. Outdoor sports and pastimes. Correct rules for lawn tennis, base ball, racquets, lacrosse, polo, croquet, cricket, football, curling, quoits . danger-ous exercises of the other games. Then, too, Lawn Tennis is an excellent fieldgame of ball for ladies, as it affords them the very kind of exercise they mostneed, and that is out-door activity, which will bring the dormant muscles ofthe limbs and the chest into play. There is an additional recommendation,too, for Lawn Tennis, and that is that it can be played on a comparativelysmall space of level ground, or on a hall floor. There is one thing
. Outdoor sports and pastimes. Correct rules for lawn tennis, base ball, racquets, lacrosse, polo, croquet, cricket, football, curling, quoits . danger-ous exercises of the other games. Then, too, Lawn Tennis is an excellent fieldgame of ball for ladies, as it affords them the very kind of exercise they mostneed, and that is out-door activity, which will bring the dormant muscles ofthe limbs and the chest into play. There is an additional recommendation,too, for Lawn Tennis, and that is that it can be played on a comparativelysmall space of level ground, or on a hall floor. There is one thing about LawnTennis playing, as in vogue in general society, which makes it exceptional, andthat is, in no field game now enjoying popular favor, are the amenities of sociallife so particularly observed. The game is one that has come to stay, as itfills a void which has existed a long while, and that is, the want of a game inwhich ladies and gentlemen can participate, while at the same time plenty ofactive and not too vigorous exercise can be afforded for both, and that, too,without any element of danger to mar the pleasure of its LAWN TENNIS RULES. 5 RULES FOR THE GAME. 1. The choice of sides, and the right to serve in the first game, shall bedecided by toss ; provided that, if the winner of the toss choose the right toserve, the other player shall have choice of sides, and vice versa. If one playerchooses the court, the other may elect not to serve. 2. The players shall stand on opposite sides of the net; the player whofirst delivers the ball shall be called the server, and the other the striker-out. 3. At the end of the first game the striker-out shall become server, and theserver shall become striker-out ; and so on, alternately, in all the subsequentgames of the set, or series of sets. 4. The server shall serve with one foot on the base-line, and with the otherfoot behind that line, but not necessarily upon the ground. He shall deliverthe service from the right to
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