Tennis as I Play It (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Tennis as I Play It As this book is being prepared for the press the sad news is published that Anthony F. Wild ing, who represented Australia as a member of the Davis Cup team and won the world's tennis championship two years ago, has been killed in the trenches, fighting in France. All who have met him on the courts or off will be deeply af fected by the death of so fine a tennis player and so splendid a sportsman. I have had the honor of meeting him in many a gruelling match, and can bear witness that I have never faced an op ponent of finer character. He was an unassum ing man and a brave man, with a hearty enthu siasm for the open and clean sport. His death will be a tragedy to his host of other friends, as it is to me. Mr. Wilding was second lieutenant in the Royal Marines. It is certain that he must have acquitted himself with the same cheerfulness and courage in battle that he brought to the lesser battles of the tennis turf. We shall miss him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.