The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-24
STAGE TENNIS
 NEWEST SPORT
 FOR LONDONERS
Exhibition Of Net Art Is Regular Part Of Bill
 Of Variety House
fRy Associated Press.)

LONDON, Aug. 23.-The latest in- door sport in England is watching pro- fAssional lawn tennis experts play on theatre stage. For the first time in the history of the game, players recently appeared on the stage of a variety house in London as a regular part of the weekly bill and gave the audience an exhibition of the net art.
 The play was under association rules with full sized court. A wire netting was hungfi up in front of the stage to prevent wandering balls from annoying the audience or causing discord in the z orchestra.
 The play in this initial game was between the well known professionals, A. B. Beamish, Charles Lockyer, l Charles Hierons and Charles Read. The audience took a keen interest in the games and in the demonstrations of strokes and services given by the play er-actors before and after the games.
 Wagner Baton Yielded
 Richard Wagner's baton, thick stick with one end broken off, used by the great composer when he conducted at the musical festical in Alberthal, Lon don, in 1877, was yielded again in the great auditorium Thursday night by Miss Susan Spain-Dunk, who is one of the few women who have conducted orchestras in London's largest concert l hall.
 Wagner's vehemence before his mu- sicians was such that he broke many batons and one of them came into the possession of Miss Spain-Dunk who decided to use it just for luck at her debut as a conductor in London.
 Britain Is Hitting
 Great Britain is tilting, becoming higher in the north and lower in the south, if a delicate instrument which records such happenings can be relied upon.
 There is little alarm, however, that the inhabitants of England, Scotland and Wales will slide off into the Eng fish channel, for recent readings of the land levels indicated that since the last readings, about 50 years ago, the north of Scotland had only lifted one-half inch and the south of England had sunk slightly less than that. The levels at in- termediate places have risen ,or fallen, proportionately as they are north or south of the dividing line.
 Experts explain that in another 50 | years they will again take the readings | but until then the exact intentions of | this slight wandering of the island can- not be accurately ascertained. They say that in past ages, England was joined to the continent and it is probable that the earths crust which made Britain inde- pendent by creating the English chan nel, may still be going on. They point out that it is an established fact that erosion along the north coasts of Nor way and Holland lately has caused the former to rise about one-half inch an nually and the latter to descend by a similar amount.
 Seek. Bobbed SIeuths
 Woman's wiles, wit and charms yer sus criminal caftiness is a possibility | Of the future, and the outcome is iex. pected by Scotland Yard to rope in more crime perpretators than has been the case recently.
 Recruiting for the new women's po- ice force is opening shortly and, from the many applicants the criminal inves- ugatlon department hopes to get some bobbed haired, daintily- detec- tives who will prove more than the equals of the willy jewel thieves and dope traffickers who have hitherto eluded attempts of mere men detectives to track them down.
 The authorities are satisfied that many of the present crimes and rob- berries are engineered by q new set of smart criminals who can only be coun- tered by detectives of the same outward smartness and equal wit.
 By dressing up to the part these fea- ture sleuths will be able to move leis- urely about the west-end without creat- ing as much suspicion as male plain clothes detectives and they will be able py their personal charm and manners to disarm completely suspicion.