Who was the first tennis player to wear shorts?
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QUESTION Who was the first tennis player to wear shorts?
This 目印 in fashion was 達成するd in the Wimbledon 選手権s of 1930, when Brame Hillyard became the first man not to play in white flannel trousers.
Hillyard, then 54, a stalwart of the game, was playing an up-and-coming player by the 指名する of Fred Perry. Perry 解任するd the older man in straight 始める，決めるs (6-3, 6-4, 6-2).
Hillyard was the 年上の brother of George Hillyard, chairman of the All England Club. After his loss, he joined the 委員会.
In 1934, Perry won his first Wimbledon and Hillyard and the British public were not happy.?
膝s-up: Tennis 王族 Bunny Austin sips tea during a match at Wimbledon in 1937?
Perry was a new 産む／飼育する of sportsman, with a 献身的な training programme and a playing style that, perhaps, gave primacy to fitness above style. His 猛烈な／残忍な will to 勝利，勝つ just wasn't British.
Perry later 解任するd the 深い-rooted snobbery on 陳列する，発揮する at the All England Club after he had thrashed Australian Jack Crawford in the final: 'Out in the dressing room, I overheard the 独特の 発言する／表明する of Brame Hillyard, Club 委員会 man, talking to Crawford.?
"Congratulations," said Hillyard. "This was one day when the best man didn't 勝利，勝つ." I couldn't believe my ears.'
The man who popularised the wearing of shorts was Henry Wilfred 'Bunny' Austin.
Austin was British tennis 王族. An 早期に pin-up, he was handsome and debonair, lived a celebrity lifestyle, played the game with style and, unlike Perry, was a glorious 失敗 にもかかわらず his prodigious talent.?
In 1932, Austin sported a pair of white flannel shorts 'cropped 井戸／弁護士席 above the 膝s' in a 競争 at the Men's 国家の Tennis 選手権 in Forest Hills, Long Island.
Pictures of Austin wearing 'ventilated pants' were in all the major newspapers. He wore them on Centre 法廷，裁判所 at Wimbledon later that year, 誘発するing a 類似の sensation in Britain. By the に引き続いて year, 事実上 all male players wore shorts.
The first 女性（の） tennis player to wear shorts was Suzanne Lenglen of フラン. Lenglen was a 議論の的になる fashion trailblazer and first sported long shorts in 1933, 明言する／公表するing: 'Very soon every woman tennis player will be wearing shorts and the briefer the better.'
Peggy King, Tonbridge, Kent.
QUESTION What 正確に／まさに is kosher salt?
Kosher salt is called 'kosher' because of its 伝統的な use in koshering, the 過程 of 除去するing 血 from meat によれば ユダヤ人の dietary 指導基準s; not because it is 用意が出来ている によれば ユダヤ人の dietary 法律s (although it can be used in kosher cooking ).
Kosher salt typically has larger, coarser 穀物s compared with （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する salt. It is usually made without any additives such as iodine or anti-caking スパイ／執行官s, which can give it a purer taste.?
Its larger 穀物s make it ideal for 使用／適用s such as seasoning meats, where it can be easily ぱらぱら雨d over the surface to 高める flavour.
One of the 重要な 利益s of kosher salt is its texture and the way it 固執するs to food surfaces, making it 特に useful for 製図／抽選 out moisture from meats or vegetables.
While kosher salt is 一般的に used in ユダヤ人の cooking, it has become popular in mainstream culinary circles 同様に, 予定 to its unique texture and versatility.
Gladys Blanchard, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
QUESTION Did Hitler leave a will?
Portrait of Nazi Germany's 独裁者, Adolf Hitler. He asked to be burnt after his 自殺
Hitler's Last Will and Testament was a short 文書 調印するd on April 29, 1945, at 4am, the day before he committed 自殺.?
His executor was ツバメ Bormann and the will was 証言，証人／目撃するd by Bormann, Joseph Goebbels and 陸軍大佐 Nicolaus 出身の Below.
It began with an 承認 of his marriage, though he did not について言及する Eva Braun by 指名する. He then left his 所持品 to the German people: 'What I 所有する belong... to the party, or, if this no longer 存在するs, to the 明言する／公表する. Should the 明言する／公表する too be destroyed, no その上の 決定／判定勝ち（する） on my part is necessary.'
He asked for his artworks to be 陳列する，発揮するd in a 広大な／多数の／重要な 'Fuhrermuseum' in his home town of Linz, Austria.
Hitler's Testament goes on to explain: 'I myself and my wife ― ーするために escape the 不名誉 of deposition or capitulation ― choose death. It is our wish to be burnt すぐに.'
He laid out 計画（する）s for the Nazi Party, expelling Reichsmarschall Hermann 血の塊／突き刺すing from the party and 除去するing him as his 後継者.?
He also expelled Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler for 試みる／企てるing to 交渉する peace with the Western 同盟（する）s, and 指名するd Grossadmiral Karl Donitz as 大統領 and Goebbels as （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長 of the Reich.
Kevin Maude, Bournemouth, Dorset.
