LAWRENCE 



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LAWRENCE 



This player, called the server, stands on the 

 right side of the farther line! He serves the 

 ball with an overhead stroke so that it flies 

 into the receiving court diagonally opposite 

 him. Two balls are allowed for the serve. 

 If both are faults, that is. if both fail to land 



RACKET AND BALL 



in the receiving court, the server loses and the 

 receiver gains a point. The first ball must 

 not bounce, but other balls may be returned 

 either on the first bounce or before touching 

 the ground. When one side or the other misses 

 a ball, service begins again from the opposite 

 side of the line, and so on, alternately. At the 

 end of the game the receiver becomes the 

 server, and vice versa. 



Each ball missed scores the - opponent a 

 point. The first point is 15, the second 30, the 

 third 40, the fourth 50, or game. If each 

 player has three points (40) the score is called 

 deuce, and two 

 successive points 

 must be made to 

 win the game. 

 The first point 

 after deuce is 

 called advantage 

 (ad or 'vantage, 

 for brevity) ; if 

 each has four 

 points the score 

 returns to deuce. 

 When one side 

 wins all the points 

 before the oppo- 

 site side has 



HOLDING THE RACKET 

 (a) Correct position of 



scored any the hand ; < & > incorrect position, 

 round is called a love game. 



Six games make a set, unless each player 

 has won five games, when two games in suc- 

 cession must be won to complete the set. 

 Three out of five sets must be won to decide 

 a championship. J.H.B. 



Consult Myers' Complete Lawn Tennis Player ; 

 Wright and Ditson's Official Lawn Tennis Guide. 



LAWRENCE, JAMES (1781-1813), an Ameri- 

 can naval officer, whose dying command, 

 ''Don't give up the ship," has become a watch- 

 word in the American navy, was born in Bur- 



lington, N. J. He was the son of a judge, and 

 after attending the grammar school at home 

 took up the study of law under his brother at 

 Woodbury, N. J. Subsequently he took a 

 course in the principles of navigation and naval 

 tactics and joined the United States navy as 

 midshipman in 1798. 



He served on the Ganges in the West Indies 

 and was made acting-lieutenant in 1800, receiv- 

 ing a lieutenant's commission in 1802. Law- 

 rence distinguished himself in the war with 

 Tripoli in 1804-1805, being one of the picked 

 crew chosen by Captain Decatur to set fire to 

 the Philadelphia (see BARBARY STATES). He 

 served as lieutenant on the Constitution in 

 1808, and had under his command at different 

 times the Argus, Wasp and Vixen, vessels noted 

 in early American history. 



In 1811 Lawrence was commissioned captain 

 and assigned to the Hornet, joining the squad- 

 ron under Commodore Bainbridge off the coast 

 of Brazil (see BAINBRIDGE, WILLIAM). He cap- 

 tured the English ship Resolution, and, later, 

 in an engagement with the English brig Pea- 

 cock the latter surrendered, the Americans 

 losing only one man killed and two wounded. 

 Lawrence received for this exploit a vote of 

 thanks from Congress and a gold medal. 



He was then given command of the Consti- 

 tution, but was shortly afterwards transferred 

 to the Chesapeake, a vessel with an indiffer- 

 ently trained crew and an unlucky reputation. 

 Just after assuming command, Lawrence was 

 challenged by the English vessel Shannon, 

 June 1, 1813. While fighting bravely against 

 what proved defeat, he was desperately 

 wounded, but insisted on remaining on deck 

 for a time before being carried below. His 

 words uttered at this time, when he knew the 

 situation to be hopeless "Don't give up the 

 ship" were engraved on the quarterdeck of 

 the Chesapeake, and on a monument erected 

 in Trinity churchyard, New York. He died 

 June 6, at the age of thirty-two, in Halifax, 

 the port to which the captured Chesapeake had 

 been taken, and was buried in Halifax, but 

 his body was later returned to the United 

 States government. Lawrence was one of the 

 twenty receiving nominations for class N in 

 the Hall of Fame (which see). 



LAWRENCE, KAN., the county seat of 

 Douglas County, situated in the eastern part 

 of the state, thirty miles east and south of 

 Topeka, the state capital, and forty miles west 

 and south of Kansas City. It is situated on 

 both banks of the Kansas River and is on the 



