Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 139
ied gourds back and forth, usingtheir hands for bats, and doubtless having quite as 602 THE ROYAL GAME OF TENNIS. [June, much fun, after a barbarous fashion, as we havenowadays with cork-handled Franklin rackets,regulation balls, and a set of printed rules. Generations rolled by, however, before… … Edward III. (1365) decided that no one but kingsand their associates should be allowed to play it atall, and his example was followed by Henry IV..Henry VIII., and other reigning sovereigns ofEngland and France. It kept gaining in popu-larity, however, and some sort of outdoor tenniswas played with…
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