THE LATE MISS C. MEYER, MISS PINCKNEY, AND MISS E.W. THOMSON (MRS. LARCOMBE) GROUP PLAYERS AT THE NEWCASTLE TOURNAMENT, 1902 AFTER THE LADIES' FINAL AT WIMBLEDON:

The exercise depends naturally upon the nature of the game played and the players engaged, from the championships to the garden-party patball game.

It must be remembered that instantaneous photographs show players of games as they are really never seen.

Why, then, should women abandon athletic exercises, which they enjoy so much, and which do them so much good, merely because, just for a moment or two perhaps, their appearance is distorted? CHAPTER II PRACTICE, AND HOW TO IMPROVE Players, even tournament players, often ask how they can improve.

Why, then, should women abandon athletic exercises, which they enjoy so much, and which do them so much good, merely because, just for a moment or two perhaps, their appearance is distorted? CHAPTER II PRACTICE, AND HOW TO IMPROVE Players, even tournament players, often ask how they can improve.

Many players make the cardinal mistake of playing day after day in the same way; they starve all their weak strokes and overdo all their best ones; in fact, they play in precisely the same manner as if the occasion were an important match.

Lawn tennis players never seem to me to be nearly so keen on their game as golfers.

I think this lack of adequate practice is one of the reasons why there is such a dearth of rising talent among lawn tennis players.

Yet the same players grumble at the expense of purchasing books dealing with the game.

I have often noticed the difference in length and sting between the service of some players at the beginning of the match and in the third set, and I am sure that one of the reasons why so many matches are ultimately lost after a promising start is the decline in the service, in its sustained vigour and in its length.

By the way, why do many lady players, even those who compete at open tournaments, stand several feet behind the base-line when serving?

I would emphasize the need for a certain standard of efficiency, because I am convinced that at the present time there are too many weak players competing at open meetings.

The style of these players has only to be watched to be condemned, and their knowledge of the game is hopelessly limited.

You will more often than not play against better players than yourselfan advantage denied you in practiceand against all varieties of attack and defence.

I am convinced that, generally speaking, players attend too many meetings.

Many players, even when concentrating, take their eye off the ball too soon, with the result that it is not properly timed and not hit cleanly in the centre of the racket.

A volleyer, to my mind, is much easier to play against than a base-liner, and most of the first-class base-line players agree with me.

I think it would be an excellent plan if ladies' doubles were always played like men's doubles, both players moving together and keeping parallel with one another, going up to the net together and retiring to the back of the court together.

KEEP PERFECT CONTROL OF THE TEMPER This rule some players will find much more difficult than others.

I like my racket slightly weighted in the head, but I think most players prefer one evenly balanced.

Another thing that surprised me as I looked was that the tense look on the faces of the players was anything but

We are Croesuseswe hire players to stake money for us on every possible number at every coup.

They let me win because I was a new playernew players always win at first.

A faro-layout was purchasing Senator Danfield a new touring-car every hour at the expense of the players.

" By this time there were twenty passengers about our group, all of them asking questions at once, making it difficult to learn just what had happened; but, so far as I could piece the answers together, the poker-players' curiosity had been aroused by the long stop, and, looking out, they had seen a single man with a rifle standing by the engine.