Thursday, August 31, 2006

The first U.S. tennis championship was held in Newport, RI on this day in 1881. The winner was Richard D. Sears of Boston, who followed this first victory with six more annual wins.

Unlike Mr. Sears, clearly a seven-time winner, some less scrupulous players have been known to engage in all sorts of questionable tactics to win. Of course as the player depicted below no doubt was about to learn, those sorts of tactics are always doomed to fail, and those engaging in them are usually just doomed.