THE “ SPLENDID HANDSHAKE.” “ The thing I most admire,.in championship tennis, the tiling that seems to me to lift it for a moment out of the realm of competitive sport and to endow it Avith some off the old Hellenic spirit of epic heroism, is the handshake with which the loser congratulates the winner at the end of the game,” writes Kathleen O’Brien in the “Liverpool Post.” “It can be no easy matter, that handshake. To perform it with grace, spontaneity, and the appearance, at least, of sincerity must take control of facial expression and an ability to disguise the natural feelings that "would do credit to a Chinaman, in this matter of the splendid handshake at the end of the match I believe tennis is a sporf that is unique. . . . Personally, 1 think this courtly act of the handshake might be extended to other departments of life, and perhaps revive in our manners some of that grace of chivalry they seem so sadly to have lost.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1928, Page 8
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166Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1928, Page 8
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