Ballmeister (Tennis Master) An engraving by C.Monath Nuremburg, 1650

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Introduction
Most tennis is intended to help the player improve his game limit themselves to instruction on form, stroking and strategy. For that type of instruction we believe there is no substitute for personal instruction from a tennis coach, professional instructor. Your fundamental step, however, before practical instructions begins, is to get to the basis for all good tennis today--High Tension Gut Strings.

In our effort to help the player on the road to better tennis, we set out to find, in the very history of the game, experience that would help the average player today. May interesting facts cam to light. On efact was outstanding ... proved to be the very crux of better tennis. It was, in short, that in 400 years of tennis, all improvements in play were dirct results of using better gut strings. As the qualitty of the gut strings increased allowing rackets to be strung at vastly higher tensions, the racket became more efficient, the game increased in speed and action-- and the individual's improved directly. If you would be guided by history-- use the best gut stings to improve your play!

Published May, 1937
Revised Edition Published March, 1938
Revised Edition Published Mach, 1940
Copyrighted 1940--Thompson Manufacturing Co ., Chicago Printed in U.S. A.