Miss Gem Hoalling, the remarkable little thirteen- year-old player who
won the Middlesex Girls' Tennis Championship last Saturday, has all the makings of an England player in her—and, fortunately, though she is Chinese by parentage she is British by birth. Handicapped though she is by standing only a head higher than the net, she fought her way without check or hesitation into the final, and won that, against a player fully up to championship standard, by 6-3, 6-1. She plays with both her head and her feet. Her footwork is remarkable, and so is her mental concentration. Not of a physique to make hard driving a speciality, she wins her games by skill in placing. Two of the disabilities of her youth are that she cannot play in the Wimbledon Junior Championship this year or next, or take the London matric. for three years. Her father, watching her Middle- sex triumph, was a monument of Oriental impassivity.
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