Word: racqueteers
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...Freshman racquet wielders are handicapped by the absence of Ogden Phipps '31, star of this winter's squash team, who is now at home recovering from a recent illness. Exeter, on the other hand, will have its full strength intact. Harte and Captain Webber have been playing the best tennis at the Academy this spring...
Pierre Etchebaster, a Basque from St. Jean de Luz and the Jeu de Paume of Paris, beat the best court tennis players in the U. S. last week in Philadelphia. Jock Soutar, Britisher, met him in the finals for the national championship in the Racquet Club of Philadelphia...
Court tennis is one of the most complicated games in the world. It has changed very little since two kings imprisoned in a palace courtyard invented it and other kings in other courtyards played it in hose and doublet. In the gallery of the Racquet and Tennis Club of New York is a king's throne copied from one the Bourbons used to sit on to watch their sons and relatives...
Court tennis is still played with a lopsided racquet, a low net, a court with a sloping roof. Each point is played twice. The spot where a player loses a point is marked and then the other player tries to beat this mark. On the net line sit individuals chanting in a monotonous voice. "Four-better than three-worse than three. . . ." The ball, harder and almost as heavy as a baseball, makes bulletlike noises as it hits the walls. Extra racquets are piled at the side of the court. Breaking one, a player grabs another, finishes the point. Sometimes...
Stocky snub-nosed Herbert N. Rawlins Jr., who lives in New York and who plays squash racquets at the Racquet and Tennis Club, went to Philadelphia last fortnight and won the national squash racquets championship. He beat Myles P. Baker of Boston, champion last year, in straight games...