The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-08

When a tennir racket can be had for one dollar or seven dollars, as you like, .yAnd ball for as little as quarter. fM " should any woman weep because of Ser figure?
 f If her chest is fiat, her hips small, her arms thin and her shoulders narrow, it lies within the power of that ball and racket to round out her form into full, firm curves.
 If the arms are fabby, the waist over generous the whole figure soft and stout and shapeless, the ball and racket can bring it within the bounds of a normal outline.
 There is no game open to all reasona- ply strong women (for basket ball and the like I consider fit for only the ex- ceptionally athletic) which brings into play as many muscles of the body as our good old standby game, lawn tennis.
 Now a tennis court is not at the dis posal of every one of you. But a court laid out accrding to regulations. measured to ap exact 7sx27 feet and parted down the middle by a three-foot net is not essential to one who wants merely the physical benefit of tennis. If you mean to play for a cup. that's another matter. The only way to play tournament tennis is to play 1t by tournament rules. But a ETH l knOW gave HeTSelI dS pTctty q pair of arms as one might wish to see arms that made possible her first short sleeves-by batting a tennis ball against an old barn for two solid hours of every day.
 T hadn't any court. and none of my friends had one, and everybody I knew was too lazy to come and practice with me so I had to invite the old barn to play" she says. After all, the barn is never tired or busy and it never dis putes a point with me. so 1t may be , the best opponent I could have chosen. [ Of course, don't have any of the ad- vantages of returning clever shots, but get A lot of running In trying to keep up with the barns returns, and I throw as much force into my own shots as If were after an international champion ship"
 The strength and beauty that this girl gained bear witness to what determina- ton can accomplish. However. 1t is much better to do your batting" against a nimble opponent than against stolid wall. Alertness Is developed in this way, 10 say nothing of more powerful muscles.
 A tennis expert says that the use of the shoulder is the chief secret of the game He adds, "One of the reasons why golf is such bad practice for lawn tennis lies in the fact that the approach shot in that game requires the use of force from the elbow. which Is, of course, stiffened st the same time; where as in lawn teH .s. the work should be done by the shoulder and the elbow should be kept loose"
 All the lines from shoulder to racket constitute a lever, the fulcrum of which Is at the racket and the power at the shoulder. A good player uses the two paYts of his arm, that is, the upper arm ana forearm, as if they were connecting roas loosely joined together at the el- how. for transmitting the force applied at the shoulder to the wrist.
 This Fundamental law of the game r,eans as much to the beauty seeker as +o the cup challenger. Playing with 1our elbow no doubt benefits the arm in n measure; but playing with the shoulder r,sars that both parts of the arm, the shoulder the neck the chest, the entire +r,,nk come in for their share of the gain
 Two famous players. Doherty and Smith. are noted for the length of time that they can keep up the game this is attributed to the fact that they put into their stroke the momentum or the whole body. The shoulder sroke ac- comnlishes this. The man who plays from his elbow uses but the half of one arm. and this member soon gives out. Meanwhile the rest of the body ts getting no physical culture. The whole body used in harmony will last longer and gain more.
 If you are taking up tennis for the sake of beauty. I advise you to play singles without keeping score. This flinders the progress of the exercise and sometimes-not In your own case, to be sure-gives rise to differences of nninion that are not beautifyinE. Play