Word: racquetment
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...game, resembled a medieval courtyard; shedlike roofs slanted down along three sides. A huge net drooped limply across the floor. The low walls were pierced by openings that looked like windows in ancient outbuildings from which spectators peered out like court nobles in an old print. At the exclusive Racquet and Tennis Club on Manhattan's Park Avenue, devotees were watching Northrup R. Knox, 30, challenge 41-year-old Albert ("Jack") Johnson for the world open championship of the ancient game of court tennis...
Unexpected Trouble. Johnson, an Englishman who is a teaching pro at the Racquet Club underrated his amateur opponent ("I didn't think he'd give me any trouble"). But in last week's match Johnson found Knox's "bloody bobbly little serve" difficult to return. Knox was deadly in putting the ball into the dedans and grille, often hitting the tambour, a jutting buttress off which the ball caroms almost parallel to the net. In three days' play, he ran through Johnson seven sets to two, became the first amateur to win the world open...
However, according to varsity coach Jack Barnaby, this may not be the case for long. Under the tutelage of new squash and tennis coach Ed Serrues, Amherst has been rebuilding its racquet sports with notable success. Last spring their tennis varsity defeated the Crimson for the first time in history. Serrues has already elicited a great deal of interest in squash, and Barnaby suspects that in coming years the Amherst team will be more and more a threat to the Crimson...
...united Harvard and Boston Tennis and Racquet Club court tennis team yesterday gained an insurmountable 8-3 lead over the Oxford-Cambridge team, previously undefeated on its American tour...
...five matches played yesterday at the Tennis and Racquet Club, the domestic team secured a 3-2 edge. Robert Scott '31 won the most exciting contest of the day when he snapped the winning streak of Oxford's Cedric Gunnery. Also in singles, Charles Stockton '32 and George Wightman '31 were outplayed by England's Jeremy Hogben and David Lowe. Donald Starr '22 won the vigorous final match when he trounced Oxford's Ronald Newman...