Show or WHAT W HAT game Is played bof throughout the world than aar other othe r this Is one of the auerle abay you get from servicemen billeted in fa europe and the south pacific am then they lead you on to a coni corn parl 1 son of tennis and golf this include i courses courts and all other la in gred gradients lents that make up arl an xi 1 ment I 1 put this debate up to one OM h of our leading tennis statistic statistician fans 6 and here are the facts A s 1 why compare tennis with golt why not compare tennis with any a ty other national or international sport you wont find any other game even close in an international way heres something that may shock national and international sport followers in 1939 just before the recent world war broke out the al lawn tennis as had a membership of S 51 nations headed for the davis cup cap no other sport has even coma com in clow to t 0 this mark this entry list embraced eve even continent and every civilized COA coin try from the IT S to kenya china and each ot of these 59 natio ab has a tennis governing body y afu without any argument the he mo famous international sporting sport in 9 troph tr h yB is the davis cup donated in 1900 ayi dwight davis from st louis N other international cup is la in the same class fifty nine nations what other sport can equal that or even tome come close including soccer golf bask basket ball or track and field strangely enough the two most in famous the tennis and the walker cup for or golt i F came from two famous st louis louii sportsmen dwight davis and george herbert walker dwight f davis and bert walker both from inland st louis were main factors facton in putting tennis and golt golf on the international sporting spurting map there may have been two sportsmen but I 1 cant recall theli their 4 J 1 names their international appeal a reached to more than millions it KI moved close to the billion mark tennis courts our tennis expert then began t get eloquent As you may know knori he said there are about gilf courses in the country but aari d forget there are municipal t nis courts in towns and cities 0 the U S there are 2300 courts located in as few as 10 bitle and new york one of the th there are tennis clubs roe m bers of and others not members and this include the enormous number of often ten nis courts at private homes golf claims around players in the U S we haputa happee rj to know that tennis can claim around players possibly more after all golf requires from to acres for a course requires far less the main point is that tencil and golf belong largely to coi tors not to spectators and the way it should be we have entirely to many spectators la in country and far too few actual ab 1 ers or competitors T this goes goe i bially for football bb baseball a and d 1 ing these are la largely agel Y games but these con conditions editions r also change later on millia i spectators only mean box they mean nothing to in way of physical condition g now back to tennis our or continues tennis is the only onla sp seq played in countries all oyer ec w world under the same rules a regulations tennis is an internally inter natiO al matter not a local affair ir figure there are something like W tennis tenni s players in the ff men and women no ouica other 3 can even approach this mark fore the war we had something out tennis rackets turned each year this will be doubled all wj our the war tennis will I 1 be e one ot of greatest games it takes up fa r aw space and gives far more oc ac than golf to forestall any wild sl rod from bowlers softball players wed d wi aikeo basketball players we step aside on this part of the arv ment the bowlers and the basic P ball players claim around 0 the softball players over 0 well let them fight this abis but people dont rex read so in ir teg ie N the their about their stars or tb h the four major rea reading spora r s tb bal f united states are baseball 11 boxing and racing racin with ith go 90 |