Word: racquet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just three years after he first picked up a squash racquet, Harvard's Vic Nieder-hoffer almost made the finals of the U.S. Open Squash Tournament in Buffalo Monday...
...team loses, the primary cause will be the U.S. team itself. McKinley is a reliable player, but after him the team is as inconsistent as a racquet with broken strings. If they play well, the Aussies may not win a match, and if they play poorly, not even Bob Kelleher's intuition can save the Americans It's even possible, though most unlikely, that they could lose the match with England. With this team, not even the certain is certain...
...finals against Canada Saturday afternoon, Harvard took a 2-1 lead; and if Robinson was losing at number five, it didn't matter--because Walter was beating Canada's Rick Gaunt 2-1 in games. But in his fourth match, Walter was struck on the chin by Gaunt's racquet...
...Montego Bay area has also other kinds of sport: fishing off the White House, golf at Tryall, a clublike community like Round Hill; tennis at the Racquet Club, and eating at Sunset Lodge...
Probably because of the quality of their opposition, the Crimson racquet men did not play up to their par. It's fortunate for Tech that they did not, since even as it was only three of the hapless Engineers were able to win one game in the three-out-of-five game sets...