AUTHORS PLAY AT TENNIS FOR WAGER.
GARDINER CHALLENGES WELLS AND BENNETT. (Special to the “ Star.”) LONDON, October 13. Three writers, Mr 11. G. Wells, Mr Arnold Bennett, and Mr A. G. Gardiner, met in a game of lawn tennis for a wager in Cadogan Square, S.W., yesterday afternoon. The challenger was Mr Gardiner, who said he would beat Mr Wells and Mr Bennett at singles in successive sets. Mr Gardiner, tail, erect, whitehaired and spectacled, sixty-three \ears of age. had as his first opponent Mr Bennett, two years his junior. Mr Bennett wore pull-over and flannel trousers, and had the peak of his cap pulled over his eyes. Mr Well® stood at the net, occasionally acting as umpire and sometimes as “ ball boy.” Mr Bennett did not trust his backhand and lost valuable time transferring his racquet from his right hand to his left, but he won the set. Mr Gardiner was given no breathing space, for Mr Wells, aged sixty-two, immediately took off his coat and rolled up his sleeves, but did not discard his beret. The final score was 6-2 in Mr Gardiner’s favour. “ This contest is the outcome of an
old conspiracy,” said Mr Wells. “ I played below form to-day.”
All three, declined to disclose the nature of the wager.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18629, 5 December 1928, Page 14
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