Word: racquet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tennis Club, Larchmont, N. Y., William T. Tilden, II, tennis champion, engaged in a "circus" match, "did wizard tricks with his racquet and ball...
Leaving Cambridge on Saturday, the University racquet wielders met the Agawam Hunt Club of Providence that afternoon in their first contest of the trip, and easily defeated them by the score of 6 to 2. Captain Pfaffmann was unable to finish his match with J. D. E. Jones Jr., after the latter player had won the first...
...Racquet and Tennis Club...
Manhattan, Hewitt Morgan threatened his singular supremacy. In the match, Gould's right hand was seized with cramp. He repeatedly dropped his racquet to massage it. But he won, 6-1;1, 6-1, 11-9. If Morgan had won the third set, Gould might have lost the match through weariness...
Custom is, the public shall never know who wins the squash racquet tournaments at the Racquet and Tennis Club, Manhattan. But custom yielded last week to surprise. A man, 50 years old, won the tournament. Not for 19 years had he held the club championship. His name is Clarence Hungerford Mackay. His job is President of the Postal Telegraph and Commercial Cable Company...