10. The peregraph of the story are mixed up. Decline in what certy shold follow each other. HOW TENNIS CAME TO THE UNITED STATES a) The Outerbridge family were me bers of the fitaten Island Cricket and Ball Club in New York. Mary got permission to lay out a court of the edge of their cricket felel. As spring come, Mary began to play the gome with her brothers and her friends. At first Mary's girlfrivads enthusiastically. It was a game that thought the game "unialylike", but Mary and her brothers played it required speed and accurses and it attranted young men. b) The game of tennis did not originate in the USA. Court tennis war played indones in France in the thirteenth century. Researchers think that the name tennis ones from the early French word tenetz. It w swd in the the way as the command play. The word fove used in sear ing meant a zero and for at least three inundred years the English lane wand it to indicate no seure. In the early fourteenth century in England, Edward III had a tennis court. It was considered the royal game. c) Teanis became very popular. Staten Island, New York, claims the honour of being the birthplace of tennis in the United States. This honour is also claimed by a town in New England because two Ameri cans played tennis in Nahant. Massachusetts, in the summer of 1875 They held their first tennis tournament there in August 1876. d) In March 1874 Mary Outerbridge returned to New York from Ber muda, there she had watched British officers playing tennis. She had watched so long that one of the officers suggested, "Would you lihe to try your hand at it, Miss?" Mary learned to play tennis and thought the game was no interesting that she brought the package containing balls, tennis rackets and a net home with her. e) Luckily , it was at this time in early 1874 that Mary Oterbridge happened to be there. She learned how to play lawn tennis and all that she could about the rules. Thus she was able to introduce the game of tennis for the first time to sportsmen in the United States. f) Many say ,that the modern game of tannis invented by Major Walter C. Wingfield, a British officer.He took the court tennis ideas and made them into lawn tennis, a game played outdoors. He even took a patent on the game and sold it to many important people. One of his friends liked the game so much that took a good supply of balls and rackets with Him to his Station in Bermuda where he taught his fellow officers how to play the game.