1888 Official Lawn Tennis Rules, as adopted by the United States National Lawn Tennis Association. Containing also the Constitution and By-Laws, list of officers and clubs in the association, ..
by [United States Lawn Tennis Association] Sears, R. D.; Clark, Jos. S. ; Taylor, H. A.; Slocum, J. W. Jr
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Wright & Ditson is still in business today, founded in 1871 by Baseball Hall of Famer George Wright and Boston businessman Henry Ditson as "a purveyor of tennis, golf and baseball equipment."
Rare in commerce. Yale notes this title in their serials with no dates. There is a 1885 microform copy at NYPL (probably from the Chicago History Museum physical copy), and physical copies for the years 1889 at the British Library, and 1896 at Harvard. Otherwise not found in OCLC as of this writing.
"Given what happened on this Saturday in 1881, the Fifth Avenue Hotel was a logical setting. Located at the corner of 23rd Street and 24th Street in Manhattan, the Fifth Avenue Hotel was a prime meeting spot for many American movers and shakers, including such notables as President Ulysses S. Grant, robber baron Jay Gould, political operator Boss Tweed and New York Times editor John C. Reid. If you were among New York's power elite, you knew this hotel. So naturally, a newly imported leisure sport fit in quite nicely. Tennis as we currently know it—called "lawn tennis" in those days—had been invented in Great Britain in 1874. Soon enough, it made its way to America. According to the scholar Digby Baltzell, author of the book "Sporting Gentlemen: Men's Tennis from the Age of Honor to the Cult of the Superstar," by 1880 the game was being played at approximately 30 exclusive clubs in the United States, mostly in the East, but also in San Francisco, Chicago and New Orleans. Around this time, such tennis lovers as Clarence Clark of Philadelphia, Mary Outerbridge of Staten Island, NY and James Dwight of Boston agreed that it was necessary to start a singular, national organization to create rules and regulations for court dimensions, the weight of the ball, and other aspects of the game. So it was that nearly 100 people, representing 33 clubs, met in Room F of the Fifth Avenue Hotel and brought to life the United States National Lawn Tennis Association. A constitution was drafted, with R.S. Oliver of the Albany Lawn Tennis Club elected president and Clark becoming secretary-treasurer. By that summer, at the newly opened Newport Casino in Rhode Island, the first U.S. Championships was played." (tennis com website, article "TBT, 1881: The birth of USLTA, when the game was called lawn tennis").
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- 1888 Official Lawn Tennis Rules, as adopted by the United States National Lawn Tennis Association. Containing also the Constitution and By-Laws, list of officers and clubs in the association, ..
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- [United States Lawn Tennis Association] Sears, R. D.; Clark, Jos. S. ; Taylor, H. A.; Slocum, J. W. Jr
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- First Edition
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- Wright & Ditson, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Mass
- Date Published
- 1888
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