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Show O O O-O-O fl-OO-OO-O U-M ? TENNIS IS 44 YEARS OLD 9 0 Forty-three years ago the game A Jj of lawn tennis was introduced X Y here by a Bostonian, according J 9 to records In the possession of 9 6 George Wright, father of the for- 6 X mer national title holder, Beals X 1 Wright. After a visit to Eng- Y T land the Massachusetts man 9 9 brought home nets, racquets and O p balls, as well as a book of rules p Jj then governing the game, and I T set up a court at Nahant. A lit- Y 9 tie later courts were laid out at 9 p Newport, R. I., and also on the p A grounds of the fitaten Island L T Cricket club, Livingston, Staten T T Island. Shortly afterward the 9 9 game was Introduced in Phila- 0 p delphia at one of the prominent J I cricket clubs there. I |