Vernal Express | 1980-07-31 | Page 20 | Tennis |

Type	issue
Date	1980-07-31
Paper	Vernal Express
Language	eng
City	Vernal
County	Unitah
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Rights Holder	Brehm Communications, San Diego, California
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	Tennis
Type	article
Date	1980-07-31
Paper	Vernal Express
Language	eng
City	Vernal
County	Unitah
Page	20
OCR Text	Show TIN N IS FACTS & FANCIES Modern tennis gTow out of the ancient game of court tennis. Its present form was developed in the early 1870s by a Major Walter Clopton Whitfield, and it was first called "sphairislikc." At the World Championship Champion-ship Tennis Tournament the prize money is Riven in Barclays Visu Travelers Cheques the official travelers trav-elers cheques of the 1980 world championship tennis tournaments held from December to May 1980 in Kurope and Norl.li America. The total prize money amounts to a total of $3 million. The Kreal.est crowd ever attending a tennis match was the one that went to the Houston Astrodome in 1973 to see Hillie Jean KinK beat Bobbie Ri,!Hs. There were 30,472 people in the audience.
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