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GAMES AND PASTIMES: The Big Tennis Event

... literally to roar with enthusiasm, while better backhand play, or service, than Riseley's has seldom been seen. Article on Wimbledon Tennis Tournament continued on page 46) The Mixed Doubles at Wimbledon G. W. Hillyard and Miss Sutton beat T. D. Stoward and ...

Published: Wednesday 04 July 1906
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 466 | Page: 41 | Tags: Photographs 

A CROWDED WEEK OF SPORT: The Test Match at Lord's--The Horse Show--The Heavyweight Championship

... last Saturday was really the prelude to a brilliant fortnight of sport, being followed this week by the opening of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, the Royal Regatta at Henley, and the Open Golf Championship at St. Andrews, each with a strong oversea ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 483 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

Sport with the Lid Off: Swollen Heads at Tennis--The Test Match--A Champion Runner--An Amazing Boxer

... Tennis The Test Match A Champion Runner An Amazing Boxer I could, without difficulty, be extremely provocative about this Wimbledon tennis business which is going on just now, for the fuss we make over lawn-tennis always seems to me ridiculous. What is more ...

Published: Wednesday 22 June 1932
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1046 | Page: 45 | Tags: Photographs 

MOTOR NOTES

... private balcony, and the sun-lounge and roof-garden are triumphs of what such things should be. Motorists travelling to the Wimbledon Tennis Championships by car are being well catered for this year by the Automobile Association, which has made arrangements ...

Published: Wednesday 22 June 1927
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1051 | Page: 64 | Tags: Photographs 

NON-PLAYING ASPECT: A Lawn Tennis Log

... Paris, where both America and France will be waiting. Our prospects of success in the first venture is rosy but post- Wimbledon tennis is often surprising. The sudden change from turf to terre battue, the different type of ball, the violent rise in temperature ...

PRELUDE TO WIMBLEDON: The Garden Party at Highgate; and Other Home New Shown in Pictures

... TENNIS AT HIGHGATE: The garden-party given by Lady Crosfield at Highgate West Hill is now a recognised forerunner of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. Many of the leading players were present among the guests a few days ago, when they met the Duke of Edinburgh ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1193 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

Sport with the Lid Off: A Frank, Fair and Free Commentary

... more until Wimbledon when he has finished his present tour. A nd what a hectic fortnight we are r V going to have then Wimbledon tennis, Davis Cup match, Test Match against the Australians, 'Varsity cricket match, Henley, and so on a fortnight of high spots ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1934
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1334 | Page: 48 | Tags: Photographs 

SCOTTISH ASIDES

... where the strippet baa's were so large and tasty that, with care, I one was made to last the whole two miles home. After Wimbledon, tennis is of little interest to me. I found the sight of white cotton frocks and eye- p shades on a frosty autumn morn ing slightly ...

Published: Wednesday 05 October 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1594 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

HER SOCIAL JOURNAL: Court News

... Ball at Maidenhead on the 1 6th. Commemoration week starts at Oxford with Commem Sunday on June 20th, and on June 21st Wimbledon Tennis Champion ships open, and, weather permitting, will close with the finals on July 3rd. On June 22nd Their Majesties the ...

Published: Wednesday 26 May 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1854 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

Sport with the Lid Off:

... heightened aware ness to the glamour of sport generally. We see, year by year, increases in the attendance figures at the Wimbledon tennis tourna ment, at the Rugby Internationals, at ice hockey, speedway, racing and the rest. This big increase of interest ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1935
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1614 | Page: 45 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEWSLETTER: WEEK BY WEEK

... geraniums in the window boxes, in London Sunday might have been a day in November instead of July. In Racquetdom The Wimbledon tennis fortnight has come and gone, and with it have departed many cham pions^ 1 he excitement culminated on Saturday, when ...

Published: Saturday 10 July 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1599 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs