Sports Illustrated – It’s Wintertime, So Let’s Play Tennis

The article by Rex Lardner described the history of the game, where the game was being played, notable players and the casual sociability of the sport, including the “dress code.” The article began….

“The tennis fans of Connecticut and its neighboring states are a hardy lot—at least, a significant and growing number of them are. When winter winds begin to howl and snow blankets their courts, these intrepid racketeers neither give up their ball-banging nor take up squash; they deck themselves instead in a special kind of warm winter finery and move on to a structure of wood and wire to play a game called platform Tennis.”