Ann: "William Scammell wrote a whole book of tennis poems - The Game. I am hunting for my copy. It has a picture of Suzanne Lenglen on the cover..."
Wow a whole book of them! One's got to stand out... Thanks for the heads up— I'll look around for it. Tennis is a back-and-forth game. It's got a lot of love in it. And grunting. I played it all my life. We called ourselves tennis rats. We'd hang at the courts all day looking for pick up games, scavenging for lost balls, kicking the soda vending machine to get free cokes and sometimes coins, sneaking onto the adjacent golf course to the par three 9th hole where we had become experts at landing the golf ball on the green in one using a tennis racquet and the birdie-ing the hole using the butt of our racquet — trying not to get caught doing it.
.
|