Word: racqueteers
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Harvard's varsity racquetmen played well Saturday in the United States Squash Racquet Association's national championships in Detroit, but national amateur competition proved too much for' the Crimson collegiate squad. Both Crimson number one, Peter Briggs, and the Harvard five-man squad were eliminated in the second round of competition by formidable opponents...
Last year the MIT racquet-men were led by Steve Cross, a huge player whose fiery vocabulary and temper matched his fierce stroke. MIT and Cross didn't win very often, but at least the Engineers' captain kept the crowd entertained...
...there. The Dorado Hilton's owners, International Investment Co., got a promise of a $500,000 loan from the Puerto Rican government to help refurbish the hotel; they hope to reopen it in December. In addition, the government plans to buy San Juan's exclusive but ailing Racquet Club Hotel for $4,500,000 and turn part of it into a hotel school. El Convento Hotel is $4,000,000 in debt and faces a grim future...
...Racquet sports-squash and indoor tennis courts are needed to relieve overcrowding...
...hero. Joe Cavanagh started the mystique by announcing that he would bypass pro hockey next year for the long-range advantages of a B.C. Law School degree. Then came the you-wouldn't-believe-it story of a ninth-grader waiting for a basketball game, picking up a tennis racquet for the first time, catching the coach's eye, and playing for the state champion varsity the next spring. By the end of the interview, the reporter was asking coach Jack Barnaby if Joe couldn't beat Rod Laver if he set his mind on tennis...