SPALDING ATHLETIC LIBRARY
Reading edition
Group I. Base Ball
“Blue Cover” Series, each number 10c.
No. 1 Spalding’s Official Base Ball Guide
No. 1S Spalding’s Official Base Ball Guide. Spanish Edition
No. 202 How to Play Base Ball
No. 219 Ready Reckoner of Base Ball Percentages
No. 223 How to Bat
No. 224 How to Play the Outfield
No. 225 How to Play First Base
No. 226 How to Play Second Base
No. 227 How to Play Third Base
No. 228 How to Play Shortstop
No. 229 How to Catch
No. 230 How to Pitch
No. 231 {How to Organize a Base Ball League
{How to Organize a Base Ball Club
{How to Manage a Base Ball Club
{How to Train a Base Ball Team
{How to Captain a Team
{Technical Base Ball Terms
No. 232 How to Run Bases
No. 350 How to Score
No. 355 Minor League Base Ball Guide
No. 356 Official Book National League
No. 9 Spalding’s Official Indoor Base Ball Guide
“Red Cover” Series, each number 25c.
No. 59R. Official Base Ball Record
No. 75R. How to Umpire
Group II. Foot Ball
“Blue Cover” Series, each number 10c.
No. 2 Spalding’s Official Foot Ball Guide
No. 358 Official College Soccer Guide
“Red Cover” Series, each number 25c.
No. 39R. How to Play Soccer
No. 47R. How to Play Foot Ball
No. 55R. Spalding’s Official Soccer Foot Ball Guide
Group III. Tennis
“Blue Cover” Series, each number 10c.
No. 157 How to Play Lawn Tennis
No. 363 Tennis Errors and Remedies
“Green Cover” Series, each number 10c.
No. 1P. How to Play Tennis—For Beginners. By P. A. Vaile
“Red Cover” Series, each number 25c.
No. 2R. Strokes and Science of Lawn Tennis
No. 26R. Official Handbook National Squash Tennis Association
No. 42R. Davis Cup Contests in Australasia
No. 57R. Spalding’s Lawn Tennis Annual
Group IV. Golf
“Green Cover” Series, each number 10c.
No. 2P. How to Learn Golf
“Red Cover” Series, each number 25c.
No. 3R. Spalding’s Official Golf Guide
No. 4R. How to Play Golf
No. 63R. Golf for Girls
Group V. Basket Ball
“Blue Cover” Series, each number 10c.
No. 7 Spalding’s Official Basket Ball Guide
No. 7A Spalding’s Official Women’s Basket Ball Guide
No. 193 How to Play Basket Ball
Group VI. Skating and Winter Sports
“Blue Cover” Series, each number 10c.
No. 6 Spalding’s Official Ice Hockey Guide
No. 14 Curling
“Red Cover” Series, each number 25c.
No. 8R. The Art of Skating
No. 20R. How to Play Ice Hockey
No. 28R. Winter Sports
No. 72R. Figure Skating for Women
Group VII. Field and Track Athletics
“Blue Cover” Series, each number 10c.
No. 12A Spalding’s Official Athletic Rules
No. 27 College Athletics
No. 55 Official Sporting Rules
No. 87 Athletic Primer
No. 156 Athletes’ Guide
No. 178 How to Train for Bicycling
No. 182 All Around Athletics
No. 255 How to Run 100 Yards
No. 302 Y. M. C. A. Official Handbook
No. 317 Marathon Running
No. 342 Walking for Health and Competition
No. 362 Track, Relay and Cross Country Rules of the National Collegiate Athletic Ass’n.
“Green Cover” Series, each number 10c.
No. 3P. How to Become an Athlete By James E. Sullivan
No. 4P. How to Sprint
“Red Cover” Series, each number 25c.
No. 1R. Spalding’s Official Athletic Almanac
No. 17R. Olympic Games, Stockholm, 1912
No. 45R. Intercollegiate Official Handbook
No. 48R. Distance and Cross Country Running
No. 70R. How to Become a Weight Thrower
Group VIII. School Athletics
“Blue Cover” Series, each number 10c.
No. 246 Athletic Training for Schoolboys
“Red Cover” Series, each number 25c.
No. 61R. School Tactics and Maze Running; Children’s Games
No. 66R. Calisthenic Drills and Fancy Marching and Physical Training for the School and Class Room
No. 71R. Public Schools Athletic League Official Handbook
No. 74R. Schoolyard Athletics
Group IX. Water Sports
“Blue Cover” Series, each number 10c.
No. 128 How to Row
No. 129 Water Polo
No. 361 Intercollegiate Swimming Guide
“Red Cover” Series, each number 25c.
No. 36R. Speed Swimming
No. 37R. How to Swim
No. 60R. Canoeing and Camping
Group X. Athletic Games for Women and Girls
“Blue Cover” Series, each number 10c.
No. 7A Spalding’s Official Women’s Basket Ball Guide
“Blue Cover” Series, each number 25c.
No. 314 Girls’ Athletics
“Red Cover” Series, each number 25c.
No. 38R. Field Hockey
No. 41R. Newcomb
No. 63R. Golf for Girls
No. 69R. Girls and Athletics
Group XI. Lawn and Field Games
“Blue Cover” Series, each number 10c.
No. 167 Quoits
No. 170 Push Ball
No. 180 Ring Hockey
No. 199 Equestrian Polo
No. 201 How to Play Lacrosse
No. 207 Lawn Bowls
“Red Cover” Series, each number, 25c.
No. 6R. Cricket, and How to Play It
No. 43R. Archery, Roque, Croquet, English Croquet, Lawn Hockey, Tether Ball, Clock Golf, Golf-Croquet, Hand Tennis, Hand Polo, Wicket Polo, Badminton, Drawing Room Hockey, Garden Hockey, Basket Goal, Volley Ball Rules and Pin Ball
Group XII. Miscellaneous Games
“Blue Cover” Series, each number 10c.
No. 13 American Game of Hand Ball
No. 364 Volley Ball
“Red Cover” Series, each number 25c.
No. 49R. How to Bowl
No. 50R. Court Games
Group XIII. Manly Sports
“Blue Cover” Series, each number 10c.
No. 191 How to Punch the Bag
No. 282 Roller Skating Guide
“Red Cover” Series, each number 25c.
No. 11R. Fencing Foil Work Illustrated
No. 19R. Professional Wrestling
No. 21R. Jiu Jitsu
No. 25R. Boxing
No. 30R. The Art of Fencing
No. 65R. How to Wrestle
Group XIV. Calisthenics
“Red Cover” Series, each number 25c.
No. 10R. Single Stick Drill
No. 16R. Team Wand Drill
No. 22R. Indian Clubs and Dumb Bells and Pulley Weights
No. 24R. Dumb Bell Exercises
No. 73R. Graded Calisthenics and Dumb Bell Drills
Group XV. Gymnastics
“Blue Cover” Series, each number 10c.
No. 124 How to Become a Gymnast
No. 254 Barnjum Bar Bell Drill
No. 287 Fancy Dumb Bell and Marching Drills
“Red Cover” Series, each number 25c.
No. 14R. Trapeze, Long Horse and Rope Exercises
No. 34R. Grading of Gym. Exercises
No. 40R. Indoor and Outdoor Gymnastic Games
No. 52R. Pyramid Building
No. 56R. Tumbling for Amateurs and Ground Tumbling
No. 67R. Exercises on the Side Horse; Exercises on the Flying Rings.
No. 68R. Horizontal Bar Exercises; Exercises on Parallel Bars
Group XVI. Home Exercising
“Blue Cover” Series, each number 10c.
No. 161 Ten Minutes’ Exercise for Busy Men
No. 185 Hints on Health
No. 325 Twenty-Minute Exercises
“Red Cover” Series, each number 25c.
No. 7R. Physical Training Simplified
No. 9R. How to Live 100 Years
No. 23R. Get Well; Keep Well
No. 33R. Tensing Exercises
No. 51R. 285 Health Answers
No. 54R. Medicine Ball Exercises, Indigestion Treated by Gymnastics, Physical Education and Hygiene
No. 62R. The Care of the Body
No. 64R. Muscle Building; Health by Muscular Gymnastics
ANY OF THE ABOVE BOOKS MAILED POSTPAID UPON RECEIPT OF PRICE
MRS. GEORGE W. WIGHTMAN, (Hazel Hotchkiss) Four Times National Champion.
Spalding “Red Cover” Series of Athletic Handbooks No. 76R
TENNIS FOR GIRLS
BY
FLORENCE A. BALLIN
New York
PUBLISHED BY
AMERICAN SPORTS PUBLISHING COMPANY
45 Rose Street, New York Copyright, 1919, by American Sports Publishing Company.
INTRODUCTION. HOW THE GAME IS PLAYED. PROFESSIONAL TEACHING. GRIP OF THE RACKET. STROKES—THE DRIVE. SERVICE. THE LOB AND THE VOLLEY. PLAYING THE GAME. GENERAL TACTICS. MIXED DOUBLES. TOURNAMENT PLAY.