Word: racquets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...December matches will all be played in the Massachusetts Squash Racquet League...
...many another own horses. Clark Gable used to own one named Beverly Hills. Victor McLaglen (see p. 40) is Colonel of the Victor McLaglen Light Horse Troop, whose 750 members finance their maneuvers partly by promoting rodeos and midget auto races. Ralph Bellamy and Charles Farrell own the Racquet Club at Palm Springs. Minor promoters include Johnny Weissmuller (the paddle-board concession at Catalina Island) and Errol Flynn (six day bicycle races...
Helen Wills began playing tennis during the War when her father, a Berkeley, Calif, physician, went to a French base hospital and left his 15-ounce racquet behind him. A pigtailed, direct little girl, she took it for granted from the start that winning was synonymous with trying. She did not revise that assumption until she was 16 and found herself facing the great Moila Bjurstedt Mallory in the final for the U. S. Singles Championship at Forest Hills. Hard-driving Mrs. Mallory won in straight sets. Next year Helen Wills played in all the major preliminary tournaments...
Crawford's square-headed racquet still commanded such respect that expert doubt about Budge's ability to beat him was perfectly honest before the match began. And doubt still assailed the U. S. squad's brain trust after they had picked Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, the lionhearted, 5 ft. 4 in. Atlanta tumblebug, as No. 2 U. S. singles player. But all doubts evaporated when, as so often happens in sport, what had promised to be a titanic struggle turned out to be nothing of the sort...
Chatting cheerfully, they looked down on busy traffic and Harvard Square's varied humanity from their mohair perches. Especially amusing to them as they rolled peacefully along was a blond Harvard lad, tennis racquet under his arm and, mercy, clad in shorts...