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Harvard, Princeton, and Yale will meet in an informal court tennis match at the Racquet Club in New York City today and tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Three Meet in N.Y. Court Tennis | 3/19/1955 | See Source »

Squash Captain Bill Wister and teammate Ben Hockscher were eliminated in the first round of singles matches of the twenty-third Gold Squash Racquet Invitational Tournament at Codarhurst, L.I., Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wister, Heckscher Eliminated In Gold Racket Squash Meet | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

Court tennis, absent from the College's athletic scene for 36 years, will return a week from this Saturday when an informal three-man team meets Yale at New York's Racquet and Tennis Club for the intercollegiate challenge bowl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Returns To Court Tennis | 5/11/1954 | See Source »

...College's return to competition has been made possible by the Tennis and Racquet Club of Boston which has provided the team with facilities for practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Returns To Court Tennis | 5/11/1954 | See Source »

Pierre, a Basque from St.-Jean-de-Luz, never held a court tennis racquet in his hand until he was 29. But by that time he had already served as a machine-gunner in the French army, was the French champion at the Basque games of chistera (jai alai), pala (jai alai with a small bat), and mains nues (handball). Within a year of taking up the 700-year-old game of court tennis, Pierre was champion of France, and five years later, in 1928, he was champion of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Champion Steps Down | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

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