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Show Tennis Boom By PETE FRITCHIE The tennis boom is the most surprising turn of events on the American sports scene in many years. TENNIS clubs are blossoming blos-soming everywhere; more and more want to play the game. .Tennis features no violent physical contact. There's no chance of players getting seriously injured. There is no physical combat or contact. THE GAME is zooming in popularity, matches drawing large crowds, because it's the best physical-fitness sport in the industrial age for most people. Few sports keep the body and muscles as trim as tennis. ten-nis. No other sport will do more for the waistline, arms and legs, while providing so much fun and club companionship. com-panionship. GOLF IS much less a physical fitness game, stresses nerves and skill more than top physical condition con-dition and skill. And golf takes more time to play, requires much more equipment, equip-ment, facilities, land, etc. Tennis is therefore the international in-ternational game; the rules are the same everywhere. One can play in Bombay, Paris or Los Angeles and the rules are the same. That can't be said of many other sports. |