The Complete Lawn Tennis Player by A. Wallis Myers
The Complete Lawn Tennis Player

The Complete Lawn Tennis Player


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III LAWN TENNIS IN OTHER LANDS The universal game — America's national pastime — President Roosevelt as a player—The " Tennis Cabinet" at Washington—Schools as recruiting agencies—Popularity in the Colonies—Conditions and progress in Australia—New Zealand's seven thousand club members— Nursing budding talent—Continental expansion—Eight hundred players in Hamburg—Some famous German tournaments—Austria a land of rich promise—A. F. Wilding relates some experiences—Spain and Portugal—The keenness of the late King Carlos—Sweden's proud boast —A recollection of Stockholm and of King Gustav—Switzerland's appeal LAWN TENNIS has long ceased to be only an Englishman's game. Indeed, regarded as a national pastime, its hold on the popular mind is stronger in America and in some of the Continental countries than in the land of its birth or in the Colonies of Great Britain. In athletic England lawn tennis entered a competitive field already occupied and the fact that it has claimed the allegiance of so many supporters and assumed the place and power it has is adequate testimony to its inherent virtues. On the Continent the soil may be said to have been already prepared for the seed—a rich and fertile soil as events have proved; and the growth of the game has supplied opportunely the demand for athletic culture. Its influence on the recreative side of national life in Europe has been deep andcatholic. Young men who formerly amused themselves in the cafe" and found their only outlet for physical energy in conscription now flock to the courts. Older men, finding a medium at hand for healthy and novel exercise, which relieved the monotony of the chase, welcomed the pastime with scarcely less enthusiasm; and when Royalty gave it blessing and active patronage and Society realised th...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780548104781
  • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 456
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 884 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0548104786
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jul 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 29 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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