Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1918 — TENNIS IS 44 YEARS OLD [ARTICLE]

TENNIS IS 44 YEARS OLD

Forty-three years ago the game < of lawn tennis was introduced ( here by a Bostonian, according to records In the possession of . George Wright, father of the for- 1 mer national title holder, Beals < Wright. After a visit to England the Massachusetts man brought home nets, racquets and < balls, as well as a book of rules i then governing the game, and ( set up a court at Nahant. A little later cojarts were laid out at Newport, R. 1., and also on the 1 grounds of the Staten Island < Cricket club, Livingston, Staten . Island. Shortly afterward the game was introduced in - Phila- * delphia at one of the prominent 4 cricket clubs there. * .