How to amuse yourself and others. The American girl's handy book (1887)
Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 76
CHAPTER V. … HOW TO MAKE A LAWN-TENNIS NET. ET us see ; it was that old medical gen-tleman, Galen the Greek, who firstwrote upon tennis, speaking of thesport as healthy exercise, was it not ?Well, girls, it really does not mattermuch to us whether he was the firstto write it up and the Greeks thefirst to play…
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