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LAWN TENNIS.

AFTER FIVE YEARS.

4the risk of causing au epidemic of apoplexy among patriotic

ald and stertorous gentlemen, it is suggested here! that the game they poohpooh as pat-ball has proved itself au admirable wargame-possibly the best of them all War, with its] synchronized watches and its road-making, has been an apter teacher than any professional philosopher in bringing horne ta leisurely, redundant England the meaning and importance of time and space; and of all her standard games there is none so economical of both and at the same time of apparates as lawn tennis.

Boxing the eritivism to ba passed on boxing as a recreation

time of war is that, like foot- ball, it has too much in common with the business of the moment to offer the complete change which is essential to relaxation. Cricket, like other gentlemen, gave up his! broad acres to eational purpose

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is a rumour of vegetables planted on a certain cherished pitch: none of them came up, and the groundman is in an asylum, but it is the spirit which Coauts in these things. One pictures cricket dropping into the background. and rather pleased at the oppor tunity of showing that he had known himself not to be an in- dustry all the time that well-

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broke his racket upon the fall of one championship with Mr. S., of Liege though he was tot Misha, and France in another likely to hit Haas half as hard with Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen. with anything else and de- Veterans of the Western front nounced lawn tennis as frivolity will be entertained to learn that some day, "pestilent frivolity." this young lady is an authentic,

Which was the most gallant of Picardy-əhə (But after he had got himself into Champion

mature recorded, act of the war? This khaki it mast have been sag-won a title at the

Another player question was discussed at gested to him that to appear age of 14.

be would

and gathering in Liverpool. A Jat- in it among the beflannelled who was to be a shining example-welcome to Wimbledon is Mr. land battle incident was regarded, an action that intelligent patrio-Cli ton B. Herd, of the U.S. Navy.mys the Literpool Post as un- tism clearly demanded of him. His service is faster than that of surpassed. A group of sailors catapult, Mr.were clinging to some wreckage. human At any rate, he took to paying, at that first intermittent,and then regular, McLoughlin; so those say who They knew there was no hope of visits to his old haunts. But if hare stood up to and survived rescue, and yet when a destroyer The British Navy is passed, steaming fall speed into the gaine was the same, the spirit both.

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in which it was played was credited with a coming player in action, they made no appeal for different. Perhaps it would be Lieutenant P. F. Glover, a half-help. Instead they heroically inore accurate to say the spirit in brother of Lieutenant-Colonel cheered her on. which it was discussed. To be Kingscote's. The latter has been pursued will zest by a grown maan, seen playing well himself, and in

PRINCE AND PRINCESS SUED. An action in which the Prince

a lawa-tennis ball mast bulk to the intervals of acquiring military and Princess of Pless-who are him as the great globe itself. distinctions Major A. H. Lowe both now in Germany-figured as time to keep defendants was before Mr. Justice This it very properly remained has found while in fight. But it become nnp his driving. Major T. M. Peterson in the Chancery Division ball again a soft ball when Mavrogordato also has played recently. The plaintif was Mr. boxed. Again, a defeat by that from time to time. Major J. C. Fredk. Seymour Salaman, trustee promising youngster who used to Parke received a wound early in fin bankruptcy of Mr. George Fred- want 15 to make a fight of it had the war, and recovered from it erick Cornwallis, West. Mr Whate- ceased to be as in the preceding sufficiently to receive another.ly said the action was brought lastrum-a mystery, a catastrop-These four, it will be remember-to set aside leases granted by the he, and an outrage. That defeated, constituted the last British late William Cornwallis Cornwall Lieutenant is West to his son-in- law, the was a token of a serious life; it Davis Cup team. was found to be a less interesting A. E. Beamisha possible choice Prince of Pless for 21 years, of the topic than the "communique"; for that team is said to have mansion house, Newlands Manor, Milford, Hants and Ruthin Castle, it was it was best not mention improved. ed lest the speaker be But as the last five years will Denbigh, and to his daughter, confounded with Old-who bad have affected nerves and muscles the Princess of Pless of the Batch- been overheard complaining in various ways, it will be prudent ley estates and Arnewood House, of the consequences of a certain to defer any formal estimate and Hants, on the ground that they falso bound just after the news of classification of players until were not genuine leases, but were the first gas attack came through, after the Covered Court Tournajat an undervalue and the result and who was said to have taken ment which will be held in the of collusive arrangernents between a reference to a German invasion' spring (if permission is granted) the late William Cornwallis to apply to the doings of Herr at Queen's Club. Froitzheim at Wimbledon in 1914.

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