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Banned from the Reading Room: The Revenge That Created the Tennis Hall of Fame

In 1879, James Gordon Bennett Jr. — newspaper heir, international playboy, and champion of excess — dared a friend to ride a horse into the exclusive Newport Reading Room. The friend did. The Reading Room's outraged members didn't just expel the friend — they banned Bennett himself, the man who'd funded half their summer activities. Humiliated in front of America's elite, Bennett did what only a man with unlimited money could do: he bought land across the street and built an entire competing social club, the Newport Casino, designed by the most prestigious architects in America. Within two years, the Casino was THE center of Newport social life. The Reading Room became an afterthought. Bennett's revenge was so complete that the building he created still stands today — as the International Tennis Hall of Fame.