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"No, I got beaten in the semi-finals." "American amateurs are a very hot lot, the best ones. I suppose you were weak on the greens. I warned you about that. You'll have to rub up your putting before next year." At the idea that any such mundane pursuit as practising putting could appeal to his broken spirit now, Sam uttered a bitter laugh.
Newspaper vendor-units were screaming raucously, "Martians land in Colorado!" and the newspapers themselves printed colored-photos of hastily improvised models in their accounts of the landing of a blood-red rocket-ship in the widest part of the Rockies. The inter-continental tennis matches reached their semi-finals in Havana, Cuba.
All the Manorites in the Shell and Removes were fellows who had come to Harrow rather over than under fourteen years of age. And when the list of the Torpid Eleven was posted, didn't John's heart boil with pride when he read his own name at the bottom of it? The Manor won the first and the second of the matches. Then came the semi-finals with Damer's.
"No, I got beaten in the semi-finals." "American amateurs are a very hot lot: the best ones. I suppose you were weak on the greens, I warned you about that. You'll have to rub up your putting before next year." At the idea that any mundane pursuit as practising putting could appeal to his broken spirit now, Sam uttered a bitter laugh.
For a moment his eyes travelled over the other's slim form. "What a rag! We may draw each other anyhow we shall have to scrap if we get into the semi-finals. Billy, I believe you'd bash me!" He towelled himself vigorously. The other shook his head. "You beat me at Dartmouth. But I'm going to have a jolly good shot at it, cully!"
Semi-finals of Tent-pegging, Sword v. Sword Mounted, Bayonet-fighting, Tug-of-War, Fencing, and other officers' and men's events had been, or were being, contested. The finals of the British Troops' Sword v.
"The whole trouble is that Bert loves neither the children nor myself any more!" she decided bitterly, on a certain August afternoon, when, with three other young wives and mothers, she was playing bridge at the club. It was a Saturday, and Bert was on the tennis courts, where the semi-finals in the tournament were being played.
So they threw themselves, heart and soul, into the task of entertaining Tim, and, since he was very willing to be entertained, the weeks at Sunnyside slipped by in a little whirl of gaiety, winding up with a badminton tournament, at which Tim whose right arm had not yet quite recovered from the effects of the German bullet it had stopped played a left-handed game, and triumphantly maneuvered himself and his partner into the semi-finals.
Once, in the big contests in the Gym, I got either into the finals or semi-finals, I forget which; but aside from this the chief part I played was to act as trial horse for some friend or classmate who did have a chance of distinguishing himself in the championship contests. I was fond of horseback-riding, but I took to it slowly and with difficulty, exactly as with boxing.
"They are playing the semi-finals," he said to himself, hurrying through his change of garments. "I wish to the Lord I had gotten through in time to get down there!" But it was not at the tennis that he looked, twenty minutes later, when he reached the courts; although a brilliant play was being made, and there was a spattering of applause.
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