Judge — August 26, 1922 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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Shimizu seems to play the game from a sitting posture Little Shimmie has been beaten but never out- smiled “I'm much obliged to have beaten you, old playmate.” The observance of Grass Court Etiquette is x ; the most rigid rule ye of the game bas es Shimmie covers If Helen Wills, at fifteen, most of the court BY a makes good her promise, from where he ve a is Me we'll have to invent a harder stands game a [There S S by Weed took no chances. Seizing upon a reporter taken from his locker at Chevy Chase who had been present from the beginning and sent to the White House. Perhaps the two players everything was over within forty-three minutes. Johnston always seems to be in a great hurry, and he manages to hurry Williams. He never gives the lattera chance to get set, but grimly shakes all the style out of him by slapping the ball at his feet. Indeed Bill Johnston conducts such a forcing campaign that no stylist has much chance with him. While Williams is making up his mind as to just which shot to use Johnston is arranging matters in such a way that his opponent has no time to make any return at all. HERE is something to be said for the player with a comparatively limited supply of strokes. It simplifies _ his mental processes in time of stress. Vin- cent Richards, for instance, suffers from a somewhat similiar surfeit of equipment. He knows just a little too much not to se occasionally some precious fraction of a second in cogitation. On the whole America has contributed most of the factors which have tended to make tennis a brisker game than in the days when its development. was. solely in the hands of fore masters. The kill or cure system of play owes a good deal to our men and particularly the ones from alifornia. Much of the English tech- nique has been devoted to making: the game sound rather than furious. Once I remember coming in late for a match between two foreign base-line experts. The score was standing something like fifteen games all and the rallies were interminable as the players tossed the ball back and forth at each other and d him to tell me something of the contest. “Well.” he re- 1, after mature deliberation, “when the score touched ten all, Lowe took off his hat and put on that cap.” ures of the MONG the tures of encouraging ft the present season is the fact that uth no longer gets served as regularly William A. Larned, who was a ars of Ik. ap- and 1 when one or two of the s\ were just learning tow peared in a tournament the other da captured a set from a member of the younger generation; and Dwight Davis. who retired years ago, came back and made a most impressive showing in the same tournament. But of course when one begins to consider the triumphs of age over tennis his mind naturally dwells on Arthur Balfour, who is still going strong at seventy-odd. — Indeed, if he had not wasted so much time in politics Balfour might ha ne far. Since the death of Theodore Roosevelt golf has become the conventional game for Americans in public life. Wilson played frequently, but he does not seem to have taken the game with sufficient seriousness. He was always choosing inaus} such as the morning Germany. In moments writing a note to whenever a crisis arose fact, Wilson took it out for eighteen holes of close considera- tion. No wonder he sliced abominably Warren G. Harding, on the cot does his golfing when things are tra With increasing cares of state he seems to feel that he cannot do his game justice, and has played little of late. Indeed, there is a report that he has had his clubs he fears that if the tariff muddle continues he may need his niblick. ee Doing the Impossible by Katherine Negley HE mothers looked upon Alexander had they and saw that he was good. He money, power and position, so added their lore of bygone d almost complete knowledge | of débutante daughters and the campaign was launched, Athletic Girls, Domestic Girls, Beauti- Yomen, Soul Affinities, and Working 1 their wiles, but he was invul- The Divorcee displayed her lovely body and experimented with all the vampi methods, but in vain. ‘tte met him as man to man jons of the day, but he was ‘The Bohemian Girl showed her con- tempt of foolish conventions and_ the Society Bud demonstrated the power of clothes and refined manners, but they soon saw it was impossible to win him, ‘Then he went to the town where he was horn to cat his Thanksgiving Dinner with his old-fashioned Mother. ‘The Teacher of the Village School boarded with his Mother, partly to keep her Company. The Little Teacher did not know Alex- ander could not be caught. married on Christmas So they were ae “What, will we have to drink at the hunt ball? { some pretty fair horse liniment.” comicbooks.com