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Ouce more Great Britain has 343214* of the Davis Cup competition at a com- paratively early stage. Everybody is asking why, sex many people are giving different opinions, As player from India with much experience in Great Britain, I am, in sense, in the position of onlooker, and, consequently, may be permitted to give my views on this quos- many people are tion about which so worried.

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SPLENDID ENGLISH GIRLS. WHERE IT IS EASY TO MARRY.

{BY DOROTHY BUCK.]

Are Englishwomen spoiled? Any foreigner-it he told you the truth-would say "Tea!”

This is the only country in Europe where a moderately attractive girl, pen alless and by no incans capable, can bo moderately sure of marrying, and prob ably. marrying well. She does not re- quire a dowry, she does not need to bu able to cook or sew on an anage a house

Some young man, only just capable of making ends meet for himself, is only too enchanted to do the same thing for her. She runs him up dress bills, make him oat at restaurants, makes a shilling de the work of sixpence, and he bears it with equanimity.

It has been my privilege during the

If he cannot keep her entirely and she past two seasons to play against nearly has to earn a little pocket money for all the leading British players. A borself, the thing is considered a slur on have also had the opportunity of playing tim. The Continental idea-that of the against many of the leading American wife's dowry being handed uncondition- and Continental exponents in the Olymally over to the husband, who thereupon pic Games of 1921 and in the Davis Cup generously gives her an allowance" but nad other International matches, the of it would be regarded as unthinkable great difference between English and by an English girl. She lay claim to foreign players in respect of originality no useful qualities or capacities as a has been strongly impressed upon me wife. She a simply herself-and she Not that many British players have not thinks that ought to be enough And she strong individualities, but in their play bas induced the Englishman to agreo they impress one as suffering from a want with her of freedom which is in striking" contrast Frenchmen, together with all other to the grace and abandon of foreign ex Latin races, are full of charming man.: perts. The Continental player has notarius. Every pretty woman likea to to steer anxiously between the Seylla of have her hand kissed with courtliness, to Selection Corauittee critic, raptious of hear an aptly turned compliment, to re any tendency to wildness in stroke pro-ceive the impression-subtly conveyed duction, and the Charybdis of a Press and entirely erroneous-that she is con- contemptuous of steady, baseline returns. sidered a creature too bright and fragile English players are nearly all conscience-far hamna nature's daily use stricken, and that is fatal to the highest forms of the game. Tennis is an art, and a, had conscience is the most subtle poi son of art. That is the poison from which, in general, English tennis suffers.

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A sold Englishman never manngės convey this impression to the woman he adiates. But he is always at hand when she wants masculine Nelp. In matter-of- fact fashion he will give up his wat in a railway carriage on a journey of many heurs he will bestir himself to find Let me particularize. 3. D. F. Wheat-porters, to get her luggage through the ley is a player, of whom I have always Customs. His purse, his arm, his car had the highest opinion ever since I met att are at the service, not merely of the him in the semi-final of the West of woman of his heart, but of any other England Championship in 1991. He then with whom he finds himself in contacts had the finest half-volley I have ever Whereas the Frenchman, having bowed played against, and this stroke enabled low from the waist and presented his him to get a net position whenever his homage, will never dream of looking after oppunens drove to three-quarter leugthay woman but his own wife. Nor would Once at the net, his tow volieving and he believe that the Englishman's only smashing was superu. That hall-volley reward for half his trouble is a curt but was his natural mode of gaining net charming "Thank you so much! position. just as the quartervolley is Cochet's Yet. where is Wheatley's half volley new Criticism has withered it almost out of existence. If Wheatley came back whole-heartedly to his natural style, he would even now be one of the world's best players. As it is, he scarcely seems to be appreciably better in 1925 that he was four years ago,

We hear of the beauty of Spanish women, the wis of Frenchwomen, the domesticity of the Scandinavians, the temperament of the Slavonic beauties- but is there another country in Europe where a penniless girl can marry with no other qualification but her charmi This is the one land where the love-match, romantic and poverty-stricken, is the rule and not the exception.

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When his cannon work-a-day average, ball' serice, strong drive, and decisive volleying all are working, there is nothing for his opponent to do but wait for a slump of form. Careful couching should make these alumps of rare occurance, and Greix then would be dangerons even to the world's first ten ..players.

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A puper on The Functional Signi It is known as the McEwen-Bungs cance of Size" was read by Dr. J. B. system; and is believed by experts to be 5. Haldane at a joint session of the Zoology and Physiology sections of the the firme process to offer real hope of s solution to the problem, with resulting British Association. The subject is one A VERY USEFUL PLAYER.

Bays the Daily Telegraph, upon which benefit to the coal industry. Let me come now to another English

Further consultations with the Gor. Dr. Haldane, who is six feet tall and player for whom I have a great admirerament are expected to take place confesses to sixteen stone, speaks with tion: To avoid being misunderstood, may shortly, when Mr. G. E. Learnard. Pra high authority and great weight; "and I interpose the reinsrk that the names

idea which has been much favoured by mentioned in these notes are not taken sident of the Corporation that owns the he would seem to have disposed of an

provss, returns to England. in any order of merit. The player now:

A small commercial plant has been those who deal in auticipations of the future of humanity. The more perfect in mind is J. B. Gilbert. First met him just before Wimbledon of 1921, when kiss fuccefully tested in America, and a human type towards which evolution is McKane asked me to have a "knock-up" result a contract has been placed for tending must not be a giant, such as

This the construction of a largo plant capable with

player. "very useful

of carbouising two hundred tons of fuel Mr. H. G. Wolls has forescen; must "very useful player proved to

Icet or so of Mr. Kipling's vision of the Gilbert, and ever since then he has im a day. It in hope to jastal a plant 208 even attain to the moderate eight

the Midlands. pressed me as one of the most effective and natural of players. Like ali really Mr. McEwan, but was taken over

The new system is the invention of days to come. Or if he does, it will be the worse for him. A man of ten times Dr. Haldane's" inches would turn the good players, there is no

about his strokes: he just America by Dr. Range. Mr. McEwen srience makes them in the way that suits him, in a director of the International Com-scale at a thousand times Dr. Haldane's and does not bother to alter them to bustion Corporation of New York, and poundage, and if he were to stand at satisfy his critics. He is the cutstanding the President. Mr. G. E. Learnard, has all, must be provided, with legs so exception to the obsession of for which just returned to America after con enormously thick as to make locomotion is, in my opinion, doing such bara to sulfing with the Secretary of Mines and meat impossible. In order to get the best out of our physiological conditions English lawn tennis from an International various experts in England.

in combination with the force of gravity, standpoint, and his long record of suc

we should grow much smaller, as indeed cesses against the best players gives point

Mr. Bernard Shaw imagines us in the "Back to to my contention.

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IN COURSE & COMPILATION.

Nigel Sharpe is a young player who The selectors of Britain's Davis Cup Methuselah." As a matter of fact; the made enormous stridos last season, hegi team certainly got out of the rut in choos ideal adaptation of mammalian structure ning on the wrong side of scratch and ing Crole-Rees and Turnbull for the to weight is to be found, Dr. Haldane coming down at the end to the owe-13 singles in the recent mitch against tells us, in the mouse. Should a mouse mark or better. With all the strokes of France, and in gambling on hard-hitting have the misfortune to fall down a mine, the ground and on the valley, he has a exponents they certainly took the only like Bret Harte's Mr. Bowers, whose great future before him if he declines to chance of victory open to them. Against crust was busted" sa a conixjuence, ho hypnotized by a care for his reputa-players like the French, mere technical the mouse would suffer no more than tion. The more tennis wild-cats be sows, soundness is useless unless variety is

a shock of surprise; a mouse has, in the better will his play be in a few years added. Huch, however, as I admire hard fact, survived unhurt a fall of 1,300 feet, time, particularly as his temperament is hitting, I am convinced that the genuine There is, however, the countervailing one of the soundest and sweetest that I champion is an artist first and a hitter disadvantage that a mouse, in order to ever have come across..

afterwards. No one can be an artist who Another young player, E. Higgs, makes is not the "captain of his soul" can maintain its bodily temperature, has to consume every day. about half its own". Bome very good ground strokes, and English lawn tennis at the present already is in England's first ten. He monent claim that individuality and weight of food. It is true that there might conceivably reach real Interna freedom of which champions are made are some human beings who would ze Bard with equanimity, or even, with tional rank ere long. In fact I should I doubt it judge him to be one of the most danger Thus, though there are many material satisfaction, the necessity of eating upon ous among English players against an difficulties which the English player has such a scale; but the balance of pre- intensive net campaign such as that of to contend against, amongst which may ference will be for stopping short of be mentioned indifferent courts, had the mouse's dimensions to our physical weather and (though this applies to Cou- progress towards littleness. Even in the tinental players as well) a ball less casy matter of jumping capacity, upon J. M. Hillyard, with his exceptional to control than that used in América, it which Dr. Haldane had some interesting reach, is a most marvellous volleyer of is to moral, rather than, physical causes, data, the remarkable powers of the mouss placed passing shot--that is, of a passing that the present slump in English lawn need not stir our emulation. Jumping shot which depends wholly on direction tennis, as judged by the highest standard, carried beyond a certain point, loses its and, not on top-spin. His lateral interis duc. For, as Napoleon observed, the charm, and we are left cold by the ceptions are wonderful, as, of course, is moral is to the physical as three to one. calculation that if a man's leaping This overhead work. He had a splendid When English lawn tennis is played in capacity were equal, weight for weight, record last sense, and, if sound and its proper atmosphere of freedom, it is to a fea's, he could go from Eralard well, would provide a distinct accession sure, to reach the highest pitch of excel. to Australia af one skip. There should of strength to England's Davis Cup leneo. Of the existence of the necessary be measure in all things, and it our teams, in none of which, so far as I know,

wealth of talent among individual players, has he hitherto been included...

thoré, can be no possible shadow of doubt. (Continued on nezt Column),

Borotra

HILLYARD'S - FUTURE.

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