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SAY AU REVOIR! BUT NOT GOOD-BYE

... singles players in the whole history of lawn tennis, as he indicated in an admirable speech on sport and youth at the Wimbledon tennis lunch, is, for the present at any rate, going to devote himself more strenuously to business than to his favourite game ...

Published: Wednesday 06 July 1932
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 136 | Page: 3 | Tags: Photographs 

The ALPINE SKI-ING DISASTER

... who was also kided), and Mr. Furnioall, Sr., who was rescued THE ALETSCH GLACIER The slope on which Miss Furnioall, the Wimbledon tennis player, her mother, and her Friend, Miss Leslie Galloway, perished with the crack guide of the Adelboden district, Christian ...

Published: Saturday 07 February 1931
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 298 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

IN THE LIMELIGHT

... Elizabeth which he will show at his exhibition at the Lefevre Galleries SCOTCH FANCY: Mile Suzanne Lenglen, the forme Wimbledon tennis champion, sampling a dish o prepared haggis on St. Andrew's Day SIR ROBERT AND LADY BIRD who are recovering at a London ...

Published: Saturday 09 December 1933
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 283 | Page: 10 | 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 

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 ...

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 

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 

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 ...