Golden anniversary of founding of platform tennis celebrated at Fox Meadow

The event was chaired by Joan and and Paul Doyle, with assistance from Roxanne and Rodman Zilenziger and twenty-two other members.

Charlie O’Hearn—who with his wife, Ginnie, won four national Mixed Doubles championships— recalled the game’s origins:

“No paddle tennis player in the early thirties could have dreamed how far the game would develop over the ensuing fifty years. And yet it was such a great, fun game that perhaps we should have known. With one court in Scarsdale, at Jim Cogswell’s, only a handful of players were available and many a weekend I can recall Fess Blanchard phoning to say, ‘It’s stopped snowing. Come on over and help shovel, and we can be playing by two o’clock’—and we were. I haven’t played for years, but I still owe the game a lot. I’ll always be in its debt for the pleasure it gave to Ginnie and me.”

Source: Diana Reische Fox Meadow – The First Hundred Years, 1983