The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-04
FINE SPOKT ~ TENNIG
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Thos~ uho PLAY tennis need no arE,l-
rn-nt 70 convinc- thor, that - 10 The great
-~t ~ outdoor sports foe the individual
player rhoa~ Who have never played
are referred 10 the words ~ Wr~nn
sometime national champion m which
10 protsste-i that a. between two thirty
fv~ minute halves IN q university cham
p'onship football game or q Ave 80, match
~ championship sinElss q, tennis the
football ofer~t far more opportuniti~.
'1F F~=; ami required rn,Ich less sEeFIior
To PLAY and stamina To stay through
than tennis did
" Won have the IDEA that tennis - a
game for the w~aklinR writes & "
'laudy IN COUniry Li's ~ Amsrica. 4
beg 81 you 10 coma with me to court
take a racket and serve me ffty balls
a. the top ~ your muscular ability II
Won do not aChs m every muscle ~ your
neck and hack and shoulder tho next
day Won are either a tennis player al
ready or IN splendid physical condition.
stand up now and play three sets Of
singles against a man who can beat Won
and max" an honest effort. no matter
how pit'fuly Intellectual u may he 20 60,
hack IN" balls he drives within the court
Co the places where you ara not. n YOU
are not out ~ breath and weary at the end
you are unusual in your endurance
II you think the game - on. for the
timid you are cordially invited to stand a,
IN" net and let your friend " no brides him
sslf On ht$ forshand DIVE bang a few
halls A. you from distance of fifteen or
twenty feet II you do not vIelI the
racket with fore" and experience, Won
will h~ sore put Ia II 10 keep from being
stuck II YOU imagine two ounces 81
cloth covered rIbber filed with gas under
pressure IL a soft little hall let one stroket
sixty miles an hour take YOU IN the Eit
~ vour stomach or the end 81 your no-..
Yes. siSiy miles an hour ~ your
faith h. that % the Missourian take your
stand none distance from a court and
hold a stop watch Time q swift serve
from th. tang ~ the racket TO 'hs spurt
~ dust a. u -trikee From service line
10 haSs. line opposite IL sixty feet II il
a slow hall which takes n second TO make
the journey
watched u pass from a pure sport 10 a
aocietv craze and drop bark to sport again
love TO think Of " always as the gentle
man game No faint ~ commentator,
touches n no breath NJ scandal tATniahss
Tmpirea and lineamen arr necessary
evils IN championship play. that there n.
no possibility 81 accidental wrong
But ~ every Thousand sets all h,I,
one are PLAYED umpIreleea. and the man no,
fully trusted by his opponent Ia score for
or against himself with accuracy a. he
s~es the points iS seldom found upon the
courts When a dispute does arisa against
an umpire or a line man at a champion
shin match II - all but invariably raised
by the PLAYER who thinks not that he had
heen wTonged hut thar an unjust decision
has favored him A game which brings ~
much 81 q mans manhood and honor 90
the surface 10 hardly q weddings game.
Tho hrainle~s may develop strength ,
~ muscle and accuracy ~ control. but
no fool ever go~s far in a game requiring
an much ~ h~sdwork 49, this Nam
strength NAV win weight lifting OF
throwing contest. hig muscles alone ,
hoist q man over q bar higher than HE
fellows or break the line for the making
NJ touchdowns But brainy quarter
hacks have beaten beefy lines before
now. and will again. and . fair player
general II he may not outplAv. across
The net a stupid though accurate oppo-
nen'
To discovaT -hsrs your tennis en-
In gonia' docs not wish balls 70 no pun
and To put fh~m there, 10 PLAY 20 his weak
side while hefoolinR him tina; Won ere
In PLAY ~ his strong. 20 wee- him out .
by making him plav . gam" other than
his favorite. 10 mako him PLAY hack II
'or a pass n he prefers ~ run the haaeline.
IN lob gently and Just out ~ roach ~ the .
nan who will run in hut cant he passed.