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...Essay about "The Science & Snares of Statistics" [Sept. 8] reminds me of an observation by Sir Josiah Stamp (1880-1941), himself a player of the game: "The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases...
...home team's goals provided a sour ending to a generally off-key day. The Crimson player's trapping and passing were woeful, and no one exhibited half the speed of the wind. The absence of injured center half Richie Hardy probably hurt, as Abi Azikiwe, shifted from the right, had trouble controlling the middle...
...T2000 has therapeutic value. Plagued for months by a painful case of "tennis elbow," he switched from wood to steel in July and the pain disappeared. The steel racket seems to absorb most of the ball's impact instead of transmitting the shock through the handle to a player...
...fiercely." Actually, he was called that because of his saturnine poker face, and it would appear that his more vivacious daughter has inherited something of that same crocodilian countenance, if one might judge from some of her expressions while addressing a golf ball. There was never a more machinelike player than Lacoste in his heyday. He won so consistently because his ground-strokes could not be faulted; and he was a past master of that now neglected piece of tennis finesse, the lob. His teammates, Cochet, with his half-volley, and Borotra, with his catlike ballet at the net, were...
Somewhere in this vast, great nation, there undoubtedly is a strong, agile, fiercely competitive youngster who could be the best tennis player the world has ever seen. This youngster himself may never know it. Or even care. Little that surrounds the game of tennis today is likely to appeal to him much. For a starter, there is the scoring system, in which 1) "zero" for some reason is "love," 2) one point counts as ten, or 15, or merely "advantage," and 3) a "set" may be six games or go on forever. And then there is the hypocrisy...