[Ads-l] Antedating of "Real Tennis"

[Shapiro, Fred]

real tennis (OED 1880)

1875 Nairnshire Telegraph 9 June 3/5 (Social History Archive)

It [Lawn Tennis] requires considerable activity and quickness, and affords exercise which is healthful and not as violent as real tennis, which, from the combination of qualities required, used to be called "the king of all games."

Fred Shapiro


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