Despite having so many members away for the War effort, and raising the membership limit to 140, the waiting list still grew as Fox Meadow’s popularity increased, driven by the strong platform tennis social and tournament activities.
Source: Diana Reische, Fox Meadow Tennis Club – The First Hundred Years, 1983
Club minutes refer to a 1944 Honor Roll of eighty-seven members and sons and daughters of members who were in the services, but the list has vanished in the intervening years.
Source: Diana Reische, Fox Meadow Tennis Club – The First Hundred Years, 1983
With the exception of Manursing Island Club in Rye, NY, no other club even came close to affording its members such ample opportunities to play “The Game.”
With seven courts Fox Meadow was the premier club for the game and its “home.”
Source: Diana Reische, Fox Meadow Tennis Club – The First Hundred Years, 1983
Blanchard’s book covered the origins and history of Playground Paddle Tennis and Platform Paddle Tennis. It also chronicled the court configurations, rules governing each game, playing strategies and tournament champions.
Blanchard continued to be a prolific writer about the game and was its most ardent promoter.
As in 1943 the Women’s and Mixed National Championships were not played because of wartime travel difficulties.
Holbrook Hyde and Leland Wiley from Hartford GC, CT, won their second Men’s Nationals in a repeat of the 1942 finals.
Source: Fessenden S. Blanchard, Paddle Tennis, 1944
© 2026 Platform Tennis Museum and Hall of Fame Foundation, All Rights Reserved.
