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| {BY A CORRESPONDENT OF "THE OBSERVER.' LUNDON, February 13th. Tilden as a player statuls, in well-nigh universal opinion, on pinnacle leftier than that reached by ang expert pastor present. As an author he is known in this country by an party and somewhat immature book on the art of laver tennis. and in America by several works of „fr tion based on the game, which have nosį penetrated to this country:

"Tillen's uniqueness is well explained in Patterson's introdhtetory tribute: There are many who conceive that cer match. tain treties will help win

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In the book Tilden's entstanding be tribution to the theory of lawn tunnis is that instead of the "ball being regarded ae merely something to hit it should be viewed as "a third party in the The ball will do as it is told. match Suggest (with your racquet not your tongue that the ball curve this way or that and is obers. The calculated and intentional use of the spin which the ball garries according to the way it is hit is the means by which on can both secure the control and accuracy of one's own shots and upset the opponent's cou trol over the return. Tilden's idea of spis is not that seen in the exaggerated shop or topped drive, but in the subtler and less evident form by which the less possible degree of speed is sacrificed. Frenk shots have po plage in his armoury but the science of spia is understood and designedly applied to each partic situation and opponent es no previam player has done. Many great players to epin. but they do it unconsciously wo- out analysis or intention. Perhaps the strangest factor in Tilden's case is tha he unites artistry and science, and is that phenomenon theorist who succeeda in penetics, and by means of his theories.

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out being both a foremust exponent ribed to his tendency to face the net us and a victim of spin has for and hohe strokes on this wing: Williams' viola- farther

is his case. brause his gription of every rule of footwork is the cause produces and enfortes exersive top spin of his lapses in timing, while Patterson without possibility of speed onhern driving from his heels rather thur bis tive types of spin.

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The recollection of the greatness and balance and rhythm of his overhead yet the relatively features styles of the strokes; Alonso, perfect in footwork, is Dohertys cast. a significant light ph caught going backward by a deep shot le- Tilden': declaration that every year cause of his overeagerness to attack. Ou that goes by I am working closer to the the value of intensive practice Tilden middle road of controlled speed and tells us how he converted a weak imck- orthodox form, and I find my reward in band into the most deadly offensive back- hand stroke in the world, first by work. increased steadiness and power,"

ing it out in theory and then by over three months of tedious and often dis- Un footwork and tuping Tilden heartening practice, suffering endless naturally lays great emphasis, and while defeats from inferior players and yet he reiterates the elementary rules that still playing “very possible shot off bis one should await the ball faging the net, backhand. Of his views on attack" and play it with the body sideways to the net, defence, singles and doubles, the develop keep away from the ball to avoid crump- ment of the future of the game, full of ing one's awing, and that one's weight|ripe wisdom and originality, during must always travel forward, with the which its technique is analysed., ne' per- stroke, he distinctly adds to our know-haps never before there is not space to ledge of how to achieve these theoretically deal. One quotation farther f simple actions.. Thus he tells us that he ice. Having pointed the way to perfect bimself ensures correct footwork when form ho tells us that abore ali a great forced to run for a shot by one or more tennis player is one with ability to little skips, after he has got roughly scramble--to go out after the impossible into position, so' as to adjust his body ahot and return it in the piach, no to be the exact distance from the ball, matter how

when the crisis is at whilst still keeping sideways to the net hand it is results and not style that He shows how this "dancing into posi-win." Sprawl all over the court, push" lion," which the uninitiated are apt to the ball back with two hands if neces regand as mere frills or showing" off," sary, but get it back oven a Johnston is in reality the secret of correct posi-or a Richards does not disdain to do so. tion and balance. He throws light on In other words, Tilden's dictum but many players' "defects that have been cohoes that of Napoleon, "The moral is

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