This Ball Was Far From Perfect. The Stitches Wore. The
heavy cement used by some makers interfered with the bounce and perhaps damaged the rubber. At first we used to play with the flannelled ball only on fine days and the rubber......
The Historians Therefore Must Not Forget The Name Of Mr,.
and Mrs. John Heatheote. As a small boy and later—for age did not diminish his interest in games—I played a great deal of lawn tennis with him, and remember very vividly all the......
In The Grounds Of Conington He Made The First Lawn
tennis ground in the county, and persuaded one of his neighbours, who was my father, to do the same. This was about the year 1875. The courts we made were narrow at the waist,......
A German Historian (in A Passage Introduced To Inc Long
ago by that fine German scholar Mr. J. L. Garvin) said that you could not understand England and the English without looking into the pages of Gilbert White, of Selborne. Nor......
Country Life
nil: FIRST TENNIS BALL. Many quaint reminiscences, not without historical value, have appeared in The Times on the theme of the early days of lawn tennis ; but in them all I......
Now Those Who Were Accustomed To Play Court Tennis Missed
one of the chief charms—and difficulties—of that aristocratic game. The ball is heavy and comes off the hard surface at a great pace. The momentum of it is such that it is......
How Much Country Life In England Has Owed To Men
of Mr. Heathcote's sort ! They were nearly all historians ; and many of them lived long enough to be contemporary historians of near a century. One of the most pleasing books in......
This Ball Had Two Deficiencies In The Eyes Of The
court tennis players, whose wrists had been trained to resist the solid cork balls of their favourite game. First it was absurdly light ; secondly it would not take the spin, as......
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