Sporting Gentlemen : Men's Tennis from the Age of Honor to the Cult of the Superstar Book

	List of Figures
	Acknowledgments
	Prologue
1	Introduction: Leveling Upwards and Leveling Downwards	1
2	The Anglo-American Amateur Tradition, the Making of a National Upper Class, and a Gentlemanly Code of Honor in America, 1880-1914	13
3	The Rise of Lawn Tennis: The Harrow and Harvard Era, 1877-1887	37
4	The Expansion of Lawn Tennis in an Age of Innocence, 1887-1912	63
5	Class Complacency Challenged in 1912: The Sinking of the Titanic and the First California Invasion of the Eastern Grass Court Circuit	83
6	The Old Order Changes: Amateurism Becomes an Issue, the Davis Cup Goes Down Under in 1914, and the Championships Are Moved from Newport to Forest Hills	103
7	Two Philadelphia Gentlemen: William J. Clothier, Father and Son	129
8	Racism and Anti-Semitism: The Gentlemen's Achilles Heel	147
9	William Tatum Tilden II: A Philadelphia Gentleman as World Champion	163
10	The Finest Five Years in Tennis History: The French Musketeers Finally Topple Tilden	185
11	Big Bill Tilden: A Gentleman Possessed by Genius	203
12	The Grass-Court Circuit Becomes a Melting Pot, and Perry Jones Leads a Second California Invasion of the Eastern Establishment	219
13	Gentleman Jack Crawford of Australia, and Fred Perry, the Last Great Englishman	249
14	Budge and the Baron: The Greatest Match of them All and the First Grand Slam	277
15	Indian Summer of a Golden Age: Riggs, Kramer, Gonzales, and the Pro Tour	303
16	Lean Years in American Tennis and the Reign of Harry Hopman's Australians	323
17	The Great Revolution of 1968-1992: The Rise of Open (Pro) Tennis and the Decline of Civility	339
	Epilogue	381
	Notes	399
	Index	409