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...Net Loss...
...never managed to win the Court Tennis Championship of England, but he went after Frank Frazier coolly last week in the Racquet & Tennis Club, Manhattan, for the U.S. title. More experienced, Lord Aberdare out-placed him and Frazier, coming in close to get the Englishman's cut-shots, netted repeatedly. After being set-point three times, Lord Aberdare won the first set 6-3, took the next quickly, then began to net shots on his own forehand. But Frazier let him have some on his backhand and Lord Aberdare, cool, dark-haired, unhurried, gained confidence, found grille and dedans...
...France liked this game so much that in his time people said there were more tennis-players in Paris than drunkards in England. Complicated then, it is even more complicated now by centuries of innovation. The court is longer, wider than a-lawn tennis court, a sagging net strung across the middle; a roofed gallery or "penthouse" near the ceiling, running around three walls, sloping from ten and a half to seven feet from the floor; an opening in the righthand corner of the end wall on the receiving side called the "grille"; an opening in the end wall...
Racquets. A court 60 ft. by 30 ft. with four black cement walls; no net; long-handled, small-headed racquet; ball like a little baseball, covered with kid. Stanley Mortimer and Clarence C. Pell, who play together as a doubles team (TIME, Feb. 10) played each other once again in the finals of the National Singles at the Boston Tennis and Racquet Club. Figured as a sure loser because of his poorer showing this year, and because he had a harder struggle to get in the finals, Mortimer made only one point in the second game, four in the third...
Handball. Foundation of all ball games. No net. Small inflated rubber ball, leather gloves. Alfred Banuet, a young Latin who has been beating all the hand-ball-playing San Francisco policemen at the four-walled game, went to St. Louis last week to defend his national title, played circles around his opponents, put out George Nelson of Baltimore in the finals...