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Emmi Levin, played a "fabulous" match, according to captain Susy Handy. In the third game, Levin was hit by her opponent's racquet. "I was mad, so I won the game," Levin said last night...
Cass Sunstein was the hatchetman on the Crimson's Murderer's Row, despite a bulbous and festering blister that sprouted on his racquet hand while he was cramming for his law boards. Sunstein throttled his opponent in four games after the hand was hermetically sealed in a sable golf glove...
...Crimson may have "swept away" this contest, as Ned Bacon phrased it, but the squad entwines a Princeton club on February 7 that will not be such a lark. Princeton is bristling with racquet talent but the Crimson hope to humble the Tigers with their well-honed array of drop shots, reverse corners, and three-wall nicks...
...entertainment that did not involve great swarms of people. Trains and steamers and trolleys moved them from one place to another. That was the style, that was the way people lived. Women were stouter then. They visited the fleet carrying white parasols. Everyone wore white in summer. Tennis racquets were hefty and the racquet faces elliptical. There was a lot of sexual fainting. There were no Negroes. There were no immigrants...
...spring, the racquet women redeemed themselves. Led by Muscatine and Thal, the Cliffe finished third--behind Princeton and Yale in the Seven Sisters tournament. Muscatine commented on the squad's play in the tourney. "I think our play typified the team's play this season. No one played their best, except maybe in spurts...