Word: racqueteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next day Randolp-Macon will oppose the Crimson ballplayers in Ashland, virginia. Immediately after this game the squad will leave for Washington. During the three days stay in the Capital during which they will be quartered at the Racquet Club, Harvard will meet successively the Navy, Georgetown, and Catholic University teams...
...appeared in headlines quite independently. He served to make one of Manhattan's fondest illusions come true-that someone with a name like Vanderbilt is "biggest clubman." The 1927 edition of Club Members of New York shows that Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr. belongs to 16 clubs- Larchmont Yacht, Racquet and Tennis, University, Union, Knickerbocker, New York Yacht, Union League, Century Association, Tuxedo, Brook, Metropolitan, Piping Rock, Turf and Field, Engineers', Yale, Seawanhaka and Corinthian Yacht. Mr. Vanderbilt's nearest competitor is Alexander Smith Cochran, member of 13 clubs. Tied at 12: Harry Payne Whitney and Clarence H. Mackey...
...Racquet Men Meet Penn...
...English squash team, led by Captain Victor Cazalet, downed the Crimson racquet wielders yesterday afternoon on the University courts by a score...
Judging from previous records this match promises to be a nip and tuck affair. The English racquet men are all adept players and in their clash with the University team in the Nationals they staged a hard fight which nearly netted them a victory and very probably would have in case of victory at that time taken the title out of this country for the first time. After the first four matches the teams stood 2 to 2. Jackson, by winning his match, saved the day for the University team...