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TENNIS PLAYERS.

NOVEL BY SUZANNE

LENGLEN.

What differentiates the orack" from the merely competent tennis player, the top twenty from the succeeding thousande? Not mus cle, not speed not agility, not form, but knowledge and use of payohology and theory.

"The theory is the very bones of the business," says the world's woman tennis champion, Suzanne Longlon, in her novel, "The Love Game, which has just been published.

"Without it you will just be a healthy, beefy athlete who plun ges about the court without any plan but hurling himself at the ball to hit it. Sometimes he doca I right through sheer animal spirits. But when he gets tired-this thick-skulled gladiator - what happens to his game? It falls to ploces because it is not knit to- gether by theory,

"An ounce of practice is not worth a pound of theory, 1ttakes, just sixteen ounces of practice to & pound of theory. The theory: must come first. It must be the The technique of groundwork. tennis has to be learned slowly, laboriously.".

But what is this theory? What are are the rules whereby Suzanne fights her way to victory?

SECRET MARRIAGE

WIFE WHO POSEN AS SERVANT

batter for being rationed and ar aroised una recehorse is rationed and exercised. The following was suitable, diet-Breakfast; Que ogg, bread, jam, butter and fruit, or porridge and milk and fruit for dinner one helping of A musician and composer who meat, potatoes and greens, a married his servant, a former piece of bread, and a helping of land-girl, and kept the marriage pudding: for the evening meal, a secret, though she still lived in helping of vegetables flavoured the house, was granted a docroo with very little meat and nisi in the Divorce Court recently, gravy, or eaten with some fish, Petitioner was Mr. Alfred or with an egg, fruit or salad Matthew Unle of Whitehouse, with some bread and butter, or Rake, near East Lisa, Haute, and cheese, or a milk pudding. A he alleged the misconduct of his cup or two of tea or coffee might wifo with William Sugden, ba added to the morning and formerly a gunner in the Royal evening meals, Boor or wino- Artillory..

should only be taken to modera- tion with meals, and spirits al together avoided.

Mr. Waltor Frampton said the parties were married in February 1922 at Konsington Registor Office; but as Mr. Halo did not want his relations to know that he had married his servant, and the wife desired to keep her. friends in the village, the marri- age was kept secret.

DANCES IN ARMY HUTS.

Mr. Halo met Sugden at dancos and whist drivos held at Lies and Petersfield in 1924 In Army huts, attended by soldiers from Long- mcor Camp. It was alleged that. Christmas, 1924, Sugden stayed at while Mr Hale was away at

his house for, a fornight.

Later Mr. Halo found a motor- cycle in the shed. His wife said "The Love Game" supposedly it was her brother's, but the is a purely fictional novel dealing Kardoner told him that it was with love and the sensational rise Miss Horsey being Mrs. Hale's

Miss Hersoy's young man's-- | of a young French girl to supro-maiden name. Afterwards Mrs. macy in the tennis world, but in Hale quarrelled with the garden. it Miss Longlen given her opinionser, and knocked him into na to what constitutes good

flower-bed. playing and good teaching.

"The business of a coach is not so much to teach as to correct" so warns. "Lot pupils follow their own instincts and so devolop a style of their own. Many a promising player is ruited by too much nursing at the outset."

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In evidence Mrs. Hole said she remained her husband's servant after they were married, and he paid her wages. She denied the charges, as also did Sugdan.

His lordship found that there had been misconduct, and granted Mr. Halo a decreo'nisi.

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Lecturing for the People's Nature and Purpose of Food." League of Health on "The Professor Lepaard Hill said that there was not only no advantage in over-cating that was, in taking more food of good quality than Replying to the toast of bor the faol value needed, but dis- hoalth, Mias Vanbrugh said advantage. People word wrong that criticisms were important in thinking that they could be- anybody who had a place in the come strong merely by good feed- public eye; but in vast countriesing. Strength was got by exercise like Australia and New Zealand and exposure to sunshine and and South Africa the critic who open air, which promoted sp wrote for the paper. had more petite and good digestion of food power really than the newspaper and growth of muscle. Flabbiness, writer in England. The reason weakiness, loss of appetite and was that people in this country disorder of health came from were so busy that often they were sedentary indoor life in over- only able to glance at the warm atmospheres. We should beadlines and read a little of what all play, games, young and old, followed underneath. In Aus- and playing fields, allotments and tralia the newspapers wore read gardens must be providedto secure from cover to cover, re-read, and healthy, happy people. sent from house to house until there was scarcely a bit of paper Dr Hill went on to say that left. Everything you say and accasional fusting not only did do and what you are" she added, no harm, but good to those who is known much better by the overate. Store cattle could be public than by yourself, and it is underfed during the winter, and difficult sometimes to live up, or money thus saved, and brought down, to how you have been into prime condition in the spring represented."

by good feeding. Mice could be Great as was the power of the kept in excellent condition fast- Press in England, she thought it ing one, two, and even three days was really greater in thea weak. It was not necessary Dominione. Travel, besides then to eat every day, and affording new experiences, gave certainly not four or five meals a new ideas, and a tour such as she a day. More people were pro- had made inspired them with the bably killed off too early by in- greatness of England and of the temperance in eating than by Empire. She had been impressed alcoholio intemporance. A man by the progressive spirit and the should koop his body fit, and it beauty of cities and towns sho should be regarded as disgrace- had visited in Australia and Nowful to become fat, gross, and of ill Zealand.

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