Change your wet clothes to dry ones between matches if you are to
play twice in a day. It will make you feel better, and also avoid
the risk of cold.

Tournament players must sacrifice some pleasures for the sake of
success. Training will win many a match for a man if he sticks to
it. Spasmodic training is useless, and should never be attempted.

The condition a player is, in is apt to decide his mental
viewpoint, and aid him in accustoming himself to the external
conditions of play.

All match players should know a little about the phenomenon of
crowd-psychology since, as in the case of the Church-Murray match
I related some time back, the crowd may play an important part in
the result.

It seldom pays to get a crowd down on you. It always pays to win
its sympathy. I do not mean play to the gallery, for that will
have the opposite effect than the one desired.

The gallery is always for the weaker player. It is a case of
helping the "under-dog." If you are a consistent winner you must
accustom yourself to having the gallery show partiality for your
opponent. It is no personal dislike of you. It is merely a
natural reaction in favour of the loser. Sometimes a bad decision
to one play will win the crowd's sympathy for him. Galleries are
eminently just in their desires, even though at times their
emotions run away with them.