Word: racquetment
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...shown by the fact that three of the five continued for the full five games. The success of the Harvard Club's team was evidently due to the fact that they are now in the full swing of the season and in the peak of condition, while the University racquet-men plainly showed that they have not yet worked themselves up to their former form...
...SQUASH RACQUETS Team A Dec. 15 Harvard Club at Boston. Dec. 27 Nassau Club at N. Y. Dec. 28 Tennis & Racquet Club at N. Y. Dec. 29 Harvard Club at N. Y. Jan. 5 Cambridge Squash Racquets Club. Jan. 12 Newton Center. Jan. 19 Tennis & Racquet Club at Boston. Feb. 9 Yale at New Haven. Feb. 15 16, 17 National Championships at New York. Feb. 23 University of Pennsylvania tentative. Team B Dec. 15 Union Boat Club. Jan. 5 University Club at Boston. Jan. 12 Boston A. A. at Boston. Jan. 19 Cambridge Squash Racquets Club. Jan. 26 Harvard Club...
...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...
...that tense, almost insane hunger for points with which amateurs excite galleries and rattle their linesmen. Both men seemed to be enjoying their game; Kozeluh would explain "Bed lock!" to the gallery when Richards dropped a volley. His game was distinctively that of a professional; he carried his racquet awkwardly at his side, played from the base-line with, a long follow-through and a short backswing, ran for nothing which he could not get and got practically everything he tried for. His returns were never purely defensive. He coaxed Richards, the best volleyer in the world...
RICHARD D. Micou The Racquet Club Washington...