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Sport with the Lid Off

... never ceases to fascinate me. Look at the money which comes in from Test Matches, big Soccer and Rugby games, and from Wimbledon tennis. Then, against this, see what is paid to the men and women whose star value and popularity is sufficient to bring the ...

Published: Tuesday 20 November 1934
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1670 | Page: 49 | Tags: Photographs 

FROM THE DRIVER'S SEAT: POLICE AND PETROL

... apparatus is regularly used at such popular events as the A. A. A. championships, the Oxford and Cambridge sports, the Wimbledon tennis championship meeting, the Dublin Grand Prix, and the Belfast T.T. races, as well as at five of the principal dirt track ...

J. S. F. Morrison on Golf: The Ryder Cup Team

... asking a high fee from the B.B.C. for broadcasting rights, and the television people are experimenting with televising the Wimbledon tennis. One more point congratulations to the Amateur Rowing Association and the Henley Stewards on wiping out the foolish amateur ...

Published: Wednesday 23 June 1937
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1862 | Page: 42 | Tags: Photographs 

Sport with the Lid Off

... seeded U.S.A. player, Mme. Bella Pons (Spain), and Mr. and 1 Mrs. Charles Farrell at the reception at Roehampton to the Wimbledon tennis players Tennis International Day at Roehampton E. R. Avory (G.B.) and Miss Valda Hall, who have just announced their ...

Published: Tuesday 03 July 1934
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2015 | Page: 48 | Tags: Photographs 

LAWN TENNIS

... Cup came back to this shore (plus its attendant royalties from the last two rounds of the competition being played at Wimbledon), tennis officials put their heads together to devise schemes that would not destroy the technical terms of Perry's amateur status ...

Published: Wednesday 14 April 1937
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1946 | Page: 76 | Tags: Photographs 

THE PETROL WORLD

... any reduction contemplated. HPhe Automobile Association has made arrange- inents for an extensive car park during the Wimbledon tennis championships near the main entrance to the ground. Season tickets for re served and number spaces will be available ...

Published: Saturday 28 May 1927
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1971 | Page: 52 | Tags: Photographs 

PANORAMA

... attraction of those sporting events which appeal so strongly to Americans, the Derby and Ascot, the Wight- man Cup and Wimbledon tennis, and, of course, the International Polo. Many of those who came over for these events will have found it difficult to ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1936
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2210 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEW SLETTER

... end of this term THE WILES OF WIMBLEDON'S CHAMPION Mrs. Helen Wills Moody, who is once again in England to defend her Wimbledon tennis title, seen with the swans at St. George's Tennis Club, Weybridge, where she recently gave an exhibition game a 2 ...

Published: Saturday 17 June 1933
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2711 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

WITH SILENT FRIENDS: No Escape from the Platitudes

... published by Long mans, has been very well received. Mrs. Macassey was Miss Evelyn Perry, from Warwickshire, the well-known Wimbledon tennis player and skier MR. AND MRS. BERNARD WATSON Two of the camera s victims at the Crawley and Horsham Point-to-Point. Mr ...

Published: Wednesday 11 May 1938
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2300 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

PANORAMA

... George Pierce Butler and Mrs. Ormond Lawson- Johnston were joint hostesses, also at the Savoy Hotel, in honour of the Wimbledon tennis players. The latter helped her co- hostess to plan every detail from her bedroom where she was kept by one of those tiresome ...

Published: Wednesday 07 July 1937
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2776 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NEWSLETTER: WEEK BY WEEK

... Hagen of America, the champion, and his wife, with the treasured championship cup The Queen's Coloured Glasses at the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament The royal box, showing the King and Queen, with the ex-King Manoel and ex-Queen Amelie, witnessing the progress ...

Published: Saturday 05 July 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3447 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LETTERS OF EVE

... kept very much on the go last week with enter tainments of every kind. Many of them, like Lady Wavertree's annual after-Wimbledon tennis party, which started off the week, were got up for a good cause. I have rarely seen so many photographers per square ...

Published: Wednesday 13 July 1932
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2651 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs