LEARN TO THROW.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19240, 29 November 1930, Page 18 (Supplement)

LEARN TO THROW.

(By JOAN FRY.) I wonder how it is that so few of us are ever able to throw as well as our brothers, when we do so many ether things almost as well—including winning the King’s Prize! It is a fact, though, isn't it? All’ the same, I advise every girl to try to learn, for it helps more than one stroke in this tennis game of ours. While some strokes, like the long backhand drive, are better played, from our point of view, as “ sweeps,” the forehand drive is often much more of a “ hit.” And a hit of any kind is akin, in its action, to a throw. In a throw the arm and wrist are bent, more by some people than byothers, and this applies to the hard hitting in present-day lawn tennis. Mind, at the actual moment of discharge, if I may describe it that way, the arm and wrist straighten, even stiffen, to the impact of the blow; but the player who keeps arm and wrist straight all the time, and merely sweeps, is using nothing but her shoulder. Not only is she losing power, but accuracy as well, for, you see, with a poker-like arm you cannot accommodate the racquet to any sudden movement of the ball. And in these days, when twists and twirls and screws are coming back, you need to be very* accommodating at times. Addressed Wanted. Will the following please forward correct addresses to Aunt Hilda so that en- : rolment cards may be posted? David Iggo, Peter Sim, Jessie Martin, Jeanne Robinson, Olive Moore, Jean Murray, [Neroli M’Grath, Jeffery Baty, Venetia; 'Ward, Joan Savage, Vivian Furneau.

When you look at your watch to see the time, or glance at the clock on the mantel-shelf, you, of course, notice that it is marked off in hours, from one to twelve. But does it ever occur to you how it was that the little strokes that mark off the minutes came to be of the number the>’ are—sixty? You probably never give the sightest thought to it. Well, about six thousand }-ears ago, the Sumerians, a people who lived before the ancient Babylonians, used to keep their records of things they did on slabs made of baked cla}’. _ They marked their numbers also in this way, but instead of counting in hundreds they used sixties, and it was from this practice that the number of minutes in an hour and seconds in a minute came to be placed at sixty.