[From the ending of sphairistické (a. Gr. σφαιριστική art of ball-play), the name given in 1874 to the game which afterwards developed into lawn tennis.] A game combining some of the features of lawn tennis and rackets; also attrib., as stické court, player.
1903. Windsor Mag., Sept., 381. The Game of Stické: its Evolution and Progress. Ibid., 382. There is a Stické-court in Halifax, N.S. … Prior to the year 1891 only three Stické-courts were in existence in the United Kingdom.
1910. Sir D. O’Callaghan, in Times, 14 April, 20/4. The Game of Stické…. Sir,—Now that a ‘stické’ court has been duly inaugurated at the Queen’s Club, it may interest [etc.].
