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LONG FIVES

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 980 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LONG See also:FIVES . This See also:game, though played in a See also:tennis-See also:court, bears but a slight resemblance to tennis, but is nevertheless a valuable See also:form of preparatory practice. The game is 8 or 11 points, each stroke won counting one point to the winner. The server gives 3 points in 8, or 4 points in 11 to the striker-out. There are no chases. The winning openings See also:count as at tennis. If a See also:ball be struck into any other See also:gallery or opening, it may be counted, by arrangement, either as a " let " (the See also:rest being annulled) or against the striker; a similar arrangement is made for balls that make any See also:chase on the See also:hazard-See also:side, or a chase of the last gallery on the service-side.

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