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Dates: during 1910-1919
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The committee has swept aside the old foot-fault rule, with its numerous interpretations, and proposes the following: "Before commencing to serve the server shall stand with both feet at rest behind the serving line and both feet shall be kept behind the base-line until the ball is struck...
"If the server wins the first point, the score is called 1-in, if the receiver wins the first point, the score is 1-out, when each player wins a point the score is called 1-all. The play is continued in this manner until either player has won four...
Another instance of the simplification of tennis that has been proposed by the committee is the revision of the handicapping system. The new method of handicapping will consist of allotting to each player one or more points in a set, and these points will be added to the points made...
There have been many minor changes in other rules and the effort throughout has been directed toward clearness and directness. There has also been a material shortening of the body of the rules.
Courage, alertness of mind, strength of body, staying power, loyal devotion-nobody doubts these qualities in some athlete who makes the great adventure, wins prestige for his college, and gains the admiring interest of untold millions of newspaper readers, and hears the wild applause of the thousands who see the...