Word: racquetment
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December 6-Tennis and Racquet Club...
...final was brief, 6-1, 6-3. As sinewy as Molla and much more cunning, Poker Face dealt out aces, forced shot after shot off Holla's tight-clenched racquet...
Said a spectator: "The soft, woolly British balls were responsible for the defeat of the American team which had always played with hard, high-bouncing American balls!." Another said that Miss Wills' racquet was too highly strung and that she lost most of her points on this account. Whatever was the matter, Helen herself had no excuses. Said she: "I was outplayed. I felt physically fit." The British ladies said that they still remembered their last year's defeat of 7-0 in the U. S., under conditions as strange to them as the English conditions were strange...
...Tennis Club, Larchmont, N. Y., William T. Tilden, II, tennis champion, engaged in a "circus" match, "did wizard tricks with his racquet and ball...
Leaving Cambridge on Saturday, the University racquet wielders met the Agawam Hunt Club of Providence that afternoon in their first contest of the trip, and easily defeated them by the score of 6 to 2. Captain Pfaffmann was unable to finish his match with J. D. E. Jones Jr., after the latter player had won the first...