Word: court
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...income received from the small fee charged would be put to shows that there is nothing extortionate in their actions, and we feel sure that no tennis player will object to paying fifty cents, when, by the new arrangement, he pays for the marking of his court, whether or not it was marked before the new rules were passed, less than half the amount charged heretofore, besides having the privilege of using any court when unoccupied by its holders. The regulations, in our opinion, are not only "not bad" but are as good as could have been devised to start...
...Tennis Association has completed the arrangements as regards the marking of courts. Members of the association can have their courts marked out, if double, for fifty cents; if single, for thirty-five cents. The charge hitherto has been $1.25 for doubles and $1.00 for singles. It has been decided that two persons may be allowed to hold a single court that cannot be made into a double court. Those wishing to have their courts marked out are to apply to the secretary of the association, paying at the same time the necessary sum, and the courts will be marked...
...university can join the association for the rest of the college year by sending in his name to the secretary of the association and paying at the same time the fee of half a dollar. Any member of the association shall have the right of using a court at any time provided a holder of the court does not wish to use it, but those who are not members of the association shall not be allowed to use the courts, or, if they do so, shall have to yield to members of the association desiring to use them...
...holder or holders of a court leave the university or do not wish to remain longer holders of the court, the remaining holder or holders can retain the court provided they immediately fill up the number of holders to at least four. This is, however, subject to the limitations of rule...
...present the marking of new courts shall be left to individual enterprise, but when a new court is marked out its tenure shall become subject to these rules...