The other evening, about: 9 p.m., T was playing on an open-air court luminated by a method, writes A. E. Crawle, the "Observer." The appa was not more than temporary, but even so the results were sufficient to justify the deliberate conclusion that here we have something with a big future in improving the conditions of play. It should revolutionise the conditions in this way—from October to April the business Man cannot get a game except at week-ends; he is deprived of his favourite exercise, and his health suffers. Moreover, the courts are so congested at weekends (some clubs only allowing each person one half-hour's play between 12 noon Saturday and 5 p.m, Sunday). What is the use of belonging to a club, unless you ave in the ranks of the unemployed?
But now, play will be possible and enjoyable every night of the year, when fine, from sunset until (if you wish) sunrise.
Now, as to this lighting; it is the invention of a clever person who has a thorough knowledge of optics. [ts method is metric cally opposed to those previously tri The court is evenly illuminated with a soft white light. Shadows are absent. A dirty ball, curiously enough, looks snow-white, I was able to see the ball as pei fectly as in daylight in any part of the court. If anything, the higher the ball the better I saw it. Not only. this, but everything was fully Visible, including the floor. The sky and the outer rectangle framed by the stop-netting was' black. Now this citcumambient—velvet was very pleasant and not only assisted visibility, but gave the feeling of playing in a covered court.
In a way the conditions are better than in daylight. Daylight has many degrees of visibility; it has also many grades of colour, varying with sun-power. Further, no two sides of a court, when the sun is out, are equal as regards light. Here both the sides are equal.
The price is reasonable, and _includes fifty feet of main cable. The cost of current for three courts side by side is only is. an hour.
Tue '"'L. & C. Express" of December 29, contains the announcement that Mr. Angus M. Marshall, of 53 Stanhope Gardens, S.W., and late of Shanghai, was on December 22 married to Betty, daughter of the late Mr. Frederick Straw Trotter, of Lincoln, the ceremony taking place at the church of St. James's, Spanish Place.
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