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gallery, which is called the hazard-side. 
Every ball struck into the last gallery on this 
side reckons for a certain stroke the same as 
the dedans. Between the second and this 
last gallery are the figures 1, 2, to mark the 
chaces on the hazard-side. Over this long 
galler , or these compartments, is a cover- 
ing, .led the penthouse, on which they play 
the .11 from the service-side, in order to be- 
gin a set of tennis, from which it is called a 
service. When they miss putting the ball 
(so as to rebound from the penthouse) over 
a certain line on the service-side, it is deemed 
a fault, two of which are reckoned tor a 
stroke. If the ball rolls round the penthouse, 
on the opposite of the court, -so as to fall be- 
yond a certain line described for that pur- 
pose, it is called passe, reckons for nothing 
on either side, and the player must serve 
again. 
On the right-hand side of the court from 
the dedans is what they call the tambour, a 
part of the wall which projects, and is so con- 
trived in order to make a variety in the 
stroke, and render it more difficult to lie re- 
turned by the adversary; for when a ball 
strikes the tambour, it varies its direction, and 
requires some extraordinary judgment to re- 
turn it over the line. The last thing on the 
right-hand side is called the grill, wherein if 
the ball is struck, it is also 15, or a certain 
■stroke. , ,, 
The game of tennis is played by what they 
call sets; a set of tennis consists of six 
games: but if they piny what is called an 
advantage-set, two above five games must be 
won on one side or the other successively, in 
order to decide ; or, if it comes to six games 
all, two games must still be won on one side 
to conclude the set; so that an advantage-set 
may last a considerable time ; for which 
kind of sets the court is paid more than for 
any other. 
We must now describe the use ot the 
chaces, and by what means tnese chaces de- 
cide or interfere so much in the game. When 
the player gives his service at the beginning 
of a set, his adversary is supposed to return 
the ball; and wherever it falls after the first 
rebound untouched, the chace is called ac- 
cordingly; for example, if the ball falls at the 
figure 1, the chace is called at a yard, that is 
to say, at a yard from the dedans : this chace 
remains till a second service is given ; and if 
the player on the service-side lets the ball go 
after his adversary returns it, and if the ball 
falls on or between any of these figures or 
chaces, they must change sides, there being 
two chaces; and he who then will be on the 
hazard-side, must play to win the fiist chace ; 
which if he wins by striking the ball so as to 
fall, after its first rebound, nearer to the de- 
dans than the figure 1, without his adver- 
sary’s being able to return it from its first 
hop, he wins a stroke, and then proceeds in 
like manner to win tiie second chace, wher- 
ever it should happen to be. If a ball falls on 
the line with the first gallery door, second 
gallery, or last gallery, the chace is likewise 
called at such or such a place, naming the 
gallery-door, &c. When it is just put over 
the 1 ne, it is called a chace at the line. If 
the player on the service-side returns a ball 
with such force as to strike the wall on the 
hazard-side so as to rebound, after the first 
hop over the line, it is also called q chace at 
the line. 
TEN MS. 
The chaces on the hazard-side proceed 
from the ball being returned either too haul 
or not quite hard enough; so that the ba i 
after its first rebound falls on this side ot the 
blue line, or line which describes the hazard- 
side chaces; in which case it is a chace at 1, 
2, &c. provided there is no chace depending. 
When they change sides, the player, in order 
to win this chace, must put the ball over the 
line any where, so that his adversary does 
not return it. When there is no chace on 
the hazard-side, all balls put over the line 
from the service-side, without being return- 
ed, reckon for a stroke. 
As the game depends chiefly upon the 
marking, it will be necessary to explain it, 
and to recommend those who play at tennis 
to have a good and unbiassed marker, Iol on 
him the whole set may depend: he can maik 
in favour of the one and against the other in 
such a manner, as will render it two to one 
at starting, though even players. Instead ot 
which the marker should be very attentive 
to the chaces, and not be any way partial to 
either of the players. 
This game is marked in a very singular 
manner, which makes it at first somewhat 
difficult to understand. The first stroke is 
called 15, the second 30, the third 40, and 
the fourth game, unless the playeis get foui 
strokes each \ in that case, instead ot calling 
it 40 all, it is called deuce ; after which, as 
soon as any stroke is got, it is called advan- 
(age 5 and in case the strokes become equal 
again, deuce again, till one or the othei gets 
two strokes following, which win the game ; 
and as the games are won, so they are maik- 
ed and called ; as one game love, two games 
to one, &c. towards the set, of which so many 
of these games it consists. 
Although but one ball at a time is played 
with, a number of balls are made use of at 
this game to avoid trouble, and are hanaed 
to the players in baskets for that purpose ; 
by which means they can play as long as 
they please, without ever having occasion to 
stoop for a ball. 
As to the odds at tennis, they are by no 
means fixed, but are generally laid as follow : 
Upon the first stroke being won 
even players, that is, fifteen 
odds are of the single game 
Thirty love 
Forty love 
Thirty fifteen 
Forty fifteen 
Fortv thirty 
The odds of a four-game set when 
first game is won, are 
When two games love 
Three games love - 
When two games to one 
Three games to one 
The odds of a six-game set when 
first game is won, are 
When two games love 
Three games love 
Four games love 
Five games love 
When two games to one 
Three games to one 
Four games to one 
Five games to one - 
When three games to two 
Four games to two 
Five games to two 
between 
love, the 
7 to 4 
4 1 
8 1 
2 1 
5 1 
3 1 
the 
7 4 
the 
7 
4 
10 
4 1 
10 1 
21 1 
8 5 
5 2 
5 1 
15 1 
When four games to three 
- 
2 
i 
Five games to three 
The odds of an advantage 
-set when 
5 
1 
the first game is won, ; 
are 
5 
4 
When two games love 
- 
7 
4 
Three games love - 
- 
3 
1 
1 
Four games love 
- 
5 
Five games love 
- 
15 
1 
When two games to one 
- 
4 
3 
1 bree games to one 
- 
2 
M 
Four games to one 
- 
7 
2 
Five games to one - 
- 
10 
f 
W hen three games to two 
- 
3 
2 
Four games to two 
- 
3 
1 
1 
Five games to two - 
- 
8 
When four games to three 
- 
8 
5 
Five games to three 
- 
3 
1 
When five games to four 
- 
2 
1 
2 
When six games to five 
- 
5 
The foregoing odds, as beforesaid, are ge-i 
nerally laid, but the chaces interfering make I 
the odds very precarious ; for example, when I 
there is a chace at halt a yard, and a set is 1 
five games all, and in every other respect! 
equal, the odds are a good five to four; and! 
if it were six games to five, and forty thirty! 
with the same chace, the o Ids then would be 
a guinea to a shilling; so that it is plain that J 
t he odds at this game differ from those of any 
other; for one stroke will reduce a set, sup- 
posing the players to be five games all, from 
an even wager to three to two, and so on in 
proportion to the stage ot the set. 
There are various methods of giving odds 
at tennis, in order to make a match equal ; 
and that they may be understood, we shall 
give the following' list of them, with their 
meanings, so that any person may form a 
judgment of the advantage received or 
given. 
The lowest odds that can be given, except- 
ing the choice of the sides, is what they call 
a bisque, that is, a stroke to be taken or scored 
whenever the player, who receives the ad- 
vantage, thinks proper: for instance, suppose 
a critical game of the set to be forty thirty, 
by taking the bisque, he who is forty becomes 
game, and so in respect ot two bisques, &c. 
The next greater odds are fifteen, that is, 
a certain stroke given at the beginning of each 
game. 
After' these half thirty, that is, fifteen one 
game, and thirty the next. Then follow the 
whole thirty, forty, &c. ' 1 
There are also the following kind of odds 
which are given, viz. 
Round services : those are services given 
round the penthouse, so as to render it easy 
for the striker-out (the player who is on the 
hazard-side) to return the ball. 
Half-court, that is, being obliged or con- 
fined to play into the adversary’s half-court ; 
sometimes it is played straightwise, and at 
other times across ; both which are great ad- 
vantages given by him so confined, but the 
straight half-court is -the greatest. _ .] 
Touch-no-wall, that is, being obliged to 
play within the compass ot the walls, or sides 
of the court. This is a considerable advan- 
tage to him who receives it ; as all the balls 
must be played gently, and consequently 
they are much easier to take than those which 
are played hard, or according to the usual 
method of play. 
Barring the hazards, that is, barring the 
dedans,- tambour, grill, or the last gallery on 
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