Word: alai
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...heard that two St. Bernard gambling houses had dared to reopen despite his warning. He issued and personally taxied with an order to the Adjutant General to call out a raiding party of the National Guard. The offending establishments, facing each other in the same street, were the Jai-Alai* Fronton and the Arabi Clubs. The guardsmen approached. A lookout fired a shot of warning. The guardsmen entered, clubs swinging. Soon the gambling paraphernalia was ablaze, illuminating a fine antigambling chapter in Governor Long's precocious record...
...Alai (pronounced "hi-a-li")-fast Spanish mixture of handball, lacrosse and court tennis. Long popular in Cuba, jai-alai has invaded the U. S. as far inland as Chicago, where a high-grade fronton with imported professional players affords urbane North Siders polite outlet for their betting instincts...
Yachting, swimming, golf, tennis, dancing, horse-racing, roulette are sports familiar to the U. S. Unfamiliar is Havana's jai-alai (pronounced "high-a-ligh"), or Spanish handball, played in huge public frontones (courts) by native and imported professionals...