CONSTRUCTION NOTES 



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Tennis. Tennis is played on a variety of surfaces turf, clay, dirt, 

 asphalt, concrete and wood. The following rules for laying out a singles 

 tennis court are 

 from the Official 

 Playing Rules , and 

 are reprinted with 

 the permission of 

 the American 

 Sports Publishing 

 Company: 



"The court 

 shall be a rectangle 

 78 feet long and 27 

 feet wide. It shall 

 be divided across 

 the middle by a 

 net, suspended 

 from a cord or 

 metal cable of a 

 maximum diame- 

 ter of one-third of 

 an inch, the ends 

 of which shall be 

 attached to, or 

 pass over, the tops 

 of two posts, three 

 fee t six inches 

 high, which shall 

 stand three feet 

 outside the court 

 on each side. The 

 height of the net 

 shall be three feet 

 at the center, 

 where it shall be 

 held down taut by 

 a strap not more 

 than two inches 

 wide. There shall 

 be a band covering 

 the cord or metal 

 cable and the top 



of the net for not less than two inches nor more than two and one-half inches 

 in depth on each side. The lines bounding the ends and sides of the court 

 shall respectively be called the base lines and the side lines. On each side of 

 the net, at a distance of 21 feet from it and parallel with it, shall be drawn 



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PLATE No. 133. DIAGRAM FOR LAYING OUT SOCCER FIELD 



