Tennis; Lawn Tennis; Rackets; Fives (The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, Book 14)

xiv, 484 pp. CONTENTS: Tennis: Introduction; The Palaeontology of Ball-games; The History of the Court, Racket, and Ball; Modern Tennis; The Laws of Tennis; Some General Reflections on Tennis, and Hints to Beginners; Records of Matches and Memoirs of Eminent Players; Glossary; Lawn Tennis: The Origin of Lawn Tennis; The First Tournament; The Development of Lawn Tennis; The Revolution of Lawn Tennis; The Triumvirate of Lawn Tennis; The Court; The Implements of Lawn Tennis; First Steps; Service; In Play; Tactics of the Single Game; The Four-handed or Double Game; Match-playing; A Reminiscence of Fifteen Years of Lawn Tennis; Hard Courts and Covered Courts; Ladies' Lawn Tennis; Lawn Tennis in America; On Umpires; Handicapping, and the Management of Prize Meetings; Rackets: The Origin of Rackets; Professional Players; Amateurs; Practical Instructions; Fives: Fives; A Song of Fives; Appendix; Index.