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LAWN-TENNIS ASSOCIATION

... LAWVN-TENNIS ASSOCIATIONT. NE\V SYSTEM OF HA_'NDICFPPING. The annual general meeting of the Lawn-Tennis Association was held yesterdav afternoon, at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, Lorndon. Mr. NV. Renshaw (president) was in the chair, and ...

Published: Thursday 30 January 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 750 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

MIDLAND COUNTIES LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT

... I MIDLAND COUNTIES LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT. Yesterday's proceedings opened with the semi-final in. thle Gentlemnen's Open Singles, which was won by Deykin, but he was unable to inect Rosa, so the playing off for thp prize will probably take place at the ...

Published: Friday 02 July 1886
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 749 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

MIDLAND COUNTIES LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT

... i IDLAND COUNTIES LAWN TENNIS TOUR-NANT. The threatening clouds of Monday quite cleared away yesterday, and a midsummer Bun she its hot rays upon the half-dozen courts ocnpied by the players in this tournament. This brilliant weather was probably the ...

Published: Wednesday 25 June 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1425 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE GAME OF GIANTS

... it differs from tennis, which, next to golf, is the game that stands longest by a man. Perhaps patlone mat never become popular in England; but we cannot afford to speak of ?? Italians as a people averse to athletic amusements. If tennis is the ''game of ...

Published: Monday 27 December 1880
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1635 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

BIRMINGHAM BOARD OF GUARDIANS

... BIRMINGHAM BOARD OF GUARDIANS. TENNIS RACQUETS FOR NURSES. A meeting of the Birmingham Board of Guardians was held yesterday, at the Parish Offices, Edmund 'Street; Mr. C. S. Larkins in the chair.-IMr. MANNOX, in moving the adoption of the Finance Committee's ...

Published: Thursday 03 July 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 674 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

GOSSIP FROM TRUTH

... the ?? me right-that the reason is that lawn- tennis is a oze-handed game, and that ladies who play lawn-tennis play nothing else-except, perhaps, the piano, and that badly. Now, the men who play lawn- tennis also play cricket, or row, or box-or, at any ...

Published: Thursday 11 August 1887
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1345 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

CHURCH OF ENGLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS

... play on the lawn. On this-eaplalto -playground there'is room cnoughfolr tennis,!and-to sparofor &fives'court. The ground, trndin6 tovards thd railway below, contains also a tennis lawn, includes a-fleld-which may beumed' for cricket and 'other game3, ...

Published: Saturday 17 September 1887
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 693 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE WEDNESBURY PUBLIC PARK

... building a portion of the ground will be rolled and made suitable for lawn tennis. At the lower end of the ground, near the Cemetery Lane, accommodation will be provided for additional tennis courts. Midway between the Walsall Road and Cemetery Lanc will be a ...

Published: Monday 20 September 1886
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 719 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE BISHOP OF WORCESTER ON SPIRITUAL DESTITUTION IN BIRMINGHAM

... of the funds of the school tennis club. The governors of the school rent a recrea- tion ground for the girls in Beaufort Road, and the object of the bazaar was to provide funds for the main- ternance and equipment of the tennis ground. The goods for sale ...

Published: Thursday 07 December 1893
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 744 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

BROMSGROVE

... two sureties of £200. LAWN TENNIS, AND WHERE TO PROCURE IT.- Racquets from 3s. 9d. to 15s. Balls, covered and uncovered, from 8s. 6d. dozen. Nets and Standards from 4s.; sets complete from 30s. -Joseph Solomon, Lawn Tennis Outfitter, 34, Arcade, Bir- ...

Published: Tuesday 08 May 1883
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 657 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE EARL OF JERSEY ON AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS

... bythe retirement of Mr. R. IL Hanbury. MIDLANeD COuNTIES LAwN TENNIS TOURNIAMENT.- A lawn tennis toarnament was commenced yesterday, on the ground of the Edgbasion Cricket and Lawn Tennis Clsb, Hall Hill Road, and will be continued to-day and to. morrow ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1882
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1222 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... falliln eT is, in my opinion, the prevailing rage fr the inferior game of tennis. WVhen nine out of tl-n of our grow-ing youths fritter away their time on the dinmnutive tennis lawn, because, forsooth, it is a gentler, more fahionable, and, let me add ...

Published: Monday 01 September 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1235 | Page: 5 | Tags: News