Word: bostwick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still being played, and mostly by modern-day royalty. Of the 3,000 or so aficionados who play the game today, most are straight out of the social register-with one notable exception. Last week the world open court-tennis championship, held in Manchester, England, pitted George ("Pete") Bostwick Jr., 34, Wall Street stockbroker, topflight amateur golfer and son of a polo player, against John Willis, 25, ex-boxer and son of a Manchester factory worker. Bostwick developed his game at New York's Racquet and Tennis Club; Willis picked up his skills as an apprentice professional while earning...
Devilishly Complicated. In the end, it was not surprising that Blueblood Bostwick won. But it is a wonder to all concerned that the ancient game is still being played at all. The forerunner of lawn tennis, pingpong, squash and badminton, court tennis is one of the most devilishly complicated sports ever devised by man -or monk. It takes hours just to understand the rules and years of playing to master the rudiments. The court itself, a stylized version of the old monastery courtyard, costs up to $250,000 to construct. There are only 27 courts in use today...
...Bostwick, who likes to describe court tennis as the "chess of sports," needed every gambit he could muster in last week's match. Willis, who lost the first round of the match, 7 sets to 3, repeatedly drove threadneedle shots into the grille and dropped unplayable lobs into the corners to go ahead in the final round 5-3. Needing only one set to win, Bostwick jumped out to an early lead at the start of the final day. During a volley for match point, he drilled a hard shot at the grille. Willis managed to get his racket...
...first character onstage is a bird -The Cock, magnificently plumed and wattled by Costume Designer Nancy Potts, and played by Barry Bostwick with impudent elegance. The Cock, said O'Casey, represents "the joyful, active spirit of life as it weaves a way through the Irish scene," and it spreads terror among the crabbed codgers and priest-ridden puritans of the countryside. They quail from its presence and blast at it with guns. Still, The Cock bewitches a high silk hat and a bottle of John Jameson, and rips to shreds the vestments of a priest who tries to exorcise...
Harvard led 7-1 in the third period when St. Nick's Pete Bostwick added the second and final goal for the visitors. The Crimson then ran off another streak of six goals to end the game strongly...