Word: racquet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sonja Henie, Glenda Farrell, Joan Crawford, Anita Louise, Simone Simon (see cuts, p. 35). In addition to novelty, badminton has over tennis the advantage that, since the game consists largely of scrambling, the posture of the subject does not, like that of almost any actress photographed with a tennis racquet, reveal that she does not know much about the game. Able male Hollywood badminton addicts are Pat O'Brien, Warren William, Lyle Talbot, Robert Montgomery. In Hollywood, the virtues of badminton, like many other things, have been exaggerated...
...tournaments which few men would have had the temerity to enter before they had been playing the game five years or more. He won every tournament he entered with ridiculous ease: the Canadian singles championship, the Canadian and U. S. doubles championships (with Clarence Pell Jr.), the Tuxedo Gold Racquet tournament and the Racquets and Tennis Club championship. That he would acquire the U. S. championship as summarily as the others became apparent last week in the semi-finals when, in what most observers considered the most brilliant performance ever seen on the Racquets Club's court, Grant polished...
This is Dorson's first defeat since he lost to Buell Hollister, number one man on the Yale team, for the intercollegiate invitation squash racquet tourney during the Charistmas holidays...
Footing the bill for all this was one of the leading squash racquet and polo players in the U. S., Seymour Horace Knox. Son of a Woolworth partner and a potent investment banker in his own right, Poloist Knox has a burning ambition to make East Aurora and the Buffalo district as famed for polo as Long Island. He was captain of the squash racquets team sent to Britain in 1935. His active interest in art is recent. To date his private collection consists of one Utrillo bought a few months ago, and the collector...
...Clarence C. Pell Jr., & Robert Grant III: the national racquets doubles championship, beating Edward Mitchell Edwards & Warren Ingersoll after 1 hr. 10 min. of play at the New York Racquet & Tennis Club, 12-15, 18-16, 15-11, 15-8. In the balcony, watching, was Pell's father, nine times national doubles champion (with Stanley Mortimer) eliminated this year in the semi-finals by his son's runners...