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MISCHIEF-MAKING

BY RADIO

THE TENNIS COURTS AT WIMBLEDON WHERE CHAMPIONSHIPS ARE WON AND LOST

in

It would be tremendous fun if we could smuggle II. G. Wells's handy littlo invention, the Time Machine. past the Wimbledon de- fences, and take a round trip to 1877. It would not be an un- broken excursion through the meeting. And players are feeling certainly good-looking boys. yesterdays, for back of 1922 we that it was

In cartoonists; of G. L. Patterson about time. They the decade starting about 1897 we with should find ourselves in the open didn't care- much for the lawa don't see much else. Between ferociously about his brow; of a bandkerchief knotted county, confronted with the drawn up by the tennis com- them these "Princes Charming" Jean Borotra and his beret, the necessity for A short Interal mittee of the Marylebone Cricket chivalrous, handsome, and skil best double act in the game; of journey through a few hundred Club to govern "Sphairistike," ful-won the Wimbledon cham- W. M. Johnston, Rene Lacoste, yards of space to Worple Road, which (believe It or not) was the pionship nine times the Mecen of players in the heroic name

and the Henri Cochet, S. B. Wood, Elis given by gallant Major doubles, eight times. Those gen- worth Vines and, last but nol age of the game. Arrived at this Wingfield to his, 1874 invention of tlemen with black shoes whom least, of Jack Crawford, who arenna humble stadium compar "a new and improved portable wo saw them play in 1901 were plays

sort of gentle cd with the £140,000 amphitheatre, court for playing the ancient game Americans-Dwight Davis and reverie that maaks ♫ wealth of modern times-ve could buzz of tennis." The rules of "Sticky," Holcombe Ward. It was only in of talent and uncanny anti- The reference in the House of along merrily again on all as played with much giggling on the sixteenth game of the fourth cipation. These are the cham- Commons last week to the Italian cylinders, tracing Wimbledon ca- the garden lawns of Victorian set that the Englishmen got pions, to

reers of champions from the end England, varied according to through. Looks like an propaganda, broadcast in Arabic to the beginning, until the needle preference and the disposition of what? in the Near East, for the par-where we get out.

of the gauge shows 1877. That is the flower beds. A laurel bushi or two on the court was just a rub ticular benefit of Palestine, raises

of the green. Much more-persoas invaders are crowding vive. Perry is now. at his boisterous fun, though, than persistently round Worple Road zenith, breathing fire оп his croquet, which laws tennis suc. and it is clear that they will not hurricane way to the net. Austin ceeded both at the vicarage and denied. Ah! In 1905 the first remains more the artist than the at the All-England Croquet and title goes abroad. To America, of match winner, appearing happier Lawn Tennis Club.

It is taken there by a to make a losing, stroke in good miling Californian maiden, Miss style than to hit a winner with a May Sutton, now Mrs. T. C. Bundy. scramble. Two years later the men's singles championship goes off to. Aus-

BRRRRRR! It's raining: and the 200 spectators, who paid a shilling each to get in for the first Wimbledon final are not looking too chirpy. Surely there is some. thing odd about the net. Let's

That's just what it is.

course.

omen, enme

лек

whom the impostor

The na Triumph. champions are an international multitude, of whom F. J. Perry'

The and G. von Cramm sur-

★

ND how we can have whizzed our

a matter of which official British! notice had to be taken. It is, indeed, a subject which, according to the Colonial Secre- tary, is receiving the careful at- tention of the Palestine Govern- ask this young man with the WELL, we can't stay any longer tralia with the wily Norman ment. This obvious effort to what does he say? Oh, really, through the early "pat-ball" years of coming events.

Hlowing moustaches and the top hat,

in 1877. We'll just glide Brookes. The deepening shadow stir up ill-will against Britain Five feet high at the ends and to the time of the Renshaw twins,

way back to 1038 with such brief illustrates, the point that wireless only 3 feet 3 Inches in the middle. when real hitting started; and

Our informant says that this people ceased to regard hard na we bum through 1908, for A. collections they have left behind ure so We must give a spectat cheer reference to the women is more than

can imagine. However, the S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. somewhat mixed blessing, arrangement doesn't help S. W. volleys as a dirty business. We W. Gore's third success (in his vivid that we can hand back the Time. for it is constantly being utilised Gore, as he is a player of the sce one uncompromising figure forty-first year) is the last victory Machine to Mr. Wells, with many

-rackets-school-and-likes-to-make-driving from the base line against for a home player up to 1934. For thanks, and talk of

of the Wimbledon- to sel nation against nation and shots down where the side walls the smashing Renshaws. That, a quarter of a century the lion of ek back fraily to the jous

women from memory. But let us people against people. The pro- would be in a rackets court, W; of course, is H. F. Lawford, who England is in the wilderness, 1976 who, writing very

Mitchell, has opponent, is "real" committed himself on paper to the while the American eagle and the on the game, said, "I do not think any paganda emanating from the tennis man, but he can't seem to dictum that "Perfect base-line French chanticleer screech Italian stations has been pur- get a real offensive going. Gore play will beat perfect volleying." defiant chorus over

Indy cun, or will be able to play the Wimbledon, game, as it is very hard work for s is pinning him onto the base line He tried very strenuously to prove aided and abetted by Australia's man and dress is such a drag." posely designed with the object and coming up to make volleys at it, but he found himself adopting nimble kangaroo. of causing mischief in Palestine the net. How strange it seems to volleying tacties in the end. From and other countries in the law and order of which the British Government is closely interested, and it has recently been the sub- feet of much comment in the London press.

BILLIARD TABLES

by

Burroughs & Watts

G

E. J. RILEY

to see men, serving underhand! the crucible of Lawford-Renshaw wonder how Perry would shape battles emerged the modern all- with the rum-looking shrimp-net court game, a bit rough round the WHAT memories! are using in the first big lawn rackets and "dead" balls that they edges. tennia competition ever held. The

What! More brothers?

'''

Comment would be superfluous. In short, or rather shorts, nous avoILA. change tout cela. Which is French, Just like the great Miss Suzanne -vika Of Wilding Lenglen, who galvanised the play of

the

and Brookes; of W. T. Tilden the fair sex after the war and The in his original "Teddy Bear" brought into it a spectacular appeal that it had never previously known. BO' beloved of

Suzanne, of the prima

donna temperament and exquisite touch, won the women's championship aix times in seven years between 1910 and 1926. Her succestor as Queen of the Courts уда Mrs.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

players are not having an easy Dohertys this time, and they are sweater, time on the wet turf and pro- The mischief-ceedings are suspended several times before Gore wins at 6-1, makers start with a distinct

G-2, 6-4. Hats off to the first advantage, for it is the easiest champion! thing in the world to play upon | The rules of play have been com-

overhauled pletely

for this the prejudices of a people, be they Arabs or Hindus, who im- agine they have a grievance Italian Press, with the result that against the British or any other the Italian people have been Government.

A few malicious given a perverted sense of Bri- insinuations and unfounded alle-tain and all things British, and gations may suffice to sow the have been taught to believe that seeds of widespread revolt. TaBritain is false and made with every official assertion from) counter the effects of such pro-evil intent. There is a danger paganda is always difficult and in those tactics, for, as a recent often impossible. If Mussolini writer in the Times stated, any wishes the British Government Dictator can fill his country with and people to believe that he hatred and a spirit of war at will. The first necessity for seeks to renew good relations Signor Mussolini, if he wishes to with them, and that he does not dissipate the feelings aroused in harbour designs on any of the England by Italian aggression in Mediterranean or other terri-Ethiopia, is that he should take tories in which Britain is inter-steps to cause a cessation of anti- ested, this propaganda, which is British propaganda and lead his more in keeping with Moscow people in the ways of goodwill with as much carnestness and methods than Roman civilisation, assiduity as he has hitherto should be stopped. The prostitu- shown in infusing ill-will into tion of wireless is not in keeping their daily thoughts. He ob- with the honour or prestige of afviously has the power to make Great Power that aspires to be this contribution to the restora- tion of the traditional friendship come greater still. Anti-British between the two nations, a SPORTS propaganda is, unhappily, not friendship, which been

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has long been evident in the the recent past.

"I knew, if left you here alone, you'd let the whole) place grow up in weeds,”

Mrs

Wills Moody, a hard-hitting Californi- #n Kirl of meditative mien. Helen won Last year to equa! the seven successes gained by the Kreat

English base-liner, Lambert Chambers, between 1003 and 1914. Only one other person, William Renshaw, has been singles champion at Wimbledon so often that, although Misa Elizabeth Ryan California has the astounding mixed and This great chop stroke artiste first played at

at Wimble don in 1912 and since then, she has not missed a single meeting. Two English women only have been crowned champions since the Lambert Cham- bern urn. They are Mrs. L. A. Godfree, who won in 1924 and 1026, and Dorothy Round who won in 1984.

record of 18

women's du Victories in

THE patient queue that has spent the morning leaning up against the fence outside the ground, surger round the centre count to take up standing room and cat sandwiches; ticket holders (successful in a ballot for seats at enormous odds) arrive rather grandly at the last moment. And the loss fortunate people pre tond that they are quite satisfied with the matches scheduled for the outside courts. "It's really botter out here to-day," they tell one another, with their eyes fixed on the Illuminated BCOTC indicator which flashes the story from the contre court,

Soma of these good people-one day they numbered 80,000-are koen students of the game, fully aware of such grave things as the fact that the "Inst oight" at Wimbledon is a Zair reflection of the international attuation with regard to the Davis Cup. · · Others. are more concerned with the qualities 'of the strawberries and cream. After all, Wimbledon la good either way.