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...Manhattan, Sam Brawermann. 32, retired buttonhole maker, advertised Science & Invention, amused Union Square crowds by squeezing through the model of a keyhole, 6½ in. wide, 12½ in. long. Nimble Mr. Brawermann then tore the strings out of a tennis racquet, climbed through the frame. Next he took off his shirt, lay on a bed of 1,200 spikes, permitted people to walk over him. When he got up his skin was unbroken. Five feet five inches tall, weighing 150 lb., Mr. Brawermann said that he had never been on the stage, had just picked up his tricks...
Until four years ago women did not, officially, play squash racquets. A few inveterate sportswomen like Eleonora Sears of Boston pioneered whenever they could get on a men's court. Clubs around Boston, where Miss Sears is an influence, began to let women use their courts. In Manhattan women play on the Junior League and Colony Club courts; out-of-town courts are available for them at Ardsley Swimming & Racquet Club (Ardsley-on-Hudson) and at Nassau Country Club and Rockaway Hunting Club on Long Island; in Chicago they play tournament matches at the Racquet Club and in Detroit...
...York Racquet & Tennis Club last week the United States Polo Association held its annual meeting, attended to routine business and, specifically, to the delicate question of handicaps. They raised the two able Texans who played in the East last summer- Cecil Smith from seven goals to eight, Rube Williams from six to seven. Beside Williams, three other players were raised to seven: Robert Strawbridge Jr., Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford of the open-champion Hurricanes, and Stewart Iglehart of the young Old Aikens. In the great first flight of polo-the internationalists-they left Thomas Hitchcock Jr. at the highest possible rating...
...opening matches of the Massachusetts Racquet League will be played this afternoon, with the University team idle on a bye and the B Team playing the University Club in Boston. Members of the latter team are as follows: J. M. Barnaby '33, F. O. Canfield '32, H. W. Cole '32, J. G. Cornish '33, D. M. Frame...
...Saturday December 6 the opening matches of the Massachusetts Racquet League will be played. The University has five teams entered, the University, B. and C, and two Freshman teams...