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Parents nonpracticing Jews; he was baptized Presbyterian . . . Wife Eileen has Ph.D. in education; three daughters . . . Liked to gamble occasionally in student days (won the money for his wedding at Las Vegas), but now relaxes by reading (foreign affairs, economics), swinging a tennis racquet, skiing...
...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...
...crowded confines of the racquetball court, beginners need not chase errant shots as tennis players must, and singles, not doubles matches are the rule. The ball comes zinging back like a small cannon ball, and an opponent's 18-in. stringed racquet can be a hazard, often inflicting racquetball's most distinctive mark-waffle-face. It is hell in a very small place...
...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...