The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-09-14 00:00:00

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Goflop b Msrtia 1
c D Irion, b ltartin . . 0
Reynol4s. e Coombs, b W. Nutting . . 21
Runt. b Wilkinson
Brown, e Ladam. b W. Nutt.ng
Deionport. not out
Psilett, b Wilkinson ...
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Dsiteon. b W. Nutting

LAWN TENNIi TOURNAMENT.

This interesting gathering of ladies and gentlemen
came off on Thursday and Friday at Kingston Park.
The first day was very wet; bat there was a very fair
attendance of ladies, who played, although the games
were stopped several times.
Among the most suooessful were Mims Symonds, Min
Martin (2), Mine Templer, Mies Bank.., and after
several rounds. for the single-ladies match, Miss
Banker and Miss Templer were left in. The winner
ultimately was Mies Banker. One double match was
commenced on Thursday.
On Friday there was • larger proportion of gentle-
men, when the principel features were the double
matches.

AniO4 the players were Rev. Mr. Hawkey, Mr.
Medlycott, Mr. Frank Rooks, Mr. Edward
Fauinhenn Newton, &c. Mr. Farquharson and
Mr. e beat Mr. liankey and Mr. Medlyoott, and
In the final heat, between Mr. R,oke and Mr.
Farquharson, Mr. Rooke won the single gentlemen's
game.
In the match for ladies and gentlemen Min
Symonds and Mr. College beat Mr. Newton and Mist
Martin hnt were themeelves beaten by Mr. Grove
and Mies Bankes, who won the final tie.
In the double gentlemen's match Mr. T. Coombs
and Mr. B Farquharson beat Mr. College and Mr.
Prior ,• but were beaten by Mr. Newton and Mr.
Broughton. The final tie in this match was between
Mr. Pin an Rev. Mr. Newman, against Mr.
Newton and Mr. Broudaton, and the latter won the
tie.
IMMORTALISING A BUILDER.

Mears. Bull, the c intractors for building the Low
Courts, being well-known In this timidity, the following
will be read lnraliy with some intere.t. In the Howe of
00011110111 on Fri lay last. Kr. Broadhurst asked whether
there was any troth in • statement which appeared in the
Globs no August lifith, thot • statue of the builder of the
Ne Low Courts was to be plariAl on a pedestal In Grit
building: ant, if so. whether there was any precedent for
the erection of • statue in a national building to a con-
tractor ; and. if not, whether et ps would be taken to
prevent such an erection. He complained that his
question had been altered. The words of which he gave
n Aloe were "an obscure country build. r" ("Ohl. The
1 Speaker said he wee bound to say the addition of those
words was not neceseary in order to make the question
understood. (Hem bear) Lord F. Cavendish. replying
to the question, ilia the pan2raplo in the Gist, to which
the hon. member referred was partly accurate. The
principal curer amused himself by carving what he con-
sidered • Ilkeston of the architect on a corbel under a
window. (Loughter.) As the architect did not suppose
thot any one would recognise the likeness, which he failed
to do himself (renewed laughter), he made no objection to
what was don.; and a, there was • similar corbel waiting
lobe coved clue by, he suggested to the carver that he
had better itumortalise one of the 'miners' firm also.
There was no "aisle. on a pe hotel," or anything Ike
one ; the carving of figures (or halt fignres. as In this coe)
c•Vbele, gUriOrkta and so forth, was a common feature
in Gothic buildings. Finally there 'lre nothing in the
figures to indicate that pirticular individuals were
represettad. beyond a roll of Dopers in the architect's
hand and a mallet in the hand of the builder, and without
the information given in the Globe no one would know
that the fitures were intended by the carver to be portraits
of any one in particular. (Laughter.)
The Building News of Saturday, necessarily writing some
I hours before the question we. asked, ren.mke :—"Kr.
Broadhurst has been somewhat misled. Neither pedestals
for, nor statues of, the architect and builder are pro-
posed to be erected. The corbels supporting an oriel
window on the north side of the great quadrangle of the
courts—over the double doorway into Carey-street—ere,
however. being carved with busts of the gentlemen
named. The western corbel, that to the left, is finished,
and Awn Mr. 0. It Strut, It A., looking upwards and
towards the Fleet-street end of the quad; the features are
somewhat @heron chiselled, the right hand holds •
pencil, while with the left the architect leans upon the
wall and grasps • scroll. The representation of Yr. Bull,
son., was yesterday (Friday) being modelled in clay."
In the Wins of the Glebe on ifrider, reporting Yr.
Broadhurst's questioa and the sewer, the Glees wrote;
—"A ' statue' onepe,j,Ml within the New Law Courts
Is sot the proposal, and Mr. Broadhurst ought to be
swan that the Gist, did not nay it was. What we said
was that Inside the entrance to one of the interior quad-
rangles 'is • central window, the side corbels of which
, are to be supported by two figures, one representing the
architect and the other the contractor; and we proceeded
to egoista tbat they were not 'statues on pedestals,' but
that awl emerged from the wall with the corbels on
thair The 'status' me in feet small figures occupy-
ing no very conapieuno position among innumerable
details of ornament about the building. There are
numerous windows in this, 18 in most ether public build-
lam, adorned by
.corvings of allegorical and mythisal
figures, and by bads aud beasts, and gnomes and hob-
goblins. and the anititirot has thought proper to
very the auTlads by a 00110140 of baste. sad Wes