THE GEOGRAPHY OF GAMES 



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Photograph by Edwin Levick 



TH£ GAME WHERE EVERY MUSCLE COUNTS 



Few sports call into play so many muscles or combine mental and muscular activity to 

 such a degree as tennis. Evidence that Romans soon forsook the Greek ideal of a sound mind 

 in a sound body is found in the fact that. Horace and Virgil could not join their patron, 

 Maecenas, at tennis because of weak eyes and poor digestions. It was a truly royal game 

 when kings of France and England played it ; and it typified the democracy of the New World 

 when ambassadors, generals, politicians, and cowboys joined Roosevelt's famous "tennis 

 cabinet" back of the White House executive offices. 



XIV's heavy expense accounts show sal- 

 aries paid to caretakers of his courts. 

 Complaint was heard at one time that 

 there were "more tennis players in Paris 

 than drunkards in England." In Shake- 

 speare's Henry V are these lines: 



"When we have match' d our rackets to these 

 balls 

 We will, in France, by God's grace play a set 

 Shall strike his father's crown into the 

 hazard." 



Manufacture of the accessories of the 

 game became so flourishing an industry 

 in England in the sixteenth century that 

 appeal was made for a protective tariff 

 against imported balls. 



Until that century the hand continued 

 to be used for batting, but soon the racket 

 came into general use. A match, probably 

 played on a Windsor Castle court, is re- 



corded in which the King of Castile gave 

 his opponent "fifteen" because the latter 

 used his hand. 



Even tennis, like all medieval sport, was 

 not free from the taint of gambling and 

 charlatanism. It was charged that "cer- 

 tayne era f tie persons arranged for crack 

 Lombard players to meet Henry VIII." 

 The monarch was induced to make 

 wagers with these players until, losing 

 large sums, he became suspicious and 

 played only with amateurs. In one 

 famous match the Emperor Maximilian 

 was his partner, the two playing against 

 the Prince of Orange and the Marquis of 

 Brandenborow. 



GOEF HAD ITS BEGINNING OX ICE 



If tennis has a royal lineage, golf, 

 which was later regarded as a rich man's 



