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Europe. The almost unbearable heat in the streets drove out into the country everybody who could These tennis-courts, which are possibly leave the city. On one altuated in the heart of the single Sunday, 2 million people Grunewald, formed, for three were conveyed to the environs by days, the rendez-vous of a throng of fashionable onlookers who dis- the different means of transport; played intense interest in the on that same day, 60,000 people games. In the doubles, Hawkes are said to have bathed on the and Patterson were matched famous strand of Wannsee, mid-against our old champion., Froltz- way between Berlin, and Potsdam. heim and Rahe, the Australians being the winners. In the singles, This Wannsee is one of a long the situation was reversed. The chain of lakes which de so much talented young Hopman and the to render charming the surround- sinewy Crawford played tough ings of the German capital. In games; but, despite their admir anch tropical weather, as we have fable efforts, neither of them suc- been having, with the thermometer ceeded in gaining a vietory. So, ranging about the level of 95" ton, after a hard tuasel, the par-. Fahrenheit, these lakes, and the tlcularly reliable and uniform endless woods within which they player, Hawkes, suffered a defent. lie embedded, proved a very god One of the most interesting mat send to the inhabitants. Seldom,ches was that between Patterson, if ever, have such crowds wander-the captain of the Australian ed out to seek respite from the team." ard. our ex-champion, heat in the shade of the trees and Froltzheim. The players were the coolness of the watera. What representatives of two totally dif- their numbers may have referent schools of tennis; and gated it is dillenlt to say. Doubllovers of the game watched the less the figures were higher than play with eyes riveted on stroke over before; certainly several and ball. Unfortunately, the dusk recorda were reached in other of evening and the departure of matters; for example, the dally our guests left the match drawn cansumption of lemons, in the Patterson, whose superiori- shape of lemon squash, exceeded te, particularly in serving, was one million; while "other"vious, gave a display of really beverages totalled 25 million fine tennis, and repeatedly roused the onlookers to an applause which was somewhat contrary to the rules generally observed such occasions.
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But the day is doubtless not far distant when what is at present unimaginable will become actual fact; we shall, walk shivering The final result whs 7 to 2 in through the streets of Berlin and favour of the German team. The shall recall with linging the days Australians, who were manifestly of insupportable heat, the cloud-at a disadvantage in playing with less blue sky, the fair sex in the unaccustomed balls and, unaccus seantiest summer clothing per-tomed courts and who were staled missible, the men in straw hats by months of continual hard play! and the fans in the omnibuses in various countries of Europe, and tram cars.
new
intend to pay us another visit to play the return match. They may Sport in Berlin.
be sure of receiving a hearty During recent weeks, Berlin has welcome and of our not, having acen a large number of sporting forgotten the interesting and in- events, most of which bore an structive exhibition given by them' International character. There during their first visit. was a polo match in the delightful
Foreign Students' Union. Frohnaa; the garden-eity of
The number of foreigners Olympia football team from Chile played several matches: the best studying at the various colleges Australian tennis players were (Hochschulen) in Berlin is very here. In connexion with pure large. At the university, indeed, sport; several International horacone student in seven is a foreign- races were run. Thanks to the er; while those studying there and favourable weather, 'the big prizes at institutes of university rank in and the large number of competi- the German Capital aggregate tora consequently attracted, the over 2000. These students have extensive racing grounds at hitherto been organised in more associations. Grunewald nasembled enormous than 50 separate crowds of onlookers. That was Without prejudicing, in any way, in the west of Berlin; in the cast, these older organisations, gen- the famous international flat-racea eral union of foreign students at Hoppegarten also drew thou-has been founded under the title sands of race-goers, among whom of "Hauptgemeinschaft Auslandis- were to be seen a very large cher Studenten." The importance sprinkling of the "smart set" generally attached to this I both German and foreign. creation may be gathered from The horses sent from French the fact that representatives of studs comprised aome fine the diplomatie corps and of the well-boned steeple-chasers; Hun-Government, as well as leaders in gruz was represented by art and science, were present at the hitherto unbeatan "Gonor" the inaugural ceremony and were England, Poland, Denmark and welcomed by the Rector of the Switzerland also took part in University., On that occasion. It several races. But none of the was stated that the objects of the foreigners-not even the much new organization include lectures, dreaded Frenchmen-were able to travel studies, the cultivation of book a single victory in these intellectual and social relations? highly interesting and often while a special publication will exciting events; the best they be devoted to promoting the could do was to obtain a few un-studies of foreigners 'in Germany satisfying "places." This is, cer-and to making foreign countries tainly, a sign that great progress familiar with German culture, A has been mado by German revival of the students' exchango! breeders since the war; it is, how-scheme between Germany and ayer, to be hoped that the results Latin America is already observ. the German of this year's racing in Berlin will able. Moreover, not deter foreigners from partiel-capital has provided a suitable pating in the next year's inter-meeting-place for foreign students national; on the countrary, we in the shape of the recently crect- Humboldt Alexander von trust to ste, on that uecasion, noted the second-class representatives House. Altogether the movement of this summer, but a selection of is in the true university spirit the best material foreign studs can and will undoubtedly help to fur sond us. J
ther that exchange of thought be tween one people and another which is absolutely essential to In the course of their tour the promotion of true mental and through Europe, the tennis team moral culture.
Australian Tennis Players.
of the Melbourne Cricket Club
pald a visit to Berlin. They had already proved victorious In the
While her mother was shopping, tennis competition for the Davis Emily Dormer, 18 months, of Cup in England and now came on Muriel-street, King's Cross, N., here to try their luck against our clambered on a stool, fell into a Red-and-Whites in the beauti- copper of boiling water and was ful grounds of the latter's club: fatally scalded.
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