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Everyone knows who Renee Richards is, but not many people have heard of the former Richard Raskind. He was a tall, strapping former Yalie tennis standout who continued his racquet career while becoming one of the nation's leading ophthalmologists. Friends and family labelled Raskind "All-American," but most did not know that the accomplished 42-year-old had been nurturing one secret goal since childhood. Then, one day, he took some time off from his New York practice and, after coming back, decided to leave the big city for good. His friends and colleagues thought he was just going...
...team competition, 182 racquet-wielders competed in three divisions. Harvard tallied 56 points--14 1/2 ahead of the second-place Princeton squad--to capture its third straight Intercollegiate championship...
...Crimson, though is not ready to give up. Fish has decided he, too, will make some changes in the lineup. He skipped over his seventh and eight seedy to take a player with the hot hand, freshman David Segal, a racquet man who played at the same club as number two Jernigan. Segal hasn't been dropping many games recently...
...racquet women returned to Harvard not as runners-up, but as the third place finishers, behind Yale. Although Harvard (4-1) did not even meet Yale (they will do so next week in regular season action). Howe Cup rules dictate that second spot go to the team with the second best team score. Both Harvard and Yale, however, completed the tournament 5-1. In that situation the runner-up is that team that takes the most individual matches during the tournament...
Blasting pucks past hockey goalies can be quite a racquet...