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...fast, aggressive player. Tall, six feet four inch Hugh Hyde has the height and reach for a good net man and is one of the best doubles men on the team. Former hockey star Marc Becbe has the most powerful serve of the group, Phil Scanlon wields a clever racquet all over the court, and chubby Andy Muldoon possesses a good solid ground stroke but he needs improvement...
Vice President Wallace arrived at his office with a fine scratch on his nose. Hit himself with his own racquet playing early-morning tennis, he said...
Squash activities during last week began Tuesday with a Varsity A team 4 to 1 conquest of the Tennis and Racquet Club. The B team lost to the University Club on Wednesday...
Victories over Dartmouth by 8 to 1 and Williams by 9 to 0, an improved first string, and a substantial reserve strength bolster the expectations of the racquet-wielders from Cambridge. The nine men who are wearing the Crimson for the weekend's battles are southpaw Gene Nickerson, Sonny Lyell, Galen Felt Stretch Baker (six feet seven in his stocking feet). Captain Don Marvin, Decker Orr, Sandy Parker, Dud Palmer, and Doug Cochrane...
Today all that remains in the U. S. of the dwindling sport of racquet walking are 42 snowshoe clubs and 2,300 addicts, scattered through Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts. These hardy survivors, impregnable against the avalanche of skiing enthusiasm that has swept New England, still meet every year for their national championships. But to recapture the spirit of the old stocking-cap days, they make an annual pilgrimage to Canada for the international convention of snowshoers...