Citations:sphairistike


 * 1875 The Edinburgh review: or critical journal, A. Constable, p72
 * The new appliances of the game sold under the rather too learned name of ‘sphairistikè’ have been lightened without, like their ancient representatives, being increased in size.
 * 1921 Paul Benjamin Williams, George W. Grupp & John A. Ferris, United States Lawn Tennis Association and the world war, Robert Hamilton company, p113
 * He called it 'sphairistike' which literally translated from the Greek, means, "Ball Play."
 * 1925 Albert Shaw, The American review of reviews, p427
 * Perhaps one of the reasons for the instant popularity of “Sphairistikè” was that it gave an England bored to death of its recent croquet fad something to do with its croquet courts, as well as an excellent new game.
 * 1941 Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn, Come what may: an autobiography, Little, Brown and company, p7
 * He observed that a wholesaler who supplied my grandfather with goods continued to advertise the implements of a new game, called "Sphairistike."
 * 1988 Heiner Gillmeister, Sports in the Western world, University of Illinois Press, p182
 * First they agreed to drop the name "sphairistikè" in favor of the simpler term, lawn tennis.
 * 1991 Jonathan Gash, Firefly Gadroon, Arrow, p62
 * While I priced and labelled it correctly my eyes lit upon a genuine old Sphairistike racquet.
 * 1998 Heiner Gillmeister, Tennis: a cultural history, Continuum International Publishing Group, p181
 * At that time, he had not given a thought to his new game, and, as a consequence, the pastures around Rhysnant Hall are not likely to have been the place where the Major would have pitched his sphairistikè nets.
 * 2006 Patricia Campbell Warner, When the girls came out to play: the birth of American sportswear, University of Massachusetts Press, pp. 43-44
 * By December of that year, he had patented his game under the name “Sphairistike.”