Word: racquets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr. began waving a tennis racquet when he was 3 but he did not really take the game seriously till he was about 8. When he was a freshman at the Huntington Park, Pasadena, High School, Mercer Beasley, famed coach of Tulane University tennis teams, saw him play a match, decided his game was worth developing. Vines went east for the first time in 1930. The way he beat Francis Hunter in the finals of the Metropolitan grass court championship that year was only less surprising than the way he lost to Sidney Wood in the finals...
...Thursday the racquet-wielders will play a return match, and if the result is five games apiece after these matches in either league, a play-off will be held next week. The league A line up will be: LOWELL DUNSTER L. A. Breck '32 A. F. Dana '33 W. C. Thompson '32 J. W. Appel '32 J. R. Fetcher '33 Harold Williamson, Tutor H. A. Blackmun 3L (Capt) H. C. Dickinson '32 Edward Orlandini '32 R. F. Evans '33 The probable lineup in League B is: Owen Appleton '32 Warren Delano '32 W. A. Shurcliff 2G (Capt) Richard Borden...
Pool is the present holder of the Intercollegiate championship. He is the Massachusetts State Champion and also won the Gold Racquet this fall. Patterson is captain of the Harvard team. He defeated Pool in the Harvard University Tournament this year. Chances of a Crimson triumph in the contest are rated high...
Beckman Pool '32 successfully defeated his title as Massachusetts squash racquet champion Saturday when he defeated T. E. Jansen '26, of the Harvard Club of Boston, in the final match for the 1932 championship, 15-12, 15-14 and 16-11 at the Boston Athletic Association...
...Society 20 20 Boston Athletic Ass'n. 19 20 University Club 18 22 Union Boat Club 17 23 Harvard University 12 28 M.I.T. Faculty 7 23 Class C Union Boat Club 35 4 Harvard Club 25 14 Harvard University 25 15 +Weston Golf Club 24 15 Tennis and Racquet Club 22 18 Harvard Bus. School Fac. 19 16 Points Won Lost University Club 18 22 Walkover Club 16 19 M.I.T. 15 20 Boston Athletic Ass'n. 14 26 Harvard Freshmen 10 30 Lincoln's Inn Society 5 30 +Only four matches played last week Class D--Division 1 Harvard Club...