Word: wingfield
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Commodore Psotta, of Cornell, the amateur champion single sculler of America is going to England early in May to row for the diamond sculls at Henley. Gardner of the Oxford crew and Nichols stroke of Cambridge will compete with him. He will try to enter the four-mile Wingfield sculls in the middle of July and will go from there to the German regattas and the exposition race at Paris...
...that lawn tennis is so universally popular, a short account of its history will prove interesting. The inventor of the game was Major Walter Wingfield, of Her Majesty's Body Guard, and he introduced it in 1874 under the name of "Spharistike." The first match ever played was in Denbighshire, England, and the first public contest took place in 1875. The game was popular from the start. The trade offered Major Wingfield a royalty of $1.25 a set on his invention, which would have yielded him by this time over $1,000,000. He declined the offer, however...