Word: racquets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the return of fair weather, the last of the postponed tennis matches has been played off and the final standings compiled. The unconquerable Kirkland racquet wielders stand at the top with a remarkable record of seven losses in 49 matches, and the unconcerned Dunster cookie-pushers stand at the bottom with an extraordinary record of two wins in 49 matches. In between these extremes, the other Houses are closely bunched: Kirkland 42 7 Lowell 32 17 Eliot 28 20 Adams 26 22 Dudley 22 24 Leverett 22 24 Winthrop 18 31 Dunster...
Birthday. Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary of England, heir presumptive to the throne, 11; at Windsor Castle. Celebration : a Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck film show in the throne room. Gifts: from "Uncle David," the Duke of Windsor, a wrist watch and tennis racquet; from King George VI, a white pony named Snowball; from Queen Elizabeth, a saddle, harness and crop; from younger sister Princess Margaret Rose, a handbag with silver fittings; from Grandmother Queen Mary, doll furniture. Royal family rules forbid accepting personal presents from the public...
...Princeton netmen boast two singles players of no mean racquet-wielding ability in Sophomore Bill Winslow at number 1 and Captain Bill Rawls at number 2. The latter is the Senior, who in his Freshman year was termed "Parker's doubles partner" by Coach Beasely. Unfortunately he never played beside the national ace, because, as the "Princetonian" puts it, "Sadly enough, Frankie never got here...
Coach Jack Barnaby's tennis team will meet three outfits during the next four days, starting with an encounter with the Harvard Graduates team at 2:30 today on the Divinity Courts. Robert Bentley '36 is the number 1 racquet wielder for the visitors...
...began when Squash-Badminton appeared in 1934, grew when American Lawn Tennis added a badminton section last autumn, came of age last week when the national championships made badminton in daily papers jump from the society to the sports pages. Average badminton bat weighs 5 oz. to a tennis racquet's 13½ oz. Birds, still patterned after the Duke of Beaufort's champagne corks, weigh 80 grains. Best birds and bats are imported. Birds are made of fine-grained Spanish cork, covered with French kid, dressed in feathers from Czechoslovakian geese, whose high grease content makes their...