TENNIS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 July 1925, Page 11

TENNIS.

(“Woomera” in the Australasian.) “Two desperate blows were struck with the coolest effrontery.” This is an actual fact. A London tennis expert. has thus described how Anderson, the Australian Davis Cap player, defeated Brugmin, of France. The ordinary citizen will sigh and wish that on occasions lie could strike “two desperate blows with the coolest effrontery,” but, alas! he knows too well that nobody would believe him. Golfers are also doing extraordinary deeds. A champion at Prestwick the other day was described as using a “flat swing round the legs, like a man mowing hay, with a terrific punch and violent thrust of the body, and a noticeable ducking at the knees.” It seems to be a terrible waste of energy and skill as a contortionist. Anyone w'ho mow's hay with a terrific punch (a golfer, of course, excepted) is a poor misguided fellow. He might lie just a$ well employed at tilting at a windmill. It does not seem at all fair for a man to go through all those antics; But tlie less said the hotter. Golfers are getting so numerous now, and so earnest and' conscientious, that one may be kept up till 2 or 3 o’clock in the morning with exhibitions by walking sticks, pokers, or brooms of the flat swing or any other swing. No matter how you feel, always agree with a golfer and golf from A to Z. It saves a lot of. time.