Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1915 — RING TOSS TENNIS IS NEW [ARTICLE]

RING TOSS TENNIS IS NEW

New System of Bport Hailed With Delight and Finds Many Followers in New York Suburbs. Ring toss tennis is the latest'variation of the favorite game of the courts and nets to which racquet wielders have turned their attention. The lawn tennis players.of the Bronxville Athletic association, New York, have tried out the new game on the courts at Bronxville and Hugh Robertson, A. Dudley Britton, Morris S. Clark, James Robertson and David R. Todd have established a set of rules which seem to fit the new game to perfection.

The inspiration for the game came to one of the players who recently returned from Europe, having whiled away his time on deck during the voyage with the usual ring toss. He got a number of the six-inch rope rings and started to play the game on the regulation lawn tennis court by scaling them back and forth over the net. This made the flight of the ring somewhat too fast and the court was too large, so the net was hung on Badminton poles to a height of five feet six inches. A new court was marked out 21 feet in width and 48 feet in length, the net crossing it at its center. For purposes of serving, the middle of the net was marked by a white band. The server stands at the base line, and because of the height of the net tosses the ring into the air so that it falls with a slow motion which makes It possible for the receiving player to catch it in his hand. Only one service is allowed. With the ring once in play, the players—and it has been found that doubles work much better than singles—may not hold the ring, but must toss it back over the net with the same Arm motion as they receive it. It is not permissible to raise the band or arm above the shoulder.