Word: balle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Etchebaster wears a Basque cap, a Basque mustache, a Basque smile. He moves around the court very little. He plays his floor shots with a delicate, excessive turn of the wrist that cuts the ball down sharply over the low looping net. Jay Gould called his floor shots "invincible." Soutar, running around, breathing hard, scored his points to the dedans and grille, made his best fight in the seventh game, then lost three games in succession, the match, and the title...
...innovations, which the governing squash racquets bodies have under advisement, he explained, are three in number. First the construction of the court would be standardized. Second the playing line would be raised from 14 feet to 16 feet. Third a standard ball would be introduced. All of these changes, Coach Cowles believes, would go far toward advancing and standardizing the quality of play and toward speeding up the game...
...stories with the eagerest conviction, no two sentences of which have the faintest rational relation. He wears no mad makeups, talks no dialects. He sings well enough, dances deftly, juggles Indian clubs, balances at the top of a 12 foot pole swinging hoops on his heels, walks a huge ball up a perilous incline and down the other side, whirls with his feet a heavy pole weighted with a man at either end, tumbles neatly, and catches lighted matches in his mouth. He might be compared to Douglas Fairbanks gone incurably insane. So unaccountable are his activities that some people...
...period and then under the deft ministrations of an expert hired tutor. When they are supposed to be reading about Laertes and the nebular hypothesis and Socratian argument they will be expected to be doing so, not keeping social engagements in Boston or playing squash and hand ball...
...What is much more important," Mr. Smith said, "is that if America carries through the present naval program China, will take up the cry, and once the ball has been started rolling, France and Italy will keep it rolling...