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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 

But No, It Has To Be Steak

... beside me. I thought of kidnapping and decided I would rather like to be kidnapped. We passed Forest Hills and talked of Wimbledon tennis. The girl inquired of le merits of the South African cricketers, f- le asked if I had friends in New York and ce Id she ...

Published: Wednesday 19 September 1951
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1222 | Page: 58 | 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 

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