The Spike: or, Victoria College Review, October 1906
Tennis
Tennis
"The old order changeth."
The pride of ownership in the new courts has even already shown itself working in the minds of some of our more enthusiastic members. Every day some student on the way to lectures will stop to notice the improvements, whether in levelling or excavation, and to sniff once more around those mysterious drains. It is astonishing the fascination a drain has for some of us; indeed, a rumour came to our ears that a person dressed in a sporting suit with loud golf stockings, had been disturbed the other evening in the act of attaching a trout-line to one of the gratings; the man made off with smothered exclamations of "Pol! Egad! Mehercle!"—this is, however, scarcely conceivable.
We are, of course, now permanently cut adrift from the old courts in the Parliamentary grounds, but if all goes well the new ones should be ready by the end of this session. There are to be three courts, the cost of which will be about two hundred pounds, but the College Council has generously undertaken the levelling and draining, and the Students' Association has donated fifty pounds, so that the financial difficulty, though still serious enough to occasion anxiety, is in a fair way towards solution.
The Annual General Meeting is held in October and the new Committee will doubtless find much to engage its attention. Before play can begin a fence must be erected to keep the balls from the valley, and also to serve as a protection for the courts which are somewhat exposed to the wind.
So far as situation is concerned our courts will be unrivalled, and, if we get only a fair amount of line, weather, they should prove a veritable joy to the students of Vietoria College.
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