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Show TENNIS IS TOUGHER GAME THAN FOOTBALL, SAYS ROB. WRENN. WHO STARRED AT BOTH There wsa once a United States tennis champion named Robert D. Wrenn. Wrenn was also at one time a famoua football player. In the days when there were thlr-ly-hve-mlnute halves to that game. And In speaking of the two, Wrenn once said: "There Is no com pari son In the strain the two games put upon the body. It Is much easier to go through two thirty. flve-mlnute flve-mlnute halves of football than to play a five-set champlonahtp match of tennla. "To be sure, the game can be played In a laay, lackadaisical manner, but It Isn't really tennis. "Many young players begin too strenuously. strenu-ously. The first spring day on the courts calls Invitingly for a 'good, long afternoon's after-noon's sport Reaulta getting overtired. "Now the overtired boy goes right at the game the second day. He won't rest-He rest-He won't give his lorndown tissues a chance. Result a poor game of tennis, not only then, but for weeks afterward. "The right way to play tennis Is to start In easily. Don't play more than sets of singles and one of doubles ths nrsl day out. Don't play those if you feel tired after the first or aecond set. It Is not sn Indication of weakness but ol strength to slop before you have had enough. Had you seen Maurice McLough-iin, McLough-iin, present United States singles tennis champion, come out to play for the first time this spring, you would probably have been aniseed st his tactics. "Should you watch Lamed, the wonder of the tennis world, at his first practice, you would be bitterly disappointed. Both or these men will pay no attention to the small matter of being beaten. They will Just Jog about the court, lilt the balls easily, care not a whit If some 'dub' plays them off the court. They will 'just get their eyes on the ball.' Just 'get the feel of the racket.' and while doing so. begin that conditioning of the body by practice which makes it possible for them, later on, to play five sets of singles and three of doubles In a day, six days' hard fought lennls tournament." |