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...Racquets, fastest of all games played on foot, nearly twice as fast as squash racquets, is also one of the rarest. In the U.S., where a few hundred play it, only eleven racquets courts exist. Game requirements: a four-walled cement court about twice the length of a squash court; a hard ball (the size of a ping-pong ball, but the consistency of a baseball, it shoots and caroms from wall to wall so rapidly that a marker is needed to call "play" after each fair shot); a supply of racquets, since an average player breaks a racquet...
Whodunit becomes the problem of Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews), a police lieutenant with Racquet Club manners, who for the first time in Hollywood history arrives on the scene minus a stooging sergeant. Bristling with brains and breeding, Mark proceeds to track the murderer and fall for Laura. He catches both just in time to prevent another lovely face from being reduced to hamburger...
Since the Williams team couldn't make their Jan. 5 date here because of transportation difficulties, the racquet men have played no inter-collegiate matches since the Christmas vacation and have had to survive, for the last two weeks, on club matches played in Boston. Of the two encounters the team has had, they have won one from the Boston Y. M. C. A., and dropped one to the Inter-Club team, the score in each case being...
Regular games for the hoopsters begin next week and will run throughout the winter. Meanwhile the hockey and squash tournaments are being organized, with intra-House tournaments to decide the teams in squash. There will be four groups from each playing in the competition for House racquet champs...
Freedman did not lose a set during the whole tournament in any of his regular matches. Gene Sands, Sophomore player, did win the first set of a match he played with Freedman in the second round. But he was forced to stop when a string in his racquet broke, and in the replay Freedman won with ease...