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You cannot be serious!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 7 older comments, and then…
  • Swordscookie said:
    What? No short skirts, no popping the spare tennis balls up the legs of their drawers and only two rackets🤔 That can't be tennis.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Swordscookie You cannot be serious!
  • Suck Diesel said:
    "Simonne Mathieu[a] (French pronunciation: [simɔn matjø] née Passemard;)[1] (31 January 1908 – 7 January 1980) was a tennis player from France, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, who was active in the 1930s. She won the French Championships singles title in 1938 and 1939.

    During World War II, she created and led the Corps of French Volunteers in the Free French Forces, the first female unit in the military history of France.”

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simonne_Mathieu
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Suck Diesel Very successful player, I wonder are all the others in the album as famous?
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Madame Mathieu playing in 1929 - youtu.be/GlZee-dj7Qs?si=oUTaw8Wamp2klqEj

Soutar and Williams, tennis (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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  • trialsanderrors said:
    RACQUET CHAMPIONSHIP.; Williams and Soutar Ready for First Game of Series for Title. By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The Yew York Times. LONDON, April 5. -- Great interest is evidenced in the match to-day at the Queens Club for the professional racquet championship of the world between Charles Williams, the professional of Harrow School, and Jock Soutar, who holds a similar position with the Philadelphia Racquet and Tennis Club. The New York Times, April 5, 1913, Saturday, page 16, 423 words
  • Richard Norton said:
    Pierre Etchebaster, a Basque from St. Jean de Luz and the Jeu de Paume of Paris, beat the best court tennis players in the U. S. last week in Philadelphia. Jock Soutar, Britisher, met him in the finals for the national championship in the Racquet Club of Philadelphia. Source: www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,880968,00.html?... 2006 Jock Soutar Tournaments: The Racquet Club of Philadelphia hosted the annual Jock Soutar Singles and Doubles Championships. Combined with the Jimmy Dunn court tennis tournament and an invitational squash tournament, the Jock Soutar weekend is massive whirlwind of racket sports and parties. Source: www.northamericanrackets.com/htm files/Philadelphia.htm
  • trialsanderrors said:
    Rackets (British English) or Racquets (American English) is an indoor racquet sport played in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada. The sport is infrequently called "hard rackets," possibly to distinguish it from the related sport of squash (formerly called "squash rackets"). World champions 1911–13, 1929–35 Charles Williams (Great Britain) 1913–29 Jock Soutar (USA)
  • brockwell: said:
    Thank you both for your informative comments.
  • Velurajah Selliah said:
    Beautiful capture absolutely lovely ! Well done!!



    Thank you for your Encouragements............