Word: racqueters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...squash racquets season will open today, when Team A of the University meets the Tennis and Racquet Club of Boston, Team B encounters the Boston Athletic Association, and the Freshman players come up against the Milton Club. The first two matches will be played on the University courts and the third on the Freshman courts. All three teams are entered in the Massachusetts Squash Racquets League. Team A plays in Class A of the League, Team B in Class B, and the Freshmen in Class...
December 6-Tennis and Racquet Club...
January 17-Tennis and Racquet Club at Boston...
...final was brief, 6-1, 6-3. As sinewy as Molla and much more cunning, Poker Face dealt out aces, forced shot after shot off Holla's tight-clenched racquet...
Said a spectator: "The soft, woolly British balls were responsible for the defeat of the American team which had always played with hard, high-bouncing American balls!." Another said that Miss Wills' racquet was too highly strung and that she lost most of her points on this account. Whatever was the matter, Helen herself had no excuses. Said she: "I was outplayed. I felt physically fit." The British ladies said that they still remembered their last year's defeat of 7-0 in the U. S., under conditions as strange to them as the English conditions were strange...