Tennis
Whakatane Team To Play Rangitaiki Following is the Whakatane Lawn Tennis Club’s team to play Rangitaiki on Sunday, leaving the courts at 9.30 a.m.:— Men: P. Wales, R. Hansen, C. Carry, C. Wylds. Women: Miss Mahy, Miss Carter, Miss Righton, Mrs McKenzie. “Love” In Tennis
Wimble ton chit-chat has brought, forward a new theory on the origin of the word “love” in tennis.
In the early days of the game, the French are said to have marked up on their scoreboards for court tennis, an egg-shaped zero, representing no score and to have called it Toeuf, the egg.
To Englishmen, learning the game from the French, l’oeuf sounded like love.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 25, 26 November 1948, Page 5
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111Tennis Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 25, 26 November 1948, Page 5
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