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REALLY SO WHAT
What A Time

TENNIS

We were years ahead of our time; before institutional game
supervision, and organization. Maybe because we played
almost every day, and with each other knew how each played.

It worked out pretty well as many of us continued playing
forever. Joe and another fellow were tops at each of their
colleges. Joe at Virginia Tech, and the other fellow at William
& Mary. Joe would continue playing, teaching and stringing
rackets for 60 years.
I would play in high school at Washington-Lee, and for three
years at American University. I also spent a couple of
summers as a tennis councilor in the mountains of
Massachusetts near Tanglewood. That was great fun,
including seeing the ‘Boston Pops’ every weekend.

Tennis taught me a different type of strategy other than parlor
games and maybe even more importantly to anticipate the next
moves or actions that were on their way. Although the tennis
moves; overheads, blocking chops, forehands and backhand
strokes, are still a dance in my memory, my body can no longer
coordinate them.

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