Prebble and Miss Boothby, and the story of the match is one of startling lapses and recoveries.
Miss Boothby was very good from the back of the court and Mr.
My partner volleyed at all kinds of remarkable angles, and, as _The Sportsman_ in describing the match, remarked, "sat on the net and was in complete command." We took seven games consecutively and won the set at 7/5, and with it a memorable match.
The ladies’ event was rather unsuccessful with withdrawals causing problems leaving the two British finalists arriving for the deciding match via very contrasting routes.
Dorothea Lambert Chambers won three matches for a chance at the Gold whereas Miss DoraBoothby arrived there without striking a ball courtesy of a bye and two scratchings.
Boothby’s lack of match play may well have played some part in her defeat in a match which saw Lambert Chambers at her best.
She married Edmund Maurice Burke-Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy, son of James Boothby Burke-Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy and Frances Ellen Work, on 17 September 1931.
She married James Boothby Burke-Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy, son of Edmund Burke-Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy and Elizabeth Caroline Boothby, on 22 September 1880.
She and James Boothby Burke-Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy were divorced in 1891.
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