Tennis came to the United States in the 1870s and was quickly taken up by the East Coast upper crust, the nouveau riche of the Gilded Age.  Germantown’s Clarence Clark became one of its primary organizers, and his good friend and neighbor Frederick Winslow Taylor joined him as a doubles partner.  William Clothier was the son of department store magnate Isaac Clothier and played his way into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.  Howard Head found that he was not a very good tennis player, so he changed the equipment to improve his game, just as he had done for skiing.  And William Clothier Jr. hobnobbed with the likes of Billie Jean King and Arthur Ashe while also serving as a spy for the CIA.  All five of these men are interred at West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd.