Lawn Tennis at Home and Abroad
Author: Arthur Wallis Myers
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 350
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Author: Arthur Wallis Myers
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 350
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Published: 1903
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Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781017054835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Arthur Wallis Myers
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-05-04
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780259577720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Lawn Tennis at Home and Abroad Every care has been taken in the preparation of this book not to omit the names of leading players whose exploits on the courts entitle them to notice, but it may be that here and there - especially in foreign lands - someone has been overlooked. If this should be the case, let him or her remember that fame often goes unsung, and that the pages of the official Lawn Tennis Handbook will render tribute where tribute is due. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Arthur Wallis Myers
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Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781294101604
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Lake
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-02-05
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 1315533553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTennis is one of the world’s most popular sports, as levels of participation and spectatorship demonstrate. Moreover, tennis has always been one of the world’s most significant sports, expressing crucial fractures of social class, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity - both on and off court. This is the first book to undertake a survey of the historical and socio-cultural sweep of tennis, exploring key themes from governance, development and social inclusion to national identity and the role of the media. It is presented in three parts: historical developments; culture and representations; and politics and social issues, and features contributions by leading tennis scholars from North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The most authoritative book published to date on the history, culture and politics of tennis, this is an essential reference for any course or program examining the history, sociology, politics or culture of sport.
Author: Sasha Abramsky
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2020-08-04
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1617758264
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Masterfully captures the life of this little-known sportswoman, a versatile female athlete comparable to Babe Didrikson Zaharias.” —Booklist (starred review) Lottie Dod was a truly extraordinary sports figure who blazed trails of glory in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dod won Wimbledon five times, and did so for the first time in 1887, at the ludicrously young age of fifteen. After she grew bored with competitive tennis, she moved on to and excelled in myriad other sports: she became a leading ice skater and tobogganist, a mountaineer, an endurance bicyclist, a hockey player, a British ladies’ golf champion, and an Olympic silver medalist in archery. In her time, Dod had a huge following, but her years of distinction occurred just before the rise of broadcast media. By the outset of World War I, she was largely a forgotten figure; she died alone and without fanfare in 1960. Little Wonder brings this remarkable woman’s story to life, contextualizing it against a backdrop of rapid social change and tectonic shifts in the status of women in society. Paving the way for the likes of Billie Jean King, Serena Williams, and other top female athletes of today, Dod accepted no limits, no glass ceilings, and always refused to compromise. “Eighty-five years before Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs fought the ‘battle of the sexes,’ a Victorian teenager showed what women could do . . . [Abramsky] celebrates her as a brave and talented and determined original.” —The Atlantic