suffering partner. The daring that makes for a great singles
player is an eternal appeal to a gallery. None of the notable
doubles players, who have little or no claim to singles fame,
have enjoyed the hero-worship accorded the famous singles stars.
H. Roper-Barrett, Stanley Doust, Harold H. Hackett, Samuel Hardy,
and Holcombe Ward, all doubles players of the very highest order,
were, and are, well liked and deservedly popular, but are not
idolized as were M'Loughlin or Wilding.

Singles is a game of the imagination, doubles a science of exact
angles.

Doubles is four-handed tennis. Enough of this primary reader
definition. I only used that so as not to be accused of trying to
write over the heads of the uninitiated.

It is just as vital to play to your partner in tennis as in
bridge. Every time you make a stroke you must do it with a
definite plan to avoid putting your partner in trouble. The
keynote of doubles success is team work; not individual
brilliancy. There is a certain type of team work dependent wholly
upon individual brilliancy. Where both players are in the same
class, a team is as strong as its weakest player at any given
time, for here it is even team work with an equal division of the
court that should be the method of play. In the case of one
strong player and one weaker player, the team is as good as the
strong player can make it by protecting and defending the weaker.
This pair should develop its team work on the individual
brilliancy of the stronger man.