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Tennis

The Tennis season has long since passed, and the hopes that ran high at the commencement of the season have reached level, now that the gains can be counted. A survey of the teams (six) and the members thereof (forty) at the commencement of the season, seemed to justify most sanguine expectations. But alas! with the long vacation, illnesses and departures, the hopes that were so rosy at the commencement of the season died "into the light of common day."

The Penant A team won with consistent and quite starling regularity until half-way through the season, when the long vacation and departures aforesaid caused the promotion of the members of the gallant Pennant A (to their own astonishment and disgust) to another place, and the new team failed to uphold worthily the glorious tradition of its predecessors. Hinc illae Lacrimae. Disheartened by this and other shocks, such as the incapacitation of its captain, the premier team gradually descended until its final hope was but flat despair : and what had promised to be a leading team for the championship, was only beaten by its own B's for the wooden spoon.

The results, as a whole, are not of such a nature as to throw luster on the Club, and we quite understand the Secretary's reticence in refraining or refusing to make them public.

But the Tennis Club has distinguished itself financially :— (i) By obtaining a grant of £100 from the College Council for excavation! (ii) By providing a fourth court with a surface which is comparatively level ! ! (iii) By paying for the con- page 45 struction of the said court out of the year's revenue ! ! ! (iv) By making a donation of £50 to the gymnasium fund ! ! ! ! (v) By promising, despite the above facts, to end the year with a credit balance?

During the season Club competitions were played with the following results :—

Handicap, Combineds :— Miss Butler and C. H. Taylor.

Handicap, Men's Doubles :— G. M. Cleghorn and E. D. Rutherfurd.

Championship, Men's Singles :— G. M. Cleghorn.