Word: racquet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dame and Michigan State practice it as part of their training programs. Illinois Governor-elect James Thompson and Wayne Rogers have learned it and, at a California club partially owned by OJ. Simpson, so have many others. In fact, nearly 3 million people have taken up racquetball-an indoor racquet game played on handball courts-in the past six years, making it the new boom sport of the tennis-conscious '70s. To accommodate it, new courts are rising as quickly-and conspicuously-as the welts caused by the hollow, rubber racquetball...
Whooshing Sphere. Racquetball was invented by a Connecticut tennis pro in the late '40s when he substituted a sawed-off tennis racquet for the wooden paddleball racquet and put strings in the handball-derived game. Played on a four-wall court 20 ft. wide, 40 ft. long and 20 ft. high, the 2½-in. ball must be returned to the front wall before it bounces twice. Floor, ceiling* and walls are fair play for the whooshing sphere; the ultimate shot-the handball-style "kill" -is a ball aimed at the right angle of front wall and floor...
...wind blew for the Radcliffe tennis team yesterday, as the racquet-women came down on the hard side of a tough contest with Tufts, losing...
With six of the top seven players returning from last spring's 11-3 squad, the racquet-women are not to be lobbed over easily. Captain-elect Denise Thal returns to assume the number one post she so deftly held last spring, and super soph Sally Roberts should again hold down the second slot...
...Zennis, as some people call it). From his Inner Game Institute above Malibu Beach, Calif., he has urged hundreds of thousands of students, TV viewers and readers to improve their game by shutting up that judgmental and frightened voice. Stop trying so hard, he argues. Let the body and racquet emulate "the unthinking spontaneity of the leopard" and do what comes naturally...