The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-10
TENNIS ADDS TO
 HEALTH AND BEAUTY.

What a line thing it is that the fem mine sex have gone in for tennis play ing again! Among the most fashion able set at Newport during the summer this-perhaps the best of all outdoor games for women-has been greatly popular. At Philadelphia. although Fairmount Park contains 15o courts, these do not begin to be enough. So keen Is the competition for their use that in the bright summer mornings players arrived at 2 o'clock in order to be sure of getting possession of court.
 The fact that the woman's tennis championship of the world now belongs to q California girl. May Sutton, arouses among American women in- creased interest in this fine game. Well it is, too. If women played tennis steadily for a few seasons the reproach that their sex cannot throw a stone or hit a ball would glide into the past. The game trains. strengthens and de- velops woman's limp, awkward and wellnigh useless throwing muscles. Women have naturally an accurate eye, but their habit of staying indoors has caused this power to be exercised only for very short distances. Tennis play ing draws the sight away to forty and fifty feet and even farther and so ex- tends the accurate vision to long range.
 1GHuIS ID tO dUONe many other outdoor games for women, because 1t is not extremely violent or taxing to the strength. Even a de1I- cate girl can engage in 1t without the least harm. It develops a beautiful arm and neck and a full chest. The fiaccid upper arm becomes firm and round. the scraggy neck muscles i'll which the live tennis player Is forced to adopt to get oxygen into the lungs as fast as 1t Is demanded gives noble chest development, especially if one is careful to keep the breastbone drawn braveiy upward Invaluable, too, Is that quickness on foot which the tennis player must have or she will be mo- where in the gane.F
 Summing up physical gains to be got from tenuis one finds that 1t increases the healthful circulation of the blood all through the body, strengthens and limbers arms and legs, feet and hands. increases the chest measure and trains woman's eye to accuracy at long range, an acuracy in which she is generally woefully lacking
 The effect on the mind Is quite as good as that on the body. First there is the habit of concentrated attention which Is induced. The scatter brain ed, half hearted sort of a girl can never be a tennis player unless she shakes herself up mentally. The exhilafation of a spirited game of tennis is a won derful brightener mentally, as well as a beautif1er physically
 Many girls and women who would like to play this once more fashionable game are held back by timidity, dread lest people laugh at their awkwar In sss. Naturally no woman likes to make a show of herself before folk. Tr"re Is way by which the timid mes may learn to hit a ball with comparative accuracy. It is to prasti.e on the side of a house. Take ball ana racouet and stand from ten to twelve feet away from the house. Toss the Tall ghtly into the air with the left hand erd at the same time try 70 strike 1t with the racquet in the right hand and drive 1t against the side of the house. If you hit the house catch the ball on its re- bound and hurl 1t back in the same way. Practice at this will soon enable a beginner to attain a true aim and steadiness of motion. It is a good plan, too, for several "greenies" to practice together till they gain some skill and confidence. Thus one cannot laugh at another and, in any case, even by our awkwardness we are affording enter tainment to our friends.
 Mary Gould Lytle.