Word: racqueteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wallace Johnson, very erect, very sleek and ungraceful, leans back a little as his racquet meets the ball. He never seems particularly concerned with what he is doing. No matter how fierce his match, he always has an air of being one of the linesmen. He depends for success on his celebrated chop-stroke- a shot which he executes with the same twist of the wrist that a chef in the front window of a low-grade restaurant employs to turn a pancake. The ball skims the net low, finds corners and clips lines with uncanny accuracy, bounces; extremely...
...defeat, when the pitying crowd can read in his visage the despair of one who has striven and failed, and perceive by his labored breathing and frequent potations of ice-water that the end is not far off. Then it is that he truly comes into his own. His racquet twangs like an embowered guitar; his serve crashes over with the sonorous finality of the couplet concluding a soliloquy in an Elizabethan play. Next day he reads...
...upon impromptu catafalque where lay the body of a young French ex-soldier; his rigid limbs were garmented in white; beside him reposed his "Blue Devil" Tarn O' Shanter. He, Jean Borotra, French Davis Cup competitor, had just been smitten unconscious by a tennis ball rebounding from the racquet of the Australian Gerald Patterson in the fourth set of an international doubles match at Forest Hills, L. I. On the day previous, Patterson had beaten Lacoste in the singles, Borotra had trounced Anderson. Thus, with the team score tied, much had depended on the doubles, and the chances...
More squash racquet courts will be needed, as this form of exercise is developing rapidly and is one of the most popular and beneficial of winter sports...
...final picture of the series shows 'two graduates' carefully and gleefully carrying a very heavy and doubtless fragrant suitcase 'en route to the Harvard Club Dinner' at the Racquet Club, Philadelphia, February...