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...late as 1931, and from another gamesman, instead of at his nanny's knee. Students of the British character may challenge this assertion. He was playing a match of tennis doubles against two athletic young men, Smith and Brown. Potter and his partner, the hardened metaphysician C.E.M. Joad, could scarcely touch the first two cannon balls served to them by Smith, and only by accident did the third one hit Joad's racket, rebounding wildly across the net and landing twelve feet out of court...
...about to cross over to serve to me (at P). When Smith gets to a point (K) not less than one foot and not more than two feet beyond the center of the court (I know now what I only felt then-that timing is everything in this gambit), Joad (standing at J2) called across the net, in an even tone...
...Joad: 'No, I don't want to have it again. I only want you to say clearly, if you will, whether the ball...
...There is nothing more putting off to young university players than a slight suggestion that their etiquette or sportsmanship is in question . . . Smith sent a double fault to me, and another double fault to Joad. He did not get in another ace service till halfway through the third set of a match which incidentally we won . . . For me it was the birth of gamesmanship...
Also fined was Britain's bearded Philosopher C. E. M. Joad, who had twice failed to appear in court to answer a charge of having ridden on a train without paying his fare (from Waterloo to Salisbury, 83½ miles). In London, he was finally found guilty and soaked a maximum 40 shillings ($8), plus court costs of 25 guineas...