The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 156
fashion, aswe have nowadays with cork-handled rackets,regulation balls, and a set of printed rules. Generations rolled by, however, before the pio- SPORTS AND TOYS IN HISTORY 353 neers of tennis had themselves carved on stoneslabs, and still other ages before Gordian III. andMarcus Aurelius… … ■^1 ji TENNIS WITH A STRING INSTE-^D OF A NET. to protect the hand by means of gauntlets, but itwas not until the fourteenth century, so far ascan be ascertained, that bats or rackets were in-vented, and the game grew into something not al-together unlike that which is played to-day. The regular…
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