James Dwight and Frederick R. Sears Jr. compete in tennis in Nahant.

(Aug.) The match is held on a makeshift court on the estate of their uncle, William Appleton, on Swallow Cave Road. The first game of tennis played in the Boston area, it takes place a few months after the game is introduced in the U.S. by Mary Ewing Outerbridge on Staten Island. The Nahant match takes place after Appleton’s son-in-law, J. Arthur Beebe, returned from England with racquets and rubber balls used to play “sphairistike,” a game invented there by Maj. Walter Wingfield in 1873. After an unsatisfying attempt to play that game, Dwight and Sears are more successful when they try to play “sticky,” Wingfield’s outdoor adaptation of court tennis.