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It was a four-handed match between two rather good-looking boys who wore red and green ribbons on their straws--[those were the Denhamby colours]--and two big London fellows. The schoolboys won the toss, and the fair one served first. He put in a very hot service just over the net, which broke sharp as it fell, and bothered the Londoners completely. The dark hand-in played close up to the net, and was very neat in the way he picked up balls and smashed them over.