Word: dufton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Squash. Red walled court; racquet like a tennis racquet but smaller, rounder; ball like a tennis ball but heavier, faster. Before young Harry Wolf got on the court with Rowland Haines to play for the National Amateur Squash Tennis Championship, Rowland Dufton, the professional at the New York Athletic Club, taught him a special stroke to use in that one match -a stroke which Dufton said would win for him. It was a drive straight into the front wall corners that skidded off the back wall and dropped dead. "Mix it up with a soft game," Dufton advised him. "Hyde...
...moving. He got ahead of Haines and switched to a soft game. It was a mistake. A devastating smasher, and the best half-volleyer among U.S. amateurs, Haines turned Wolf's gentle, strategic shots into points for himself, and caught up fast. Young Wolf seemed to forget everything Dufton had told him except the new stroke. He whaled the ball the way he did out of doors last year when he was playing on the Williams tennis team. Sometimes he got Haines in close and hit a terrific drive, and as Haines jumped back for it the ball...