The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-12

mand of all the strokes, studies the game with TiIden, and is developing more strokes; but he may spoil his game with too many strokes. The cut is a. danger to a young player.
 "McLoughlin may come right back into his best game. For the time be- ing he has lost control of his ser vice; but it is purely a matter of nerve. I think he will get it back again. I told him could get him back into his old service in about a week of steady practice. There was nothing wrong with the game he played against us at San Francisco. He relies now on a twist service, and gets none of the wonderful pace of old. Patterson and were not play ing well that day we played Tilden and Johnston. A bit wearied with too much play. They were not then a well-moulded pair, but with prac- tice together they should make the best pair in America. I think Garland is one of the best ground-stroke play CTS in the world. He places perfectly.
 (Garland took the first two sets from Brookes in the American champion ship, and went close, indeed, to de- feating him.-AustraD
 ''The double formation of the
 
 as ours. The strike-out's partner stands back while the service is be-
 ing received. I think the system of taking the service on the rise gives the man at the net a good oppor- tunity of getting a good interception in. The server cannot get sufficiently far in to take the return before the ball drops, and strike-outs partner
 can if he is standing close in, chip in on the slightest weakness in the vor1ey of the server. The art in the return of the service is to make the server volley upwards If one can l take the service on the rise ones | partner should stand in close; but so.
 The English players will not inn prove to any appreciable extent till l they get the game into the schools. 1 I offered a cup to be competed for by | schoo1boys at Wimbledon, but as they 1 did not seem to wish it, I withnrew l the offer. The opponents of lawn l tennis are the masters of the big schools, who still think that lawn tennis is merely a game for girls and i unath1etic curates - garden party l stuff, they think.
 1 "Woosnam is a very promising l player and a fine al1-round athlete. i Perhaps the new players will copy l the methods of the Americans and 1 Australians they saw there this year. Till they give up their present grip Of the racket I agree that they will never improve greatly.
 l "I regret that the Australian As sociation has fixed the dates of the 1 Australasian championship in De- cember Perhaps it is not too late to have them altered. If they were played in January Patterson and could compete; but we cannot go tt
 Sydney for six weeks, and too much travelling would not be good for ou1
 game. The visiting team from the British Isles would also be able to play on the later dates, and that , would give them practice, and we !, should do all we can to give then ; every chance to beat us. I am very keen on this alteration of the dates MT. Brookes really looks as if the best thing he could have would be z months complete rest. He has hat | too strenuous a time and too mucI worry.
 "I would go over next year tt America with Gerald Patterson witt pleasure to defend our title to tn doubles championship, but have nt . desire to go to Wimbledon. It will b. 5 quite interesting to have another tr. ! at the best Americans"