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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1937.
Countering Service
At Tennis
SUGGESTION MADE BY MR. H. A. SABELLI
By F. R. Burrow
Nearly ever since the service ceased to be underhand, and the introduction of the overhead—or, as it was then called, over- hand-service was greeted with shricks of disapproval on the ground that it would "ruin the game,” attempts have been made to lessen the server's advantage. These attempts have mainly been concerned with hampering the server as much as possible by defining with the utmost strictness where and how he is to stand to deliver the service, and what movements of his feet he may and may not make during the time that clapses between his taking up his position and the actual striking of the ball with his racket:
H. S. Scrivener, in deploring what le called "tinkering with the rulea." And I am particularly opposed to legislating for (and against) the "crack" player, who, ufter all, is not more than one in ten thousand of these who play and enjoy the game as it stands. The general body of players ought to be remembered and considered when alterations to the rules of the game (in which the mea- surements of the court are an in- tegral
part) are being suggested; how such alterations will ur may affect them is at least as Important as how they will affect the player who has a chance of a champlon- ship.
any
After all, in this particular in- stance, the battle between the ser- ver and the receiver is an age-long battle: sometimes this server has the better of it, sometimes the receiver finds the proper counter. In a long series of singles I should doubt if the server, in any case, has more than
co 60 рег cent. advantage. In doubles It is very much higher, but not
Because the service is more powerful but because the server hus a partner to guard half of the
court against the return of the service. In The rules in which these attempts | ball straight down the middle of the
case, though experiment with have resulted, however, ary nut court. Bul It decreased the space Mr. Sabelli's proposal would be in- wholly satisfactory because not into whleh the
server could direct 1eresting, translation of it into ne more than one umpire in a hundred the ball, even more than the bring- ceptance must be for distant; the will take bis courage in his handsing of the service-line a foot neurer International Federation alone can Its taste is so distinctive, its aroma and bouquet so satisfy.
and enforce them strictly. Conse- his net would have done; and, worse alter the rules of t
of the game, and as Ing. Then it is always soft and smooth to the palate,quently, suggestions have from time still from the point of view of the it proceeds by the method of com- always sets perfectly, always acts as a splendid bracer.
to time been made in the direction "traditionalist." It necessitated
mittees to consider and report, and ut limiting the server's advantage great change in the marking out of the circularising of the report to the efther by altering the measurements the These virtues result from extraordinary care in selecting
court, 1 believe that it was thirty-odd nations which of the court so as to reduer the area tried. though it certainly cannot have the Federation for their considers- compriso the choicest whiskics and from patience in ageing in
of the service court, or by making been fully lested; in any case, the tion " wood und unusual skill in the blending and "marrying."
reception him stand farther away from the net, suggestion passed into the limbo oftion and report, and the Whisky such as White Horse-real old Scotch-can be
behind the baseline so as to increase forgotten things.
their opinions, and referring the matler back for further considera- his margin of error. This last iden made no other way. That is why you should always ask
tion and report-well, I should be consisted in drawing a new line a
surprised if the Centre Court for it by name.
foot behind the baseline, and allow-
But the fertile brain of Mr. Sabelli Wimbledon presents uny different The server to go through any
ten years hence from anties or contortions he liked in de is not one to be discouraged by disappearance livering the service so long as both appointment. He has recently made what it does now! his feet were behind that line at the fresh proposal, in his desire to put
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FRESH PROPOSAL
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an end to the etemal controversy HUGHES & HOUGH
over the foot-fault ulc (or, rather, the rules dealing with service-the word "fool-fruit" is not to be dis-
Covered anywhere in the Rules of the Game). This consists in allowing the server, while keeping one foot
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this suggestion had met with approval it is doubtful whether the server would have been materially on the ground behind the baseline The Underaigned have received disadvantaged, but not in the least during the delivery of his service, instructions to sell by doubtful that the difficulties of the to swing the other as far over it as
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umpire would have been increased, he chooses, or can do without losing (For account of the Concerned) since the server would be farther his balance. In
compensation for away from him, and the exact posi-this liberty of action, be drawn tion of his feet (on which the whole foot or
foot or Bfteen inches behind difficulty arises) even harder to de-cross-service line. Any first service! termine. Besides, the addition of that pitches beyond this new line Is mure lines to the court-even outside o
the
OR MONDAY, the 20th December, 1937,
at 5.15 p.m.,
at the Paddock of the Hongkong Jockey Club, Race Course. SEVERAL WELL-KNOWN RACE
it was not looked on favourably. The foot to be a fault but a point scored to the receiver: no second service. measurements of the court have been in the case, is to be allowed. A first exactly as they are to-day for a long service that pitches between the new way over fifty years. The game has line and the ordinary cross-service been bullt up and developed online is to be a fault, and another; those measurements, und there has, service (as at present) is to be per- Members of the Hongkong been a general feeling that if the mitted.
Jockey Club who wish to dispose advantage possessed by the server is
other
than
it would have operated
PONIES
to
to be curbed it must be done in some) It sceras to me that almost the of their ponies will please forward
disadvantage to Mr. Sabelli's full by altering the only
particulars Major F. Way measurements of the court. A surproposal is the one on which other Hogg, Manager, Hongkong Jockey gestion that the service-line should proposals have struck and foundered Club Stables, not later than the be brought a foot nearer the net-the addition of a fresh line to the 18th December, 1937, at NOON. was, for the same reason, dismissed. court. There may be others: for
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from their trajectory, to. pitch_wKhin?ly be good, will certainly lose nj
Kreat.many.
A few inches. of the service-line; and many more by
!! that ne were brought a foot service
ibles." That the
nearer the net all these would be have two lines to watch instead of faults, and the time and energy spent one is true enough but need present on nequiring a really good service no
no great
the umpire! wasted.
would be int much less difficulty than he is now, because
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of the service-court in
any
A year or two ago a further suis the "swinging foot" that is, at pre- Restion was made by the secretary of sent, the chief cause of his troubles. the L.T.A., Mr. H. A. Sabelli, that. Also, the proposal has the great ad- instead of shortening the service-vantage of not altering the dimen-
it should be narrowed. To slons cuurt, carry
this into effect Mr. Sabeill way.
that each service-court | suggested should be narrowed
eighteen inches on each side of the centre-
It would be well worth while to service line, thus leaving a space of
yard wide down the middle of the experiment with Mr. Sabelll's plan: court in which, if any service pitched, pretty well anything that would put it would be a fault. This suggestion, a stop, once and for all, to the eter-i while giving the server the advan-nal bickerings over the fool-fault)
of his
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