Ocean Grove tennis court.  (note the net which she is holding. ? body language.). Broadway, August, 1910. On the back it says, “1 1/2 blocks from ocean, about #23 Bway.”  Note, no cars. ? Sunday. In 1910, there were 500,000 cars in America.

By Paul Goldfinger, Editor at Blogfinger.net

Tennis was introduced in the US in 1876, seven years after OG was founded.  By 1881, tennis clubs were being built all over.

In the photo, it looks like the OG courts were hard sand, located parallel to Broadway.  The early OG history books make no mention of tennis.  Presumably playing tennis was forbidden on Sundays.  Will tennis keep this couple together–after all, that sport has something called “love?”

BARBARA COOK.  “Don’t Blame Me.”  From her album  Close As Pages in a Book—the music of Dorothy Fields.  Dorothy Fields  was a well known lyricist at a time when there were few women found at the Brill Building in New York.  Barbara Cook was a huge star on the Broadway stage.

“Can’t you see
When you do the things you do?
If I can’t conceal
The thrill that I’m feeling
Don’t blame me..”

Do you suppose she liked it when he rushed the net?  Did she prefer his backhand or his fore?