Innovations to Parent-Child Tournament

In 1946, Tournament Chairman Lamar Fearing introduced an innovation to the Club’s popular Parent-Child tournaments: any member who lacked a child of playing age could borrow one from another member.

At Fox Meadow, paddle meant not just championship competition but an aspect of the game fostered by the Old Army Athletes, the inclusion of young and old, good and mediocre.

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