Cruice, Valerie. "On Tap: Platform Tennis", The New York Times, October 9, 1994. Accessed July 29, 2013. "Platform tennis – nicknamed paddle – got its start in 1928 in Scarsdale, N.Y., when Fessenden F. Blanchard and James K. Cogswell sought an outdoor game as a winter substitute for tennis. By 1935 the game had gained enough momentum for the first national championship to be held at the Fox Meadow Club in Scarsdale."
Keese, Parton. "Born in a County; Backyard", The New York Times, February 20, 1977. Accessed July 29, 2013. "These standards were actually determined by the fact that a huge rock on the Cogswell estate prevented the court from being any wider; and a precipitous hill at the end of the yard dictated the court's length."
