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Harvard's racquet women warmed up for this weekend's New England Championships by burning Trinity, 6-2, in dual meet action yesterday in Hartford...
Judging from your article "Net Loss" [Sept. 3], it is quite obvious that your ECONOMY & BUSINESS reporters may know the size and bounce of the economy, but not of racquetball. Racquetball is more like handball or squash than tennis. It is played with a smaller racquet and faster ball...
...Virginia Slims circuit, once the keystone of the women's tour. Fully one-third of last year's corporate sponsors for the U.S. Open, which is held every September in New York City, have failed to renew their pledges. Most telling of all, sales of racquets, which peaked at $184 million in 1976, skidded to $137 million last year and are expected to fall another 30% this year. Wilson Sporting Goods, the PepsiCo subsidiary that introduced the first steel racquet in 1967, has been losing money and is widely rumored to be up for sale...
...division, explains that the game is "solidifying its base among dedicated tennis players-people who take to the sport as a sport, not as a fashion." Many of those who tried tennis during the boom times but found it tough to master have moved on to jogging or simpler racquet sports. In fact, some of the nation's 11,000 indoor tennis facilities, which cost about $165,000 a court to build, have converted their underused courts to racquetball. It is a tennis-like game that employs a bigger racquet and a slower ball and, its promoters hope...
Thieves in Cleveland had better begin stepping lively. Last month a young man filched a $15.98 bag from Hermes Track and Racquet Shop and walked blithely away. But he was reckoning without Shopowner Gary Easter, 31, a former Cleveland policeman and marathoner who runs ten miles a day. Easter quickly locked up the store and gave chase...