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TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1920,
LAWN TENNIS HONOURS,
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A WORD TO THE YOUNG PLAYER.
"An old Player" writer in tha Daily Chronicle.
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On Thursday last the challen- ger in the ladies' singles cham pionship, Mr. Lambert Cham
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TOLL OF INFLUENZA.
THE GREAT EPIDEMIC
UNSOLVED..
The British soldier to-day is The Times medical correspood- much better fed than was the ont writes further report on the great influenza epidemic bas At Wimbledon this afternoon man of pre-war days.
An insight into the Army's been issued by the Registrar- the challanger in the man's championship single, who is an catering arrangements is supplied General. Though it cannot be American, will meas the holder by the War Office Publicity De- said that very much fresh light is of the All England enn, who is partment, who say that the un-shed on the mystery by this docu- an Australian. So that, which-satisfactory cooking and serving ment, there are nevertheless, ever way the fight goes, thal of the soldier's ration of pre-war certain important points which honours of lawn tennis in this days are now no more, and that deserve the attention of the Improved The report states that the country will not fall to an Eng-improvements in this respect con-public.
tinue to be made. training is also given to the deaths allocated to influenza dur- ing 1918 numbered 112,329, tha cooks,
and the Following are typical meals males being 53,583
females 5846 The males in- taken from the diet sheets
Breakfast.--Porridge with gol-cluded 7,591 non-civilians, and, deducting these the deaths of the holder. Malle. Lenglen, so den syrup, tea, bread, bacan.
Dinner. Roast meat baked civilians corresponded to a mor-} that in this event also the bon-
of 3,129 per 1,000,000* ours passed from our shores. That potatoes, cabbage, macaroni pud-tality
eivilian population. it was left for this wonderful ding
Tea-Tea, bread, cold boiled
"No such mortality as this, English player as Mrs. Lambert
continues the report has ever Chambers bas proved herself to ham or bacon. be, to meet the French. lady
Supper-Bread, vegetable and before been recorded for any champion, shows how little pro- pea soup. gress has been made in lawn
Breakfast. Tea. bread, fried epidemic in this country since registration commenced, except of the ebolera the case io tennis so far as our lady players steak and gray.
Dinner Stewed steak, boiled are concerned, tor it must be re-
rality from that cause membered that this year's chal-
potatoes, rangoon tears, jam rail epidemic of 1849, when the mor- Tea-Tex bread, margarine. 3.033 per 1,000,000 population. lenger was lady champion in 1903, and has surrendered her oatmeal scones.
None of the previous outbreaks, Supper-Bread, margarine, of influenza can compare in mor position only five times since
bat date to 1914.
tioned salmon.
tality with that of 1918-19. Dur- 1. Before 1914 the full ration costing the 45 weeks, June May LESSON OF THE DOHERTYS. But our record of progress among la sud. a day; at the present 10, the total deaths allocated to more dis-time it would be 26. 78. but in the disease were 131,446, incluð- men players is even
Not since Mr. A. W. consequence of modification the ing 140,939 of civilians, the cor couraging
responding civilian death-rate for Gore held the championship in cost is now only 1s, 10d.
these 46 weeks being at the an- 1909 has an Englishman held the
Qual rate of 4,74 per 1,000,000 population."
honour. And as far as can be seen from the results of the meet- to-day. ing
terminates that English lawn tennis players have still a few more years to spend] in the wilderness.
It seems to be a fact that this! country has made ne headway in
,
RIGHT TO LE NAME OF ** WINDSOR.**
KING'S PROCLAMATION
CITED. Right to the use of the term
rose to
the It is pointed out that mortality attributed to influenza does not represent the whole of that caused by it. The entries! under other beadings, especially those of respiratory disease, were
the game since the Doherty Windsor "by a quartet of glee always bound to increase duringİ upheld the honours for us and really made the modern game singers was the subject of an what it is to day. Artheinzanith action before Mr. Justice Sargant they were unapproachable. They in the Chancery Division re
cently. came into the game when it was none too flourishing, and did more than any other players to develope it on the best and stundest lines and show what it was capable of Other players since bave brough: to it some impress of their..own personality and added's variety of strokes, but in style and grace, in finish and accuracy of plas the Dohertys were consummate, and their influence on the lead ing players of to-day is very per- ceptible.
DO: necur in 1918 to the same an epidemic, and though that did
breaks, allowance-must-be made extent as in other recent out- During the hearing counsel for for these increases in mortality, allocated to other causes but Plaintiffs said the defendant asserted that if one wanted to really attribarable to influenza, call his goods "Windsor." or a endeavouring to measure the company Windsor," one bad to loss of life caused by the get the consent of the Lord Cham-epidemic. berlain.
With regard to the deaths of He icounsel) had looked at the females, when pneumonis, bron- which bischitis, heart disease, and phthisis proclamation by Majesty assumed for himself and are included, the deaths attribut- his family the name of "Wiod-able to the epidemic during the so," and there was no enggestion third quarter of 1918 were 7,741,| of any surb claim of right, ever and during the fourth quarter if by proclamation the King could 62.240. The figures for males for the same quarters were 8,083 and Unfortunately, of the leading alter the common law. players of to-day very few are Plaintiff quartet sought to re-51,359 respectively. English players, scd none of strain defendants from performing The really astonishing_feature them can be said to have develop-under the title of the "Windsor was the sudden change of age in-
cidence. In earlier yeaIS ed the game in the sense that it Singers."
ATTACKING POWER OF THE GERM.
ia.
has been evolved in Australia, New Until March last defendant fluenza was less important under Zealand and America. The lesson quartet called themselves either 55 years and more so above that of the Dohertys has been learned. S. George's Singers or the period. In 1918-19 this positiva but not by nglish players, and Windsor Castle Singers" and was suddenly and violently re o-day we have no great players their defence was that the Lord versed. Those under 35 died in to whom the younger generation Chamberlain, as representing the appalling numbers; those over 35 can look for guidance and in King, could alone give any one seemed to be relatively safe.
the right to use the name of spiration.
Windsor since his Majesty bad
"It may be doubted whether! ssumed the name of Windsor.! Express permission had been granted to them by the Lord so sudden and so complete a use the title change at incidence can be par- Chamberlain to
alleled in the history of any Windsor Singers."
continues the Mr. Justice Sarzant granted another disease."
"yet all the weight off testimony goes to at the game, the survivors of alinterim injunction against de-report.
stay medical
of that the influenza hos briliant era. Of young oncoming fendants, and refused a
with a view to an appeal.
9:8 was essentially the same as layers we give no sign.
Attempts that of former years. have been made to explain the
DEARTH OF YOUNG PLAYERS. One of the things that astonish. el our visiting players was the -arth of talent among the young
Nearly all our e generation. irst-class aspirants are approach ing the veteran stage, old hande
It must be remembered that when the championship honours
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If I to Englishmen year after ance at by our heads of public change as due to alteration in rear, no other country was taking schools. It is not considered the circumstances af the popula the game so seriously as we were. manly enough for our young on. Thus it has been suggested The game was being steadily de-Barbarians. So long as this point that aggregation of young women veloped here, and when it reach-of view persists, so long will the in monition works in 1918 may ed a high level of excellence that came be robbed of a wealth of partly account for their specially No simple made it attractive to other talent which in other countries heary mortality.
these lines is nations they simply took the goes to the making of champions. explanation on
At the same time, in spite of possible. The alterations in age in- game over and brought it to its
these drawbacks, it will not be incidence accompany present pitch.
'merica developed a series of like as to surrender the mastery creased prevalence and fatality services that were new to the of this or any other form of sport of the disease in 1918 seems to be and players from the to another country without a more easily explained by a game. Colonies broke down the tradition supreme effort. And it is to the sudden change in the infecting of "safety play" that was becom-Tounger generation that we look organism than in the soul pro- ing a besetting sin of English for the necessary exertion to win vided for its growth.”
WAS noted Some diference tournament players. They show-back our lapsed honours.
A disadvantage we suffer from
between the effects produced by ed that it was the better policy in the long ron to beat their oppon-in this country is a lack of hard the various waves. For example, ents by their good strokes than to courts. There is no doubt that' rely on their being defeated by the game is best learnt on a hard the second wave seems to bave comt, where play is possible for resulted in more cases of heart their own imperfections.
Lawn tennis suffers from two most part of the year. I should disease than any of the others. like to see some good hard This difference, however, cannot dieabilities in this country. one of the defects of its qualities courts in our public parks and be laboured. The disease was
attached to golf clubs. It would essentially an entity. much more than average player be a good thing, too, if clubs arly Hes almost wholly in its We are thus left face to face to get an extraordinary amount could maintain a professional anexampled virulence. of enjoyment out of the game. texcher, for not only could be
and There is no positive incentive to prevent young players from with the question, still unanswer- careless ed. "What are the canse which be a "crack" player. We still developing bad regard it as an exhilarating re-styles, but his skill would always from time to time endow s creation rather than as a sport to be an insentive and encourage comparatively harmless malady excel in. Our clubs are social ment to first-class play, and help with ferocious strength, enabling gatherings, where the standard of to lift the game out of the pat-it to destroy its thousands of play is not the first comideration, ball stage to which it is apt to victims ?" These causes may be
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