e of play; for in tennis there is a religion of attitude
corresponding to that which painfully regulates the life of the golfer.
He became a good tennis player as an undergraduate, and was in the
running for a place in the inter-University match. The marker at the
Pembroke court was Henry Harradine, whom we all sincerely liked and
respected, but he was not a good teacher, and it was only when George
came under Henry's sons, John and Jim Harradine, at the Trinity and Clare
court, that his game began to improve. He continued to play tennis for
some years, and only gave it up after a blow from a tennis ball in
January 1895 had almost destroyed the sight of his left eye.

In 1910 he took up archery, and zealously set himself to acquire the
correct mode of standing, the position of the head and hands, etc. He
kept an archery diary in which each day's shooting is carefully analysed
and the results given in percentages. In 1911 he shot on 131 days: the
last occasion on which he took out his bow was September 13, 1912.

I am indebted to Mr. H. Sherlock, who often shot with him at Cambridge,
for his impressions. He writes: "I shot a good deal with your brother
the year before his death; he was very keen on the sport, methodical and
painstaking, and paid great attention to style, and as he had a good
natural 'loose,' which is very difficult to acquire, there is little
doubt (notwithstanding that he came to archery rather late in life) that
had he lived he would have been above the average of the men who shoot
fairly regularly at the public meetings." After my brother's death Mr.
Sherlock was good enough to look at George's archery note-book. "I then
saw," he writes, "that he had analysed them in a way which, so far as I
am aware, had never been done before." Mr. Sherlock has given examples
of the method in a sympathetic obituary published (p. 273)in _The
Archer's Register_. {177} George's point was that the traditional method
of scoring is not fair in regard to the areas of the coloured rings of
the target. Mr. Sherlock records in his _Notice_ that George joined the
Royal Toxophilite Society in 1912, and occasionally shot in the Regent's
Park. In 1912 he won the Norton Cup and Medal (144 arrows at 120 yards.)

There was a billiard table at Down, and George learned to play fairly
well, though he had no pretension to real proficiency. He used to play
at the Athenaeum, and in 1911 we find him playing there in the Billiar