The game of lawn tennis and how to play it . favorite istyle of garment, thoughmany players prefer long woUen stockings and knickerbockers. In-dividual taste is generally used in the selection of shade hats and thepreference varies from the long visored beak-like jockey caps, to thebroad-brimmed straw hat. A complete change of clothing should be made at the conclusion ofplay a cool bath taken, and warmer garments resumed. Never sitor stand round a court after the end of a contest when you are moistand hot. If you are compelled to wait any appreciable time betweensets or short matches, put on a
The game of lawn tennis and how to play it . favorite istyle of garment, thoughmany players prefer long woUen stockings and knickerbockers. In-dividual taste is generally used in the selection of shade hats and thepreference varies from the long visored beak-like jockey caps, to thebroad-brimmed straw hat. A complete change of clothing should be made at the conclusion ofplay a cool bath taken, and warmer garments resumed. Never sitor stand round a court after the end of a contest when you are moistand hot. If you are compelled to wait any appreciable time betweensets or short matches, put on a sweater. Do not sit on the groundwhile heated unless you are anxious to contract rheumatism. The gist of these remarks is not to run any unnecessary risk andto take all reasonable care of your health and strength. THE SINGLE single game of lawn tennis is played with one man on eitherside of the net, or in other words (each [man plays for himself. Theserver is the term applied to the man who starts the haU, his op- 12 LAWN POSITION OP RACK&T IN liAWN TENNIS. 13 portent h^ing known as the receiver or striker-out. The servermust stand, to deliver the^rst service, just outside the base line anda little to the right of the middle line of the court (SI). His object isto hit the ball over the^net so that it will the court (1) of hisopponent, diagonally opposite the server. The receiver stands in aposition (Rl) to return the ball after^ ithas bounded once in court object of the receiver is to return the ball so that it will strikesomewhere within the outside limits of the servers court. If theserver fails to start the ball by hitting it into thecourt 1, he makeswhat is known as a fault; and, if upon another trial he againmakes a fault, he loses the first point. If, however, in either of thesetwo trials he successfully puts the ballinto court 1, it then dependson the receiver to protect himself. The receiver must return theball on the first bound and i
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