LAWN TENNIS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 229, 25 September 1915, Page 16

LAWN TENNIS.

A. W. Dunlop, who returned to England from America after the Davis Cup match, joining the ranks of the epecial constablee, has been taking part in several exhibition matches for charitable purposes. At one of these, held at Queen's Club, in aid of the Smokes for Soldiers and Sailore' Fund, he won the doubles with P. M. Davson, the best of the opposing pairs being Diron and Ritchie, and Boamish and Watt. With Urn. O'Neill for his partner, ho was beaten in the final round of the mixed doubles by Greville and Mrs. Oreville. I>cn-k>p had a etrer.uo-ue afternoon, being on the conrt almost continuously from 2.30 to 7.45, during which time he played 103 games.. Thr report to be presented to the I annual meeting of the Canterbury Lawn j Tennie Association nho-we that there »re I 47 clubs affiliated, as compared with 34 last year; the number of affiliated players is 2.148, a pain of 328. The Canterbury flub, having failed to obtain euitable land fur courts. hail decided to wind ; up, and lva<l handed, to the Association - ' t!i«' hum nl £1(1, for iho purjxxte of obtaming challenge trophic* fur the ladiea' ' doubles <liampiotu.hip of Canterbury. ; Afli-r <l-alii.- with the varioo.-. tuurnajiM'iiU* of t!ie past grason, the repoTt | states that tho Ae.-ociation had not I m.i.ie much prugre.»B toward* acquiring : it.- ov.it prou-nd*. Fair Hitpport was pro- ; im.ii'd by the rlubs, and thi , .Wo-iauon i in KtiU hojx-f.il that it will bi] able to j dev-we a erheme which will enable it to' p<7 rvn with tlif manor. The »a.r has de- : pletcd the memtxTship of moet of the j rlubs, and whit»i deplorin; the necessity j for enlisting, it was gratifying t«i know , that tho call to arms was "o unhesitat- ] ingly obp_r*d. Heturos to date 6how ' that 200 fnnis players from clubs in | r'anterbnry .ire nerving their country. , rhe death of Captain Anthony Wilding j ame a» a great chock. Tennis players j in CanU-rbun were particularly proud j of the hutfrOHs which attended his career ! is a lnwii tpnnii* player, anl deplored hia untimely death. Steps are being taken : to rslablish a suitable memorial to his j twmory. The Association's balance- i ■hcet fcho'ire that receipts exceeded ex- : penditure by £13 14 C, and the total funds h-Md by the Association amount to £00 IS/5. Save the "N-w Yorrk Independent": — Maurice K. McLoughlin has recently fiven im a hint of how he goes about \ MsaXing one of hw moat formidable j ■ivals. lie rites of his match with the 1 ;reat Australian tennis player, Norman Brookes, in 1909:— After disi-overing in the firat few nomenta of play that Brookes' eerviee s-as dangerous, not in its width of break, nit in speed and pUvemt-iit, I bent my vholr mental energy toward discovering something in the action or bearing of lie Australian that wouJd give mc an nklin£ as to where h<» would place the iall. I found to my dismay tha-t his I )hy(«irnl action differed not one whit vhen he cent it Hose to the centre line rom that when he eoupht to catch mc lit of balance by senin? to the outer inc. In both instances, too, his etandn£ position was the eamc. I watched he dirc.-tion of his gaze, and found that, ci.irdlc««i of wherp his thoughts were! entering, ho would look far of! to the ipllt or left. Eventually I detected hal almost at the moment of contact wteeen racket and ball he would shift lie frlance to the direction which he

wished the ball to take. From thai time on I watched his eyee up to the laet poaj eible instant of time left me—wa-tched sometimes too long, in fact, and was , caught out of balance for a clean ace. * A match wrth Brookes resolves iteelf at once into a battle of intuition with one ( to wiom thie faculty Iβ a -birthright and whose sphinx-like face betrays no secret _ of the mind.