his length and direction, and worrying you with the variety of
his game. He is a good psychologist. Such players include J. C.
Parke, Wallace F. Johnson, and Charles S. Garland. The first type
of player mentioned merely hits the ball with little idea of what
he is doing, while the latter always has a definite plan and
adheres to it. The hard-hitting, erratic, net-rushing player is a
creature of impulse. There is no real system to his attack, no
understanding of your game. He will make brilliant coups on the
spur of the moment, largely by instinct; but there is no, mental
power of consistent thinking. It is an interesting, fascinating
type. Such men as Harold Throckmorton, B. I. C. Norton, and at
times R. N. Williams, are examples, although Williams is really a
better psychologist than this sounds.

The dangerous man is the player who mixes his style from back to
fore court at the direction of an ever-alert mind. This is the
man to study and learn from. He is a player with a definite
purpose. A player who has an answer to every query you propound
him in your game. He is the most subtle antagonist in the world.
He is of the school of Brookes. Second only to him is the man of
dogged determination that sets his mind on one plan and adheres
to it, bitterly, fiercely fighting to the end, with never a
thought of change. He is the man whose psychology is easy to
understand, but whose mental viewpoint is hard to upset, for he
never allows himself to think of anything except the business at
hand. This man is your Johnston or your Wilding. I respect the
mental capacity of Brookes more, but I admire the tenacity of
purpose of Johnston.

Pick out your type from your own mental processes, and then work