PLAYERS SERVE CHARITY : WOOD AND WHITE IN VOGUE FOR DAY.Byline: Lee Barnathan Daily News Staff Writer Just about everything was there: tennis players dressed in white, wooden rackets rackets Game for two or four players with ball and racket on a four-walled court. Rackets is played with a hard ball in a relatively large court (approximately 9 × 18 m), unlike the related games of squash and racquetball. , white tennis balls. Even strawberries and cream. ``We've left no stone unturned,'' Newhall Tennis Club President Pat Boss said of Saturday's wood and white charity tournament. OK, so the courts at Valencia High School Valencia High School may refer to:
None of that mattered to the club members, who turned out to play in the Wimbledon tradition and raise money for the Santa Clarita Association to Aid Victims of Domestic Violence. Perhaps the most spirited were Juan and Debbie Arias, who turned out in full 1920s tennis attire. Juan Arias appeared in white slacks, a white shirt, a black bow tie and white cap. His wife wore an ankle-length white dress and hat. ``I went to the library, and we're in the 1920s,'' Arias said before changing into modern-day white shorts. ``So you could imagine me dying (playing in the heat).'' ``It's much, much warmer. Shows how much we love tennis,'' said Paula Prescott, one of the event's organizers. Such tournaments are nothing new, Boss said. He saw his former club in Florida put on an old-fashioned tourney tourney: see tournament. ; and Prescott independently came up with the same idea. Originally, the tournament's proceeds were to fund area tennis causes, such as improving existing public courts. But when negotiations between the club and the Summit Homeowners Association, which runs some of the courts, broke down, a new charity was found. ``I can't get over the fact that we're a city of 150,000 people (129,861, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a city spokeswoman) and we have four lighted tennis courts,'' Prescott said. Money was mainly raised through two avenues: the sale of wooden rackets and raffle tickets. Boss estimated the club raised between $3,000 and $4,000. Since today's tennis game is played with a metal graphite graphite (grăf`īt), an allotropic form of carbon, known also as plumbago and black lead. It is dark gray or black, crystalline (often in the form of slippery scales), greasy, and soft, with a metallic luster. racket with a large head, many members needed to scramble To encode (encrypt) data in order to make it indecipherable without having a secret key to "unlock" it. The term came from the early days of cryptography which camouflaged analog transmissions with secret frequency patterns. to find the older rackets. Gene Doty's pro shop took care of that. ``We certainly sold a lot of them. It lightened our load,'' Doty said. The other highlight of the tournament was the youth against experience exhibition pitting 10-year-old Sarah Jacobs and Derek Miller, 12, against Doty, 77, and 76-year-old Eleanor Harbula, considered the top-ranked player in her age group for two years by the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, tennis associations. Youth prevailed 6-1. ``It's been wonderful,'' Harbula said of the tournament. ``Everybody's having a great time. It's cute to have everyone wear white. White tennis balls were the crowning touch. I haven't seen white tennis balls since the yellow ones came out.'' CAPTION(S): Photo: (1) Jieun Jacobs, 14, grimaces as she unloads a backhand in a match Saturday against tournament organizer Pat Boss. (2) Derek Miller, 10, of Valencia scrambles to get into position for a return shot during tournament play. Joe Binoya/Special to the Daily News |
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