1928-08-22 — Page 9

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AT SHAMEEN. INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING

MATCH.

WIN FOR BRITONS.

quets. Miss Wills dismisses it in a page and says, with great ein- cerity, "Strangely enough, this does not stand out in my memory as the most exelting match that I have ever played. Why, I do not know."

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I suppose anyone who ever played a game keenly in youth has some such ballowed memory as this one. There is no time quite so heavenly as that, when one improves not so much by taking thought as by one's natural growth and discovers, for instance, at the beginning of a new cricket season that one can hit the ball harder than one could when one put one's bat away in the September before. I can still remember with an unspeakable · thrill 1 certain GREAT OPPONENTS.

drive on the old nine-hole course at The one thing that has left an in- Felixstowe, when, as

"suppose, 'I A successful swimming gala was held at the Canton Swimming Bath delible mark on her memory is the was about ten years old. There was Club on Saturday night. Chlef utter, heart-breaking steadiness of a bunker to carry from the ninth tee Interest contred in the International her adversary. "Her halls," she and with my best shot I had two says, "were not particularly fast never carried it.. It was the last race, for which there were teama, representing Germany and not nearly as fast as those of some day of the holidays, and the boxes Britain. The German team won on other women players whom I have stood grimly corded in the hall. It met on the court-but they always was the last round of the last day the previous occasion by the narrow

Those last words are and the last tee shot of the last margin of one second, but on this came back."

round. And I carried that impas- occasion the Britons secured the eloquent. Anybody who has watch-

Mlle. Lenglen play must have ex-sible bunker, carried it by several | Wire verdict by n touch.

At the conclusion of the sports,perienced at second-hand that feel yards. Like Miss Wills, "I cannot On domand the prizes were presented by Mrs. ing of inevitableness, and sym-describe my feelinge," but I can pathized with the adversary who still recall them, and I sympathize Carnegie as follows:

suffered directly. To be able to with her over that first forehand

drive. produce it in the enemy's breast is to be a long way on the road to vic- tory, whatever the game.

The Results. Two Lengths Back Stroke: E. Dormanns, lat; J. Rodgers, 2nd.

Diving for Plates: M. Gavin, 1st, 20 plates; F. Petersen, 2nd, 17 pintes; Mrs. Mosher; 3rd, 16 plates, Ladies' One Length Handicap: Mro. Gandossi, 1st; Miss Paget,

2nd.

In describing her triumph at Wimbledon, when she beat Senorita de Alvarez in the final, Miss Wills says quite simply "My feelings, as the last ball travelled over the International net, and I realized that the final "Lehmann" Cup Race: 1st, British Team: Messrs.match was mine, I cannot de- J. Rodger, W. I. Farmer, D. scribe." Latimer and F. E. W. Lammert.

One Length Novices Handicap: F. Peterson, 1st; L. B. Wood, 2nd,

Ladies' Long Plunge Handicap: Miss Paget, 48' 9", 1st on handi- cap; Mra. Annett, 48', winner of longest plunge.

She doos, However, describe one rally in the second set which was, she thinks, the turning point. It was a very long rally, one drive from the base line after another, and then-

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HOW IT IS DONE, As to how to produce this fore- hand drive and the other strokes in the game Miss Wille has plenty to say. I am not competent to criticise her advice, except to say that it seems simple and straightforward. 90 day's sight (private It is possible to be priggish about games as about more solemn mat- ters, and Mies Wills is certainly not that. I was interested to recognize the same terms as those of which I have read often and sometimes. found, if you will belleve me, a little wearisome in text-books about golf. Lili advanced to the net volleying There is much here about the Her volley was quite "swing" of the racket, and the {my drive.

short, and in such a place that I had "rhythm" of the stroke; and no barely time to reach it before it golfing professor was ever more From my Bercely insistent than is Mies Willa Two Lengths Handicap: Mrs. bounced a second time.

position on the court I found a pass-on the necessity of keeping the eye Mosher, 1st; E. Dormanna, 2nd.

on the ball. Nomination Race: L A. "Jeeves ing ball impossible to make. I tried and Mrs. MacFerran, 1st; Mrs. a lob, and it barely skimmed the top of her upraised racket, and fell Mosher and Mr. Mosher, 2nd.

.Mixed Team Race: 1st, Mrs.quickly into the backcourt, out of Gandoast, M. Gavin, P. Dietrich, her roach. W. R. Farmer, E. Dormanns 2nd, Mrs. Annett, D. Latimer, D. Dahsc, J. Rodger, F. E. W. Lammert.

Fancy Diving: Messrs. J. Rodger and E. Dormanns tied for first place after an extra dive each.

That le good fun, and I wish there were more of such even mildly pur ple patches.

STARTING YOUNG. Miss Wills has been quite as much of an infant phenomenon in her own

LITTLE POKER-FACE. line as Mr. Bobby Jones

MISS WILLS ON TENNIS TRIUMPHS.

in

his. She played in her first tourna ment at the Berkeley Club in her native California when, she says, "I was fourteen and in love with tennis." She got through, one round on that occasion, "a funny little figure, my long pigtails flying In the next year, when as I ran,"

won the was fifteen she she National Junior Girls' Singles at Forest Hills..

[By Bernard Darwin.] Anybody who tries to play and to write about one game, must neces- aarily be interested in what some- body else has to say about another, more particularly if that some body else be a champion. Now that

When she was sixteen she won Mille, Lenglen has retired, Miss Helen Wille is the undisputed queen the National Women's Doubles in of lawn tennis. Conacquently, partnership with a lady bearing the though my own lawn tennis is of a sonorous and formidable name of kind so paltry as to be wholly negli- Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup and gible, I fell greedily upon Miss reached the final round of the Wills's book. It was not that I singles against the great Mrs. thought she could make me play any Mallory. better; I have a soul ao dead that I hoped, I do not even want to. however, to be thrilled to the mar row by her account of how she felt and what she thought at crucial moments, both in playing her own matches and, in watching other people's....

Next year she again met Mrs. Maliory in the final, and this time she beat her, whereupon an "enthusiastic umpire jumped down from his chair and kissed her on both cheeks. And so at seven- teen, she had become what "The

conquer."

The techniques of different games have, no doubt, much in common. It was only the other day that a learned friend of mine was trying to get à golfer on to his game again by making him imagine that he was jumping out to drive at cricket. Now, with a common technique there comes naturally. a common language, a kind of game-playing everyone can Esperanto which understand.

Miss Wills illustrates her advice

by her own drawings, and this is something that no champion, so far as I know, has ever done before.

They are capital drawings, too, full of vigour and "go," especially those of some of the great French players. Exactly how she has man-

with the all of a looking-glass or aged to draw herself, whether

a' camera, I do not know, but she has done it very well.

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The Naval swimming gala at the Strand Magazine" calla "Present V.R.C. last night was a com- Day, and as far as America was plate success. Commodore and concerned, had no more worlds to Mrs. J. L. Pearson, who distributed the officials were

The now Articles of the 'Royal A. MODEST PERSONALITY.

the prizes, were among those pre- In this hope I was just the lenst

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sent. There were a number of close Clementi, K.C.M.Chairmen anded at an extraordinary meeting held bit in the world disappointed. Her

No one could have done this with. finishes. The Band of H.MS-i ox-officio President, H. E. Hon. Mr. yesterday, the Hon. Mr. E. R. book reveals, if one may respect- fully say so, a pleasant, modest per-out having a natural genius for hit- "Kent" played during the sports, W. T. Southorn, C.M.G., (Officer Hallifax, C.M.G., presiding. The

was dancing. sonality, but she can give more ting a ball, but clearly Miss Wills after which there

Administering the Government); alterations referred to the status of thrills, with her forehand drive than had the capacity for taking paina Full results follow:-

ballot of subscribers as was done. 100 Yards Scratch Race-1, P. C Patron, Commodore J. L.. Pearson, absent members, the introduction of

C.M.G. R.N.; Judges, Comdr. she can with her pen. As she her as well. It is now nine or ten years

"Castor), and Belf alludes

to her sobriquet, since she first began to knock a ball Mackenzie (H.M.S.

Alves, Mr. A. F. B. Silva-Netto, Mr. number constituting a quorum from "Little Poker-face," one may say about, and daring these years she Signaiman Smith (II.M.S. "CF, H, P. Byron, R.N., Mr. A. A. elsewhere and the reduction of the that it is this quality of serene out- has played on an average four times tor"); 2, A. B. Lewis (H.M.S... Holt, Master-at-Arms, E. H.30 to 15, as well as a number of ane, R.N., Mr. W. Logan, Lieut, all consequential amendments. ward calm rather than any internal a week and has devoted many hours "Foxglove"). Tinie: 80 seconds.

220 Yards Scratch Race.-1, Liert. Eaves, Lieut. C. C. Hardy, The President mentioned that the bubbling enthusiasm which has got

(H.M.S. "Castor) R Lieut. Duncombe, Mr. B. J. de confirmatory meeting had been fixed into her ink. In short, had she some penance to be endured in the Armstrong been more emotional she would have race for championships but because Lieut. Dalliston (H.M.S.

II. Moore; Starters, Mr. D. Lyon, for Thursday, August 80. made a worso player and a better she enjoyed it. I like her descrip- wick"); 5, Lieut. Stafford (H.M.S. Cor Squires, RM, Nr. C. J. tion of her first imoment of inspira-Stormcloud"). Time 3 mins. 25. Cook Yeo. Sigs. J. Bryan; Handi-

The motor-coach factory belong. cappe M. D. Lyon, Mr. C. J. Miss Wills, is, at any rate, a very tion: "I shall never forget my first seconds.

60 Yards Team Race (Open to. honest writer. She does not try to forehand drive. I was a little girl

Bon, A. Alves, Mr. of Kew Gardens, was almost com pump up exciting emotions, foreign with pigtails flying, playing on one members of the V.R.C.). 1. D. Cook Timekeepers, Mr. W. Andering to Messrs. Wylder and Company. to her nature, for the public benefit. of the side courts at the Berkeley Lyon's team. Time,2 mine: 88 sec. A.F..B. -Netto, Mr. C. J. Cooke, pletely destroyed by fire. Thir

50 Yords Invitation Team Race Lieut. J. S. Vallaon K.N.; Stewards, teen motor-care

were in the There was, for instance, her one Tennis Club. I didn't intend doing meeting with Mlle. Lenglen at a drive, because I didn't know any. (Eight Men).1, H.M.S. "Berwick;" Mr. W. Wa Corp). Squires, R.M., building. Cannes some years back, a match thing about strokes and their 2, H.M.S. "Cestor." Time 4 mins. Mr. P. A. Digs. J. Bryan, that kept special correspondents in names. But when my ball went 51 secs.

Mr. J. R. So Mr. W. Beveridge A watch engraved "Oliver Crom- 60 Yards Naval Team Race (four) and Mr. H. Human (Hon. Tres well, 1848," and said to have be- 'the Riviera. busy 'sending pretimin over the net I knew I had discovered

"Berwick;" 2, surers) and Mr. J. Cooke (Hon. longed to the Protector, was sold at ary telegrams for days beforehand, a new and satisfying way of hitting men).-1, H.M.S.

Secretary), (Continued on next Column.). and ended with scenes and Bou- the ball."

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