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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: Kansas City Field Club Tennis Courts
Description: People playing tennis on the courts at the Kansas City Field Club located at 51st Street and Swope Parkway in Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1916-07-23
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Swope Park Tennis Courts
Description: Distant view of the tennis courts at Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri filled with people playing.
Date: 1915
Object Type: Photograph

Title: South Central Business Association Outing at Rockaway Beach, Missouri
Description: Unidentified men and women playing tennis outside the Hotel Taneycomo at Rockaway Beach, Missouri on Lake Taneycomo. Probably associated with a South Central Business Association outing to the Ozarks.
Date: 1936
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Road in Swope Park
Description: Road leading to tennis courts.
Date: 1920
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Tennis Players
Description: Postcard of tennis players.
Date: 1906
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Country Club Plaza
Description: Distant view of tennis match from west side of courts located between Main and Mill Creek Parkway (later J.C. Nichols Parkway).
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Penn Valley Tennis Courts
Description: Unidentified people playing tennis. Tennis courts located east of Broadway and north of 29th.
Date: 1930
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Country Club Plaza
Description: Distant view of tennis match from east side of courts located between Main and Mill Creek Parkway (later J.C. Nichols Parkway).
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Tennis Courts
Description: Unidentified people on tennis courts, located across from the Concourse.
Date: 1945
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Loose Park Tennis Courts
Description: Looking northeast at unidentified people on tennis courts, located on west side of park; also shows Rose Garden.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Tennis Players at Hyde Park
Description: Looking north at unidentified women playing tennis on park tennis courts; located on Gillham between 35th and 38th.
Date: 1925
Object Type: Photograph

Title: North Terrace Park
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Swope Park Tennis Courts
Description: Distant view of tennis courts at Swope Park.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Tennis Players at Swope Park
Description: Unidentified men watching people playing tennis on park courts; located southwest of Lagoon.
Date: 1932-06-17
Object Type: Photograph

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

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