Word: racqueteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the season just completed, the University racquet wielders met with but one reverse, losing a close decision to Princeton. Big Three Champion, by the score...
...merely defaulted his U. S. and international court tennis titles to Charles Suydam Cutting* because, as the result of a bad attack of influenza, his muscles were so stiff that he could not play in the challenge round of the national court tennis tournament at the Racquet & Tennis club. The funereal tone of the newspaper notices merely emphasized a statement made by a wise man that "athletes die twice?once when Death takes them and once when they retire from sport...
...members of the show will be the guests of J. L. Kimberly at lunch and then will jump over to Niagra Falls for tea with A. G. Porter. In Detroit they are being entertained by C. H. Hodges at the University Club, and after the performance at the Racquet Club...
...squad will remain in Annapolis until Friday morning, practicing twice on Thursday. After that they will leave for Washington, where they will stay at the Racquet Club...
...Freshman netmen. B.H. Whitebeck Jr., brother of the Captain of the University team, is a promising candidate. He won the Roys' National Indoor Championship in 1923, the Harvard Interscholastics in 1924, and was captain of the Loomis net team for two years H.H. Lisker is another likely racquet-wielder. He captured the Interscholastic Championship of Rhode Island in 1924 and 1925, and was twice captain of the team which won the Gilden Cup in Providence, Robeson Bailey, winner of the Freshman championship in last fall's tournament, will be out for the team together with J.H. Appleton, a member...