A social game of tennis at the Brucedale tennis courts in 1908. Tennis was played in Wagga from the 1880s. Wagga Lawn Tennis Club was officially opened on May 11, 1889. Brucedale Tennis Club was formed in the late 1890s. The Lake Albert Tennis Club was established about the same time and the Half Holiday (later Raceview), North Wagga and Uranquinty Club in the early 1900s. Brucedale Club’s first courts were located on a reserve about five kilometres north of the current Brucedale courts on the old Junee Road (now known as Dunnings Road) approximately one kilometre north of the road leading to the Gap and Downside. When the reserve was subdivided after the First World War, the club obtained the permission of the NSW Department of Lands to build the courts on the Recreation Reserve near the Brucedale School and Church. Two courts were built and the new club began operating in 1924. Another two courts were later added. At the turn of the century, the women played in long skirts and hats and the men in long pants. Picture: Sherry Morris Collection

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