LAWN TENNIS
MAKING THE HALF-COURT LINE. The following is from American Lawn Tennis:—A recommendation of the committee on codification of the laws of lawn tennis and cases and decisions that has met with general approval is that in regard to Law 1. The committee has recommended the addition of the following paragraph to the law:— "The marking of the half-court line between the service lines and the base lines shall be omitted; but the plac where the half-court line would meet the base lines, if it were extended, shall be indicated by a mark immediately back of the base lines. The maximum width of the half-court line shall be two inches. "Although the present Law 1 does not require a mark to show the continuation of the half-court line ( differing in this particular from the English and Australian laws), it has long been the custom to mark courts laid out for important matches. Sometimes :t is placed outside of the base line and at others outside of it, and this difference in practice received the attention of the committee. The English law joins this continuation of the half, court line to the base line, Vhile the Victorian law, although the latter is a big improvement over the former, which has the market in front of the base line instead of behind it. "The matter came up in England during an important match played
| there by Beals Wright. A ball came over on h ; s side and struck back to the base liu-: and ou the continuation of the halt-coUrt line. The base liaesman called it good, which is not surprising under the circumstances. As proposed by the committee, there will be no mark back of the base line, and, of course, no likelihood of error. "As to the necessity for such a mark, it is very apparent. Without it a player who stands practically in the centre of the court, hack of the base line, to serve, may get over into the wrong court without knowing it himself, while the half-court linesman (if there is one) often finds difficulty in determining the matter."
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Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13887, 12 October 1918, Page 3
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