Red Stockings and Out-of-Towners by Stanford J. Layton

Author:Stanford J. Layton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History-Sports in Utah
Publisher: Signature Books
Published: 2018-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

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1. Interview with Glenn Walker Wallace, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 19, 1983. When Glenn was six years old, her family moved from the Walker Block to South Temple and Sixth East, later the Aviation Club, and one of their first priorities there was to build a tennis court.

2. Salt Lake Herald, May 31, 1885, 2.

3. Tennis generally was not played by the public until the 1920s. During the Depression tennis, like other sports, provided an escape from difficult times. It was scarce during World War II—Wimbledon was turned into a civil defense center and chickens enjoyed the shade of Centre Court; Roland Garros Stadium in Paris became a concentration camp. In the 1950s tennis became a mechanism for social integration as Althea Gibson became the first black person to play in the U.S. Open at Forest Hills. The game fared well through the 1960s aversion to team sports. In fact, during the past fifteen years, no sport has undergone a more dramatic change in character. Shaken from its clubbishness during the open era that united amateur and professional in 1968, tennis moved from the upper classes to the masses. Where once only the wealthy could afford to play, it is enjoyed today by a wide range of people.

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