It is difficult to imagine England without football. Though organized soceer would "go west," at least ct art, many matches would be arranged between camps and various bodies. After all, games of all kinds went on in Spain all through the recent conflict, and did not British troops play football in Flanders in 1914-18 within sound of the guns? On one occasion, it is said, soldiers dribbled a football into action, Though the crisis has upset many things, the professional teams have managed to carry on and have drawn the usual big crowds, Not a few footballers have been called up, of course, (Liverpool lost 20 in a day) but their places were taken by quickly introduced baseball at Halton Camp (even to-day the RAF, are recognised as leaders of the game in England) and on passing out, joined the clubs which were beginning to spring up. Now in the Midlands, where the game is most popular, there is a fair sprinkling of Dominion players in all the major teams, In a few days time C. P. Hughes, the English Davis Cup player, Ropes to be packing his bags preparatory to sailing for the Far East to play lawn, tennis in Java, Malaya and the Philippines. In his 14 years as a first class player, Hughes has become one of the widest travelled sportsmen in the world, He has visited Australia (twice), India (twice), South Africa, the West Indies, Egypt, U.S.A. (four times), and. every country in Europe where they play lawn tennis, except Russia, Mary Hardwick of the British Wightman Cup team, has travelled over 50,000 miles to play Lawn Tennis though she is still in her twenties, Since 1934 she has toured Canada, South Africa, Jamaica U.S.A, and represented Great Br't'in all over Europe, She averages 10,000 miles a year, which suggests a new slogan: "Play tennis and see the world," each two sections the winners of which will then enter the finals.
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