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Title: A New Court Date Downtown
Description: The Explorers' 2006 World Team-Tennis season will be played on a 66-by-128- foot slab of asphalt on the deck of Barney Allis Plaza. It will be surrounded by bleachers and vendor areas. The team's first match begins on Friday evening, July 7, 2006, against the St. Louis Aces. The regular season runs through July 26 with the last home match on July 25. "The Explorers set sail in 1994 playing in Hale Arena. During the first few years, the team also used Kemper Arena and Municipal Auditorium for a few matches." They have played at the Country Club Plaza the last four years.
Date: 2006-07-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Obituary for Carroll Kramer Ward
Description: Obituary for Carroll Kramer Ward, or Carroll Ward, a local tennis patron dying in 1972.
Date: 1972-02-08
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Allen Poteet
Description: Obituary for Allen Poteet, one of the founders in 1916 of the Rockhill Tennis Club, dying at the age of 87 in 1972.
Date: 1972-02-02
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: J. F. Schmelzer and Sons
Description: Advertising card for J. F. Schmelzer and Sons showing elves or some small people with pointed hats playing tennis. There are four elves per side and all four hold one large racket together. Front of card says: "J. F. Schmelzer and Sons, Importers and Dealers in Guns, Fishing Tackle, Base Ball, Tennis Goods, Bicycles And Sporting Goods." Front lower left corner has number B 346. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 543 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: A. A. Pearson, Millinery and Fancy Goods
Description: Advertising card for "A. A. Pearson, Millinery and Fancy Goods" showing a girl in a red dress and white cap holding a tennis racket. Caption says: "Forty, Love." One of three cards with similar design. Back of card is blank. Address given on front of card: 1036 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1885~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: He's a New Bill Tilden: Ellsworth Vines, Who Plays Here, Has All the Strokes
Description: Article about the "coming of the United States Davis Cup tennis team to Kansas City" in 1932 including American player Ellsworth Vines, compared to Bill Tilden and considered one of the best tennis players of all time.
Date: 1932-05-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Tennis out of the Ice Age
Description: Article about the incongruous beginnings of the World Championship tennis league in the city, with the first court set up on a sheet of ice inside the American Royal Arena.
Date: 1977-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Net Loss
Description: Article announces that the Kansas City Explorers professional tennis team will relocate to Irving, Texas. Details regarding the Explorers' history in Kansas City are provided. City officials are interviewed and discuss the team's decision.
Date: 2013-02-21
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Historic Club Seeks New Home
Description: Article about Rockhill Tennis Club's departure from 4520 Kenwood Avenue also tells about the history of the Club and building. At its previous location, 48th and Oak, the Club was host to the 1928 Davis Cup and tournaments that attracted many of the biggest tennis stars of its day. Neighbors fought the move to Kenwood in 1955 but opposed its ouster by the Nelson-Atkins Museum. The Club has purchased the former Nelly Don home but has met opposition from neighbors in the Crestwood area.
Date: 2010-06-26
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Biography of Lamar Hunt (1932-2006), Businesman and Sports Entrepreneur
Date: 2009
Object Type: Biography

Title: Love-82: Leo Feingold's Lifetime of Tennis
Description: Photos and biographical article about Leo Feingold, an 82-year-old top-ranked tennis player for his age group, born in New York in 1915. Description of his life and career, starting the sport as an adolescent and becoming a military officer in World War II before moving to Kansas City with his new wife in about 1945.
Date: 1997
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Matilda Shelden
Description: Photo and description of Matilda Dallmeyer Shelden, or Matilda Shelden, wife of Dr. Frank Shelden ("a noted tennis star") and member of the upper house of the City Council in 1924, "member of the Woman's City Club, past president of the Kansas City Rose Society in 1947, a musette of the Kansas City Museum, and active in the Second Presbyterian Church."
Date: 1968
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Map of the Country Club Plaza
Description: Tour and store directory map for the Country Club Plaza shopping center. A note records that the illustration is based on an original 1947 map and revised of January 1967. Significant Plaza buildings, shops and amenities are shown. The reverse side provides a directory of retail and service shops with addresses and telephone exchange numbers. A text description of the Country Club Plaza is also included.
Date: 1967
Object Type: Map

Title: Virginia Slims Gals to Make KC Stop
Description: Article about the professional women's Virginia Slims tennis tournament in town.
Date: 1978-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

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