New-York tribune., 1886-04-05
L1VN TENNIS GOSSIP.
NEW GROUNDS PURCHASED BY THE NEw-YORK
CLUB-RULEs AND RACQUaTs.

NEW GROUNDS PURCHASED BY THE NEw-YORK
CLUB-RULEs AND RACQUaTs.
Along with the other outdoor sports that
rejoice IN light and warmth OF the spring. tennis
begnneth to boom" Courts being dug up and
graded dressing rooms put In order and and
apparatus generally pverhauled. Tennis. lSe all
manly-and matter wOmanly-sports is rap lily
enlargng the number OF it, deyotees In TINS country
As dyspepsia consumption out OF fashion. tennis.
wheeling. canoeing and kindred sports come in. The
National Association Of Amateur Lawn Tennis Players
now number fifty clubs on its membership rolls The
great tournament held every Newport. nd
the mighty plas o. each club &C thher to compete
for the sundry medals by law provided.
The New York Tennis Clnb, which has recently
Joined the National Assscation will MI long felt
want this by providing ample accommodate
to It's members In the way OF courts on Manhattan
island Heretofore New. York players have had to aks
the train to Hastings the ferry TO Hoboken or
the boa. to Staten Island. when they wanted to
play. Two or three hours Onsumei In going
and coming and they generally had to leave in
the middle OF q game to catch train" The New ork
Club Is reorganization OF older association which
has secured a lease OF property extending from
One hundred ani forty.iSth to One hundred and for
ty. SITS. ST. Nicholas This Is only
block two from the one-hundred and. forty fifth
street station of the sixth Avenue Elevated road and
about thirty minutes from Twenty third ST. It has
100 emit and the limit nxed at 100 is planned
to have two of tue tour couf now being graded
u,
probable, the increasing membership warrants it,
courts will he made on the ground controlled
bj club and necessary the grounds be still
further extended adjacent property which will be at
disposal % the club II Is the OF the
construct suitable dressing Tor ladies' gonte
supplied with runnng wafHr lockers. etc. Above
these will covered grand stand for spectators
II is intended Il at the courts snail be In condition
early the spring it practical 10 play doors
ad that they shall DO kept III perfect order through the
The officers OF the club follows: president Ed
mund :. whitman; yicepresdcnt. William ID. Hobart;
secretary, Charles Brock; treasurer. How G.
Badsley; captain. Irving Putnam; lieutenant Wesley
A. Lyon second lieutenant, Edward L. Macmillan
Tho gravel courts Will ths best gravel dp-s
get slippery when wet like clay uneven like
TUT. Ii dries rapidly and can be used III few minutes
after the eud OF "a heavy shower.
There have been few changes In the rules At tho last
of the National organization IL decided
serving "a mans heel need not necessarily rest
line II 1t lie perpondiclarly above It, This relieS the
rises bis toes frOm the continual OF
q conscientious umpire. Heretofore the matter of a
standard Ill has been left the executive committee
and tho executive cOnnitiee has selected the Peck &
Snyder. Last year there much vigorous kicking
quarters because tho association decided
the Ayres standard English ball In racquets there
seems "A slight tendency toward greater weight
the ground that the become accustomed 20 1t
almost easily AS to lighter while ot IL Is
effective They place the weight for
ems racqucs al sixteen ana half Ounces, which
fully an Ouce and half above the AIpericnn average
Siill, as of playeis increases, the
symmetrical this year, the shape having gOn-
A particularly lig I and stron, variety has "A frame
made OF distinct strips Of wood laid one upon the
other.