This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...former paumiers, --Masson, Marchisio, Charrier, Barcellon, and others. In June, 1848, came yet another, almost the equal of Barre; he played a match with "Peter," at Hampton Court, and won it on even terms. This was "Biboche," a short memoir of whom has been given on an earlier page.(2) In the month of June, 1851, he ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...former paumiers, --Masson, Marchisio, Charrier, Barcellon, and others. In June, 1848, came yet another, almost the equal of Barre; he played a match with "Peter," at Hampton Court, and won it on even terms. This was "Biboche," a short memoir of whom has been given on an earlier page.(2) In the month of June, 1851, he came again to England, and played a match, even, at Oxford, with Edmund Tompkins; in this he was again victorious. It was, indeed, no more than an exhibition-match; but the one which he played shortly afterwards with the same antagonist, in the James-street Court, was a rather more serious affair, and excited a great deal (') BelVs Life, J"-5. 1850. (2) See above, p. 47. of interest and curiosity; and this he also won. The subsequent matches between these two players have already been recorded. (') Returning once more to the pages of BelTs Life, we find, July 6, 1851, an announcement of a match to be played "between Mr. Case, of the Tennis-court, Hampton Court, and Mr. Tompkins, sen., of the Tennis-court, Brighton, for 50 a side, at Hampton Court." Seven days later, however, this circumstantial statement was flatly contradicted in the columns of the same journal, "as neither" of these players "knew anything about it," with the addition of the following note, that " the donkey who sent the paragraph is known, and will get his deserts." It would appear from this that an unfair advantage had been taken of the innocence of the Editor of that paper, and the concluding remark shows a, perhaps, not unnatural or excessive amount of irritation on his part. At the Universities, Tennis continued to flourish. In 1853 a second Court was built by the father of Charles and John Phillips in ...
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