Lamar Pina, 3, of Dorchester listened intently to instructions from a Boston police officer at the Sportsmen’s Tennis Club Friday. (Essdras M Suarez/ Globe Staff)
With tennis, Hub police get youths off city’s streets.
By June Q. Wu | Globe Correspondent
In tennis, how you play can matter as much as the score. That’s one lesson Boston Police officer Frank G. Williams, Jr., 47, stresses as he teaches the game to the city’s most vulnerable youngsters. What began as a one-man effort to keep youngsters off the streets last year has expanded into a joint venture between the Boston Police and the Sportsmen’s Tennis Club this summer in Dorchester.