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RACQUET CHAMPIONSHIP.; Williams and Soutar Ready for First Game of Series for Title. By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The Yew York Times. LONDON, April 5. -- Great interest is evidenced in the match to-day at the Queens Club for the professional racquet championship of the world between Charles Williams, the professional of Harrow School, and Jock Soutar, who holds a similar position with the Philadelphia Racquet and Tennis Club. The New York Times, April 5, 1913, Saturday, page 16, 423 words

Pierre Etchebaster, a Basque from St. Jean de Luz and the Jeu de Paume of Paris, beat the best court tennis players in the U. S. last week in Philadelphia. Jock Soutar, Britisher, met him in the finals for the national championship in the Racquet Club of Philadelphia. Source: www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,880968,00.html?... 2006 Jock Soutar Tournaments: The Racquet Club of Philadelphia hosted the annual Jock Soutar Singles and Doubles Championships. Combined with the Jimmy Dunn court tennis tournament and an invitational squash tournament, the Jock Soutar weekend is massive whirlwind of racket sports and parties. Source: www.northamericanrackets.com/htm files/Philadelphia.htm

Rackets (British English) or Racquets (American English) is an indoor racquet sport played in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada. The sport is infrequently called "hard rackets," possibly to distinguish it from the related sport of squash (formerly called "squash rackets"). World champions 1911–13, 1929–35 Charles Williams (Great Britain) 1913–29 Jock Soutar (USA)

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Tennis was becoming popular in the summer of 1903 and the Headmaster, Horace Dixon, decided to erect a roughly put-together net and call it a tennis court. It was outside the Dixon residence, so Horace could keep an eye on the boys whilst he sipped tea on his veranda. Source: www.tss.qld.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/18-Jun-tenn...

Plus, can't believe that I missed our 2nd Anniversary on Flickr Commons! We launched on 1 June 2011. Would just like to wish us all a very happy anniversary (what's a second anniversary - is it paper?). Thank you all for making this "marriage" lively, interesting and fun. And we almost never shout at each other about map reading! :)

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Congratulations on your COTTON Anniversary - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_anniversary#Traditional_and... Good to see the tennis club in fine cotton too!

beachcomber australia I thank you! And in the bottom row (1st and third left) are sisters(?) in matching crocheted outfits - probably cotton also...

I think I can see 6 Ladies with wrist watches and 1 Gentleman with a wrist watch and 1 with a pocket watch on a fob.

Those ladies using croquet hammers would obviously struggle to play tennis with these "bats"! Or was this "Irish Rules" tennis - if your opponent doesn't play fair bop them with a croquet hammer?