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LAWN TENNIS,

... LAWN TENNIS, Debby Midland v. Lbicestbb Pabk.— The return match between these olubs waa played in the Abbey Park, Leicester, on the 16th inst., aad ended in a win for tbe Midland team by 10 sets to 4 and 69 games to 51. Score : — H. R. Perry and J. A ...

FANCY DRESS BALL AT THE DRILL HALL

... sergeant of police ; Mr Robert H Blood, courtier of the l8rh century Mr A H Brooks, tennis, Miss C Bates, Highland lassie Mr M E Baker, Old Brigade ; Mr A Ba- croft, tennis costume ; Mies H Baneroft, music; Mr E Barker, Song and Dance; Miss E Bailey, jolly ...

Literature

... I It- tule LAWN TENNIS AND ITS PROGENITORS. id Messrs. Longmans and Co. have jnor, issued the book on Tennis, Lawn Tennis, Rackets, and Fives in the W Badminton series-a strije which has taken rank as > by far the best guide to British sporrs ever ...

CONTENTS OF THISVvTEEK'S PAPEB

... Deaths. 6. The Duties of Unionists— Things Better Left Unsaid — The Growth of Lawn Tennis— Horrible Murder of an Aunt at Crewe— Mr. Gladstone and Reunion- Cricket— Lawn Tennis— Bowls— Tbe Hnrlingham Club— Derby Arboretum Festival— Tibahelf Flower Show and ...

Hints for Ladies

... inobee, while the balls are of the ordinary tennis size, and the player is ex. pected to stand some thirteen feet from the ring, There are various modes of pllying the game, and it has all the interest of tennis, witbout needing the violent exerclae used ...

Hints for Ladies

... while the weather permite. Such violent exerciHs as tennis is xiln good if too prolonged, but walkinti, rowing, hill olimnihng, riding, and cycling are all good if not overdone, (as indeed is tennis) if too many wildly energetio games are not indulged ...

CHASING A MADMAN NEAR BURTON

... (where he had for some time past been working a* an electrician) he made his way to Hanbury Park, where he alarmed a party of tennis players by leaping the net. and otherwise be- having in an extraordinary manner. Quitting the park he jumped iuto a pond without ...

VARIETIES

... Y Why, they all want to go on the river, just when I wvat cto play lntwn-tennis! ' Well, you needn't go with them ! t ' Of conrse I needn't; hut how am I to play law-tennis all a by niyse/f? 0 HAM=ET ON VACCINASTION. 'P'o vaccinate or not, tbat is ...

Literature

... fox-hunter, or cricketer, as otherwise than wearisome episodes in de- lightful pursuits, Lawn-tennies, again, is not so much a geme as an exeroiee, while in real tennis or in rackets something approaching to equality of skill between the players would seem ...

SHORT NOTICES

... Gedney, a gentleman of wide experience, and possesses , considerable power to interest readers.-Mr. Gill also I I sends Lawn Tennis for 1884-a complete guide to the ?? Theatre (David Bogue, London) reachesI us late this month, too late for notice under the ...

Ladies' Gossip

... n and a favourite form of tunic is turned up and edged ha with lace ; buckles are introduced into the bow~s Aa useful lawn tennis frock-and all little girls would TI seem to need one-is made in soft cream serge, kilted ju and plaited. and intermnixed withy ...

VARIETIES

... over these 'ere couwombers. sin, They're a shade back'ard, sir ! ere BAnuArous TECHNICALITIES Or LAWN TENNIS.- 'hs Woolwich Cadet (syatching lawn tennis players, to his poor ng grandmother, who has had army on the brain ever since he passed his exam.): ...