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Anybody in the U. S. with a $1.98 racquet and a pair of sneakers can find a lawn tennis game in season. But the four indoor ball-and-racquet games-court tennis, racquets, squash racquets and squash tennis-are still the exclusive pastimes of folks on the sunnier side of the railroad tracks. In all the U. S., for example, there are perhaps fewer than 500 persons who have ever taken a cut at a court tennis ball. Racquets players have been so few that one ball maker, a man named Jeffries Mailings, until his death 20 years ago, made...
...place to get your permanent start in tennis is in college,' emphatically declared Fred Perry, suave British racquet star yesterday. "Get out and practice, know your fundamentals, and work on your weak shots. When you are practicing, forget about winning a match, and concentrate on your stroking...
...Keeping the Mind Young through Sport" will be the joint topic of the four speakers, although it is understood that Harvard's former track star and the man who found Dick Harlow will approach the subject in a slightly different manner from the three specialists, slugger Lou and the racquet-minded duet of Mrs. Moody and Davis...
...Jack Barnaby, Cowles' assistant. Helping Barnaby will be Dick Dorson, intercollegiate squash champion and number one Crimson tennis player two years ago. Dorson is now attending graduate school. Barnaby and Dorson will take charge of the fall University and Freshman tennis tournaments as the first duty of the racquet season...
...skit about the White House was hammed. Another, about the home life of the Lunts, appeared to be about acrobats. A piece about the rich unionizing turned shrill. Throughout there were very knowing references to Bergdorf Goodman, Countess di Frasso, the Racquet & Tennis Club, Manhattan's champagne country. Best touch: switchboard wires curling and writhing like snakes. Best performer: Comedienne Imogene Coca...