Word: racquet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scoring five wins in six singles matches, but dropping all three doubles matches, Coach Jack Barnaby's victorious racquet-wielders sent the Dartmouth squad down to defeat by a 5 to 4 count yesterday afternoon on the visitor's courts...
Died. Anne Harriman Sands Rutherford Vanderbilt, 76, dowager socialite, daughter of Railroad Tycoon Oliver Harriman, follower of Cultist Oom the Omnipotent; of double pneumonia; in Manhattan. Her first husband, Sportsman Samuel Stevens Sands, was killed riding to hounds in 1889; her second, Racquet Champion Louis Morris Rutherford, died in 1892; her third, Yachtsman William Kissam Vanderbilt, died...
Harvard's squash team defeated the Boston Tennis and Racquet Club by the score of 3 to 2 at the Hemenway Gymnasium yesterday afternoon...
...elite game of racquets, nobody seriously disputes the U. S. supremacy of 27-year-old, London-born Robert Grant III (Eton-Harvard-Wall Street). A dark, intent-eyed broker with shoulders that slope as ominously as Joe Louis', Grant can drive a racquets ball faster and more tellingly than any other racqueteer. In the last three years he has cornered the vaunted Tuxedo Gold Racquet, U. S. amateur and open, Canadian singles and both U. S. and Canadian doubles (with Clarence C. Pell Jr.). U. S. racqueteers predict that Grant will handily win the world's open championship...
Last week, at the select Racquet & Tennis Club in Manhattan, 14 of the leading U. S. amateurs and world pros went after the prized Clarence C. Pell Cup for 1940. In the semifinal, Canadian Pro Kenneth Chantler disposed of Norbert Seltzer, Rac quet & Tennis Club professional. In the other bracket, Amateur Grant faced tough Tony Bertolotti, another Racquet & Tennis Club hired hand. Grant breezed through two games, 15-2, 15-4, had Bertolotti down 11-4 in the clinching game when the two collided. Grant came up game, but with a strained ankle. Then Bertolotti, who might have gone...