Word: racqueters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kozeluh prefers the game of hockey at which he is almost equally expert. He is a member of a family famous in Prague for their sporting activities; when 12, he had saved up enough money which he made from serving as a ball-boy to buy himself a tennis racquet. In 1919, not having touched a racquet for five years, he lost a five-set match to Washburn; since then he has not lost any match which he wanted to win. Lacoste, Cochet, Borotra, Tilden-these he has not played because they are, so to speak, amateurs. Kozeluh...
RICHARD D. Micou The Racquet Club Washington...
...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...
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...