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...which was becoming a polite fad in England. When she returned to the U. S., Mary Outerbridge brought with her a net suitable for minnow-fishing, several strange-looking, gut-strung bats and a rule book. She had her net pegged up on the grounds of the Staten Island Cricket & Baseball Club, set about teaching her family how to play tennis. Seven years later, when the game was being played at 33 U. S. clubs, her brother, Eugenius H. Outerbridge, helped form the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association which drafted rules and held the first national tournament at Newport...
While tennis was spreading over the U. S. and about the world, Richard Dudley Sears, waving his thick-framed racket at Newport and on the smooth lawns of the Longwood Cricket Club, near Boston, held the championship for seven years. He might have held it longer had he not hurt himself, so seriously that he was compelled to retire, by colliding with his partner during a doubles match. The injury was still noticeable, in the form of a slight limp, when Richard Dudley Sears went to Forest Hills. N. Y. last week to attend a Golden Jubilee Ceremony, the 50th...
Ellsworth Vines Jr. of Pasadena and Frederick J. Perry of London were the two most interesting players in the National Doubles Championship at the Longwood Cricket Club last week. Vines, whose father owns a chain of Pacific Coast meat stores, has been the sensation of this year's early season tournaments. He won the Longwood and Seabright invitation tournaments, won again at Newport last fortnight, where he beat Perry in the finals. A lanky youth who often plays in a broad white linen cap. he uses a slice serve, an Eastern grip for his smooth flat drives. Perry played...
...year ago, Ellsworth Vines, whose father owns a chain of Pacific coast meat stores, reached the finals of the Sea Bright (N. J.) Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club's invitation tournament after a series of smart victories in the early rounds. He was beaten, in perhaps the most surprising match of the year, by Sidney B. Wood Jr., who upset his game by softly patting chop strokes across...
...Founded in 1787 by Thomas Lord, a Yorkshire ground bowler, Lord's is the home of the Marylebone Cricket Club, world arbiter. fAt the first Eton-Harrow match in 1801, Bowler Tom Loyg beat Harrow in one inning, caught cold forthwith and died...