. faults are not present.
I wonder if one player in a thousand The back-hand smash- is difficult, ever practises lobbing? I can imagine though, here again, rome people, not some one smiling at the "question, and necessarily good all-round players, exeret, in England there is the shining! cute it remarkably well. Here the thumb example of what good, bold scientific must be up the back of the handle, just lobbing can do. I refer, of courge, to as. in the back-hand volley..
that prince of lobbers, Mr. Roper Barrett. The half volley can hardly be called' It is said that he used to practise lobbing anything else but-an emergenes stroke half an hour at a time, and I am per except in a very few hands. Mrfectly certain some of the opponents Caridia, it is true, used to use it not whom he used to keep running about the only as a means of defence but also as court until they were exhausted will not means of attack, and I have seen Mr.doubt the fact. Coupled with an enter Norman Brookes calmly return a terrific prising het player, or a hard driver. Mr. smash with a half volley. But there are Roper Barrett was one of the greatest exceptional cases. To the ordinary forces in mens doubles ever known to the player it is a stroke which he plays only game. when he is caught out of position.. We won't then, despise the lob !
HONGKONG
NIS LEAGUE
*B" DIVISION. CRICKET CLUB WIN AGAIN
The Cricket Club, playing at Home, scored their second win of the week by defeating the United Services Recreation Club yesterday evening by 36 games to
43.
K. E. Coxon and L. Baines:
Details scores are as follows:
beat Lieut. Maude and Capt."
Howard
7-4
beat Capt. O'Leary and Capt.
Hawthorn
8- 3
Tost to Dr. H. L. Thomas and
Lieut. J.-H.-Emith
Un-and-Lau
beat McCubbin and Moore...... S-3 beat Seath and Morriso......... S. 3 beat Keown and Macphedran
Total
TO-DAY'S MATCHES.
DIVISION.
2
95-8
At the Chinese Recreation Club, this [afternoon, an important match will be played between the Kowloon Cricket Club and the Chinese Recreation Club. The 5- a visitors have only lost one match (to the Indian Recreation Club whom the Chi- *20-13
nese have beaten) and they are out to win today If they succeed. it will
N. L. H. Railton and E. J. R.
Mitchellia
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beat Lient. Maude and Capta
Howard
.... Di 2
lost to Capt. O'Leary and Capt.
Hawthorn
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mean a triangular, contest, as was the HONGKONG FOOTBALL LEAGUE, case in 1994. All their six players, vir S. E. Green, E. C. Fincher, E. F. Fin 4-7
cher, C. E. Millard, T. Lay and N.
•*-*- Trambitzky, will have to be in fine form 17-18-as the Chinese team is en exceptionally H.
hard lot to defeat.
lost to. Dr. H. L. Thomas and
Lieut. J. H. Smith
W. L. Dunbar and Capt.
Bloxham:_
lost to Lieut. Maude and Capt.
Howard
beat Capf. O'Leary and Capt
Hawthorn
beat Dr. H. L. Thomas. and
Licut. J. H. Smith .
"Total
DIVISION
(G.1.C. V. TALKDO,
On the home courts, on Thursday, OR.C. defeated, Taikoo by to 24 games. The scores were as follows
Lee and Ma
beat McCubbin and Moare
beat Beath and Morrison 9/2 beat Keown and Macphedran.10,
Cheng and Chiu:
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routine work had been carried out by Association, but the actual routine work had been carried on by himself.
Major Paton asked why the League should be so much out financially
The Chairman replied that practically The postponed annual general meeting
Beason 520)... Referee & fees and medals of the Hongkong Footha League the only revenue wax entrance fees (last held last evening at the Hongkong
cost the League close of $800 The dif Volunteer Defence Corps, Headquarterference between the referee's fees and cost
Mr. G. T. May acting Hon. Secretary)
The following is the list of matches for presiding over a representative gather of medals, and the same received from the B.
Netherlands v. Kowloon C.C.
Club de Recreio v. Craigengower. CS.C.C. e. HKC.C U.S.R.C. Chinese R.C University v Indian R.C.
THE TEAMS. -
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entrance fees, mainly accounted for the
Commenting on the report, the Chair deficit
On the proposition of Mr. H. M. Mc man said that although the League pro- gramme last season started well and the Tavish the report and balance sheet were maiority of the matches were played off adopted roamiously
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The proposed revised rules for the Hongkong Football League were discuss ed at considerable length, and after various alterations had been made to certain of them, they were adopted.
The rules are divided into twenty-seven clauses and will be published in hand- book form in due course,
SELECTION OF OFFICERS:
in the first half, the last four games took REVISED RULES. Bone months to dispose of This was mainly due-to-the many competitions taking place. At the conclusion of the Reason, Kowloon led in the First Divi- sion of the League with the East Burreys The following will represent C.B.C runners-up In Division II. A against Taikoo to day (Baturday) at the South China "A" finished on top, with Taikoo courts:B, S. Lee and W. B. Kowloon Reserves runners-up. Lu Divi Ma; C. W. Cheng and T. C. Chiu, H. F. sion ILB SouthChine Un and WK Chung
en top, with Moslem- A runners-up...
The lection of alisera of the LeaguN The following have been selected to A DEFICIT
for the 1926-27 season took placesS play for the Cricket Club to-day at 1.30 The balance sheet showed a loss of 6300 | under
President Mary G. T Hay Vice-Pre- PAPERS on the season For the ftit time in A team. University on the Club Twelve years they had ng money on the sident, Mr M. MgTavish Chairman, Gourts G. Miskin and E. M. Hender credit side, this being due to the post Mr. Hall, Becretary, Bergt. Major son N. L. Railton and J. A. Summers ponement of games and replays, and theyGodwin, Royal artillery
reasurer, GW Sewell and E. Grimble, could not find any League games for gatehir 1p Kan; Management Committee, purposes. Continuing, the Chairman Mr. F Wheeler, a representative of the said he agreed to state that the com Command Football Committee rep mittes last season considered themselves sentative of the Royal Nav inactive and resigned at the end of Committee, Mr. E. D. Sous January, Since then, the outside normal Wong Ka Tann,
beat McCubbin and Moore..... 98B team v. Civil Service (away) on lost to Seath and Morrison... 5. 6 the Civil Service ground C Stark beat Keown and Macphedra 101 and E. J. R. Mitchell Capt. Bloxham and M. L. Dunbar; L. Baines and L. M. 249 8. Lloyd.*