Racquets, tennis, and squash . rty in England, and O. in America. Once again, it is often asserted that Tennis is veryexpensive. I answer that over-work and ill-health arefar more expensive, with all the unpleasantness thrownin. For really bad work, in whatever line it may be,and for really bad health, with its constant drugs andtonics and doctors bills and holidays, commend me tocertain men who take no exercise ; and, of all exer-cises, games are best, partly because they are a pleasureand an interest; and of all games Tennis is among thevery grandest, because it is a fine all-roun
Racquets, tennis, and squash . rty in England, and O. in America. Once again, it is often asserted that Tennis is veryexpensive. I answer that over-work and ill-health arefar more expensive, with all the unpleasantness thrownin. For really bad work, in whatever line it may be,and for really bad health, with its constant drugs andtonics and doctors bills and holidays, commend me tocertain men who take no exercise ; and, of all exer-cises, games are best, partly because they are a pleasureand an interest; and of all games Tennis is among thevery grandest, because it is a fine all-round exercise, ina quiet, uncommercial, old-world atmosphere—alas ! howseldom we can breathe it now; an exercise possible atall seasons of the year and in all weathers ; an exercisedemanding and enchaining the whole attention, whichdares not wander; an exercise vigorous and yet notexhausting. But of these advantages I have alreadysaid enough. Let me come to the Court itself. I shall try to explain the Game in a new way. I shall. Fig. :J4.—Texnis Uall. (See page 189.) CH. XXIX] COURT, IMPLEMENTS, AND PLAY 189 take it for granted that the reader understands LawnTennis already : this will simplify matters. And I shallonly speak of the Single Game, as the Four-handedGame is rarely played to-day. We have, as a starting-point, two players, each with alarge-headed and large-handled racket, a ball of a certainsize, a net over which the ball has to be hit before it hasbounced twice, and the ordinary scoring : e. g. 15-love,15-all, 30-15, 30-all, 40-30, deuce, vantage, deuce, vant-age, game. The Set consists of six Games, though deuce and vantage Games can be played. Faults and double Faults score as in Lawn Tennis. And now for just a few of the differences. A greatmany must be left out for the present, the reader beingreferred to the Rules of the Game, in Chapter XXXI. Of the Implements of Tennis, the racket has a smallerface and is heavier than the Lawn Tennis racket, becausethe Tenni
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