Word: nets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last Thursday afternoon I started out to Holmes field expecting to play tennis. When I came to look for my net in the Society building, where I generally leave it, I found that it was gone. I looked vainly over all parts of the building in the hope that some one might have carelessly moved it from its place. It could not be found in the building, and I was about to leave when I cast my eyes through the north window, and, strange to say, there I saw my net stretched across another man's court. At first...
Luckily I had succeeded in getting another net, with which I went to my court, where I found the ground stuck full of small sticks which somebody else had driven into he ground, in a convenient place for tripping over them, to hold up their net. In the future I hope that whoever is at a loss for a net or a court will take somebody else's and leave mine alone...
...edict has gone forth to lower the net in lawn tennis, and that for the future, in single matches, the correct height of the net will be three feet six inches at the post and three feet at the centre. The new rule will be adopted in the contest for the championship at Wimbledon. It seems a very great pity that so many alterations are made in the game. The end will be to spoil it. This lowering of the net was not at all desirable. The height kept down the experiments in overhand serving. - [London Court Journal...
...idea, and played the philosopher. I stared. Slowly but surely Lampy drooped. His legs elongated, his arms became wings, his nose became a beak. It was - it was the Ibis. Still he could talk. "Who did lemonade?" he squeaked. I took the only rope I had - my tennis net - and tied it to the bedpost. "Did you ever see tennis net?" he chuckled. I threw it out the window. "What was it kerosene?" I began to descend. The Ibis leaned far out the window and screeched, 'Will you subscribe?" - and I woke...
...capacity and of a speculative turn of mind, who will get up a corner in small boys, will make a sufficient fortune to enable him to go to the first night of the Greek play at present prices. The corner could be very easily arranged. Get all the tennis nets in the Society building, and make a long seine of them by tying the ends together. When the small fry run in for the broken bats (after the next ball game) get two men who are running for the Pudding to drag the net round them, and the business...