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STANDARD OF PLAY.

Lawn tennis was the first game of real action in which ladies took part, and may be taken as one of those landmarks of which they are so pleased to call their emancipation. It certainly alter ed their style of dress, and wheress before the game great care was taken in the length of their skirts, after the game had become popular this anxiety decins 10 have passed sway entirely. The subject is nowa days never mentioned, except that So and So's skirts are too long, and not too short.

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in war, but our enemies on the BETTER THAN courts of the games of pance. A

The championships of 1914 were interesting in many ways, but not the least interesting, feature was the tactics of the lady players, For many years lady players were want to believe, that there was

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players was, for this very rea of hearing is dominated by the þME. A. M. Harron son. apt to become tedious to the clamour of the engine and you are sir. M. Berges

all real world (writes Paul Bawsher Ticke pectator and sometimes to the cut off from the sounds of the MR player. The play was baseline driving, and many ral- in the London Daily Mail).

Bartlett In a balloon you can stand, and Mr. & Mrs. G. F. lies were almost infinite in dura- tion. Country tournaments, which walk about comfortably, in ordin-Mr. J. Bentley As an exercise, lawn tennis is often lasted only one day, had to ary clothes. You are part of the Mr. E. R. Bailing Mr. R. J. Barbeck one of the best, if, indeed. not leave sach events out of their card, wind, so no gale blows across & his. is a quite the best, game for ladies as the programmejwas nearly find your face, making your eyes which has been invented (writes shed. In mixed doubles it was water and your skin smart.

You drift over the country in a & correspondent of the London the custom of the lady to play back

Thin ghosts of Times.) It is an exercise which leaving all the net play to her deep silence. calls for the judicious use, cot partner. This method had its sound rise to you. The barking only of all the limbs, but also of advantages, but its supremacy of dags, the shrill whistle of a Mr. the head. It is played during was being challenged very ser- railway engine, the boot of a dis- that part of the year when the iously in 1914. Mrs. Larcombe, tant steamer, the laughter of Mr. W. d. Browall climatic conditions are, or at any playing with Mr. J. C. Parke, at children, the roar of a train-all rate should be, of the best, and it Wimbledon, in 1914, played up at weave a chain of sound across can be as pretty a game as the net wire very great success, the earth Above a wood you Further, it is and the victories of this pair overpass, and in a flight of music Any known.

sociable game, in which Mr. A. F. Wilding and Mlle. the songs of ten thousand birds the sexes can not only meet, but Broquedis and M. Decugis and sweep up to you. You drift low By the porch stand actually play, together, each play- Miss Ryan were due not only to over a farm. ing his or her own special part their actual play, but also in no two or three rustics with their without any of the necessity for small part to her tactics. Miss white faces staring upwards. handicapping, which is such a Ryan also advocates playing up, problem in golf. There is no and her victory, when playing other active game which can be with M. Decugis, over Mrs. recalled to mind in which there Chambersand Lieutenant-Colonel is actually a mixed doubles A. F. R. Kingscote, was also due championship, or in which the in no small part to. her modern ladies' championships are played methods, which certainly were at the same meeting and on the better than the severely orthodox same important courts as the style of her rivals. Yet in the men's. The ladies champion-final round of the singles cham- ships at Wimbledon "attract just pionship, Mrs. Chambers, playing as much interest, in many ways.in the old way, beat Mrs. Lar-

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You glide lower and lower, and drop overboard a long trail-rope. Its writhing end touches the ground, and more and more of it is lying on the earth to arrest The balance is struck, and you drift forward at an exact level, a hundred feet or so above the ground.

THE GOLF PROBLÉM. Which style will prevail in the end? It is difficult to say defini-your descent. rely, but it is worthy of note that the younger players are all adopting the new methods. The play at Wimbledon this summer will be watched very carefully to see whether they are successful.man's ingenuity or otherwise..

Mr. G. B. Dana

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There is one other very special feature of ladies' lawn tennis which is not found in any other ladies' sport, and that is the extraordinary success in recent years of married ladies. The first tournament for the Championship was played in 1884, and it was not until 1889 that a married lady

Then you will know the most won, Mrs. Hillyard being success

exquisite form of motion that& Glaz ful in that year.

has devised: Mr. J. S. R. Gar. In 1894 she repeated this victory, and in 1897,

You are low enough to become diner 1899, and 1900 was again success-

Your Mr. & Mr. J.`J. The problem of the correct part of the countryside.

German fal. With these exceptions, all the

forest- 2

JETE C Henriques other winners up to this time had handicap which a raan golfer view is obscured by

should give to his equal player crowned hill. New prospects are It H. been "Miss."

Hemmel In 1901 Mrs. Sterry won, but then the married among the ladies has apparently continually breaking upon you.

aroused considerable interest. Yet you are not on the earth, Mr. & Mrs. P.

Hollingsworth are a creature of the air, cap. T. P. Hall ladies retired from success until One of the letters which have you 1908, when Mrs. Sterry won been received on this subject drifting softly, silently, on and on. Mr. G. Harper again. From then until the pre-is especially interesting, for the above the flowery meadows, Mr. "A. Holgarwen sent day Miss D. Boothby has writer has apparently played as above the drowsy villages where M. W. P. Hot been the only unmarried lady to much, if not more, golf with ladies the thatched cottages sleep in

**Shelton win...

than he has with men. Here is sunny gardens; above little Kooper Now lawn tennis is a game his solution:-----

rivulets sparkling under stone Mr. James Isbister which would seem to call for

bridges; above ploughed land Capt. and Mrs. B. "Possibly." be writes, "I may much more activity, much more find a clue, even if I cannot solve where the birds scatter in shrill lasting powers, and much more the problem, I am a 10 handicap where the heavy scent rises up to alarm; above the clover fields youth than golf. The ladies' open" golf championship has been won man, so found by handicappers of only once by a married lady, Mrs. several golf clubs. For some two you, while the frightened rabbits Mr. E. Attwood

chot Kennion being successful in 1906. years before July, 1914, I played setter away from the rope, flash-Mrs. H. A. Bas

Mr. J. Basto vanish into the hedges.

Mr. Marriage, it would seem, then, is three or four mornings each week ing their white tailtufts as they

You do not know whither you Benesta no bar or handicap to success in when play was possible, and, find- ing that playing always with men the most active of ladies' many on the 18 10 14 handicap became are going. You do not care. The M. J. W. Bonines games. Further, increasing years be 181 14 Hess, and having silence grows deeper as you sail Mr. seem to be a greater advantage also a wish to find out how countryside. A pride in England, Mr. E. Cockburn

on into the green heart of the Mr. EE Bradley to lawn tennis than to golf, for

ladies' play compared with

F. the average age of recent lawn

Cameron beautiful creeps into your heart, tennis champions is much greater men's, I fixed up matches with and in all that makes England Mrs.

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than that of recent golf cham-as many lady players near the You almost know an ecstasy: Mr. C. de la Cruz

pions. This is true of the ladies scratch mark as I could. only.

events

"I found after a long series of In the men's exactly the opposite is the case. games, that, with a lady player of The whole of this apparent the three or four handicap. I had anomaly may be easy of explana- to go all out to hold my own; and tion, or it may be merely an that with those handicapped at Could take no accident and a passing phase, five or six I due to the special pre-eminence of liberties with the game. Rightly such lawn tennis players as Mrs. or wrongly, I have come to this Larcombe and Mrs. Lambert conclusion (and I think I speak Chambers: but it is most certain with fair authority) that the the same ly interesting, and not a little players being on

handicaps the man should give curious..

the lady seven strokes on a links up to, say, 5,200 yards (four in the half which is the longer), eight up fo 6,000 yards, and nine over 6,000 yards."

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Journalists, in acknowledging

Corrected to 30th May, 1919. Lady lawn tennis players, as

the influence of the Press on

Mr. J. H. Adams Mr. J. Johnstone public affairs, said: The spirit: Mr. G.. L. Allan Mr. T. Kennedy lady golfers, have taken their

Mr. Kilbro and in which we shall approach the Mrs B. Almond parts in the war, and although some have found time to get an

terms of peace is a matter on Dr. E. M. Anger which statesmen and politicians Mr. F. G. Becke occasional game during the past

C. Padom Mrs. can do little. It must ultimately Mr. M. Basker four years, none of them has been able to play so much as is

depend on the spirit of the people Mr. L. E. Brown desirable to maintain cham-

concerned, and for the spirit of Mr.J. J. Barry pionship form. It is therefore

the people there is no agency that Mr. J. Bainbridge is so responsible as the Press. I

M&E Batt

and Mrs unreasonable to expect that the

venture, therefore, to make a Bridger & family standard of play at Wimbledon

A bay gelding named Major, great appeal to you I ask you Mr. R. W. Brundle this year will be a high as it

Mr. A. Balloch Mr. D. P Chapple was in 1914. Further, there may commandeered early in the war, to put before you the very well be many changes among the which was repurchased at Red-highest ideal in this matter, and Mr. G. Chad Mrs. L. 3. Ponce

wick best players. Five years is a hill remount sale by his breeder, to not hesitate to tell your long break in a lawn tennis a farmer, went through many readers the real truth, and to Mr. Choi Shing and Douglas career, and it may be found at engagements in France and Italy guide them in a way that shall Wimbledon in June that several without a scratch. While being I secure, not only for this country, W. E. Dalton players, famous in the old days, trotted round the ring the farmer, but for the world, a lasting settle- Mr. W. Eborall:

Farroll have lost much of their cunning, shouted, "Whos, my bonny hoyment based on truth and justice." much of their power, much Major recognised the voice of his Lord Brougham has placed on

Farrell of their staying capacity, and not old master (says the London record his judgment of the few a little of the prestige which Evening Standard,) and com- sentences with which Sheridan helped them on many occasions menced neighing and switching thrilled the House of Commons Mr. 3. D. Forrest to destroy their opponents his tail. He pulled up dead, and on the liberty of the Press in 1810. chances. For these reasons the would not move until the farmer "Give them," said Sheridan, “' a coming season is going to be a took hold of the halter and fondled corrupt House of Lords; give remarkably interesting one. It him. When the farmer led him them a venal House of Commons; new era in which away Major lashed out all and give them a tyrannical prince may ma

terplay will come and take sundry. His whinnying was long. give them a truckling court; and the great players, and continuous, and owner and let rie have but an unfettered

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