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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 

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 

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 

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