Rich Game.

The sport of tennis was largely confined to the East Coast before 1900. It was seen as a private or club sport played by the wealthy. As the sport grew more popular, courts on public playgrounds were built with hard surfaces of cement, clay, or asphalt rather than the high-maintenance grass courts popular with the rich. In the 1910s, tennis was still generally viewed as a sport of the well-to-do and upwardly mobile. The ambitious middle class and nouveau riche were in the taking control of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association (USLTA), the regional associations, and many of the tennis clubs.

Hotchkiss and Larned.

In 1910 and 1911 Hazel V. Hotchkiss (later Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, the donor of the Wightman Cup) won the USLTA singles championship in the women's division for the second and third years in a row, and William A. Larned brought his...