Life — June 23, 1887 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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LI HE last fortnight has been, if anything in the night line may be so described, the (new-mown) heyday of the lawn-tennis season. Eighty clubs were represented at the Prospect Park tournament; and the inauguration of the Staten Island Ladies’ Tennis Club-house, in strictly Old English style, was followed by the opening exercises of many other associations which unfurled their racquets to the breeze. The games for singles and doubles have begun, and the chances are, FE - | diet for sanguine Americans ; but we should like to see her remodelled asa four-leaved clover. The Irish question ought to be kept out of the regatta, and it is sincerely to be hoped that Editor O’Brien will not be prevailed upon to come back and sail the Shamrock. Meanwhile, what is wanted is a breeze, and the New York Club has | introduced the novelty of searching for one, with electric lights. Another interesting event was the Seawanhaka Corinthian race, in which certain classes of boats were manned and steered by amateurs, while the professional crews were sent below and securely battened down, This is a pleasant custom, which promises to make yachting useful as well as ornamental. When yachtsmen generally take to | doing the hard work, and giving their crews leisure for poker and champagne below cecks, the relations of employer and employed can- | not fail to be rendered more cheerful. that if the racquet is kept up, many of the singles—where young men | and young women play together—will find themselves converted into | doubles before autumn arrives, ]X_the,Pigeon-field Dr. Carver continues to derive a comfortable subsistence from the ‘“incomers;” but this form of gunning appears to be too dry for Captain Paul Boyton, who prefers to shoot rapids. He shot the Passaic rapids (without seriously hurting them) from the old Gun Mill. The chief obstacle to this sport becoming general is that we cannot all afford to carry gun mills around with us, on the chance of getting a good shot at a waterfall. The single barrel weapon sometimes used for perforating the Niagara whirlpool is cheaper, but is not a popular fire-arm. HITE WINGS are very active this season, and the regatta quotations are firm, with a bullish tendency, which is likely to culminate when John B. Sends his champion over for the international contest. The English are nourishing their hopes on the Thistle, a kind of fodder which some disrespectful persons on this side have remarked is the favorite pabulum of donkies. The Shamrock, which is “tender” (no suspicion of steam), is said to be a better staple of HE movement for a bench show of prize-fighters is said to be pro- «gressing favorably. For ever since a burglar who entered prize- | fighter Burke’s house in Chicago was knocked out in one round, gentlemen owning country-seats have been swapping their obsolete Cedarhurst watch-dogs for professional heavy weights, and the breed of stall-fed sluggers is improving. There will also be an opposition bench show of burglars when the next term of the courts open; so that both sides of this interesting in-and-outdoor sport will be illustrated. A SACHT. YOUNG man on board of a yacht, Said, ‘‘I am so awfully hacht, I would like to take beer, But it makes me feel queer, For I always do take such a lacht. Mr, B—, newly married, takes a house in the country and is sent to the Intelligence Office in search of ‘* help.” Prospective “Help « SUMMER WHERE I CAN GO AND RIST. I'M SHURE I'D SUIT YE7, AND I’D LOIKE A FOINE PLACE IN THE COUNTRY FOR THE comicbooks.com