Word: gaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Money Game, Adam Smith...
...idle moment 700 years ago, two French monks began batting a ball around a monastery courtyard with crude wooden paddles. Thus was launched a royal rage. The impromptu game, which came to be known as court tennis, spread from cloister to castle and soon ranked as the foremost sport of kings. Louis X so overextended him self chasing balls that he became ill and died shortly after a match. Henry VIII was reportedly puffing around the court when aides informed him that Anne Boleyn's beheading had been accomplished. In 1641, Louis XIII of France defeated Philip...
...weeks ago, for instance, in a game with the San Diego Padres, Banks swung at an inside pitch and, as he likes to put it, "Swoosh! Swoooosh! Suh-woooosh!" It was a home run into the leftfield bleachers. With that hit, Banks became the 17th player in baseball history to drive in 1,500 or more runs. Last week Ernie belted the 480th homer of his career (he is tenth on the list of alltime home-run hitters, just ahead of Stan Musial) and a double against the Los Angeles Dodgers to take over the league lead in RBIs...
Court tennis is 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...
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...