football game they had ever played.

Singles is a game of daring, dash, speed of foot and stroke. It
is a game of chance far more than doubles. Since you have no
partner dependent upon you, you can afford to risk error for the
possibility of speedy victory. Much of what I wrote under match
play is more for singles than doubles, yet let me call your
attention to certain peculiarities of singles from the standpoint
of the spectator.

A gallery enjoys personalities far more than styles. Singles
brings two people into close and active relations that show the
idiosyncrasies of each player far more acutely than doubles. The
spectator is in the position of a man watching an insect under a
microscope. He can analyse the inner workings.

The freedom of restraint felt on a single court is in marked
contrast to the need for team work in doubles. Go out for your
shot in singles whenever there is a reasonable chance of getting
it. Hit harder at all times in singles than in doubles, for you
have more chance of scoring and can take more risk.

Few great singles, players are famous in doubles. Notable
exceptions to the above statement come to mind at once in the
persons of the Dohertys, Norman E. Brookes, and F. B. Alexander.
Yet who could accuse W. M. Johnston, R. N. Williams
(notwithstanding his World's Championship doubles title), Andre
Gobert, the late Anthony F. Wilding, M. E. M'Loughlin, or Gerald
Patterson of playing great doubles? All these men are wonderful
singles players, playing singles on a double court alongside some