GAMES AND SPORTS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25306, 4 October 1947, Page 7

GAMES AND SPORTS

TENNIS Susan Noel —“the finest squash player in the world Jand] a topflight tennis player,” iffi Alice Marble's opinion—in her book Tennis Without Tears (Library of Sports and Pastimes: Hutchinson. 128 pp. Through Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd.) runs through the elements of grip and footwork and the essential strokes, relying more on clear, illustrative reference to the methods of first-class players than on abstract doctrine, and then goes on to write very well, again with excellent use of illustration, on such subjects as the doubles game, match play, and the code of manners and fairness that befits it. There is a good chapter on the amateur-pro-fessional problem. The book is well illustrated. GOLF

No one else writes about golf with the same pleasant and easy grace as Mr Darwin. In an indefinable and inimitable way he captures the . real spirit of the game and interprets it for his readers so that even a nongolfer can enjoy it. British Golf (Collins. 48 pp), in the now familiar Britain in Pictures series, does not pre* tend to be a history of the game. Mr Darwin has written more about golfers than golf; and his series of penportraits of the giants of other days and of the present recaptures the personality and very style of men and women who have played their way in > British golfing history. Like the others in this series, the book is attractively illustrated.

FISHING Mr Alexander Wanless’s treatise. The Science of Spinning for Salmon and Trout (Herbert Jenkins. 176 pp. Through Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd.) first appeared in 1930 and at once became a standard work. The author has not ceased to experiment and develop his theory and practice, so that the present edition, revised, rewritten, and enlarged, is in large measure a new work. It is illustrated with many diagrams. Mr J. Fitzgerald Hampton’s Modern Angling Bibliography (Herbert Jenkins. 99 pp. Through Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd.) is a comprehensive list with brief descriptive notes, of books (1881 to 1945) wholly or in considerable part devoted to angling, fisheries, and fish culture. (Commercial sea fishing is excluded.) In addition to

books issued by British and North American publishers, we note German, Norwegian, Danish, Austrian. French, South African, New Zealand. Indian, Australian, Icelandic, and Swedish references.