Word: racqueteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ogden Phipps '31, captain of the Harvard University squash team, has accepted an invitation to play in the second annual squash racquets tournament of the Rockaway Hunting Club for the Gold Racquet, at Cedarhurst, Long Island...
...Then I owe you a racquet," she said and fetched a racquet on which she signed her name, presented it to onetime Ballboy Wiggins. Twenty-two years ago, pleased with the Wiggins alertness, Miss Sutton promised him a racquet next time she returned. Last week was the first time she had played at Wimbledon since...
...Clarence A. Wills took his quiet pig-tailed daughter to a sunny tennis court in Berkeley, Cal., and handed her a racquet which she swung at first like a nightstick. She missed the first ball. She changed her grip and hit the next one. Within a month she could defeat her father. Four years later, when she was 15, she won the U. S. junior singles champion ship. Before she was 17 she drove back the shots of burly Molla Bjurstedt Mallory and became champion of the U. S. Two years later she met her most glorious defeat at Cannes...
...three doubles matches, the Harvard University tennis team defeated the Yale netmen at New Haven Saturday by the narrow margin of 5 to 4. It was the twelfth consecutive victory for Captain B. H. Whitbeck's team, but it was earned only after some intensive struggles with the Blue racquet wielders...
...Blue, defeated by Princeton last Saturday, still is conceded to have one of the strongest teams in the country and comparative scores give it a slight edge on the Harvard netmen. The Elis defeated Williams, 8 to 1, and the Purple should furnish no stronger opposition to the Crimson racquet wielders, so that today's match may help to forecast the outcome of Saturday's contest...