Word: racqueters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a 3 to 2 victory already scored by the Freshman team C over the Tennis and Racquet Club on Friday, two other sets of Harvard racquetmen will attempt to make a clean sweep of the week-end in matches today. The University team C, made up of E.P. Gunn '30, F.O. Canfield '32, A.L. Devens '30, P.G. Livermore '32, and Edward Orlandini '32, will oppose the Newton Centre players at Newton Centre. The Freshman team D meets M.I.T. on the opponents' courts. The 1933 line-up will be: G.P. Webber '33, F.L. Young '33, E.E. Mitchell '33, R.G. Coburn...
...course there are some tennis enthusiasts who insist that the professional players of today are not on the same level with the cream of the amateur racquet-wielders. They will probably receive a severe jolt when they watch Vincent Richards and Karel Kozelub perform at Germantown next fall, but even if they are correct the inevitable result of putting the two branches of the sport on an equal footing will be an equalizing one. The good results of open tournaments may not all be apparent from the very start; but they will inevitably come out to the everlasting benefit...
Next Monday on the University Squash Courts the Inter-Class squash racquet league will start its season with a match between the Freshman and Sophomore teams. On Wednesday the Junior team will play the Seniors...
...recently published book, "The Racquet Game", (The MacMillan Co,) Allison Danzig, well known sports writer for the New York "Times", describes the origin and development of court tennis, racquets, squash racquets, and squash tennis. Danzing writes also of the problems, methods of play, and outstanding players in each of these games, giving records of all the champions. He devotes a chapter to Jay Gould and Tom Pettitt...
...Pell '08 has scored his twelfth victory in the Gold Racquet squash tourney at Tuxedo Park, N. Y. He defeated Lord Aberdare, of England, in the final round, 15-10, 15-6, 15-12. By this triumph Pell has obtained the permanent possession of his fourth trophy for this event. The tourney was the twenty-fourth of the annual series...