Word: racqueteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both teams have a good chance of winning their matches, especially since Iselin has recovered from the gruelling contests with the Nassau Racquet Club, New York Racquet Club, and the Harvard Club of New York City...
...daughter of Benjamin Newton Duke, the tobacco king.* Tongues wagged and darted, but the Biddies, in Palm Beach, Newport and Manhattan, for which they had deserted the native Biddle heath of Philadelphia, gave evidence of marital contentment. Tony Biddle played tennis, squash and swam, occasionally boxing at the Racquet Club to show that he was not afraid of being hurt, thus found many business enterprises in which to interest himself and his fortune...
...shown by the fact that three of the five continued for the full five games. The success of the Harvard Club's team was evidently due to the fact that they are now in the full swing of the season and in the peak of condition, while the University racquet-men plainly showed that they have not yet worked themselves up to their former form...
...SQUASH RACQUETS Team A Dec. 15 Harvard Club at Boston. Dec. 27 Nassau Club at N. Y. Dec. 28 Tennis & Racquet Club at N. Y. Dec. 29 Harvard Club at N. Y. Jan. 5 Cambridge Squash Racquets Club. Jan. 12 Newton Center. Jan. 19 Tennis & Racquet Club at Boston. Feb. 9 Yale at New Haven. Feb. 15 16, 17 National Championships at New York. Feb. 23 University of Pennsylvania tentative. Team B Dec. 15 Union Boat Club. Jan. 5 University Club at Boston. Jan. 12 Boston A. A. at Boston. Jan. 19 Cambridge Squash Racquets Club. Jan. 26 Harvard Club...
...that tense, almost insane hunger for points with which amateurs excite galleries and rattle their linesmen. Both men seemed to be enjoying their game; Kozeluh would explain "Bed lock!" to the gallery when Richards dropped a volley. His game was distinctively that of a professional; he carried his racquet awkwardly at his side, played from the base-line with, a long follow-through and a short backswing, ran for nothing which he could not get and got practically everything he tried for. His returns were never purely defensive. He coaxed Richards, the best volleyer in the world...