Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Port, I began: "O most bewitching stranger, know that you have before you a youth who for five summers has sought a maiden like you. A youth who wants to find a girl untarnished by the chromo civilization of the 19th century. She must know nothing of germans, lawn tennis, or the opera; her mind must be as fresh - as fresh - as - as a freshly cleaned blackboard on which I shall stamp the imprint of my superior intellect. She must be a country girl, in fact. I will come and board for the summer months at her father's house...
THERE has also been a universal desire expressed to have this year's changes in the Lawn Tennis rules placed before the lovers of that game. We therefore publish all the additions to, and changes in, the rules of last year, which were made last March, under the auspices of the three most prominent English clubs, in the hope that they may prove of assistance to the daily frequenters of Jarvis and Holmes. They are as follows...
...Marylebone Tennis Club, of England, has effected some radical changes in the rules of Lawn Tennis, which will soon be published as amended. The service line is to be moved a foot nearer the net, making the distance 21 feet instead of 22 feet, as formerly, which will make straight arm-cuts in serving much more difficult to execute than under the old rules. Also, the player is prohibited from leaning over the net to strike the ball, but is compelled to wait until it is on his side of the net before he hits it. We are sorry that...