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Word: racquet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University's only off-season athletic team playing the University's only sport of kings will open and close its regular season this weekend against Yale and Princeton in the Intercollegiate Court Tennis tournament at New York's Racquet and Tennis Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Court Tennis Seven Holds Season | 3/16/1956 | See Source »

...Long Island Investor Alastair Bradley Martin recovered just in time from a virus infection, showed his familiar form -severe cut shots, accurate backhand, unbeatable railroad and sidewall services -at Manhattan's Racquet and Tennis Club to overpower Robert Grant III and win the amateur court tennis championship of the U.S. for the eighth time. Only man to hold the title longer: Financier Jay Gould, champion from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Mar. 12, 1956 | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

Nicholas S. Ludington Jr. upset Dwight F. Davis III in the finals of the University Court Tennis Tournament this week, 6-4, 6-1. The tournament was held at the Boston Racquet and Tennis Club where Ludington, the winner of the Tuxedo Park Tournament earlier this year, was top seeded. A reception was held for the players after the matches were completed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ludington Wins | 3/3/1956 | See Source »

During the evening Pancho bounced his racquet on the floor, hit and kicked the ball into the stands, indignantly had the net measured, berated the ballboys, and, incidentally, dropped an exciting tennis match to Tony Trabert...

Author: By James W. Singer, | Title: Gonzales Indignantly Loses to Teammate | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...heavily on power but needs more consistency to polish up his game. In the third alot, Pete Lund counts more on the placement-touch game and needs to develop some more speed in his shots. Fourth and fifth players, Kent Allen and Fred Byron, both need to improve their racquet work and develop a faster start...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 1/12/1956 | See Source »

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