Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-02
Tennis Is Played
All Over the World.

| ALI UVer the world. n,.vad l. ,ess
/ than half a century old, it's courts may
be found from Alaska to Africa, from
| East India to South America. Wherever
| civilization has gained any foothold the
| white marked court appears. In the tropics,
| where turf grounds cannot be had.
| asphalt, concrete or macadam is used as
/ a substitute Perhaps in tropical
| country is lawn tennis played with more
enthusiasm than on the Panama Canal
! Zone, which now includes less than
| eighteen courts on it's fifty square miles
] Of territory. The first two courts were
| laid out in 1906 in the city of Panama
| uopn the site of one of the old fortresses
/ of that historic old city. These courts
were laid directly over the classmates of
| the fort which were built into the city
/ wall nearly 300 years ago. and are thirty
/ feet above the street level of the present
| city.
| The first courts were under the joint
auspices of the English and American
| residents of the Panamanian capital, but
as the number of Americans increased
upon the Canal Zone tennis activities in
| creased and concrete courts painted green
| with white markings were distributed
| along the railroad crossing the isthmus at
Culebra, CoraZal, Las Cascad. Gatun
ObispO and several other points. At Ga
| tun, where the world famous locks are
located. there Is electrically lighted
court which is considered one of the fin
est in the world, although the night play
ing was discontinued because of the pest
OF insects attracted by the glare of the
lights
Lawn tennis is a game which is becom- |
ing equally popular with women and men. |
The first American woman champion was
Miss A. +. Hansell, who won highest |
honors in 1887. The western women have |
had more practice In tournament playing |
than the eastern women. which is doubt
less responsible for the fact that Califor- |
mia has been so we'll represented by the |
Misses Sutton and also by Miss Hazel |
Hotchkiss. the latter having held the ma
tional champion honors for three years.
Miss Mary X. Browne of Los Angeles
held the championship last year while the
runner-up honor went to Miss Eleanora
Sears Of Boston.
The championship in clay court tennis.
which is now becoming distinct from the
turf court, was
Clay Court Play awarded to Miss
q Distinct Game. na,ions, chamn,on
who recently has become the bride Of
Thomas Clark Bundy. himself player of
international reputation. thus indicating
that Cupid occasionally turns tennis
women have taken active part in national
tennis events almost from the beginning
Of the game and have thus achieved a
larger number of national honors than
have been accredited to American women.
but Miss May Sutton demonstrated the
superior skill of the American woman
tennis players by winning the English
honors in 1905 and 1907.
Formerly the expense of building ten
mis- court prevented tennis from becom
ing a popular game with people of mod
crate means. Now the value Of the exer-
else has become SO well recognized that
the public parks of every large city are
providing free tennis courts upon which
any one may be permitted to play. In
New York Park Commissioner Slower |
has arranged for ninety-two asphalt |
courts to be laid out in Central Park near
96th street. Their planning has been
under the direction of G. F. Touchard, a
well known New York tennis player, who
has had experience with asphalt courts |
in California. Formerly New York pub
lie tennis courts had all been laid out /
upon the grassy surface of the park. L
which had the disadvantage Of being I'M