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Article: Keeping score; For kids.(THE HOME FORUM)
- Article from:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- July 6, 2004
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There was a startling mistake the first week of Wimbledon. The umpire lost track of the score. It wasn't challenged by the players; in fact, nobody noticed until it was too late to do anything. What was really impressive was that the person who lost the game didn't begrudge the match even though the extra point played was to her disadvantage. It was Venus Williams, who said simply: "I don't think one call makes a match."
Her grace was especially impressive in light of the fact this was the earliest she had been retired from a Grand Slam event.
The debilitating intensity of human life would be greatly loosened if a few more of us had that perspective. In ...