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Footing the bill for all this was one of the leading squash racquet and polo players in the U. S., Seymour Horace Knox. Son of a Woolworth partner and a potent investment banker in his own right, Poloist Knox has a burning ambition to make East Aurora and the Buffalo district as famed for polo as Long Island. He was captain of the squash racquets team sent to Britain in 1935. His active interest in art is recent. To date his private collection consists of one Utrillo bought a few months ago, and the collector...
...Racquets is often confused with squash racquets, squash racquets with squash tennis, squash tennis with court tennis, court tennis with lawn tennis. Always recondite pastime, racquets has traversed the social gamut more completely than any other game. It started in London debtors' prisons, where no other form exercise was practical, in the 18th Century. A prison alumnus, Robert Mackay was the first recognized world's champion in 1820. In 1822, Harrow schoolboys took up the game. In 1853, when London Prince's Club built a racquets court, racquets became exclusively a pastime of patricians. Racquets' rise...
...match of professional speed amateur deception. Lean young Norbert Setzler, one of the New York Racquet Club's five professionals, depends on sizzling forehand that shoots down the side of the court, dies at the back wall. His opponent, David Milford, a British schoolteacher at Maryborough, uses a delicate drop shot. For six games, Setzler's speed and Milford's cunning were evenly matched. In the seventh, Setzler behind at 7-10 and apparently dead tire amazingly began to hit the ball harder than he had since play started, took eight of the next ten points...
Last week's match was a contest to determine a new world champion. Last world champion was Charles Williams of the Chicago Racquet Club who won the title from J. Jamsetji of Bombay in 1911 lost it to Jock Soutar of Philadelphia 1913, won it back in 1929, held it until his death in 1935. Setzler, son of a Buffalo corset salesman, was apprenticed to his father's friend, George Standing, longtime New York Racquet Club professional, in 1920. Last year, at 31, he won the U. S.open championship against socialite experts like Clarence Pell, Stanley G. Mortimer...
Germaine G. Glidden '36 was winner of National Amateur Singles, holder of the Intercollegiate Title, and winner of Gold Racquet Award...