Word: racqueters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...progress of international indoor sport was furthered last week at the serenely social Racquet and Tennis Club, Manhattan, with certain games of racquets. Around the white oblongs of the courts flew small hard balls. Smashing and coaxing them with long slim implements like attenuated tennis racquets U. S. notables and sturdy Britishers played for the International Racquets Trophy. The doubles were divided. Singles went one match to Britain, one to U. S. Into the court strode Clarence C. Pell, U. S. champion, to serve and smash and nurse his shots against J. C. F. Simpson, best of British players...
...national title-holder, who also won the metropolitan squash racquets championship at the University Club, New York, during the week of January 16, was able to triumph over Baker because of his perfect footwork and his skillful anticipation of his opponent's shots. Rawlins had complete control over his racquet...
...Pool '28 advanced to the final round of the State Individual Amateur Squash Championship tournament yesterday when he defeated William Howe of the Cambridge Squash Racquet Club, 3-1 at the Boston Athletic Association...