The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . %»+4**?J ? ^ ^ AFTER ANTELOPE IN MASHONALAND.(Plwto ? J. C. Middlebrook, Durban.) ;o. A WORLDS CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH : LATHAM VERSUS STANDING, (Photo : J. C Hemwent, New York.) New York, 1S99. THE GAME OF RACQUETS. By EUSTACE MILES, Amateur Champion of the World at Racquets and at Tennis. T HE games played with a ball and someimplement fall into two classes. In thefirst class including Golf), the ball is sta-tionary when it is struck ; in the second (includingCricket), the ball is, as a rule, moving. Racquetsbelongs to th
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . %»+4**?J ? ^ ^ AFTER ANTELOPE IN MASHONALAND.(Plwto ? J. C. Middlebrook, Durban.) ;o. A WORLDS CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH : LATHAM VERSUS STANDING, (Photo : J. C Hemwent, New York.) New York, 1S99. THE GAME OF RACQUETS. By EUSTACE MILES, Amateur Champion of the World at Racquets and at Tennis. T HE games played with a ball and someimplement fall into two classes. In thefirst class including Golf), the ball is sta-tionary when it is struck ; in the second (includingCricket), the ball is, as a rule, moving. Racquetsbelongs to this latter class, with such games asTennis, Tennis, Squash-Racquets, Fives,and Ping-pong. Racquets might be regarded asglorified and expensive Squash-Racquets, or asFives played with a racket rather than with twohands and gloves. Movmg-ball games with the racket may againbe sub-divided into games over a net (Tennis andLawn Tennis, in which the plavers face oneanother, and games against a wall (Racquets, etc.),in which the players face in the same direction, asin the accompanying photograph of Latham andStanding. These latter games are so natural that
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