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up by the Army Tennis Club in the Colony "B" League has been mediocre for a club of their standing. This fault cannot be attributed to lack of players but is due to short- sightedness on the part of the selec- tion committee. Colonel Smith and Captain Smith are the best pair in the team. Colonel Smith is a veteran, who has a wide variety of strokes which gives him an immediate advantage, while Capt. Hyde is a more youthful and hard hitting player. The other pair Colonel Newnham and Capt. Loch are not such a good combination; they seem to lack that finesse that is often instrumental in turning a set in their favour. If the Tennis Club hope to have any success in this League they should make some changes at once. I would suggest in- cluding Duffield and Emberson. These two players have shown some good tennis in the Colony "C" League and in the Army League. The brilliant performance of Colonel Smith and Major Harrison for the Medical Corps against Royal Engineers in a Inter-Unit match, in winning all three sets, leads me to suggest the inclusion of Major Harrison, as Colonel Smith's partner. This would depose Capt. Hyde, but in my opinion he should be given Capt. Loch's position as Colonel
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played well in goal for the Scots, and Jordan tos did excellent work amongst the forwards. In the Second half Jor- dan, Millar, Hunter and Bankier were excellent in the defence and kept- Slayter, Fielding and Sutherland well. supplled with the ball.
Newnham's partner. Thus the team ON Wednesday evening both Middle- would be Colonel Newnham (Staff)
sex and the Royal Scots were seen and Capt. Hyde (D.A.P.M.); Colonel Smith (R.A.M.C.) and Major Harrison in action against “Y” teams. The per- AT the Royal Naval Swimming-bath aNavy Team entertained Royal the Royal Scots (R.A.M.C.); Emberson (R.A.O.C.) and formance Duffield (R.A.O.C.). With Capt. Loch strengthens my opinion that they have Scots and the Royal Corps of Signals and Sergt. Webb as reserves.
the best Army team in the Colony. The in friendly Water Polo matches. The Sailors won: first match was between the "Y" and
the Middlesex, It Naval Matches both the games,.. defeating the Water Polo was a game marred
fouls. Signals 3-1 and Royal Scots 4-3. The by.
Sailors have a good side and complete- outstanding
gol- as Berry
and, but for his keper
safely outswam the Signals. The Scots, handling of the ball, his side would who have such strong swimmers as have lost by a far greater margin than Millar, Hunter, Massie, and Jordan,
were able to cope better with the sea-- 3-1. The "Diehards" forwards were
man's methods of attack. The Signals always too far away from their op- ponents goal to be of any real danger and Eardley and Willis had no dif- Aculty in dealing with the shots at goal. Sgt. Ure scored the only Mid- dlesex goal. Royal Scots were faced with much stronger opposition but they managed to fully extend "y" side, in fact, the "Y" forwards
Yesterday's entire programme of: were almost completely outplayed at times and their 3-0 victory was due three matches in the Mixed Doubles- the splendid play Division of the Tennis League was- almost entirely to of their defence. Millar and Hunter washed out by the heavy rains which were both in excellent form. Bankierfell during the afternoon.
HEADING the list of Army League Tennis Pairings are Capt. Hook and Capt. Skipwith of 8th Heavy Re- giment R.A., this pair however, have played three sets more than any other pair but, nevertheless, to have lost only two sets out of nine is a
good perform ance. The next two pairs, Co- lonel Smith and Major Harrison, and Duffield and Emberson I have already mentioned in the previous paragraph. In the "B" Division the averages are not so good. Brakenbury, and Lang- ley of the Signals top the list with 5 sets out of six. Cooper and Hunter (R.A.O.C.); Peters
and Harding (R.A.O.C.): and Love and Scully (Signals) all tie for second place hav- ing won four out of six sets.
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were by no means disgraced because they put up quite a good show, but were not quite fast enough. Bennett was sound between the sticks and1 Dignan was always dangerous,
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