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If WELLS Went to WIMBLEDON

Perry and Von Cramm Mcet in the Singles Final To-day. Their Herculean Struggle will be the Culmination of Nearly Six Decades of History-Making Tennis by the World's Greatest Players.

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MISCHIEF-MAKING

BY RADIO

The reference in the House of Commons last week to the Italian propaganda, broadcast in Arabic

quered. A mighty line they are, stretching back through the years to a time when Wimbledon was merely a suburb of South- west London and lawn tennis- was merely lawn tennis.

short

I

THE TENNIS COURTS AT WIMBLEDON WHERE CHAMPIONSHIPS ARE WON AND LOST.

It would be tremendous fun if we could smuggle H. G. · Wells'a handy little invention, the Time Machine, past the Wimblution des fences, and take a round trip to 1877. It would not be An broken "excursion through the meeling. And players are feeling certainly good-looking boya, In cartoonists; of G. L. Patterson yesterdays, for back of 1922 we that it was about time. They the decade starting about 1897 we with a handkerchief knotted should find ourselves in the open didn't care much for the laws don't see much else. Between ferociously about his brow; of county, confronted with the drawn up by the tennis -com- then these "Princes Charming" dean Borolra and his beret, the necessity for ກ

lateral mittee of the Marylebone Cricket chivalrous, handsome and skil hest double act in the game; of journey through a few hundred Club to govern "Sphairistike," ful-won the Wimbledon chum W. M. Johnston, Renu Lacoste, yards of space to Worple Road, which (believe it or not) was the pionship nine times and the Henri Cochet. S. B. Wood, Ells- the Mecen of players in the heroic name given by gallant Major doubles eight times. Those gen- worth Vines and, last but not age of the game. Arrived at this Wingfield to his 1874 invention of tlemen with black shoes whom least, of Jack, Crawford, who urena--a humble stadium gompar- a new and improved portable we saw them play in 1901 were plays. in Η

t of gentle fed with the £140,000 amphitheatre court for playing the ancient game Americans-Dwight Davis and reverie that masks

of modern thines we could buzz of tennis.' The rules of "Sticky," Holcombe Ward. It was only in of talent and uncanny anti-

merrily along

#re the cham- DN all as played with much giggling on the sixteenth game of the fourth cipation. These

the Englishmen got pions. to whom the impostor linders, tracing Wimbledon en- the garden lawns of Victorian set that reers of champions from the end England.

an varied according to through. Looks like

omen, came as Triumph. The new, to the beginning, until the neeille preference and the disposition of what? of the gauge showa 1877. That is the flower beds. A laurel bush

in the Near East, for the par-where we get out. ticular benefit of Palestine, raises

again

* * *

200 spectators who paid 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

at the All-England Croquet- and Lawn Tennis Club.

***

in 1877.

•

wealth

on his

champions are an international multitude, of whom F. J. Porry That's just what it is.

The and 'G. Yon Cramm sur- er two on the court was just a rub overseas invaders are crowding vive. Perry ន NOW ILL his of the freen. Much more

than persistently round Worple Road zenith, breathing fire boisterous fun, though, a matter of which official British

eroquet, which lawn tennis aur and it is clear that they will not hurricane way to the net. Austin Ah! In 1905 the first remains more the artist than the notice had to be taken. It RRRRRRR! It's raining: ant the ceeded both at the vicarage and de

title goes abrond. To America, of match winner, appearing happier is, indeed,

subject which, ગુ

course.. It is taken there by a to make a losing stroke in good smiling Californian malden, Miss style than to hit a winner with a according to the Colonial Secre-

May Sutton, now Mrs. T. C. Bundy, scramble. tary, is receiving the careful at

Two years later the gen's singlés championship goes off to Aus- tention of the Palestine Govern- ask this young man. with the WELL we can't stay any longer trails with the wily Norman ment. This obvious effort to What does he say? Oh, really, through the early "pat-hall" years of coming events.

flowing monataches and the top hat,

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 twjus,

way back to 1036 with such brief illustrates the point that wireless only 3 feet 3 inches in the middle when read hitting started and

We must give a special cheer reference to the women is more than

I can imagine. However, the Our informant says that this people ceased to regard hard as we hum through 1908, for A, collections they have left behind are si Ltd. a somewhat mixed blessing, arrangement doesn't help $. W. volleys as a dirty business. We W. Gore's third success Ltd.

(in his vivid that we can hand back the Time for it is constantly being iliged Gore-as-he-is-n-player of the see-one-uncompromising-figure-forty-first-year)-is-the-last-victory-Machina to Mr. Wells. With many rackets school and likes to make, driving from the base line against for a home player up to 1944. For, thanks, and talk of the Wimbledon But let us to set nation against nation and shots down where the side walls the smashing Renshaws. That, a quarter of a century the lion of women from memory,

hark back firstly to W of course, is II. F. Lawford, who England is in the wilderness, of 1870 who, writing very seriously the gentleman people against people. The pro- would be in a rackets court.

Mitchell, has opponent, is "real" committed himself on paper to the while the American engle and the on the gany, sald, "I do not think any paganda emanating from the tennis man, but he can't seem to dletum that "Perfect base-line French chanticleer screech lady can, or will be able to play the. Italian stations has been pur- get a real offensive going. Gore play will beat perfect volleying." defiant chorus over Wimbledon, game, as it is very hard work for a

is pinning him onto the base ling He tried very strenuously to prove ailed 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.

Chater Road.

BILLIARD TABLES

by

Burroughs & Watts

E. J.

&

RILEY

of causing mischief in Palestine

the net, How strange it seems to volleying tactics in the end. From

to see men serving underhand the crucible of Lawford-Renshaw

I wonder how Perry would shape battles emerged the modern all-

ND how we can have whizzed our

Comment would be superfluous. In short, or rather shorts, nous avons change tout cela. Which is French, Just like the great Miss Suzanne

appeal

The in his original "Teddy Bear" brought into it a previously know

NO beloved

the

and other countries in the law and order of which the British with the rum-looking shrimp-net court gume, a bit rough round the WHAT memories! Or Wilding Lenglen, who galvanised the play of

rackets and "end" balls that they edges. Government is closely interested, are using in the first big laws

The What! Morn, brothers? and it has recently been the sub-tennis competition ever held.

players are not having an easy Dohertys this time, and they are sweater, ject of much comment in the time on the wet turf and pro- London press.

The mischief-ceedings are suspended several times before Gore 'wins at 6-1, makers start

with a distinct 6-2, 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- the prejudices of a people, be pletely overhauled they Arabs or Hindus, who im-

every

for

and Brookes; of W. T. Tilden the fair sex after the war and

that it had never of

Suzanne, of the prima donna temperament and exquisite touch, Avon the women's championship times in seven years between 1010 and 1926. Hfer successor, ne Queen of the Courts was Mrs. Helen Wills Moody, a hard-hitting Californi- an girl €15 meditative mien. won last year tu the seven successes gained by

English base-liner, Mrs.

SIDE GLANCES

By George Clark

thia

agine they have a grievance Italian Press, with the result that against the British or any other the Italian people have been Governmeit. A few malicious given a perverted sense of Bri- insinuations and unfounded alic-tain and all things British, and gations may suffice to sow the have been taught to believe that official assertion from seeds of widespread revolt. To Britain is faise and made with counter the effects of such pro-evil intent. There is a danger paganda is always difficult and in these tactics, for, as 'n 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 seoks 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 people in the ways of goodwill more in keeping with Moscow with as much garnestness and methods than Roman civilisation, assiduity as he has hitherto should be stopped. The prostitu- shown in Infusing in-wl into tion of wireless is not in keeping their daily thoughts. He ob- with the honour or prestige of a viously 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 propagando is, unhappily, not friendship which has been DEPT. confined to radio broadcasts; it soverely strained by the events of

has long been evident in the the recent past.

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great Lambert Chambers, between 1003 and 1911. Only one other person, Wiliam Renshaw, has been singles champlon at Wimbledon so often as tline, although Miss Elizabeth Ryan of California has the astounding

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record of victories in mixed and. women's doubles. This great chop. Istroke artiste first played at Wimble

dow in 1812 and since then she has not misseri a single meeting. Two English women only have been crowned champions since the Lambert Cham- bers era. They are Mrs. L. A. Godfree, who won in 1924 and 1926, and Dorothy Round who won in 1904.

THE patient queue, that has spent

THE the morning leaning up against

the fence outside the ground, surges round the centre count to take up standing room and eat, sandwiches; ticket holders (successful in bullot for seats at enormous odds) arrive rather grandly at the last moment. And the less fortunate people pre- tend that they are quito fatiufled with the matchen scheduled for the 14 cutalde courts. "I' really better out here to-day," they tell one another, with their eyes fixed on the Buminated score indicator which flashes the story from the centre court. :

Some of these good people-one day they numbered 30,000-are keen students of the game, fully aware of such grave things as the fact that the "last eight" at Wimbledon is

fair reflection of the International situation -with regard to the Davis Cup. Others are more, enncerned with the qualities of the strawberries and creain. After all, Wimbledon is good either way.