Word: server
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...carried my camera with me to almost all the many places I visited this summer, and took about one hundred and fifty photographs altogether. At Newport I took an instantaneous photograph of a tennis game. I tried to include the server who delivered the ball with great speed by rather a peculiar motion. I set up my tripod in the midst of the usual crowd of admiring spectators, and pointed it with great care so as to include, as I thought, my "subject." But as is often the case, a little care is worse than none. I had arranged everything...
...here has to be completely changed in matches between good players. Against poor or even medium players, the near-net game is apt to pay very well, but against first-class exponents of the game it is simple suicide. Each player should stand on the service line (excepting the server, of course, and he gets up as soon as possible) and if they are up to the mark nothing except a smash will get past them. This is always done in England, and even allowing for the difference in 'calibre' of the players, the superiority of the English style...
Concet. Harvad Clee Club and Pierian Sodality. Sanders Theatre, 8 P.M. Tickets at Server...
...adopted, and the meeting merely endorses their decision. Among the amendments made in the rules was the change in the height of the net at the poles from 4 feet to 3 feet 6 inches. This will favor placing along the side lines. Another change is that the server is required to have one foot inside or on the base line and the other foot outside the base line and on the ground. This will prevent the possibility of standing entirely outside of the court when serving. A further amendment requires the umpire to transfer players from...
...call 'rackets' 'bats.' Cricket is played with a bat, lawn tennis with a racket. 'Strokes' are often called 'points' and 'aces;' a 'service' is called a 'serve;' a 'rest' is known as a 'rally;' the 'sides' (of the net) become 'ends;' the 'striker out' is transformed into the 'non-server,' and the 'server' into the 'striker;' sometimes they are called 'hand-in' and 'hand-out,' when tennis scoring is employed, as is now universally the case. It is too much to hope that the rising generation will take a hint, and endeavor to call things (especially lawn tennis) by their...