How to amuse yourself and others : the American girl's handy book (1887)
Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920 · New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 72
CHAPTER V. HOW TO MAKE A LAWN-TENNIS NET. … century, as some claim,all learn to play tennis ? 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…
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