THE TENNIS BOOM
L.C.C. to Lay Down Many New Hard Courts
There are least 52,000 lawn tennis players in Greater London who use the courts in the public parks. At present the number of hard courts is not nearly equal to the demand. The London County Council 1a doing its best for park players, but it will be some time before all those who wish it be accommodated can be satisfied.
A considerable stop towards the accomplishment of their desires, however, has been made by the announcement that new hard courts have been sanctioned by the London County Council, and will soon be laid in the following parks and pubic places: Battersea Piark. Brockwell Park, Dulwich Park, Myatts Fields, Wandsworth Common, Wandsworth Park, Ladywell Recreation Ground, Manor House Gardens, Mountsfield Park, Rye Park. Royal Victoria Gardens (N. Woolwich), Telegraph Hill, Clissold Park, Hackney Downs, Mill Field, Springfield Park. Victoria Park, Kilburn Grange, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Parliament Hill, Wormwood Scrubs.
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Mrs. Lloyd George takes the place of the Prime Minister this afternoon, when a tablet will be unveiled on the outside of the house at Wandsworth Common in which he resided for some time about twenty years ago. Mr. Lloyd George occupied another house in an adjoining road, where he suffered a severe loss in the death of his eldest daughter, before he finally migrated to Chelsea, and eventually, on becoming a Minister, to Downing-street.
It was from the house in Wandsworth Common that Mr. Lloyd George, shouldering his golf clubs, might have been seen almost any fine morning during the season mounting the outside of the horse omnibus which took him to Tooting Bec Common. Before he came to South-West London the Prime Minister resided in a flat at West Kensington.
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NO FACILITIES FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN.
Following on the decision of the London County Council, to permit the playing of games on Sundays in parks and open spaces under their control, the Parks and Open Spaces Committee, in a report to be presented at the meeting of the Council this evening, state that subject to the completion of the necessary arrangements, the selected grounds will be open for games on Sunday next.
Issue of Permits. The Committee have decided, for the present, to issue permits for the use of reserved pitches on the same conditions, except as regards the time of commencement, as those ruling on week-days, but to give no additional facilities for the playing or tames by children of elementary school age.
Current season tickets for bowls will not be available on Sundays, and those for golf at Hainault Forest will be available only on payment u; an additional sum equal to sixpence a week for the unexpired term. Golf will only be allowed on Sunday - on condition that paid caddies are not employed. Dealing with Complaints.
The Committee state that it is their intention to consider very carefully any representation which may be made to the Council after Sunday play has commenced, to the effect that those who do not play games are inconvenienced thereby, and to modify the arrangements in any case in which the complaints are substantiated.
Areas Allotted. Following is a list of the places at which certain areas will be allotted to the games specified without, in the opinion of the Committee, prejudice to the convenience- of the general public:
BADMINTON - Brockwell Park. Wapping Recreation Ground.
BOWLS - Battersea Park, Blackheath, Brockwell Park, Clapham Common, Clissold Park. Dulwich Park, Finsbury Park, Hackney Downs, Hilly Field-, Island Gardens, Mountsfield Park; Peckham Rye and Park, Ravenscourt Park, Royal Victoria Gardens, Ruskin Park Southwark Park, Springfield Park, Sydenham Wells Park, Victoria Park, Wandsworth Common, Wandsworth Park.
CRICKET - Blackheath, Brockwell Park, Eltham Park, Finsbury Park, Hackney Man-h, liampgtead Heath Extension, Plumstead Common, Wormwood
CROQUET - Clissold Park, Peckham Rye and Park.
FOOTBALL - Avery Hill, Blackheath. Prof-Ice:ell Park, Clapham Common, Dulwich Park, Eltham Park, Finsbury Purk, Hackney Marsh, Hainault Forest, Haw,stt ad Heath Extension, Hilly Fields, Marble Hill, Mill Fields, Parliament Hill. Plumstead Common, Southwark Park, Tooting Common, Victoria Park, Waiidsworlh Common, Wandsworth Purk. Worniwcod Scrubs.
GOLF - Hainault Forest .
HOCKEY - Avery Hill, Clapham Common, Finsbury Pa k, Hampstead Heath extension, Highbury Fields, Marble Hill, Southwark Park. Victoria Park. Wormwood Scrubs.
LAWN TENNIS - Avery Hill, Battersea Park, Beaumontsquare. Blackheath, 13rock all Park. Clapham Common, Clissold Park, Dept'ford Park, Dulwich Park, Eltham Park, Finsbury Park, (folders Hill, Hackney Downs, Highbury Fields, Hilly Fields, Horniman Gardens, Kilburn Grange, King Edward Memorial Park, Lalvaell Recreation Ground, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London Fields, Manor House Gardens, Marble Hill, Maryon Park, Meath Gardens, Mill Fields, Mountsfield Park, Watts Fields, Northbrook Park, Norwood Park, Parliament Hill, Peckham Rye and Park, Plumstead , Ravenscourt Park, Royal Victoria Gardens, Ruskin Park, Southwark Park. Springfield Park, Streatham Common, Sydenham Wells Park, Telegraph Hill, Tooting Common, Victoria Park, Wandsworth Common, Wandsworth Park, Waterloo Park, Wormwood Scrubs.
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