Word: racquetment
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Best authorities agree that playing a game "for love" means playing for nothng, hence in 18th Century racquet games "love" signified no score...
Twenty-three years ago, a hunting companion shot off Clarence Charest's right arm. Forced to give up his favorite game, baseball, he took up tennis. When serving, he holds the ball in his hand, throws it up with the same motion of his arm that carries the racquet back, whacks it smartly with an efficient tackhammer motion. He keeps a second ball in his pocket, a third on the ground back of baseline. He rarely needs the second ball. Now 50, an able Washington lawyer, he won the Veterans' Championship for the first time...
...hold up his hand for silence. Helen Jacobs won that game and the next, from 0-30. Serving again, Mrs. Moody won one point and then lost four in a row. She walked to the side of the net as though to change courts, held up her racquet, said to Umpire Dwight that her legs were so tired she felt unable to continue. Sensing the situation before the crowd knew what had happened, Helen Jacobs ran up to the net, put her arm around Mrs. Moody's shoulder, begged her to continue. Mrs. Moody shook her head and walked...
...though the net were a mirror, Crawford has an energetic steadiness that depresses his opponents, a tireless ability to play his positive, muscular shots, not for aces but for errors. The most unusual thing about Crawford on a tennis court is his flat-topped, thick-framed 14-oz. racquet, shaped like the racquets that were fashionable before the War. The fact that the name of Crawford's racquet is Alexander sometimes leads people to suppose it is one of the Hackett & Alexanders brought out by Spalding in 1912 and named for the famed U. S. doubles team of Harold...
Baby-faced Vivian McGrath who pronounces his name "McGraw," lopes around the court like a kangaroo, holds his racquet with both hands when hitting off his left side, is a month younger than Parker. Son of a Mudgee, N. S. W., farmer, he beat Vines in Australia last winter, spry little Jiro Satoh in last summer's Davis Cup matches. Unlikely to get far at Forest Hills, the experience will help him become, with Crawford, the mainstay of Australia's Davis Cup team...